Photo from WESTERN TRAILS (1937)
Bob Baker
Bob Baker (1910 - 1975) was a singer who had several starring roles as a singing cowboy in the late 1930s. Baker won a Universal Studios screen test in 1937 in competition against Leonard Slye (Roy Rogers), and became the studio's lead singing cowboy. He starred in a dozen pictures before suffering an injury and being demoted to secondary roles.
Bob Baker starred in the "B" western Courage of the West (1937) with Lois January. Fuzzy Knight worked with Baker as a sidekick on his first four films. Starting with The Last Stand (1938) Baker rode Apache, a pinto he had bought in Arizona. A well-trained horse, Apache tolerated his signature trick of vaulting over the horse's rear into the saddle. Between work on the sets, Baker had to tour and perform at movie theatres, in part to promote the pictures and in part to earn extra income. Bob Baker accompanied his singing with a Gibson Advanced Jumbo guitar. (Text from Ebay auction)
