Carter, Wilf - Songs of the Calgary Stampede

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	I Remember the Rodeo	02:38
	2	Pete Knight the King of the Cowboys	02:31
	3	When the Iceworms Nests Again	02:24
	4	My Little Grey Haired Mother in the West	02:59
	5	He Rode the Strawberry Roan	02:49
	6	Rattlin' Cannon Ball	02:10

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Calgary Roundup	02:40
	2	That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine	02:49
	3	The Smoke Went Up the Chimney Just the Same	02:32
	4	Capture of the Albert Johnston	02:53
	5	Beautiful Girl of the Prairie	02:23
	6	Singing in My Last Roundup	02:42

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Born in Port Hilsford, Nova Scotia, Wilf Carter moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1923 when he was 19 years old. He loved the cowboy culture and would often sing at the Calgary Stampede. He worked at the rodeo as an 'ear-downer'. "His job was to grapple the horse around the neck as it ran by and bite down on its ear until it stopped bucking." In 1929, he had a regular radio show called "The Old Timers" on CFCN. In 1937 he purchased a 320 acre ranch near the Spruce Meadows show jumping facility in Calgary, Alberta.

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