Prairie Ramblers - Cowboy Santa Claus (Monument Valley Snow)

The Prairie Ramblers started in 1933 and began broadcasting on Chicago radio station WLS-AM with new vocalist Patsy Montana. They continued performing and recording under this name until 1952, playing country, hillbilly music, gospel, and pop songs. They were the backing group on Montana's platinum hit "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart." Group members included Jack Taylor on bass, Chick Hurt on mandolin, and Alan Crocket and, later, Tex Atchison on fiddle.

The Prairie Ramblers made over 100 recordings between 1933 and 1940, including as session musicians. The Prairie Ramblers were one of the popular groups on WLS and the Barn Dance. Back in 1938, they were selected by listeners as one of the top 3 acts on WLS. While a member of the Prairie Ramblers, Holmes befriended Gene Autry, who invited him to Hollywood to star in Westerns in 1936 and 1944; among the films Holmes appeared in are Arizona Days and Saddle Leather Law. In a scene of Arizona Days, Holmes played two harmonicas using his mouth and nose. The Prairie Ramblers also backed Autry on some of his recordings.
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MONUMENT VALLEY

Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, adverts and holiday brochures. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit, but it is soon evident that the natural colors really are as bright and deep as those in all the pictures. The valley is not a valley in the conventional sense, but rather a wide flat, sometimes desolate landscape, interrupted by the crumbling formations rising hundreds of feet into the air, the last remnants of the sandstone layers that once covered the entire region.

[RemoSchorel]

Bedankt voor het compliment. Het is voor mij alweer heel wat jaren geleden dat ik bij Monument Valley was maar de herinnering staat nog altijd op mijn netvlies gebrand.

[JeannetteK]

Geweldig om Monument Valley te zien met sneeuw en mijn dochter zal zeker verrast zijn van deze beelden die ze deze zomer in de hitte gezien heeft. Gelukkig Kerstfeest. ♥♥Jeannette♥♥