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"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a Western music song composed by Bob Nolan, a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers. Nolan wrote the song in the early 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles .
He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the finest Western songwriters of all time. [1] As an actor and singer he appeared in scores of Western films.
Tumbleweed Trails (MCA, 1980) Let's Go West Again (1981) Celebration Vol. 1 (Silver Spur, 1982) Columbia Historic Edition (Columbia, 1982) Twenty of the Best (1985) Tumbling Tumbleweeds (MCA, 1986) Good Old Country Music (RCA Camden, 1986) Cool Water – Edition 1 1945–46 (Bear Family, 1987) Teardrops in My Heart – Edition 2 1946–47 (Bear ...
They also figure prominently in “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” a song recorded by Sons of the Pioneers in the 1930s, said Brooks Hefner, professor of English at James Madison University. “That song gives one of the biggest metaphors that the tumbleweed is like the version of a drifter," Hefner said.
"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Written by Bob Nolan) "Back in Your Own Backyard" (Written by Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose and Al Jolson) "Highways are Happy Ways (When They Lead the Way to Home)" (Music by Larry Shay, lyrics by Harry Harris and Tommie Malie) "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" (Music by Robert Sauer, lyrics by Mary Hale Woolsey)
The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept ...
The record was a hit, but it wasn't until 1935, when Autry performed the song in two movies (the science-fiction/western 12-part serial The Phantom Empire in February and Tumbling Tumbleweeds in September), that sales of a Vocalion re-release [13] really took off, [14] selling a reported five million copies. [15]
Plastic bags tumbleweed by, and it feels like multiple someones are watching. Twice, a jaw-grinder with dreadful tats scuttles by murmuring, in a serious rush. Three cars go by, and a bus.