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82897627 | Play | All Set and Saddled | 02:33 Tools | |
82897628 | Play | Big Rock Candy Mountain | 00:00 Tools | |
82897629 | Play | The Yodelling Bagman | 00:00 Tools | |
82897630 | Play | I Was Born in Old Wyoming | 00:00 Tools | |
82897634 | Play | Barnacle Bill the Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
82897633 | Play | The Black Sheep | 00:00 Tools | |
82897631 | Play | Mandrake | 00:00 Tools | |
82897632 | Play | Ragtime Cowboy Joe | 00:00 Tools | |
82897635 | Play | Old Boko and Me | 00:00 Tools | |
82897636 | Play | Just Plain Folks | 00:00 Tools | |
82897639 | Play | The Oregon Trail | 00:00 Tools | |
82897638 | Play | Happy Yodeller | 00:00 Tools | |
82897637 | Play | Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair | 00:00 Tools | |
82897644 | Play | Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes | 00:00 Tools | |
82897640 | Play | The Cat Came Back | 03:00 Tools | |
82897641 | Play | Red River Valley | 00:00 Tools | |
82897645 | Play | WEREWOLVES OF LONDON | 00:00 Tools | |
82897642 | Play | 25 Minutes To Go | 00:00 Tools | |
82897647 | Play | Freight Train Yodel | 00:00 Tools | |
82897643 | Play | Aristocrat | 00:00 Tools | |
82897646 | Play | Rocky Ned (The Outlaw) | 00:00 Tools | |
82897654 | Play | I'll Be Hanged (If They're Gonna Hang Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
82897652 | Play | Crime Does Not Pay | 00:00 Tools | |
82897650 | Play | My Sweetheart's in Love with a Swiss Mountaineer | 00:00 Tools | |
82897649 | Play | Peg-Leg Jack | 00:00 Tools | |
82897648 | Play | The Ned Kelly Song | 00:00 Tools | |
82897651 | Play | Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie | 00:00 Tools | |
82897655 | Play | Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip and Blanket | 00:00 Tools | |
82897659 | Play | Texas In the Spring | 00:00 Tools | |
82897657 | Play | Sergeant Small | 02:45 Tools | |
82897653 | Play | The Letter Edged in Black | 00:00 Tools | |
82897656 | Play | Hand Me Down My Walking Cane | 00:00 Tools | |
82897665 | Play | The Martins and the Coys | 00:00 Tools | |
82897663 | Play | The Prairie is a Lonesome Place at Night | 00:00 Tools | |
82897662 | Play | Swiss Sweetheart | 00:00 Tools | |
82897660 | Play | Shanty Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
82897691 | Play | Take Me Back to Dream by The Old Mill Stream | 00:00 Tools | |
82897658 | Play | I'm Gonna Yodel My Way to Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
82897661 | Play | Martins And The Coys, The | 00:00 Tools | |
82897673 | Play | Wyoming Willie | 00:00 Tools | |
82897674 | Play | Old Ship of Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
82897668 | Play | The Railroad Bum | 00:00 Tools | |
82897671 | Play | The Wandering Stockman | 02:42 Tools | |
82897667 | Play | My Sweethearts in love with a Swiss Mountaineer | 00:00 Tools | |
82897664 | Play | Beautiful Queensland | 00:00 Tools | |
82897686 | Play | Going Back to Texas | 00:00 Tools | |
82897708 | Play | The Big Rock Candy Mountain | 00:00 Tools | |
82897688 | Play | Weeping Willow Tree | 00:00 Tools | |
82897666 | Play | He Holds The Lantern (While His Mother Chops The Wood) | 03:21 Tools | |
82897670 | Play | Old Man Duff | 00:00 Tools | |
82897684 | Play | You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim | 03:05 Tools | |
82897677 | Play | Sing You Cowboy | 00:00 Tools | |
82897678 | Play | On The Gundagai Line | 03:05 Tools | |
82897709 | Play | Across the Great Divide | 00:00 Tools | |
82897669 | Play | HAPPY YODELER | 00:00 Tools | |
82897676 | Play | A BIRD IN A GUILDED CAGE | 00:00 Tools | |
82897672 | Play | In The Luggage Van Ahead | 00:00 Tools | |
82897685 | Play | Travel by Train | 00:00 Tools | |
82897702 | Play | the goondiwindi grey | 00:00 Tools | |
82897706 | Play | You Only Have One Mother | 00:00 Tools | |
82897695 | Play | Old Pal of my Boyhood Days | 00:00 Tools | |
82897679 | Play | Waitin' For A Train | 00:00 Tools | |
82897681 | Play | Bird In A Gilded Cage | 00:00 Tools | |
82897675 | Play | the Queen landed | 00:00 Tools | |
82897683 | Play | I Left My Heart In Red River Valley | 00:00 Tools | |
82897692 | Play | Story of Parson Joe | 00:00 Tools | |
82897707 | Play | Lonesome Valley Sally | 00:00 Tools | |
82897680 | Play | Murrumbidgee Jack | 00:00 Tools | |
82897690 | Play | let the rest of the world go. Bye! | 00:00 Tools | |
82897682 | Play | SLIPPIN' AROUND | 00:00 Tools | |
82897694 | Play | I'm Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks | 00:00 Tools | |
82897687 | Play | Speedway Maniac | 00:00 Tools | |
82897689 | Play | just paying folks | 00:00 Tools | |
82897714 | Play | Billy Brink The Shearer | 00:00 Tools | |
82897693 | Play | The Travelling Showman | 00:00 Tools | |
82897715 | Play | The End of The Hobo's Trail | 00:00 Tools | |
82897729 | Play | The Greatest Mistake of My Life | 00:00 Tools | |
82897696 | Play | Old Droving Days | 00:00 Tools | |
82897697 | Play | Maiden's Prayer - 1935 fiddle | 00:00 Tools | |
82897698 | Play | Peg Leg Jack | 00:00 Tools | |
82897722 | Play | Waltzing Matilda | 00:00 Tools | |
82897699 | Play | The Good Old Droving Days | 00:00 Tools | |
82897711 | Play | Move Along Baldy | 00:00 Tools | |
82897700 | Play | The Story Of Parson Joe | 00:00 Tools | |
82897712 | Play | Sleepy Hollow | 00:00 Tools | |
82897701 | Play | Old Rover | 00:00 Tools | |
82897703 | Play | Old Shep | 00:00 Tools | |
82897704 | Play | Hot Times In Space City | 00:00 Tools | |
82897705 | Play | Bird In A Guilded Cage | 00:00 Tools | |
82897717 | Play | The Yellow Rose of Texas | 00:00 Tools | |
82897718 | Play | My Blueridge Mountain Home | 00:00 Tools | |
82897710 | Play | Kiwi Songs | 00:00 Tools | |
82897713 | Play | Darwin Jailhouse Window | 00:00 Tools | |
88573468 | Play | Just Drifting Along | 00:00 Tools | |
82897716 | Play | GOONDIWINDI GREY | 00:00 Tools | |
82897719 | Play | I’ve Got You (Right Out Of My Head) | 00:00 Tools | |
82897720 | Play | Orbit Bop | 00:00 Tools | |
82897721 | Play | Australia (So Wide And Grand) | 00:00 Tools | |
82897725 | Play | Mr. Spooky Goes To Town | 00:00 Tools | |
82897726 | Play | I Was There In Old Wyoming | 00:00 Tools | |
82897727 | Play | You And My Old Guitar | 00:00 Tools | |
82897728 | Play | Railroad Boomer | 00:00 Tools | |
88573469 | Play | Fanny Boy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
88573470 | Play | I Left My Heart In The Red River Valley | 00:00 Tools | |
88573471 | Play | Prairie Is A Lonely Place | 00:00 Tools | |
82897730 | Play | Laura | 00:00 Tools | |
90245941 | Play | When Its Night Time in Nevada | 00:00 Tools | |
90245942 | Play | Just Dripping Along | 00:00 Tools | |
88573472 | Play | There Are Tear Stains on Your Letter, Mother Dear | 00:00 Tools | |
82897731 | Play | Colorado Jump | 00:00 Tools | |
82897732 | Play | The Bush Christening | 00:00 Tools |
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.