Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys (1936-1969)
(1945) - By December 1945, the Golden West Cowboys were heard on WSM radio show in two studio shows, a half hour at 6:15
sponsored by O'Brien Open House and fifteen minutes at 7:30 sponsored by Martha White Flour, as well as two Opry appearances (a half hour at 9:00 for R.C. Cola and fifteen minutes at 11:30 FOR SAFKIL). They also had a daily program, Noontime Neighbors. 
(1946) - Cowboy Copas became a member of the Golden West Cowboys.
Born Lloyd Estel Copas in Blue Ridge, OH on July 15, 1913. He teamed up with ace fiddler Natchee the Indian, from whom he got his nickname, cowboy. He remained with the Golden West Cowboys through 1947. He died on March 5, 1963 near Camden, TN in an airplane crash with Hawkshaw Hawkins, Patsy Cline, as well as the pilot, Randy Hughes, who was his son-in-law.
(1946) - Grandpa Jones came to the Opry as part of Pee Wee's show.
He was born Louis Marshall Jones on October 20, 1913 in Niagra, KY. He got his start in show business by winning a talent contest in 1930 in Akron, OH. He got his nickname, 'Grandpa' from Bradley Kincaid one morning on an early radio show when he was moving slowly because he was sleepy. Jones was a regular at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, where he
first performed regularly. Beginning in 1969 he found a wider audience as a
regular on the TV series Hee Haw, where his countrified act was a
natural.
(December 17, 1946) - RCA Victor In December 1946 Pee Wee King and his Golden West
Cowboys first recorded for RCA Victor, an association which lasted a dozen years.
RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company
then RCA Victor) is one of the flagship labels of Sony BMG Music Entertainment. RCA
Records was founded in 1901 as the Victor Talking Machine Company,
and the RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America,
which was the parent corporation in the pre-BMG days.
(1948) - Pee Wee and the Golden West Cowboys moved to Louisville, KY from Nashville, TN. It was reported that they had done a series of television shows at the Kentuckiana Home Show, broadcast over WAVE-TV. Pee Wee was once asked why he and his band left the Opry, his answer was, "In answer to your question as to why I decided to leave the Grand Ole Opry; all I can say is after ten pleasant years of traveling over this entire country of ours as well as seven foreign countries, representing one of the grandest organizations namely, Grand Ole Opry, yours truly needs a rest for this weary band of boys as well as Pee Wee, honestly! It's loads of fun now to do two radio commercial programs daily over WAVE in Louisville, Kentucky, and now we just put in ten days of television, which our station is proud to put in full operation. So we'll be plenty busy settling down."
Members of the Golden West Cowboys were:
Shorty Boyd, Sticks McDonald, Gene Shuler, Redd Stewart, Gene Stewart (Redd's brother), Chuck Wiggins and Roy Ayres (the youngest of the band.)
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