#sons of the pioneers

[thinkbolt]

Pecos Bill (Disney, 1948)

[odk-2]

Sons of the Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1934) Bob Nolan from: "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" / "Moonlight on the Prairie"

Country and Western | Cowboy Song | Western Song (from back when there was "Western" in Country and Western)

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Tim Spencer: Vocals Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers): Rhythm Guitar / Harmony Vocals Bob Nolan: String Bass / Harmony Vocals Hugh Farr: Fiddle Karl Farr: Guitar

Recorded: @ The Decca Studios on August 8, 1934 in Los Angeles, California USA

Released: on November 10, 1934

Decca Records

Grammy Hall of Fame (2002) Library of Congress' National Recording Registry (2010)

[laikuh]

i would also like to shout out the soundtrack to this movie.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

original title card for Melody Time (1948) with a cast that includes Sons of the Pioneers. Winnipeg's Bob Nolan, leader of the Sons, is narrator and singer in the Pecos Bill segment. This is Bob's second honorable mention, after My Pal Trigger, also with Roy Rogers.

[iskra8]

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

[wastehound-voof]

Sons of the Pioneers - Cowboy Jubilee

[cdchyld]

Added to the Vintage shop!

~ Sons of the Pioneers Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Cool Clear Water LP Vinyl Records (1969/1960)

[bigblue61]

This week sail on down the lane with Laibach, Propaganda, Heaven 17, Nitin Sawney, Mogwai, Sons of the Pioneers, Firestations, Melody Beecher, Ernest Hood, Terror Firma, CHRLY, Joyce Moreno with Mauricio Maestro, Ron Geesin, Transglobal Underground, Charlie Parr and Marika Takeuchi.

[jt1674]

[lee-kangin]

nice one, sonny. 🇰🇷❤️

[sleepynegress]

Rewatching Prodigal Son while waiting for this melatonin to work. This show was borderline camp, given how unhinged Malcolm Bright was played, the bug eyes, the tieing to the bed, the outcrazing serial killers to catch them.... It was wild. A real shame, the cast had a lot of charm. I wish it had gotten one more renewal.

[polaroidsofjapan]

David Sylvian, ca. 1982. Photographer not known.

[muirneach]

i believe it

[dduane]

"Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to actor Jack Black.

"Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of women in the workplace, and actor Jack Black's mother. From an obituary written by her son Neil Siegel after her death in 2016:

“'My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career. When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely. Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a "thank you" [visit] to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.'”

"She finished her engineering career running the systems engineering for the science ground facility of the Hubble Space Telescope.

"During her engineering career, she was a vigorous and tireless advocate of better treatment for women in the workplace. Many things that today we consider routine - the posting of job openings inside of a company so that anyone could apply, formal job descriptions for every position, and so forth - were her creations. She had a profound impact on equality in the workforce.

(via @historyinmemes at Twitter)

[britishchick09]

something’s up with those captions...

[vintagelasvegas]

State Line Chevron & Bar, c. 1960s Whiskey Pete's restaurant, State Line (Primm), Nevada, 1983

Postcard & photo from Felix Lenox, Nevada Armored Transport. 

When U.S. Route 91 was established in the 1920s along the Nevada-California border, "Whiskey Pete" McIntyre opened the State Line service station. McIntyre shot a man at the station, spent time in a sanatorium, and was buried on the property when he died. On his deathbed Pete made a request: "Bury me up on the hill, standing up facing the valley so I can see all those sons of bitches goin' by."

The land was later owned by gaming pioneer Ernest Primm, who opened Whiskey Pete's in '77. It was a casino with a 12-room motel, and a coffee shop. A hotel tower was added in the 80s. The business passed on the son Gary, whose Primm Valley Resorts opened Primadonna and Buffalo Bill’s casinos in the 90s and renamed the area Primm.

As the decade passed the exact location of Whiskey Pete's burial site was lost. Workers grading a railroad track linking the resorts in '94 accidentally uncovered his coffin and remains.

"The tractor caught the edge of the box and the skull popped out," said the project manager Bruce Sedlacek. "There was Whiskey Pete staring at us."

Sedlacek said the coffin was about 80 percent intact and buried "at an angle" to the highway. The remains were moved to another burial site on the property.

Whiskey Pete McIntyre faces Charge. Review-Journal, 3/26/31; Whiskey Pete Is Freed of Insanity Count. Review-Journal, 10/15/32; Whiskey Pete Can Stand in Grave in Peace. Review-Journal, 2/10/41; D. Palermo. Remains of Whiskey Pete Found. Review-Journal, 2/5/94; L. Benston. Primm's Lure: Freebies. Las Vegas Sun, 7/2/2009.