I RIDE AN OLD PAINT

Created on 26/04/2024
Latest update on 26/04/2024

Artist: Tex Ritter
Author: traditional
Label: Conqueror
Year: 1933

As A-Riding Old Paint. Collected and published by Carl Sandburg in American Songbag (1927). Aaron Copland used the melody line in his ballet suite Rodeo ('42).

Covers:

1935:

Patsy Montana [as Ridin' Old Paint]

1937:

Frank Luther

1938:

Carl Sandburg

1950:

Burl Ives [as Old Paint]

1951:

Cisco Houston

1952:

Almanac Singers

1952:

Weavers [as Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies)]

1956:

Roy Rogers

1957:

Woody Guthrie

1957:

Pete Seeger

1958:

Rex Allen

1958:

Richard Dyer-Bennet

1959:

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

1963:

Harry Belafonte [as My Old Paint]

1963:

Peter LaFarge

1965:

Johnny Cash

1971:

Loudon Wainwright III [as Old Paint on Album II]

1972:

Townes Van Zandt [released on Sunshine Boy - The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972]

1977:

Linda Ronstadt [as Old Paint]

1978:

Don McLean

1991:

Arlo Guthrie

1996:

Riders In The Sky

2009:

Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell [as Old Paint]

2018:

Holly Golightly

Contact


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