Spade Cooley
Sign in to saveAmerican big band leader, actor, television personality (1910–1969)
Person
- Born
- 1910-12-17
- Died
- 1969-11-23
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Spade Cooley (Donnell Clyde Cooley, Grand, Oklahoma, December 17, 1910 – Oakland, California, November 23, 1969) was an American, Western Swing fiddler, singer and big band leader and also songwriter, actor, and television personality. His career ended in 1961 when he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans. Cooley, being part Cherokee, was sent to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon to be educated. Around 1930 his family fled the Dust Bowl for Cali
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5 total works indexed
- An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series
· 1965 · cited 9,525x
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America
· 2019 · cited 3,036x
- Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry
· 2008 · cited 3,006x
- Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic
· 2006 · cited 1,744x
- Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO
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· 2015 · cited 1,254x
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 December 1910
- Died
- 23 November 1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Oklahoma
- Place of death
- Vacaville
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Western swing
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Categories
1910 births1969 deaths20th-century American fiddlers20th-century American singer-songwritersAmerican bandleadersAmerican country fiddlersAmerican country singer-songwritersAmerican people convicted of murderAmerican people who died in prison custodyAmerican people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descentAmerican prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment