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

@briannotafan3368

2 жыл бұрын

i still rember the green light on my dads 67 t-bird hearing this song

Awesome actor and singer

Great Canadian actor. Loved him in Bonanza. Was also an announcer for the CBC during WWII broadcasting the news. Received the Order of Canada.

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.

@mikeyoung9810

Жыл бұрын

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.

He and Sam Elliott have the best voices for Westerns ever.

@ef.l2005

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! The best voices.

@lordblues723

Жыл бұрын

Then you need to hear Tapio Rautavaara version

@lordblues723

Жыл бұрын

From thi son

@Chr.U.Cas2216

Жыл бұрын

Dear Ethan W. Please don't forget Richard Boone! Best regards luck and health.

@Comdelivry

Жыл бұрын

Marty robbins.

This was a million seller, I wonder how many kids bought it before hearing it because it was titled Ringo?

Lorne Greene The best and powerful voice ever 💜

Oh my gosh..grew up listening this to this with my big brothers and sister.

Great actor and singer

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.

@CurlyFromTheSwirly

2 жыл бұрын

The best villians are more cimplex than just super jerks out to hurt the world. They must see themselves as the hero.

@susienorris1300

2 жыл бұрын

Curly, you are so right!

@CurlyFromTheSwirly

2 жыл бұрын

@@susienorris1300 😸

@susienorris1300

2 жыл бұрын

I really like men! They are often such heroes. It's in their makeup

I remember putting plenty of coins in the jukebox down at the corner bar because of "Ringo" by Lorne Greene.

Long time fan of this song, thanks for posting this

@bradforward850

2 жыл бұрын

Big John ripoff Which was written in 1960

@stewartberger7734

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradforward850 I was just going to post the same thing 👍

Wow! I hadnt heard this for more than 40 years and I still remember almost every word. No Alzheimers here...lol

@adamalty6821

Жыл бұрын

That's super smashin beltin champion news!

Fantastic voice and song!!!!

the original king of hip hop

@SoundbombSoldier

Жыл бұрын

the inventor of gangsta lyrics.

Great stuff.

Love the song l ❤ Loren Green. Bonanza was a great show Loren green was top notch on it.

Great!

There’s a recording of him singing the mostly unknown lyrics to the Bonanza show theme music. Pretty cool.

The great Lorne Greene👏

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

From this song arose the parody "The Ballad of Irving" by Dr. Demento.

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.

@georgejuniorleedom4476

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he thought it funny.

Lorne Greene rapping. Take that Yellowstone!

Lorne Greene recorded Ringo in the fall of 1964. The song was played on many AM radio stations nationwide.

Best song in my life

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.

@CurlyFromTheSwirly

2 жыл бұрын

😹🥪

Wow...

Timeless song. Before dirty harry, generations before it was ringo. Preferred sidearm of both men was a .44 magnum

@copperhammer

2 жыл бұрын

The ol Sixshooter was not in 44 Magnum

@coltsfan79

2 жыл бұрын

The .44 magnum was invented in 1954.

@strikerdelta

11 ай бұрын

Not Magnum. .44-40 . .44 caliber with 40 grains of black powder.

Loved this song when I was knee high.

No one had cooler backup singers than Lorne Green.

You may be too young to remember there used to be monthly comic book end it was called Ringo.

Original rap

Un te mazo

Jojo reference.

What's the name of this song again? 😂

@dswx

4 ай бұрын

Ringo Starr. :-)

It's a Western rap song! He gives Walter Brennan a run for his money!

Maybe this is where Richard Starkey got his stage name Ringo Starr.

@samurairaven72

3 жыл бұрын

no this song was released in 1964 and the Beatles were active from 1960-1970

@2oldfashgrl

2 жыл бұрын

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!

that was back when guns were good

@georgejuniorleedom4476

Жыл бұрын

Guns are never good.

Bingo, Bingo, Bingo

Hoyt you are so beautiful

Early white rap

@mt3311

Жыл бұрын

The songs, Duquesne and I've Been Everywhere, both by Hank Snow pre date this song. They are the White Rap.

@diddlysquat88

Ай бұрын

Better than black, criminal and worthless rap

I wish Ringo Star had covered the song. Both broke in '64.

Is that “tarnished star” above Ringo’s name a small nod to Ringo Starr?

@melissagerber7231

Жыл бұрын

It's his old sheriff's star.

@lm6817

Жыл бұрын

@@melissagerber7231 it’s a great coincidence then 😆. The Beatles were on the rise about the same time as this song.

Does he do rocket man as well?

🤣🤣🤣 what's that?

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"looking down the bore" from the wrong side: everybody can do my freshwater pet down

Notice he talks, or narrates the entire song. He doesn't sing a note.

@Meallion98

6 ай бұрын

Oga he sang . Dont be so ignorant. Try talking the lyrics and tell me again if he's just talking ..common

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.

A singer who speaks Spanish should re-record this but use the name, "Gringo".

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.

@CurlyFromTheSwirly

2 жыл бұрын

@@60Cascade, wow, you have like absolutely no sense of humor.

@gerrydooley951

2 жыл бұрын

well they were going to title the song "The Jerk" but felt it wouldn't sell

@melissagerber7231

Жыл бұрын

Friend or not,it was his duty to uphold the law. It was others who gave him the credit.

@CurlyFromTheSwirly

Жыл бұрын

@@melissagerber7231, If he felt it was his duty, he would have done it himself.

@DontNeedToKnow84

Жыл бұрын

Agree. Killed a friend who just spared his life. Thumbs down 👎

People hate rap,but like this crap!!!

@strikerdelta

11 ай бұрын

Problem? Oh well.

@sid2112

3 ай бұрын

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

@EarlJohn61

9 ай бұрын

Hank Snow or Lucky Starr might dispute this.