Tex Grimsley
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Songwriter
Tex Grimsley was a Texas western-swing bandleader who fronted Tex Grimsley and His Texas Showboys in the late 1940s and early 1950s and who, with brother Cliff Grimsley, co-wrote the bouncy honky-tonk standard “Walking the Dog” — later a country hit for Webb Pierce and recorded by Buck Owens, Patsy Cline, and David Ball.
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- Led the western-swing band Tex Grimsley and His Texas Showboys in the postwar era.
- Co-wrote “Walking the Dog” with Cliff Grimsley; the Showboys first cut the song with Cliff on lead vocal for the Texas-based Pacemaker label in 1950.
- Webb Pierce’s 1953 cover, retitled “I’m Walking the Dog,” reached the country Top 10; later covers came from Buck Owens, Patsy Cline, and David Ball.
