Western · Syndicated
Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys
· 104 broadcasts
Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys is a quarter-hour syndicated cowboy-music program from the early 1930s, built around the Western singing trio the Ranch Boys -- Jack Ross (as Pinto Pete), Joe "Curley" Bradley, and Ken "Shorty" Carson, three former movie stuntmen who could ride as well as they could harmonize.
Each show opens with the group's signature "We Are the Kings of the Rangers" and rolls through trail songs, old hymns, and popular numbers, the music broken now and then by Pinto Pete's homespun cowboy philosophy and a plain-spoken word about faith. First heard over Los Angeles station KTM in the early 1930s and noticed in newspapers from 1933 through 1936, the act was syndicated far and wide on transcription discs -- carried on the Blue Network by 1940, sent to Australia by producer Grace Gibson, and still turning up on a Phoenix station as late as 1952.
The Ranch Boys were a springboard: Curley Bradley went on to become radio's singing Tom Mix, and Ken Carson later joined the Sons of the Pioneers. All 104 surviving shows are held here, each catalogued -- as the undated discs demand -- by the song it opens with.
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104 of 104 held (100% complete)
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First Song Ragtime Cowboy Joe
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First Song The Roaming Cowboy
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First Song Polly Wolly Doodle
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First Song The Old Pine Tree
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First Song Blue Tail Fly
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First Song Open Up Them Pearly Gates
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First Song Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie
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First Song There's a Blue Sky Way Up Yonder
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First Song Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
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First Song The Little Old Sod Shanty
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First Song Little Ah Sid
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First Song Eleven More Months and Ten More Days
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First Song The Big Corral
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First Song Buffalo Gals
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First Song Back on the Texas Plains
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First Song Spanish Cavalier
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First Song Left My Gal In The Mountains
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First Song The Cumberland Mountains
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First Song Utah Trail
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First Song Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine
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First Song Wait For the Wagon
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First Song Get On the Golden Train
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First Song Chisholm Trail
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First Song Poor Liza Jane
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First Song The Old Gray Mare
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First Song Shell Be Coming Round the Mountain
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First Song Red Wing
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First Song Nancy Brown
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First Song Old Time Religion
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First Song Casey Jones
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First Song The Highly Educated Man
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First Song The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trap
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First Song Sweet Betsy From Pike
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First Song Back on the Texas Plains
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First Song Nothing Else To Do
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First Song Spanish Cavalier
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First Song Strawberry Roan
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First Song Chime Bells
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First Song Goodbye My Lover Goodbye
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First Song Open Up Them Pearly Gates
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First Song Roamin Cowboy
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First Song Little Boy
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First Song Shell Be Coming Round the Mountain
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First Song Old Man Of The Mountain
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First Song What's More Fun Than a Picnic Party
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First Song Ridge Runnin Roan
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First Song The Railroad Crossing
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First Song Sunshine Trail
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First Song All Gods Children
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First Song Who Stole the Lock
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First Song When Its Harvest Time My Sweet Angeli
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First Song Sunshine Trail
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First Song El Rancho Grande
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First Song Little Liza Jane
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First Song Blue Mountain Shack
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First Song My Little Cow Pony and I
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First Song Dear Charlie
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First Song I Whistle and Wait For Katie
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First Song When the Sunset Bids the Day Goodbye
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First Song Back to Old Smoky Mountain
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First Song Strawberry Roan
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First Song Down In Sleepy Hollow
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First Song Where the Golden Poppies Grow
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First Song Is There Still Room For Me
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First Song When Its Lamp Lighting Time In The Val
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First Song When Its Night Time in Nevada
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First Song Grandfathers Clock
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First Song The Cat Came Back
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First Song I Want To Be Ready
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First Song A Cowboys Heaven
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First Song Two Little Girls In Blue
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First Song Back Home Again In Indiana
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First Song Keep A Inchin Along
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First Song I Know The Lord Laid His Hands On Me
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First Song Ridin Old Paint
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First Song Sierra Mountain Moon
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First Song When Its Prayer Meeting Time In The Ho
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First Song Call of the Rockies
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First Song Mothers Crazy Quilt
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First Song Tumbling Tumbleweeds
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First Song An Old Lullaby
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First Song Take Them Mountains Out Of My Way
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First Song On the Ozark Trail
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First Song Arizona Here I Come
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First Song Down In Alabama
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First Song Won't You Come Over to My House
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First Song Answer With A Kiss
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First Song Night On The Desert
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First Song My Blue Ridge Mountain Home
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First Song Bring Your Roses To Her Now
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First Song Waters of The Mohawk
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First Song When The Wandering Boy Comes Home
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First Song The Old Sunday School
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First Song Lonely And Blue
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First Song I Get The Blues
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First Song Waiting By The Silvery Rio Grande
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First Song Little Old Rag Doll
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First Song I Love You Best Of All
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First Song Blue Feather
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First Song Sweetest Little Rose in Tennessee
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First Song Oh Boys Carry Me Long
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First Song That Naughty Waltz
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First Song Sweet Genevieve
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First Song The Last Roundup
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The Story
Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys is a quarter-hour syndicated cowboy-music program from the early 1930s, built around the Western singing trio the Ranch Boys -- Jack Ross (as Pinto Pete), Joe "Curley" Bradley, and Ken "Shorty" Carson, three former movie stuntmen who could ride as well as they could harmonize.
Each show opens with the group's signature "We Are the Kings of the Rangers" and rolls through trail songs, old hymns, and popular numbers, the music broken now and then by Pinto Pete's homespun cowboy philosophy and a plain-spoken word about faith. First heard over Los Angeles station KTM in the early 1930s and noticed in newspapers from 1933 through 1936, the act was syndicated far and wide on transcription discs -- carried on the Blue Network by 1940, sent to Australia by producer Grace Gibson, and still turning up on a Phoenix station as late as 1952.
The Ranch Boys were a springboard: Curley Bradley went on to become radio's singing Tom Mix, and Ken Carson later joined the Sons of the Pioneers. All 104 surviving shows are held here, each catalogued -- as the undated discs demand -- by the song it opens with.
Full story — coming soon while it's being curated.
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