Re: Let's Work Out with the P's & R's

[Lelia Ellen Raley <leliar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Joseph Beretta wrote:
> >Perfidia (Ventures)
> >
> There were five Top 15 versions in 1941.  First and biggest was by Xavier
> Cugat & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra.

was another hit version by Helen O'Connell?

> >Riders In The Sky (Ramrods+Dick Dale+Trashmen)
> >
> There were four Top 25 versions in 1949.  Vaughn Monroe's was the biggest
> and charted first, though supposedly Burl Ives was the original.

And was one of these by The Sons of the Pioneers?  I would have thought
they were first.

Lola