How do you renounce a stereotype? Sultry Julie London, of the husky, intimate singing style, is trying to, but that seems to follow her everywhere. It followed her to “Hong Kong” and will turn up Friday night on CBS’s “Rawhide.” And while the singing is peripheral, the writers wouldn’t dast let her go without a tune.

That is logical. After all, one recording executive observed, “Who else can sell albums to men who don’t even own record players?”

For those who missed “Incident at Rojo Canyon” the first time around, Bobby plays her manager-accompanist. Julie’s looking for her father and Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) permits them to join the drive.

A less gullible trail boss, you keep thinking to yourself, would have gotten the cattle to Sedalia weeks ago.

Julie’s career reflects the vagaries of the business. She was an actress when she married Jack Webb and “had no trouble getting good, wholesome scripts.” Now that she’s a singer, “they don’t want me to act,” she says.

(Note: This episode of Rawhide, first aired September 30th, 1960.)