Gene Autry – The Yellow Rose of Texas is a traditional American folk song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Several versions of the song have been recorded, including by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Mitch Miller.
The soundtrack to the TV miniseries James A. Michener’s Texas dates a version of the song to June 2, 1933 and co-credits both the authorship and performance to Gene Autry and Jimmy Long. Don George reworked the original version of the song, which Mitch Miller made into a popular recording in 1955 that knocked Bill Haley & His Comets’ «Rock Around The Clock» from the top of the Best Sellers chart in the U.S. Miller’s version was featured in the 1956 motion picture Giant, and reached #1 on the U.S. pop chart the same week Giant star James Dean died. Stan Freberg had a simultaneous hit of a parody version in which the bandleader warred with the snare drummer, Alvin Stoller, who also featured prominently in Miller’s arrangement. Billboard ranked Miller’s version as the No. 3 song of 1955.
Gene Autry – The Yellow Rose of Texas
Song by Gene Autry & Jimmy Long
Released June 5, 1933
Recorded March 1, 1933
Studio ARC Studios, New York City
Label Melotone 12700
TOP 100 WESTERN SONG
Gene Autry – The Yellow Rose of Texas lyrics
There’s a yellow rose in Texas
That I am gonna back to see
Nobody else could miss her
Not half as much as me
She cried so when I left her
It like to broke my heart
And if I ever find her
We never more will part
She’s the sweetest little rosebud
That Texas ever knew
Her eyes are bright as diamonds
They sparkle like the dew
You may talk about your Clementine
And sing of Rosa Lee
But the Yellow Rose of Texas
Is the only girl for me
Where the Rio Grande is flowin’
And starry skies are bright
She walks along the river
In the quiet summer night
I know that she remembers
When we parted long ago
I promised to return
And not to leave her so
Oh, now I’m gonna find her
For my heart is full of woe
We’ll do the things together
We did so long ago
We’ll play the banjo gaily
She’ll love me like before
And the Yellow Rose of Texas
Shall be mine forevermore
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 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.Frankie Laine - RawhideSong by Frankie LaineLanguage EnglishLength 2:00Composer(s) Dimitri TiomkinLyricist(s) Ned WashingtonNotable coversDan Sartain101 Strings OrchestraBig John BatesThe Blues Brothers (on the soundtrack to their eponymous film)Johnny CashDezperadoz (The legend and the truth album, 2006)Greenbriar BoysHappy Feet TwoHelgi Björnsson (Icelandic, as Ríðum, ríðum, ríðum)The Jackson 5Dead Kennedys[6]Frankie Laine (performed again with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra). This version was used in 2013 in an advertisement for Google Chrome.The Men They Couldn't HangThe MeteorsLiza MinnelliThe New Zealand Railways Department used a cover of the song in a 1978 television advertisement for its freight services.[7]Nassim (full name Nassim Ait-Kaci) recorded an instrumental version for the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.Oingo BoingoRiders in the SkySheb Wooley (who actually starred in Rawhide)Jan Rot translated the song in Dutch as "Yippieyayee" for the album An + Jan gaan landelijk, 2008Johnny Western){kind=link}