Before Will Smith in The Wild Wild West, before Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles, there was Herb Jeffries (aka Herb Jeffrey, aka Umberto Valentino) in Harlem Rides the Range, Harlem on the Prairie, and The Bronze Buckaroo: America’s first black singing cowboy! …PS: Maybe he wasn’t black. https://ia601500.us.archive.org/35/items/PM047TheBronzeBuckaroo/PM%20047%20The%20Bronze%20Buckaroo.m4a