From the LP: 'Creakin' Leather' Stan Jones Sings His Own Compositions Year: 1962

WDL-3015 Walt Disney Productions

Biography on the back on the album:


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Few song writers, however adept at the mechanics of their trade, have Stan Jones' genius as a musical spinner of tales. Here is the modern troubadour who writes and sings of whom and what he has known---and who, in his wanderings over land and sea, has had adventure as a "pardner" since the day he was born to the tune of Pancho Villa's guns.

Villa was shooting up a town just across the Mexican border from the Jones' Arizona ranch when on June 5, 1914, the future Death Valley Ranger drew first breath and lustily joined in the din. Stan was the youngest of seven and the only one not given music lessons in his early years. It remained for cowpunchers he later did night-herding with to teach him the fundamentals on a borrowed guitar.

His father died when he was 14 and the boy, finding himself at odds with his elder in-laws, left home to finish growing up in an assortment of jobs—logging, laboring in gold mines, railroad braking, a stint in the Navy, cowpunching. He attended school when he could until finally he won his master's degree in zoology at the University of California.

His love of animals and a life-long desire to be a U.S. Ranger took over at this point. He joined up. The, riding under the stars on the lonely mountain and desert trails, between the badman-battling, and occasional rescues, he began to sing, and to write as he sang. It was in secret. The young Ranger was embarrassed, not by his talent but by what it produced in a country of tough hombres—hundreds of tender songs and romantic verses he hid away in bureau drawers.

He hesitatingly obliged some strangers, though, one day in 1949, when he was assigned to guide them on a movie location scouting trip. They called for campfire music, listened to "Riders in the Sky," hired him as technical advisor, and bought the song to boot.
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Side 1

Creakin' Leather
Deep Water
Sedona, Arizona
Burro Lullaby
Wedding Day
Cottonwood Tree

Side 2

Wringle Wrangle
Snooze in the Quiet Air
Woolly Lamb Song
El Diablo
Hunter's Return
Too Young to Marry
Riders in the Sky