Silver Spurs

Merle Travis and Betty Devere sing the title song, with the Bronco Busters backing them in this late soundie.

It was getting time to retire the soundies. Despite a six year run in which more than two thousand of these three minute films were being produced, the format never really took off to the level of becoming profitable. Part of the reasn was that the Second World War drained off a lot of productive capacity, so that the number of Mills Panarams -- the video jukeboxes on which they played -- couldn't be produced in sufficient number. Nonetheless, the provide an important historical record of contemporary music and artists for the era.