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Jul 26, 2021 - 4:08 PM
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By: |
Bob DiMucci
(Member)
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BILL TILGHMAN AND THE OUTLAWS was Johnny Crawford’s final film project. Crawford wasn’t just a TV cowboy. He was a former member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the American Junior Rodeo Association, and he competed frequently at rodeos throughout the country during the 1960s and early 1970s. He was also a competitive trick-roper ever since Montie Montana got him spinning a "flat loop" in the early seasons of “The Rifleman,” and horse wrangler Buster Trow taught him the "butterfly." After wrapping "The Rifleman,” Johnny was coached by Gene McLaughlin for many years.
Talking about his dance band, Crawford said “It's a unique, romantic sound, and people love to hear it. It takes people back to an older America and a simpler, more elegant time. It's a sound I really love, and I find that once people get a chance to hear it live, in all its glory, that they love it, too.”
For those of us of a certain age, Johnny Crawford and “The Rifleman” also harken back to an older and simpler America. Farewell, Johnny, “we hardly knew ye.”
with Chuck Connors in “The Rifleman”
with Alan Young in “Mister Ed”
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