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Tex Ritter was the most well-versed of all Hollywood’s singing cowboys. Born Woodward Maurice Ritter in Panola County, Texas (where Jim Reeves was born), Ritter was raised with a deep love of western music.
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame/Tex Ritter Museum opened in August 2002 in a $2.5 million state-of-the-art facility. Since that date, over 30,000 country music fans have stepped back in time to re-live great moments in country music history.
Ten years before his death in 1974, Tex Ritter was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn. Tex is also a member of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. Ritter's 1953 version of Do Not Forsake Me was the theme song for the Gary Cooper film High Noon.
Ritter became one of the founding members of the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee, and spearheaded the effort to build the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum into which he was inducted in 1964.
Apr 27, 2015 · Built to showcase Texas’s extensive contribution to country music, the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum highlights the careers of a variety of native Texans who have had an important impact on the genre.
Mar 14, 2024 · He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1964 and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, having moved to Nashville, Tennessee, that same year. In 1970 Ritter sought, unsuccessfully, the Republican nomination for one of Tennessee’s U.S. Senate seats.
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