<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "Running Bear" is a song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959 . The 1959 recording featured background vocals by Richardson and George Jones and the session's producer Bill Hall, who provided the "Indian chanting" of "uga - uga" during the three verses, as well as the "Indian war cries" at the start and end of the record . It was No. 1 for three weeks in January 1960 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States . The song also reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1960 . Coincidentally, "Running Bear" was immediately preceded in the Hot 100 No. 1 position by Marty Robbins' "El Paso", another song in which the protagonist dies . Billboard ranked "Running Bear" as the No. 4 song of 1960 . </P> <P> Richardson was a friend of Preston and offered "Running Bear" to him after hearing him perform in a club . Preston recorded the song at the Gold Star Studios in Houston, Texas in 1958 . The saxophone was played by Link Davis . </P>

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