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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. This continues with modern vaquero traditions and within the genre of Western music, and its related New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country music styles. A number of songs have been written and made famous by groups like the Sons of the Pioneers and Riders in the Sky and individual performers such as Marty Robbins, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, Bob Baker and other "singing cowboys". Singing in the wrangler style, these entertainers have served to preserve the cowboy as a unique American hero.
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Warner Bros., which changed his name to Dick Foran and cast him as a singingcowboy, to compete with the successful Gene Autry musical westerns. His first...
the SingingCowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in...
Design, and Best Original Song ("When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"). Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singingcowboy clad in white, arrives at an isolated...
the nation's fascination with the American cowboy. The singingcowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by...
"Happy Trails". His early roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow singingcowboy Gene Autry. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either...
Theater.": 12 Western films commonly feature protagonists such as sheriffs, cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, who are often depicted as seminomadic...
the singingcowboy, in fact, cowboy songs and verse recitation were genuinely a part of cowboy life. In his introduction to the Library's Cowboy Poetry...
American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the third wife of singingcowboy film star Roy Rogers. Evans was born Frances Octavia Smith on October...
1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. He was a son of the singingcowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He...
Hollywood, many featuring Gene Autry, who was known as king of the "singingcowboys," and Hank Williams. Bob Wills was another country musician from the...
Jeffrey (sometimes "Herbert Jeffries" or "Herbert Jeffries, Sensational SingingCowboy"). In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels,...
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Champion the Wonder Horse was the on-screen companion of singingcowboy Gene Autry in 79 films between 1935 and 1952, and 91 television episodes of The...
A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related...
in a series of musical Westerns with the Hoosier Hot Shots, playing singingcowboy romantic leads. By virtue of his second marriage, Curtis was a son-in-law...
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playing himself as a singingcowboy. It is considered to be the first science-fiction Western. Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is a singingcowboy who runs Radio Ranch...
Western lifestyle or cowboy culture is the lifestyle, or behaviorisms, of, and resulting from the influence of, the (often romanticized) attitudes, ethics...
writer, and cowboy. He was one of the few early singingcowboys who had actually engaged in ranching. Calling himself the "Original SingingCowboy," Allen's...
the stylized garments popularized by Western film and television or singingcowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. It continues...
the post-Western, neo-Western, and urban Western genres that include "the cowboy cult" in a modern setting that involves the audience's feelings and understanding...
him to leave the singing group. Leonard Slye was rechristened Roy Rogers, and went on to achieve major success as a singingcowboy in the movies. Roy...
filmography lists the films and television episodes starring the American singingcowboy Gene Autry. From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films. Discovered...