Rawhide (song)
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1966. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
The song is about the job of a drover on a cattle drive.In other media
- In The Blues Brothers, the band performs "Rawhide" in a local country bar.
- The song is played in a scene on , when the titular character is rolling through the desert inside a tumbleweed.
- In Shrek 2 the character Donkey was briefly heard singing the song, however the song wasn't included in the soundtrack.
- In Happy Feet 2 the elephant seals were heard singing with an Australian accent while marching to the iceberg was included in the soundtrack.
- The theme song to the 1980 Japanese Super Sentai series, Denshi Sentai Denjiman, is heavily based on the Rawhide theme song.
- The jingle for the Rosen Motor Group used car dealership is based on the Rawhide theme.
Notable covers
- Dan Sartain
- 101 Strings Orchestra
- Big John Bates
- The Blues Brothers
- Johnny Cash
- Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra; the first bars of this instrumental version were used in a news jingle by Radio Veronica in the 1970s
- Dezperadoz
- Ensiferum
- Greenbriar Boys
- Happy Feet Two
- Helgi Björnsson
- The Jackson 5
- Dead Kennedys
- Frankie Laine. This version was used in 2013 in an advertisement for Google Chrome.
- Litfiba
- The Men They Couldn't Hang
- The Meteors
- Liza Minnelli
- The New Zealand Railways Department used a cover of the song in a 1978 television advertisement for its freight services.
- Nassim recorded an instrumental version for the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
- Oingo Boingo
- Riders in the Sky
- Jan Rot translated the song in Dutch as "Yippieyayee" for the album An + Jan gaan landelijk, 2008
- Sublime
- Johnny Western
- The Chaps, 1982 Scottish novelty version
- The Survivors, 1965 Jamaican Ska cover, released on RIO records UK label.