Pinto Pete and His Ranch Boys: “ep004 First Song - The Old Pine Tree”, first broadcast in 1950. Old-time radio music and variety.

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Pinto Pete and his ranch boys gather around the chuck wagon and campfire at the H Bar Two outfit after a day on the trail. Their evening is filled with music, as a song drifts through the night and the cowboys trade stories and tunes. Ragtime Cowboy Joe, a well-known figure of the range, is remembered in verse as a singer who entertained his companions with cattle songs. The ranch hands tease Shug, who sits quiet and homesick, and urge Jerry to play his fiddle. Their talk turns to home, saddles, and the open range, with songs about Texas and the simple comforts of a campfire at the end of a long day.

With Pinto Pete, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Shug, Curly, Jerry, Peter Holligan.

Listen for: The ranch hands' songs and the fiddle tune, and the teasing of Shug as he sits homesick by the fire.

First aired in 1950.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Pinto Pete rides into a campfire gathering of his ranch boys and their visiting friends, where the group sings and plays together under a starry western sky. The cowboys trade songs around the chuck wagon, and Pete calls for favorites such as The Roaming Cowboy, a lonesome ballad about a rough, careless rider who has lost his heart to a visiting city girl. The songs move from sentimental verses about the sea and home to livelier tunes played on fiddle, banjo, and guitar. The scene closes with Pete recalling his old Blue Ridge Mountain home. This is the first song segment of the episode.

With Pinto Pete, Ranch Boys.

Listen for: Pinto Pete's invitation to the boys to tune up and sing The Roaming Cowboy, and the lyrics about the cowboy who falls for the city girl

First aired in 1950.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 60 free 24/7 channels and 188 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.