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Tex
Owens
(on
the inspiration behind his hit "Cattle Call," written in
Kansas City while watching the snow fall) "Watching the snow, my
sympathy went out to cattle everywhere, and I just wished I could
call them all around me and break some corn over a wagon wheel and
feed them. That's when the words 'cattle call' came to my
mind. I picked up my guitar, and in thirty minutes I had wrote
the music and four verses to the song."
Birth
Name: Doie Hensley Owens
Induction
Year: 1971
Date
of Birth: 6/15/1892
Place
of Birth: Killeen, TX
Date
of Death: 9/9/1962
Place
of Death: New Baden, TX |
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Former Occupations:
deputy
sheriff, auto mechanic, ranch work, radio disc jockey |
Career Milestones:
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1931--first
job on radio, an early morning farm show on KMBC, Kansas City, MO |
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1934--songbook
(17 songs) published by Forster Music Publishers, Inc. |
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1939--performed
on Boone City Jamboree, Cincinatti, OH on August 24 |
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1944--performed
on station KOMA, Oklahoma City |
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1947--worked
on the Silver King Ranch Show |
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1950--performed
on station KOAM, Pittsburg, KS |
Catalog
Highlights
Cattle
Call
Good
Old Turnip Greens
Shall
We All Be Together Up There
When
I Visit My Mother In Heaven
Love
Me Now
Give
Me a Home On the Lone Prairie
Blind
Girl's Plea
Bow
Down Brother
Be
Ready To Go
Two
Blue Birds
Tell
Me Dear
The
One I Love Is Coming Home
Whisperin'
Winds
Cross
Roads Of the Prairie
Get
On the Right Road
By
the Rushing Waterfall
Porcupine
Serenade
Comments:
Owens'
band was known as The Texas Rangers; he was called The Original
Texas Ranger
Owens'
sister became a member of the Grand Ole Opry as half of Curly Fox
and Texas Ruby; his daughter Laura Lee became the first female
vocalist for Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys |