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From: "jcurtis" <>
Subject: Re: [BS-L] Spade Cooley/band member Smokey Rogers
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:22:44 -0600


I was in Thailand in 1970 (Vietnam War), so guess I missed out on the
Cooley-Tex Willaims broha.

Jan C.

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From: J. Garland <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [BS-L] Spade Cooley/band member Smokey Rogers


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>Cooley died, about 1970, the year before he would have got out on parole.
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>It was Cooley that fired Tex Williams, and the band went with Williams,
too.
>Sounds like Cooley's life went down hill from that point on.
>
>Jan G.
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>----Original Message Follows----
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>To:
>Subject: Re: [BS-L] Spade Cooley/band member Smokey Rogers
>Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 00:40:34 EDT
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>In a message dated 5/1/2002 9:26:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
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> > What happened to Spade Cooley? Who was Smokey Rogers? Country Western?
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> > Jan C.
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>Spade went to prison for LIFE, I don't know if he is still in, dead or
>released.
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>William Smokey Rogers was a band leader of the Sons of the Pioneers, Roy
>Roger's back up group when he sang. He was famous for firing Tex Williams.
>Tex went solo and made his own carreer. WESTERN, not "Country/Western".
>ballads and such.
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