Eddie Dean may have had one of the best singing voices in western movies, but it took almost a decade before he was allowed to show it. Dean, born in 1907 as Edgar Glosup in Posey, Texas, seemed to have minor roles in everybody else’s westerns before he finally landed a series of his own.

In less than a year, movie fans lost three of filmdom’s singing cowboys: Roy Rogers and Gene Autry in 1998 and Eddie Dean in 1999. Dean’s death on March 4, 1999 did not generate the publicity that followed the passing of the other two stars, but his film career started almost as early as theirs did and he even appeared in some of their movies.

Paul Dellinger

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