There are no words to describe what a wonderful "hero" he was and STILL IS!! When I think of the word 'hero', I think of Roy!! We need his kind SOOO much today!!
Roy Rogers was one of my favorite Heros growing up and still is today. Great singer, great actor, and great man. The "King Of The Cowboys" was very deserving of his title. He showed several decades of young boys how to be a good man. The good ole' USA owes Roy Rogers a great debt of gratitude for helping bring up a whole generation of young boys that turned out to be much better men, just by having him as an example..
GREAT STUFF. ROY ROGERS WAS ONE OF MY GREATEST HEROS GROWING UP. HE ALWAYS STOOD UP FOR WHAT WAS RIGHT AND ALWAYS WANTED ALL THE KIDS TO HAVE A GREAT EXAMPLE SO THEY COULD GROW UP TO BE UPSTANDING ADULTS. HE TRUELY MADE THIS EARTH A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE ON. AND I LOVED BARBARA MANDREL SINGING "I WAS COUNTRY WHEN COUNTRY WAS'NT COOL". AND NOBODY COULD YODEL AND HARMONIZE ANY BETTER THAT THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS.
I am about to turn 78 and great memories remain of my early saturday matinee films in the 1940's where Gene Autry Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy were always the good guys who overcame evil - simple themes but far more uplifting than some of the films and music today - they made you feel it was a good thing to stand up for whats right and had a formatting effect on young boys of my time
+Len Greenhall Glad to know this nostalgia, isn't just me. Watched Barbara Mandrell and He-Haw with Grandad, for years. Too bad everyone is leaving on a new journey. God bless you Sir!
I still have my little milk-water Hopalong Cassidy mug! I remember those matinees. They cost 5 cents. They'd leave us hanging to hope that the hero got out of that impossible situation he was in.
You tube is great.Where else can you see Roy Rogers (one of my childhood heroes) When I was a kid,one of my greatest memories was attending one of his Rodeo appearances in the old Madison Square Garden in NYC. Thanks for this
RR was in his 80's here and notice his voice is crystal clear, he's not carrying a big belly and his back is straight as a ramrod--there's a true hero folks! You can't fake a performance like this--he made it look easy
You can still hear this style of music Roy Rogers jr and Roys grandson Dustin(Linda and I have met them)still sing daily at the RFD Theater in Branson. The Sons of the Pioneers sing daily at the Shepard of the Hills in Branson. This year it will their 80th anniversary. No band in history has ever been together this long. Roy Rogers started the Pioneers in 1932. Earl and Linda Butenhoff Owatonna, Mn
What a treat ! Thanks for posting this. I have a CD, "Roy Rogers and Friends," where some of the country stars from about 15 or 20 years ago join him to sing some of Roy's greatest hit songs. Every one is a gem. I also have 2 CDs by the Sons of the Pioneers (more great stuff).
When I was a young boy my grandmother had a wind up Victrola and one of our favourite records was Cool Water by the Sons of the Pioneers. A few years later Saturday was cowboys on tv and I found out that Roy was one of those guys I had heard on record.
roy formed sons of the Pioneers...when he started movies they made him give up the singing group.....one of the originial members was ken curtis, aka ,,festis hagin
I'm 24 and proud to say Roy and dale and every yodeler ever recorded are my hero's . Forget the stuff people play today ( Blake Shelton being an exception.) Love this and yodelin Yodelin Jann cash
Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys. As a youngster I wrote to him for a signed photo, and got one! Apart from Roy, there was Dale, Trigger, and a German Shepherd (that's a dog) whose name escapes me. Wish I'd kept it. (UK)
En mi niñez fue el héroe del oeste, que bonito lo pasábamos imitando a nuestro héroe Roy Rogers, todo se perdió para las nuevas generaciones, así es la vida
Bom demais, musicas que faziam parte de filmes de bang-bang, como é conhecido no Brasil e Paises vizinhos. Sou um apreciador destes filmes pois fizeram parte da minha infância crescida, etc., maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
If anyone could produce harmonized western yodeling it would be the Sonsof The Pioneers. But, I need an SOP historian to be sure that is in fact what they are doing in this clip.
My apologies. I can't recall were I got the info that said it was 1978. Maybe from another site. But if it this was in 1981 then Roy is 70 here. Regardless he was still spry for that age.
"Way Out There." Hey, what do you know; a Bob Nolan song (one of the founders of the Sons of the Pioneers from back in the 1930s). I'd say respectfully "rest in peace," Mr. Nolan, but you're probably busy entertaining the angels of Heaven.
Millie Jackson sung this so much better when she sang on her LP "lil bit country" in the early 1980's. And she had such a wonderful sense of humour too! Enjoy folks.
I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG VERY MUCH, AS I'VE HEARD SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFULLY HARMONIC RECORDINGS FROM THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS ( "CATTLE CALL" PERHAPS? NOT THE ONE THAT USES EXTRAS --THE MUSICAL ONE) -THIS ONE GOES BY SO FAST IT'S LIKE A "RUSH JOB ON A BLUE GRASS', BUT I SURE DID LIKE HAL SOUTHERN; HE LET ME DO SOME OVERDUBBING AT HIS FRIEND'S STUIDO, I THINK COBRA RECORDS, UP ON LANKERSHAM BLVD YEARS AGO; AND WAS SO HELPFUL (AND ANONONYMOS TOO?!) TO SO MANY OTHER MUSICIANS! ROY AND CLIFFIE STONE WERE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS, BACK WHEN BYRON WALLS WAS WORKING WITH TAD MALONEY, AT ASCAP, AND REFERRING ME TO PUBLISHERS. THEY WANTED THE SONG "BEAUTY IS AS BEAUTY DOES" TO PRESENT TO ROY AND DALE , BUT I COULD NEVER GET A REPLY FROM "DUSTY" THAT MADE ANY SENSE. WELL, IT'S A CHILDREN'S MUSICAL NOW---SO THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THIS MUST BE, JUST KEEP WRITING---GOOD BAD OR INDIFERENT-JUST KEEP WRITING ? SEND THAT TO CHRIS STONE-HE REMEMBERS THE NIGHT OUR PATHS CROSSED, AS MY PERFORMANCE AT THE PALOMINO CLUB CAUGHT HIS EAR, AND SHOOK HANDS WITH MY DATE, JOE LILES, AND HE SAID TO ME"ROUGH BUSINESS FOR A LADY, LYNDA'., I ANSWERED , "GOOD THING IT'S JUST MY HOBBY, RIGHT ? TWENTY YEARS LATER THIS GUY IN NASHVILLE -SCOTTY TURNER---WHO TAUGHT SONG-WRITING, WHOM, WHEN HE MAILED ME A CASSETTE TAPE OF HIS ADVICE, HE REMARKED, THAT (SINCE I LIVED ON EVELYN WAY, IN RENO, NV) HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS EVELYN---TRIED TO ENCOURAGE ME TO ENTER A FEMALE SONGWRITER'S GROUP IN NASHVILLE THAT WAS ASSEMBLING; HE ALSO SAID HE TRIED TO ESTABLISH THE AUDY MURPHY MUSEUM; HIS DREAM, HE SAID; THEN SAID CHRIS STONE, WAS MARRIED TO HIS DAUGHTER ?! SMALL WORLD OR MISTAKES IN TRANSCRIBING, RIGHT JOE?
This was done live on tv, not the way to make the most perfect recording. Also, Roy was the last of the original Pioneers, the originals were far superior to the later versions. "Way Out There" is a fast tempo song.
Where is this MUSIC today. I grew up with this MUSIC. Sure miss it.
I loved watching Roy Rogers on TV when I was young.
There are no words to describe what a wonderful "hero" he was and STILL IS!! When I think of the word 'hero', I think of Roy!! We need his kind SOOO much today!!
Now this is music memories are made of
Roy Rogers was one of my favorite Heros growing up and still is today. Great singer, great actor, and great man. The "King Of The Cowboys" was very deserving of his title. He showed several decades of young boys how to be a good man. The good ole' USA owes Roy Rogers a great debt of gratitude for helping bring up a whole generation of young boys that turned out to be much better men, just by having him as an example..
The Sons of the Pioneers were a hugely under-rated harmony group.
Musicality was amazing
Man! What a 'Sound' those 'Pioneers' could make. They kept up the tradtion.
GREAT STUFF. ROY ROGERS WAS ONE OF MY GREATEST HEROS GROWING UP. HE ALWAYS STOOD UP FOR WHAT WAS RIGHT AND ALWAYS WANTED ALL THE KIDS TO HAVE A GREAT EXAMPLE SO THEY COULD GROW UP TO BE UPSTANDING ADULTS. HE TRUELY MADE THIS EARTH A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE ON. AND I LOVED BARBARA MANDREL SINGING "I WAS COUNTRY WHEN COUNTRY WAS'NT COOL". AND NOBODY COULD YODEL AND HARMONIZE ANY BETTER THAT THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS.
I am about to turn 78 and great memories remain of my early saturday matinee films in the 1940's where Gene Autry Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy were always the good guys who overcame evil - simple themes but far more uplifting than some of the films and music today - they made you feel it was a good thing to stand up for whats right and had a formatting effect on young boys of my time
+Len Greenhall Glad to know this nostalgia, isn't just me. Watched Barbara Mandrell and He-Haw with Grandad, for years. Too bad everyone is leaving on a new journey. God bless you Sir!
I still have my little milk-water Hopalong Cassidy mug! I remember those matinees. They cost 5 cents. They'd leave us hanging to hope that the hero got out of that impossible situation he was in.
American pop culture from the good old days. The American west and how entertainment made it so wonderfully homespun and friendly. I miss those days.
Nobody could yodel like Roy what a hole he left in western entertainment, as well as good American lifestyle
Roy, Gene, and Hoppy were my heroes. Honorable men who set positive examples for us children. Shame there are no such men for our grandchildren.
I still have my little Hopalong Cassidy mug.
You tube is great.Where else can you see Roy Rogers (one of my childhood heroes) When I was a kid,one of my greatest memories was attending one of his Rodeo appearances in the old Madison Square Garden in NYC. Thanks for this
RR was in his 80's here and notice his voice is crystal clear, he's not carrying a big belly and his back is straight as a ramrod--there's a true hero folks! You can't fake a performance like this--he made it look easy
wow its hard to believe my grampa is in the sons of the pioneers hes the one on acoustic guitar
Roy and Dale, were great and good folks.
Sons of the pioneers
You can still hear this style of music Roy Rogers jr and Roys grandson Dustin(Linda and I have met them)still sing daily at the RFD Theater in Branson. The Sons of the Pioneers sing daily at the Shepard of the Hills in Branson. This year it will their 80th anniversary. No band in history has ever been together this long. Roy Rogers started the Pioneers in 1932. Earl and Linda Butenhoff Owatonna, Mn
Dusty , Roy Jr ! now leads the 2020 > "" Sons of the Pioneers
Brings back lots of great memories.
Completely Awesome...
Such a shame there aren't Heros like these guys for kids to look up to these days ..
Nice post!
yep can;t say enough these were good folks now let me dry my eyes. tyvm for posting...........
What a treat ! Thanks for posting this. I have a CD, "Roy Rogers and Friends," where some of the country stars from about 15 or 20 years ago join him to sing some of Roy's greatest hit songs. Every one is a gem. I also have 2 CDs by the Sons of the Pioneers (more great stuff).
Roy yodeling while the Mandrells sing sister harmony (Dale also sings with them )is on the CMT site. The song is "Texas Plains".
When I was a young boy my grandmother had a wind up Victrola and one of our favourite records was Cool Water by the Sons of the Pioneers. A few years later Saturday was cowboys on tv and I found out that Roy was one of those guys I had heard on record.
roy formed sons of the Pioneers...when he started movies they made him give up the singing group.....one of the originial members was ken curtis, aka ,,festis hagin
Curtis wasn't an original member. He joined in 1949 as lead vocalist and stayed through 52. The group was formed in 1933 before Roy was Roy.
Cave Lion: Bob Nolan founded the Sons of the Pioneers, and he was really handsome, talented, but I guess shy.
I'm 24 and proud to say Roy and dale and every yodeler ever recorded are my hero's . Forget the stuff people play today ( Blake Shelton being an exception.)
Love this and yodelin
Yodelin Jann cash
LP moo mymydadwasonen when it started¡
They were great. 'Loved the yodeling!
very good i loved
Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboys. As a youngster I wrote to him for a signed photo, and got one! Apart from Roy, there was Dale, Trigger, and a German Shepherd (that's a dog) whose name escapes me. Wish I'd kept it. (UK)
Roy’s dog’s name was Bullet.
When I was a kid I sent in Kellogg’s box tops for Roy Rogers merch. I thought Roy’s ranch was in Battle Creek Mich.
Great singers- I’ve loved them a long time.
En mi niñez fue el héroe del oeste, que bonito lo pasábamos imitando a nuestro héroe Roy Rogers, todo se perdió para las nuevas generaciones, así es la vida
Miss this guy.
I agree, AWESOME!!!!
A truly decent man!!
Bom demais, musicas que faziam parte de filmes de bang-bang, como é conhecido no Brasil e Paises vizinhos. Sou um apreciador destes filmes pois fizeram parte da minha infância crescida, etc., maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
Right!! Nov. 5th, 1911, is his birth! What a day to treasure!
Good memories
love it
I’ll hop up on my pony and I’ll ride away, down the trail to San Antone!
Glad to know they a re still in Branson.When they closed the museum..I didn't know. if anything was still being done.
Great people and entertainment
Wasn't actor Ken Curtis (Festus on Gunsmoke) one of the Sons Of the Pioneers?
LEAD VOCALIST with The Sons of the Pioneers in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon !
Yes, he was.
If anyone could produce harmonized western yodeling it would be the Sonsof The Pioneers. But, I need an SOP historian to be sure that is in fact what they are doing in this clip.
My apologies. I can't recall were I got the info that said it was 1978. Maybe from another site. But if it this was in 1981 then Roy is 70 here. Regardless he was still spry for that age.
"Way Out There." Hey, what do you know; a Bob Nolan song (one of the founders of the Sons of the Pioneers from back in the 1930s). I'd say respectfully "rest in peace," Mr. Nolan, but you're probably busy entertaining the angels of Heaven.
mine too
According to IMDB, you are mistaken. The Mandrell show was on from 1980 to 1982, and Roy was on two shows in 1981, sez IMDB.
Roy is 67 here. This is 1978.
Millie Jackson sung this so much better when she sang on her LP "lil bit country" in the early 1980's. And she had such a wonderful sense of humour too!
Enjoy folks.
WESTERN music
Has anyone ever noticed that Superman, as he first appeared by Siegel and Schuster, looks an awful lot like Roy, facially?
i swear to god my wife loved roy rogers so much,it was him she was thinkin of when in bed with me..
I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG VERY MUCH, AS I'VE HEARD SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFULLY HARMONIC RECORDINGS FROM THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS ( "CATTLE CALL" PERHAPS? NOT THE ONE THAT USES EXTRAS --THE MUSICAL ONE) -THIS ONE GOES BY SO FAST IT'S LIKE A "RUSH JOB ON A BLUE GRASS', BUT I SURE DID LIKE HAL SOUTHERN; HE LET ME DO SOME OVERDUBBING AT HIS FRIEND'S STUIDO, I THINK COBRA RECORDS, UP ON LANKERSHAM BLVD YEARS AGO; AND WAS SO HELPFUL (AND ANONONYMOS TOO?!) TO SO MANY OTHER MUSICIANS! ROY AND CLIFFIE STONE WERE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS, BACK WHEN BYRON WALLS WAS WORKING WITH TAD MALONEY, AT ASCAP, AND REFERRING ME TO PUBLISHERS. THEY WANTED THE SONG "BEAUTY IS AS BEAUTY DOES" TO PRESENT TO ROY AND DALE , BUT I COULD NEVER GET A REPLY FROM "DUSTY" THAT MADE ANY SENSE. WELL, IT'S A CHILDREN'S MUSICAL NOW---SO THE ANSWER TO ALL OF THIS MUST BE, JUST KEEP WRITING---GOOD BAD OR INDIFERENT-JUST KEEP WRITING ? SEND THAT TO CHRIS STONE-HE REMEMBERS THE NIGHT OUR PATHS CROSSED, AS MY PERFORMANCE AT THE PALOMINO CLUB CAUGHT HIS EAR, AND SHOOK HANDS WITH MY DATE, JOE LILES, AND HE SAID TO ME"ROUGH BUSINESS FOR A LADY, LYNDA'., I ANSWERED , "GOOD THING IT'S JUST MY HOBBY, RIGHT ? TWENTY YEARS LATER THIS GUY IN NASHVILLE -SCOTTY TURNER---WHO TAUGHT SONG-WRITING, WHOM, WHEN HE MAILED ME A CASSETTE TAPE OF HIS ADVICE, HE REMARKED, THAT (SINCE I LIVED ON EVELYN WAY, IN RENO, NV) HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS EVELYN---TRIED TO ENCOURAGE ME TO ENTER A FEMALE SONGWRITER'S GROUP IN NASHVILLE THAT WAS ASSEMBLING; HE ALSO SAID HE TRIED TO ESTABLISH THE AUDY MURPHY MUSEUM; HIS DREAM, HE SAID; THEN SAID CHRIS STONE, WAS MARRIED TO HIS DAUGHTER ?! SMALL WORLD OR MISTAKES IN TRANSCRIBING, RIGHT JOE?
Lynda Faye can I please hear ray Stevens everything is beautiful
This was done live on tv, not the way to make the most perfect recording. Also, Roy was the last of the original Pioneers, the originals were far superior to the later versions. "Way Out There" is a fast tempo song.
Profanity doesn't improve the situation.