Lyr Req: Hopalong Cassidy (theme song)

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 12:08 PM

There was a theory that the movie "The Carpetbaggers" character Nevada Smith was in reality Hopalong Cassidy. Or rather William Boyd was Nevada Smith. There were some shady pieces to Mr. Boyd's character and background that seemed to defy, at least for me, explanation. But then again what does a 10 year old kid know?

Roy Rogers began his singing career as one of the three original Sons of the Pioneers. He was the best yodeler I ever heard. Mr. Rogers also gave up drinking beer very early in his career and devoted his life to being an upright role model for children. He believed that those in highly visible positions owed their audiences more than the superficiality of the stage and screen.

A rarity today -

Steve

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:16 AM

Re Roy Rogers being the "good guy," I'm told he made about 5(?) movies early in his career where his part was described as "member of the gang." I've seen a couple of them on "late night" TV, years ago (when there was something on "late night" except infomercials.)

None of those where he was in the bad guys' gang ever credited him so far as I could tell, but he was "unmistakeable" even then - (although he'd look like a little kid in those parts - at least to me now.)

John

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:25 PM

Here in Australia we got those kids records of stories that had little clues in them like "when you hear Topper snort turn the page." I had a Hopalong Cassidy one. For some reason the books that should have been part of the package never made it out here. I drove my Mum mad asking her "what page?" EBarnacle, if only I still had my precious record we could get together.
Would your favourite kerchief be a chiefachief, Blackcatter? Joy

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Blackcatter
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 08:42 PM

maybe favkerchief?

Joy - I had a bunch of those records/books as well. Mostly Disney things, but we lived 40 miles from Disneyland and went once a year, so that's not surprising. By the time I was a kid, the Western had all but died on TV and in the movies they were the Spaghetti westerns and the stuff by Peckinpah - not exactly kids' fare. My parents took me to see Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid when I was about 8 (a re-release, since it came out in 1969). Also saw The Life & Times of Grizzly Adams around the same time (the movie came out before the TV show) Both were very important in my life. I still have trouble fitting into the "real" world.

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: GUEST,John Gray in Oz
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:22 PM

Yeah EBarnacle, I met him too. He came to Australia in approx 1953 doing a store promotion. I was 6 and my mother took me in to Melbourne where I lined up in the store with a queue of boys my age.
We filed past Hoppy and he shook our hands and signed a photo of himself for us. I still have mine; To John - Best Regards from Your Pardner Hoppy.
I was in heaven.

FME / JG

Subject: RE: Hopalong cassidy
From: Art Thieme
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:31 PM

At the RECORD LADY'S good site, check out the song "HOPPY, GENE AND ME" as sung by an aging (ragged but right) Roy Rogers. It's a great song that fits right in with what we are talking about here.

Also a song that I think was called "BRONCO BILL'S LAMENT" by Don McLean. Fred Holstein used to do it in Chicago all the time---back in the 1970s.   (Bronco Bill's Lament is not at the Record Lady's site.)

Art Thieme