Name Fleming Allan | Role Composer | |
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Fleming Allan was an American composer of Western music, who helped make that genre popular in the 1930s.
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Fleming Allan was born in South Dakota. He worked at WLS (AM) in Chicago around the time that Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette were singing for that station, then moved to Hollywood. He spent most of the rest of his life in California, writing songs for many movies in the 1930s and 1940s. For a period in the early 1950s Fleming Allen and the Mesner brothers operated Intro Records, a BMI affiliate. In January 1954 he left this job to join Gene Autry's music publishing business.
Allan composed songs for western movies by Gene Autry, Ken Curtis, Tim Holt, Rod Cameron, Ray Whitley, Bob Baker, George O'Brien, Roy Rogers and Dick Foran. His songs were recorded by Roy Rogers (I've Sold My Saddle for an Old Guitar), Gene Autry (Old Buckaroo) and Eddie Dean.
Films
Fleming Allen composed songs for many western films, often performed by singing cowboys. They include: