Wesley Tuttle was an American country music

Country music

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 singer. He was raised in California

California

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 and took up music at age four, relearning to play the guitar

Guitar

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 and ukulele

Ukulele

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 after losing all but the thumb and one finger on his left hand. He contributed the yodeling to the "Silly Song" in Walt Disney

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's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

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, and later backed Tex Ritter

Tex Ritter

Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...

 on guitar. He married actress Marilyn Myers in 1946 and acted with her in several Western

Western (genre)

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 films, in addition to recording the duet "Never" with her. Eyesight problems forced Tuttle into retirement in the 1970s.

Discography

Year	Song	Peak chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
1945	"With Tears in My Eyes With Tears in My Eyes "With Tears in My Eyes" is a 1945 song by Wesley Tuttle and His Texas Stars. The song was Wesley Tuttle's first and most successful entry on the Juke Box Folk Chart. "With Tears in My Eyes" went number one for four weeks with a total of fourteen weeks on the chart .... "	1
1946	"Detour Detour (song) "Detour " is a Western swing ballad written by Paul Westmoreland in 1945. The original version was by Jimmy Walker with Paul Westmoreland and His Pecos River Boys, issued around the beginning of November 1945.... "	4
	"I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine"	5
	"Tho' I Tried (I Can't Forget You)"	4
1947	"Never" (with Marilyn Myers)	15