David McEnery

As a teenager, he appeared regularly on KABC radio. Dave began his career by singing, yodeling, and performing rope tricks at rodeos. In 1936, he broadcast a live singing performance from the Goodyear Blimp over CBS AM radio station WQAM in Miami. His career really took off with his song "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight", broadcast in a pioneer television broadcast from the 1939 New York World's Fair.[3] He worked for radio station WOR (AM) in New York City.[4] He was a radio personality in border radio for station XERF. In the latter part of his life, he became a well-known painter of Texas landscapes and Western Americana themes and was often known to paint the backs of his used guitars.

He worked in several westerns as a singing cowboy, including Swing in the Saddle (1944), Hidden Valley Days (1948) and Echo Ranch (1948).

• Dave, Red River; Betty Ann Fisher (1939). Red River Dave Song Book: marvelous collection of cowboy, hill-billy, mountain and home songs, all originals. New York: Stasny Music Corporation.
• McEnery, Dave (c. 1940). Red River Dave's Louisiana Jamboree and Nashville Favorites. San Antonio, Texas: Red River Dave Music Company.

Album cover for Songs of the West by Red River Dave

Red River Dave's songs have been recorded by Hank Snow and Tex Ritter.

• "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" 1937
• "The Blind Boy's Dog" ("I'd Like To Give My Dog To Uncle Sam")
• "The Red Deck of Cards"[5] 1954
• "Ballad Of Emmett Till"
• "The Ballad Of Francis Powers" 1960[6]
• "Trial of Francis Powers" 1960
• "The Flight Of Apollo Eleven" 1969
• "The California Hippy Murders"[7][8]
• "The Ballad Of Patty Hearst"[8]
• "The Ballad of Three Mile Island" 1979[8]
• "Shame is the Middle Name Of Exxon"
• "Atlanta's Black Children" 1981
• "The Pine-Tarred Bat, the Ballad of George Brett" 1983[9]
• "The Clinging Lovers of Kenya" 1983[10]
• "Night That Ronald Reagan Rode With Santa Claus"[10] 1984[11]