Bing Sings "I'm an Old Cowhand"
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2011
- Bing Crosby, along with a group that includes Martha Raye, Bob Burns, Louis Prima, and the Sons of the Pioneers, perform a rollicking "I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)" in Rhythm on the Range (1936).
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My grandfather walks around the house and sings this all the time ❤
This is my first time actually hearing an original version of this song! My Dad would sing this! ❤️
Bless him 💙 he must be protected at all costs 💜💙✌️
Bing Crosby, Roy Rogers, and Louis Prima singing a cowboy song. That's awesome.
And let's not forget Martha Raye!
Francesca yes! She was a national treasure!
Absolutely love seeing good footage of Louis prima
And Hollywood's second favorite Russian -- Leonid Kinskey! (Familiar from DUCK SOUP, CASABLANCA, BALL OF FIRE...)
Darn Skippy !!!
Bing Crosby, Louis Prima, Roy Rogers & The Sons of the Pioneers and one of the best 'drunk' scenes I've ever seen, courtesy of Martha Raye!
*Yeah...the 'Big Mouth' was quite something, all the way to her sad end*
My grandpa use to sing this song with me as a lil girl 😊😭🙏 I miss you Grandpa Bernie, love your cowgirl 💖
What a great group of performers. Many of whom are never talked about anymore. Bob Burns, The Arkansas Traveler, no less and that bazooka of his. WOW .
Don't forget about Roy Rogers at 0:32
@allenmurray7893
That's what led me here
Wow that was amazing, can't stop grinning
I just found this jewel!! Music doesn't get any better than this. I don't know that I've ever seen Roy and Bing together. Great music is timeless.
תודה רבה על השיתוף בנושא הזה של בינג קרוסבי המפורסם, כוכב עולמי גדול של מוסיקה וקולנוע, הוא הביא לי זיכרונות טובים מאוד.חיבוק גדול מירושלים.
free palestine from settlers
That captured a slice of history, including Crosby's reluctant dance!
Johnny Mercer was one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Good job to Mr. Mercer for writing this masterpiece
That's Roy Rogers 0:34 - "never roped a steer 'cause I don't know how". He's so young. Little did he know what fame awaited him. That's Bob Nolan who comes up after Roy, from Sons of the Pioneers. Wikipedia "composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds."
So much of the music from that period is wonderful. Bing, Louie, Roy and Bob Nolan. I love this video!!!
"Yippi kay oh kay eh" de esta peli sacó la frase Bruce Willis para su personaje de la Jungla de cristal.
Leonid Kinskey (the bartender from "Casablanca") at 1:27.
My mom's repertoire of novelty tunes included this one, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", "I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded" and many others. Today was her birthday.
May God Bless Her Sweet Soul, your's too ya old fart! ...Great tunes!
I feel really old, I came here because I remembered this song from an I Love Lucy episode.
It's fantastic! I could listen to this over and over.
Playing this for my 2 year Granddaughter Berkeley she just got a negative test for covid 19. Yippie
Is that a young Martha Raye?! Wow🤔😄
Bing Crosby said "Yippee-ki-yay" before it was cool.
Came here for the bazooka!
Internet vagabonding brought me here. I somehow started reading about some space exploration news (don't recall why), migrated to the Hayabusa2 asteroid mission, that included mention of a shape charge explosive to kick up a soil sample. I then accidentally mouse-rolled over the words "shape charge" and an image popped up to catch my attention. I visited Wikipedia for Shape Charge after which I came across mention of the bazooka. That entry took me to other notes about the term, bringing me to the truly unique instrument created by comedian Bob Burns, which he plays in this song. BTW, the notes are not controlled by the length of this instrument. That is done with the lips. The *quality* of the notes changes with a change in length, so you change the type of sound by using the slide.
Yee-haw! Doin' this song tonight at the gig in San Marcos, Texas.
The way it was and the way it is today Give me the PEACE of the OLD SHOWS and OLD WAYS , Thank you Nicoley133 for sharing this
My Maternal Grandfather Used To Sing This Song To Me When I Was A Young Boy!
The curly headed guy wearing chaps is Leonid Kinskey. He went on to play Sasha the bartender in Casablanca.
"FIREFLY BLOCKED US EVERY TIME! - YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW POPULAR HE IS IN FREDONIA!" - Leonid Kinsky in "Duck Soup" (1933)
I've seen part of this on the Johnny Mercer documentary but this whole thing is super! Louis Prima and Roy Rogers!!!!
All of those great stars! Love Leonid Kinskey, who played Sascha, the bartender in Rick's Cafe Americain in ''Casablanca." This is a gem. Thank you for posting, nicoley133. You've made my day.
So much talent in this number!
I wish I was around in these times. This is good ol' Americana!
Agreed
No CZcams back then :)
No, you really don't. I can remember a time when we didn't have air conditioning. REALLY unpleasant.
Not "Real America'. But it was Real Americana.
This was the Great Depression and Hitler was in charge of Germany(1919-1933 Weimar Republic)
Great video. Haven't saw this movie since I was a child.
Great song written by Johnny Mercer. Bing does it right.
Eddie, the postman from to grandmother’s house we go sings this while he’s driving around!
After watching the movie 'Die Hard', I tried to remind friends that its 'yippie yi yo kayah' NOT 'Yippie yo kayah' as Bruce Willis spoke it in the movie. Of course no one was interested in my picky criticism - but I was, dang it. I really don't care (much) that Willis' line was wrong and really, what does it matter ? Well to me it did and now, finally, after all these years I have been vindicated !!
My real problem was that I could not remember where I knew the line from (prior to watching 'Die Hard') although I suspected it was from a Saturday morning viewing of one of my favorite TV shows
starring Roy and Dale Evans back when I was just a little kid. However, until the internet came along, I didn't even know where to start looking for the correct answer to my long held assertion.
Now the problem is, I have no one to share this with, my friends from back in the day are now all gone. So now I share this with you, the stranger(s) who may one day read this comment. I can't imagine that I'm the only person on this planet who noticed this tiny slip of tongue or error in script writing. Leave it to me though, the 'you always have to be right' guy. Hopefully I've provided the answer for those similarly afflicted schmucks out there like me ... I mean, could I be the only one ? Really ? For the other searchers, may you stumble upon this and may it bring you, at long last, the sought out relief you desire. Its been my pleasure and you're very, very welcome comrade.
This video was posted 11 years ago. Had I only seen it then, how much sooner I would have been relieved !
Just in case you're wondering what the heck I'm going on about. Bruce Willis was voted #46 in the '100 Greatest Actors of all Time' list for uttering these words - incorrectly - in the 1988 movie 'Die Hard'. THIRTY FOUR years I've been haunted, tortured .... but TODAY.... today I'm finally relieved of my suffering !! Thank YOU nicoley133, thank you, thank you !!
*BTW, nothing against Mr Willis, I wish him all the best ! Its just that I was RIGHT dang it !!
So, anyone wanna go see a film with me ? No ....?
🙂
It's an interesting group! Glad you got to see it. :)
Louis Prima young. What a surprise, what a man.
similar tune to "brother, have you brought me hope, or have you paid my fees, or have you come to see me hangin' from the gallows tree..."
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan
I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
Never roped a steer 'cause I don't know how
Sure ain't a fixing to start in now
Oh, yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand and I come down from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride, ride, ride 'fore I learned to stand
I'm a riding fool who is up to date
I know every trail in the Lone Star State
'Cause I ride the range in a Ford V 8
Oh, yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
We're old cowhands from the Rio Grande
And we come to town just to hear the band
We know all the songs that the cowboys know
'Bout the big corral where the doggies go
We learned them all on the radio
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand
(Oh yes, Mr. Bing)
(Too hot for you, Uncle Fudd)
Down from the Rio Grande
Oh where the west is wild all around the borderland
Where the buffalo roam around the zoo
And the Injuns run up a rug or two
And the old Bar X is just a barbecue, yeah
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm a pioneer who began from scratch
I don't bat an eye in a shootin' match
They don't call me Elmer, they call me Satch
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
Get along little horsy
Get along little horsy
Yippie yi yo kayah, oh
Love this!!!!!!!
WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.
Louie Prima's trumpet sound is all his
What a line-up!
I love this
You might look for Montana Moon next, Joan Crawford's strangest movie. A blend of cowboys and city slickers that has to be seen to be understood.
Louis Prima and Roy Rogers no less!
very cool version, I thought that was Roy there on guitar, wow!
rIt was! I just realised that!
0:32
Roy Rogers, uncredited and before he became famous.
I love it
Love bing.
Hey, that's Roy rogers in that back up.
Noel Bourke Yes as a member of the sons of the pioneers! At this point his name was Leonard Slye.
Noel Bourke &
One of the Sons of the Pioneers.
I never realized how cute Martha Raye was!
lol..awesome mix of singers and musicians....great fun.... the guy at 1.25 is Pecos Bill :)))
..my goodness...(it's great!)
The ill-fated Frances Farmer is the pretty blonde in the background She said this was one of the films she really enjoyed making...Seeing these song/gagsters cutting up you can well understand the fun they had on the set...
"I spend all my time at the hotel bar / with the plantar's punch and a big cigar / and even my horse is a movie star, yippee yi yo kay hay" -- yup, capturing America as it had become at one point. Back in the day when Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks had two female singers, they recorded a version of this song where the two women hit one of the most absolutely perfectly blue notes I have ever heard on the word "band" in the line "and I come to town / just to hear the band". If you can find that version of this song, check out how they blues that phrase in this great, great American classic.
One of the first movies Francis Farmer made. B-movie, but fun to watch.
Johnny Mercer's first big hit song in Hollywood.
just found one of my old records has this in instrumental *Score*
Yea!
Anyone know where I can find this movie? My Grandpa played as a stunt double for Bing during the scene where he rode the bull.
Neat! Amazon? It's part of a region 1 double feature with Rhythm on the River.
+Jacob Govatos Hope you got the film since your post MCA had a double film dvd with RHYTHM ON THE RANGE paired off with another Crosby title (RHYTHM ON THE RIVER?) MCA VAULT series is one source You might also try MOVIES UNLIMITED and OLDIES.com
Karl Pilkington... why of ALL places
Contact Westerns on the web to see if they can help
Unbelievable! I hope and pray that you find your copy soon. That’s so cool 😎. Thanks for that interesting fact! That’s incredible truly! Wow 😳 so beautiful to have that rare and precious treasure in your pocket! Thank You ☺️ for that life filled part of history. God bless you and yours. 🤍🤍🤍
love!!!! you!!! ;)
Thank You ☺️ 🙏 for this! And for your love ❤️ for Bing! I subscribed instantly seeing that. And I wondered what’s your favorite female version of this song? I’m an old cowhand? I love ❤️ covering this song! Haha 😂 but which girl do you recommend? And in terms of this era of music 🎶 which female singers artists do you adore 🥰 as well? Much appreciated Gracias! 🤍🤍🤍
Lyrics
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande
But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan
I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow
Never roped a steer 'cause I don't know how
Sure ain't a fixing to start in now
Oh, yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand and I come down from the Rio Grande
And I learned to ride, ride, ride 'fore I learned to stand
I'm a riding fool who is up to date
I know every trail in the Lone Star State
'Cause I ride the range in a Ford V 8
Oh, yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
We're old cowhands from the Rio Grande
And we come to town just to hear the band
We know all the songs that the cowboys know
'Bout the big corral where the doggies go
We learned them all on the radio
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm an old cowhand
(Oh yes, Mr. Bing)
(Too hot for you, Uncle Fudd)
Down from the Rio Grande
Oh where the west is wild all around the borderland
Where the buffalo roam around the zoo
And the Injuns run up a rug or two
And the old Bar X is just a barbecue, yeah
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
I'm a pioneer who began from scratch
I don't bat an eye in a shootin' match
They don't call me Elmer, they call me Satch
Yippie yi yo kayah, yippie yi yo kayah
Get along little horsy
Get along little horsy
Yippie yi yo kayah, oh
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Johnny Mercer
I'm an Old Cowhand lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
Louis Prima in 0:13 is fantastic. Check out I Wan'na Be like You (The Monkey Song) - the Jungle VIP!
Phil Harris as balloo the bear is pretty good too.
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
I'm an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
And I come to town
just to hear the band
I'm a cowboy who
never seed a cow
Never roped a steer
'cause I don't know how
And I sure ain't fixin'
to startin' now
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
He's an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
But he'd rather be
in a good swing band
They fed me hot tamales
the day I was born
I been red-hot
ever since that morn
When I start to cool
I just grab my horn
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
He's an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
Where the West is wild
round the borderland
Where the buffalo
roam around the zoo
And the Injuns run up
a rug or two
The old Bar X
is a barbecue, Whoa
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Oh, yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
He's an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
And he learned to ride
'fore he learned to stand
I'm riding fool
who is up-to-date
I know every trail
in the Lone Star state
And I ride the range
in a Ford V-
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
He's an old cowhand
from the Rio Grande
And he done retired
livin' off the land
I spend all my time
at the hotel bar
With a planter's punch
and a big cigar
'Cause my old ranch horse
is a movie star
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Oh, yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
She's an old cowgal
Just a regular pal
They don't call me Emma
They just call me Al
We're so gosh-darn horsey
around our way
We don't say howdy
We just say"hay"
We don't answer
We all just neigh
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
I'm just an old cowhand
Down from the Rio Grande
Oh, yeah, man
And I can round up herd
Just to beat the band
Oh, tell me
Now I'm a "pie-on-ear"
Who began from scratch
I don't bat an eye
in a shootin' match
I'll be foreman soon
if my plans all hatch
Oh, yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
They're old cowhands
from the Rio Grande
And we sing duet
in the cowboy band
You should hear us
a-make-a with a hi-de-ho
You should hear us make with below,
below Below, below
And both join in
with a ho-ho-ho
Yippee-o
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Ho-ho-ho
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
Yippee-aye-o-ki-ay
The Unusual Suspect brought me here! ;-) lol
Roy Rogers too!!!
first recorded rap cypher
♥️
@RETRONAUTA yup :)
Love Bing, Martha, Roy, and the Dorseys. And bedrock values. Grew up with that stuff midcentury. And liked Ike. Yet...
Beware of nostalgia! Takes us to dangerous places.
yup
james reyne covered this for the b side of "trouble in paradise" but i can't find his version online.i'll buy the original vinyl.
yippee-ki-yay!
Chopper Read and his singing Detective brought me here.
Before smartphones
MIB 3
louis prima...i wish i could get "row, row up the river st lawrence" on you tube; can't find it.
And Martha Raye.
Bob Burns playing his "bazooka".
The tall guy with the Russian accent is Leonid Kinskey.
Bing Crosby, Louis Prima, Sons of the Pioneers - was this video made in Heaven?
I came from Die Hard
Die Hard always gets me there too.
same
Me too
I wonder what was going through Frances Farmer's mind as this scene was filmed.
THANX MICHAEL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who else heard "Epi anyen w pa ye"😅 🇭🇹
Martha Raye too.
He came from Tacoma Washington. You can't get much further west than that. Also here, Bob Burns & the original bazooka. You can't see (and hear) Bob Burns and not think that Andy Griffith got a lot from him.
I plan to use this instrumental in something
don't miss Bob Burns playing his Bazooka
Inner Space "yippee yi-yo ki-yay"
If you want to see some benzedrine induced craziness, check out some of Louie's stuff from the late 50's and early 60's.
This song is a music piece in the piano exam
At 0:33 Roy Rogers
I love Lucy sent me here
Year of this?
The Cowboy from Innerspace brought me here 😂😂
@nicoley 133, May God Bless You... Oh! nevermind... I see He has!... HalleluYAH!
Yeehaw
still hear?
Roy Rogers was in this?
MIB 3🇨🇱📻🎙️🎧🎶👂👋🏻🦖