• Urban Cowboy is a musical with a book by Aaron Latham and Phillip Oesterman and a score by Broadway composer-lyricists Jeff Blumenkrantz and Jason Robert...
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  • contributions of Black pioneers to American musical and cultural history. Mostly labeled a country and Americana album, Cowboy Carter blends together diverse Southern...
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  • Aaron Latham (category American musical theatre librettists)
    1980 movie Urban Cowboy and co-wrote its script with director James Bridges. He also co-wrote the book for the short-lived 2003 Broadway musical version...
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    rides. Compton Cowboys Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club Oakland Black Cowboy Association African-American trail rides "Black cowboys: Urban rodeo". The...
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  • Urban Cowboy Band is Mickey Gilley's band. In 1981, the Gilley's Urban Cowboy Band won its first and only Grammy.[citation needed] The Gilley's Urban...
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    Michael Martin Murphey (category Singing cowboys)
    Enchantment". Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy. Michael Martin Murphey was born on March 14...
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    Black cowboys in the American West accounted for up to an estimated 25% of cowboys "who went up the trail" from the 1860s to 1880s and substantial but...
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    Housewife" (1968), "Wichita Lineman" (1968), "Galveston" (1969), "Rhinestone Cowboy" (1975), and "Southern Nights" (1977). In 1967, Campbell won four Grammys...
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    LoCash Cowboys, co-wrote "You Gonna Fly" with Jaren Johnston, then-member of the group American Bang. After "You Gonna Fly" fell from the charts, Urban released...
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    Jason Robert Brown (category American musical theatre composers)
    to the Broadway flop Urban Cowboy. He had worked as an orchestrator with director Phillip Oesterman on the Off-Broadway musical New York Rock, and Oesterman...
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    Bills, the Washington Redskins, and the Dallas Cowboys. Jonathan is the current chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys. Evans is a registered Republican in Texas...
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  • folk Country pop/Cosmopolitan country Country rap/Hick-hop Country rock Cowboy pop Dansband Gulf and Western Hokum Honky tonk Instrumental country Lubbock...
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  • Urban Chipmunk was the first country album by Alvin and the Chipmunks, released on February 4, 1981. The title parodies the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. Urban...
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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...
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    Justin Bieber as being an early pop musical inspiration. It was not until Ballerini heard "Stupid Boy" by Keith Urban that she decided to delve deeper into...
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  • Pippin is a 1972 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production...
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    that chart. In 1980, Fogelberg appeared on the soundtrack to the film Urban Cowboy with his song "Times Like These". He also first performed on a live television...
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    Jenn Colella (category American musical theatre actresses)
    filmed recording of the musical. Colella was in the original Broadway casts of Urban Cowboy, High Fidelity (2006), Chaplin: The Musical (2012), If/Then (2014)...
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    Bunkhouse: Lainey Wilson on Being Featured on 'Yellowstone,' the 'Coolest Cowboy Show of All Time'". Wide Open Country. Retrieved December 27, 2021. Liptak...
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    has cited some of his musical influencers, such as Dave Grohl. "Top 100 Urban Cowboy iTunes Songs & Albums Chart 2016 – CowboyC Country Music Charts of...
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    Gilley's Club and its mechanical bull were portrayed in the 1980 film, Urban Cowboy. He shared Gilley's Club with Sherwood Cryer, who asked Gilley to re-open...
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    John Travolta (category American male musical theatre actors)
    (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981). He earned nominations for the Academy Award...
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  • of these shows was revealed to be a television adaptation of the film Urban Cowboy; Brewer wrote the pilot and directed it, but the pilot was not picked...
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    country music at the time, which had been influenced by the rise of the "urban cowboy" fad. New (or "neo-") traditionalism looked to the elders of country...
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    Tex Ritter (category Singing cowboys)
    Moon (1928). He appeared as cowboy Cord Elam in the Broadway production Green Grow the Lilacs (1931), the basis for the musical Oklahoma! He also played...
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  • Lloyd Estel Copas (July 15, 1913 – March 5, 1963), known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer. He was popular from the 1940s...
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    traditional American West setting. Coogan's Bluff and Midnight Cowboy are examples of urban Westerns set in New York City.: 148–149  Typical themes of the...
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  • a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles...
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    sub-genre includes the post-Western, neo-Western, and urban Western genres that include "the cowboy cult" in a modern setting that involves the audience's...
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    David Allan Coe (category Pages using infobox musical artist with associated acts)
    career') By 1981, the outlaw country movement waned as the slicker 'urban cowboy' era took hold in country music, typified by the Johnny Lee hit "Lookin'...
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