![]() ![]() During World War II, he is stationed in the Solomon Islands and becomes friends with a local rancher. ![]() At the age of 17, Parker lies about his age to enlist in the U.S. Navy warrant officer Arthur Parker, who rescued an injured filly during World War II. In 1947, Johnny Bond starred in Gallant Bess, a story loosely based on the true account of U.S. Citizens of Gunsmoke are being intimidated by Lon Curtis and his gang who are preventing an election to vote on a township charter. And in 1944, Bond appeared in the film Marshall of Gunsmoke. The same year, Johnny Bond appeared in Arizona Trail. In the film a singing cowboy (Tex Ritter) comes home to help his family fight a land-grabber who is trying to take over the family ranch. The plot concerned Range Busters investigating sabotage at a mining community and uncover a gang of Nazi spies. In 1943, Johnny Bond appeared in Cowboy Commandos, opposite Dennis Moore, Ray “Crash” Corrigan, and actress and stuntwoman Evelyn Finley. She is looking for money to put the club back in business, but must avoid being fleeced by her shipmates and also must avoid the police, who are waiting for the boat at the dock. On board are a band of struggling musicians, along with a number of swindlers, and another a pair of con artists passing themselves off as Señor and Rosita Alvarez, phony names. Another passenger is Madame La Zonga, whose nightclub in Havana has been closed. In 1941, Bond was cast as musician in Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga. The plot unfolded on a luxury liner sailing for Cuba. Half of the films Johnny Bond appeared in he was cast in a role as a musician. His debut was the Western, Saga of Death Valley. It starred Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes, with Bond as a member of a band. In 1939, Johnny Bond appeared in his first of forty films. He also performed with his own band the Red River Valley Boys. In 1940, Bond went on to join Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch. And with Columbia Records they recorded under the name Johnny Bond & the Cimarron Boys. With Decca Records the trio recorded as the Jimmy Wakely Trio. In 1937, he began performing with Jimmy Wakely and Scotty Harrell in the Bell Boys trio, named after the Bell Clothing Company, which sponsored the group on radio station WKY in Oklahoma City. While in high school “Johnny” bought a ukulele, and subsequently learned the guitar. Bond first performed on radio in Oklahoma City when he was 19 years old. Prior to 1907, Pickens County had been part of the Chickasaw Nation in the “Indian Territory.” His parents were farmers. Cyrus Whitfield Bond was born in 1915 in southern Oklahoma. ![]()
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