When Stan Jones (1914-1963) was working as a park ranger in Death Valley, California by the late 1940s, he was also writing songs and would often sing one he had written, “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” while guiding Hollywood scouts looking for locations to film. Jones eventually began composing songs for Western films by John Ford, […]
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