Rex Allen Born:  December 31, 1920 Died:  December 17, 1999 Hollywood Walk of Fame (1975) Western Music Association Hall of Fame (1989) WLS National Barn Dance WNEW New York, NY WCAU Philadelphia, PA (1944) WTTM Trenton, NJ (1944) WLS Chicago, IL (1945)

About The Artist work-in-progress... He was born Rex Elvie Allen in an area about 40 miles north of Wilcox, Arizona known as Mud Springs Canyon. His parents were Horace Allen and Faye Clark Allen. He said to have started his musical journey doing vaudeville on the east coast. And later moved on to fame with the WLS National Barn Dance in Chicago and in Hollywood where he was the last of the singing cowboys of the old western movie genre. Married his wife, Bonnie, at the WLS studios it seems. Before coming to WLS, he was a chief inspector at a large plant that assembled war planes. Bonnie, was formerly Bonnie Linder, of the Linder Sisters or Connie and Bonnie as they were known, from Nebraska. Marriages Doing research one finds that it is often not easy to piece together some aspects of a person's life. It appears that Rex was married four times. Rex appears to have gone to the east coast at an early age. When he was 19 years old, he had married one Doris Windsor who was 18. It appears that they had one daughter, Rexie Faye. We do not know when they were divorced. Our research indicates she later moved to Florida, remarried and passed away in November 2010. The daughter was born December 30, 1940 which would explain why she doesn't show up on the 1940 census rolls for New Jersey as did Rex Elvie and Doris at her parents address. Further research indicates Rexie Faye died in April 2007. Rex's career took him to Chicago and WLS. In 1946, things were happening for him. He married Bonnie Linder, who was also working at WLS, on August 25, 1946. Rex and Bonnie had three children: Rex, Jr., born August 23, 1947 Curtis, born January 24, 1950; died Mark Wayne, born June 1, 1954; died January 22, 2007 Bonita Kay, born December 28, 1963 Their marriage ended in divorce around 1979. Rex's third marriage was on April 9, 1983 to Jeannine Heldnbrand in Santa Barbara, California. Other online records of that marriage show her name as Jeannine Oliver. This marriage appears to have lasted less than two years. His fourth and last marriage was to Credits & Sources Hillbilly Hit Parade of 1941; Southern Music Pub. Co. Inc.; New York, NY Portions of Discography Listing courtesy of Hillbilly Reasearcher Team; Tricker, Turner and Sax Sound Sample—(YouTube Video Format) Streets of Laredo Appearance History This Month Get The Music Hillbilly Music.com Amazon Music Store British Archives of Country Music British Archives of Country Music British Archives of Country Music British Archives of Country Music Roots and Rhythm

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Recordings (78rpm/45rpm)   Decca Rec. No. Side Song Title   27876 A Ragtime Melody   27876 B Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home   28146 A Rack Up The Balls,Boys   28146 B Till The Well Runs Dry   28341 A Two-Faced Clock   28341 B Jambalaya (On The Bayou)   28446 A No One Will Ever Know   28446 B Hootin' And Howlin'   28556 A Knocking On The Door   28556 B Why,My Darlin',Why   28758 A Crying In The Chapel   28758 B I Thank The Lord   28897 A To Be Alone   28897 B If God Can Forgive You,So Can I   28933 A Why,Daddy?   28933 B Where Did My Snow Man Go?   28998 A He Played The Steel Guitar   28998 B Somewhere   29111 A Bringing Home The Bacon   29111 B I Could Cry My Heart Out   29168 A In The Chapel In The Moonlight   29168 B Chapel Of Memories   29254 A This Ole House   29254 B Two Texas Boys (w/Tex Williams)   29297 A You Took My Name   29297 B I'm Learning To Live   29397 A Tomorrow's Another Day To Cry   29397 B L-O-N-E-S-O-M-E Letter Blues   29586 A That's What Makes The Juke Box Play   29586 B Pedro Gonzales Tennessee Lopez   29610 A Daddy, You Know What   29610 B The Albino Stallion   29729 A The Last Roundup (w/The Victor Strings)   29871 B The Last Frontier (w/The Victor Strings)   30364 A Flower Of San Antone   30364 B Money, Marbles And Chalk   30511 A Blue Dream   30511 B The Blue Light Waltz   32072 A A Woman   32072 B The Waltz That Never Ends   32401 A Bummin' Around   32401 B When I Leave This world Behind   Mercury Rec. No. Side Song Title   6008 A Atomic Power   6008 B You Started Honky Tonkin'   6015 A Don't Turn Your Back On Me   6015 B Texas Tornado   6017 A Driftwood On The River   6017 B Look At Me Now   6021 A After Your Sunshine Turns To Rain   6021 B Queen Of The Rodeo   6034 A A Broken Promise Means A Broken Heart   6034 B Foggy River   6049 A Feudin' And Fightin'   6049 B Take It Back And Change It For A Boy   6060 A Border Serenade   6060 B Lord Protect My Darlin'   6061 A I Went Out And Got A Bucket For My Tears   6061 B Queen Of The Rodeo   6063 A Clarinet Polka   6063 B Flip Side By Polka Chips   6078 A Loaded Pistol   6078 B That Little Boy Of Mine   6091 A Hawaiian Cowboy   6091 B Take It Back And Change It For A Boy   6095 A Slap Her Down Again, Paw   6095 B Teardrops In My Heart   6122 A Chime Bells   6122 B Miranda Doakes   6136 A Empty Christmas Stocking   6136 B Tears On My Old Guitar   6140 A Happy Mary Polka   6140 B Who Shot The Hole In My Sombrero   6171 A Tennessee Tears   6171 B Song Of The Hills   6192 A Afraid   6192 B Cottage In The Clouds   6203 A Arizona Waltz   6203 B Tell Me Little Darlin'   6214 A Over Three Hills   6214 B I'm So Alone With The Crowd   6221 A Blues In My Mind   6221 B Little Brown Shoes   6228 A A Petal From A Faded Rose   6228 B I Gotta Have My Baby Back   6231 A Broken Down Merry Go Round   6231 B Tag Along   6252 A Dixie Boogie   6252 B Put Your Arms Around Me   6258 A Farther Along   6258 B Softly And Tenderly   6269 A Don't Cha   6269 B Yodelin' Crazy   6271 B Afraid   6278 A Driftwood On The River   6278 B That Little Boy Of Mine   6285 A Teardrops In My Heart   6285 B There's Only One Kind Of Red, White And Blue   6286 A Honolulu Boogie   6286 B Too Lee Rollup   6297 A I Ain't Gonna Cry No More   6297 B You Drifted Away   6349 A Albuquerque Polka   6349 B Naggin'   Sparton Rec. No. Side Song Title   781 A Say One For Me   781 B Lazy River   798 A The Little Old Church In The Valley   798 B Morgen (One More Sunrise)   825 A Swamp Fox   825 B Bronco Boogie   826 A Forever And Ever   826 B Staying Young