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Ken Curtis as Festus Haggen and James Arness as Matt Dillon, 1968. Curtis was a singer before moving into acting, and combined both careers once he entered films. [6] Curtis was with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941, and succeeded Frank Sinatra as vocalist until Dick Haymes contractually replaced Sinatra in 1942.
Three verses to this song were sung by Ken Curtis and The Sons of the Pioneers in the 1950 John Ford movie Rio Grande, [2] though the film was set in the 19th-century Wild West. Richard Dyer-Bennet recorded the song on his first self produced LP Richard Dyer-Bennet 1, (1955).
The group was careful to program a variety of choral music, including cowboy songs, barbershop harmony, sentimental ballads, and spirituals, to appeal to the widest possible audience. The personnel were Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Lloyd Perryman, Pat Brady, Hugh "Foghorn" Farr, Karl Farr, and Ken Carson. The earliest shows include studio musician ...
In the classic Western The Searchers (1956), Ken Curtis uses the song to serenade Vera Miles. In the film, Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Pee Wee is slowly driven to distraction by an old man riding box car , who will not stop singing verse after verse of the song.
Kate Smith recorded the song on June 1, 1945 for Columbia (36871) [15] and it is available on her CD 16 Most Requested Songs. [16] Jazz trombonist J. J. Johnson recorded a version of "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" in the 1956 album J Is for Jazz. Slim Whitman had a top twenty hit in the UK with "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" in 1956.
The film contains folk songs led by the Sons of the Pioneers, one of whom is Ken Curtis (Ford's son-in-law). [23] Studio president Yates insisted that the group appear in the film. Ford disliked being forced to use them, and how they appeared incongruous with cavalrymen. [24] Victor Young wrote the score.
Song of the Prairie is a 1945 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and written by J. Benton Cheney. The film stars Ken Curtis, June Storey, Andy Clyde, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Jeff Donnell, Grady Sutton and Thurston Hall.
Also performed by the Sons of the Pioneers featuring Ken Curtis in the movie Rio Grande (1950). The Eddy Arnold version of the song was heard in the 1997 movie Private Parts during the scene when Howard Stern , whose station "W4" in Detroit had just changed formats from rock to country, abruptly resigned on the air telling listeners he didn't ...