The part that never fails to send chills down my spine is "If you wanna save your soul from Hell a' ridein' on your range then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride, tryin to catch the Devil's heard across these endless skies."
When I was 8 yrs old and living in Okinawa, this was my favorite song. Vaughn Monroe's voice still brings back memories of a little girl who loved cowboys while living on a small island in the Pacific.
I love on Vaugh to listen to Vaughn Monroe and ghost riders in the sky since I was a kid. I'm 74 years old now and it's still a terrific song that I listen to very often. I'm still mesmerized by his. voice
I'll be 71 in a few months and it was a long time after I first heard the song that I ever heard a version by anyone by anyone but Vaugh Monroe. I still prefer his version to anyone else's.
@@daveboley8371 I'm a 49 years old french citizen borned in Morrocco and I love this song...the first voice i heard was J. Cash...but Vaugh's voice is better.
When this song was issued it was about 1948/49 when I was six years old. I would always try to tune our large, wooden, tube type radio for this tune. It was my favorite and I still periodically return to listen again and again. The old westerns were my favorites along with the radio "serials". We had this old radio up until the mid 1960"s !!! The music is still available - amazing !!!!!.
I first heard this song on my grandma's record player. It was about 1958 & I was 5. His voice is perfect for the song! I have this saved on my phone, along with many others! & I listen to them often.❤
In 1949 I sat in front of our large old wooden tube type radio completely mesmerized while listening to this song. It was my favorite, along with a couple of Roy Rogers songs. Thanks to modern technology, I can pop this up anytime and enjoy my past memories. Of course now I am mature enough to understand its message.
An 87 year old patient sang this today while listening to the "best of jazz and swing" music channel they play for the seniors in the hospital. Broke my heart a little...
@@ernestogasulla7763 That floored me, too. I was 8 when I heard it on our old radio, and it stayed in my memory as a magnificent song by a singer without equal.
I loved Vaughn Monroe's voice when I was little. I grew up on Highway 101 in northern California, and "Terror of Highway 101" was the song I first remember hearing by him. This and Burl Ives' versions of "Ghost Riders" are my favorites.
The very first record I purchased. I was 6. I put it in the back of my uncle's Buick and it melted! I was devastated! It's a beginning anchor point for my life's timeline. I'm 72 now.
I was twelve when I first played this on 78 RPM, part of a bunch of records a neighbor gave us as he was moving away. I wore the record out. This song and the flip side "Single Saddle", which is one of the best cowboy songs I've ever heard.
This song come out in the late 1940' and continued through today. I was an elementary school student in the late 40's and early 1950's and I sat in front of our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting. This was my favorite song, along with Tumbling Tumbleweed. This particular version was/is still my favorite and I periodically return to hear it again. Thanks
"our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting" Was there, did that, same kind of radio. Wish I had it now.
Here it is 5 yrs later and I'm hoping this answer gets to you. I was a WWII baby and heard this as a small boy in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The lyric's poetry moved me because Monroe was so understandable in his lyrics. I've remembered this song for 75 yrs now. I still love to hear Monroe's voice. I hope there are still oldsters in another 75 years who hear it and feel the movement of its message.
@@nomadpi1 I must have posted here before now, but wanted to join you in admiring Vaughn Monroe, and assure you that those of us born in that era are still kicking and thankful to have YT to remind us of how good we had life as children, during some scary times for our adults in the family.
Did you ever hear "In My Adobe Hacienda?" Not until I researched all aspects of historical Mexico for my novels did I learn that a hacienda is the entire estate. The HOUSE might be adobe or rock and is called the casa grande, or the Big House.
Monroe had an immediately recognizable voice + being my favorite male big band male singer of his time & this along with Johnny Cash are the greatest performances of this my #1 western song of all although I am no expert when it comes to these type of music.
At four-score years of age now, I first heard this song as a small boy. This is the best version. No other singer has had the ability to make it believable. No one. Vaughn Monroe's voice is the perfect tonal pitch for this poetic reading of an old cowboy's spiritual anthem. Even small children understood this poem because Monroe's singing lyrics were so understandable. I hope someone else in another four-score years can also appreciate it.
When I was in the second grade, I fell in love with song and this version of it. Being a careless kid, the 78 rpm's that Mom and Dad got for me had a way of getting broken and the cost of replacements stretched their budget but they came through.
I still enjoy returning back to hear this tune. I can still remember as a child riding my broom wooden stick horse around the house while listening to this song.
This song came out toward the end of 1948 and the next year V. Monroe recorded it and made it a real hit. I listened to it on our old large wooden console tube type radio. It was one of my favorites. It has almost been 65+ years and I still enjoy it. Thanks
The imagry his voice mixed with the haunting pained ghostly chorus conjured such terrifying images for me as a child but I loved it! This music touches the soul..
When l retired , l bought a Fender Jazz bass, and this was the first tune l could thump out. Fifty years is a long time to wait, but first things first. Still thumping out tunes from my early years.😁😁😁😁
Ol' Leather Lungs could sure belt them out. Take a look at his other songs too, "Dance Ballarina", "Racing with the Moon", "Let it snow" is also one of my favorites of his.
Beyond doubt, the quintessential version of this song. May I recommend "My Lady Love" by Vaughn to any fans who are just discovering my hero. Kind regards from an 87 year old English fan. January, 2024.
Many of the posts here echo my experience in the early days, listening to our radio, and loving Vaughn Monroe. I still like THIS version better than any of the many I've sampled since then.
Someone gave me a 78-rpm copy of this when I was a kid. That copy's long gone but I found a replacement 78 at a flea market some years ago. My son still loves it today.
I watched the movie Singing Guns and he sang 3 songs in that movie WOW WHAT A VOICE that man has. Wish I knew what the name of the movie is where this song was sung.
I keep a radio in my room and I have it on a local AM station that plays music from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. This song scared the crap out of me when I was younger, especially when it came on at 3 A.M., that was the worst. Anyone else?
I think this is the best version of "Ghost Riders." Vaughn Monroe had a wonderful voice -- with sort of a spooky quality here. Of course, I remember all the air play "Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots (Terror of Highway 101)" very well, too ( I grew up in small towns on that highway)!
All of you viewers here who were young and impressionable around 1956 - 1959, please read my quest and if you can help, I'd be overjoyed. During those years, here in Burke County NC, our local radio station played an introductory theme to the broadcast called Rhythm Rendezvous. That site doesn't display what I hear but it's own into that goes right into music that was contemporary at the time. The theme I heard apparently had orchestration with instruments that throbbed like drums and sounded like galloping horses. It stayed in my head for decades, but is starting to fade due to my sampling of recordings that held promise. I was advised to ask the radio station, which had changed hands and those in charge now claimed not to have any archives of programming in those years.
This was the first time (2022) that I heard the original. The version I had heard was J. Cash. It is nice to hear it being sung. I figure he covered it but didn’t know who did the original.
My favorite recording of this song, with the Sons of the Pioneers backing up the great Vaughn Monroe! After I heard this years ago I went to Amazon and purchased 'The Very Best of Vaughn Monroe.' 20 songs including 'Racing With the Moon' (Vaughan's Theme). I also really liked 'When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World).' A song about England and Europe during WWII and when the blackout would finally end and the lights would go on again. And of course the song that was at the very end of the movie 'Die Hard,' Vaughn's great version of 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 9 of the 20 songs hit #1, including 'Riders in the Sky,' and 7 more were in the Top Ten!
This is one of those songs I remember from childhood, Billy Vaughn's Shifting "Whispering Sands" being another one, that has stayed in my memory banks for 60 plus years. You have done a very nice video to accompany the song and the lyrics are special to read. This is my favorite of all the recordings. Thanks for this nice video.
ettab47, I agree with all that you have said...though I might be your Senior by some years, I remember Monroe and his songs from that era. And I too want to say thanks for this nice video.
The Batman That's probably the nicest words ever directed to me....my wife has always said that I was "Tasteless"; no pun intended! But what does she know? She's just a "durl"; a word I invented to describe the "fairer sex". The truth is; men are more romantic than women!* Ergo we know good music when we hear it..... *It's a fact....Sociologists have deigned that we guys are more "Romantic"!
I am attempting to introduce a my latest adopted son (PS he just turned 40) to music from the 1940 and 50's. Eventually everything that is old is becomes new again.
Russ Dee, your comment made me look up what song was number one on my birth date, it was one of my favorites, Frankie Laine's "That Lucky Old Sun." I never knew that, but I really do love the song, Ghost Riders too.
What a butch manly voice. I have the 78rpm version i bought when a schoolboy. I believe that the recording heard here is not the same one!.His last note kinda proves it, man!
Ghost Riders in the Sky was one of the 45's on a table next to my parent's record player in the 50's. Sugartime by the Mcguire Sisters and Volare by Domenico Modugno were other favorites. Today, unfortunately, there is a wide assortment of crap and very little music
I first heard this song 70 years ago and I still get the willies, even today, when ever I hear it.
The part that never fails to send chills down my spine is "If you wanna save your soul from Hell a' ridein' on your range then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride, tryin to catch the Devil's heard across these endless skies."
Agreed... today's generation has no clue of what they have lost and continue to lose... keeping these great songs alive is all we can do.
Excelente gracias, saludos desde Venezuela diciembre 2022.
When I was 8 yrs old and living in Okinawa, this was my favorite song. Vaughn Monroe's voice still brings back memories of a little girl who loved cowboys while living on a small island in the Pacific.
How is Okinawa today? Do you speak Japanese? Nihon go ga hanamemasu ka?
Military brat?
I love on Vaugh to listen to Vaughn Monroe and ghost riders in the sky since I was a kid. I'm 74 years old now and it's still a terrific song that I listen to very often. I'm still mesmerized by his. voice
I'll be 71 in a few months and it was a long time after I first heard the song that I ever heard a version by anyone by anyone but Vaugh Monroe. I still prefer his version to anyone else's.
74 here too...
@@daveboley8371 I'm a 49 years old french citizen borned in Morrocco and I love this song...the first voice i heard was J. Cash...but Vaugh's voice is better.
Yes, God gave Mr. Monroe a wonderful gift.
Definitive version, great voice, thanks for posting.
Many have tried but only Vaughn Monroe ever got it right. He owns it!!!
When this song was issued it was about 1948/49 when I was six years old. I would always try to tune our large, wooden, tube type radio for this tune. It was my favorite and I still periodically return to listen again and again. The old westerns were my favorites along with
the radio "serials". We had this old radio up until the mid 1960"s !!! The music is still available - amazing !!!!!.
I first heard this song on my grandma's record player. It was about 1958 & I was 5. His voice is perfect for the song! I have this saved on my phone, along with many others! & I listen to them often.❤
In 1949 I sat in front of our large old wooden tube type radio completely mesmerized while listening to this song. It was my favorite, along with a couple of Roy Rogers songs. Thanks to modern technology, I can pop this up anytime and enjoy my past memories. Of course now I am mature enough to understand its message.
LOVE this version! Old western cowboy touch!
Always loved Vaughan Monroe’s voice
An 87 year old patient sang this today while listening to the "best of jazz and swing" music channel they play for the seniors in the hospital. Broke my heart a little...
It does break my heart too that this can be considered a jazz / swing tune.
@@ernestogasulla7763 That floored me, too. I was 8 when I heard it on our old radio, and it stayed in my memory as a magnificent song by a singer without equal.
My favorite song as a child - still LOVE it all these decades later, but only Vaughn Monroe's voice will do! Thanks, Mr. Monroe XXX OOO
I love this song. I remember hearing it on the radio.
I loved Vaughn Monroe's voice when I was little. I grew up on Highway 101 in northern California, and "Terror of Highway 101" was the song I first remember hearing by him. This and Burl Ives' versions of "Ghost Riders" are my favorites.
The old ones are still the best !!!!!!!!!
Exactly 💯
The first version I'd heard as a kid and still the finest! Thanks
Ghost riders in the sky has been my favorite since I was a kid I'm 73
The very first record I purchased. I was 6. I put it in the back of my uncle's Buick and it melted! I was devastated! It's a beginning anchor point for my life's timeline. I'm 72 now.
I’m 12 and I’ve fallen in love with this music
I was twelve when I first played this on 78 RPM, part of a bunch of records a neighbor gave us as he was moving away. I wore the record out. This song and the flip side "Single Saddle", which is one of the best cowboy songs I've ever heard.
Magnificent baritone voice!
Yes, A Very Rich Voice!
@@billobrien5118 He was also a band leader and spokesperson for RCA products--when RCA was RCA.
This song come out in the late 1940' and continued through today. I was an elementary school student in the late 40's and early 1950's and I sat in front of our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting. This was my favorite song, along with Tumbling Tumbleweed. This particular version was/is still my favorite and I periodically return to hear it again. Thanks
"our old large wooden tube type radio and tuned in to one of the few channels that were broadcasting" Was there, did that, same kind of radio. Wish I had it now.
Here it is 5 yrs later and I'm hoping this answer gets to you. I was a WWII baby and heard this as a small boy in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The lyric's poetry moved me because Monroe was so understandable in his lyrics. I've remembered this song for 75 yrs now. I still love to hear Monroe's voice. I hope there are still oldsters in another 75 years who hear it and feel the movement of its message.
@@nomadpi1 I must have posted here before now, but wanted to join you in admiring Vaughn Monroe, and assure you that those of us born in that era are still kicking and thankful to have YT to remind us of how good we had life as children, during some scary times for our adults in the family.
Did you ever hear "In My Adobe Hacienda?" Not until I researched all aspects of historical Mexico for my novels did I learn that a hacienda is the entire estate. The HOUSE might be adobe or rock and is called the casa grande, or the Big House.
This is awesome. What a singer! I wish contemporary pop and country singers would sing like this. Thank you so much for posting!
Monroe had an immediately recognizable voice + being my favorite male big band male singer of his time & this along with Johnny Cash are the greatest performances of this my #1 western song of all although I am no expert when it comes to these type of music.
At four-score years of age now, I first heard this song as a small boy. This is the best version. No other singer has had the ability to make it believable. No one. Vaughn Monroe's voice is the perfect tonal pitch for this poetic reading of an old cowboy's spiritual anthem. Even small children understood this poem because Monroe's singing lyrics were so understandable. I hope someone else in another four-score years can also appreciate it.
I NEED to listen this song every few months, but especially around winter when the skies outside are dark and cloudy.
I agree with those that say Vaughn had a definitive version of this song. He sure sang with power and conviction.
When I was in the second grade, I fell in love with song and this version of it. Being a careless kid, the 78 rpm's that Mom and Dad got for me had a way of getting broken and the cost of replacements stretched their budget but they came through.
Yes!!!! 78s. Still have my Mom's old ones.
I still enjoy returning back to hear this tune. I can still remember as a child riding my broom wooden stick horse around the house while listening to this song.
Spooky, substantive and excellent all at the same time. What a well written and performed song!
Nothing less than a legend.
I grew up listening to that song.
How can anyone not like this song?
the first time I heard Vaughn Monroe sing, was this song on a Disney movie. loved it and his voice ever since.
What movie?
This song came out toward the end of 1948 and the next year V. Monroe recorded it and made it a real hit. I listened to it on our old large wooden console tube type radio. It was one of my favorites. It has almost been 65+ years and I still enjoy it. Thanks
The imagry his voice mixed with the haunting pained ghostly chorus conjured such terrifying images for me as a child but I loved it! This music touches the soul..
When l retired , l bought a Fender Jazz bass, and this was the first tune l could thump out. Fifty years is a long time to wait, but first things first. Still thumping out tunes from my early years.😁😁😁😁
What a Voice!
I'm 73 now and this was the first song I remember from my youth.
It looks like only 70 somethings like this song as I do myself. Like wayward wind and crazy. Great ld songs
the voice in perfect sinc with the story,goose bumps
What a voice. What a song. Thanks for posting
Ol' Leather Lungs could sure belt them out. Take a look at his other songs too, "Dance Ballarina", "Racing with the Moon", "Let it snow" is also one of my favorites of his.
Beyond doubt, the quintessential version of this song. May I recommend "My Lady Love" by Vaughn to any fans who are just discovering my hero. Kind regards from an 87 year old English fan. January, 2024.
Vaughn was definitely an icon singing and I loved him acting in Westerns also. You have good taste.
My mom had a 1949 78RPM of this. First song I ever heard. Have loved it ever since.
such beautiful comments on an evergreen cowboy song...vaughn monroe forever!!!
I think this is the best version of this song.
Love this song. Love this version.Thanks.
Love his voice ❤
There are other good singers who have done this song proud, but Vaugh Monroe has the best voice for this one. IMHO
Many of the posts here echo my experience in the early days, listening to our radio, and loving Vaughn Monroe. I still like THIS version better than any of the many I've sampled since then.
Someone gave me a 78-rpm copy of this when I was a kid. That copy's long gone but I found a replacement 78 at a flea market some years ago. My son still loves it today.
Amazing voice!
WHAT A VOICE SO FULL AND THROUGH VOCAL TONE WANTED BY MANY OTHERS. SIMPLY ENJOYABLE AND FULLFILLING FEELING..
A melhor voz. Vaughn Monroe !
I always thought Vaughn Monroe was the original singer of this great song. Now I just found out that Stan Jones released it 1948!
Ray Manzarek said that the Doors were playing around with this tune and that was what led them to Riders on the Storm.
Great
I hear the influence.
Thats why I'm here too!
I watched the movie Singing Guns and he sang 3 songs in that movie WOW WHAT A VOICE that man has. Wish I knew what the name of the movie is where this song was sung.
I keep a radio in my room and I have it on a local AM station that plays music from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. This song scared the crap out of me when I was younger, especially when it came on at 3 A.M., that was the worst. Anyone else?
Excellent video. Cowboy Gospel at its best.
OH, to have a voice like that!!! -Jeep-USN.Ret.-
I think this is the best version of "Ghost Riders." Vaughn Monroe had a wonderful voice -- with sort of a spooky quality here. Of course, I remember all the air play "Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots (Terror of Highway 101)" very well, too ( I grew up in small towns on that highway)!
The best version great voice
thanks xxxxxx
Great singer and good actor
This is the best version
The Best Version IMHO
No doubt about it this version is the best ominous and haunting
TYVM, dsfc!!!! Those first 4 letters stand for "Thank You Very Much." For including the lyrics. Nice photographs, too.
Fantastic! Thanks for the U/L. brings back very good memories.
All of you viewers here who were young and impressionable around 1956 - 1959, please read my quest and if you can help, I'd be overjoyed. During those years, here in Burke County NC, our local radio station played an introductory theme to the broadcast called Rhythm Rendezvous. That site doesn't display what I hear but it's own into that goes right into music that was contemporary at the time. The theme I heard apparently had orchestration with instruments that throbbed like drums and sounded like galloping horses. It stayed in my head for decades, but is starting to fade due to my sampling of recordings that held promise. I was advised to ask the radio station, which had changed hands and those in charge now claimed not to have any archives of programming in those years.
This was the first time (2022) that I heard the original. The version I had heard was J. Cash. It is nice to hear it being sung. I figure he covered it but didn’t know who did the original.
When I was 3 years old, my grandmom showed me this song, I fell in love with it. Today music sucks
My favorite recording of this song, with the Sons of the Pioneers backing up the great Vaughn Monroe! After I heard this years ago I went to Amazon and purchased 'The Very Best of Vaughn Monroe.' 20 songs including 'Racing With the Moon' (Vaughan's Theme). I also really liked 'When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World).' A song about England and Europe during WWII and when the blackout would finally end and the lights would go on again. And of course the song that was at the very end of the movie 'Die Hard,' Vaughn's great version of 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 9 of the 20 songs hit #1, including 'Riders in the Sky,' and 7 more were in the Top Ten!
Sons of the Pioneers had a 15 mins programme on Radio Luxembourg way, way back!
This is one of those songs I remember from childhood, Billy Vaughn's Shifting "Whispering Sands" being another one, that has stayed in my memory banks for 60 plus years. You have done a very nice video to accompany the song and the lyrics are special to read. This is my favorite of all the recordings. Thanks for this nice video.
ettab47, I agree with all that you have said...though I might be your Senior by some years, I remember Monroe and his songs from that era. And I too want to say thanks for this nice video.
The song always sends a shiver down my spine if sung by Billy Vaughn, Johnny Cash or Burl ives.
The Batman Batman, you are surely not "Blind as a Bat"; you are so right...I love those guys too!
wesley hill That shows you have taste.
The Batman That's probably the nicest words ever directed to me....my wife has always said that I was "Tasteless"; no pun intended! But what does she know? She's just a "durl"; a word I invented to describe the "fairer sex". The truth is; men are more romantic than women!* Ergo we know good music when we hear it.....
*It's a fact....Sociologists have deigned that we guys are more "Romantic"!
hearing this on the radio as a child graves me chill bumps. I would run out of the room in fear. scary song
The first and still the best...
Got the 78...this is most deffinately the best version of this song..!!!.
I am attempting to introduce a my latest adopted son (PS he just turned 40) to music from the 1940 and 50's. Eventually everything that is old is becomes new again.
Stanley Kubrick's photos for Look Magazine August 16, 1949 brought me here
The #1 song on the day I was born. 5/20/49
Why are linking your personal information
Russ Dee, your comment made me look up what song was number one on my birth date, it was one of my favorites, Frankie Laine's "That Lucky Old Sun." I never knew that, but I really do love the song, Ghost Riders too.
This song always made me feel scared. Like ghost stories my mom used to tell us. I have a very old CD with this on it.
Got my dads original vinyl of this song. Brilliant ❤️
The song that inspired The Doors to make Riders on the Storm !
Love Vaughn Monroe
Tou are right Adolph, it is the very best !!!
Awesome!
brings goosebumps!
thanks for this treat.
best version bar none
The "Santa Compaña" version western.
nice rendition
Love how the first picture you see is Marston lol
What a butch manly voice. I have the 78rpm version i bought when a schoolboy. I believe that the recording heard here is not the same one!.His last note kinda proves it, man!
I am still waiting, folks.
still the best version
A never ending battle, for they never catch the #Devils herd. #RodSerling mentioned, you can catch a Devil, but, you can't keep him for long.
Wish I lived back then
Just Awesome!
Ghost Riders in the Sky was one of the 45's on a table next to my parent's record player in the 50's. Sugartime by the Mcguire Sisters and Volare by Domenico Modugno were other favorites. Today, unfortunately, there is a wide assortment of crap and very little music
the very best version the others just try
yippipippi-yeahhh what a hard romantic