Rawhide (song)

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Rawhide is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, the western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1966.

The song talks about a rancher taking his cattle on a cattle drive.

1 Performers
2 Pop culture references
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Performers

Frankie Laine (performed again with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra)
Riders in the Sky
Dead Kennedys
The Blues Brothers
101 Strings Orchestra
Greenbriar Boys
Sublime
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell (new dimensions in bluegrass)
Deathline International
The Chaps (Scottish dialect parody, 1982)
The Jackson 5
The Meteors
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Dezperadoz (The legend and the truth album, 2006)

[edit] Pop culture references

The song is sung by Link Wray
The Blues Brothers version of the song is played briefly while Fievel rides on a tumbleweed in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
A parody of this song was once used in a Wal-Mart ad campaign, the song was titled "Rollback" (referring to how Wal-Mart cuts their prices)
The Chaps' Scottish dialect parody was included on a 1982 Ronco compilation album, Raiders of the Pop Charts, which placed #1 on the UK Albums Chart for two weeks beginning the week of January 15, 1983. The Chaps' parody was featured on the Dr. Demento show on February 6, 1983.
In the original version of Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode Butch Mario and the Luigi Kid, the song can be heard in the background when Mario, Luigi and Toad escape a boulder to run into the prison disguised as an Italian restaurant.
The song can be heard at Wild West Falls in Warner Bros. Movie World.
In the video-game Crash Tag Team Racing, Cortex sometimes sings a portion of the song when starting his car after a complete stop.
The song was used on a special American Independence Day themed episode of the UK version of Deal or No Deal, replacing the usual music used during the player selection.
In the TV show Denshi Sentai Denziman, the tune of Rawhide (with new Denziman-relevant words) is used as the intro theme.
Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan created his own rendition of the song on his solo debut (Return To The 36 Chambers).
In Dreamworks Shrek 2, Donkey is heard singing his own variation of the song.
In the Star Trek novel, How Much for Just the Planet?, one of the songs is a parody of "Rawhide."
Sublime attempted to include a cover of this song on their album "40 oz. to Freedom", but could not due to difficulty clearing the rights to the song.
In Lisa the Iconoclast, a Season 7 episode of the Simpsons, a song about town founder Jebediah Springfield, based around the melody of the Rawhide theme, plays over the end credits, with whip cracking towards the end.