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Donnell Clyde "Spade" Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969) was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, television personality and convicted murderer. In 1961 he was tried and convicted for the murder of his second wife, Ella Mae Evans.
Aug 8, 2018 · "Spade" Cooley was a virtuoso fiddler and Roy Rogers' movie stand-in, who had six consecutive Top 10 hits and was considered Hollywood's King of Western Swing. He was also a mean, jealous, paranoid, violent, alcoholic man
Jun 12, 2015 · The arraignment of Spade Cooley. With Cooley at the counsel table are Kern County District Attorney Kit Nelson; Cooley’s defense attorneys John Gerlach Jr., and Morris Chain, and investigator ...
Nov 14, 2017 · Calling a Spade a Spade. Cooley was a womanizer. His manager Bennett, in an unpublished manuscript, claimed she paid 10 women whom Cooley had an affair with to have abortions — in one year alone.
Spade Cooley. Soundtrack: The Killer Inside Me. Violinist and cellist, singer, actor, composer and songwriter ("Shame On You"), conductor, arranger and inventor who popularized western swing music on film and recordings, in person and on radio and television. When Spade was four, he and his parents John and Emma Cooley moved to Oregon where he studied classical violin and cello, and at the age ...
When the ambulance arrived at the Willow Springs ranch home of country swing musician Spade Cooley and his wife Ella Mae on the night of April 3rd, 1961, it’s safe to say the medics had little idea of the carnage inside.
Spade Cooley. Soundtrack: The Killer Inside Me. Violinist and cellist, singer, actor, composer and songwriter ("Shame On You"), conductor, arranger and inventor who popularized western swing music on film and recordings, in person and on radio and television. When Spade was four, he and his parents John and Emma Cooley moved to Oregon where he studied classical violin and cello, and at the age ...
Feb 18, 2012 · Donnell Clyde Cooley, better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western Swing musician, band leader, actor and television personality whose remarkable ca...
Jul 9, 2005 · For those looking down on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the name Spade Cooley probably doesn’t mean very much. He was a real-life star once, known as “The King of Western Swing ...
W hen he died in 1969, country-western bandleader Spade Cooley was on 72-hour parole from the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he was serving a life sentence for the beating death of his wife, Ella Mae.. He had just received a standing ovation from the audience of 2,800 at the Oakland Auditorium — where he was performing in a benefit for the Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's ...
