Smiley worked on a local radio station and in Vaudeville after high school. Always interested in music, he was friends with Gene Autry and worked with him on the radio show "The National Barn Dance". When Westerns became a big draw with sound, the studios were always on the lookout for singing cowboys...See full bio »
1976Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(music: "Riding Down the Canyon" - uncredited / lyrics: "Riding Down the Canyon" - uncredited / performer: "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" - uncredited)
1953Goldtown Ghost Riders
(writer: "The Thieving Burro" - uncredited / performer: "Pancho's Widow" - uncredited, "The Thieving Burro" - uncredited)
1953Winning of the West
(writer: "Fetch Me Down My Trusty '45" - uncredited / music: "Five Minutes Late and a Dollar Short" - uncredited / lyrics: "Five Minutes Late and a Dollar Short" - uncredited / performer: "Five Minutes Late and a Dollar Short" - uncredited, "Fetch Me Down My Trusty '45" - uncredited)
1950Frontier Outpost
(writer: "Twister", "I Live To Eat", "The Warning Song" / performer: "Twister", "I Live To Eat", "The Warning Song")
1950Across the Badlands
(writer: "I'm Telling Myself I Ain't Afraid", "Harmonica Bill" / performer: "I'm Telling Myself I Ain't Afraid", "Harmonica Bill")
1950Outcasts of Black Mesa
(writer: "Nobody Fires the Boss", "Donkey Engine" / performer: "Nobody Fires the Boss", "Donkey Engine")
1950Trail of the Rustlers
(writer: "I Wish I Had Said That", "Blame It on Granpappy" / performer: "I Wish I Had Said That", "Blame It on Granpappy")
1949Renegades of the Sage
(writer: "Let Me Sleep", "Pussy Foot" / performer: "Let Me Sleep", "Pussy Foot", "I'm Thankful For Small Favors")
1949Horsemen of the Sierras
(writer: "My Night To Howl", "No Kid" / performer: "My Night To Howl", "No Kid")
1949Bandits of El Dorado
(writer: "Half a Notion", "When I Find Out What I Said", "Come and Get Your Dinner" / performer: "Half a Notion", "When I Find Out What I Said", "Come and Get Your Dinner")
1949South of Death Valley
(writer: "When You Go", "Ever Loving Marshal" / performer: "When You Go", "Ever Loving Marshal", "Rock-a-Bye Jailbird")
1949The Blazing Trail
(writer: "You Put Me On My Feet", "Extra, Extra")
1949Desert Vigilante
(writer: "He Don't Like Work", "It Can't Be As Bad As That" / performer: "He Don't Like Work", "It Can't Be As Bad As That")
1948Oklahoma Blues
(writer: "On the Strings of My Lonesome Guitar")
1948West of Sonora
(writer: "What I Didn't Get Done Today", "Little Indian" / performer: "What I Didn't Get Done Today", "Little Indian")
1948Six-Gun Law
(writer: "If I Were the Boss of the Town" / performer: "If I Were the Boss of the Town")
1947Last Days of Boot Hill
(writer: "On My Way Back Home", "Giddy Up, Jericho" / performer: "On My Way Back Home", "Giddy Up, Jericho", "Inside Looking Out", "Texas Belle")
1947Buckaroo from Powder River
(writer: "It Sure Sounds Good To Me", "Cecil Could See" / performer: "It Sure Sounds Good To Me", "Cecil Could See", "Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny", "Seeing Nellie Home")
1947Riders of the Lone Star
(writer: "Granddaddy Bullfrog", "Prairie Dog's Lament", "Oh, Mona" / performer: "Granddaddy Bullfrog", "Prairie Dog's Lament", "Oh, Mona")
1947The Stranger from Ponca City
(writer: "Catfish Take a Look at That Worm" / performer: "Catfish Take a Look at That Worm", "Hillbilly Lill")
1947Prairie Raiders
(writer: "Raising Rabbits", "The Thieving Burro" / performer: "Raising Rabbits", "The Thieving Burro")
1947Law of the Canyon
(writer: "Trouble Always Finds Me", "My Luck" / performer: "Trouble Always Finds Me", "My Luck")
1947West of Dodge City
(writer: "Hear the Little Cricket", "I Can't Cry For Laughing" / performer: "Satchel Up and Go", "Hear the Little Cricket", "I Can't Cry For Laughing")
1947The Lone Hand Texan
(writer: "We Had a Big Time", "Crow Song", "What Makes You So Sweet?", "They Never Say 'Love You' On a Postcard", "The Birthday Song" / performer: "We Had a Big Time", "Crow Song", "What Makes You So Sweet?", "They Never Say 'Love You' On a Postcard", "The Birthday Song")
1947South of the Chisholm Trail
(writer: "Dr. Burnette, King of Pain", "Hi Nellie, Lo-Nellie", "I Get the Sillies" / performer: "Dr. Burnette, King of Pain", "Hi Nellie, Lo-Nellie", "I Get the Sillies", "Froggy Went A-Courtin'")
1946The Fighting Frontiersman
(writer: "Swamp Woman Blues", "Don't Be Mad At Me", "Coyote Chorus" / performer: "Swamp Woman Blues", "Don't Be Mad At Me", "Little Brown Jug", "Coyote Chorus")
1946Terror Trail
(writer: "Peg-Leg", "Way Down Low" / performer: "Peg-Leg", "Way Down Low")
1946Landrush
(writer: "Dentist's Song", "Don't Be Mad At Me" / performer: "Dentist's Song", "Don't Be Mad At Me")
1946Heading West
(writer: "That Old Ice Cream Freezer", "Scaredy Cat Blues" / performer: "Sally Goodin", "Bless Your Heart", "That Old Ice Cream Freezer", "Scaredy Cat Blues")
1946The Desert Horseman
(writer: "I Wish I Could Be A Singing Cowboy", "He Was An Amatuer Once", "Ring the Bell" / performer: "I Wish I Could Be A Singing Cowboy", "He Was An Amatuer Once", "Ring the Bell")
1946Two-Fisted Stranger
(writer: "Can't Hurt My Trombone", "A Date With Someone Swell", "Way Down Yonder" / performer: "Can't Hurt My Trombone", "A Date With Someone Swell", "Way Down Yonder")
1946Galloping Thunder
(writer: "I Want To Play The Fife", "He'll Be Getting Some Sleep" / performer: "I Want To Play The Fife", "He'll Be Getting Some Sleep", "Singing A Country Song")
1946Gunning for Vengeance
(writer: "Hominy Grits", "A Blacksmith of the Village", "Twenty Long Years" / performer: "Hominy Grits", "The Belle of Sonora Is Mine", "A Blacksmith of the Village", "Twenty Long Years")
1946Roaring Rangers
(writer: "The New Ten-Gallon Hat", "Lazy Daily Dozen" / performer: "The New Ten-Gallon Hat", "Lazy Daily Dozen", "Listen To the Mocking Bird")
1944Firebrands of Arizona
(performer: "A Hunting We Will Go", "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow", "Loch Lomond")
1942Stardust on the Sage
(music: "Wouldn't You Like to Know?" 1942 - uncredited / lyrics: "Wouldn't You Like to Know?" 1942 - uncredited / performer: "Wouldn't You Like to Know?" 1942 - uncredited, "You Are My Sunshine" 1940 - uncredited, "Home on the Range" 1904 - uncredited, "Deep in the Heart of Texas" 1942 - uncredited)
1941Back in the Saddle
(writer: "Ninety-Nine Bullfrogs", "Swinging Sam" / performer: "Ninety-Nine Bullfrogs", "Swinging Sam")
1941Ridin' on a Rainbow
(writer: "Some Dancin'" / performer: "Some Dancin'")
1940Ride Tenderfoot Ride
(writer: "That Was Me by the Sea" 1940 - uncredited / performer: "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" 1930 - uncredited, "That Was Me by the Sea" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Carolina Moon
(performer: "Carolina Moon" 1928 - uncredited, "At the Rodeo" 1940 - uncredited, "Me and My Echo" 1940 - uncredited)
1940Gaucho Serenade
(music: "Wooing of Kitty MacFuty" - uncredited / lyrics: "Wooing of Kitty MacFuty" - uncredited / performer: "Headin' for the Wide Open Spaces" - uncredited, "Wooing of Kitty MacFuty" - uncredited, "Keep Rollin' Lazy Longhorns" - uncredited)
1940Rancho Grande
(writer: "You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country" - uncredited / performer: "Alla En El Rancho Grande" 1934 - uncredited, "Dude Ranch Cow Hands" 1938 - uncredited, "There'll Never Be Another Pal Like You" 1940 - uncredited, "You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country" - uncredited / "Alla En El Rancho Grande" 1934 - uncredited)
1939South of the Border
(writer: "Fat Caballero" 1939 - uncredited / performer: "Come to the Fiesta" - uncredited, "When the Cactus Blooms Again" - uncredited, "Fat Caballero" 1939 - uncredited / "South of the Border" 1939 - uncredited)
1939Colorado Sunset
(writer: "Cowboys Don't Milk Cows" 1939 - uncredited / performer: "On the Merry Old Way Back Home" - uncredited, "Cowboys Don't Milk Cows" 1939 - uncredited, "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" 1935 - uncredited, "Autry's the Man - Vote for Autry" - uncredited / "Autry's the Man - Vote for Autry" - uncredited)
1939Blue Montana Skies
(performer: "Rockin' in the Saddle" 1939 - uncredited, "The Old Geezer" 1939 - uncredited)
1939Rovin' Tumbleweeds
(performer: "On the Sunny Side of the Cell" - uncredited, "Rocky Mountain Express" - uncredited, "Hurray" - uncredited)
1939In Old Monterey
(performer: "It Looks Like Rain" - uncredited)
1939Mountain Rhythm
(performer: "Highways Are Happy Ways When They Lead the Way to Home" - uncredited, "It Makes No Difference Now" 1938 - uncredited, "It Was Only a Hobo's Dream" 1939 - uncredited, "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" - uncredited, "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers!" 1879 - uncredited, "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" 1909 - uncredited, "Knights of the Open Road" 1939 - uncredited / "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" 1909 - uncredited)
1939Mexicali Rose
(writer: "My Orchestra's Driving Me Crazy" - uncredited / performer: "My Orchestra's Driving Me Crazy" - uncredited, "Alla En El Rancho Grande" 1934 - uncredited)
1939Home on the Prairie
(writer: "There's Nothing Like Work" - uncredited / performer: "There's Nothing Like Work" - uncredited)
1938Rhythm of the Saddle
(performer: "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" - uncredited, "Oh! Ladies" 1938 - uncredited, "The Old Trail" 1938 - uncredited, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" 1910 - uncredited)
1938Prairie Moon
(performer: "Rhythm of the Hoofbeats" 1938 - uncredited, "In the Jailhouse Now" 1928 - uncredited, "The Story of Trigger Joe" - uncredited / "The West, a Nest, and You" 1922 - uncredited)
1938Gold Mine in the Sky
(writer: "That's How Donkeys Were Born" 1938 - uncredited, "Hike Yaa Move Along" - uncredited, "Tumbleweed Tenor" 1938 - uncredited / performer: "Hummin' When We're Comin' Round the Bend" - uncredited, "There's No Place Like Home Home, Sweet Home" 1823 - uncredited, "That's How Donkeys Were Born" 1938 - uncredited, "Dude Ranch Cowhands" 1938, "Hike Yaa Move Along" - uncredited, "Tumbleweed Tenor" 1938 - uncredited)
1938Western Jamboree
(performer: "Balloon Song" - uncredited, "I Love the Morning" - uncredited)
1938Billy the Kid Returns
(writer: "Sing a Little Song About Anything" / performer: "Sing a Little Song About Anything")
1938Man from Music Mountain
(writer: "All Nice People" - uncredited, "She Works Third Tub at the Laundrey" - uncredited / performer: "The Man From Music Mountain" - uncredited, "Love, Burning Love" - uncredited, "All Nice People" - uncredited, "She Works Third Tub at the Laundrey" - uncredited)
1938Under Western Stars
(performer: "Send My Mail to the County Jail", "Back to the Backwoods")
1938The Old Barn Dance
(music: "Roamin' Around the Range" - uncredited / lyrics: "Roamin' Around the Range" - uncredited / performer: "Ten Little Miles" 1938 - uncredited, "Old Nell" - uncredited, "Roamin' Around the Range" - uncredited, "The New Jassackaphone" 1936 - uncredited)
1937Round-Up Time in Texas
(writer: "Uncle Noah's Ark" 1937 - uncredited / performer: "When the Bloom Is on the Sage" 1930 - uncredited, "Old Chisholm Trail Come a Ti Yi Yippee Yippee Yay" - uncredited, "Uncle Noah's Ark" 1937 - uncredited, "Voice Improvisation" - uncredited, "Dinah" 1925 / "When the Bloom Is on the Sage" 1930 - uncredited)
1937Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
(performer: "The Old Home Place" 1937 - uncredited, "Little Black Bronc" 1937 - uncredited, "Untitled Dance Music" - uncredited, "The Dying Cowgirl" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Public Cowboy No. 1
(writer: "I Got the Heebie-Jeebie Blues" 1937 - uncredited, "The Defective Detective from Brooklyn" 1937 - uncredited / performer: "The West Ain't What It Used to Be" 1937 - uncredited, "I Got the Heebie-Jeebie Blues" 1937 - uncredited, "The Defective Detective from Brooklyn" 1937 - uncredited)
1937Git Along Little Dogies
(music: "Honey Bringing Honey To You" 1937 - uncredited / lyrics: "Honey Bringing Honey To You" 1937 - uncredited / performer: "Git Along Little Dogie" - uncredited, "Honey Bringing Honey To You" 1937 - uncredited, "Chinatown My Chinatown" 1906 - uncredited, "If You Want to Be a Cowboy" 1937 - uncredited, "Pop! Goes the Weasel" - uncredited)
1937Springtime in the Rockies
(writer: "Way Down Low" - uncredited / performer: "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" - uncredited, "Way Down Low" - uncredited, "Down in the Land of Zulu" - uncredited / "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" - uncredited)
1936Red River Valley
(writer: "Fetch Me Down My Trusty '45" 1936 - uncredited, "Red River Sweetheart" 1936 - uncredited, "Keep Goin' Little Pony" 1936 - uncredited / performer: "Red River Valley" 1936 - uncredited, "Yodeling Cowboy" 1936 - uncredited, "Fetch Me Down My Trusty '45" 1936 - uncredited)
1936Comin' 'Round the Mountain
(performer: "Don Juan of Sevillio" 1936 - uncredited, "When the Campfire Is Low on the Prairie" 1936 - uncredited)
1936The Big Show
(performer: "The Martins and the Coys" 1936 - uncredited, "Mad About You" 1936 - uncredited, "Wild and Wooly West" - uncredited)
1936The Old Corral
(writer: "One Man Band" - uncredited / performer: "One Man Band" - uncredited)
1936Oh, Susanna!
(writer: "They Never Come Through with the Ring" - uncredited / performer: "Oh! Susanna" 1848 - uncredited, "They Never Come Through with the Ring" - uncredited)
1936Guns and Guitars
(writer: "The Cowboy Medicine Show" 1935 - uncredited, "I've Got Fine Relations" 1936 - uncredited / music: "Ridin' All Day" 1936 - uncredited / lyrics: "Ridin' All Day" 1936 - uncredited / performer: "I've Got Fine Relations" 1936 - uncredited, "Snake Charmer" - uncredited)
1936The Border Patrolman
(performer: "Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddle" - uncredited)
1935The Singing Vagabond
(music: "Friends Of The Prairie, Farewell" 1935 - uncredited, "Wagon Train" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "Friends Of The Prairie, Farewell" 1935 - uncredited, "Wagon Train" 1935 - uncredited / performer: "Honeymoon Trail" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(writer: "The Cowboy Medicine Show" 1935 - uncredited / music: "Corn-fed and Rusty" 1935 - uncredited, "Riding Down the Canyon" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "Corn-fed and Rusty" 1935 - uncredited, "Riding Down the Canyon" 1935 - uncredited / performer: "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" 1934 - uncredited, "Corn-fed and Rusty" 1935 - uncredited, "That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Sagebrush Troubadour
(music: "On the Prairie" 1935 - uncredited, "Hurdy Gurdy Man" 1935 - uncredited, "My Prayer for Tonight" 1935 - uncredited, "Lookin' for the Lost Chord" 1935 - uncredited, "I'd Love a Home in the Mountains" 1935 - uncredited, "When the Moon Shines on the Mississippi Valley" 1934 - uncredited / lyrics: "On the Prairie" 1935 - uncredited, "Hurdy Gurdy Man" 1935 - uncredited, "My Prayer for Tonight" 1935 - uncredited, "Lookin' for the Lost Chord" 1935 - uncredited, "I'd Love a Home in the Mountains" 1935 - uncredited, "When the Moon Shines on the Mississippi Valley" 1934 - uncredited / performer: "Way Out West in Texas" 1935 - uncredited, "End of the Trail" 1935 - uncredited, "Lookin' for the Lost Chord" 1935 - uncredited, "I'd Love a Home in the Mountains" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Melody Trail
(music: "On the Melody Trail" 1935 - uncredited, "Way Down on Bottom" 1935 - uncredited, "My Neighbor Hates Music" 1935 - uncredited, "Where Will the Wedding Supper Be?" 1935 - uncredited / lyrics: "On the Melody Trail" 1935 - uncredited, "Way Down on Bottom" 1935 - uncredited, "My Neighbor Hates Music" 1935 - uncredited, "Where Will the Wedding Supper Be?" 1935 - uncredited / performer: "Way Down on Bottom" 1935 - uncredited, "Western Lullaby" 1935 - uncredited, "My Neighbor Hates Music" 1935 - uncredited)
1935Lightning Triggers
(writer: "Cabin on the Prairie Reb and his Horse Rebel" / performer: "Cabin on the Prairie Reb and his Horse Rebel")
1934In Old Santa Fe
(music: "Mama Don't Like Music Played in Here" / lyrics: "Mama Don't Like Music Played in Here" / performer: "Mama Don't Like Music Played in Here")
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