![]() ![]() ![]() This site and book celebrate the unique entertainer from the 1940s through 1980s. The original is in the Beulah Historical Society Museum, Beulah, Colorado, in its wood-burned decorated frame by Adele Russell. The portrait above of Buddy was taken in the KCSJ TV studio in the late 1950s. As Buddy had a Western Swing band, The Colorado Rangers, from 1946 until 1986, extensive coverage is given to this important aspect of his life and the many musicians who contributed to it. The biography of Buddy Johnson and his career in music, on television and on the radio through numerous shows like The Barn Dance and Colorado Hayride from the 1940s to the 1980s.In addition to extensive information on his professional career, it presents a more complete picture of a man many baby boomers fondly remember from The Buddy Johnson Adventurer's Club show which ran from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. The new book Buddy Johnson A Colorado Original is 178 pages with 378 images and is available for credit card purchase below and at a number of fine locations in Pueblo and Beulah.īuddy Johnson A Colorado Original covers Buddy’s entire life in the context of his family, history and Colorado, a state that he loved. This website and the book are devoted to my father Buddy Johnson in honor of what would have been his 100th birthday on May 7, 2019. Or most likely, you remember Buddy Johnson from the 1950s to the 60s on first KCSJ TV and later on KOAA TV on shows like the Western Star Theatre, or with his band on The Colorado Hayride or The Barndance which had a live studio audience.īut if you were a very lucky boy or girl, you might have been one of the thousands of Colorado kids who actually made the trip up to "Big Hill" in Pueblo and were actually on the well loved and remembered The Buddy Johnson Adventurer’s Club show. If you listened to radio after World War II you might have heard him on KGHF, KDZA or on KCSJ radio.ĭid you attend the Colorado State Fair, or numerous regional events like Gunnison Cattlemen’s Days, Canon City Blossom Parade, the Trinidad Roundup, numerous dances in Castle Rock, Parker or Elizabeth, the La Junta Cowboy Ball, the Pike’s Peak or Bust rodeo, then you might have seen and heard Buddy and his band the Colorado Rangers performing. Well, if you did you probably knew Buddy Johnson. Did you live in Southern Colorado in the 1940s through the 1980s?
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