Title: Sings the Lone Star Trail Artist: Ken Maynard Label: Bear Family Germany Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4000127168610 Genre: Country Release Date: 2009-02-15 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: GERMANY - IMPORT
In this CD, you get to hear all eight tracks recorded by Ken Maynard - Hollywood's First Singing Cowboy - in his single professional recording session for Columbia in 1930. Plus five previously unissued tracks. And you get to see dozens of photos and illustrations, including many never-seen-before photos from Ken Maynard's personal archive. And you get to read an 80-page booklet recounting Ken Maynard's life and times as a musician, Western film star, cowboy, circus rider and Wild West showman. This collection represents the entire recorded output of Ken Maynard, Hollywood's First Singing Cowboy. By the time he warbled The Lone Star Trail in Universal's 'The Wagon Master' in 1929, Ken Maynard had starred in over thirty Western films, ridden in rodeos and cowboy competitions across the country, and performed as a rider and roper with the likes of the Ringling Brothers, Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Tracks: 1.1 Fannie Moore 1.2 The Cowboy's Lament 1.3 The Lone Star Trail 1.4 Sweet Betsy from Pike 1.5 A Prisoner for Life 1.6 When the Roundup's Done This Fall 1.7 Jesse James 1.8 Home on the Range
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