1. Bob Nolan attended Safford Junior High School until 1922, then transferred to Roskruge Junior High.
18 Facts About Bob Nolan
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Bob Nolan graduated from Tucson High School in May 1928.
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On July 7,1928, less than two months after he graduated high school, Bob Nolan married his high school sweetheart, 16-year-old Tennie Pearl Fields.
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Bob Nolan took a lifeguard job in Los Angeles in 1929.
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Bob Nolan's father had changed his name to Nolan and it was as Bob Nolan that he began a career as a singer on the Chautauqua tent-show circuit and as a lifeguard in Santa Monica.
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In 1934, Bob Nolan co-founded the Sons of the Pioneers with Leonard Slye and Tim Spencer.
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Bob Nolan reluctantly became the group's front man because his face and voice were the most recognizable in the group.
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In 1934, Bob Nolan began his career in film as the singing voice for Ken Maynard in the 1934 film In Old Santa Fe.
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Bob Nolan appeared in at least 88 Western films, first for Columbia Pictures and later with cowboy stars Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
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Bob Nolan appeared in the Walt Disney short, Melody Time.
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Bob Nolan had strong featured roles in the Charles Starrett westerns, often playing the second lead.
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Bob Nolan grudgingly went along with Cohn's first two directives but turned down the chance to be a movie star.
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In many of these films, Bob Nolan was featured in prominent supporting roles with significant dialogue.
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On June 11,1942, Bob Nolan married Clara Brown, whose slight stature led to her being nicknamed P-Nuts.
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In 1949, Bob Nolan retired from show business and began a semi-secluded life as a songwriter.
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Bob Nolan returned to record with the Sons of the Pioneers in 1956, at the insistence of RCA Victor executives who wanted to capitalize on Nolan's TV exposure in the old Rogers westerns.
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In 1971, Bob Nolan was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Bob Nolan died on June 16,1980, in Newport Beach, California, of a heart attack.