Rex Allen

Rex Elvie Allen ( born December 31, 1920 in Willcox, Arizona, † 17 December 1999 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American country singer and actor who was considered one of the last " Singing Cowboys " Hollywood.

Life

Childhood and youth

Rex Allen was the child of parents Horace Allen and Faylle Clark, who owned a farm in Mud Springs Canyon. At the age of eleven he got his first guitar, later he accompanied his father, who played fiddle on the local barn dance shows. After he had successfully completed high school, he was in Phoenix, Arizona for a job at a radio station. However, shortly afterwards, he left Phoenix at about to travel with rodeo shows. But even here, Allen not found rest and after a serious injury at a rodeo he went back to the music. In 1943 he got his first job at a radio station in Trenton (New Jersey).

Career

In 1946, he began his music career at the National Barn Dance in Chicago. Since 1943, he had appeared on several radio stations, but never get permanent jobs. Shortly after the Mercury Records Allen took under contract. After several unsuccessful singles in 1949 he had reached Afraid his first hit, the number 14 in the C & W charts. In the same year he went to Hollywood, where he hosted radio programs, and soon after he was hired by Republic Pictures and his first film was produced. In 1950, the movie The Arizona Cowboy was a success, until 1954, he played in 19 different Western with. These Western described the conquest of the Wild West on the most glorified manner, and the mid-1950s was the heyday of these films gone forever. From the mid- 1950s, joined Allen to television, where he starred in 39 episodes of the series Fronzier Doctor.

In most of his films Allen sang too, and so the Sparrow 1951 Top Ten hit in the C & W charts was in The Tree Trop. 1951 Allen was changed to Decca Records, in those with Crying in the Chapel, he has experienced his greatest success in 1953. In the early 1960s he moved back to Mercury, where he in 1961 his last big hit Do not Go Near The Indians had. The song was written by the country singer Sheb Wooley. During the 1970s he was mostly narrated in several Walt Disney movies active. His eldest son, Rex Allen, Jr. was also country musicians. For his achievements as an actor, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 1983 he was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame.

Rex Allen died on 17 December 1999 at the age of 78 years when he was accidentally run over by one of its employees.

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