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Born Robert Clarence Nobles in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, at the age of thirteen he moved to live
with his American father in Tucson, Arizona. As
Bob Nolan, he began a career as a singer on the
Chatauqua tent-show circuit until 1933 when he
became a leader of the singing group the Sons of
the Pioneers for which he was elected to the
Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980. He recorded a
number of albums and was the singing voice for Ken
Maynard in the 1934 film, In Old Sante Fe. Nolan
appeared in a number of low-budget Western films,
first for Columbia Pictures and later with cowboy
stars Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.

Bob Nolan was inducted into the Nashville
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.

He passed away in 1980 in Newport Beach,
California and at his request, his ashes were
scattered across the Nevada desert.

In 1986, for his 1941 song "Cool Water", the Sons
of the Pioneers were given a Grammy Hall of Fame
Award. He also wrote the famous "Tumblin'
Tumbleweeds". In 1995, Nolan was inducted
posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of
Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage
Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Information on his birth and career was researched
by Elizabeth Drake McDonald. Her collection, which
includes more than 200 of Nolan's songs and other
material from his career, can be found in the
library of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill.