Hamblen’s childhood was steeped in cowboy tradition, according to the Texas State Historical Association. He learned songs and stories from both Black and white workers on the local farms. He also ...

As you stroll along Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard, you will see a "star" in the 6400 block, placed there in 1978. It is in honor of Carl Stuart Hamblen, radio personality, songwriter ...

The recurrent flurry of election frenzy calls to mind my own brief brush with U.S. presidential politics. The summer of 1952 was typically miserable in Kansas City. Temperatures hung around the high ...

A dozen years later he headed to Los Angeles for his series of public revival meetings — he indelicately called them crusades — at a time when the Cold War was in full swing and a nuclear armed Soviet ...

ARCADIA – Anyone else would have never stopped running. But when Veeva Ellen Daniels heard gunshots overhead, as she fled the wrath of an ornery pig farmer, she knew she’d found the one. It was 1933, ...

Back in the '50s, there was a well-known radio host/comedian/song writer in Hollywood named Stuart Hamblen who was noted for his drinking, womanizing, partying, etc. One of his bigger hits at the time ...