Jimmy Wakely
Sign in to saveAmerican actor, songwriter, country Western music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys (1914-1982)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1914-02-16
- Active to
- 1982-09-23
Discography
- An Old Fashioned Christmas With
- Cimarron, Roll On / Maria Elena1940
- Too Late / Poor Little Rose1940
- I'll Never Let You Go / There Ain't Gonna Be No Me1941
- After Tomorrow / Gone and Left Me Blues1941
- Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You / Little Sweetheart (I Miss You)1941
- I Don't Want Your Sympathy / I Love You So Much It Hurts1948
- Slipping Around / Wedding Bells1949
- A Bushel and a Peck / Beyond the Reef1950
- Broken Down Merry-Go-Round / The Gods Were Angry With Me1950
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- 36,517
- Total plays
- 162,914
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(b Feb 16 1914, died Sept. 23 1982). Seminal country western hitmaker of the 1940's who was signed first to Decca, and later joined Capitol. Wakely also had a national radio show that ran until the 1960's on CBS. His early hits on Decca included 'Too Late', 'Cimmaron', 'Cattle Call', and the WWII patriotic song 'There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere'. While with Capitol he also crossed over onto the Pop charts and recorded seven duets with Margaret Whiting including 'Slippin' Around'
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5 total works indexed
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,263x
- Review of Particle Physics
· 2018 · cited 5,728x
- An approach to correlate tandem mass spectral data of peptides with amino acid sequences in a protein database
· 1994 · cited 5,717x
- Role of YAP/TAZ in mechanotransduction
· 2011 · cited 5,569x
- Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
· 2006 · cited 5,272x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Howard County
- Place of death
- Mission Hills
- Occupation
- singing cowboy
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Dot Records
- Image
- Jimmy Wakely in I'm from Arkansas.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1914-02-16
- date of death
- 1982-09-25
- cause of death
- pulmonary emphysema
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- birth name
- James Clarence Wakely
- name in native language
- Jimmy Wakely
- writing language
- English language
- Commons category
- Jimmy Wakely
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