Running Bear

"Running Bear" is a teenage tragedy song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. the Big Bopper) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. The 1959 recording featured background vocals by George Jones and the session's producer Bill Hall, who provided the "Indian chanting" of "uga-uga" during the three verses, as well as the "Indian war cries" at the start and end of the record. It was No.