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James Clarence Wakeley (February 16, 1914 - September 23, 1982), better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.
His duet singles with Margaret Whiting from 1949–51 produced a string of top seven hits, including 1949's number one hit on the US country and pop music charts, "Slippin' Around." Wakely owned two music publishing companies in later years and performed at the Grand Ole Opry until shortly before his death.
James Clarence Wakeley was born in Mineola, Howard County, Arkansas on February 16, 1914 to Major Anderson Wakeley and Caroline (or Carolin) "Cali" Wakeley (née Burgess). His family moved to Rosedale, Oklahoma by 1920. As a teenager, he changed James to Jimmy and his last name to Wakely, dropping the second "e".
Actors: Gene Autry (actor), James Coburn (actor), Tex Ritter (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Jimmy Wakely (actor), John Wayne (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: John C. Fuller (editor), William Bailey (actor), Ben Corbett (actor), Ronald Davidson (writer), Oliver Drake (director), Ted Adams (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Riley Hill (actor), Bob McElroy (actor), Dennis Moore (actor), Artie Ortego (actor),
Plot: Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Steve is investigating his father's sudden death after charges of theft from the Sloan/Carson mine. Sloan is killed after Wakely learns that ore is being smuggled across the Mexican border into the mine, and then sold at the higher U.S. prices.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ammunition, arrest, assayer, b-movie, b-western, brawl, brother-sister-relationshipActors: Victor Adamson (actor), Dub Taylor (actor), Jack Tornek (actor), Jimmy Wakely (actor), Louis Gray (producer), Basil Dickey (writer), Edward J. Kay (composer), Oliver Drake (director), Carl Pierson (editor), William Bailey (actor), Dee Cooper (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Tom London (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor),
Plot: Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor escort Anne Lamont, the new school teacher, to Oreville, where she is molested by two outlaws, Tom Slade and Cal Derringer. Marshal Blackjack Flint wounds Slade, who tells Derringer that lawman Flint is wanted by the law and, unknown to Anne, is also her father. Derringer than kills Slade and begins to blackmail Flint. Jimmy and Cannonball join the fray on the side of Flint, the reformed outlaw.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, henchmanActors: Mathew McCue (actor), George Morrell (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Bob McElroy (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Carol Henry (actor), John James (actor), I. Stanford Jolley (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Zon Murray (actor),
Plot: Jimmy Wakely befriends Hank Carrdigan, a former outlaw who has served his sentence and wants to go straight. Jimmy, after clearing Hank of a wrongful shooting charge, helps him get a job as an express messenger. Hank drives off some bandits in an attempted hold-up, but recognizes his son Tom as one of the bandits. A later robbery is blamed on Hank but Jimmy and his sidekick Cannonball Taylor bring in the real culprits and clear Hank's name.
Keywords: bound-and-gagged, ex-convict, father-son-relationship, framed-for-theft, hold-up, stagecoach-lineActors: Carl Pierson (editor), Lambert Hillyer (director), John C. Fuller (editor), Ted Adams (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Bob McElroy (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Pascale Perry (actor), Marshall Reed (actor), George Sowards (actor), Dub Taylor (actor),
Plot: Kate Diamond owns the Roaring Falls Trading Post from where she directs her gang's gun-smuggling to the Indians. After she short-changes smuggler Stacey, his men attempt to steal the hidden guns, and attack her foreman Nebraska, but he is saved by Jimmy and "Cannonball" on their way to file a homestead claim at Canyon City. Jimmy renews a long acquaintance with Sheriff Harris and his daughter Jessica. The sheriff is wounded by half-breed Danny when he finds a rifle hidden in the latter's wagon, but Jimmy captures the outlaw, a go-between for Kate and the Indians.Wounded and in bed, Sheriff Harris ask Jimmy not to tell Jessica that she is only adopted and that Nebraska is really her father, although he believes her to be dead. Danny is allowed to escape and Jimmy follows him to Kate's trading post where she kills him, pretending self-defense in order to allay Jimmy's suspicions. Kate persuades Jessica to take Harris to another doctor in Lansing, so she can secretly hide the guns in the wagon and get through the blockade Jimmy has set up on all the roads.
Keywords: adopted-daughter, b-movie, b-western, capture, clue, contraband, daughter, doctor, escape, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Steve Clark (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Dub Taylor (actor), Jimmy Wakely (actor), Louis Gray (producer), Basil Dickey (writer), Oliver Drake (director), Carl Pierson (editor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Riley Hill (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), George Morrell (actor),
Plot: Curly Blake, nephew and heir of wealthy Red Rock rancher Jed Gordon, persuades his uncle not to invest in a crooked land scheme promoted by former judge Harmon Steele and his secretary Lem Martin. Thinking Curly has cheated in a poker game with Tom Blaine and Carter, Gordon disowns him and invests with Steele, not realizing that the latter has paid Blaine and Carter to frame Curly. Later, realizing that Steele is a crook, he confronts Steele, who kills Gordon with Blaine's gun. The four plotters throw the suspicion on Curly but he escapes from the sheriff, and is hidden by Jimmy and his pal "Cannonball" who suspect Steele. To force Steele to return Blaine's incriminating gun, Blaine and Carter kidnap Rita Caldwell, Steele's fiancée and Curly's former sweetheart, but are chased by Jimmy who kills Blaine and wounds Carter. Steele attempts to kill the imprisoned Carter, but Jimmy pursues the promoter, whose neck is broken when he tries to escape.
Keywords: broken-neck, inheritance, land-swindleActors: Marshall Reed (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Carol Henry (actor), William Bailey (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Al Haskell (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Frank LaRue (actor), Johnny Luther (actor), Bob McElroy (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Leonard Penn (actor), House Peters Jr. (actor), Boyd Stockman (actor),
Plot: Jimmy Wakely, undercover lawman, has a singing job at Dawson's saloon, jails gunman Becker, after cattleman Curtis, accuses him of killing his friend, rancher Steve Graves. Rancher Reed, head of the Cattleman's Association, plans to move their headquarters after local cattleman are continuously victimized. Dawson, also the head of the Merchant's Association, hires Carol Madison, to defend Becker, but the gunman is freed when witness Curtis is killed. Judge Madison, Carol's father, returns to town after getting the railroad company to extend a spur line to the town. He, too, is killed and Jimmy begins an investigation to find the killers and the motive.
Keywords: 1890s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bass-player, cattlemanActors: Carl Pierson (editor), Steve Clark (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Carol Henry (actor), Ray Jones (actor), Milburn Morante (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), William Ruhl (actor), Bob Woodward (actor), Claire Whitney (actress), Louis Gray (producer), J. Benton Cheney (writer), Ronald Davidson (writer), Dub Taylor (actor),
Plot: Pat Croft is welcomed back home by her mother, Mary, owner of a stage and freight line, and by foreman Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball. A man, Lance Regan, that Pat met on the stage is hired by Mary when he tells her he knew a man in prison named Patrick Collins. Mason and his henchmen make an attack on an ore shipment, but are driven off by Jimmy, but Lance allows Mason to make a getaway. Later, Lance plots with Mason and his men to hold up another ore shipment after he abandons the stage to Cannonball, but Jimmy arrives in time to save the money chest. He fires Lance for leaving his post, but Mary, after being threatened with blackmail, hires him back. Suspicious of Lance, Jimmy has Cannonball trick him into posing for a picture in order to check up on him. Lanes kills prospector Pete on his way to record a rich mine strike. Jimmy visits convict Collins in prison, who reveals that Mary and Pat are his wife and daughter, and that Lance was his cell mate. Collins escapes from jail to thwart Lance's schemes, but is killed by Lance when his men rob Mary's safe. Jimmy shoots Mason and Lance as the latter flees after his plotting is disclosed.
Keywords: accomplice, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, blackmail, cell-mate, convict, employee, ex-convictActors: Aaron Stell (editor), Eddie Bruce (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Steve Clark (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Ian Keith (actor), Frank LaRue (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Jack Rockwell (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Dub Taylor (actor), John Tyrrell (actor), Jimmy Wakely (actor),
Plot: Steve Randall heads a group of Mesa Valley ranchers fighting Matt Conroy , who owns the water company and charges exorbitant rates that the ranchers can not afford. Senator Proctor and his secretary, Mona Grant, come from the capitol to inform Randall that a bill is pending to convert Conway's company to a municipal project. Conway imports the Senator's black-sheep look-alike brother, Sheppard Proctor, kills the senator and arranges with Mona, who is in league with him, to have Sheppard pose as his brother. The impostor then proceeds to fight against the bill at the capitol.
Keywords: 1940s, b-movie, b-western, bandleader, brother-brother-relationship, comic-sidekick, deceit, deception, duplicity, extortionActors: Walter Baldwin (actor), Iris Adrian (actress), Douglas Wood (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), El Brendel (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), Jimmy Wakely (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Cliff Nazarro (actor), Paul Newlan (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Al St. John (actor), Slim Summerville (actor), Maude Eburne (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,G A h
So as you walk down the street, who will talk to you
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Six o'clock, it's getting late
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And the moon is rising, and the sticky dew
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Falls to the ground by the gate
With your rifle on your shoulder as you walk along
Listening to your bootheels hit the sod
Smoking your cigar as you hum a song
Thinking of your mother and your God
D A h
Ah, but you're alone, Jimmy Clay
D A h
As you smoke your cigar and earn your pay
G A h
With fifteen thousand soldiers marching by your side
D A h
Still, you're alone, Jimmy Clay
Do you remember New York Town, good old New York Town
The friends, the drunks, the cops and all
The whores who took your money when you couldn't stand
All those roarin' nights you can't recall
Do you remember Alice Faye, good old Alice Faye
She'd been through life at least ten times around
And when she said she loved you, well, she meant it, boy
Do you remember the night you nearly drowned
Ah, but you're alone, Jimmy Clay
As you smoke your cigar and think of yesterday
But Yesterday don't matter when it's gone away
Where did it go, Jimmy Clay
So as you lie there in the mud who will talk to you
Nobody, Jimmy Clay
For when you've gone, mankind soon follows after you
Doesn't it, Jimmy Clay
And your face will grow mouldy where they kissed your cheek
And said, Please die for us, Jimmy Clay
And so you died, a soldier, and a hero's death
Congratulations, Jimmy Clay
Now you're alone, Jimmy Clay
As you smoke your cigar and earn your pay
And somewhere in the distance hear a fiddle play
But not one note will change, Jimmy Clay