It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Ridiculously bad western. So bad it's almost campy. Ritter was not much of an actor, and whoever wrote this was not much of a writer. Still, it's an interesting bit of pablum if you'd like to see what the boys were thrilling to in the Depression years.The songs are all forgettable,but virtue does triumph in the end.

I sentence this silly musical western to a low rating and less than mediocre review. Tex Ritter is wrongly accused of murder and must expose the villains with the help of his trusty horse White Lightning and idiotic sidekick Al La Rue. Justice obviously ain't on Ritter's side and he is in the courtroom of the dumbest judge ever to cross the legitimate bar and claim to be sober while a sleazy attorney makes it obvious who the real villains are. So what does Ritter does every time that it appears that he is heading closer to the hangman's noose? Why sing of course! There are a few exciting moments of action, but the lame dialogue continuously interrupts it along with the poor songs. Louise Stanley, a heroine in many a Z-grade western, is once again along for the ride, and is simply window dressing and not much else.

I think bad editing ruined Sing Cowboy Sing a Tex Ritter western that he did for poverty row Grand National Pictures. I could have rated it a notch or two higher, but I doubt we'll ever see a director's cut.Tex and companion Al St. John come to the aid of Louise Stanley, unfortunately too late to save her father and his men from being massacred by an outlaw gang in the pay of perennial western villain Karl Hackett trying to take over the freighting concession in the territory.Hackett's got a sweet little racket going having intimidated Judge Robert McKenzie and Marshal Horace Murphy who would soon be a Tex Ritter sidekick in future films. McKenzie plays Judge Roy Dean who both is judge and runs the saloon. Sounds familiar, doesn't it. McKenzie is the one you'll remember from this film.Ritter sings a few cowboy ballads including one in jail where he's being framed for a murder charge. What could have been an exciting climax was butchered by bad editing. In the final shootout with freighters and the outlaws, people keep falling off their horses without the sound of gunfire. Looked rather unreal.Still Tex Ritter's fans will enjoy Sing Cowboy Sing.

Tex Ritter and Al St. John protect a female freight line operator from being put out of business by the villains who murdered her father in an attempt to gain control the price of goods and the means of supply.Mostly typical, there's some good action scenes and music, including the terrific title song.Tex is great, as usual and St. John is an animated and entertaining sidekick, showing off his credible fighting and riding skills, though not as glib as he became in many of his later pictures.The most memorable scene of the picture is Tex's murder trial in a saloon courtroom with a bartender judge!