The Old West of Hollywood, that is. During the 1940s, Carson was a member of The Sons of the Pioneers, the singing group that backed up movie cowboy Roy Rogers. Carson made 22 movies with Rogers ...

see the singing cowboy films of the 1930s and ‘40s. Nowadays, Western films and television series rely on moral relativity and violence to paint a brutally honest picture of the Old West.

It was "In Old Arizona," and Warner Baxter sang in it. And it was so that - and it won an Oscar. And so it was the first sound Western was the singing cowboy Western (laughter), and people ...