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,” ...

One of the tangential benefits of doing the research for my “Once Upon a Year” series of programs is rediscovering some of the great songs of the prior century. That sounds like such a long time ago, ...