1956 Songs: The Wayward Wind
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (85210)
United States
April 19, 2026 10:38am CST
What a fireworks show last night! I heard a lot of it, but I didn’t watch. I certainly didn’t go and deal with half a million drunk, freezing people! 
I’ll be heading over to Lexington today, so this song is appropriate. Back 70 years we go to today’s song.
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I love this song. It has nothing to do with the prominent French horn and the fact that I played French horn in junior high school band. No, it’s a weird mashup of western-themed lyrics (this has been voted one of the greatest western songs of all time) and a definite pop delivery.
Gogi Grant (née Myrtle Arinsberg) had two major hits: this one, which was #1 everywhere, and “Suddenly, There’s a Valley.” She came along at the wrong time, just as rock and roll was taking off. This song remains, though, a shining example of a great song in any era.
The Wayward Wind
Written by Stanley Lebowski and Herb Newman
Recorded by Gogi Grant
Released as a single, 1956
A slave to his wandering ways:
I’ll be heading over to Lexington today, so this song is appropriate. Back 70 years we go to today’s song.
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I love this song. It has nothing to do with the prominent French horn and the fact that I played French horn in junior high school band. No, it’s a weird mashup of western-themed lyrics (this has been voted one of the greatest western songs of all time) and a definite pop delivery.
Gogi Grant (née Myrtle Arinsberg) had two major hits: this one, which was #1 everywhere, and “Suddenly, There’s a Valley.” She came along at the wrong time, just as rock and roll was taking off. This song remains, though, a shining example of a great song in any era.
The Wayward Wind
Written by Stanley Lebowski and Herb Newman
Recorded by Gogi Grant
Released as a single, 1956
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@Orson_Kart (8085)
• United Kingdom
1h
I thought you might be more familiar with Frank Ifield’s version, Judy?
@FourWalls (85210)
• United States
8h
I’m pretty sure it would have to have been a long time ago, because this isn’t getting played these days. 
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@RasmaSandra (96502)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9h
I know another version and always enjoyed this song,
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@LooeyVille (74)
• United States
13h
You didn't really expect us to know this one, did you?
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@FourWalls (85210)
• United States
8h
Actually, I did expect it from Hubby, given that Patsy Cline and Tex Ritter had covered it.
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@GardenGerty (168595)
• United States
3h
@FourWalls I probably remember the Tex Ritter version. I hear him singing it in my head right now.
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@GardenGerty (168595)
• United States
3h
You are hitting lots of songs that I heard a lot as a youngster. I would have been really little when this first came out, so I may be remembering it as a theme song from a movie or something. I remember it sung by a man.
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@FourWalls (85210)
• United States
8h
You’re right….it does sound like something that someone would sing while looking out the window, watching wind-blown objects fly by.
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@Orson_Kart (8085)
• United Kingdom
1h
I am more familiar with the Frank Ifield version. He was a favourite of my mother, so I heard it a lot.
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@FourWalls (85210)
• United States
8h
No, I celebrated at home. I’m in Lexington visiting with my niece.
The crowd issue also explains why I get the heck out of Dodge come Derby time…which is now next week.
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@MarieCoyle (57325)
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3h
I honestly had never heard of this singer. But I have heard the Patsy Cline version. ( I love me some Patsy Cline!)
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