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Roy Rogers Old Time Radio

30 minute western/variety show

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Roy Rogers with the Sons of the Pioneers

Roy Rogers with the Sons of the Pioneers

"King of the Cowboys"

Roy Rogers, known as the “King of the Cowboys” was born Leonard Slye in 1911 in Cincinatti. He passed away in 1998, just a few months before fellow singing cowboy legend Gene Autrey. The Slyes lived a somewhat vagabond life. Traveling around the country trying to find steady and good employment. The Slyes survived floods, factories closing, false employment leads, and other difficulties. Roy found himself traveling to California as part of the great Okie migration to find a job. Rogers later read John Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' and commented on its accuracy. In short, his early years were pretty rough. Deciding that his future in fruit picking and shoe factories (his job of choice to that point) was not for him, Roy turned to music. He had been entertaining his traveling companions with his guitar and voice all this time.

Roy's music career started in 1931 with a group called “Uncle Murray's Hollywood Hillbillies.” Deciding that no one in their right minds would listen to a band called that, Rogers played for several other cowboy music bands. Eventually Rogers settled in with a group called the “Sons of the Pioneers.” Then in 1937 due to a dispute between Gene Autrey and the bosses as Republic Pictures, Roy got his break in the movies, and changed his name from Slye to Roy Rogers. He went on to star in over 100 movies.



The early years of the radio show was basically a western variety/music show. Featuring Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers singing such songs as “Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Cool Waters and, Don't Fence Me In.. But over the years the show lost more of the music and gained more of the typical western storylines. Every good cowboy needs a good horse, and Roy's was his Palomino horse called Trigger. Trigger was so popular in the 1950s that he would occasionally leave Roy and star in his own adventures. And sometimes Trigger would pair up with Roy's German Shepherd dog, Bullet. You would think that a cowboy with both a horse and a dog might not need a woman, but Roy teamed up with singer and cowgirl Dale "Queen of the West" Evans. Dale co-starred in Roy's movies, and played a similar girlfriend role in these radio programs. Dale was considered the most popular woman in Westerns and she wrote the couples theme song "Happy Trails". After Roy's wife Arlene died, Roy and Dale got married in 1947 and stayed together for the rest of his life, Dale passed away in 2001.
The episodes in this collection are mostly of the later years, relegating the music sometime to just a song at the end. But no matter the episode, they almost all end with

Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again...

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All of our Old Time Radio Programs are in MP3 format. You can play them on your computer, you can transfer them to MP3 players (like the IPod), but, by and large, you cannot play them on stereos, walkmen, or car radios.

The sound quality of Old Time Radio Programs can vary greatly. Some episodes are excellent, others you have to turn up the volume a little and ignore the static. All of the episodes can be listened to and enjoyed. You can listen to our free samples to get a feel for how the programs sound.

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Episode List


roy-rogers_450130 -11 -Tom Barnes - Texas Ranger.mp3
roy-rogers_450508 (25) Porter Hall, Villain.mp3
roy-rogers_450508 Legend of Pecos Bill.mp3
roy-rogers_480328 (Aud) The Case of the Mysterious Puppet.mp3
roy-rogers_480328 Audition bloopers and false starts.mp3
roy-rogers_490508 -37 -Pacos Bill.mp3
roy-rogers_510304 (127) Wagon Raiders.mp3
roy-rogers_511012 -02 -Ed Bailey's Bad Luck.mp3
roy-rogers_511019 -03 -Night Riders.mp3
roy-rogers_511026 -04 -Old Prospecting Friends.mp3
roy-rogers_511102 Doug Manson Gang.mp3
roy-rogers_511109 After Counterfeiters.mp3
roy-rogers_511116 -07 -Lawman's Badge.mp3
roy-rogers_511123 DeBona Gang.mp3
roy-rogers_511130 The Map.mp3
roy-rogers_511207 (10) Eight Convicts.mp3
roy-rogers_511214 (11) Bribe.mp3
roy-rogers_511221-012-Prodigal.mp3
roy-rogers_511228-013-The_De_Bona_Gang.mp3
roy-rogers_520104-014-Andy_Sales.mp3
roy-rogers_520111 Cattle Swindle.mp3
roy-rogers_520118 Owlhoot Trail.mp3
roy-rogers_520125 Wake of the Storm.mp3
roy-rogers_520201 Rustlers in Paradise Valley.mp3
roy-rogers_520208 The Jinxed Ranch.mp3
roy-rogers_520215 (20) Gold Camp and Winding Creek.mp3
roy-rogers_520222 (21) Hideaway.mp3
roy-rogers_520229 (22) Professor Douglas Manson.mp3
roy-rogers_520307 (23) On the Lookout for John Kennedy.mp3
roy-rogers_520314 (24) The Lee Burlough Gang.mp3
roy-rogers_520321 (25) Herb Selby and Counterfeit Money.mp3
roy-rogers_520328 (26) Salted Desert Property.mp3
roy-rogers_520404 (27) Old Sid Kenyon Rustlers.mp3
roy-rogers_520411 (28) Rene Eigan Case.mp3
roy-rogers_520828 (01) Paradise Valley Sweepstakes.mp3
roy-rogers_520904 (02) Stolen Diamonds in Hollowed Steer Horn.mp3
roy-rogers_520911 (03) Smuggled Pearls via Frozen Salmon.mp3
roy-rogers_520918 (04) Red Danger and Black Gold.mp3
roy-rogers_520925 (05) Rodeo Yarn.mp3
roy-rogers_521002 (06) Smuggling Aliens.mp3
roy-rogers_521009 (07) Fred App Wants to Buy the Ranch.mp3
roy-rogers_521016 (08) About Indians.mp3
roy-rogers_521023 (09) Lefty Roberts.mp3
roy-rogers_521030 (10) Wailing Gold Mine.mp3
roy-rogers_521106 (11) Range War.mp3
roy-rogers_521113 (12) Lefty Roberts.mp3
roy-rogers_521120 (13) Trigger Has Been Stolen.mp3
roy-rogers_521127 (14) Stealing Cattle by Whirly Bird.mp3
roy-rogers_521204 (15) The Last Coach.mp3
roy-rogers_521211 (16) The Boiling Treasure Chest.mp3
roy-rogers_521218 (17) White Buckskin Jacket.mp3
roy-rogers_521225 (18) The Night Before the Night Before Christmas.mp3
roy-rogers_530101 (19) Corky Lewis.mp3
roy-rogers_530108 (20) The Key.mp3
roy-rogers_530115 (21) The Gold Mine Spread.mp3
roy-rogers_530122 (22) The Cash and Carry Rodeo.mp3
roy-rogers_530129 (23) The Shack.mp3
roy-rogers_530205 (24) Fireworks.mp3
roy-rogers_530212 (25) Uranium Claim.mp3
roy-rogers_530219 (26) Happy Birthday, Sheriff.mp3
roy-rogers_530226 (27) Checkered Neckerchief.mp3
roy-rogers_530305 (28) Apache Grazing Land.mp3
roy-rogers_530312 (29) Domino.mp3
roy-rogers_530319 (30) Black Gold.mp3
roy-rogers_530326 (31) Rabies.mp3


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