Ballad of Thunder Mountain?

[Brian845]

Does anyone know who sings the Ballad of Thunder Mountain? It sounds a bit like Steve Martin, and since he also plays the banjo it make me wonder if he did this song.

[elizabethswann]

Google apparently isn't doing me much justice since I can't find the answer but hopefully someone has the answer around here.

[mindflipper]

Used to be able to find out this kind of stuff on Don Bertino's old webpage before he passed away...

[NaCler]

The only thing I can come up with is that it was performed by the "Big Thunder Mountain Balladeers" Maybe they were a group formed by Disney CM??? No clue. Odd that there isn't more about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXmb59YLRUs

[mindflipper]

Likewise, it was all that I could find, but no individual names.

[Amy]

The spoken part does sound like Steve Martin, but not so much the singing part. Of course I am notoriously bad at listening for voiceovers since I thought the Cranium Command general was Robin Williams and it wasn't him at all

[mindflipper]

Disney did so many daytime cartoon shows back then that I wouldn't be surprised if General Knowledge wasn't voiced by someone Disney regularly used to supply voice talents to those shows...

The singer doesn't sound to Steve Martin to me. I still have no idea of who it is, but it would guess its not a familiar name. I can't imagine Disney hired any big talent to sing that song. Look at all the songs from EPCOT when it opened - no major musical talent was hired to sing those songs.

[Satchel T]

All I can find is a boat load of information concerning the Ballad of Thunder Road ... yahoo stinks!

[mindflipper]

All I can find is a boat load of information concerning the Ballad of Thunder Road ... yahoo stinks!

Google doesn't give any better results...