Ken Curtis was amazing. Incredibly underrated singer and actor. Not to mention he’s handsome.

Son's of the pioneers was a great group 👍 👌 👏 Ken Curtis was incredible 👏 🙌

I've seen and heard Ken Curtis sing many songs on KZread clips but this is the first time I've heard him hit notes that high! I'm an even bigger fan than ever now!

@maryburdett5977

2 ай бұрын

Love him on Gunsmoke also. He sang some songs then too.

What a talent! He could act all different characters and had an amazing singing voice

I was never a Gunsmoke fan but I am stunned that “Festus” had such an impressive voice and was a very handsome man. This video and others of Ken Curtis are treasures.

@dennisb-trains23

Жыл бұрын

He was Festus for 16 years on Gunsmoke. He sang there too but not always in Ken's voice but Festus.

Awesome song. R.I.P to Ken we miss a great person like you. Keep singing in the big sky ranch.

Cannot get enough of this song.

No one seems to acknowledge Hugh Farr singing bass. He was also the great fiddle player backing the pioneers for 30 years and I think the best fiddle/violin player ever in his time.

Ken is a very strong singer with a great clear voice that can reach many octaves. All the Pioneers sounded great. Still can't believe Ken is Festus.

Ken was truly a talented man. He was great in the movie The Searcher's, with John Wayne. His fight at his wedding was one of the movies best fights I seen.

Sounds EXACTLY like the record. Some 50 years ago, as a young child, this was a big favorite of mine!

Curtis what a voice I miss all of them

The first recording of this was done with Ken Carson singing the lead. It was masterful. Festus could sing the phone book. Any pitch, any key. Amazing.

I loved Festus! Great actor,great singer! Miss him,but still see him everyday on Gunsmoke!

@janisdais2832

Жыл бұрын

Me too...every day on the INSP channel !! ❣

Ken has a beautiful voice and not bad looking ! RIP Ken

@pheon1_x

2 жыл бұрын

🥰

Ken Curtis had an amazing voice !! Great actor also !! ❣❣❣❣❣

I wish it was then, now...

Ken had a beautiful voice.

Loved his singing and Festus

Beautiful falsetto

My father and his brothers grew up with Lloyd Doss (aka “Tommy” Doss) of the Sons of the Pioneers.

@phoebeflagg2694

3 жыл бұрын

My brother-in-law is Tommy Doss’s nephew. I only met Tommy once and didn’t know he had been in the Sons of the Pioneers until after he had passed away.

My grandparents were personal friends of this group and had all their albums...they partied with them. As a child I remember attending the Tim Spencer family reunion, he wrote this song....such wonderful memories.

@rayff7740

6 жыл бұрын

Bonnie Derrick just amazing

@hackbritton3233

3 ай бұрын

Yes Tim did. So good to know someone is remembering.

I listen to this often...always makes me smile. Timeless joy in his music!

What a talented man, had Gunsmoke, & Roy Roger's, along

I love cowboy songs They sound the closest to hymnals

Today I am 59 years old and I am Italian, my father had 33 rpm records of them, I listened and dreamed of being one of them in the great prairies ........ THE result ----- they have a place in mine heart ❤ and when i go abroad they say i am used. that I dress like a South American ..... And I have never been attracted to gays .......

love to hear curt sing tenor!!

Ken Curtis and Hugh Farr. Incomparable.

@marshabr5

6 жыл бұрын

and boy can Hugh Farr play the fiddle

I love listening to Great songs like this

Omg Ken Curtis was soooooooo good!❤

I have already listened to this about a dozen times in the last 2 weeks. Lovely. I have collected records, etc. by people you didn't think of as singers when you knew them later in their work. I collected albums by Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare), Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey), Brent Spiner (DATA of Star Trek), Jerry Ohrbach (Lennie on Law & Order), and many more. When they went into show business you had to be multitalented.

Wonderful! Thank you!

My gosh craggy ol' loveable Festus was sure handsome. And that voice 😊😊

He actually sang with Tommy Dorsey for a while! I bet this talent of his rather stuns people who only know him from Gunsmoke!

Got a big crush on him!!

Rip ken

Always enjoyed his music. Ses forever

Awesome….beautiful.

Roy Rogers behind him!

@janmiechiels6926

Жыл бұрын

Lloyd Tommy Doss, behind KEN

Ken Curtis was a fine actor and singer. He developed the character of Festus on Gunsmoke and played the part well. In the later years of the series James Arness cut back his time in the episodes and Curtis took over as the lead character much of the time.

Timeless

saw roy rogers to the left.- ken a great singer,

Excellent

Cool

Can anyone identify the others please.I'm hoping one of them is Doc Denning my father worked with him and I got to meet him he was a very down to earth guy.

@oldwoodworker6918

3 жыл бұрын

The guy playing the bass is the great Shug Fisher, and he could also sing as well.

Thank you for these postings! Most enjoyable! 👏🏻

Born in the 50s only knew about Festus and not all the great singing before.

They should of sing on gun smoke

I believe he took over for Frank Sinatra in one of the Dorsey brothers bands also.

Cowboy music

Conosco a un amigo igualito a Ken Curtis

that looks like Roy Rogers to the left of Ken Curtis

♡♡

That has to be Roy Rogers next to Ken

@WILTALK

2 жыл бұрын

No that's not Roy. He sure looks like him though. I once also thought it was Roy till one time Roy made a guest appearance on Trigger and they were both there together in the same video. Rodgers did start the group and was the original lead singer. I don't know if Ken replaced him directly, but when he came to the group it was as the lead singer.

@JanetMcCord

2 жыл бұрын

@@WILTALK Thanks for clearing that up!

Is the person to the right (from viewers view) Leonard Slye/Dick Weston/Roy Rogers? He was known by all three names but perhaps Dick Weston when he was a member of the Sons of the Pioneers.

@WILTALK

2 жыл бұрын

Thats not Roy Rodgers,, He had left the group by then. He certainly does look like Roy though., I saw them together when Roy made a guest appearance riding in on Trigger with his look-a-like still on stage.

@janmiechiels6926

Жыл бұрын

That is Tommy Doss next to Ken, he resembles Roy Rogers here.

@melodyrogers6668

3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he's Lloyd Perryman. He does sound similar to Roy Rogers

wrong name....it's called Cowboy Camp Meeting

ken was OK but that fella with the deep voice was better

@kenwatts477

3 жыл бұрын

Hugh Farr played the violin co-writer of the song Tumbling Tumbleweeds. buried in Mountain View cemetery in Riverton Wyoming

@WILTALK

2 жыл бұрын

To begin with it is difficult to compare a bass with a tenor. Second the bass does not have much volume. While it is more difficult to have volume the lower your range, it is obvious that he is struggling singing at his lowe register limit. Ken is by far the best singer in this group. He was not the lead singer for no reason. He was the lead singer with the Tommy Dorsey band before joining the pioneers. What you need to understand is that ken is a natural baritone who is singing in a tenor register in this song. You could certainly say that you liked the bass singer better, but not that he was better.. Ken was an actual solo vocalist. There is a big difference between musician's that sing and actual lead vocalists.

@georgemoore7186

2 жыл бұрын

@@WILTALK it's not a race where there are winners and losers, all of the arts is just a matter of opinion, what you like and what you don't, personally some of the Paintings that are worth 10's of $Millions of Dollars I would not hang in the toilet, some actors that win Academy awards I don't like, while I like other actors that never win awards, to me singing is the same, some I like and some I don't, I was a bit ambiguous with my original statement, what I meant was "In my opinion" I preferred one voice over the other, I didn't mean to imply that it was "better" and at this point I don't even remember them, that was a long time ago

Born in the 50s only knew about Festus and not all the great singing before.

Born in the 50s only knew about Festus and not all the great singing before.