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Chanteuse
Country US née Ruby Agnes Owens, le 4 Juin 1908 à Wise County, près de Decatur
(Texas). Texas Ruby est décédée le 29 Mars 1963.
Ruby Agnes
Owens, known to country music fans as Texas Ruby, was born on June 4, 1908 in
Wise County, TX. Owens, raised on a cattle farm, came by her country music roots
naturally. "One day as a young girl," an early bio of Ruby noted, "she
accompanied her father and brothers on a cattle drive to Fort Worth..." Her
family was also musical. A niece, Laura Lee Owens, found fame singing with the Bob
Wills & His Texas Playboys, and her brother Tex wrote the cowboy standard "Cattle
Call." In many ways, Texas Ruby served as a transitional link between early
country stylings and the more modern honky tonk. "Her deep, almost masculine
alto was equally at home on blue yodels, honky-tonk cheatin' songs, old-time
ballads, vaudeville blues, and folk tunes," wrote Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K.
Oermann in Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music.
Texas Ruby's musical career received an inauspicious kick off. Having
accompanied her family to Fort Worth on a cattle drive in 1930, she and brothers
harmonized on the buckboard of a wagon while waiting for their father to finish
his business. Another cattle owner who also owned stock in Kansas City's KMBC
offered Ruby a job. By 1933 she had traveled to Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and
Detroit, eventually joining Zeke
Clements and his Bronco Busters and performing at the Grand Ole Opry. In the
mid-'30s, Texas Ruby and Clements auditioned
and won a spot on the popular WHO barn dance program in Des Moines, IA, and
remained on the program for the next two years. Texas Ruby also earned a
reputation as a hard living musician. "Offstage," wrote Bufwack and Oermann,
"Ruby was a hard-drinking, good-time mama with a cigarette in her red lips, a
rowdy laugh, and a heart of pure gold."
Underlying Ruby's "heart of gold," however, was also a fierce temper. While
working at WHO, she had a falling out with a then unknown radio announcer named Ronald
"Dutch" Reagan. "Not long after getting his ears scorched by Ruby's cussing,"
wrote Bufwack and Oermann, "the future president went west for a screen test." Ruby's
temper and hard-living lifestyle also had repercussions on her music career.
WBAP wanted to hire Texas Ruby and Clements,
but she arrived at a meeting with potential sponsors drunk. In 1937 Texas Ruby,
suffering from a hangover, also missed auditions for Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs (Clements yodeled
for Bashful). After this, Ruby and Clements went
their separate ways.
The same year, Texas Ruby teamed with fiddler Curley
Fox, and the couple married in 1939. Texas Ruby's greatest popularity
arrived during and after World War II, when she and Fox were
regulars on the Grand Ole Opry. She also recorded for major companies, including
Columbia (1945-1946) and King (1947). Texas Ruby died on Friday, March 29, 1963
in a trailer fire, shortly after making a comeback album with Fox.
"Shanty Street" was issued on a Starday label sampler posthumously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Ruby
Talents : Vocals, Guitar
Style musical : Traditional Country, Cowboy, Honky Tonk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aPYWBrX20
Don't Let That Man Get You Down
(1945)
 (Texas Ruby)
TRAVELLING
BLUES (1946)
WRECK OF THE 1256 (1948)
IT'S RAINING TEARDROPS IN MY HEART (1949)
LOVE ME NOW
(1963)
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Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
78 t. & Singles
| 05/1937 | 78 t. DECCA 5364 (US) | Pride Of The Prairie (Texas RUBY & ZEKE) / Blue Yodel No.1 (Texas RUBY) |
| 1945 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20011 (US) |
Don't Let That Man Get You Down
(Texas RUBY) / Don't You Lie To Me (Texas RUBY &
Curly FOX) |
| 12/1945 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 36901 (US) |
Texas Ruby with Curly FOX & His Fox Hunters - Don't Let That Man Get You Down / Don't You Lie To Me |
| 1946 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20104 (US) |
Travelling Blues
((Texas RUBY)
/ Letter That Broke My Heart (Texas RUBY &
Curly FOX) |
| 1946 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20123 (US) | Texas Ruby - Nobody Else But You / Ain't You Sorry That You Lied |
| 1946 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37075 (US) | Texas Ruby with Curly FOX & His Fox Hunters - Blue Love / The Old Home |
| 03/1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37272 (US) | Texas Ruby with Curly FOX & His Fox Hunters - Travelling Blues / Letter That Broke My Heart |
| 1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20364 (US) | Have You Got Someone Else On The String (Texas RUBY) / Even Though I'll Shed A Million Tears (Texas RUBY & Curly FOX) |
| 06/1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37385 (US) | Texas Ruby with Curly FOX & His Fox Hunters - Nobody Else But You / Ain't You Sorry That You Lied |
| 09/1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37879 (US) | Have You Got Someone Else On The String (Texas RUBY & Curly FOX) / Even Though I'll Shed A MillionTears (Texas RUBY) |
| 1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 20390 (US) | Have I Waited Too Long (Texas RUBY) / I'll Take Back All I Said (Texas RUBY & Curly FOX) |
| 12/1947 | 78 t. COLUMBIA 37982 (US) | Curly FOX & Texas RUBY - I'll Take Back All I've Said About You / Have I Waited Too Long To Regret? |
| 03/1948 | 78 t. KING 692 (US) | Curly FOX & Texas RUBY - It's Your Time To Be Blue / Soldier's Return |
| 06/1948 | 78 t. KING 716 (US) |
Curly FOX & Texas RUBY
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It's Over Forever /
Wreck Of The 1256
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| 11/1948 | 78 t. KING 746 (US) | Curly FOX & Texas RUBY - Teardrops And Empty Arms / You've Been Cheating On Me |
| 03/1949 | 78 t. KING 763 (US) |
Curly FOX & Texas RUBY -
Falling Leaf /
It's Raining Teardrops In My Heart
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| 06/1949 | 78 t. KING 786 (US) | Curly FOX & Texas RUBY - Those Dreams Are Gone / Code Of The Mountains |
| 10/1949 | 78 t. KING 808 (US) | Curly FOX & Texas RUBY - You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care) / If You Don't Want Me, Then Set Me Free |
| 1949 | 78 t. CORAL 64003 (US) | Texas RUBY & ZEKE - T For Texas / Pride Of The Prairie |
| 04/1963 | SP KING 45-5741 (US) |
Texas RUBY - On The Banks Of The Lonely River (Ten Thousand Miles Away) / Hold Fast To The Right |
| 05/1963 | SP STARDAY 45-626 (US) | The Old Grey Mule (Curly FOX) / Shanty Street (Texas RUBY) |
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Albums
| 1963 | LP 12" KING 840 (US) |
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FAVORITE SONGS OF TEXAS RUBY - It's Over Forever / Teardrops And Empty Arms / It's Your Time To Be Blue / Code Of The Mountains / It's Raining Teardrops In My Heart / The Wreck Of The 1256 / Falling Leaf / Those Dreams Are Gone / Soldier's Return / You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care) / If You Don't Want Me / Then Set Me Free / You've Been Cheating On Me |
| 1963 | LP 12" STARDAY SLP-235 (US) |
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FANTASTIC FIDDLIN' - FUN AND SONG - CURLY FOX & TEXAS RUBY - Old Grey Mule (Curly FOX) / Fire On The Mountain (Curly FOX) / Chasin' The Fox (Curly FOX) / Mockingbird Reel (Curly FOX) / Wink Your Little Eye (Curly FOX) / Model & The Train Race (Curly FOX) / Whistlewood (Curly FOX) / Twilight Waltz (Curly FOX) / I Don't Love Nobody (Curly FOX) / Curly's Talkin' Blues (Curly FOX) / Shanty Street (Texas RUBY) / Love Me Now (Texas RUBY) / Big Silver Tears (Texas RUBY) / Front Door Key (Curly FOX & Texas RUBY) |
| 1963 | LP 12" HARMONY HL-7302 (US) |
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TRAVELING BLUES - A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO TEXAS RUBY - TEXAS RUBY & CURLY FOX - Ain't You Sorry That You Lied / Nobody Else Buy You / I'll Take Back All I've Said About You / Would It Make Any Difference To You / Have You Got Someone Else On The String / Travellin' Blues / Even Though I'll Shed A Million Tears / The Letter That Broke My Heart / We Live In Two Different Worlds / With Tears In My Eyes |
| 1992 | LP 12" Cowgirlboy LP-5042 (GER) |
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The Wreck Of The 1256 - TEXAS RUBY & CURLY FOX - The code of the mountains / Those dreams are gone / If you don’t want me, then set me free / You don’t love me (but I’ll always care) / The wreck of the 1256 / It’s your time to be blue / The soldiers’ return / Black mountain rag / It’s raining teardrops in my heart / Teardrops and empty arms / It’s over forever / Come here son / Falling leaf / You’ve been cheating on me / On the banks of the lonely river (ten thousand miles away) / Hold fast to the right |
| 1999 | CD BRONCO BUSTER CD 9016 (GER) |
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A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO CURLY FOX AND TEXAS RUBY - Rock My Cradle (Once Again) / Whoa Mule / Just One Little Kiss / Listen To The Mocking Bird (inst.) / I Don't Love Nobody / You'll Remember And Be Blue / Blue Love (In My Heart) / The Old Home / Ain't You Sorry That You Lied / Nobody Else But You / I'll Take Back All I've Said About You / Would It Make Any Difference To You / Have You Got Someone Else On The String / Travelin' Blues / Even Though I'll Shed A Million Tears / The Letter That Broke My Heart / We Live In Two Different Worlds / With Tears In My Eyes / Hometown Blues (inst.) |
| 01/2010 | CD RIGHTEOUS PSALM 2322 (CAN) |
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TEARDROPS IN MY HEART - Love Me Now / Teardrops And Empty Arms / Big Silver Texas / Falling Leaf / It's Raining Teardrops In My Heart / Shanty Street / We Live In Two Diffrent Worlds / The Letter That Broke My Heart / Soldiers Return / Don't Let That Man Get You Down / The Twilight Waltz / With Tears In My Eyes / You'll Remember And Be Blue / I'll Take Back All I've Said About You / Even Through I'll Shed A Million Tears / If You Don't Want Me Then Set Me Free / The Code Of The Mountains / Ain't You Sorry That You Lied / Those Dreams Are Gone / Travellin Blues / Have You Got Someone Else On The String / It's Your Time To Be Blue / It's Over Forever |
| 09/2010 | CD BACM D 303 (UK) |
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WE MAY MEET AGAIN SOMEDAY - TEXAS RUBY & CURLY FOX - Listen To The Mockingbird / New Talkin' Blues / Fiddlin' Blues / Draggin' The Bow / The Boys In Blue / The Letter Edged In Black / Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie / We May Meet Again Someday / Babes In The Woods / A Message From Home / Frankie And Johnnie / John Henry / Daddy Oh Daddy Please Come Home / Sweet Betsy From Pike / The Cowboys Dream / Bye Bye Doce Jones / Code Of The Mountains / You Don't Love Me But I'll Always Care / The Wreck Of The 1256 / Black Mountain Rag / Come Here Son / You've Been Cheating On Me / On The Banks Of A Lonely River 10000 Miles Away / Hold Fast To The Right |
| 07/2011 | CD ROCKABILLY ? (?) |
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ESSENTIAL MASTERS - TEXAS RUBY & CURLY FOX - Code Of The Mountains / Daddy, Oh Daddy, Please Come Home / We May Meet Again Someday / John Henry / Draggin' The Bow / The Boys In Blue / Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie / Babes In The Woods / Sweet Betsy From Pike / Black Mountain Rag / Hold Fast To The Right / Listen To The Mockingbird / You Don't Love Me But I'll Always Care / Bye Bye, Doce Jones / The Boys In Blue / The Wreck Of The 1256 / The Cowboy's Dream / The Letter Edged In Black / On The Banks Of A Lonely River 10000 Miles Away / Come Here, Son / Frankie And Johnnie / Fiddlin' Blues / You've Been Cheating On Me / New Talkin' Blues |
| 07/2011 | CD ROCKABILLY ? (?) |
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COWGIRL CLASSICS - Don't Let That Man Get You Down / Ain't You Sorry That You Lied / Big Silver Tears / The Twilight Waltz / Love Me Now / With Tears In My Eyes / Those Dreams Are Gone / Falling Leaf / Even Though I'll Shed A Million Tears / It's Over Forever / Shanty Street / Travellin' Blues / Have You Got Someone Else On The String / I'll Take Back All I've Said About You / We Live In Two Different Worlds / It's Your Time To Be Blue / The Letter That Broke My Heart / Soldiers Return / It's Raining Teardrops In My Heart / Teardrops And Empty Arms / The Code Of The Mountains / If You Don't Want Me Then Set Me Free / You'll Remember And Be Blue |
© Rocky Productions 20/09/2011
