Al Clauser & his Okla. Outlaws
Rudy Sooter's Californians
Tx. Jim Lewis & his Lone Star Cowboys
The Rough Riders
"Skeeter" Hubbard & his Cowboys
The Prairie Ramblers
Red River Valley Boys
Pals Of The Golden West
Jack Rivers & his Boys
Scotty Harrell,The Plainsmen,& Orchette
Jimmie Newill w/ the Tx. Ramblers
Abe Lyman & his Californians

How 'bout you Jason?

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[This message was edited by Joe Casey on 01 November 2001 at 08:21 AM.]

The group "Riders In The Sky" is one of a very few that carries on this style today.

[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 01 November 2001 at 09:02 AM.]

He was born sometime around 1915-18, somewhere in the south, as his family traveled a lot. His real name, incidentally, was Rivers Lewis, and he was the half-brother of Texas Jim Lewis, another Western star to whom history has unfortunately given scant attention.

There is a long article on Texas Jim Lewis in the latest edition of Jesse Morris' Western Swing Journal. Texas Jim was born in 1909 and died in 1990 in Seattle. He had a long history in WS music, owned nightclubs, recorded a lot, had a career in Texas in the 30's, then one in New York City, also worked in Detroit with Smokey Rogers and Cactus Soldi, moved to California, owned the 87th Street Corral, went broke several times, etc. etc. etc.

I don't think Jack Rivers was as old as previously mentioned, because he was the younger brother (by at least 6 years) of Texas Jim, who was 80 when he died in 1990. At least, according to his biographer, Dennis Flannigan who interviewed Jim in 1985.

Hope this little bit helps you, Smiles.
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[This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 01 November 2001 at 09:40 AM.]

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Some of this has been answered by the others, but I'm having trouble reading them, so forgive me if I double up here. For a start most of these are Californian artists, and as Herb mentioned Jack Rivers was indeed a sideman as well as a bandleader. An interesting thing to remember about the Hollywood and CA band scene in the 1940s is that the industry had really opened up, a lot of guys who were sidemen in groups were also getting record deals, so quite often what looks like a group is really a spin-off group. Jack Rivers material would quite often be Cliffie Stone's band or evene the guys who worked with Jack Guthrie (love that guys work)... and so on.

Rudy Sooter is another sideman with a deal, while Al Clauser & his Okla. Outlaws were of course a really big Southwest group.
Tx. Jim Lewis & his Lone Star Cowboys, well Herb's spot on... imagine that Western Swing from Detroit in the 1930s), he moved around and hit SoCal around 1940, his group included Smokey Rogers who went on to work with Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and his own group atthe Bostonia Ballroom for over a decade. Etc, etc...
Jim Lewis later moved to the Northwest had a TV show, etc.

"Jimmie Newill w/ the Tx. Ramblers
Abe Lyman & his Californians"

sooter wrote some solid hillbilly songs such as "dear okie", and the cooley/noel boggs workout "lord nottingham's war dance", recorded in the 40s and possibly into the early 50s. he later got into TV and played a bartender on Gunsmoke for a while.

he spent his last years in Reno, reduced to sorting used playing card decks into suits for one of the casinos--for resale or giveaway i guess. he lived out north of town as i recall.

wasn't it clauser that first gave patti page a job?

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http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abe+lyman%22

...and a little something about Jimmie Newill..

Title: High in the saddle.
First Line:
Chorus: I'm high in the saddle, yip-ee-ky-yay, yip-ee-ky-yay
Music by: Coe, Tex, Jimmie Newill, and Dave O'Brien.
Words by: Coe, Tex, Jimmie Newill, and Dave O'Brien.
P/P/D: New York : Peer International Corporation, c1943.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1942-1944

...who apparently played with Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, and apparently the Texas Ramblers were led by others besides Prince Albert Hunt...

http://www.countysales.com/php-bin/products.php?category_id=9626&product_id=2725

....and now I see why!!! Old Prince Albert met an untimely death at the hands of a jealous husband outside a Dallas honkeytonk in 1931..musicians never change, do they...

http://www.si.edu/folkways/harry/anthnotes30.htm

[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 03 November 2001 at 04:57 PM.]

I do know they played with Gene Autry, ( I think were on a scene in a movie with him?) and Jimmy Dickens, and others back then.

I would appreciate any information I can get on that part of my fathers life.

They had a steel player, but I can't remember his name right now to safe me...

Dad didn't talk much about this.

Tom

[This message was edited by Tom Diemer on 03 November 2001 at 05:31 PM.]

http://www.wlshistory.com/

...this next section with annual "yearbooks", so to speak, may be particularly helpful as well, if you know what years your father played...

http://www.wlshistory.com/WLS30/familyalbums.htm

[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 04 November 2001 at 07:39 AM.]

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