My favourite recording of Ghost Riders is the one by Spike Jones. As for yodeling, Aussie singer Frank Ifield went to England ( in which he had been born) and his record company resisted his desire to yodel but his biggest hit in Australia was 'She taught me to yodel' in 1962.

It was "Mule Train" that Bing had recorded in the morning and in shops by afternoon. Bing had only heard the song when he arrived at studio, Bing's version was a dounle A side with "Dear Hearts And Gentle People" which sold a million copies  , of course in America Frankie Laine had the number one with "Mule Train" in the UK it was both Bing  Crosby and Vaughn Monroe who had the big selling record hit with it as Laine's then record company Mercury had no UK outlet at the time it was released here in 1952 on Oriole after his success in 1951 with "Jezebel".

 I have such fond memories of both "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "Busy Doing Nothing". Bing's warmth comes through so beautifully on the former. This featured on my first ever Crosby recordings I ever owned and the latter is performed with such comradeship and casual zest in a lovely, lovely film. I think it was where I first realised at the around the age of twelve years, how skilled Bing was in presenting his beyond personable film persona on the screen. I really wanted to meet him from his performances. Alas this was around 1981 and so we all know how doubly impossible that would have been!