Noble Ray Price (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013)

Songs released by Ray Price include "Heartaches by the Number" (1959) 
and "Crazy Arms” (1956). In 1996 he was inducted into the Country Music
Hall of Fame.

Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter)
(January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974)

Tex Ritter, America’s singing cowboy, sang”Deck of Cards” (1948
and “High Noon”, the theme from the movie of the same name. He
is a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and was the first artist
signed to Capitol Records.

The TV series ran from September 10, 1955, to March 31, 1975, on CBS
with 635 total episodes.

The radio series of Gunsmoke first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952 with the
episode "Billy the Kid", written by Walter Newman. The show ended on June
18, 1961. It starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear
as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as
Dillon’s assistant Chester Wesley Proudfoot.

William Conrad and Georgia Ellis

Conrad (right) talking with the sound effects man

Cast and crew going over the script for an episode of Gunsmoke

Howard McNear, William Conrad, Parley Baer, and Georgia Ellis

Death Valley Days originated as an anthology series on the NBC Blue Radio
network. It featured true stories of the old West, particularly the Death Valley
area in California. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was aired 
on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated TV series. 

Tonight’s Broadcast "The Burro Who Had No Name"
Original Air Date: June 17, 1938
Episode Number: 398

Jack Macbryde was the Old Ranger, the host
of the radio program

Clayton Moore

(September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999)

Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago,
Illinois. He is best remembered as playing ABC 
TV’s masked man, The Lone Ranger that aired
for eight seasons, from 1949 to 1957. Before
fame, Clayton Moore became a circus acrobat,
performing a trapeze act in various expositions
and shows at age 8.