Profile
Jimmy Wakely
Country-western Singer and Actor
Male
Born
Feb 16, 1914
Hometown
Howard County, Ar...
Died
Sep 23, 1982
Death Place
Mission Hills, Ca...
Other Names
Wakeley, James Cl...
James Clarence Wakeley, better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies… Read More
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Jimmy Wakely.
CHILDHOOD
1914
Birth
Born on February 16, 1914.
TWENTIES
1937
23 Years Old
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1937, Wakely formed The Bell Boys, a country Western singing group named after their Bell Clothing sponsor.
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1939
25 Years Old
In 1939, Wakely made his screen debut (with the Jimmy Wakely Trio) in a Roy Rogers Western, Saga of Death Valley.
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During a tour through Oklahoma, Western movie star Gene Autry invited Wakely to come to California. Autry felt the group might be a good addition to his new Melody Ranch radio show which debuted on CBS in January 1940.
1941
27 Years Old
He stayed for a couple of years, then left because of movie commitments and a recording contract with Decca Records that ran from 1941 - 1942 through 1947.
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1942
28 Years Old
Wakely made only one film with Autry, Heart of the Rio Grande, at Republic in 1942.
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THIRTIES
He appeared in 28 Westerns at Monogram between 1944 and 1949.
FORTIES
1958
44 Years Old
He also had one of the last live network radio programs at the NBC radio studios at the corner of Sunset and Vine in Hollywood, California in 1958.
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FIFTIES
1971
57 Years Old
Wakely was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971 and the Western Music Association Hall of Fame in 1991.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
After contracting emphysema, Wakely died of heart failure at Mission Hills, California on September 23, 1982.
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