Song of the Saddle (1936) was Dick Foran's second Warner Bros. Western as a "singing cowboy" star; the first was Moonlight on the Prairie (1935). In Song of the Saddle, Foran plays a character known as The Singing Kid who is out to avenge the murder of his father. The movie is noteworthy in part because of a supporting cast that includes Roy Rogers as part of the singing group The Sons of the Pioneers. Rogers joins the other "Sons" and Foran in tunes including "Underneath a Western Sky" and "A Happy, Rovin' Cowboy." Within two years Rogers would emerge as star of his own singing cowboy movies. Among other supporting players are child actress Bonita Granville, who played Nancy Drew in a film series of the 1930s and later became a producer of television's "Lassie" series; and former silent-screen star William Desmond, who plays a stage driver.

Foran (1910-1979) was born in Flemington, N.J., and broke into show business as a band vocalist. He made his movie debut in 1934 and appeared in several "B" movies under the name Nick Foran. In addition to his string of Westerns at Warner Bros., he played leads in several of the studio's minor productions and supporting roles in "A" movies. Some of the better-known films among his credits are Four Daughters (1938), My Little Chickadee (1940), Fort Apache (1948) and Donovan's Reef (1963).

Producer: Bryan Foy
Director: Louis King
Screenplay: William Jacobs
Cinematography: Daniel B. Clark
Art Direction: Esdras Hartley
Original Music: M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl, Howard Jackson (uncredited), Bernhard Kaun (uncredited)
Editing: Harold McLernon
Principal Cast: Dick Foran (Frank Wilson Jr., aka The Singing Kid), Alma Lloyd (Jen Coburn), Charles Middleton (Phineas P. Hook) and The Sons of the Pioneers: Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers, Tim Spencer
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By Roger Fristoe