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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.
Pages in category "Singing cowboys" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
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.
Discovered by film producer Nat Levine in 1934, Autry and his sidekick Smiley Burnette made their film debut for Mascot Pictures in In Old Santa Fe as part of a singing cowboy quartet. In 1935, Levine gave him the starring role in the 12-part serial The Phantom Empire .
Cowboy Classics (1952) 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)
Like many singing cowboys no longer working in pictures, Eddie Dean became a recording artist. He scored three hits on the US Country charts. "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" peaked at number 11 in 1948 and "I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven" peaked at number 10 in 1955. Dean co-wrote both songs.
When singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were very much in vogue in American film, in 1949 Republic Pictures in Hollywood gave him a screen test and put him under contract. [4] Beginning in 1950, Allen starred as himself in 19 of Hollywood's Western movies . [ 4 ]