Its Western Wednesdays again. This song is copyrighted and I have found that the surest way to not get a vid rejected by DaMn is to be sure that it IS coyrighted. LOL.
Ruby Blevins aka Patsy Montana was born in Beaudry, Arkansas in 1908. In 1929, she travelled to California to study violin at the University of the West. Ruby won a local talent contest yodeling, singing and playing the guitar. Her prize was a spot on The breakfast Club on KNX, 1070, Hollywood. She travelled to the Chicago World's Fair with her brothers in 1933 to enter a watermelon in the fruit judging contest and meet two pen pals who claimed to be from Muleshoe, Texas, Millie and Dollie Good. Mildred and Dorothy were really two farm gals from the Illinois plains. While in Chicago, she auditioned for a singing role but began giggling during her song. The talent scout thought it was part of her act and fell in love with her "unique" style. She won a spot as the female singer for the Prairie Ramblers on powerful WLS, 1090, Chicago. The Prairie Ramblers would accompany her ARC, Decca, and RCA Victor recordings. In 1935, during the depths of the recession she had a million seller with "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart"-the first female artist to acheive that level. Patsy worked with gene Autry and made a movie with him~Colorado Sunset~ in 1939. She also worked with Red Foley and her pen pals, Millie and Dollie who now billed themselves as The Girls of the Golden West, which does sound better than the girls of the Illinois prairie. Patsy was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996. She died in California in 1996.
