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- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 1969
- Address:
1618 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.101351, -118.326539
Jimmy Wakely
Biography
James Clarence Wakeley (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982), better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.
Fact file
- Birth name: James Clarence Wakeley
- Born: February 16, 1914 Howard County, Arkansas, USA
- Died: September 23, 1982 (aged 68) Mission Hills, California, USA
- Genres: country music, Western movies
- Occupations: vocalist musician songwriter actor
- Instruments: vocals, guitar
- Years active: 1939-1970s
- Labels: Decca, Capitol, Coral, Dot
- Associated acts: Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy
Read more about Jimmy Wakely at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, east side, between Selma and Hollywood
Nearby you will also find Arthur Spiegel, Louis Hayward, Michael O'Shea, Teresa Wright, John Ireland, Norman Taurog, Jimmy Durante, Clark Gable, and many others.