Bob Nolan

Bob Nolan was a Canadianborn American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds. He is generally regarded as one of the finest Western songwriters of all time. As an actor and singer he appeared in scores of Western films.

Robert Clarence Nobles was born April 13, 1908 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Harry Nobles and Flora Elizabeth Hussey Nobles. The couple separated in 1915, and Flora raised her two little boys in Winnipeg.

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