Rex Allen
Rex Elvie Allen Sr. (December 31, 1920 – December 17, 1999), known as "the Arizona Cowboy", was an American film and television actor, singer and songwriter; he was also the narrator of many Disney nature and Western productions. For his contributions to the film industry, Allen received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975, located at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard. |
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Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | D7VB-1100 | 10" | 10/24/1947 | Hawaiian cowboy | Roy Rogers | Male vocal solo,with instrumental ensemble | songwriter | |
| Victor | D9VB-0398 | 10-in. | 3/7/1949 | Lord protect my darling | Dave Denney | Male vocal solo, with string band | songwriter | |
| Columbia | HCO2246 | 10-in. | 3/5/1947 | A broken promise means a broken heart | Gene Autry | String band, with male vocal solo | songwriter | |
| Decca | 82442 | 2/20/1952 | Rack up the ball boys | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | 85390 | 10/16/1953 | Where did my snowman go? | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | 85391 | 10/16/1953 | Why, Daddy?-1 | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7635 | 4/16/1954 | Chapel of memories | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7636 | 4/16/1954 | In the chapel in the moonlight | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7780 | 8/3/1954 | This ole house | Rex Allen ; Tex Williams | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7781 | 8/3/1954 | Air mail special | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7782 | 8/3/1954 | Two Texas boys | Rex Allen ; Tex Williams | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7783 | 8/4/1954 | You took my name-1 | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7784 | 8/4/1954 | The song that broke my heart | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7785 | 8/4/1954 | Tomorrow's just another day | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 7786 | 8/4/1954 | I'm learning to live without you | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8518 | 6/26/1955 | Daddy, you know what | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8766 | 10/7/1955 | Twilight on the trail | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8767 | 10/7/1955 | The last roundup | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8768 | 10/7/1955 | I'm a young cowboy | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8769 | 10/7/1955 | Ole faithful | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8853 | 12/13/1955 | Sky boss-1 | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 8854 | 12/13/1955 | The last frontier | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9235 | 5/16/1956 | The railroad corral | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9236 | 5/16/1956 | The trail of the lonesome pine | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9237 | 5/16/1956 | Nothin' to do | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9238 | 5/16/1956 | Too lee roo um | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9239 | 5/16/1956 | At the rainbow's end | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9240 | 5/16/1956 | Rocky mountain lullaby | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9628 | 10/17/1956 | Wringle wrangle | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9629 | 10/17/1956 | I'm lonely my darlin' | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9630 | 10/17/1956 | Westward ho the wagons! | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9631 | 10/17/1956 | Ballad of John Colter | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9792 | 1/7/1957 | Drango | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 9793 | 1/7/1957 | Little white horse | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 10175 | 5/20/1957 | Flower of San Antone | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | L 10176 | 5/20/1957 | The 3.10 to Yuma | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2523 | 10/31/1951 | Ragtime melody | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2524 | 10/31/1951 | Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2525 | 10/31/1951 | Till the well runs dry | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2526 | 10/31/1951 | The waltz of the roses | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2527 | 11/1/1951 | I've got so many million years (that I can count them) | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2528 | 11/1/1951 | As long as the river flows on | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2529 | 11/1/1951 | Take me Lord | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2530 | 11/1/1951 | Is he satisfied | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2531 | 11/1/1951 | I thank the Lord | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2754 | 7/11/1952 | Two-faced clock | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2755 | 7/11/1952 | Jambalaya (on the bayou) | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2756 | 7/12/1952 | No one will ever know | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2757 | 7/12/1952 | Knockin' on the door | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2758 | 7/12/1952 | Hootin' and howlin' | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 2759 | 7/12/1952 | Why, my darlin', why | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3046 | 5/6/1953 | At your command | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3047 | 5/6/1953 | You started honky tonkin' | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3048 | 5/6/1953 | L-O-N-E-S-O-M-E letter blues | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3056 | 6/5/1953 | Bringing home the bacon | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3057 | 6/5/1953 | The end of the world | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3058 | 6/5/1953 | Crying in the chapel | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3133 | 9/21/1953 | I could cry my heart out | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3134 | 9/21/1953 | [Unknown title(s)] | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3135 | 9/21/1953 | Somewhere-1 | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3136 | 9/21/1953 | The mystery of his way | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3137 | 9/21/1953 | [Unknown title(s)] | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3138 | 9/21/1953 | I know the reason why | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 3139 | 9/21/1953 | He played a steel guitar | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | BR 9005 | 9/20/1953 | To be alone | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | BR 9006 | 9/20/1953 | If God can forgive you | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9138 | 6/2/1955 | That's what makes the juke box play | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9139 | 6/2/1955 | Sheltered in the arms of the old rugged cross | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9140 | 6/4/1955 | The albino (pink eyed) Stallion | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9141 | 6/4/1955 | Pedro Gonzales Tennessee Lopez | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9142 | 6/4/1955 | By degrees | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9143 | 6/4/1955 | You're free to go | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9535 | 11/4/1956 | Blue dream | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9785 | 4/14/1957 | Money, marble and chalk | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9786 | 4/14/1957 | All cried out | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9787 | 4/14/1957 | Old as the hills | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 9788 | 4/14/1957 | The blue light waltz | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10144 | 2/21/1958 | Hoosen Johnny | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10145 | 2/21/1958 | Sleep Little Moses | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10146 | 2/21/1958 | Curtains of night | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10147 | 2/21/1958 | The cowboy's dream | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10148 | 2/21/1958 | Lonesome valley | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10149 | 2/21/1958 | Feeling bad | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10150 | 2/22/1958 | Cindy | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10151 | 2/22/1958 | On top of Old Smokey | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10152 | 2/22/1958 | Old Joe Clark | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10153 | 2/22/1958 | Alla en el Rancho Grande | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10154 | 2/23/1958 | Knock knock rattle | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10155 | 2/23/1958 | A woman (can change a man) | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10156 | 2/23/1958 | The waltz that never ends | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10157 | 2/23/1958 | Scarlet woman | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10158 | 2/23/1958 | Invitation to the blues | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10159 | 2/24/1958 | Sweet Betsy from Pike | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10160 | 2/24/1958 | Softly and tenderly | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10161 | 2/24/1958 | Rarin' to go | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 10162 | 2/24/1958 | Prayer of the frontier doctor | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15091 | 3/27/1968 | Because you love me | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15092 | 3/27/1968 | Jose Vilia Lobo Alfredo Thomaso Vincente Lopez | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15093 | 3/27/1968 | Tiny bubbles | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15094 | 3/27/1968 | Skip a rope | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15095 | 3/28/1968 | Here comes my baby | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15096 | 3/28/1968 | You've still got a place in my heart | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15097 | 3/28/1968 | My own peculiar way | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15098 | 3/28/1968 | Little green apples | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15099 | 3/29/1968 | Honey | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15100 | 3/29/1968 | Ain't that easy to forget | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15101 | 3/29/1968 | All the time | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15102 | 3/29/1968 | True to you | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15277 | 9/17/1968 | When I leave this world behind | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15278 | 9/17/1968 | Bummin' around | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15279 | 9/17/1968 | It happens over and over again | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15280 | 9/17/1968 | Sai finis | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15698 | 8/8/1969 | Ain't that beautiful singing | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15699 | 8/8/1969 | Keep me in mind | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15700 | 8/8/1969 | A voice | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15930 | 3/6/1970 | The touch of God's hand | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15931 | 3/6/1970 | This world is not my home | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15932 | 3/6/1970 | Precious memories | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15938 | 3/10/1970 | When God dips His love in my heart | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15939 | 3/10/1970 | Supper time | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15940 | 3/10/1970 | Less of me | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15941 | 3/10/1970 | He's got the whole world in His hands | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15945 | 3/11/1970 | Wasted years | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15946 | 3/11/1970 | God walk these hills with me | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15947 | 3/11/1970 | Daddy sang bass | Rex Allen | vocalist | |||
| Decca | NA 15948 | 3/11/1970 | Just a closer walk with Thee | Rex Allen | vocalist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Allen, Rex," accessed November 10, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108037.
Allen, Rex. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 10, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/108037.
"Allen, Rex." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 10 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Allen, Rex, 1920-1999 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87136308
Wikidata: Rex Allen - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1374215
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/46945414
MusicBrainz: Rex Allen - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4782b84f-201b-4d7a-b142-04a8bf6bdd3b
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