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- Category: Radio
- Star rank: 2003
- Address:
6814 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101424, -118.339023
Spade Cooley
Next star: Elia Kazan
Previous star: Don DeFore
Biography
Spade Cooley recording his famous western swing music (1940s).
Source: tsutpen.blogspot.com
Donnell Clyde Cooley (December 17, 1910–November 23, 1969), better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality. His career ended in 1961 when he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans.
Fact file
- Birth name: Donnell Clyde Cooley
- Also known as: King of Western Swing
- Born: December 17, 1910
- Origin: Pack Saddle Creek, Oklahoma
- Died: November 23, 1969 (aged 58)
- Genres: Western swing
- Occupations: Big band leader Actor Television personality
- Instruments: Fiddle
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Hollywood Blvd, south side, between Orange and Highland
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