Oooh, ya, Ben Cartwright! Yup, I remember listening to this song on the AM radio, I was ten when it came out I and watched Bonanza every week with my family. That was a lifetime ago! Lol
Brings back memories from my youth ... it was quite a popular song when I was a kid. Of course, Lorne Greene & his show Bonanza was quite popular at the time as well.
I was 9 and heard this for the first time at 2am while listening on a small transistor radio with a blanket over my head so my mother would wake up and start yelling. I had totally forgotten this.
I've been looking for this song for years and it came up on facebook. I wondered if Ringo Starr had bought it and kept it out of the public. #1! I didn't know.
I once thought so too. But it was said he got the name from all the rings he wore! Still, I read that he wanted to move to Texas, even long before he joined up with The Beatles! However, when they were touring in the early years. He got to go to Texas, after all!
No Marduk, I am Victorio and I matched the draw. Victorio is in Jesus. And the Dead in Christ were the first to rise. But I am not dead. I am alive. Heaven came to me to write Gods new name on. The Whitestone born with a mans heart. Gringo. Cured of a deaf dumb and mute spirit which had veiled me since birth.
This told a story about a man and his friend. It's a story of goodness and decency in a savage land. It's also a story of revenge and death, but while the townsfolk were singing, the one man who knew his measure shed a silent tear for the good, what little good it was, lost. It's a powerful story. Now that being said, there are a few raps songs like that and I like them. I'll listen to anything that tells a good story and makes you think.
Amazing how popular western programs were back then!
I remember the first time I heard this on the radio. No introduction was needed, you KNEW it was Lorne Greene.
Oooh, ya, Ben Cartwright! Yup, I remember listening to this song on the AM radio, I was ten when it came out I and watched Bonanza every week with my family. That was a lifetime ago! Lol
i still rember the green light on my dads 67 t-bird hearing this song
Awesome actor and singer
Brings back memories from my youth ... it was quite a popular song when I was a kid. Of course, Lorne Greene & his show Bonanza was quite popular at the time as well.
I was 9 and heard this for the first time at 2am while listening on a small transistor radio with a blanket over my head so my mother would wake up and start yelling. I had totally forgotten this.
Great Canadian actor. Loved him in Bonanza. Was also an announcer for the CBC during WWII broadcasting the news. Received the Order of Canada.
Lorne Greene The best and powerful voice ever 💜
Great actor and singer
He and Sam Elliott have the best voices for Westerns ever.
Yes! The best voices.
Then you need to hear Tapio Rautavaara version
From thi son
Dear Ethan W.
Please don't forget Richard Boone!
Best regards luck and health.
Same with James earl jones
Lorne Greene recorded Ringo in the fall of 1964. The song was played on many AM radio stations nationwide.
This was a million seller, I wonder how many kids bought it before hearing it because it was titled Ringo?
Great!
Wow! I hadnt heard this for more than 40 years and I still remember almost every word. No Alzheimers here...lol
That's super smashin beltin champion news!
Oh my gosh..grew up listening this to this with my big brothers and sister.
Great stuff.
The great Lorne Greene👏
I want to write a story like this. Good and evil, the complicated soul that sustains them both. A surprising nobility that can exist in an evil man.
The best villians are more cimplex than just super jerks out to hurt the world. They must see themselves as the hero.
Curly, you are so right!
@@susienorris1300 😸
I really like men! They are often such heroes. It's in their makeup
Fantastic voice and song!!!!
Long time fan of this song, thanks for posting this
Big John ripoff Which was written in 1960
@@bradforward850 I was just going to post the same thing 👍
I remember putting plenty of coins in the jukebox down at the corner bar because of "Ringo" by Lorne Greene.
the original king of hip hop
the inventor of gangsta lyrics.
Loved this song when I was knee high.
I've been looking for this song for years and it came up on facebook. I wondered if Ringo Starr had bought it and kept it out of the public. #1! I didn't know.
Pretty sure he thought it funny.
Wow this is amazing love his singing I'll miss him a lot but I watch him everyday 6 days a week on bonanza Ben cartwright he was cute to me
Love the song l ❤ Loren Green. Bonanza was a great show Loren green was top notch on it.
With a voice and stage presence like Lorne Greene's, this song could have been about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for all I care.
😹🥪
There’s a recording of him singing the mostly unknown lyrics to the Bonanza show theme music. Pretty cool.
From this song arose the parody "The Ballad of Irving" by Dr. Demento.
Best song in my life
Timeless song. Before dirty harry, generations before it was ringo. Preferred sidearm of both men was a .44 magnum
The ol Sixshooter was not in 44 Magnum
The .44 magnum was invented in 1954.
Not Magnum. .44-40 . .44 caliber with 40 grains of black powder.
Wow...
You may be too young to remember there used to be monthly comic book end it was called Ringo.
Lorne Greene rapping. Take that Yellowstone!
No one had cooler backup singers than Lorne Green.
Original rap
What's the name of this song again? 😂
Ringo Starr. :-)
Jojo reference.
Un te mazo
that was back when guns were good
Guns are never good.
Maybe this is where Richard Starkey got his stage name Ringo Starr.
no this song was released in 1964 and the Beatles were active from 1960-1970
I once thought so too. But it was said he got the name from all the rings he wore! Still, I read that he wanted to move to Texas, even long before he joined up with The Beatles! However, when they were touring in the early years. He got to go to Texas, after all!
It's a Western rap song! He gives Walter Brennan a run for his money!
Way better
Hoyt you are so beautiful
Bingo, Bingo, Bingo
I wish Ringo Star had covered the song. Both broke in '64.
"looking down the bore" from the wrong side: everybody can do my freshwater pet down
Does he do rocket man as well?
< < < DID HE REALLY WRITE THIS ABOUT THE MOST FAMOUS DRUMMER IN ROCK HISTORY ? > > >
Early white rap
The songs, Duquesne and I've Been Everywhere, both by Hank Snow pre date this song. They are the White Rap.
Better than black, criminal and worthless rap
No Marduk, I am Victorio and I matched the draw. Victorio is in Jesus. And the Dead in Christ were the first to rise. But I am not dead. I am alive. Heaven came to me to write Gods new name on. The Whitestone born with a mans heart. Gringo. Cured of a deaf dumb and mute spirit which had veiled me since birth.
Notice he talks, or narrates the entire song. He doesn't sing a note.
Oga he sang . Dont be so ignorant. Try talking the lyrics and tell me again if he's just talking ..common
A singer who speaks Spanish should re-record this but use the name, "Gringo".
🤣🤣🤣 what's that?
Is that “tarnished star” above Ringo’s name a small nod to Ringo Starr?
It's his old sheriff's star.
@@melissagerber7231 it’s a great coincidence then 😆. The Beatles were on the rise about the same time as this song.
Trying to be like Marty Robbins
Wow, what a jerk.
He hunts down his old friend,
and gets him killed,
and doesn't even do it himself but takes the credit.
@@60Cascade,
wow, you have like absolutely no sense of humor.
well they were going to title the song "The Jerk" but felt it wouldn't sell
Friend or not,it was his duty to uphold the law.
It was others who gave him the credit.
@@melissagerber7231,
If he felt it was his duty,
he would have done it himself.
Agree. Killed a friend who just spared his life. Thumbs down 👎
People hate rap,but like this crap!!!
Problem? Oh well.
This told a story about a man and his friend. It's a story of goodness and decency in a savage land. It's also a story of revenge and death, but while the townsfolk were singing, the one man who knew his measure shed a silent tear for the good, what little good it was, lost. It's a powerful story. Now that being said, there are a few raps songs like that and I like them. I'll listen to anything that tells a good story and makes you think.
Green was the first rapper
Hank Snow or Lucky Starr might dispute this.