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A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier.The original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, hardships, and dangers encountered while pushing cattle for miles up the trails and across the prairies.
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry [2] (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), [3] nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades, beginning in the early 1930s.
Singing cowboy Western Trail of the Rustlers: Ray Nazarro: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis: B Western The Traveling Saleswoman: Charles Reisner: Joan Davis, Andy Devine: comedy Western Trigger, Jr. William Witney: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans: Singing cowboy Western Twilight in the Sierras: Two Flags West: Robert Wise
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Spencer left the O-Bar-O Cowboys and quit music for a while. Slye joined Jack LeFevre and His Texas Outlaws, who were a popular act on a local Los Angeles radio station. [6] In early 1933, Slye, Nolan, and Spencer formed a group called the Pioneer Trio. The three young singers rehearsed for weeks honing their singing.
During his acting career he was usually billed as Herbert Jeffrey [4] (sometimes "Herbert Jeffries" or "Herbert Jeffries, Sensational Singing Cowboy"). [ 6 ] In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels, including RCA Victor , Exclusive, Coral , Decca , Bethlehem , Columbia , Mercury and Trend .
The Gene Autry Show first aired on the CBS television network on Sunday July 23, 1950 and ran for five years for a total of 91 episodes, with the last show airing on December 17, 1955. All the shows were produced by Autry's Flying A Pictures production company and were 30 minutes in length.
James Clarence Wakely (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982) [1] was an American actor, songwriter, country music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys.During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.