Western · Syndicated
Pinto Pete in Arizona
· 78 broadcasts
Pinto Pete in Arizona is a quarter-hour syndicated cowboy show from the early 1930s -- a spin-off of Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys, built by the same Western singing trio: 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.
Where the parent program is close to straight music, the Arizona run hangs its songs on a light, recurring ranch story: Pinto Pete is the boss of the spread, his loyal hands look out for him and he for them, and each fifteen minutes rolls through Western songs and old hymns -- at least one carrying Pete's deep bass -- with the plot, as one catalog puts it, "very loosely woven into the show." Somewhere in every episode Pete stops for a homespun object lesson, usually about faith, and then the singing picks back up.
The act was a springboard for its members: Curley Bradley went on to become radio's singing Tom Mix, and Ken Carson later joined the Sons of the Pioneers. All 78 surviving shows are held here, each catalogued -- as the undated transcription discs demand -- by the song it opens with, from trail standards like "Home on the Range" and "Red River Valley" to Tin Pan Alley turns like "Give My Regards to Broadway."
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78 of 78 held (100% complete)
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First Song Blue Sky Way Up Yonder
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First Song Row Row Row Your Boat
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First Song Home On The Range
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First Song Red River Valley
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First Song Jimmy Crack Corn
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First Song My Old Kentucky Home
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First Song Ragtime Joe
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First Song Back Home Again In Indiana
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First Song Roll Along Covered Wagon
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First Song Waitin By The Rio Grande
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First Song Little Green Valley
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First Song Side By Side
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First Song Springtime In Paris
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First Song Moonlight Bay
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First Song Red Red Robin
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First Song When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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First Song Oh Mona
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First Song Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle
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First Song When The Moon Plays Peekaboo
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First Song Utah Trail
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First Song My Silver Bell
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First Song Shoo Fly
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First Song A High Tone Dance
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First Song Sweet Cider Time
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First Song Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
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First Song Oregon Trail
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First Song Won't You Be My Honey
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First Song Sweetheart Town
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First Song The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad
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First Song Open Up Them Pearly Gates
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First Song Jesse James
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First Song My Blue Ridge Mountain Queen
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First Song You'll Be Mine in Apple Blossom Time
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First Song Ozark Mountain Home
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First Song I'm Alabamy Bound
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First Song There's a Rainbow Shining Somewhere
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First Song Gallop Your Troubles Away
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First Song Give My Regards To Broadway
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First Song The Gal I Left Behind Me
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First Song Waitin For The Robert E. Lee
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First Song Roll Roll Rollin Along
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First Song Here Comes The Sun
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First Song Home James and Don't Spare the Horses
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First Song Back In The Old Sunday School
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First Song Swanee River Moon
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First Song Roll Along Prairie Moon
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First Song Ill Be Faithful
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First Song That Old Gang Of Mine
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First Song Colorado Memories
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First Song Behind The Clouds
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First Song Schoolday Sweethearts
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First Song Baby Your Mother
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First Song Spanish Cavalier
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First Song Mandy Lee
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First Song When The Harvest Days Are Over
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First Song Driftwood On The Sea Of Dreams
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First Song The Wind Blew Through His Whiskers
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First Song Good Old Sunny South
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First Song My Ohio Home
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First Song Where Do You Work John
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First Song Sunny Tennessee
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First Song Show That Fella The Door
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First Song Where The Huckleberries Grow
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First Song Walkin With My Sweetness
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First Song Man On The Flying Trapeze
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First Song Down Where The Swanee River Flows
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First Song Don't Wanna Be Rich
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First Song My Carolina Sunshine
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First Song You Can't Fool an Old Horsefly
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First Song Got A Gal In California
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First Song Ride The Carol
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First Song Broken Down Farmer
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First Song Blushing Bride
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First Song Rootin Tootin Shootin Sons Of Guns
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First Song Little Old Sod Shanty
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First Song Band I Bought For The Hand
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First Song How I Love You
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First Song Call Of The Rockies
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The Story
Pinto Pete in Arizona is a quarter-hour syndicated cowboy show from the early 1930s -- a spin-off of Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys, built by the same Western singing trio: 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.
Where the parent program is close to straight music, the Arizona run hangs its songs on a light, recurring ranch story: Pinto Pete is the boss of the spread, his loyal hands look out for him and he for them, and each fifteen minutes rolls through Western songs and old hymns -- at least one carrying Pete's deep bass -- with the plot, as one catalog puts it, "very loosely woven into the show." Somewhere in every episode Pete stops for a homespun object lesson, usually about faith, and then the singing picks back up.
The act was a springboard for its members: Curley Bradley went on to become radio's singing Tom Mix, and Ken Carson later joined the Sons of the Pioneers. All 78 surviving shows are held here, each catalogued -- as the undated transcription discs demand -- by the song it opens with, from trail standards like "Home on the Range" and "Red River Valley" to Tin Pan Alley turns like "Give My Regards to Broadway."
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