Bob Baker (actor)

Bob Baker was a singer who had several starring roles as a singing cowboy in the late 1930s.

Baker was born Stanley Lelend Weed onNovember 1910 in Forest City, Iowa. He spent part of his childhood and youth in Colorado and Arizona. Unlike most movie cowboys, Baker really worked as a cowboy in his youth, and was a rodeo champion when he was sixteen. He joined the army at the age of 18, where he learned to play the guitar. He began singing professionally at the age of twenty, for the KTSM radio station in El Paso, Texas. In Chicago he spent several months with WLS . In 1935 he married Evelyn. They were to have four children.

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