Singing cowboy
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A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier. The original cowboys sang of life on the t
Gene Autry, 1942
Gene Autry ca. 1950
Roy Rogers and Mary Hart in Shine On, Harvest Moon (1938)
The Gene Autry Show (1950)
John Ritter
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John Ritter was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter. He played Jack Tripper on the popular ABC sitcom Three's Company,
Singing cowboy
…The song became a hit and received an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song, for 1953. Tex Ritter was also the father of television sitcom actor John Ritter. Herb Jeffries made a series of films beginning with Harlem on the Prairie (1937…
Ritter in 1977
Ritter in 1988
Ritter's grave marker