Ranch Radio Song of the Day

YouTube ^ | 2/4/2019 | myself

[cowpoke]

Its Swingin' Monday and we have the 1955 version of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, vocal by Darla Daret, with the tune Boston Fancy. Ranch Radio has 16 tunes by Wills, such as Pinto Beans, Dusty Skies, and  She's The Quarter Horse Type Of A Gal. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

[sparklite2]

That album cover is a hoot. It looks like the photographer had a thing for the back of women’s heads. Or for guy’s faces. You decide. LOL

[Fiji Hill]

Dan, the horse, was busy in 1941. After saving his rider from dehydration in Cool Water, he had to get him out of the Dust Bowl in Dusty Skies.

[cowpoke]

And then poor ol' Dan froze to death in The Blizzard.

[cowpoke]

that was many years later, of course

[Fiji Hill]

The melody of "The Blizzard" is very similar to that of this protest song:

Hitler Lives--Rosalie Allen (1947)

[cowpoke]

Seems like the horse Dan was mighty popular with songwriters. Bob Nolan wrote Cool Water, Cindy Walker Dusty Skies and Harlan Howard The Blizzard. All Hall of Fame writers too.

[cowpoke]

I see what you mean. Not the chorus, but the rest of the tune. Co-written by Red River Dave.