"The Cattle Call"
Pride of the Prairie[1]
September 14, 1934 by Forster Music Publisher, Inc., Chicago[2]
October 1934[1]
August 28, 1934[3]
Chicago, Illinois[3]
3:09
Tex Owens[2]
May 14, 1945[8]
December 4, 1944[9]
WSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville, TN[9]
3:06
November 18, 1949[10]
September 14, 1949[11]
2:27
June 14, 1955[12]
April 28, 1955
Webster Hall, New York City
2:34
RCA Victor 20-6139[12]
Stephen H. Sholes
"I Walk Alone"
November 16, 1999[13]
1996
3:09
Tex Owens
- Chuck Howard
- Wilbur C. Rimes
- Bob Campbell-Smith
- Johnny Mulhair
- Greg Walker
Cover versions and later uses[edit]
Eddy Arnold recorded "The Cattle Call" four times, at his first session in 1944, 1949, and in 1955 with Hugo Winterhalter's Chorus and Orchestra. The latter version spent 26 weeks on the country chart, peaking at number one for two weeks.[14] Arnold recorded a simpler arrangement in 1963 for the title track of a collection of cowboy and western songs.
The song was recorded by Tex Ritter (1947), Carolina Cotton (1951) and Slim Whitman (1954). Whitman's version peaked at number 11 on the C&W Best Seller chart.[15]
Other versions were recorded by Billy Walker (1965), Donn Reynolds (1965), Elvis Presley (1970), Gil Trythall (1971), Lenny Breau and Chet Atkins (Standard Brands, 1981), Boxcar Willie (1986), Don Edwards (1992), Emmylou Harris (1992), Skip Gorman (1994), Wylie Gustafson (1994), LeAnn Rimes (1996 with Arnold and on November 16, 1999, Arnold released the recording as a single[13]) and Dwight Yoakam (1998) for the motion picture soundtrack of The Horse Whisperer.[16] Also performed by the Sons of the Pioneers featuring Ken Curtis in the movie Rio Grande (1950).
The Eddy Arnold version of the song was heard in the 1997 movie Private Parts during the scene when Howard Stern, whose station "W4" in Detroit had just changed formats from rock to country, abruptly resigned on the air telling listeners he didn't understand the music. It was additionally featured in the film My Own Private Idaho. In 2023, it was included on the soundtrack of the film Asteroid City by Wes Anderson.