Bob Baker (born Stanley Leland Weed;[1] November 8, 1910 – August 29, 1975) was an American singer who had several starring roles as a singing cowboy in the late 1930s, in Hollywood films.

[3] Baker began singing professionally at the age of twenty, for the KTSM radio station in El Paso, Texas.

[4] As a professional rodeo roper and rider, he competed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Pendleton, Oregon, and Salinas, California, among other sites.

[6] Known as "Tumbleweed" Baker,[1] he starred in a dozen pictures before suffering an injury and being demoted to secondary roles.

[4] Baker had a series of heart attacks toward the end of his life and died of a stroke on August 29, 1975.