Happy Trails ( song ) - wikipedia Happy Trails ( song ) `` Happy Trails '' Single by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Released 1952 ( 1952 ) Genre Country, folk, theme song Label RCA Victor Songwriter ( s ) Dale Evans `` Happy Trails to You '' redirects here. For Julie Hecht story collection, see Happy Trails to You : Stories. `` Happy Trails '' by Dale Evans, was the theme song for the 1940s and 1950s radio program and the 1950s television show starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers, always sung over the end credits of the program. Happy Trails was released in 1952 as a 78 RPM and 45 RPM by Rogers and Evans with the Whippoorwills and Orchestra on RCA Victor Records. It was re-issued in 1957 as a 45 RPM record on RCA Victor / Bluebird. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. In 1951, Foy Willing wrote a song titled `` Happy Trails '' for the Republic Pictures movie, Spoilers of the Plains, starring Roy Rogers with Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage. Subsequently, the first three notes of Foy 's song and the title were used by Dale Evans in writing her version of `` Happy Trails '' for both the original The Roy Rogers Show and the short - lived The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, which aired on ABC in 1962. Dale 's is the version that is popularly played and sung today, albeit without giving credit to Foy Willing. Cover versions There have been numerous notable covers of Dale Evans ' version of the song. Janis Joplin left a taped recording of the song as a birthday greeting for John Lennon on October 1, 1970, three days before her death. Lennon, whose birthday was October 9, later told Dick Cavett that her taped greeting arrived at his home after her death. In 1969, Quicksilver Messenger Service released an album called Happy Trails, on which the song appears. Van Halen covered the song on their 1982 album, Diver Down, and usually the band would end live performances they did with their first lead singer, David Lee Roth, with that song. Randy Travis covered the song with Rogers on his 1990 album Heroes & Friends. References Jump up ^ Western Writers of America ( 2010 ). `` The Top 100 Western Songs ''. American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Jump up ^ Willing, Sharon Lee ( October 16, 2006 ). No One to Cry To. Wheatmark. p. 80. ISBN 1 - 58736 - 686 - X. Jump up ^ palejewel676 ( 2006 - 12 - 08 ), John Lennon and Yoko Ono Dick Cavett Show Excerpt 4 of 6, retrieved 2016 - 06 - 09 External links `` Happy Trails '' at the Roy Rogers Website Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Happy_Trails_(song)&oldid=807764354 '' Categories : Television theme songs Western music ( North America ) 1951 songs Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2008 Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 30 October 2017, at 00 : 43. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: happy trails to you is a line from the theme song to which 1950s tv western series
Answer: The Roy Rogers Show