Rawhide was the theme song of the 1959 television western of the same name, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Ned Washington, and Frankie Laine's recording made it a hit. The Blues Brothers revived it in their 1980 film, performing the cattle-drive chant in full cowboy costume. Online, the opening 'rollin'' chant became a meme sound for anything rolling, from runaway tires to tumbleweed edits, and it still soundtracks fail compilations and western parodies across short-form video.