Yippie ki-yay, who used it first, Gene Autry, or Roy Rogers, or who was it??!

Yippie ki-yay, who used it first, Gene Autry, or Roy Rogers, or who was it??

I know Bruce Willis wasn't the first person to use the phrase

Actually, the song is called "I'm an Old Cowhand" and Bing Crosby sang it first in his 1936 film Rhythm on the Range.

Bing was successful in just about every genre of song he sang, including country and western. Here Bing swings a cowboy tune written by Johnny Mercer for the Crosby film "Rhythm on the Range." It would be the first of many Mercer songs recorded by Bing. "I'm an Old Cowhand" was recorded July 17, 1936, with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and charted for 13 weeks, reaching as high as #2 on the pop charts.