Tex Morton

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All Set and Saddled 02:33 Tools
Big Rock Candy Mountain 00:00 Tools
The Yodelling Bagman 00:00 Tools
I Was Born in Old Wyoming 00:00 Tools
Barnacle Bill the Sailor 00:00 Tools
The Black Sheep 00:00 Tools
Mandrake 00:00 Tools
Ragtime Cowboy Joe 00:00 Tools
Old Boko and Me 00:00 Tools
Just Plain Folks 00:00 Tools
The Oregon Trail 00:00 Tools
Happy Yodeller 00:00 Tools
Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair 00:00 Tools
Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes 00:00 Tools
The Cat Came Back 03:00 Tools
Red River Valley 00:00 Tools
WEREWOLVES OF LONDON 00:00 Tools
25 Minutes To Go 00:00 Tools
Freight Train Yodel 00:00 Tools
Aristocrat 00:00 Tools
Rocky Ned (The Outlaw) 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Hanged (If They're Gonna Hang Me) 00:00 Tools
Crime Does Not Pay 00:00 Tools
My Sweetheart's in Love with a Swiss Mountaineer 00:00 Tools
Peg-Leg Jack 00:00 Tools
The Ned Kelly Song 00:00 Tools
Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie 00:00 Tools
Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip and Blanket 00:00 Tools
Texas In the Spring 00:00 Tools
Sergeant Small 02:45 Tools
The Letter Edged in Black 00:00 Tools
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 00:00 Tools
The Martins and the Coys 00:00 Tools
The Prairie is a Lonesome Place at Night 00:00 Tools
Swiss Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Shanty Moon 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back to Dream by The Old Mill Stream 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Yodel My Way to Heaven 00:00 Tools
Martins And The Coys, The 00:00 Tools
Wyoming Willie 00:00 Tools
Old Ship of Mine 00:00 Tools
The Railroad Bum 00:00 Tools
The Wandering Stockman 02:42 Tools
My Sweethearts in love with a Swiss Mountaineer 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Queensland 00:00 Tools
Going Back to Texas 00:00 Tools
The Big Rock Candy Mountain 00:00 Tools
Weeping Willow Tree 00:00 Tools
He Holds The Lantern (While His Mother Chops The Wood) 03:21 Tools
Old Man Duff 00:00 Tools
You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim 03:05 Tools
Sing You Cowboy 00:00 Tools
On The Gundagai Line 03:05 Tools
Across the Great Divide 00:00 Tools
HAPPY YODELER 00:00 Tools
A BIRD IN A GUILDED CAGE 00:00 Tools
In The Luggage Van Ahead 00:00 Tools
Travel by Train 00:00 Tools
the goondiwindi grey 00:00 Tools
You Only Have One Mother 00:00 Tools
Old Pal of my Boyhood Days 00:00 Tools
Waitin' For A Train 00:00 Tools
Bird In A Gilded Cage 00:00 Tools
the Queen landed 00:00 Tools
I Left My Heart In Red River Valley 00:00 Tools
Story of Parson Joe 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Valley Sally 00:00 Tools
Murrumbidgee Jack 00:00 Tools
let the rest of the world go. Bye! 00:00 Tools
SLIPPIN' AROUND 00:00 Tools
I'm Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks 00:00 Tools
Speedway Maniac 00:00 Tools
just paying folks 00:00 Tools
Billy Brink The Shearer 00:00 Tools
The Travelling Showman 00:00 Tools
The End of The Hobo's Trail 00:00 Tools
The Greatest Mistake of My Life 00:00 Tools
Old Droving Days 00:00 Tools
Maiden's Prayer - 1935 fiddle 00:00 Tools
Peg Leg Jack 00:00 Tools
Waltzing Matilda 00:00 Tools
The Good Old Droving Days 00:00 Tools
Move Along Baldy 00:00 Tools
The Story Of Parson Joe 00:00 Tools
Sleepy Hollow 00:00 Tools
Old Rover 00:00 Tools
Old Shep 00:00 Tools
Hot Times In Space City 00:00 Tools
Bird In A Guilded Cage 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Rose of Texas 00:00 Tools
My Blueridge Mountain Home 00:00 Tools
Kiwi Songs 00:00 Tools
Darwin Jailhouse Window 00:00 Tools
Just Drifting Along 00:00 Tools
GOONDIWINDI GREY 00:00 Tools
I’ve Got You (Right Out Of My Head) 00:00 Tools
Orbit Bop 00:00 Tools
Australia (So Wide And Grand) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Spooky Goes To Town 00:00 Tools
I Was There In Old Wyoming 00:00 Tools
You And My Old Guitar 00:00 Tools
Railroad Boomer 00:00 Tools
Fanny Boy Blues 00:00 Tools
I Left My Heart In The Red River Valley 00:00 Tools
Prairie Is A Lonely Place 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
When Its Night Time in Nevada 00:00 Tools
Just Dripping Along 00:00 Tools
There Are Tear Stains on Your Letter, Mother Dear 00:00 Tools
Colorado Jump 00:00 Tools
The Bush Christening 00:00 Tools
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There are several artists under this name: 1. Tex Morton is a legendary guitar player who plays in Nitro 17, Sunny Domestozs, Kamikaze Queens, Chip Hanna etc. He played in Mad Sin for several years. In 2008 he released solo EP Speedway Maniac. 2. Tex Morton (born Robert William Lane in Nelson, New Zealand, August 30, 1916; died July 23, 1983) was a pioneer of Australian country music. At age 14 he left home to launch himself into show business. His first attempts to run away and join the circus ended in him being found busking by police and he was promptly returned home. About 1934, he recorded some "hillbilly" songs privately. He later claimed that these were played on New Zealand radio, though this is perhaps unlikely. Some of these recordings have recently come to light, though they have not been commercially reissued. About 1934 (the exact date is uncertain - Morton himself once claimed it was 1932), he emigrated to Australia, apparently intent on a recording career. On February 25, 1936, he recorded four songs for the Columbia Graphophone Company in Sydney, Australia. Between 1936 and 1943, Morton recorded 93 78-rpm records of his songs, accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar for most tracks, for Columbia's Regal Zonophone label. On some later tracks, he was accompanied by his band, The Rough Riders, and a female singer 'Sister' Dorrie (real name Dorothy Carroll). In 1943, he left Columbia following a dispute with Arch Kerr, the Record Sales Manager, probably over the company's reluctance to use The Rough Riders. He was billed as 'The Yodelling Boundary Rider' on records, though he apparently didn't approve of the name. In 1949 and 1950, he recorded more sides in Sydney and possibly New Zealand. These were released on the Rodeo and Tasman labels; some songs were probably recorded at the instigation of Ralph Peer, who visited Sydney in 1949 and met Morton. Morton, in his career, capitalized on American cowboy and "Wild West" images, and was sometimes billed as "The Singing Cowboy Sensation," performing for rodeos, and singing in a yodeling style that drew heavily on those of American singers such as Jimmie Rodgers. His yodelling was influenced by Rodgers, Goebel Reeves and the British Alpine yodeller, Harry Torrani. Although Morton chose to sing in an American (rather than Australian) accent and sang many songs with American subject matter, several of his recorded songs (such as "The Ned Kelly Song," "Beautiful Queensland," and "Murrumbidgee Jack") feature Australian themes. ("Beautiful Queensland" was a simple re-write of W. Lee O'Daniel's "Beautiful Texas", however.) During the 1930s and 1940s, he gradually 'Australian-ised' many of the songs he wrote. This approach was followed by other Australian country artists who followed in his footsteps, such as Buddy Williams and Slim Dusty, leading to a particular genre of country music - the Australian bush ballad, which was also influenced by the turn-of-the-century poetry of 'Banjo' Patterson and Henry Lawson. From 1950 to 1959, Morton was in Canada and the United States. He toured with Pee Wee King in 1952 and recorded in Nashville in March 1953. He claimed to have toured for six months as an opening act for Hank Williams, but this is extremely unlikely, though he may have met Williams in late 1952 through Oscar Davis, who was Morton's manager and Williams's last manager. Morton toured Canada and the United States as a stage hypnotist, memory expert, whip cracker and sharpshooter, and was associated for some time with the Canadian country singer, 'Dixie' Bill Hilton. He returned to Australia in 1959 with a Grand Ole Opry show, featuring Roy Acuff, the Wilburn Brothers and June Webb, but the show was not popular with Australian audiences and the tour had to be called off. As a sharpshooter, he was legendary, admitting to only one miss: He was about to shoot a cigarette out from between a man's lips when, at the moment he pulled the trigger, the man moved his lips, tilting the cigarette upward. The bullet nipped his nose and, recounted Morton, he was called "Nick" after that. He did a memory act, asking the audience to give him 100 words. He'd recount them back in order, "forgetting" one of them around the 50th word only to suddenly remember the word when he was almost finished his act. Morton continued to record during the 1960s and 1970s, but increasingly showed an interest in acting. He appeared in Australian television shows and feature movies (such as "We Of The Never Never"). He was the first inductee into Australia's country music Roll of Renown in 1976, recognising his pivotal role in the development of country music in Australia and New Zealand. Morton died on July 23, 1983, after a short illness. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.