Remembering Tex Ritter, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Ray Price and Ruth Brown who were all born on this day. 1. Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid 1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is an early pioneer of country music and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. #TexRitter #musiclegend #countrymus

Tex Ritter rode out of East Texas with a big baritone and a saddle full of cowboy songs. Born in Murvaul, he became one of Hollywood’s go-to singing cowboys in the nineteen thirties and forties, starring in a long run of B-westerns that mixed dust, drawl, and frontier romance. His signature moment came in nineteen fifty-two with “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’),” the lone voice that opened the film and earned an Academy Award nomination. Ritter later helped shape the business side o