Who were the Arizona Wranglers

Subject: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From:
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 08:00 PM

I am looking for some info for my grandpa. he just wants to know, who the members of the Arizona Wranglers were. Please help..... Thanks Jeff

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: Stewie
Date: 08 Feb 00 - 08:59 PM

Shelton and Goldblatt 'Country Music Story' have a photo of a group by that name on the Opry in 1930s. Unfortunately, the personnel are identified only by knicknames: Sleepy, Slicker, Hungry, Dynamite, Robbins, Irontail and Sherriff. Malone 'Country Music USA' refers to them as a California group by the name of Sherriff Loyal Underwood's Arizona Wranglers - that accounts for the 'Sherriff'. The French label, Fremeaux & Associes, has a double CD called 'Western Ballads and Songs 1925-39' divided into 'authentic cowboys' and 'Hollywood cowboys'. Included on the 'authentic cowboys' CD is the Arizona Wranglers singing 'Stawberry Roan'. There is a spoken intro by someone identifying himself as 'the Sherriff' and referring to the singer as 'Nubbin' - it is probably the same outfit. However, the performance is a solo effort with the performer identified as J.E. Patterson - recorded in Phoenix Arizona 1929. That's all I can find at the moment. Hope it is of some use.

Stewie.

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: Stewie
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 01:06 AM

That should be 'nicknames', not 'knicknames'.

Jeff, I have been looking further but, as yet, have failed to come up with anything else on them. I will let you know if I find more.

Regards, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: alison
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 01:36 AM

so are the "Arizona Wranglers" different to the "Arizona Rangers"?

In Marty Robbin's "Big Iron".. I've always reconed he sang Arizona "ranger"... have I been wrong all these years?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: Rex
Date: 09 Feb 00 - 01:09 PM

The Arizona Wranglers were a musical group. The Arizona Rangers were a law enforcement group in the Southwest similar to the better known Texas Rangers. As an aside, my bluegrass group is the Arizona Rangers.

Rex

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 06:19 AM

Thanks alot Stewie, You don't know how much it means, to my grandpa, he was about 10 years old he says, when he first heard em. And I was telling him I could find out perhaps on the internet. So after hours of searchin, I finally found this site. Thanks again, buddy. anymore info, would be greatly appreciated, and I can't wait to call him to tell him this tommorrow. It seems these Arizona Wranglers were quite an elusive bunch. Jeff

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 06:28 AM

Hmm Rex, Is it a coincidence. I had heard that a fellow named Rex Allen was somehow associated with these, Arizona Wranglers. You say you have a group called the Arizona Rangers >? Well thanks for any info you guys may acquire, it sure is for a good cause. my grandpa will sure be glad to know, these things, he is also known as the Lonesome Cowboy of Venice, California. Peace to all. Jeff

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: Rex
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 11:55 AM

Oops! I let that slip. Yes, the group is the Arizona Rangers but it's not my fault. My banjo player says that the first time he heard my name the rest followed. (Rex Rideout and the Arizona Rangers) Now I've never felt like much of a frontliner, just put me in the back of the stage behind the others, but Fred always insists that the group is the full name above. Me, I don't think we need a headliner so I just call us the Arizona Rangers. Getting back to the subject, I haven't been able to find much in the way of recordings for Rex Allen. It's all out of print so far. But maybe followings his recent death, some things will turn up. (it always seems to go that way, they don't care about you until you are dead)(might make for a good song) All I have of him are some 78's and I sure like his baritone voice. Something I could never do. He was indeed with the Arizona Wranglers. Another name that comes up is Jerry Byrd. Rex's biggest hit may have been the Arizona Waltz which is from the movie The Arizona Cowboy. And he did write that song. Mostly where you will find him is in the old cowboy movies.

Rex

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: DougR
Date: 11 Feb 00 - 10:07 PM

Rex Allen and Rex Allen, Jr. have a CD out of Cowboy songs. I think Rex Sr. may be on another CD featuring the Hollywood Cowboys singing Western songs. He had a great baritone voice and my favorite is one he recorded but is probably out of print, "No One Will Ever Know."

DougR

Subject: RE: Who were the Arizona Wranglers
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 14 Feb 00 - 10:14 AM

Thanks again guys, This is a really cool site, with some kind folks, and im glad i found it, maybe i'll ask my grandpa to think up some other stuff, to look for, since ya all are so helpful. I wonder how many members, there actually were.. and there real names. any sites i might try? oh ya also, what about a good site to find out prices on antique musical instruments... to get an estimated value. Thanks.. Type to ya soon.... Jeff