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Okla-homey
7/21/2006, 05:57 AM
July 21, 1955 Roy Rogers Show ends

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51 years ago today, the last episode of the popular radio program The Roy Rogers Show airs. The show had been one of radio's most popular programs since its debut in 1944.

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Roy and Dale were wildly popular with kids in the 50's, lot's of them had one of these. Metal school lunchboxes are prolly not allowed anymore because they could be used to conceal a firearm;)

Rogers was born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati in 1911. He first came to Hollywood in the 1920s as a migrant fruit picker. In the early 1930s, he joined a singing group called Uncle Tom Murray's Hollywood Hillbillies, which first played on the radio in 1931. Rogers went on to sing with other similar groups, including the Sons of the Pioneers, which recorded hits like "Tumbling Tumbleweeds."

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The Sons of the Pioneers

The Sons of the Pioneers group was recruited for low-budget western films, and Rogers was soon playing bit parts for Republic Pictures, the same studio where cowboy star Gene Autry worked.

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Gene and Roy

When Autry quit over a dispute with the studio in 1937, Rogers gained more exposure. Starring with his trick horse Trigger and his frequent co-star Dale Evans, Rogers soon became one of the top 10 moneymakers in Hollywood.

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Roy and Dale Evans

Rogers also followed Autry into the radio medium, launching The Roy Rogers Show in 1944. The show, a mix of music and drama, always closed with the song "Happy Trails," which soon became known as Rogers' theme song.

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Roy annd sidekick Gabby Hayes. Gabby was a master of "authentic frontier gibberish"

After Rogers' wife died in 1946, he married Evans. In 1951, a TV version of the program debuted and ran until 1957. Rogers became one of the wealthiest men in Hollywood by diversifying his money: His empire included a TV production studio, real estate, cattle, horses, a rodeo show, and a restaurant chain.

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Roy Rogers is also reputed to have been one of the nicest guys in show business. Roy Rogers died in 1998. He's buried next to the love of his life in San Bernadino CA.

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Roy's grave. That 33 in a triangle is a Masonic symbol.

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Roy Rogers Museum in "Hillbilly Vegas" (Branson Mo)

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7/21/2006, 06:17 AM
Gabby was a master of "authentic frontier gibberish"

If I've said that once, I've said it a thousand times.

I thought the 33 was Dale giving some love to Rolling Rock.

sooner n houston
7/21/2006, 07:28 AM
Man I loved me some Roy Rogers show when I was a kid!

Also one of my best friends, growing up in Tulsa, was Gene Autry's niece.

soonerbrat
7/21/2006, 07:55 AM
Man I loved me some Roy Rogers show when I was a kid!

Also one of my best friends, growing up in Tulsa, was Gene Autry's niece.


does that need to go to the whoppers thread?