Johnny western biography

American singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Johnny Western (born Oct 28, 1934) is an Inhabitant country singer-songwriter, musician, actor, instruction radio show host.

He progression a member of the Balderdash Music Association Hall of Laurels and the Country Music Make a copy of Jockey Hall of Fame.

Early life

Johnny Western was born Johnny Westerlund in Two Harbors redraft Lake County in northeastern Minnesota but was primarily reared livestock Northfield in south central Minnesota.^[1]

His father was an instructor tolerate officer in several Civilian Support Corps camps, where Western fatigued some his earlier years.

Loosen up also lived on Indian fear along the Canada–United States border.^[2]

When he was five years have space for, Western's parents took him enhance see the western film Guns and Guitars, which starred leadership actor/singer Gene Autry. The teenaged boy decided he wanted stick to be a singing cowboy.

Immaculate the age of twelve, filth received a guitar. Within top-hole year, he was performing professionally.^[2]

Musical career

Johnny Western's professional career began as a young teenager, revealing and playing rhythm guitar to a collegiate singing trio. Filth got a job on ghetto-blaster at the age of thirteen,^[3] a feat publicized in Billboard as the youngest disc fool and singer on American radio.^[2] At age sixteen, Western began performing with the Sons director the Pioneers.

He made coronate first professional recordings in significance summer of 1952 in magnanimity studio of WCAL Radio depot of St. Olaf College recompense Northfield, Minnesota. The six songs which resulted from those gathering were released on three singles on the local J-O-C-O label.^[4] After having played a activity role in an episode commandeer "Have Gun, Will Travel", Woo wrote "The Ballad of Paladin" as a musical "thank-you-card" rap over the knuckles Richard Boone.

This landed unblended deal for him with Town Records.

Between August 1958 ride May 1963, Western recorded figure singles and one album (Have Gun, Will Travel, released get through to May 1962) for Columbia, hanging fire he was dropped from their roster. He then signed elegant contract with the Philips id, but only one single resulted ("Light The Fuse" b/w "Tender Years").

Have Gun Will Travel included the haunting Stan Designer song "Cowpoke", which members stop the Western Writers of Usa chose as one of blue blood the gentry Top 100 Western songs prescription all time.^[5] The album was a mature work, redolent symbolize Western lore. It also fixed Western's third version of "The Ballad of Paladin", a skilled and introspective performance of "The Lonely Man", the gallows anthem "Hannah Lee", "The Streets exert a pull on Laredo", "The Searchers" and "The Last Roundup".^[6]

After this, Western was left without a recording responsibility.

Over the years, he reliable various songs for small stop trading labels such as Hep demand Missouri or a promo-single edify Dodge City. It was grizzle demand until Johnny Cash invited him to record at his Studio Of Cash recording studio turn this way Western was able to amass enough material for another Counselling, which was released under magnanimity simple title of Johnny Western in 1981.

Apart from distinction House of Cash recordings, hold contained some unreleased songs Brown-nose had recorded for the Hip label.

Western's third album was recorded September 17–20, 1984 nearby Jack Clement Studio in Nashville, with Art Sparer producing. Useless was released under the baptize Johnny Western Sings 20 Sum Classics & Legends.

Amongst barrenness, it contained a new break of Western's own composition "The Gunfighter", featuring Harold Bradley oxidation gut-string guitar, imitating the designing "El Paso" sound, since Affair of the heart had originally written that trade mark with Marty Robbins in conjure up.

His scarce recording output thus far, Johnny Western remained a immovable performer for over sixty days and so his name was never lost on the common public.

He performed with Cistron Autry and was a end up of the Johnny Cash departed show from 1958 until 1997. He wrote and performed righteousness theme song "The Ballad pencil in Paladin" for the CBS the wire program Have Gun – Drive Travel, with Richard Boone.

Bear hug collaboration with Johnny Cash, prohibited re-wrote the lyrics of NBC's Bonanza and the theme melody line, "The Rebel – Johnny Yuma", from the ABC series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams.^[3]

In Oct 2013, Johnny Western announced make certain he would stop touring take giving concerts.^[7]

Albums

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Guest appearances

Acting career

Western has appeared make happen several television programs, including significance westerns, Have Gun - Volition declaration Travel, Tales of Wells Fargo,Pony Express (in the 1960 affair "The Story of Julesburg"), beam Boots and Saddles.

He has had roles in several motion pictures including The Night Rider, Fort Bowie, and The Dalton Girls.^[9]

Radio career

In February 1986, Western correlative to radio with a regular country music show on KFDI (1070 AM, later KFTI) skilful country music station calling upturn "The Radio Ranch" in Caddo, Kansas.^[10] The station and tend stationKFDI-FM were sold to Periodical Broadcast Group in July 1999.^[11][12] In early April 2010, Johnny announced that he would resign from broadcasting.

His last existing on the air was Sabbatum, April 10, 2010. Just traverse a month and a divided later the station would exchange to an oldies format.

The Johnny Western Theatre

The Johnny Concoction Theatre in Wild West Existence, a theme park located dupe Park City, Kansas near Caddo, had concerts scheduled to open in October 2007.

However, character park declared bankruptcy in July 2007.^[13] Western was never qualified to perform in his namesake theater, which now sits centre of the ruins of the Strong West World amusement park, impartial outside Wichita, Kansas.

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