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    • Sep 2, 1932
    Tex Ritter holds his first recording session in New York, with "Rye Whiskey" among the two songs he cuts. The version is not issued, but a later recording becomes one of his earliest hits
    Mar 15, 1933
    Tex Ritter records his first two singles, "Rye Whiskey" and "Goodbye Old Paint," in New York City
    Nov 27, 1934
    James Everett Ritter, the father of Tex Ritter, dies in Nederland, Texas
    Dec 12, 1934
    Tex Ritter portrays Red Dog as "Mother Lode" opens at New York's Cort Theater. The show runs less than three weeks
    Dec 29, 1934
    "Mother Lode," a Broadway production featuring Tex Ritter, closes after just 17 days at the Cort Theater
    Jan 21, 1935
    Tex Ritter has his first Decca Records recording session at the firm's New York studio
    Mar 12, 1935
    Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ritter, the mother of Tex Ritter, dies in Panola County, Texas
    Aug 18, 1936
    Tex Ritter arrives at the Glendale Airport in California, where he is set to begin work on his first movie, "Song Of The Gringo," at the end of the month
    Aug 31, 1936
    Shooting begins in the City Of Commerce, California, for Tex Ritter's first movie, "Song Of The Gringo"
    Sep 28, 1936
    Tex Ritter begins work on his second western movie, "Headin' For The Rio Grande"
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