Tex Ritter
Tex Ritter was born in Murvaul, Texas, Texas, United States on January 12th, 1905 and is the Country Singer. At the age of 68, Tex Ritter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905-2004) was an American country music performer and actor known from the mid 1930s to the 1960s, as well as the Ritter's patriarch (son John and grandsons Jason and Tyler).
He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Early life
Woodward Maurice Ritter was born in Murvaul, Texas, on January 12, 1905, to Martha Elizabeth (née Matthews) and James Everett Ritter. He grew up on his family's farm in Panola County, Texas, and attended grade school in Carthage, Texas. He attended South Park High School in Beaumont, Texas. He joined the University of Texas in 1922 to study pre-law and major in government, political science, and economics after graduating with honors. He attended Northwestern Law School after traveling to Chicago with a musical group.
Personal life
Ritter had a heart attack and died in Nashville in 1974, ten days before his 69th birthday. He was survived by his wife and two sons, one of whom was a well-known actor John. Following John's death in 2003 from an aortic dissection, his family now believes Tex died of it as well, as the disease seems to run in the family.
Career
Ritter, a pioneer of country music, became interested in show business shortly. He appeared on KPRC-AM in Houston, Texas, a 30-minute program of mostly cowboy songs. He migrated to New York City and got a job in the men's chorus of Broadway's show The New Moon (1928). Cord Elam appeared in the Broadway production Green Grow the Lilacs (1931), which was the basis for the musical Oklahoma! He appeared in Sagebrush Charlie (1932) and Mother Lode (1934).
On WOR-AM, where he performed and told tales of the Old West, he appeared in New York City's first broadcast Western, The Lone Star Rangers. Ritter produced and appeared in Cowboy Tom's Roundup on WINS-AM in 1933, a daily children's cowboy show on WINS-AM broadcasting over two other East Coast stations for three years. He appeared on WHN Barndance and performed on NBC Radio shows; and appeared in numerous radio dramas, including CBS's Bobby Benson's Adventures.
Ritter moved to Los Angeles in 1936. In Song of the Gringo (1936) for Grand National Pictures, his motion picture debut was made. He went on to appear in 70 films as an actor and 76 on movie soundtracks. In 1952, he drew particular notice over the opening credits of the legendary film High Noon, and later performed it at the Academy Awards ceremony, where it received Best Original Song.
Ritter's recording career was his most lucrative period. He was the first artist to sign with Capitol Records, which had just launched.
With "I'm Wastin' My Tears on You," he scored a hit on the country chart and at number one on the pop chart and number 11 on the pop chart in 1944. Billboard's adhocrean an article 14 years ago said he "discovered the style of rhythmic music that would guarantee his musical fame" with that album.
For the film High Noon, Ritter produced "The Ballad of High Noon." It was on the track at the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, and it was named Best Song of the Year.
Ritter first made television appearances on the new medium when television began to compete with movies for American viewers following 71 consecutive movie appearances. He first appeared on radio and television in Los Angeles in 1953. He co-hosted Ranch Party, a syndicated version of the event in 1957. He made his national television debut on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in 1955 and was one of five rotating hosts for the 1959 NBC-TV spin-off, Five Star Jubilee.
Ritter was one of the founding members of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee, and he was instrumental in the establishment of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which he was inducted in 1964.
He moved to Nashville in 1965 and began working with WSM Radio and the Grand Ole Opry, winning a lifetime membership in the former in 1970.