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Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A cowboy singer and film actor, known for recording old western songs and starring in Western movies.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
The book
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:39You've made so many records of the old western songs and sung so many in your films. Are you a collector of them?
Yes, I started very early collecting the cowboy songs, the old folk songs of the Southwest.
Presenter asks
1:20What brought you into show business, Tex? How did it all start?
Well, when I was in the University of Texas I had worked up a kind of a lecture recital called The Cowboy and His Songs.
Presenter asks
1:37What was your first professional job?
A radio station in Houston, Texas. Singing cowboy songs. From there I went to New York City and lived about four or five years.
Presenter asks
2:28Where are these Western pictures made? Are the locations in California?
Yes, uh most of them are made, or were made in the older days, even before I arrived there, at a little place Chatsworth, about forty miles out of Los Angeles, where you have a lot of different kind of scenery… Of course on all locations you have a western street. Some of mine we went further away. We made a lot of em in the high Sierras three hundred miles north of Los Angeles. I think I made four pictures near Prescott, Arizona. We made four in Utah. And I made one up in the Jackson Hole country in the winter time in Wyoming.
Andy Adams
The luxury
Presenter asks
4:09What's the toughest stunt you've ever asked to do in a Western?
It was once in Utah. Yet a full gallop, for the heavies were chasing me, the villains, pardon me. I had to turn in the saddle facing the villains and shoot with both hands. And it was a matter of balance and equilibrium and I in I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. I had to hold on the candle of the saddle with one hand. Yes, na yeah, I couldn't do it and the stunt man on the picture couldn't either. But we had to finally call on a boy that had been a trick rider, of course, that to them that's a part of a and he was able to do it, doubling me, of course.
“I think anything that you like to do isn't that turns out to be not so difficult. Of course it's hard.”
“the most difficult thing I found making Western pictures for the fights. Not the chases. Because the horse does a lot of that work. The fights.”
“I couldn't do it and the stunt man on the picture couldn't either. But we had to finally call on a boy that had been a trick rider, of course, that to them that's a part of a and he was able to do it, doubling me, of course.”
“Well, they spend most of their time looking at television and occasionally the saying, Of course television is uh Just changed everything in America, not only show business, but the home life.”
“Always remember, friends, keep good thoughts and keep good company.”