FERDY, Ringo, 1965
Posted: March 18, 2009 Filed under: 60s, Cowboy Records | Tags: Bonanza, Lorne Greene 2 Comments
The German version of Lorne Greene`s hit song, sung (or rather spoken) in the same manner as the original.
The German lyrics mostly tell the same tale: Sheriff saves Ringo`s life, Sheriff hunts Ringo, Sheriff and Ringo have a gunfight. But wherein the original version Ringo gets killed by the town folk and then because of that, the Sheriff hangs up his star at Ringo`s grave, in the German version the Sheriff shoots Ringo and then gives up his star in respect for Ringo. Go figure…
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My name is Andreas Michalke. I´m a cartoonist from Berlin, Germany and I like collecting records. Most of the records I find in thrift stores or at flea markets here in Berlin. I like a lot of music but I thought I`d focus on odd German records. Preferably with cartoon covers.
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ca. 10 years ago i was driving to some punk show through the night and some local radio station was playing this song… and it stuck! but i missed the moderators words after the song and so i was looking year after year for this mysterious german spoken word country song… until now! thanx a lot!!!
My friend was telling me when him and his brother were little they had a record that would play western noise like horses galloping, not songs but noises any idea what he was talking about? his B-day is coming up and I always like to look for unusual things.