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Home, home on the range, Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and light, That I would not exchange my home on the range For all of the cities so bright. The red man was pressed from this part of ...
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), nicknamed the King of the Cowboys, [1] was an American singer, actor, television host, Freemason and rodeo performer.
An appearance along with Roy Rogers in January 1983 in season 2, episode 11 of the TV show "The Fall Guy", titled "Happy Trails". An appearance on Austin City Limits in season 9, episode 12, titled "Country Legends with Faron Young, Kitty Wells, Sons of the Pioneers, Joe & Rose Maphis, Pee Wee King & Red Stewart, Johnny Wright, & The Collins ...
1943 King of the Cowboys [7] - sung by Roy Rogers. 1947 The Mild West, a Paramount Noveltoon, in a bouncing ball sequence; 1954 I Love Lucy - sung by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in the season 3 episode "Home Movies". 1987 Innerspace - Robert Picardo performs a verse. [8] 2012 Men in Black 3 - The Sons of the Pioneers version is heard. [9]
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.
On June 30, 1947, "Home on the Range" became the Kansas state song. [9] In 2010, members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 western songs of all time.
Daniel E. Kelley (Rhode Island, February 1843 – Iowa, 1905) was a musician and entertainer, who after moving to Kansas in 1872, wrote the music for "Home on the Range" (following lyrics by Brewster M. Higley), which became the state song. Kelley played violin with his brothers-in-law in the Harlan Brothers Band, but was primarily a carpenter ...
In the late 1950s, Whitley made appearances on the Roy Rogers TV specials, he also appeared in the feature film Giant starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. Whitley wrote the classic Western tune Back in the Saddle Again . [ 1 ]