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Horace E. Wooten
I was born in Kansas City Kansas in December 1937. My father Horace senior 19 worked in a neighborhood grocery store delivering groceries to customer’s houses. He drove a little green 1936 Ford pic...view moreI was born in Kansas City Kansas in December 1937. My father Horace senior 19 worked in a neighborhood grocery store delivering groceries to customer’s houses. He drove a little green 1936 Ford pick up. My mother Ruby is a light skin Negro girl with red hair and freckles; just 15 years old she quit school, and later worked in a laundry folding sheets.
I was the only child they ever had. I spent the first 7 years of my life growing up with my father’s younger sisters and cousins.
My mother and father separated. So we left Kansas City and came to Los Angeles by train. Her house was very small just one bed room one bath. The bed took most of the room. We all lived there together until I graduated from George Washington Carver Jr. High. After that we moved to the Westside and I attended Manual Arts High School. We started a singing group at Manual with some friends and class mates in the eleventh grade.
Booker Jones Jr. Charles Jackson, Fondro Talbert, David Cobb and Talbert Walton we were called “The Chimes.” I wrote my first song in my math class. It was called “Chop Chop”. Later on I wrote “Tears on my pillow” and “Pretty little girl”. We recorded for Specialty Records in Hollywood, Ca, but none of my songs where big hits, but I love writing. Later on after my singing career had ended, and married with four children. I started writing a movie script called “Hot Bread” I worked on it for five years, and after that I wrote “Jacob’s Roughriders”. If you like reading westerns, you’ll love this book. It’s filled with action from beginning to end. It’s about the real roughriders; Negro cowboys and the Buffalo Soldiers riding together to tame the lawless frontier. This book should be made into a movie so Americans can be taught the untold stories of American History.view less