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Specialists in cowboy ballads .. ;S
Linden's Rootin', Tootin' Cowboys
The Western Rangers Had One Close
Shave ... on a Trenton Radio Station
PAT SKILL
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those Western laments in which, Smokey and Cy (as straight man)
HE guy moot lik&ly to sound for some reason, the cowboy hard- do a hillbilly comedy act, the
off with reams of advice on ly ever gets the gal. By the time Toothless Twins. They look so
marriage usually turns out to be Smokey was in high school he
different as the twins that even
a bachelor; the man who really was doing radio programs.
knows the player was safe on. first
people who know Smokey well
isn't the umpire, he's the fan. in Smokey, however, wasn't satis- have asked inm if he'd mind get-
the last row of the bleacher*. And fied with, being a lone ranger, H« ting the twins' autographs for
Western music hot off the range persuaded his brother, Mike, to them.
doesn't come from bow-legged make it a duet. The two appeared
cowpokes. but from Shorty War- wherever they could—at dances, Shorty and Smokey do their
ren and hie Western Rangers— on the radio, on amateur hours. own arrangements and compose
rootin', tootin', subway-ridin' cow-
eome of their numbers. One of
boys whose cattle herdin' is con- The music sounded pretty good their latest songs, written in colfined
to corralling hamburgers in- to Shorty. So good, in fact, that laboration with Mickey Homick,
to rolls.
he decided to give up his grocery concerns that historical old West-
store and butcher shop. By then, ern landmark, the Jersey Cecitral,
Currently, Shorty and his boys the boys were so Western that
father 'round the electric lights they never, well, ihardly ever, had Cowboys, if you can believe the
.(Eastern fire commissioners 'are to stop and think before saying Westerns, live in constant danger
stuffy about eamp