He was one of filmdom's last dying breed of "B" crooning cowpokes following WWII. Jimmy Wakely had many talents (singing, songwriting, guitar-playing) and performed in many venues (radio, film, TV, rodeos, clubs) over his career. He began life in Mineola, Arkansas in 1914, but was raised in Depression-era Oklahoma...See full bio »
1949Lawless Code
(performer: "I'll Be A Cowboy 'Till I Die", "Home On The Range")
1949Brand of Fear
(performer: "Cool Water", "I Don't Care", "Rainbow Over the Range")
1949Across the Rio Grande
(writer: "Across the Rio Grande", "I'm Lonely and Nobody Cares" / performer: "Across the Rio Grande", "I'm Lonely and Nobody Cares")
1949Desert Vigilante
(writer: "I'll Never Let You Go, Little Darlin'")
1949Gun Law Justice
(writer: "I Have Looked the Whole World Over" / performer: "Rose Of Old Santa Fe", "I Have Looked the Whole World Over")
1949Gun Runner
(performer: "Paradise Trail", "Gonna Build A Little Home In Oklahoma")
1948Courtin' Trouble
(writer: "Moon Over Montana" / performer: "Moon Over Montana", "A New Thrill From An Old Flame")
1948Silver Trails
(writer: "Silver Trails", "Serenade" / performer: "Silver Trails", "Serenade", "For the Sake of Days Gone By")
1948Cowboy Cavalier
(writer: "Night After Night" / performer: "Night After Night", "Mine, All Mine")
1948Range Renegades
(writer: "Hifalutin' Cowboy" / performer: "Easy To Please", "Arizona Sunset", "Hifalutin' Cowboy", "I'm An Old Cowpoke Just A-pokin' Along")
1948Partners of the Sunset
(writer: "It's a Beautiful Day", "Your Bouquet of Roses" / performer: "It's a Beautiful Day", "Your Bouquet of Roses", "Telling My Troubles To My Old Guitar", "Press Along To the Home Corral")
1948The Rangers Ride
(writer: "Are You Ashamed to Call Me Darlin?", "Casting My Lasso to the Sky" / performer: "The Yodeling Ranger", "Are You Ashamed to Call Me Darlin?", "Casting My Lasso to the Sky")
1948Oklahoma Blues
(writer: "Oklahoma Blues", "On the Strings of My Lonesome Guitar" / performer: "Oklahoma Blues", "Judy", "On the Strings of My Lonesome Guitar")
1948Song of the Drifter
(writer: "Gonna Go Fishing By the Riverside" / performer: "I'll Hold You In My Heart", "It's Been So Long, Darling", "Gonna Go Fishing By the Riverside")
1947Ridin' Down the Trail
(writer: "I'm Out to See Texas", "Ridin' Down the Trail With You", "Cowtown, U.S. A" / performer: "I'm Out to See Texas", "Ridin' Down the Trail With You", "Cowtown, U.S. A")
1947Song of the Wasteland
(writer: "I Hear You Talking", "Somebody's Rose" / performer: "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie", "Cimarron", "Hi Lo, Hi O", "I Hear You Talking", "Somebody's Rose")
1947Six-Gun Serenade
(performer: "You Are Always On My Mind", "Blue, Blue Eyes", "Headin' Up the Santa Fe Trail")
1947Rainbow Over the Rockies
(writer: "Lonesome Trail", "Rainbow Over the Rockies" / performer: "Lonesome Trail", "A Song To Remember You By", "Rainbow Over the Rockies", "Git Along Little Dogies Whoopie Ti Yi Yo", "Cowboy's Dream")
1945Lonesome Trail
(performer: "Lonesome Trail", "Goodbye, Good Luck My Darling", "Too Bad, Little Girl, Too Bad")
1945Riders of the Dawn
(writer: "I'll Never Let You Go Little Darling" / performer: "Shame on You", "Tomorrow Never Comes", "I'll Never Let You Go Little Darling", "Sleep, Baby, Sleep", "Saddle Pals")
1945Saddle Serenade
(writer: "Stay Away From My Door", "Saddle Serenade", "Saddle Pals" / performer: "Cool Water", "Stay Away From My Door", "Saddle Serenade", "I've Got Nuggets In My Pocket", "Saddle Pals")
1945Springtime in Texas
(performer: "Saddle Pals", "You're the Sweetest Rose in Texas", "Good Bye, Good Bye")
1944Song of the Range
(writer: "Saddle Pals" / performer: "Saddle Pals", "Keep Rolling One", "When the Sunset Bids the Desert Goodnight", "Too Bad, Little Girl, Too Bad", "Good Morning Mr. Sunshine", "Goodbye, Old Pal")
1944I'm from Arkansas
(writer: "Whistlin' Down the Lane With You", "If You Can't Go Right, Don't Go Wrong" / performer: "You Are My Sunshine", "Don't Turn Me Down Little Darlin'", "Whistlin' Down the Lane With You")
1944Cowboy Canteen
(writer: "Walking Down the Lane With You" - uncredited)
1942Stardust on the Sage
(music: "I'll Never Let You Go, Little Darlin'" 1943? - uncredited / lyrics: "I'll Never Let You Go, Little Darlin'" 1943? - uncredited)
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