<Li> Opening track of Scatman Crothers' 1956 album, Rock' n' roll with Scat Man . </Li> <Li> Theodore Bikel sang a humorous version of the song in his An Actor's Holiday album (1956). </Li> <Ul> <Li> The song was recorded by the Norman Luboff Choir and released on their 1960 album, Songs of the Cowboy . </Li> <Li> Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released an instrumental version in 1961, featuring Neil Levang on guitar, which spent 3 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 87 . </Li> <Li> Curtis Lance (Dick Jensen) and the Uniques recorded an instrumental version in 1961 . </Li> <Li> The Brothers Four recorded a driven, up - tempo version . with edited lyrics and truncated to three stanzas, for their third LP, B.M.O.C.: Best Music On / Off Campus for Columbia Records in 1961 . </Li> <Li> The Sons of the Pioneers included the song on their album Cool Water put out by RCA Records in 1961 under the name "Riders in the Sky". </Li> <Li> A twangy guitar instrumental version by The Ramrods--featuring the sounds of mooing cattle, bronco cheers, and sound of cracking whips--was recorded in late 1960 and it made the Billboard Top 30 in 1961, as well as the UK Top 10 . This was covered by UK band The Scorpions (not the German rock band) on the "Parlophone" Label . </Li> <Li> The Ventures made a surf rock cover of the song in 1961 . A live performance of the tune, featuring surf rock band The Original Surfaris appeared in the 1962 compilation album titled Surf's Up! At Banzai Pipeline . The performance incorporates the riff from the Jørgen Ingmann hit, "Apache". </Li> <Li> Bob James, recording as The Bob James Trio, included it as the last track on his very first album Bold Conceptions released in 1962 . </Li> <Li> The Spotnicks, a Swedish instrumental rock band, covered this song on their 1962 album, The Spotnicks in London, Out - a space . </Li> <Li> Frankie Laine recorded the song on his 1963 album, Wanderlust . </Li> <Li> Frank Ifield recorded the song for his 1963 UK album, Born Free (Columbia 33SX 1534). </Li> <Li> Dick Dale recorded a surf - rock version for his second album, King of the Surf Guitar, released in 1963 . </Li> <Li> Californian singer Peter Tevis recorded a version with orchestral and choral arrangements by Ennio Morricone for the 1965 album, Un pugno di...West . </Li> <Li> Baja Marimba Band recorded this song on the album, Watch Out, in 1966 . </Li> <Li> Tom Jones recorded this song opening the album, Green, Green Grass of Home, in 1967 . </Li> <Li> Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys recorded an instrumental version of this song on their 1967 album, The World Is Waiting For Terry . </Li> <Li> Davie Allan and the Arrows recorded two versions, one on the 1967 Blues' Theme album (Tower Records) and the other on the 2008 Moving Right Along album (Spinout Records). </Li> <Li> Jimmy Wakely, a cowboy singer, recorded the song on Shasta Records . </Li> <Li> Burl Ives made a second version of this song for his 1969 album Got the World by the Tail . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The song was recorded by the Norman Luboff Choir and released on their 1960 album, Songs of the Cowboy . </Li>

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