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Fact #55393

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(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - A Cowboy Legend by Vaughn Monroe, reaches No1 in the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart in the USA for the first of eleven weeks. Although there were earlier versions of the song, this is the one that brought it to wide public attention, and is also the version that inspired The Doors to write their classic track Riders On The Storm.