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44 Years Ago Today, Country Music Said Goodbye to One of Its Last Surviving “Singing Cowboys” Turned Comic Book Star
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44 Years Ago Today, Country Music Said Goodbye to One of Its Last Surviving “Singing Cowboys” Turned Comic Book Star
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Jimmy Wakely Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images On this day (September 23) in 1982, Jimmy Wakely died at age 68 of heart failure in Mission Hills, California. One of the leading “singing cowboys” of the 1940s and 1950s, he kicked off his decades-long career on an Oklahoma-based radio station before heading to Hollywood. Carving out a niche at the intersection of film and country music, Wakely appeared …
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