This is Rawhide? In Link Wray’s mind it sure is. It’s a completely different song than the one made famous by Frankie Lane. This is a hard-driving, mean-sounding, rockabilly instrumental Wray wrote in 1959, and it was a little ahead of it’s time.
Wray performed the song on Dick Clark’s American Ban...
[Instrumental in three parts:]
Rawhide was written by Dimitri Tiomkin & Ned Washington.
Rawhide was produced by Richard Gottehrer.