I'm Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky
"I'm Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky" is a song written by Lee "Lasses" White and Jimmy Wakely. It is a Western-flavored yodeling song. Slim Whitman recorded it as his debut single in April 1949 for RCA Victor. It was released as a single, with "I'll Do as Much for You Someday" on the b-side Lyrical and musical analysis Lyrically, is a romantic cowboy song. Timothy E. Wise in his book Yodeling and Meaning in American Music states that while Whitman didn't strictly fit the Western genre, "I'm Casting My Lasso Towards the Sky" is one of those songs of his that had a "vague Western feel" to its theme. He also observes that it combines "elements of Western-style bravura yodeling and Western imagery" with religious elements: the song imagines heaven as a range in the sky where people ride. "Imagining heaven as range riding in the sky is not too dissimilar from imagining the West generally as a kind of paradise, as it is depicted in so many romantic Western songs," he adds. History In 1948, Slim Whitman signed with RCA Victor. It was his wife Jerry who suggested this song for his first recording session at the label