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30 de may. de 2014 · There were few films produced for and by African-Americans in the 1930s, and even though they were low-budget, the films drew large black audiences. Jeffries—a heroic figure in the films—became a hero in real life for his film work, and earned the handle “The Bronze Buckaroo.”
In 1995, at age 81, he recorded The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again), a Nashville album of songs on the Warner Western label. Film career. Touring the Deep South with Hines, Jeffries was struck by the realities of segregation, as the Orchestra's playing was restricted to tobacco warehouses and black-only movie theatres.
11 de nov. de 2014 · Jeffries’s first film, Harlem on the Prairie, appeared in 1937, followed by Two-Gun Man from Harlem, The Bronze Buckaroo, and Harlem Rides the Range. Jeffries sang and performed his own stunts as “Bob Blake” in these low-budget movies with an all-black cast.
1 de may. de 2023 · Herb Jeffries was the Bronze Buckaroo, star of five all-Black-cast singing-cowboy movies in the 1930s and ’40s. His sweet, rich baritone fronted Duke Ellington’s orchestra in the 1941 megahit “Flamingo” and countless other tunes and set women’s hearts a-fluttering.
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26 de may. de 2014 · May 26, 2014 7:17 PM EDT. A mong Western stars of the late 1930s, white moviegoers saw their demographic reflected by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the young Duke, John Wayne. Black moviegoers had...
26 de may. de 2014 · May 26, 2014. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable...
