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Old 04-17-2020, 05:52   #15
Ret10Echo
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Originally Posted by Stobey View Post
I loved Gunsmoke as a kid. Still do. About Festus (Ken Curtis), does anyone remember that he had a damn good singing voice?
A tenor he was, and very good. It was in the John Wayne western, Rio Grande, that he sang. (He might have been in other John Wayne cavalry westerns as well.) The song was "Down by the Glenside. You'd never know he was Festus Hagen from that voice.

https://www.youknow.com/watch?v=5jwPVe_sWa8

(Change "youknow" in the link to the link I can't link.)
Lead Singer from the "Son's of the Pioneers".
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