NELSON EDDY - Ghost Riders / Mule Train

Just when you thought you have heard every version of a song there is,
a new one shows up. This is by Nelson Eddy a operitic type singer who was very popular in the movies and on record in the 30's and 40's. Here he does it his way.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Nelson
• Eddy
• Ghost
• Riders
• Mule
• Train
• Frankie
• Laine
• Vaughn
• Monroe

[radiowwww]

Awesome! I thought i had heard them all, for sure. I never heard these before. I have heard of nelson eddie, but never experienced him.

[markalson1938]

@radiowwww Nelson was a big name singer way back in the 30's & 40's.. both on records and in the movies with a big opera sounding voice. These are not his type of songs. They are far from the best versions but they are very good anyway.. He played a Candian Mountie in the movies so I guess he knew his way around a horse.

[elzuzo267]

NE got a lot of ribbing by comics on old time radio for his recording of Shortin Bread(which does not seem to be on YT). Not really bad singing by him but strange song for a guy with an opera voice. And check out Vaughn Monroe singing Old Soldiers Never Die, about General MacCarther.

[markalson1938]

I thought he might like to know that I just added "Shortin' Bread by Nelson Eddy on to YouTube.

[elzuzo267]

Don't know the origins of Mule Train, but it sounds like a Hollywood Western song like Don't Fence Me In. i'll accept Nelson's version. What would Howard Keel have done singing it?

[markalson1938]

Yes ""mule Train" was an Hollywood Song. It came out in the 1949 western "Singing Guns" starring Vaughn Monroe. A lot of singers jumped on it and there were 5 versions charted in the top 20 that year. The biggest hit was by Frankie Laine

who had a number #1 hit with it.

[peejay33950]

Ithought I,d heard every version what a suprise but a pleasant one

[mccaralion]

Thank you.  I always find a new musical adventure exciting.

[KillOffGANGREP14]

@mccaralion I like Nelsn Eddy but I'm not a big fan of his. He was my Mother's favorite singer along with Vaughn Monroe. I also try to collect other singers recordings of Frankie Laine's big hits, that's how I ran across these songs.

I put them on YT because they are different from other versions of the songs, not better just different and thought others my like to hear them.

[mccaralion]

I was visiting a friend today in Cleveland who still remembers the thrill of Nelson Eddy when she was 13. We have music in common and I was unfamiliar with her old heart throb and wanted to see him, and we found more than we bargained for. She had never imagined finding Mule Train, and I never imagined to find markleson from my Frankie Laine hangout. We had some interesting musical conversation. Thanks again markleson.

[DieGwinners]

BEST VERSION *****

[niflap]

2:40) God brought the old cowpoke to his knees! Or one of the damned riders.

[RPenta]

@pearlminnie You have to add to that "Company", Paul Robeson, Howard Keel, Alfred Drake, Tennessee Ernie Ford, John Raitt, and my favorite, Gordon McRae. Honorable mention to Frankie Lane. I am proud to say two of the Role of Honor are Italians (Drake and Lane) but you might not suspect it from their stage names.

Having said all of that-this is the finest sung, arranged, and played version of Ghost Riders I have ever heard and I have heard many.

[leobennachoben]

Good songs are good songs and a great singer will sing them.