Sons of the Pioneers Spice Up Music Auction

Leonard Franklin Slye likely never would have become the actor we know as Roy Rogers had he not first found fame in a cowboy band he formed with Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan in 1933. They first called the band the Pioneer Trio. After Hugh Farr joined as a fiddler and his brother Karl followed as a singer, the group became a quintet known as the Sons of the Pioneers in 1935. His role in the band would help launch Slye as an actor to the point that he replaced the “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry a