Singing Cowboys

This is a story of the men and women, the movie stars, who shone brightly during a magical era-the era of the singing cowboy star. This was an era when, unlikely as it may seem, western heroes sang and yodelled as well as threw punches and drew six-guns; an era where for a time nearly half the western films churned out in Hollywood's golden age featured a singer as a hero, or had singing second leads or singing ranch hands to provide that dreamy, romantic, exquisitely beautiful music we now think of as western. Oh, there was plenty of pop, country and folk music and comedy, too, in western movies during those days, but what we recall now, in the context of these classical westerns, is the music of the singing cowboy.Green, Douglas B. is the author of 'Singing Cowboys' with ISBN 9781586858087 and ISBN 1586858084.