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Louise Massey (born ''Victoria Louise Massey''; 10 August 1902 – 20 June 1983, in San Angelo, Texas), American singer and songwriter born in 
In the early 1940s, the Westerners were "well known for numerous radio appearances" and were appearing on ''Plantation Party'' broadcasts three nights a week. Louise Massey recorded for several record labels including "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Louise Massey House".
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Louise Massey and the Westerners
{{DEFAULTSORT:Massey, Louise 1902 births 1983 deaths American women country singers American country singer-songwriters American women singer-songwriters Country musicians from Texas 20th-century American singers Singer-songwriters from Texas 20th-century American women singers
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County.
At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan ...
. The Massey family left Texas while Louise Massey was very young and she grew up near Roswell in Lincoln County, New Mexico
Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,497. Its county seat is Carrizozo, while its largest community is Ruidoso.
History
Lincoln County was named in honor of President Abrah ...
. In 1918, Louise's father, Henry Massey, started a band that featured himself and three of his eight children singing and playing musical instruments. Most of the children played were able to play several instruments while dressed in “elaborate cowboy outfits as their stage attire,” Louise played piano and sang. The Massey’s music career began in 1920s, when they played and sang at local shows and church socials. At the age of 15, Louise married Milton Mabie, who also joined the group.
In 1930, the quintet known as "the Westerners" included Louise, Curt and Allen Massey, Milton Mabie, and Larry Wellington, who had replaced Henry Massey. Louise, with her flamboyant Spanish-style costumes, became the focal point of the act and received lead billing. The Westerners' first radio performance was on KMBC in Kansas City. They moved to WLS Radio in Chicago in 1933. In 1934, the song "When the White Azaleas Start Blooming" was released by the band and sold three million copies. In 1936, they moved to New York where they continued their radio work on NBC. In 1938, Louise Massey and the Westerners appeared in the Tex Ritter movie ''Where the Buffalo Roam
''Where the Buffalo Roam'' is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. The film was p ...
''. The group returned to WLS Radio in 1939 and did a morning broadcast on NBC called "Reveille Roundup."
In the early 1940s, the Westerners were "well known for numerous radio appearances" and were appearing on ''Plantation Party'' broadcasts three nights a week. Louise Massey recorded for several record labels including Vocalion Records
Vocalion Records is an American record company and label.
History
The label was founded in 1916 by the Aeolian Company, a maker of pianos and organs, as Aeolian-Vocalion; the company also sold phonographs under the Vocalion name. "Aeolian" was ...
, OKeh Records
Okeh Records () is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918. The name was spelled "OkeH" from the initials of Ott ...
, and Conqueror Records
Conqueror Records was a United States-based record label, active from 1928 through 1942. The label was sold exclusively through Sears, Roebuck and Company.
History
Conqueror was originally owned by the Plaza Music Company, then became part of ...
.
Massey's house in Roswell is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
.Retrieved April 7, 2016.
Filmography
* ''Twilight on the Trail'', 1937 *''Love Goes West,'' 1938 * ''Where the Buffalo Roam
''Where the Buffalo Roam'' is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. The film was p ...
'' 1938
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Louise Massey and the Westerners
{{DEFAULTSORT:Massey, Louise 1902 births 1983 deaths American women country singers American country singer-songwriters American women singer-songwriters Country musicians from Texas 20th-century American singers Singer-songwriters from Texas 20th-century American women singers