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1958 Western song by Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin

"Rawhide" is a Westernsong written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine.

The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[1]

Background

The song is about the job of a drover on a cattle drive.

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In other media

• In The Blues Brothers, the band performs "Rawhide" in a local country western bar.
• The song is played in a scene on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, when the titular character is rolling through the desert inside a tumbleweed.

  The song is actually the cover reused from The Blues Brothers, mentioned above, performed by an uncredited Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as various desert animals. However, the song was removed from the soundtrack's later