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Robert "Sunny" Spencer was
a self-taught musician who played 22 instruments. As a member of
the Roy Rogers western music group, “The Sons of the Pioneers”
for 22 years he performed nation wide and every summer at the
Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum and Happy Trails Theater in
Branson, Missouri. An all around entertainer with lots of humor,
he sang lead vocals, played guitar, saxophone, banjo, trumpet,
fiddle, clarinet and jug. His trademark song was "Mamma Don't
Allow No Music Playin' Round Here," in which he performed on all
of his instruments. He had a long varied musical career that
included working with Al Hirt and Pete Fountain at the 500 Club
in New Orleans, and with the Spike Jones band on, "The
Midwestern Hayride" WLS radio show in Chicago in the early
1950s. He also led the Sunny Spencer Orchestra and the Sunny
Spencer Trio, performing for many years at the Hacienda and
Frontier Casinos in Las Vegas. |
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