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American vocalizer and actor (1911–1998)

Roy Rogers
Rogers in The Carson City Child, 1940
Born	Leonard Franklin Slye (1911-xi-05)November 5, 1911 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.Southward.
Died	July half dozen, 1998(1998-07-06) (anile 86) Apple Valley, California, U.S.
Resting identify	Dusk Hills Memorial Park, Apple Valley, California 34°33′25″N 117°08′35″W  /  34.5569916°North 117.1429367°Due west  / 34.5569916; -117.1429367
Other names	Len Slye
Occupation	Vocalizer actor Goggle box host
Years agile	1932–1991 1935–1984 (acting)
Mode	Western
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Lucile Ascolese ​ ​ (m. 1933; div. 1936)​ Grace Arline Wilkins ​ ​ (m. 1936; died 1946)​ Dale Evans ​ ​ (m. 1947)​
Children	9

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Post-obit early work under his given proper noun, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebranded Rogers and so became one of the about pop Western stars of his era. Known equally the "Male monarch of the Cowboys",^[1] he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and goggle box episodes of The Roy Rogers Testify. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his Golden Palomino, Trigger; and his German Shepherd, Bullet. His evidence was circulate on radio for ix years and and then on television set from 1951 through 1957. His early roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow cowboy singing star Gene Autry and his productions ordinarily featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George "Gabby" Hayes, or Smiley Burnette.^[2] In his afterwards years, he lent his name to the franchise chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants.

Life and career [edit]

Early life [edit]

Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Slye, the son of Mattie (née Womack) and Andrew "Andy" Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[3] The family lived in a tenement on second Street, where Riverfront Stadium was later constructed (Rogers later joked that he was built-in at second base of operations).^[iii] Dissatisfied with his job and city life, Andy and his brother Will built a 12-by-l-foot (three.seven chiliad × 15.2 1000) houseboat from save lumber, and in July 1912 the Slye family traveled downwards the Scioto River towards Portsmouth.^[three] Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, they purchased land on which to build a house, just the Groovy Flood of 1913 allowed them to move the houseboat to their property and continue living in information technology on dry state.^[3]

Rogers'due south boyhood home at Duck Run, near Lucasville, Ohio

In 1919, the Slye family purchased a farm in Duck Run, about Lucasville, Ohio, about 12 miles (xix km) north of Portsmouth, and built a six-room house.^[three] Andy presently realized that the farm lonely would non provide sufficient income for his family, and then he took a job at a Portsmouth shoe manufacturing plant, living in Portsmouth during the calendar week and returning domicile on weekends, bearing gifts following paydays. A notable gift was a equus caballus on which young Len learned the nuts of horsemanship.^[3] Living on the farm with no radio, the family made their own entertainment. On Sat nights, they often invited neighbors over for foursquare dances, during which Len would sing, play mandolin, and phone call the square dances.^[3] He also learned to yodel during this time, and with his female parent they would apply different yodels to communicate with each other across distances on the farm.^[three]

Len attended loftier school in McDermott, Ohio,^[3] but after he completed his second yr at that place, his family returned to Cincinnati, where his father worked at some other shoe factory.^[3] Realizing that his family needed his fiscal assistance, Len quit school and joined his begetter at the manufacturing plant.^[three] He tried to attend night school, but subsequently being ridiculed for falling asleep in class, he quit school and never returned.

By 1929, after his older sister Mary and her husband had moved to Lawndale, California, Len and his father quit their mill jobs, packed upwards their 1923 Dodge, and drove the family unit to California to visit Mary. They stayed for four months earlier returning to Ohio.^[3] Before long after returning, Len had the opportunity to travel again to California with Mary's father-in-police force, and the residual of the family unit followed in the leap of 1930. The Slye family rented a pocket-sized house almost Mary, and Len and his begetter found employment driving gravel trucks for a highway construction project.^[3]

In spring 1931, subsequently the construction company went bankrupt, Len traveled to Tulare, California, where he found piece of work picking peaches for Del Monte.^[3] During this time, he lived in a labor military camp similar to those depicted in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.^[three] The economic hardship of the Great Depression was just every bit astringent in California as it was in Ohio.

Len auditioned in 1931 for a radio show in Inglewood, California, and joined the short-lived singing group the Rocky Mountaineers, who were superseded in 1933 past the O-Bar-O Cowboys. The singers toured New Mexico and Arizona on a shoestring in the heat of summertime. Even finding food was a real challenge. While they were performing in Roswell, New Mexico, a caller to a radio station, Grace Arline Wilkins, promised Rogers that she would bake him a pie if he sang "The Swiss Yodel". Romance blossomed, and the couple married in Roswell in 1936. Arline died in childbirth a decade afterwards, and Rogers later on wed Dale Evans.^[four]

Music career [edit]

Later on nineteen-year-old Len's render to Lawndale, his sister Mary suggested that he audition for the Midnight Frolic radio program, which was broadcast over KMCS in Inglewood. A few nights afterwards, wearing a Western shirt that Mary had made for him, he overcame his shyness and appeared on the program playing guitar, singing, and yodeling.^[iii] A few days later, he was asked to join a local country music group, the Rocky Mountaineers.^[3] He accepted the group'south offer and became a member in Baronial 1931.^{[iii] [v]}

For a brief time in 1933, Lubbock, Texas, was headquarters for the O-Bar-O Cowboys. The Cowboys made little money performing at dances and small-scale theaters in such places as Brownfield and Littlefield. The O-Bar-O Cowboys disbanded in Lubbock. Rogers and his associates Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer went on to organize the Sons of the Pioneers in 1934.^[4]

By September 1931, Len hired the Canadian-built-in Bob Nolan, who answered the grouping's classified ad in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner that read, "Yodeler for old-time act, to travel. Tenor preferred." Nolan stayed with the group but a curt time, but Len and he stayed in impact. Nolan was replaced by Tim Spencer.^{[half dozen]}

In the spring of 1932, Len, Spencer, and another singer, Sleep Nichols, left the Rocky Mountaineers to form a trio, which shortly failed. Throughout that year, Len and Spencer moved through a series of short-lived groups, including the International Cowboys and the O-Bar-O Cowboys. When Spencer left the O-Bar-O Cowboys to take a intermission from music, Len joined Jack LeFevre and His Texas Outlaws, who were a pop deed on a local Los Angeles radio station.^[7]

In early 1933, Len, Nolan, and Spencer formed the Pioneers Trio, with Slye on guitar, Nolan on string bass, and Spencer as lead vocalist. They rehearsed for weeks refining their vocal harmonies. During this time, Len connected to work with his radio singing group, while Spencer and Nolan began writing songs for the trio.^[6] In early 1934, the fiddle histrion Hugh Farr joined the group, adding a bass voice to their vocal arrangements. After that twelvemonth, the Pioneers Trio became the Sons of the Pioneers when a radio station announcer changed their name because he felt they were too young to be pioneers. The name was received well and fit the group, which was no longer a trio.^[half-dozen]

By summer 1934, the popularity and fame of the Sons of the Pioneers extended beyond the Los Angeles area and chop-chop spread beyond the country through short syndicated radio segments that were afterwards rebroadcast beyond the United States. The Sons of the Pioneers signed a recording contract with the newly founded Decca label and fabricated their offset commercial recording on August 8, 1934.^[6] One of the beginning songs recorded during that showtime session was "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", written by Bob Nolan. Over the next two years, the Sons of the Pioneers recorded 32 songs for Decca, including the classic "Cool Water".^[8]

Film career [edit]

From his first pic appearance in 1935, Len worked steadily in Western films, including a large supporting part as a singing cowboy while nevertheless billed as Leonard Slye in a Gene Autry motion-picture show. In 1938, Autry demanded more than coin for his work, and there was a contest for a new singing cowboy. Many singers sought the job, including Willie Phelps of the Phelps brothers, who appeared in early Western movies. Len concluded up winning the contest and was given the stage proper noun Roy Rogers past Republic Pictures, suggesting the western-sounding name Roy and combining information technology with the surname of the pop western comic entertainer Will Rogers. He was assigned the leading role in Under Western Stars. He became a matinee idol, a competitor with Autry every bit the nation'due south favorite singing cowboy. In addition to his own movies, he played a supporting role in the John Wayne archetype Dark Control (1940), which also featured one of his future sidekicks, George "Gabby" Hayes. He became a major box-office allure. Different other stars, the vast majority of his leading roles immune him to play a character with his own name, in the manner of Autry.^[9]

In the Move Picture Herald Acme 10 Money-Making Western Stars poll, Rogers was listed for 16 consecutive years, from 1939 to 1954, holding first place from 1943 to 1954 until the poll ceased.^[10] He appeared in the like BoxOffice poll from 1938 to 1955, holding beginning place from 1943 to 1952. In the final iii years of that poll, he was second just to Randolph Scott.^[11] These two polls are only an indication of the popularity of serial stars, but Rogers also appeared in the Meridian Ten Coin Making Stars Poll of all films in 1945 and 1946.^[12] Rogers was an idol for many children through his films and television receiver shows. Nearly of his postwar films were in Trucolor during an era when almost all other B westerns were black and white. Some of his movies would segue into brute adventures, in which his horse, Trigger, would go off on his own for a while with the photographic camera following him.

With money from Rogers' films and from his public appearances going to Republic Pictures, he brought a clause into a 1940 contract with the studio where he would have the right to his likeness, voice, and proper name for merchandising.^[13] In that location were Roy Rogers action figures, cowboy adventure novels, and playsets, as well every bit a comic strip, a long-lived Dell Comics comic book series (Roy Rogers Comics) written by Gaylord Du Bois, and a variety of marketing successes.^[14] Rogers was second only to Walt Disney in the number of items featuring his name.^[15]

The Sons of the Pioneers continued their popularity and have not stopped performing from the time Rogers started the grouping, replacing members as they retired or died (all original members are expressionless). Although he was no longer an active member, they oftentimes appeared as his backup group in films, radio, and television, and he would occasionally announced with them in performances upwardly until his death.

He met Dale Evans in 1944 when they were cast in a motion picture together. They were well known every bit advocates for adoption and as founders and operators of children'due south charities. They adopted several children. Both were outspoken Christians later on their marriage.^[xvi] Kickoff in 1949, they were function of the Hollywood Christian Group, founded past their friend, Louis Evans, Jr., the organizing pastor of Bel Air Church building.^[17] The group met in Henrietta Mears's abode and later in the home of Evans and Colleen Townsend, later on their wedlock. Billy Graham and Jane Russell were also part of this group. In 1956, the Hollywood Christian Group became Bel Air Church. In Apple Valley, California, where they fabricated their home, streets, highways, and civic buildings accept been named after them in recognition of their efforts on behalf of homeless and handicapped children. Rogers was also an active Freemason and a Shriner and was noted for his support of their charities.

Rogers and Evans' famous theme song, "Happy Trails", was written by Evans; they sang it equally a duet to sign off their television show. In fall 1962, they cohosted a one-act-Western-variety program, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, aired on ABC. It was cancelled after 3 months, losing in the ratings to The Jackie Gleason Evidence on CBS. He also made numerous cameo or invitee appearances on other popular television shows, starring every bit himself or other cowboy-blazon characters, such equally in an episode of Wonder Adult female called "The Bushwackers".^[18] Rogers owned a Hollywood production company, which produced his own series. It besides filmed other undertakings, including the 1955–1956 CBS Western series Brave Eagle, starring Keith Larsen as a young, peaceful Cheyenne chief, Kim Winona as Morn Star, his romantic interest, and the Hopi Indian Anthony Numkena as Keena, Brave Hawkeye's foster son. In 1968, Rogers licensed his proper name to the Marriott Corporation, which converted its Hot Shoppes restaurants into Roy Rogers Restaurants, with which he otherwise had no involvement. Rogers owned a thoroughbred racehorse named Triggairo, that won 13 career races, including the 1975 El Encino Stakes at Santa Anita Park.^[19] Rogers returned to Lubbock in 1970 to headline the Texas Tech University Intercollegiate Rodeo with Evans. In 1975, his last motion pic, Macintosh and T.J. was filmed at the 6666 Ranch in King County, 90 miles due east of Lubbock and nearly the O- Bar-O Ranch in Kent County.^[four]

Personal life [edit]

In 1932, a palomino colt foaled in California was named "Golden Cloud"; when Rogers acquired him, he renamed him Trigger. In 1932, Rogers met an admirer named Lucile Ascolese. They were married in 1933 by a justice of the peace in Los Angeles; the matrimony failed, and the couple divorced in 1936.^[20] Rogers then went on tour with the O-Bar-O Cowboys and in June 1933 met Grace Arline Wilkins at a Roswell, New United mexican states radio station. They were married in Roswell on June 11, 1936, having corresponded since their starting time meeting.^[21] In 1941, the couple adopted a daughter, Cheryl Darlene. Two years later, Grace gave birth to girl Linda Lou. A son, Roy, Jr. ("Dusty"), was built-in in 1946; Grace died of complications from the nascency a few days later, on November 3.

Rogers met Dale Evans in 1944 when they were cast in a film together. They fell in dear before long after Grace's death, and Rogers proposed to her during a rodeo at Chicago Stadium. They married on New Year's Eve in 1947 at the Flying Fifty Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, where they had filmed Abode in Oklahoma a few months before. Together they had five children: Robin Elizabeth, who had Down syndrome and died of complications with mumps shortly before her second altogether; 3 adopted daughters, Mimi, Dodie, and Debbie; and one adopted son, Sandy.^{[ citation needed ]} Evans wrote about the loss of their daughter Robin in her book Angel Unaware. Rogers and Evans remained married until his expiry.^[21]

In 1955, Rogers and Evans purchased a 168-acre (68 ha) ranch near Chatsworth, California, complete with a hilltop ranch business firm,^[22] expanding information technology to 300 acres (121 ha).^{[23] [24]} After their girl Debbie was killed in a church jitney accident in 1964, they moved to the 67-acre (27 ha) Double R Bar Ranch in Apple Valley, California, living in the nearby town.^{[25] [26]}

Rogers was a Freemason and a fellow member of Hollywood (California) Gild No. 355, the Scottish Rite Valley of Los Angeles, and Al Malaikah Shrine Temple.^[27] He was as well a pilot and the possessor of a Cessna Bobcat.^[28]

Rogers supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Us presidential election.^[29]

Death [edit]

Rogers died of congestive heart failure on July 6, 1998, in Apple Valley, California. He was buried at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, as was his married woman Dale Evans three years later.^{[30] [31] [32]}

Honors and awards [edit]

On February 8, 1960, Rogers was honored with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Motion Pictures at 1752 Vine Street, for Television at 1620 Vine Street, and for Radio at 1733 Vine Street.^[33] In 1983 he was awarded the Golden Kicking Award,^[34] and in 1996 he received the Golden Kicking Founder'due south Honour.^[34]

In 1967, Rogers, with Choctaw blood on his mother'south side, was named outstanding Indian citizen of the year by a grouping of Western tribes.^[32]

In 1976, Rogers and Evans were inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and in 1995 he was inducted once more as a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers.^[35]

Rogers received recognition from the Land of Arkansas, appointed past the governor of that country with an Arkansas Traveler document.^[36]

Rogers was as well twice elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, beginning every bit a member of the Sons of the Pioneers in 1980, and over again as a soloist in 1988. As of July 2013, he was the only person elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame twice.^[37] In 2001, a Aureate Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him and Dale Evans.^[38]

Rogers' cultural influence is reflected in numerous songs, including "If I Had a Gunkhole" past Lyle Lovett, "Roy Rogers" by Elton John on his 1973 album Goodbye Yellowish Brick Route, and "Should've Been a Cowboy" by Toby Keith. Rogers himself makes an appearance in the music video for the vocal "Heroes and Friends" by Randy Travis. Rogers is referenced in numerous films, including Dice Hard (1988) in which the Bruce Willis character John McClane used the pseudonym "Roy" and remarks, "I was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually." In the television series American Dad!, the character Roger uses "Roy Rogers" as a pseudonym in the episode "Roy Rogers McFreely". In the movie City Slickers, the Jack Palance character Curly, sings the song "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" while the Billy Crystal character Mitch is playing the harmonica.

Filmography [edit]

• Slightly Static (1935) every bit fellow member of Sons of the Pioneers (uncredited) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Old Homestead (1935) every bit Len, member of Sons of the Pioneers (credited every bit Len Slye)
• Way Up Thar (1935) as band member (credited as Len Slye)
• Gallant Defender (1935) as guitar-playing Nester (uncredited)
• The Mysterious Avenger (1936) as musician Len (credited as Len Slye)
• Song of the Saddle (1936) as guitarist with Sons of the Pioneers (uncredited) ^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Rhythm on the Range (1936) every bit Leonard with Sons of the Pioneers (uncredited) ^{[ commendation needed ]}
• California Mail (1936) as square trip the light fantastic toe caller (uncredited) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Big Show (1936) as guitarist with Sons of the Pioneers (uncredited) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Old Corral (1936) as Buck O'Keefe (uncredited)
• The Old Wyoming Trail (1937) as guitar role player, singer, cowhand Len (uncredited)
• Wild Equus caballus Rodeo (1937) as singer (credited as Dick Weston)
• The Old Befouled Dance (1938) as singer (credited as Dick Weston)
• Under Western Stars (1938) equally himself
• Baton the Kid Returns (1938) as Roy Rogers and Billy the Child
• A Feud At that place Was (1938) as Elmer Fudd, peacemaker (Egghead) (singing vox, uncredited) ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Come On, Rangers (1938) every bit himself
• Shine On, Harvest Moon (1938) as himself
• Crude Riders' Round-up (1939) as himself
• Southward Ho (1939) every bit Roy
• Frontier Pony Express (1939) as Roy Rogers, Pony Express passenger
• In Old Caliente (1939) as himself
• Wall Street Cowboy (1939) as himself
• The Arizona Child (1939) as himself
• Jeepers Creepers (1939) as Sheriff Roy Rogers
• Saga of Death Valley (1939) equally himself
• Days of Jesse James (1939) as himself
• Nighttime Control (1940) as Fletch McCloud
• Immature Buffalo Bill (1940) as Neb Cody
• The Carson Metropolis Child (1940) as Carson City Child
• The Ranger and the Lady (1940) every bit Texas Ranger Helm Roy Colt
• Colorado (1940) as Lieutenant Jerry Shush
• Young Bill Hickok (1940) equally Bill Hickok
• The Border Legion (1940) equally Dr. Stephen Kellogg, aka Steve Kells
• Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941) every bit Vance Corbin
• Arkansas Approximate (1941) as Tom Martel
• In Old Cheyenne (1941) as Steve Blane
• Sheriff of Tombstone (1941) as Brett Starr
• Nevada City (1941) as Jeff Connors
• Bad Man of Deadwood (1941) as Brett Starr aka Bill Brady
• Jesse James at Bay (1941) as Jesse James and Clint Burns
• Red River Valley (1941) as himself
• Man from Cheyenne (1942) as himself
• S of Santa Fe (1942) as himself
• Sunset on the Desert (1942) equally Roy Rogers and Nib Sloan
• Romance on the Range (1942) as himself
• Sons of the Pioneers (1942) as himself
• Sunset Serenade (1942) as himself
• Heart of the Golden West (1942) every bit himself
• Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942) as himself
• Idaho (1943) as himself
• King of the Cowboys (1943) as himself
• Vocal of Texas (1943) every bit himself
• Silver Spurs (1943) as himself
• The Man from Music Mount (1943) as himself
• Easily Across the Border (1944) as himself
• Cowboy and the Senorita (1944) equally himself
• The Xanthous Rose of Texas (1944) as himself
• Song of Nevada (1944) as himself
• San Fernando Valley (1944) equally himself
• Lights of Onetime Santa Fe (1944) as himself
• Brazil (1944) as himself
• Hollywood Canteen (1944) equally himself
• Lake Placid Serenade (1944) as himself
• Utah (1945) as himself
• Bells of Rosarita (1945) equally himself
• The Man from Oklahoma (1945) as himself
• Along the Navajo Trail (1945) as himself
• Sunset in El Dorado (1945) as himself
• Don't Fence Me In (1945) as himself
• Song of Arizona (1946) as himself
• Rainbow Over Texas (1946) every bit himself
• My Pal Trigger (1946) as himself
• Under Nevada Skies (1946) as himself
• Whorl on Texas Moon (1946) as himself
• Habitation in Oklahoma (1946) as himself
• Out California Way (1946) as himself
• Heldorado (1946) as Nevada Country Ranger Roy Rogers
• Apache Rose (1947) as himself
• Hit Parade of 1947 (1947) as himself
• Bells of San Angelo (1947) as himself
• Springtime in the Sierras (1947) equally himself
• On the Old Spanish Trail (1947) as himself
• The Gay Ranchero (1948) equally himself
• Under California Stars (1948) as himself
• Melody Fourth dimension (1948) as himself
• Eyes of Texas (1948) as himself
• Night Time in Nevada (1948) every bit himself
• Grand Canyon Trail (1948) equally himself
• The Far Borderland (1948) as himself
• Susanna Pass (1949) every bit himself
• Down Dakota Way (1949) every bit himself
• The Golden Stallion (1949) every bit himself
• Bells of Coronado (1950) as himself
• Twilight in the Sierras (1950) as Land Parole Officer Roy Rogers
• Trigger, Jr. (1950) as himself
• Sunset in the West (1950) as himself
• North of the Corking Divide (1950) as himself
• Trail of Robin Hood (1950) as himself
• Spoilers of the Plains (1951) as himself
• Heart of the Rockies (1951) as himself
• In Former Amarillo (1951) equally himself
• South of Caliente (1951) equally himself
• Pals of the Golden West (1951) every bit Edge Patrolman Roy Rogers
• Son of Paleface (1952) equally Roy Barton
• Alias Jesse James (1959) equally himself (uncredited)
• Mackintosh and T.J. (1975) as Mackintosh
• Wonder Woman (1977) equally J.P. Hadley, season i, episode 12
• The Muppet Testify (1979) as himself
• The Fall Guy (1983 and 1984) as himself

Box office ranking [edit]

For a number of years exhibitors voted Rogers among the most popular stars in the country:

• 1942 – 2nd virtually popular Western star (post-obit Gene Autry)^[39]
• 1943 – about popular Western star
• 1944 – 24th near popular star in the U.Southward.; most pop Western star^[40]
• 1945 – nigh popular Western star;^[41] tenth most popular star^[42]
• 1946 – 10th nigh popular star in the The states; most popular Western star
• 1947 – 12th about pop star in the US; virtually pop Western star
• 1948 – 17th nigh popular star in the US; most popular Western star^[43]
• 1949 – 18th most popular star in the Us; most pop Western star
• 1950 – 19th (US);^[44] virtually pop Western star
• 1951 – most popular Western star
• 1952 – almost popular Western star (for the 10th year in a row)^[45]

Discography [edit]

Charted albums [edit]

Yr	Championship	Chart acme		Label
		United states Country	US
1970	The Country Side of Roy Rogers	forty	—	Capitol
1971	A Homo from Duck Run	34	—
1975	Happy Trails to Yous	35	—	20th Century
1991	Tribute	17	113	RCA

Charted singles [edit]

Year	Championship	Chart peak		Album
		Us Country	CAN Country
1946	"A Picayune White Cross on the Hill"	vii	—	Singles only
1947	"My Chickashay Gal"	4	—
1948	"Blueish Shadows on the Trail" (Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers)	6	—
	"(There'll Never Exist Another) Pecos Bill" (Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers)	13	—
1950	"Stampede"	viii	—
1970	"Money Can't Buy Love"	35	—	The Land Side of Roy Rogers
1971	"Lovenworth"	12	33	A Man from Duck Run
	"Happy Anniversary"	47	—
1972	"These Are the Practiced Sometime Days"	73	—	Single only
1974	"Hoppy, Gene and Me"A	15	12	Happy Trails to You lot
1980	"Ride Concrete Cowboy, Ride" (Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers)	fourscore	—	Smokey & the Bandit II (soundtrack)
1991	"Agree on Partner" (w/ Clint Black)	42	48	Tribute

• ^A"Hoppy, Gene and Me" also peaked at number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100^[46] and number 38 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in Canada.

Music videos [edit]

Year	Championship	Director
1991	"Hold on Partner" (with Clint Blackness)	Jack Cole

Popular songs recorded by Rogers [edit]

Publicity photo of Rogers and Trigger

• "Don't Contend Me In"
• "Concur That Critter Down"
• "Little White Cross on the Colina"
• "One More than Ride"
• "Ride Ranger Ride"
• "That Pioneer Mother of Mine"
• "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
• "Way Out In that location" (singing and yodeling)
• "Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave Wyoming?"
• "Concur On Partner" (duet with Clint Black)
• "Happy Trails"
• "The Bible Tells Me And so"

See also [edit]

• Dale Evans
• Trigger (horse)
• Buttermilk (horse)
• Smiley Burnette
• Pat Brady
• Andy Devine
• George "Gabby" Hayes
• Roy Rogers Restaurants
• Roy Rogers cocktail
• Earl W. Bascom, cowboy creative person who worked with Rogers

References [edit]

Notes

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4. ^ ^{a b c} Chuck Lanehart (March ix, 2019). "Caprock Chronicles: The King of the Cowboys: Roy Rogers' Hungry Life on the Llano Estacado". Lubbock Avalanche-Periodical . Retrieved March 9, 2019.
5. ^ Green, p. 74.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} "Sons of the Pioneers". Country Music Television. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
7. ^ Green, p. 75.
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13. ^ Phillips, p. 38.
14. ^ Schelly, William (2013). American Comic Volume Chronicles: The 1950s. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 50. ISBN9781605490540.
15. ^ Enss and Kazanjian, p. 132.
16. ^ Miller Davis, Elise (1955). The Respond Is God . New York: McGraw-Loma. pp. 104–112. LCCN 55009539.
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20. ^ O'Neal, Pecker; Goodwin, Fred (2001). The Sons of the Pioneers. Ft. Worth, Texas: Eakin Press. p. 10.
21. ^ ^{a b} Phillips, pp. 13–15.
22. ^ "Roy Rogers' 'Happy Trails' led to San Fernando Valley's Chatsworth". November v, 2011.
23. ^ WILLMAN, MARTHA 50. (July 7, 1998). "Rogers' House a Chatsworth Landmark" – via LA Times.
24. ^ "A drifting cowboy: Double R Bar Ranch – Roy Rogers' Chatsworth Home". A-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com. February five, 2012.
25. ^ "Roy Rogers' Ranch Sold at Auction". July 17, 2012.
26. ^ Beale, Lauren (April xv, 2019). "Fourth dimension to round upwardly a buyer for Roy Rogers' former ranch in Victorville". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved Apr 16, 2019.
27. ^ "Famous Masons". MWGLNY. January 2014. Archived from the original on November x, 2013.
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External links [edit]

Wikimedia Eatables has media related to Roy Rogers.

• Official website
• Roy Rogers at IMDb
• Annual Roy Rogers Festival
• Roy Rogers comic books
• Profile at Turner Classic Movies
• Roy Rogers at the Internet Broadway Database
• Land Music Hall of Fame
• "Cinchset" Roy Rogers Prove filming at the Gilded Oak Ranch
• Roy Rogers at Find a Grave

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