Knoxville, East Tennessee, and the world of Cowboy Music lost a legend when Andrew James Smalls Jr. passed away peacefully at his home in Loudon on Sunday, March 1, 2026. Those who have loved him as a ...

Carl Stuart Hamblen, radio's first "singing cowboy", died from brain cancer on March 8, 1989, at age 80 in Santa Monica, California.

Nolan Arthur "Cowboy Slim" Rinehart, one of the earliest singing cowboys, was born March 11, 1912, in Comanche County, Texas.

The 1930s, '40s and '50s saw the rise of a uniquely American performer: the Singing Cowboy in film, on TV and in radio. "Singing cowboys" grew out of real cowboys and traveling cowboy acts who ...

This week in 1939, The New York World's Fair opened, Joe Louis KO'd Jack Roper in the first round, Hitler turned down FDR's proposal to meet at sea and one of America's singing cowboys recorded the ...

Gene Autry, known as the Singing Cowboy, epitomized the western star, performing in movies, television and radio for more than three decades. © Sunset Boulevard ...

The Tehama County Museum is hosting the second offering in its 2025 Lecture Series featuring the story of Northern California’s Singing Cowboy, Morris Taylor. Held in the museum’s Graffell Annex, 275 ...

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