Eddie Dean
1990 WMA Hall of Fame Member

The seventh son of a seventh son, Edgar Dean Glosup was born in Posey, Texas, in 1907, and became a film, recording, and stage star, well loved for his warm and generous personality as well as for the strength and grace of his magnificent voice. He recorded for Decca, Majestic, and other labels, and appeared in scores of films, including twenty in which he starred for PRC from 1946-1948, some of which were the first singing cowboy films in color. This classy Western gentleman, whose voice remain-` undiminished by time, is also the writer or co-writer of several western classics, including On The Banks of the Sunny San Juan, I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven, and One Has My Name, The Other Has My Heart.