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Bobby
Nolan
"I
made a working sheet of the lyrics and wrote down what I wanted to
say in the song or the picture I wanted to paint. It's just
like a libretto with a scenario. I would write a small synopsis
of what I wanted to do and go to work from there. If the tune
was suggested by the thought or any of the lyrics written, then I'd
go to work on the music. There was no set pattern with the
exception of first writing down what I wanted to say."
Said
that in the evening he would often take a long drive along the
Pacific Coast Highway, almost mesmerized by the hum of the
engine. Soon he'd find that he was hours up or down the coast,
and another song was memorized in his head.
Stated
that writing songs in the thirties and forties was both easy and
enjoyable, and that hardly a day went by that he didn't start or
complete a song. He said that when composing, it was the words
that came first.
Birth
Name: Robert Clarence Nobles
Induction
Year: 1971
Date
of Birth: 4/1/1908
Date
of Death: 6/15/1980
Place
of Birth: New Brunswick, Canada
Place
of Death: Studio City, CA |
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Former Occupations:
lifeguard
caddie |
Education:
Collgeg
- University of Arizona |
Career Milestones:
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1927--traveled
the country hopping trains; wrote first song around this time,
"Way Out There" |
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1931--auditioned
for The Rocky Mountaineers (in California); sang and played fiddle |
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1933--joined
the group Pioneer Trio |
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1933--performed
on radio station KFWB (Los Angeles) with the Pioneer Trio |
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1934-1935--trio
added members and changed its name to the Sons of the Pioneers |
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1935--group
signed a recording contract with Decca Records |
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1935--first
film role for the group, Liberty Pictures' "The Old Homestead" |
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1949--left
the Sons of the Pioneers |
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1953--first
solo record release |
Awards:
1971--Cowboy
Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City)\The Wrangler Award\presented to the
Sons of the Pioneers
1972--BMI\award
for his songs (with Tim Spencer)
1976--Hollywood
Walk of Fame\star placed for the Sons of the Pioneers
1977--Smithsonian
Institute\designated the Sons of the Pioneers as "national treasures"
1980--Country
Music Hall of Fame induction
Catalog
Highlights
Cool
Water
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Artists:
Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Frankie Laine,
Bob Nolan, Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters, Cliffie Stone,
Marty Robbins, Jimmie Rodgers, Burl Ives, Joni Mitchell
At
the Rainbow's End
He
Walks With the Wild and the Lonely
Love
Song of the Waterfall
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Co-writer:
Winge Barnes
- Artists:
Slim Whitman (1952)
The
King's Highway
Ne-Hah-Nee
Tumbling
Tumbleweeds
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Artists:
Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, Roy
Rogers, Hank Snow, Kate Smith, Lawrence Welk, Slim Whitman, Michael
Martin Murphy
Comments:
"Tumbling
Tumbleweeds" and "Cool Water" were put into the
National Archives
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