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  2. Tex Ritter was the most well-versed of all Hollywood’s singing cowboys. Born Woodward Maurice Ritter in Panola County, Texas (where Jim Reeves was born), Ritter was raised with a deep love of western music.

  3. The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame/Tex Ritter Museum opened in August 2002 in a $2.5 million state-of-the-art facility. Since that date, over 30,000 country music fans have stepped back in time to re-live great moments in country music history.

  4. Ten years before his death in 1974, Tex Ritter was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tenn. Tex is also a member of the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. Ritter's 1953 version of Do Not Forsake Me was the theme song for the Gary Cooper film High Noon.

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    Woodward Maurice " Tex " Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American Country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John Ritter, grandsons Jason Ritter and Tyler Ritter, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall ...

  6. Sep 3, 2024 · Ritter was involved in forming the Country Music Association and was elected president of the organization in 1963. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1964 and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, having moved to Nashville, Tennessee, that same year.

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  8. Apr 27, 2015 · Since 1998 the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum has inducted more than forty Texas artists, all of whom received a personalized plaque acknowledging the highlights of their lives and careers. Additionally it maintains a Disc Jockey Hall of Fame.