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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.
Singing cowboy Western The Nevadan: Gordon Douglas: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Frank Faylen, George Macready, Charles Kemper, Jeff Corey, Tom Powers, Jock Mahoney: traditional Western Never a Dull Moment: George Marshall: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray: comedy Western North of the Great Divide: William Witney: Roy Rogers ...
Pages in category "Singing cowboys" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton
Conway Twitty, started in the 1950s as a rocker but started the country scene in the 1960s. A voice that scored 55 No. 1 hits (Had the most all time until 2006, when George Strait broke the record), released several songs in the 1970s and '80s that were controversial for the time, (" You've Never Been This Far Before ", " I'd Love to Lay You ...
Cowboy Hymns and Spirituals (1952) Western Classics (1953) LP 12" 25 Favorite Cowboy Songs (1955) How Great Thou Art (1957) One Man's Songs (1957) This Was the West (Disneyland, 1958) – Stan Jones and the Sons of the Pioneers as The Ranger Chorus [19] Wagons West (RCA Camden, 1958) Cool Water (RCA Victor, 1960) Room Full of Roses (RCA Camden ...
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.
From his first film appearance in 1935, Len worked steadily in Western films, including a large supporting role as a singing cowboy while still billed as Leonard Slye in a Gene Autry movie. In 1938, Autry demanded more money for his work, so there was a competition for a new singing cowboy (whom they could pay less).