[3] He began his career while attending high school in Texas by working at a local radio station.
[6] The band included Patti Page on vocals, fiddler Johnny Paul, and accordionist Ken Coopern.
They grew in fame and over their ten-year career, performed as the musical group backing up Monte Hale and Roy Rogers for Republic Studios.
Willing and his band appeared as performers in many Western movies in the 1940s and early 1950s with Charles Starrett, Monte Hale, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
[4][8] During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage occasionally reunited to record and perform, and Willing went on to appear at Western festivals during the 1970s.