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.

[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

[edit] Pop culture references

• The song is sung by Donkey in Shrek 2 while they ride on a carriage.
• 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)
• In the 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 the boulder and 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.
• In one of the 'Shapes' biscuts television ads.

[edit] See also

• Rawhide (TV series)