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A musician and actor whose often sordid private life tended to overshadow his career as an entertainer, Spade Cooley was the self-proclaimed King of Western Swing, an innovator who at his peak led the largest band ever assembled in the annals of country music. The product of a multi-generational family of fiddle players, Donnell Clyde Cooley was born in Oklahoma in 1910, and at the age of four ...
7. Nov. 2017 · Jarvis called Spade “The King of Western Swing.” The promoter of Spade’s concerts at the Aragon Ballroom jumped on this and was soon using “Western Swing” in advertisements for his shows. But Bob Wills was playing Western Swing before an 18 year old Spade Cooley had even moved to California. It might have taken a while longer for ...
8. Sept. 2023 · Watch on. Boy Golden dances with the darker side of country music history on “King of Western Swing,” a detail-driven story song about fame, fortune and fiddles, the story of one Spade Cooley. Inspired by Tyler Mahan Coe’s “Cocaine & Rhinestones” research and podcast episode on the subject, Boy Golden presents his “King of Western ...
10. März 2017 · Credited here as King of Western Swing, Spade Cooley got that name in the mid '40s thanks to his promoter. In fact in 1945 there was a film short about him called Spade Cooley: King of Western Swing. 16 years later he had destroyed that name as thoroughly as anyone could. Suffice it to say, he suddenly didn't have a wife and it landed him in ...
Spade Cooley. Violinist and cellist, singer, actor, composer and songwriter ("Shame On You"), conductor, arranger and inventor who popularized western swing music on film and recordings, in person and on radio and television. When Spade was four, he and his parents John and Emma Cooley moved to Oregon where he studied classical violin and cello ...
22. Okt. 2023 · The King of Western Swing lyrics. Spade Cooley got raised down in Oklahoma. Fiddle in his hand, good ole country boy persona. In the dirty Dust Bowl, he moved to California. A young Okie boy, natural born performer. The man was an ace with a face you could trust. Fiddlin’ his was out of the dirty bowl dust.
Weitere Filme folgten auch hier, darunter die dokumentarischen Kurzfilme Spade Cooley, King of Western Swing (1945) und Spade Cooley and His Orchestra (1949). Allerdings konzentrierten sich alle der genannten hauptsächlich auf ihre Karrieren als Musiker. Die einzige Künstlerin aus dem Bereich des Western Swing mit einer Filmkarriere war ...
