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5 unusual facts about John Harvey Gahan


John Harvey Gahan

He wrote many well-loved cowboy songs and sold them to better known performers such as Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, et al. for the total sum of $25.00 to buy milk for his wife’s baby.

Gahan was also a member of Loyal Underwood's Range Riders on radio, and several other groups over the years.

In 1956 he married Marguerite Depugh who had been a nurse for Spencer Tracy’s son John, and was at the time a nurse to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans children.

While playing a classical piece, Harvey glanced up into the owner’s box, and upon seeing Josephine, began to play “Beautiful Dreamer”, the last known song of Stephen Foster.

Gahan began his 1935-1942 screen career as a member of several hillbilly music groups, including being an original member of the band known as The Arizona Wranglers (aka The Range Riders), which also included stalwart B-Western player Jack Kirk, stuntman Jack Jones, and Deuce Spriggens.



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