Dub Taylor

Walter Clarence Taylor, Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994) — known as Dub Taylor — was an American character actor who worked extensively in westerns, but also in comedy from the 1940s into the 1990s. He was the father of actor Buck Taylor, who played the character Newly O'Brien on CBS's Gunsmoke.

Early life

Taylor was born in Richmond, Virginia. The name Walter was shortened to "W" (double-u) by his friends and then "Dub." His family moved to Augusta, Georgia, when he was five years old and lived in that city until he was thirteen. During that time he befriended Ty Cobb's son and namesake, Ty Cobb, Jr. He had four siblings: Minnie Margret Taylor, Maud Clare Taylor, George Taylor and Edna Fay Taylor. Taylor was particularly close to a grandson, Walter Tac Tharp.

Career

A vaudeville performer, Taylor made his film debut in 1938, as the cheerful ex-football captain Ed Carmichael in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You. The following year, Taylor appeared in The Taming of the West, in which he originated the character of "Cannonball," a role he continued to play for the next ten years, in over fifty films. "Cannonball" was a comic sidekick to "Wild Bill" Saunders (played by Bill Elliott), a pairing that continued through thirteen features, during which Elliott’s character became Wild Bill Hickok.

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Top Dollar

by: Whiskeytown

Well I tried to find something
Something to hold on to
I thought it was you cause I'm sick and tired
Of trying to make something
Something out of nothing
I guess since you were bluffing
Now I think I'm losing my mind
The pain in my heart
Was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart
Was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues
And I gave you it all, all
All that I could give you
You've taken what I've given
Ynd thrown it all away
Like it's nothing
Never meant nothing
Now I'm left with nothing
What an awful price I've paid
The pain in my heart,
Was it worth the price?
The pain in my heart,
Was it worth the time I wasted on you?
You're giving me the top dollar blues.
I've bet all my money and that's how it goes
You ran a good race
But you lost just by a nose
It's true.
Baby, you're giving me the top dollar blues.
The top dollar blues,
I gave you it all, all
All that I could give you
And the top dollar blues




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