(4) LASH LARUE - MY FAVORITE COWBOY STAR !

The greatest entertainment for kids in Murphy, North Carolina when I was growing up there in the Smokeys was when the cowboy shows came through town - a caravan of horses and cowboys - bad guys and good. They performed shoot outs and stunts. We loved to race to the stage to help the good guys take care of the bad ones.

My favorite cowboy was always LASH LARUE, who always dressed in black. He was Tommy Smothers and Elvis Presley's favorite cowboy too!

Lash LaRue and I became friends in Los Angeles in the late 1970's. He still wore all black, his pants embroidered with the initials L.L., but he left his hat at home when he was having lunch with his friends.

Lash had a speech impediment that he'd learned to tackle by talking out of one side of his mouth. Despite this, he was a gifted and clever voice-over artist in his later years, the voice behind many radio and television commercials. I enjoyed Lash thoroughly.

LASH LARUE Fan Club, P.O. Box 2484, Sanford, NC 27330.

Click on the title above to read about Lash in THE INDIAN READER

Here's a You-Tube video of a Lash LaRue


This "Trailer" that also shows Al "Fuzzy St. John, his side kick.