Andy Devine??
Rob Black
"Pencil Thin Mustache".......
A couple of posts ago, Paul said that Andy Devine was a kids show host.
I was under the impression that Andy Devine was a sidekick to Gene Autry.
This is what some older people (no offense anyone over 40 8^) had told
me. In fact, I even told this to someone who asked over private e-mail (hi
ellen!). So before I get egg on my face, who's right?? Was Andy a kids show
host, Autry's sidekick, or both??? Inquiring minds want to know!! 8^)
Rob Black bl...@concert.net Raleigh, NC
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Paul Funk
Rob... we're both right. Before he hosted his show, he spent years as a
cowboy sidekick actor. I don't believe it was for Gene Autry though.
Autry's sidekick I think was Pat Buttram(sp?). I believe it was with Roy
Rodgers for a while.
---Paul
Dr. Strangelove
I also wondered who Andy Devine was, so I asked my Mom. She said he
was a side kick to Gene Autry. Then I thought out about it. I have
been to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in LA and I should have
remembered it from there. DAH! Also there is a Andy Devine BLVD in
Kingman Arizona, it's on of the main drags in town.
Ken
"Some white people can dance." To bad I'm not one of them.
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U.Wisconsin Milwaukee of Alaska, refering to an aerial wolf kill.
Major: Political Science track."
Why that Alias? From the Movie Dr. Strangelove.
Frank Zorn
Andy Devine was Wild Bill Hickok's side-kick, not Gene Autry's !!!!
(Wild Bill was played by Guy Madison, and I can still picture Andy
Devine riding his horse, yelling: "Wait for me, Wild Bill !!"
sund...@max.u.washington.edu
also was in a lot of movies. The one that comes immediately to mind is the
original "Stagecoach" starring John Wayne in 1939. But there were many more.
Sandi
(sometime parrothead and old movie fan)
Richard Nelson
>"Pencil Thin Mustache".......
Well, we did such a smashing job on Andy Devine, I thought I'd pose
a tougher one to the group....
Who is Jason Mason? He's in the first stanza of "That's what Living
Means to Me," so I thought he might be a Mark Twain character, but
after consultation with the resident Parrothead/Twain Scholar (Thanks,
Pam!), I find that there is no Jason Mason in any Twain work.
So, where's he come from??? Or is it just a euphonious name that
Jimmy made up?
With my luck, this'll open up another can of worms to read, just like
good ol' Travis McGee (I've read three since y'all got me started, and
the next three are sitting next to the bed, waiting for me to finish
"The Prince of Tides." Gee, where'd I get THAT idea?).
[Sheesh...the silly spell-checker doesn't know the words "Parrothead"
or "euphonious." :-) Or at least, it *didn't*....]
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