Rex Allen - The Arizona Cowboy: Selected Singles 1946-62 (2CD)

Rex Allen was one of the later era of Singing Cowboys, whose career encompassed not only being a recording artist but also having a high profile as a star of western movies and TV series, and later as a narrator on many Disney productions.\n\nBorn in Arizona, he made his start as a singer, Allen began his singing career on radio station KOY in Phoenix, Arizona, after which he became better known as a performer on the National Barn Dance on WLS in Chicago. When singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were very much in vogue in American film, Republic Pictures gave him a screen test and put him under contract in 1949. Becoming known as \u201CThe Arizona Cowboy\u201D, which became the title of one of his first films after signing to Republic, Allen received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975.\n\nAlthough most of his hits were in his early career he maintained his popularity and visibility to have more hits at the beginning of the 1960s.\n\nThis 55-tran