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‘Bronze Buckaroo’ Herb Jeffries, Walk Of Western Stars Honoree, Dead At 100

Jeffries Starred in B-Westerns as First Black Singing Cowboy Hero; Crooned with Duke Ellington Orchestra in late 1930s-early 1940s By Stephen K. Peeples Pioneering jazz singer-Western actor Herb Jeffries, who scored hits with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1940s and on his own after riding to fame as “the Bronze Buckaroo,” the first black singing cowboy hero in Western ...

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