One of the tangential benefits of doing the research for my “Once Upon a Year” series of programs is rediscovering some of the great songs of the prior century. That sounds like such a long time ago, ...

When Stan Jones (1914-1963) was working as a park ranger in Death Valley, California by the late 1940s, he was also writing songs and would often sing one he had written, “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” ...