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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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    the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by singing in...
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    Warner Bros., which changed his name to Dick Foran and cast him as a singing cowboy, to compete with the successful Gene Autry musical westerns. His first...
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  • Design, and Best Original Song ("When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings"). Buster Scruggs, a cheerful singing cowboy clad in white, arrives at an isolated...
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    The Singing Cowboy is a 1936 American Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lois Wilde and Lon Chaney Jr. Based...
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    Roy Rogers (category Singing cowboys)
    "Happy Trails". His early roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow singing cowboy Gene Autry. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either...
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    Yodeling (category Singing techniques)
    the nation's fascination with the American cowboy. The singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films, popularized by...
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  • romanticization of the cowboy and idealized depictions of the west in Hollywood films. Singing cowboys, such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, sang cowboy songs in their...
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    American actress, singer, and songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy film star Roy Rogers. Evans was born Frances Octavia Smith on October...
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    Western film (redirect from Cowboy movies)
    Theater.": 12  Western films commonly feature protagonists such as sheriffs, cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, who are often depicted as seminomadic...
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    Herb Jeffries (category Singing cowboys)
    Jeffrey (sometimes "Herbert Jeffries" or "Herbert Jeffries, Sensational Singing Cowboy"). In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels,...
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    the singing cowboy, in fact, cowboy songs and verse recitation were genuinely a part of cowboy life. In his introduction to the Library's Cowboy Poetry...
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    1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He...
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  • Hollywood, many featuring Gene Autry, who was known as king of the "singing cowboys," and Hank Williams. Bob Wills was another country musician from the...
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  • Eagle, Chief Yowlachie musical Western The Arizona Cowboy R.G. Springsteen Rex Allen Singing cowboy Western Arizona Territory Wallace Fox Whip Wilson,...
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    Champion the Wonder Horse was the on-screen companion of singing cowboy Gene Autry in 79 films between 1935 and 1952, and 91 television episodes of The...
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    Western The Border Legion Joseph Kane Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes Singing cowboy Western Boss of Bullion City Ray Taylor Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight...
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    Ken Curtis (category Singing cowboys)
    in a series of musical Westerns with the Hoosier Hot Shots, playing singing cowboy romantic leads. By virtue of his second marriage, Curtis was a son-in-law...
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    Mega Mountain, starring Hulk Hogan. McNamara briefly appeared as the singing cowboy in the Even Stevens musical episode "Influenza: The Musical", and as...
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    a story involving a star of Western films who makes a comeback as a singing cowboy, but they kept gravitating to a story about a swashbuckling romantic...
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    was an American entertainer who in 1926 became one of radio's first singing cowboys, going on to become a singer, actor, radio show host and songwriter...
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  • playing himself as a singing cowboy. It is considered to be the first science-fiction Western. Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is a singing cowboy who runs Radio Ranch...
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    Cowboy culture is the set of behaviors, preferences, and appearances associated with (or resulting from the influence of) the attitudes, ethics, and history...
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  • him to leave the singing group. Leonard Slye was rechristened Roy Rogers, and went on to achieve major success as a singing cowboy in the movies. Roy...
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    the steppes of the Caucasus, while Western stock characters, such as "cowboys and Indians", were replaced by Caucasian stock characters, such as bandits...
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    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...
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    Jules Verne Allen (category Singing cowboys)
    writer, and cowboy. He was one of the few early singing cowboys who had actually engaged in ranching. Calling himself the "Original Singing Cowboy," Allen's...
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    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...
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    Allen was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, the son of Rex Allen. Singing in the "countrypolitan" style, he had hits with "Goodbye" (1974), "I'm...
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    Nature. p. 58. ISBN 978-1-137-27294-2. Johnson, Michael K. (2014). Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West. University...
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