I'm sure millions of young girls in 1964 were disappointed to discover this song was about a Western outlaw, and not the drummer for some little band from Liverpool. One of the rare spoken word #1 records, and boy, did Lorne Greene ever have a set of pipes - he was a CBC Radio newsreader during WWII and was known across Canada as the "Voice Of Doom" long before his Ben Cartwright days. The "Bonanza" thing of being the patriarch of a Nevada ranching family was so incongruous with his family's Canadian-Russian-Jewish roots. It's quite impressive when one can overcome stereotypes.
Lorne Greene - Ringo
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