Smith Ballew & His Orch. - Time On My Hands, 1931

Smith Ballew & His Orchestra - Time On My Hands, Columbia 1931

NOTE: Smith (Sykes) Ballew (1902 1984) was an American actor, singer, and orchestra leader born in Palestine, Texas. He attended Austin College and the University of Texas. He began his singing career on the radio and in the late 1920s he became one of the most recognizable vocalists on hundreds of dance band and jazz records (during this time, Ballew along with Scrappy Lambert, Dick Robertson, and Chick Bullock were the most prolific vocalists). In the early 1930s had his own band. Between 1929 and 1935, scores of records were issued under his own name for OKeh, the dime store labels (Banner, Domino, Jewel, Regal, Perfect, Oriole as Buddy Blue & His Texans or Jack Blue's Texans), Columbia, and Crown. In the 1930s Smith Ballew became one of the earliest of the singing cowboys on the movie screen. He did a series of musical Westerns for Paramount Pictures and one for 20th Century Fox, continuing in supporting roles until the 1950s. He died at the age of 82 in Longview, Texas.

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