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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 ...
"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 .
“That song gives one of the biggest metaphors that the tumbleweed is like the version of a drifter," Hefner said. "The lyrics identify the singer with the drifting tumbleweed, rolling through these empty western spaces. That visual dimension of the rolling tumbleweed through desert space is so poetic.” 03/05/2024 19:59 -0500
"Cool Water" is a song written in 1936 by Bob Nolan. It is about a parched man and his mule traveling a wasteland tormented by mirages . Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as No. 3 on the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
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 ...
Rogers' show featured Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers in such fine Western favorites as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Cool Water," and "Don't Fence Me In." Much of the show was campfire banter and song, with Roy and songstress Pat Friday doing vocal solos, Perry Botkin leading the Goodyear orchestra and Verne Smith announcing. Dramatic skits were ...
Disco, denim, bell bottoms, flower power, funk and decades of fabulous music. The 1970s: What a time to be alive. For those growing up in that era, life was all about being young and wild and free.