Lyr Add: The White Buffalo (from Rin Tin Tin, 1955

Subject: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,Gail
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 01:20 AM

Lt. Rip Masters sang this song on Rin Tin Tin many years ago(ouch!) Does any one have the words? I think he recorded it. Thanks

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: dwditty
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 01:50 AM

I can picture Lt. Rip leading this song with all the other troops from Fort Apache singing along. Your going back 40+ years for me. No way I can remember the words. Sorry.

dw

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Lanfranc
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 08:31 AM

"There's an old Indian legend that I heard long time ago. about a far hidden valley and the White Buffalo"

There, I think that was verse 1, perhaps someone will remember the rest.

Not sure it was Rin-TIn-Tin, though. Somehow it's associated in my mind with Cheyenne.

"Cheyenne, Cheyenne, where will you be sleeping tonight. Lonely man, Cheyenne, will your heart stay free and bright? If ever you settle down, where will it be, Cheyenne?"

Ye gods - that's forty years old at least.

Cue for another thread "The persistence of memory as related to Western serials" ?

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GREAT WHITE BUFFALO (Saxon)
From: GUEST,Gene
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 09:42 PM

a search for [white buffalo] at:
www.google.com
yielded this


THE GREAT WHITE BUFFALO (5:52)
Written By : Byford/Quinn/Oliver/Carter/Glockler
As recorded by Saxon on "Dogs of War" (1995)

Wild horses running free
Bareback warriors ride again
Hear the voices from the spirit world
Crying out for the Indian nation
From the sacred burial mounds
To the happy hunting grounds
Like the moon across the sky
Hear the ancient battle cry

Give the land back to the nations
Let their spirits roam the plains
With the great white buffalo

You were the eagle in the sky
The cunning wolf the running bear
Roaming free from the valley to the prairie
You lived as one on the sacred land
From the river down to the sea
In the wind blowing through the trees
'Round the fire dancing high
Hear the ancient battle cry

Give the land back to the nations
Let their spirits roam the plains
With the great white buffalo
The great white buffalo
The great white buffalo

The mighty fires burn across the land
The Cherokee and the Navaho
Call the nations there to be as one
Gather here all you native bone
Join the spirits hidden in the past
Come together for the tribal dance
Many here are prepared to die
For the ancient battle cry

Give the land back to the nations
Let their spirits roam the plains
Give the land back to the nations
Let their spirits roam the plains
With the great white buffalo

The great white buffalo
(Repeat to end)

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 11:04 PM

Beautiful and very meaningful, Gene, I believe I have heard that one on AIROS, American Indian Radio On Satellite, at www.airos.com

Thanks for posting it.

kat

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 01:39 AM

A white buffalo calf was born a couple of years ago, somewhere around Montana or Wyoming (?) The American Indians take this very seriously, something like a messiah to them, representing their connection to nature. Many thousands of them have traveled to visit the white buffalo. I haven't heard of that song before but I'm glad it's not something silly. Wonder how it sounds... === Johnny in Oklahoma City

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,Bob Schwarer
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 07:21 AM

White buffalo calf born several years ago in my adopted hometown, Janesville, WI. Turned brown now but created quite a stir. A real touristattraction yet. I think she's had her own calf now, but I don't know the coloration.

Bob S.

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 12:18 PM

Hi bob! WI is almost like WY -- right?? -- not hardly. The one I was thinking about was a calf, not a heifer ... That might have been an important difference. == Johnny

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 12:33 PM

Her name is Miracle, and Here is her home page. She is in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 12:23 AM

(?) Ross MacDonald wrote one about searching for the white buffalo, before that calf was born.

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: DonMeixner
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 03:46 PM

Gail,

It was Rin Tin Tin and that was ages ago. I remember Rusty looking up and seeing through blurry eyes the White Buffalo. And the song was recorded and available as a ceral premium from the sponsor.

Don

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Melani
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 02:09 AM

Yes, definitely Rin Tin Tin, my favorite show when I was five. I tried to remember the song and sing it at the time, but it's gone now. It was pretty hokey, with a chorus of cavalrymen and Rusty just as you described.

By the way, I've always wondered why a ten-year-old kid and his dog were being raised by a cavalry unit.

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Melani
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 02:14 AM

I just remembered one line: "Love is where you find it, like the White Buffalo."

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: raredance
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 11:52 AM

There is a 2-3 year old female white buffalo (Bison bison) in the small herd at Jamestown, ND. The park and pioneer village also contains the world's largest bison, a giant concrete sculpture visible from Interstate 94. In July of this year the female gave birth to a normal colored calf. Keepers of the herd didn't even know she was pregnant. The father is presumably one of the two adult bulls in the herd. This white bison did not originate in this small herd, but was brought in from elsewhere.

rich r

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,Judy Cook
Date: 13 Aug 00 - 07:00 PM

I learned this at camp, not on TV, so don't know if it's what yer lookin for. The tune & these words come back to me all of a sudden after about 40 years. Some fun.

Here's what I remember:


There's an old Indian legend I was told long ago.
It's about a special valley and the white buffalo.

There are few who have seen it though they searched high and low,
For the trail is long and winding to the white buffalo.

BRIDGE: The legend says you'll find it if your heart is brave and true,
If you treat all men as brothers no matter what you do.

I have searched for that valley since I started to grow.
I won't rest until I find it and the white buffalo.


--Judy Cook

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,Judy Cook
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 03:39 PM

Does anyone know if that *is* the one from RinTinTin and if there are other verses? --Judy

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: dwditty
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 04:15 PM

Judy, you've got the right one. Here is the link to the page with a Real Audio of Lt. Rip Masters (James Brown) singing the son.


The original sung by Lt. Rip

your welcome

dw

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: dwditty
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 11:58 PM

While looking for this, I found the official Rin Tin Tin web site. Another litter of his descendants is due August 18th! I wonder how old he'd be in dog years.

Yo Rinty
dw

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: dwditty
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:07 AM

Yo Rinty was supposed to be a link. I'll have to practice some more. www.rintintin.org

Yo Rinty

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: dwditty
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:09 AM

Yo Rinty

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,EthVeg
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:12 PM

Judy's lyrics are the ones I remember from Rinty's show, except that the line is ",, and you treat all men as brothers, no matter what THEY do ..."

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,EthVeg
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:18 PM

Also, the version of the song available online (by "Lt. Rip Masters"/James Brown) is from the MGM recording released after the show.

Unfortunately it's a VERY different version (no echo or repeat for one thing) from the song in the episode.

If anyone knows how to obtain a copy of the song from the show I am VERY interested (have been searching online for weeks- that's how I found this site) and hope you'll write to me at [e-mail].


TIA

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: terrier
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:33 PM

For years I've remembered this song from the Roy Rogers TV series.
It just shows what tricks the memory can play. Anyway, what I do remember is the (token) young lad in the direct path of the stampeding herd of Buffalos or horses or whatever,suddenly,the stampede veers avay from the child thus saving his life. The lad looks up and sees, on a high ridge above him, the WHITE BUFFALO and he utters the immortal line "I've seen it.....the WHITE BUFFALO.
Oh well, I feel senility creeping on, but I can't for the life of me remember how Rini came into the story.......

Subject: Lyr Add: THE WHITE BUFFALO (from "Rin Tin Tin")
From: GUEST,oldvet
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 04:06 PM

For those asking about the song from "Rin-Tin-Tin", as sung by "Lt. Rip Masters" (James Brown) to "Rusty"; here are the words:

THE WHITE BUFFALO

I have heard many stories, from an old Indian friend
And this is my favorite, even though it has no end.

There's an old Indian legend I was told long ago.
It's about a special valley and the white buffalo.

There are few who have seen him though they've looked high and low,
For the trail is long and winding to the white buffalo.

BRIDGE: The legend says you'll find him if your heart is brave and true,
And you treat all men as brothers no matter what they do.

I have searched for that valley since I started to grow.
I won't stop until I find it and the white buffalo.

For I know it's right to find the white buffalo.


NOTE: You can see and hear on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAtFIdNYjGY

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 12:48 PM

http://www.thinhippo.com/steve/whitebuffalo.html

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: GUEST,Paul Munds
Date: 12 Jul 20 - 06:47 AM

The Wainscott White Buffalo Gang of 1955
The Wainscott White Buffalo Gang was formed after we watched a life-changing episode (for young boys) of Rin Tin Tin in our back parlour on our tiny black and white TV. The gang was originally called ‘The Red Hand Gang’ and we haunted the back alleyways around the Wainscott Walk. We had a nemesis gang called ‘The ‘Erberts’ that was made up of a combination of Herbert boys, Grants, Smiths and Disneys. As a gang we would meet in my dad’s shed at the bottom of our garden at 30 Wainscott Road where candles would be lit, oaths of undying allegiance taken and our own version of poker played for monopoly money. One fateful Wednesday in a school holiday we were all watching an episode of Rin Tin Tin (Shandy’s favourite TV show) and this episode entitled ‘The White Buffalo’ made such an impression on us that our gang immediately changed its name to ‘The White Buffalo Gang’. You would really need to watch it to understand exactly what happened to us (it’s still obtainable on the internet I believe (dailymotion.com/video/x48309a) – and various forums confirm that many other boys from here and across the ocean in the USA at that time were similarly spiritually affected). Basically, bad white buffalo hunters were killing these animals willy-nilly (Buffalo Bill please take note!). The Indians who depended on the buffalo for meat, clothing etc. tried to stop them. The US cavalry stepped in to mediate between the two sides. Rusty and Rin Tin Tin were told the legend of the white buffalo by the indian chief (the white buffalo would appear only once in a brave’s lifetime to avert imminent danger and disaster – but only if that warrior’s heart was brave and true). The bad white hunters asked the US cavalry captain just who’s side he was on – theirs or the dastardly red-skins? The captain said that he was on the side that was right. The baddie tries to escape and stampedes a whole herd of buffalo. The buffalo trample him. Rusty runs but the herd is still stampeding – oooer missus! The white buffalo appears on the hilltop (cue heroic music) and stops the stampeding herd –. Rusty tells his story and get made an honorary member of the tribe. Well I can tell you that we were well and truly moved by that story and the White Buffalo Gang was immediately formed (you could only become a member if your heart was brave and true). Membership cards were carefully crafted. Mysterious white buffaloes were chalked on Wainscott Walk walls and on paved footpaths. One even mysteriously appeared on Mrs. Herbert’s front door!
Our hearts were brave and true.
Happy days, huh!

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 20 - 10:08 AM

I just scanned the list of posts to see if I responded to this way back when, but this thread escaped my attention.

This is about a song and a television program that represent cultural appropriation. Full stop. Yes, the white buffalo is an important symbol in American Indian plains cultures, but the romance slathered on by a television program and other Euramerican interpreters of the legend is just that. Just so you keep in mind that authenticity was never a part of the television program or modern film representations of a white bison.

Subject: RE: song Legend of the White Buffalo
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 11:48 AM

According to IMDb.com, the series was called "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin" (1954-59)

The episode in question was season 2, episode 6, called "The White Buffalo"; it aired on 14 Oct 1955.

The song was called THE WHITE BUFFALO; it was written by Alan Bergman and sung by James Brown.

James Brown was the actor who played Lt. Rip Masters, the principal adult character in the series.

The principal kid character was Cpl. Rusty, played by Lee Aaker.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The White Buffalo (from Rin Tin Tin, 1955
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 11:52 AM

In the 1900's, it became more frequent for published accounts
by American Indians themselves to set the record straight.

One such version actually spoke of
a White Buffalo Calf Woman.
She would appear to an unsuspecting man all by himself
out in the wilderness.
If his motives were not pure, she would consume him and destroy him,
supernatural being that she was.
If he were worthy, he would receive her blessing and her protection.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The White Buffalo (from Rin Tin Tin, 1955
From: GUEST,Deb Dietrich
Date: 31 May 23 - 10:12 AM

There's an old Indian Legend that I learned long ago. It's about a special valley and the white buffalo. There are few who have seen it, though they've searched high and low, for the way is long and winding to the white buffalo.

The legend says you'll find it if your heart is brave and true. If you love all men as brothers no matter what they do.

I have searched for that valley, since I started to grow. I won't rest until I find it and the white buffalo.

I learned this as a Girl Scout campfire song. Didn't remember it from Rin Tin Tin, but that is the right era. When I became a Girl Scout leader, I passed it on to my daughter's Girl Scout troop. It is a hauntingly beautiful song with meaningful lyrics.