I never got to hear the first version, but if martymefurst is right then I would listen to it. But Don Fardon's version just blows. The man has no fire, no conviction about what he is singing for in the song. Mark Lindsay and The Raiders version was far superior to Don Fardon's version. If anyone has a link or knows where the original version by Martin Rainwater can be heard, please let me know.
martymefurst is correct. The original version written by John D. Loudermilk in 1959 and recorded by (Cherokee Indian) Marvin Rainwater, entitled "Pale Faced Indian". Loudermilk later reshuffled some lyrics and released it in the mid 1960s as "The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian", which was shortened later to "Indian Reservation" by Don Fardon scoring a worldwide hit. The Raiders (vocals Mark Lindsay) copied it for the US market.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
I am part scottish, German, and 1/2 Shawnee. This version still can't compare to the original sung by Paul Revere and The Raiders. This man has no fire and no passion in his voice when he sings this!!! When I first heard the original when I was just a young lad, it raised every hair on my body on end and gave me chills!! This one was just horrible. I guess there is no comparing to the original!!!
@grammarita1 I am sorry to tell you this but you need to check your sources there dude or dudette, but the one done by PAUL REVERE and THE RAIDERS was the original. Every source I checked, and even asked my mother, because she remembered when the song first came out and she backed up every bit of research I did. So, sorry try again!! The one performed by Paul Revere and The Raiders IS THE ORIGINAL!!!! Not this piece of shyte!!!
@taintedtannis You obviously didn't research very well .... Don's version was before the raiders and is far superior than rever's "pop" song with synthesisers and his girly american voice
@Malo64 You are obviously a tone deaf retard!! Fardon couldn't carry a tune if it had handles on it!! I may have been in error, but I still think the Raider's version SOUNDS SOOOOOOO MUCH better than this shitty version!!!! I guess there is reason Paul Revere and The Raiders are remembered for thier singing of this song and Fardon faded away into oblivion!!
I could never understand why this song isn't played on the oldies stations and Revere's version is the one that people always identify with. Sad. This is the first one. The best one.
@jimmyjoeh2o I think you have watched too many "Hollywood Indian" movies. Our people used the "tommyhawk," bow&arrows and knives as tools. Hunting, cleaning game, etc. These were survival tools of everyday life, only used in combat when necessary. Enough wrongs have been taught.
hi don, we have your cd indian reservation and we really like your voice. where are you from, are you playing anywhere, do you have an official website, do you have management? we think you have a lot of talent. please contact me at mgraw54@hotmail.com. thanks, jim and marilyn graw
@curo5 The lyrics there are " bow and knife" Not bowie knife. Our people used both the bow and knife and we used knives long before the "Bowie" knife.
well we are very prowd of don,a real down to earth guy,if you type in Indian reservation on the right hand side will come up (the sorrows) ( he sang front man to them,they are local lads to me, and jigsaw (sky high) the list goes on for our local bands try them let the world know what Coventry kids can do... all the best Allen.
AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED THIS COUNTRY IS BUILT ON ,,,MURDER ,,,RAPE,,,THIEVERY,,AND,,,GERM WARFARE,,,,,,BUT NOW EVERYONE IS A CRIMINAL,,,NO WONDER ALL I CAN DO IS WALK WITH MY HEAD DOWN
I have spent my last 30 years taking land back!! I pray at my alter the NAC Way!! I am not the only one fighting the modern war!! This war is using paper with the face of a trader "Jackson" and taking back our land!! Calling down the spirits of our old to sing and dance on free Cherokee "Tsa-la-gi" Land Again!!
I had forgotten about this wonderful classic and now that I hear it again after 35 years or so the words are even more powerful to me...thanks for posting, when I hear it, it is like I just heard it yesterday if you can understand me. thks
I had this on a 45 rpm record and someone stole it. It was in my opinion much better than the cover by Paul Revere and the Raiders. Thanks so much for sharing!
Been looking for this for ages......so glad to find it. Tried explaining to my kids why I hate cowboy and indian films. These words and Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills, have proved my point!!!
In response to larkat50psd. I am also proud to hear from you and your people. You have such beautiful history and stories. You should be proud and happy to be able to read back and compile all that is relevant to your past. Don't ever let anyone hurt your feelings about it, either. Remember, improvement comes slowly until it reaches its peak - fruitful at last.
I spend hours on youtube looking for old songs from my childhood. I'd completely forgotten this classic, but how the memories are flooding back! Thanks for posting!
OMG!! I KNEW there was a version before the Raiders did their version. My high school was known as the Sam Houston Cherokees and of course this was "our" song. I remembered someone else doing it before The Raiders but didn't know how to find it or who did it! Thank you soooo much for doing this. It brings back good memories!!
(P.S.) Due to the "native americans" supposedly objecting to having anything referring to them (i.e., the Sam Houston Cherokees) they're now known as the hurricaines!
@larkat50psd did marvin or don get any royalty rights when the raiders took it and made it more popular? i think it was right around that indian crying on that commercial on tv circa 1971
@larkat50psd I hate what the white euopean man did to the great tribes of the land now called America, its their land and they have the right to whatever they want as it was all stole from them by pape pillage and mass murder
@larkat50psd I hate what the white man did to the proud tribes of the land now called America. they raped pillaged and committed mass murder in their greed for the land and wealth that is there and the Indigenous peoples who live there are the rightful owners, not the pale faced,or anyother colour but themselves, Their great leaders like geronimo, Chiricahua: Goyaałé, "one who yawns Sitting bull Crazy Horse and all the other grat warriors are the true legends not the Custers who where invaded
GREAT SONG LOVE IT:) funny, while I was watching this video one of Don's albums came up with Belfast Boy. My husband Ray Smith wrote that song with Tony Colton.
Don Maughn was lead singer for the British group The Sorrows, but the group's manager "changed" the singer's name to Don Fardon.
This song only reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1968, but Paul Revere & The Raiders went to No. 1 with it in 1971.
This song was on the GNP Crescendo label, but later Fardon recordings on the Chelsea, Capitol, Decca and Roxbury labels met with little success, at least in the U.S.
I think many young people then hated our colonial history which is why this was such a big hit he had a great voice and the music has an edge that the raiders version doesn't
The Raiders version is a knockoff..THIS is the REAL deal. Yeah, I thought Fardon might have some indian blood in him. He certainly has a similiar spirit.
This version sounds more "authentic" (that is, less commercial) than the later Raiders version. Not that the Raiders version is bad. I was kind of disappointed when I learned Don Fardon was not a real Indian but a Brit.
At least, the person who wrote the song John Loudermilk is from North Carolina, but I have no clue if he has Cherokee blood, but I would assume he would at least have a drop of it since North Carolina is somewhat close to Georgia where the Trail of Tears occured.
Thanks for the post - hadn't heard this one for years. However, I think you'll find the lyric 'tomahawk and the Bowie knife' nor prairie knife. These knives were made famous by James 'Jim' Bowie, who I believe fought at The Alamo (although could be wrong there!)
"Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" is a song written by John D. Loudermilk. It was first recorded in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater and released as "The Pale Faced Indian". Rainwater's MGM release stayed unnoticed.
...the original is ALWAYS better than the copy because, besides music and lyrics there is also HEART and SOUL. I have NO respect for COPY bands. Sometimes they spend days, months, YEARS even, trying to sound JUST like the record. When someone tells me "He plays or sings just like so and so" I say "Dude, it took him years to play that lick it took so and so 4 minutes to record. Impressive."
...this tune is light years ahead of the Raiders. THIS is the first version I ever heard...my first thought when I heard Paul Revere and the Raiders DUPLICATE it..."the white man has done it again."
Thanks! I'd never heard this version before, and learned something about it from other comments. It is indeed a bit "more dark and ominuos" than the better-known version.
I remember Fardon was the first to have a hit with this song in the 60s, but it has been forever since I heard it. This version is better than the Raiders version, more dark and ominous. The Lewis and Clarke Expedition (Michael Murphy, Boomer Castleman) also had a version of this song but I'm not familiar with their version, but I think their version came after the Fardon hit, although songs in those days were recorded day and released the next day.
I haven't heard Don Fardon's version in forty years! I knew that I'd heard this song before Paul Revere & the Raiders recorded it, but I never knew, until now, whose recording I had previously heard. I always preferred Don Fardon's. Thank you for putting on youtube.
Yes your correct,actually i was the bass player in his band for some years,i played on this, and also Belfast Boy, a song about George Best,we used to play on a lot on the Live Radio One Club dates,broadcast live around 12 lunch time,it has a lot of good memeories for me!!.
viva Billy Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best version! there is a live version somewhere out there, i saw the clip years ago. in the end we can't eat money!!!
Loved that song as a young child! Always felt connected to Native Americans and felt what was done to them was disgusting to say the least!
DrEdFeraco 1 week ago
The 1959 rendition has some different words
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my favorite version, Sexy voice
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I never got to hear the first version, but if martymefurst is right then I would listen to it. But Don Fardon's version just blows. The man has no fire, no conviction about what he is singing for in the song. Mark Lindsay and The Raiders version was far superior to Don Fardon's version. If anyone has a link or knows where the original version by Martin Rainwater can be heard, please let me know.
taintedtannis 2 months ago
Yea I'm part Cherokee. And yea Cherokee will return.
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martymefurst is correct. The original version written by John D. Loudermilk in 1959 and recorded by (Cherokee Indian) Marvin Rainwater, entitled "Pale Faced Indian". Loudermilk later reshuffled some lyrics and released it in the mid 1960s as "The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian", which was shortened later to "Indian Reservation" by Don Fardon scoring a worldwide hit. The Raiders (vocals Mark Lindsay) copied it for the US market.
Boogeyman1862 2 months ago
To settle the "who was here first" argument, it was Marvin Rainwater in 1959.
martymefurst 3 months ago
My wife is part Cherokee. This says a lot!
JamesTSinclair 3 months ago
Remember You liked this one Brian.
TheApollopotter 4 months ago
Песня моей молодости. когда впереди вся жизнь которой казалось нет конца....
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 5 months ago
I am part scottish, German, and 1/2 Shawnee. This version still can't compare to the original sung by Paul Revere and The Raiders. This man has no fire and no passion in his voice when he sings this!!! When I first heard the original when I was just a young lad, it raised every hair on my body on end and gave me chills!! This one was just horrible. I guess there is no comparing to the original!!!
taintedtannis 5 months ago
@taintedtannis This is the original.
grammarita1 3 months ago
@grammarita1 I am sorry to tell you this but you need to check your sources there dude or dudette, but the one done by PAUL REVERE and THE RAIDERS was the original. Every source I checked, and even asked my mother, because she remembered when the song first came out and she backed up every bit of research I did. So, sorry try again!! The one performed by Paul Revere and The Raiders IS THE ORIGINAL!!!! Not this piece of shyte!!!
taintedtannis 3 months ago
@taintedtannis Raiders' version came out in 1971...Fardon's came out in 1968.
fumetti 2 months ago
@taintedtannis You obviously didn't research very well .... Don's version was before the raiders and is far superior than rever's "pop" song with synthesisers and his girly american voice
Malo64 1 month ago
@Malo64 You are obviously a tone deaf retard!! Fardon couldn't carry a tune if it had handles on it!! I may have been in error, but I still think the Raider's version SOUNDS SOOOOOOO MUCH better than this shitty version!!!! I guess there is reason Paul Revere and The Raiders are remembered for thier singing of this song and Fardon faded away into oblivion!!
taintedtannis 1 month ago
@taintedtannis Fardon 1968 Raiders 1971 - Fact
Malo64 1 month ago
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@taintedtannis This is the original.
grammarita1 3 months ago
Scott, Irish,Choctaw, and a bit of Cherokee. Dons' music still moves me.
cothybro 5 months ago
great stuff!!
blade0954 5 months ago
were are the lyrics
lilah1319 5 months ago
I'm part Cherokee too. Cool song.
hsaliak1 5 months ago
I could never understand why this song isn't played on the oldies stations and Revere's version is the one that people always identify with. Sad. This is the first one. The best one.
Moodiesfanalways 7 months ago
My Dad used to work with Don Fardon way back when he was a car salesmen! XD
MattTRobinsonFilms 8 months ago
@jimmyjoeh2o I think you have watched too many "Hollywood Indian" movies. Our people used the "tommyhawk," bow&arrows and knives as tools. Hunting, cleaning game, etc. These were survival tools of everyday life, only used in combat when necessary. Enough wrongs have been taught.
wado
Witatsois 9 months ago
my name is chief running bear.
KyplayaZ4lyfe 10 months ago
@KyplayaZ4lyfe OK... and I'm Chief Shitting Bear...
shmuli9 8 months ago
@shmuli9 awesome name bro!
KyplayaZ4lyfe 8 months ago
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hi don, we have your cd indian reservation and we really like your voice. where are you from, are you playing anywhere, do you have an official website, do you have management? we think you have a lot of talent. please contact me at mgraw54@hotmail.com. thanks, jim and marilyn graw
mgraw100 10 months ago
@911fletcher not Bow and knife, it's Bowie Knife, a hunting knife designed by Jim Bowie...Wow I'm sad :)
curo5 11 months ago
@curo5 The lyrics there are " bow and knife" Not bowie knife. Our people used both the bow and knife and we used knives long before the "Bowie" knife.
wado
Witatsois 9 months ago
"Tommyhawk and the Bowie knife" a play on the tomahawk and the Bowie knife the favorite fighting combo of the red indian warrior.
jimmyjoeh2o 11 months ago
well we are very prowd of don,a real down to earth guy,if you type in Indian reservation on the right hand side will come up (the sorrows) ( he sang front man to them,they are local lads to me, and jigsaw (sky high) the list goes on for our local bands try them let the world know what Coventry kids can do... all the best Allen.
allenparsons31 11 months ago
my eldest nephew used to bounce in his pram to this - ah memories!
robin101962 11 months ago
4 my paul i use to dance with you to this onexx
christina3041 1 year ago
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Dynamite record. Thanks for sharing.
MrRankamateur1 1 year ago
Dynamite record! Thanks for posting.
MrRankamateur1 1 year ago
good job...great version :)...I think it might be "bow and knife" instead of "prairie knife", but that's a minor quibble )
skypanther1 1 year ago
@skypanther1 Ha! You're most likely right - I always heard it as Bowie knife (as in Jim Bowie) but that wouldn't actually make sense - good call!
SteveTheMovieGuy1 1 year ago
@skypanther1
I Think "bow and knife" is right, it makes the most sense!
911fletcher 1 year ago
Good song, great memories of the music of that time.
yo519ge 1 year ago
The words and music are so powerful and so meaningful, this classic really makes one think deeply about the awful history of what happened.
jimmyriddles 1 year ago
Great song.
star5628 1 year ago
"and someday when the world has learned" i thick you'll find?????
TheWolfryder 1 year ago
AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED THIS COUNTRY IS BUILT ON ,,,MURDER ,,,RAPE,,,THIEVERY,,AND,,,GERM WARFARE,,,,,,BUT NOW EVERYONE IS A CRIMINAL,,,NO WONDER ALL I CAN DO IS WALK WITH MY HEAD DOWN
tazerboy65 1 year ago
I have spent my last 30 years taking land back!! I pray at my alter the NAC Way!! I am not the only one fighting the modern war!! This war is using paper with the face of a trader "Jackson" and taking back our land!! Calling down the spirits of our old to sing and dance on free Cherokee "Tsa-la-gi" Land Again!!
Wado
waggonburner007 1 year ago 3
interesting....sounds a lot like the sorrows' "take a heart"...good stuff
WillTWiggins 1 year ago
i like they way mark lindsay did this song .both great .
tornadomanatwork 1 year ago
I had forgotten about this wonderful classic and now that I hear it again after 35 years or so the words are even more powerful to me...thanks for posting, when I hear it, it is like I just heard it yesterday if you can understand me. thks
jimmyriddles 1 year ago
What a classic! What a great sound. A unique slice of 60s pop. cheers for postin this up, man!
OneHadASorrow 1 year ago
the PR&Rs version will always be muh favorite. guess I just like Mark Lindsay's voice better.
denniswilsonfan 1 year ago
that song is awesome...love it!
thedarksummernight 1 year ago
When the land is pulverised by nuclear fallout, the American Indians can sit back and smile.
debiedog1 1 year ago
fantastic song , I used to love it thanks
amazingartimus 1 year ago
I had this on a 45 rpm record and someone stole it. It was in my opinion much better than the cover by Paul Revere and the Raiders. Thanks so much for sharing!
newsgodaz 1 year ago
@paddyotay Actually, according to Wikipedia, it was written by John D. Loudermilk. and first recorded in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater
srewolfe 1 year ago
@srewolfe I would love to hear Marvin Rainwater's version. I had no idea how old this song was!
2degucitas 1 year ago
Belfast lad sings tribute to Cherokee Nation ...RIP Chief Wilma Mankiller.
dizinno 1 year ago
Been looking for this for ages......so glad to find it. Tried explaining to my kids why I hate cowboy and indian films. These words and Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills, have proved my point!!!
EukeeUK 2 years ago
Top song. Top upload.
ray3mondo 2 years ago
In response to larkat50psd. I am also proud to hear from you and your people. You have such beautiful history and stories. You should be proud and happy to be able to read back and compile all that is relevant to your past. Don't ever let anyone hurt your feelings about it, either. Remember, improvement comes slowly until it reaches its peak - fruitful at last.
mixedandnot 2 years ago
At last, I found it! My mum used to play this and it's brought back loads of emories ^_^
CastIntoTheAbyss 2 years ago 2
I spend hours on youtube looking for old songs from my childhood. I'd completely forgotten this classic, but how the memories are flooding back! Thanks for posting!
basil226 2 years ago 19
Funny, i spend hours on youtube looking for old songs that I discover in my adult life. We got stuff in common...
MSTFreak 2 years ago 2
@basil226 same here, I remember this from the early 70's
jubbaronny 1 year ago
@basil226 God Bless you and Good luck!
eddiestardust 1 month ago
Forgot just how good this was. Brilliant. Thank you. Happy New Year
maggiev0805 2 years ago 3
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usvioletswan 2 years ago 3
OMG!! I KNEW there was a version before the Raiders did their version. My high school was known as the Sam Houston Cherokees and of course this was "our" song. I remembered someone else doing it before The Raiders but didn't know how to find it or who did it! Thank you soooo much for doing this. It brings back good memories!!
(P.S.) Due to the "native americans" supposedly objecting to having anything referring to them (i.e., the Sam Houston Cherokees) they're now known as the hurricaines!
mooseldy1256 2 years ago
now i fell olddddddddd so what one of the best x
peter1anonly 2 years ago
tslagi are the people...always were..always will be there....
myonlyfriend101 2 years ago 3
Great song! Haven't heard this since I heard it on XM back in 2004, nice to hear it on You Tube!
blockemall 2 years ago
im half cherokee. iwill always stand for my hertige, plz contact me .
larkat50psd 2 years ago 17
@larkat50psd did marvin or don get any royalty rights when the raiders took it and made it more popular? i think it was right around that indian crying on that commercial on tv circa 1971
lilj2345 1 year ago
@larkat50psd I hate what the white euopean man did to the great tribes of the land now called America, its their land and they have the right to whatever they want as it was all stole from them by pape pillage and mass murder
reddevil1953 1 year ago
@larkat50psd I hate what the white man did to the proud tribes of the land now called America. they raped pillaged and committed mass murder in their greed for the land and wealth that is there and the Indigenous peoples who live there are the rightful owners, not the pale faced,or anyother colour but themselves, Their great leaders like geronimo, Chiricahua: Goyaałé, "one who yawns Sitting bull Crazy Horse and all the other grat warriors are the true legends not the Custers who where invaded
reddevil1953 1 year ago
This version is loads more moody and upsetting than Paul Revere's.
This is the kinda sound a gigantic subwoofer is made for.
steggieone 2 years ago 3
GREAT SONG LOVE IT:) funny, while I was watching this video one of Don's albums came up with Belfast Boy. My husband Ray Smith wrote that song with Tony Colton.
riff490 2 years ago
Don Maughn was lead singer for the British group The Sorrows, but the group's manager "changed" the singer's name to Don Fardon.
This song only reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1968, but Paul Revere & The Raiders went to No. 1 with it in 1971.
This song was on the GNP Crescendo label, but later Fardon recordings on the Chelsea, Capitol, Decca and Roxbury labels met with little success, at least in the U.S.
vandywilliam 2 years ago
A truely great song !!!
tukoramerez 2 years ago
Love this version, grew up just hearing the Raider's version. Awesome!
jgmacv 2 years ago 3
I never knew of this version until today. I've love the Mark Lindsay /Raiders version for years.
prettycountrygirl2 2 years ago 2
This is class!!
Richieman11 2 years ago
I think many young people then hated our colonial history which is why this was such a big hit he had a great voice and the music has an edge that the raiders version doesn't
stevegale1948 2 years ago
super píseň zbožňuju ji
blousinek 2 years ago
The Raiders version is a knockoff..THIS is the REAL deal. Yeah, I thought Fardon might have some indian blood in him. He certainly has a similiar spirit.
davo6 2 years ago
This version sounds more "authentic" (that is, less commercial) than the later Raiders version. Not that the Raiders version is bad. I was kind of disappointed when I learned Don Fardon was not a real Indian but a Brit.
vinylsingleman 2 years ago 4
At least, the person who wrote the song John Loudermilk is from North Carolina, but I have no clue if he has Cherokee blood, but I would assume he would at least have a drop of it since North Carolina is somewhat close to Georgia where the Trail of Tears occured.
QUINTUSMAXIMUS 2 years ago
we listend to it at school & i think it's really good.
sad of course, but well done! :)
rabbitLeq 2 years ago
I like this Song
It is a good one from the 60s
Truckerfan89 2 years ago
Only know this version.
acceitunas 2 years ago
I like this one, but like paul revere's better. Then again i like my music a little harder than this i.e. something like zeppelin or hendrix
lenndogg18 2 years ago
Thanks for the post - hadn't heard this one for years. However, I think you'll find the lyric 'tomahawk and the Bowie knife' nor prairie knife. These knives were made famous by James 'Jim' Bowie, who I believe fought at The Alamo (although could be wrong there!)
heraleo 2 years ago
We had heard it today in the English lesson and I find it good. :D Do you know that the text came from a poem?
585cookiee585 2 years ago
this was the first vision i listen to....and its the only one i really like...dont like paul and the raiders
greeting from
GoG
xGERxTsalagi 3 years ago
This is the version I remember
TeAnneArt 3 years ago
"Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" is a song written by John D. Loudermilk. It was first recorded in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater and released as "The Pale Faced Indian". Rainwater's MGM release stayed unnoticed.
sleepwithmeinseattle 3 years ago
1959? weren't the R&B records known as race records back then? ...
This may have been ignoed for the same reason
Freyja1133 3 years ago
So he wrote this and this was released before Paul Revere?
PeterMayer 3 years ago
Never heard this version before. My loss. I have to agree with all the other comments. This is the best version!! Thanks for posting!
SSKID65 3 years ago
...the original is ALWAYS better than the copy because, besides music and lyrics there is also HEART and SOUL. I have NO respect for COPY bands. Sometimes they spend days, months, YEARS even, trying to sound JUST like the record. When someone tells me "He plays or sings just like so and so" I say "Dude, it took him years to play that lick it took so and so 4 minutes to record. Impressive."
davo6 3 years ago
...this tune is light years ahead of the Raiders. THIS is the first version I ever heard...my first thought when I heard Paul Revere and the Raiders DUPLICATE it..."the white man has done it again."
davo6 3 years ago
I feel the same way too, the raiders version wasn't as captivating
wiha 3 years ago
this song has grit! love it!
nakenmil 3 years ago
y does the original always sound better no matter which version u hered first
rocknrollporn 3 years ago
the first and best version of this songs. thx for sharing!
hauptmannbrittles 3 years ago 3
Thanks! I'd never heard this version before, and learned something about it from other comments. It is indeed a bit "more dark and ominuos" than the better-known version.
Rick4LB 3 years ago 3
Very good
chief1226 3 years ago
I remember Fardon was the first to have a hit with this song in the 60s, but it has been forever since I heard it. This version is better than the Raiders version, more dark and ominous. The Lewis and Clarke Expedition (Michael Murphy, Boomer Castleman) also had a version of this song but I'm not familiar with their version, but I think their version came after the Fardon hit, although songs in those days were recorded day and released the next day.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago
I remeber hearing this song in junior high I would say maybe 1968. I did not pay much attention to it until it was revised by The Raiders.
khj93play 3 years ago
best version ...... great
ianjaycj 3 years ago
"They took the whole CHEROKEE nation"
not "the whole indian nation" in the first verse.
lgbizzle 3 years ago
I KNEW I had heard this song before the Raiders did it! I couldn't remember who did it though! Thanks for posting this!!
CJurasin 3 years ago
I haven't heard Don Fardon's version in forty years! I knew that I'd heard this song before Paul Revere & the Raiders recorded it, but I never knew, until now, whose recording I had previously heard. I always preferred Don Fardon's. Thank you for putting on youtube.
mymoviecamera 3 years ago 2
Check out The Sorrows Take a heart,featuring Don Fardon from about 4 years previous...very similar
dilzappa 3 years ago 2
Much better than the Paul Revere & the Raiders version....
groundhog713 3 years ago
Love the song.
One small correction.
>and suddenly when the world has learned
and some day when the world has learned
ahowmuchlonger 3 years ago 4
Funny, now I know who originally wrote and performed this great song! Well don Don!
Guitars12000 3 years ago 3
actually the song was written by John D. Loudermilk.
MusicDude86 3 years ago
Yes your correct,actually i was the bass player in his band for some years,i played on this, and also Belfast Boy, a song about George Best,we used to play on a lot on the Live Radio One Club dates,broadcast live around 12 lunch time,it has a lot of good memeories for me!!.
jazzlow 3 years ago
Please, please has anyone got Don singing Hudson Bay, if I remember correctly a top 10 hit in the 60's.
Edellen 3 years ago
has anyone got "Follow Your Drum" please?
hymie8 3 years ago 2
viva Billy Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best version! there is a live version somewhere out there, i saw the clip years ago. in the end we can't eat money!!!
pedrocaldeirasantos 3 years ago
has anyone got Don singing :Follow Your Drum: please?
cheers
hymie8 4 years ago 3
i guess thats the best version of INDIAN RESERVATION. tomahawk and the bowie-knife he sings, not the prarie-knife. anyway, thx for the lyrics.
hauptmannbrittles 4 years ago 4
indian nation will return....
hossmitchell 4 years ago
only after we have learned...
derTOMA 4 years ago 6
One from my childhood, if i remember wasn't it part of the fuss aboutthe MountRushmoore monument being on Indian Land
seekerblu 4 years ago
Toller Hit aus dem Herbst 1970. Vielen Dank für den Ohrenschmaus.
kidd1701 4 years ago 2