Spade Cooley

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Once dubbed the ‘King of Western swing” Spade Cooley was a prominent Los Angeles musician and entertained thousands of American’s every week with his televised performances. From Roy Rogers to Frank Sinatra, he was in with Hollywood’s A-List and from the outside seemed to be living the highlife, but behind closed doors lies the tale of a monster who would stop at nothing to ensure his wife Ella May was living in constant turmoil. Come see me on tour: obitchuarypodcast.com Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807 Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now! Sources: https://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/handwritten-letter-from-spade-cooley-in-jail-to-his-son/image_bd1d6d70-cf2d-59f0-9849-4b0fd87ad69c.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/ https://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/bakersfields-trial-of-the-century-the-talented-and-tormented-spade-cooley/article_e745f8a6-42c8-5da8-8c45-b5b78ce4beb8.html

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0:13.6	Mike Williams set off on a hunting trip into the swamps of North Florida, where it was
0:17.6	thought he met his fate by a group of hungry alligators, except that's not what happened.
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0:58.4	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.
1:24.6	I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry, and this week we're staying right here in something
1:28.2	in California to discuss the life and times of a man named Spade Cooley, and if you
1:33.0	can't tell from the name alone, we've got a doozy of a story here.
1:36.6	The name itself is memorable, Spade Cooley.
1:39.6	Alas, it is a stage name, well a nickname really that this man gained after playing a poker
1:44.7	game where he won three straight flush hands in all spades.
1:48.1	However, his real name was Donnell Clyde Cooley, and he was born in Grand Oklahoma on December
1:53.3	17th of 1910.
1:55.5	Poker is definitely not what made this man famous.
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