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"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stan Jones )〕 A number of versions were crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949, the most successful being by Vaughn Monroe. The ASCAP database lists the song as "Riders in the Sky" (title code 480028324〔(ascap.com/ace ASCAP search )〕), but the title has been written as "Ghost Riders", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", and "A Cowboy Legend". Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. ==Overview== The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways, he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies". Jones said that he had been told the story when he was 12 years old by an old cowboy friend.〔 The story resembles the northern European mythic Wild Hunt. More than 50 performers have recorded versions of the song. Charting versions were recorded by The Outlaws, Vaughn Monroe ("Riders in the Sky" with orchestra and vocal quartet), which topped the Billboard magazine charts, by Bing Crosby (with the Ken Darby Singers), Frankie Laine, Burl Ives (two different versions), Marty Robbins, The Ramrods and Johnny Cash. Other recordings were made by Eddy Arnold, Peggy Lee (with the Jud Conlon Singers), Christopher Lee, and Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Gene Autry sang it in the 1949 movie, ''Riders in the Sky.'' Jones himself recorded it for his 1957 album "Creakin' Leather."〔''Creakin' Leather'' (1957). Disneyland Records WDL-3015. "Stan Jones sings his own compositions" Recorded by Walt Disney Music Co. Copyright Walt Disney Productions.〕 Children of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene and Die Apokalyptischen Reiter have also made covers. The melody is based on the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." According to The Doors' Robby Krieger, it inspired the classic song "Riders on the Storm". The song was also the inspiration for the Magazine Enterprises' horror-Western comic-book character the Ghost Rider.〔 Co-creator Dick Ayers recalled that editor Vin Sullivan "describe() what he wanted in the Ghost Rider" and told Ayers to see the 1949 Disney animated feature ''The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'', one segment of which adapted Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", featuring the Headless Horseman. "()nd then he told me to play the Vaughn Monroe record "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky". And then he started talking about what he wanted the guy wearing."〕 After the trademark to the character's name and motif lapsed, Marvel Comics debuted its own near-identical, non-horror version of the character in ''Ghost Rider'' #1 (Feb. 1967), drawn by Ayers. This character was renamed the Phantom Rider when Marvel debuted its demonic motorcyclist character Ghost Rider. The song may have also been the inspiration for the REO Speedwagon song Ridin' The Storm Out. The chorus lines of this song are and have been since the 1960s a terrace song of the Aston Villa Football Club of England. The words have been modified to include the line "''Holte Enders in the Sky,''" a reference to the occupants of the vast stand behind the goal at the southern end of the Villa Park stadium. The song is also referenced in the Def Leppard song "Foolin'", with the line "On and on, we rode the storm". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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