Tex Owens

Best-remembered today as the author of the Eddy Arnold hit "Cattle Call," Tex Owens was a fixture on local radio in Kansas City and the CBS network during the 1930s and early '40s, and one of the first artists signed to Decca back in the '30s. He was the youngest of 13 children in a sharecropper family whose musical interests began with his generation: his brother Chuck was a singer and songwriter, and his sister Texas Ruby was a performer with the Grand Ole Opry. Despite their musical activities, however, it wasn't until Owens was nearly 40 that he decided on a career in musi...