Pioneer country radio broadcaster, song writer and band leader.
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His Haywire Orchestra was one of the first cowboy bands in America.
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Began broadcasting on radio station KFRC in San Francisco in 1925.
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Performed with the KFRC Blue Monday Jamboree.
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Worked as a civilian mule train packer during the Spanish-American War supplying American troops with food and ammunition.
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Worked as a newspaper reporter's assistant in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Had been a railroad switchman in Rhodesia and America.
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Wrote stories for railroad magazines.
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Looking like Santa Claus in a cowboy suit with a guitar, Haywire Mac liked to walk through the wards of Children's Hospital in San Francisco singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain".
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Room
2015/I
writer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
American Experience
2011
TV Series documentary 1 episode
Big Love
2006
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Runaway Jury
2003
writer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" - as Harry 'Haywire Mac' McClintock
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
performer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 1928 / writer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 1928
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
1975
Documentary performer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 1928, "Long-Haired Preachers The Preacher and the Slave" 1911 - as Harry K McClintock / writer: "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 1928, "Long-Haired Preachers The Preacher and the Slave" 1911 - as Harry K McClintock