The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many changes in membership, the Sons of the Pioneers have remained one of the longest-surviving country music vocal groups.
In the spring of 1931, Ohio-born Leonard Slye—the cowboy singer who would later change his name to Roy Rogers—arrived in California and found work as a truck driver, and later as a fruit picker for the Del Monte company in California's Central Valley. He entered an amateur singing contest on a Los Angeles radio show called Midnight Frolics and a few days later got an invitation to join a group called the Rocky Mountaineers.
In September 1931, Canadian-born Bob Nolan answered a classified ad in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner that read, "Yodeler for old-time act, to travel. Tenor preferred." The band was The Rocky Mountaineers, by then led by Leonard Slye. After listening to the tall, slender, tanned Nolan sing and yodel, Slye hired Nolan on the spot. Although Nolan stayed with the group only a short time, he stayed in touch with Slye. Nolan was replaced by Tim Spencer, who had been working in a Safeway Stores warehouse.
Actors: Cliff Barrows (actor), Jerry Beavan (actor), Robert Clarke (actor), Billy Graham (actor), Redd Harper (actor), Ralph Hoopes (actor), Paul Mickelson (actor), Sons of the Pioneers (actor), Paul Power (actor), George Beverly Shea (actor), Ted Smith (actor), Dawson Trotman (actor), Ralph Ward (actor), Grady Wilson (actor), Willa Pearl Curtis (actress),
Plot: Christine Manning returns to her father's home in Texas for the summer. She soon realizes that her father, oil millionaire Les Manning, is disliked and feared as a ruthless businessman by the people around him. Les Manning has always relied on himself to become successful and has never trusted in God. But he may have to change his ways...
Keywords: barbecue, bible-quote, billy-graham, businessman, christian, christian-film, church, evangelical, father-daughter-relationship, gunActors: Buddy Clark (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Dennis Day (actor), Bobby Driscoll (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians (actor), Freddy Martin (actor), Dal McKennon (actor), Bob Nolan (actor), Sons of the Pioneers (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Tim Spencer (actor), Trigger (actor), Pat Brady (actor),
Plot: Segments: "Once Upon a Wintertime," two lovers rescued from an icy river by friendly animals; "Bumble Boogie," bee beset by musical instruments and symbols come to life; "Johnny Appleseed," story of the legendary pioneer tree-planter; "Trees," mood piece set to musical treatment of Joyce Kilmer's poem; "Little Toot," story of a heroic little tugboat who saves an ocean liner; "Blame it on the Samba," Donald Duck and Jose Carioca have the blues blown away at a Latin cafe; "Pecos Bill," story of the legendary cowpoke, his trusty mount Widowmaker and his sweetheart Slue Foot Sue.
Keywords: 1800s, 1940s, 19th-century, american-folklore, anthology, apple-core-game, aracuan-bird, coyote, disney-animated-feature, feral-childActors: Doc Adams (actor), Pat Brady (actor), Keefe Brasselle (actor), Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Whitey Christy (actor), Victor Cox (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Fred Graham (actor), Silver Harr (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor),
Plot: Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, badge, border-patrol, cave, church-bellActors: Jimmy Ames (actor), Rodney Bell (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Harry Carr (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), E.L. Davenport Jr. (actor), Watson Downs (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Frank Fenton (actor), Sam Flint (actor), William Frawley (actor), Eddie Albert (actor),
Plot: Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes to the act, to reflect his own ego, causes the quartet to get fired. Later, all make good in other areas of show business...stage, radio and motion pictures.
Keywords: 1940s, actor, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress, archive-footage, audition, b-movie, california, chefActors: Fred Aldrich (actor), C. Bakaleinikoff (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Ken Carson (actor), Robert Clarke (actor), Tom Coleman (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Bruce Edwards (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Shug Fisher (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Edmund Glover (actor), Bob Alden (actor),
Plot: Ding Dong Williams, a clarinet player who can neither read nor write music is employed at a motion picture studio. The studio plans to use him and his six-piece band but his musical deficiencies are discovered and the plan scrapped. But the secretary of the head of the music department intercedes on his behalf and he is given a chance in the film.
Keywords: actor, actress, band, clarinetist, composer, dancing, double-talk, false-accusation, fight, fired-from-the-jobActors: Marvin Bailey (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Paul Brooks (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), Dwight Butcher (actor), Eddie Cantor (actor), Jack Carson (actor), Carmen Cavallaro (actor), Dane Clark (actor), Jack Coffey (actor), Helmut Dantine (actor), John Dehner (actor), Jimmy Dorsey (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), William Alcorn (actor),
Plot: Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, whom he has been dreaming about while in the Pacific. He meets her later at the Farmer's Market. On the third night, Slim is the millionth man into the Canteen, earning him a date with Joan. Slim thinks he's been duped when she doesn't show up at his train. Slim's buddy Sergant dances with Joan Crawford. Canteen President Bette Davis praises the canteen and the war effort. Virtually everyone Warners could spare entertains.
Keywords: dancing-horse, hollywood, hollywood-sign, hollywoodland, horse, kiss, obsessed-fan, purple-heart, shore-leave, soldierActors: Pat Brady (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Hugh Farr (actor), Karl Farr (actor), Donald Grayson (actor), Al Haskell (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Clyde McClary (actor), Art Mix (actor), Bob Nolan (actor), Lloyd Perryman (actor), Sons of the Pioneers (actor),
Plot: Unable to pay her notes, Ann Bradford, owner of the Circle C, decides to auction off a half-interest in her ranch. Matt Stark, a crooked land dealer, holds Ann's notes. His efforts to buy the ranch have been refused and his instructs his henchman, Barlow, and his other henchmen to make certain that nobody bids on the ranch. Clint Buckley rides into town on the day of the auction, overhears Stark's instructions to his henchies, and decides to attend the sale. Barlow attempts to intimidate him, they fight, Buckley wins and his bid of $25,000 wins him a half-interest in the Circle C. But, Stark, isn't finished yet in his efforts to get the ranch, especially since a couple of his hirelings are on the Circle C payroll.
Keywords: 1880s, attorney, auction, auctioneer, b-movie, b-western, cattle-ranch, check, cowboy, crookActors: Benny Bartlett (actor), David Holt (actor), Ted Husing (actor), Bob Nolan (actor), Sons of the Pioneers (actor), Louis Prima (actor), Quinlan Juvenile Singers (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), The Boswell Sisters (actress), Connee Boswell (actress), Martha Boswell (actress), Vet Boswell (actress), Herbert Moulton (director), Leslie M. Roush (director),
Genres: Music, Short,Take me back to my boots and saddle.
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh,
Let me see that gen'ral store,
Let me ride that range once more,
Give me my boots and saddle.
Let me ramble along the prairie.
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh,
Ropin' steers on old ?Bar X?
With my buddies, Slim and Tex,
Give me my boots and saddle.
Got a hankerin' to be with a banjo on my knee
Strummin' a pretty western tune.
There's a gal in Cherokee
And she's waitin' there for me,
Waitin' beneath a Texas moon.
So take me back to my boots and saddle.
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh,
Let me greet each blazin' morn,
On the ranch where I was born,
Give me my boots and saddle.
The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. Since 1933, through many changes in membership, the Sons of the Pioneers have remained one of the longest-surviving country music vocal groups.
In the spring of 1931, Ohio-born Leonard Slye—the cowboy singer who would later change his name to Roy Rogers—arrived in California and found work as a truck driver, and later as a fruit picker for the Del Monte company in California's Central Valley. He entered an amateur singing contest on a Los Angeles radio show called Midnight Frolics and a few days later got an invitation to join a group called the Rocky Mountaineers.
In September 1931, Canadian-born Bob Nolan answered a classified ad in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner that read, "Yodeler for old-time act, to travel. Tenor preferred." The band was The Rocky Mountaineers, by then led by Leonard Slye. After listening to the tall, slender, tanned Nolan sing and yodel, Slye hired Nolan on the spot. Although Nolan stayed with the group only a short time, he stayed in touch with Slye. Nolan was replaced by Tim Spencer, who had been working in a Safeway Stores warehouse.
WorldNews.com | 31 May 2019
WorldNews.com | 31 May 2019
WorldNews.com | 31 May 2019
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WorldNews.com | 31 May 2019
WorldNews.com | 31 May 2019