Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy
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As the United States expanded west in the 1800s, and cattle became
big business, the figure of the young brash cattleman who rode with
the herds quickly emerged as a cultural icon. Victorian Americans
went crazy for cowboys, snapping up dime-store novels and sheet
music, and turning out in droves for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West
Show. It was only a matter of time before someone brought together
these three facets-entertainer, singer, and cowboy. And when Carl
T. Sprague recorded the first hit cowboy record (When the Work's
All Done This Fall) in 1925, the singing cowboy as we know him was
born. A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green (better known as
Ranger Doug from the Grammy-award-winning group Riders In The Sky)
is uniquely suited to write the story of the singing cowboy. He has
been collecting information and interviews on western music, films,
and performers for nearly thirty years. In this volume, he traces
this history from the early days of vaudeville and radio, through
the heyday of movie westerns before World War II, to the current
revival. He provides rich and careful analysis of the studio system
that made men such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers famous, and he
documents the role that country music and regional television
stations played in carrying on the singing cowboy tradition after
World War II. This book, lavishly illustrated with over 140 photos,
is a wealth of information that comes out of decades of research.
Green has unearthed never-before-published photos and rare movie
posters-including one from an all-Black western, Harlem on the
Prairie (1938). Through his close friendships with other singing
cowboys and their families, Green is able to provide rare insights
into the ways that some like Autry became stars and others like
Raoul Walsh (who lost his eye in a shooting accident and later
became a famous director) did not. Green also traces the history of
cowboy music, from popular songs such as Sweet Betsy from Pike to
the instantly recognizable harmonies of the Sons of the Pioneers.
Green even speculates about just when the famous yodel became a
ubiquitous part of the singing cowboy's repertoire. More important,
Green reveals how the imagery of the singing cowboy has become such
a potent force that even now country musicians don cowboy hats so
as to symbolically take part in the legend. Nowhere has the
recorded history of the singing cowboy and the film history been
collected in one volume, and this book is sure to become the
resource for students of the style. Co-published with the Country
Music Foundation Press
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