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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.
The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. [1] Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their songwriting, [2] they produced innovative recordings that have inspired many Western music performers and remained popular through the years. [3]
Ken Curtis crooned an abbreviated version of the song on the show Have Gun - Will Travel, in the episode "Love's Young Dream" (Season 4, Episode 2). [ 5 ] Bob Dylan recorded a driving rendition of the song on the 1961 "Minnesota Hotel Tape" (actually recorded in the home of Bonnie Beecher ). [ 6 ]
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.
1981, Lorraine De Selle and Zora Ulla Keslerová sing the song in Cannibal Ferox. [13] 1987, An electronic rendition of "Red River Rock" was recorded by Silicon Teens and featured in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles. [14] 1989, The song was sung in an adult contemporary style on the Shining Time Station episode "Mapping It Out".
[a] Rio Grande's supporting cast features Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Harry Carey Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen, Grant Withers, the Western singing group the Sons of the Pioneers and Stan Jones. In the film, Yorke leads a cavalry regiment at the border of Texas and Mexico.
In addition to singing, Chalamet played accompanying instruments. Guitar coach Larry Saltzman told the New York Post he began working with Chalamet in 2019, and said the actor "took to" playing ...
The "Yodelin' Ranger" Hank Snow and the Colorado singing cowboy Ken Curtis joined the Jamboree in the late 1940s as two separate acts. Snow and Curtis left within a year and Curtis went on to become a successful Hollywood actor.