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b. Curtis Wain Gates, 2 July 1916, on the plantation near Lamar, Colorado, USA, d. 28 Apr 1991, Fresco, California, USA. In 1935, he still left home and for a while studied medication in university, at Colorado Springs, until his desire to have a musical profession saw him proceed to …

America’s first performing cowboy, Ken Maynard starred in more than 300 movies and even though his recorded legacy is much less overwhelming, he did appear on several edges for Columbia. Created in small Vevay, Indiana (he afterwards claimed a Tx birthplace), Maynard was a rodeo champ and technique rider for …

Pop vocalist and acting professional Bill Hayes was created June 5, 1925 in Harvey, Illinois. Pursuing senior high school, he went to DePauw University or college, graduating having a dual main in music and British in 1947, which summer season he officially started his career like a vocalist. His big …

A local of Ontario, Canada, Bob Ruler was raised within the Ottawa Valley, a little-known “down north” middle of nation music and hillbilly tradition. Ruler arrived close (without quite being successful) to breaking in to the American marketplace and achieving long lasting popularity beyond the confines of rural Ontario. He …

Yodeling singer/songwriter/guitarist Expenses Carlisle was younger sibling of popular 1930s nation singer Cliff Carlisle. Through the ’30s, Expenses founded himself as a specialist purveyor of racy, blues-tinged nation tracks, but through the ’50s and ’60s, he was best-known for his novelty tracks as he and his family members music group, …

Bob Atcher was probably one of the most popular nation music entertainers from the post-World Battle II period, enjoying a 21-yr career in OKeh and Columbia Information, in addition to main radio stardom on WLS’ Country wide Barn Dance from Chicago. His selection of materials went from traditional nation and …

Joe and Jack port Hannah was raised in the fantastic Central Valley of California, within the shadow from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. These were elevated encircled by cowboy lore as well as the Sons from the Pioneers tunes that their dad would sing round the family members ranch. It had …

Predicated on his record sales, Smiley Burnette wasn’t greater than a footnote in the history of documented country music. Nevertheless, because of his appearances being a sidekick to Gene Autry in a large number of Republic Images Westerns before Globe War II, with Charles Starrett and Roy Rogers down the …

b. Wayne Lewis Jnr., 15 Oct 1909, Meigs, Georgia, USA, d. 23 January 1990. His mom passed away when he was five and his dad remarried and elevated two more kids. In 1919, the family members relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, where Lewis remained until 1928, when he relocated to …

Performing cowboy Tex Ritter stood among the biggest titles in country music through the entire postwar era, because of a diverse job that led him everywhere from your Broadway stage towards the political arena. He was created Maurice Woodward Ritter in Marvaul, TX, on January 12, 1907, and was raised …