Thursday, September 09, 2010

Song Of The Day #401

Yesterday I posted Creator of TV western "Bonanza" dead at 93 and a commentor wrote:

In tribute, might I suggest that you offer as "Song of the Day" Lorne Greene singing the theme song from Bonanza. On second thought, it would probably cause your readership to plummet.

I thought this was a great idea, and agree about Greene's singing. So instead here is Al Caiola playing the theme from Bonanza. It turns out that in 1963 both Faron Young and Johnny Cash recorded versions of the song with lyrics. I prefer Cash's version so offer it here also.

Ranch Radio doesn't want to offend any Lorne Greene fans so the third selection is his 1964 recording of Ringo which I liked and was a minor hit.

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