Eddie Dean (singer)

Eddie Dean July 9, 1907 March 4, 1999 was an American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time. Dean was best known for I Dreamed Of A HillBilly Heaven , which became an even greater hit for Tex Ritter in 1961.

Dean was born Edgar Dean Glosup in the rural community of Posey in Hopkins County, Texas, northwest of Sulphur Springs. His father was a teacher, who encouraged Dean to launch a professional singing career. At the age of sixteen, Dean performed on the Southern gospel circuit with the Vaughan and then the V.O. Stamps quartets.

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