Background
Cargill was born on February 5, 1941, in Oklahoma City.
Cargill was born on February 5, 1941, in Oklahoma City.
Cargill graduated from Northwest Classen High School.
1 hit "Skip a Rope". His music career began in Oklahoma in clubs around Oklahoma City and Tulsa. He earned national recognition after getting a Nashville producer to agree to produce "Skip a Rope". Cargill had a number of Top 20 hits including "Row Row Row" (1968), "None Of My Business", and "The Most Uncomplicated Goodbye I Ever Heard" (1970).
Later hits included "Some Old California Memory" and "Silence on the Lincolnshire".
He also had a television show and performed for many years in Reno and Las Vegas. Marrying his high school sweetheart, Marta, he moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, in the early 1960s to study veterinary medicine at Colorado State University.
Returning to Oklahoma City, he worked as a court clerk, private investigator, and deputy sheriff. Cargill began his music career playing in clubs in and around Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Henson began recording locally at the Sully Studios with the Kimberleys as backup.
They began to tour together all over the west. In the mid 1960s, Henson went to Nashville and was fortunate to have Don Law agree to produce "Skip A Rope". Henson released his album on the Monument Label in 1967 and immediately scored in a big way with this first release.
The song became a huge hit, spending five weeks at Number.
1 on the country charts in 1968 and also making the Top 25 on the People’s charts. This success generated much media attention, and he was in demand on such television programs as The Mike Douglas Show to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
After "Skip a Rope", Cargill continued to have Top 20 hits with such songs as "Row Row Row" (1968), "None Of My Business" (his only other Top 10) (1969), and "The Most Uncomplicated Goodbye I Ever Heard" (1970). He hosted a television show, Country Hayride, beginning in 1962 and performed for many years in Reno and Las Vegas.
After leaving Monument Records, Henson moved to Mega Records in 1971, where he scored several minor hits.
In 1973, he made a strong comeback to the charts when he signed with Atlantic Records and scored 2 Top 30 hits in 1974 with "Some Old California Memory" and a version of Mac Davis" hit song "Stop and Smell the Roses". In 1980, he formed his own record label Copper Mountain Records and he scored his last Top 30 hit that year with "Silence On The Lincolnshire". Henson"s half-hour segment with his story of "Buford The Buffalo" remains to this day as one of the show"s highlight episodes.
In 1981, Henson told his family he was coming off the road and going to build a county music showplace in Oklahoma City.
The night club called HENSONS was a fabulous first class show place. He would be proud to ask top entertainers to perform in.
Fans could see him as well as all the major country acts of the era. In the late 1980s he retired to Oklahoma City, where he wed Sharon Simms on September 8, 1988, and died on March 24, 2007, aged 66, during surgery.