but here is the Night Shift watchman, TC - -
God be with you....
Posted on 04/08/2005 4:26:16 PM PDT by Eaker
My uncle was a cowboy in Texas before he joined the railroad and traveled. His heart never left that state. He passed his love along to me in his gentle giant way.
I always liked this story to a grandson.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,
inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,
generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same
fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then
asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
God be with you....
That picutre brings back fond memories. Riding in the desert on my Morganie horse in the glow of the moonlight. So very close to all that's important...sigh...
Sure can, I don't know how many Saturday mornings I watched the trailer of the show.
Although right now I'm listening to "Whiskey for my Men, Beer for My Horses". I most always like the sound of Willie's music, but not always the lyrics. These I like. I've got it right on my desktop, where I can play it to cheer myself up. :)
Since this is TC's thread here's the Happy Trails Commemorative Revolver: (although I bet TC likes the song too, although he was a rough tough Marine by the time the TV show was on.
Saturday mornings were the BEST weren't they?
I had the good fortune of seeing Willie live a few years ago. I was in the nosebleed section but it was great nonetheless. His sound is like no other, never has been and never will be another Willie.
Great looken revolver there.
You've no idea how hard I laughed reading this!!
You apparently think we 'Venerable Ones' emerged from caves
with animal skins on and stepped right into adulthood and television??..:))
Sorry...we chilluns were privileged to see Moving Pichurs, and Roy and Dale and Gene Autrey, etc. first were OUR heroes!
As a very little girl, we listened to radios!!, and if I cleaned my room on Saturday mornings, I earned a whole quarter -- that got me into the Saturday matinee and also popcorn and 2 candies.
We all were quite vociferous in cheering the Good Guys in white hats, and booing the Bad Uns with black hats...
Roy's biography describes his very poor farm background and struggles to succeed, on radio and in several singing/musical groups, until:
"In the summer of 1934 Jerry King began Standard Radio, his own transcription company, and the first artists he recorded were The Sons Of The Pioneers. Up until that point the Pioneers had been heard only in the Southern California area through their radio broadcasts and personal appearances. All this changed when their transcriptions began being played on hundreds of radio stations throughout the United States and Canada.
Meanwhile, radio work had led to the Pioneers' first film appearance, in the Warner Bros. short Radio Scout, starring Swedish comedian El Brendel. A few months later the Pioneers made their feature film debut, in The Old Homestead, which featured Mary Carlisle. These films were soon followed by their appearances in two Westerns starring Charles Starrett (Gallant Defender and The Mysterious Avenger), two with Dick Foran (Song Of The Saddle and California Mail), and an appearance in the Bing Crosby film Rhythm On The Range, where they joined Bing in singing "I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)." In July 1936 the Pioneers left KFWB and traveled to Dallas to appear at the Texas Centennial. While performing there they appeared in Gene Autry's film The Big Show, which was partially filmed on location at the Centennial. Interestingly, one of the visitors who saw The Sons Of The Pioneers perform at the Texas Centennial was a young singer named Dale Evans.
Back in Los Angeles the Pioneers continued radio work on KHJ along with more film work and recordings for Decca and OKeh. The enormous success of Gene Autry's films had caused just about every movie studio to jump on the singing cowboy bandwagon, and Columbia Pictures signed The Sons Of The Pioneers to appear in Charles Starrett's series of Westerns. In the meantime Gene Autry had grown unhappy with his contract with Republic Pictures and was threatening that he might not report for the start of his next film. Republic decided to prepare themselves just in case he carried through on this. One day while Roy (who was still known as Len Slye) was in a hat store in Glendale, he heard someone say that Republic was holding auditions for a singing cowboy the following day. "I saddled my guitar the next morning and went out there, but I couldn't get in because I didn't have an appointment. So I waited around until the extras began coming back from lunch, and I got on the opposite side of the crowd of people and came in with them. I'd just gotten inside the door when a hand fell on my shoulder. It was Sol Siegel, the head producer of Western pictures." Siegel, who remembered Roy from the work he and the Pioneers had done in two of Gene Autry's films, asked what he was doing there. When Roy said he'd heard they were looking for another singing cowboy, Siegel asked if he'd brought his guitar with him. Roy said it was in his car, but that he'd run back and get it. By the time he got back to the producer's office he was out of breath and couldn't sing. Siegel told Roy to rest for a minute and then he'd listen to him. The wait must have been worthwhile, because on Wednesday, October 13, 1937, Republic Pictures signed Len Slye to a seven-year contract. Republic put him to work in the Three Mesquiteers film Wild Horse Rodeo in which billed as Dick Weston, he sang one song. Things were quiet for a few months until Gene Autry failed to report for the start of his next film. By then the studio was prepared, and they put Len Slye, who had been renamed Roy Rogers, into the lead role in Under Western Stars, the film that had been scheduled for Autry. When Under Western Stars was released in April 1938, it became an immediate hit, and it made a star of Roy Rogers. Gene Autry and the studio soon resolved their differences, but in the meantime Republic Pictures had launched Roy Rogers' career.
And there we have, 'the rest of the story'. :0)
**The LadyX reverts to :childhood speech" and responds with "UM GAWA!!" - -
and shows a drawing of her mother and father 'way back when' --
BTV (Before TV)**...:))
I was speaking strictly of the song, which did come a bit "after your time", but only a bit. Roy and Dale and the Sons of the Pioneers of course went back quite a bit farther, and were prime Saturday Morning Matinee fodder for y'all.
I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)."
"Yippi Eye Oh Cay Yeh!" Yep I remember that one too. I've bought several of the old Roy Rodgers movies on CD, although I've seen many of them in TV re-runs. Even some without Dale. :)
Nope, they were/are older than that. Well Mom isn't, but she lived on a farm and the nearest several towns didn't have movie theaters. The nearest would have be about 35 miles or so. Dad, besides being a bit too old to have watched Roy when he was growing up, just didn't have the bucks, being a child of a single parent (mother) household during the Great Depression.
Of course I meant DVD. Same basic technology anyway. And with both CD's and DVD's now being used to store non-media computer data, I tend to use the terms interchangeably anyway.
'53 we got our first Spartan TV, 21" B&W console. Only two stations at the time in our market, but Saturday mornings meant cartoons and then Westerns in the afternoon.
The first television set I had was in 1954.
Here is more about Dale Evans:
Once upon a time, in the town of Uvalde, Texas, there was a girl named Frances Octavia Smith. Married at 14, pregnant at 15, and abandoned at 17, she grew up to become an accomplished Big Band singer named Dale Evans.
In 1947, Dale married Roy Rogers; he became "King of the Cowboys," and she, "Queen of the West," and together the two appeared in over thirty Westerns, and on the long-running Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show on television.
Dale wrote the song "Happy Trails" in 1950,
and Roy and Dale sang it each week to close the show.
It took Dale just one hour to write the song, one source said -
scribbled on the back of an envelope!
Wow! Now that is my kinda gal. Thanks much for the additional info. You're so good to us!
LOL BTV. Love that outdoors upbringing in your picture. As a kid I wanted to live in a hollowed out tree, and preferred tents to solid walls. And let's not talk about shoes!
This fellow is seen earlier in the day as he headed to watch over you.
It's in the Gabilan Range (Indian word for "hawk") on the Central California Coast.
Night, Cowboy - - Cambio.....
Glad to read the report. Keeping him in my prayers every day.
"As a kid I wanted to live in a hollowed out tree, and preferred tents to solid walls. And let's not talk about shoes!"
Growing up as I did in Florida, going barefoot was easy most of the year. At age 9 1/2, we moved from Coral Gables(city) up to 12 miles out of Melbourne so my father was centrally located for his consulting engineering practice.
I became a quite happy country girl....roamed the canal banks all the time, with all kinds of snakes and alligators....lots of peace and quiet for thinking and reading...
Wow snakes and gaters. Now that's the life for a kid. I was fortunate enough to be able to spend summers away. Either at the ocean or the desert. The wide open skies always appealed to me. One of my first loves of Texas was it's wide open skies, where you can see both ends of a northern!
Sing along now, Oh give me land lots of land under stary skies above. Don't fence me in... :-)
Oh, goody goody goody!
Now you've done it...moved us from campfire stories to sing-alongs..:))
Well, while you ride that land, you can sing a song from 1942 (Music-Joseph Lilley Lyrics-Ranke Loesser) - - Paulette Goddard introduced it in her movie The Forest Rangers....
I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle
As I go riding merrily along
And they sing, "oh ain't you glad you're single
And that song ain't so very far from wrong
Bet TexasCowboy remembers her from later films - -
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