"Ramrod" (Al Casey) was originally released on the Ford label by Duane Eddy and His Rock-A-Billies in 1957. Al Casey is actually playing lead guitar!

The more successful version of "Ramrod" came a year later when producer Lee Hazlewood added the distinctive "rebel" yells and saxophone. "Ramrod" by Duane Eddy, his Twangy Guitar and the Rebels peaked at number seventeen on the R&B chart while reaching twenty-seven on the Top One Hundred. This track is from what many consider to be the first stereo rock and roll album "Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel". Wikipedia: "during a live appearance on the Dick Clark show, Clark asked Eddy if he had a short song to play over the credits at the end of the show as it ran faster than expected. Instead of playing a song that he had already recorded he decided to play "Ramrod" that he had been rehearsing while on the road, (with Casey playing bass.) The following week Jamie Records in Philadelphia was getting calls from it's distributors for copies of a record that had not been recorded. Eddy was still touring on the East Coast and there was not time to get back to Audio Recorders for a session. With pressure from Jamie Records for a tape to make records from, Hazlewood (with Casey's approval) in Los Angeles, took the original Ford "Ramrod" master tape, sped it up slightly to add a saxophone solo, and yelps and claps by The Sharps as per usual and he made it slightly longer. Shortly thereafter Jamie was pressing "Duane Eddy 'Ramrod'" records with "Rebel-'Rouser" still high on the charts." Welcome to one of the shortest posts on this site.