Gene Autry

[TheSCOTCHSOLACE]

A true classic - how could anyone not love this.

[LITEE43]

The stuff America is made of.

[TheRAFfc]

Brings back memories of my youth 1930s in London UK Saturday morning Movies for kids 2 penny's bag of peanuts and an orange Glad i didn't have to clean the cinema after! THANKS FOR THE MEMORY

[xtracool32]

I remember when they used to play this before Angel games.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

One of my dad's favorite songs.

Thanks.

George Vreeland Hill

[branag20]

I'm related to Gene Autry

[branag20]

I'm related to him

[idacherasaroneal]

I am now 76 Years of age and remember going to the movies for A nickle. I was six years of age and fell in love with Gene Autry and still carry him in my heart.

Idacherasaroneal@comcast.net

[ReneODeay]

toting my old 44.

[bwilsonporto]

I am sixty and really love his songs. My father used to sing some (in portuguese) and I always wanted to know who the singer was ... just remeber he saying his name. Thanks for posting. I am from Brazil.

[NihilTico]

Timeless, gotta love Autry.

[000iraqialia1]

am going to have sex with that song lol

[An6ysSouL]

man..... i was born 80 years late I wish they made music like this now. Thank you very much for uploading this =))

[decoycarver17]

@An6ysSouL You and me both friend. I dont even lsiten to the crap on the radio today.

[brenda23285]

i love him..

[dasyization]

I'm 18 and I love Gene Autry and Roy Rogers ! I have the song Happy Trails on my IPod .

[jimmyfromfleming]

God Bless you Gene and Boys. 

[nonginger]

this man died the day i was born october 2nd 1998

[Rayzpik]

Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful... I heard he wrote this song on the way to the studio to begin this Movie that morning...Amazing!!!!!

.... Ray Rogers !!!

[malaxn]

I am now 18 but I remember taking a cross country trip with my folks to Wyoming when I was seven. We stopped at a bison ranch for a night and bought a cassette with this and many other great western songs on it. Probably the greatest memory of my childhood.

[schmidty32]

Dr. Van Cott! youre crazy

[Shodansixtyone]

I watched Gene on TV in the early 50's - his side kick at that time was Pat Butrim - Champion was his horse - where did those days go - great memories - Thank goodness for UTube - and Old Time Radio on the internet.

[Shodansixtyone]

I watched Gene on TV in the early 50's - his side kick at that time was Pat Butrim - Champion was his horse - where did those days go - great memories

[rocknrollfanatic96]

Happy Birthday Gene!!!!

[mrwestern33]

There's only one Gene Autry!!!

[nrthnboy50]

i grew up watching the gene autry show on the western channel with my grandpa all the time .. gene autry is the true pioneer of country

[nrthnboy50]

i grew up watching his shows all the time on the western chanel with him .. he was the true pioneer of cowboy

[Bigbadred23]

For My Friend :)

[downhill240]

Gene and others like him taught me the difference between right and wrong in their many movies.

[babigurl848]

i love this song

[Overratedboys]

My Great Grandfather originally played with Gene Autry, before he truly became famous :).

[TheTexn]

To hell with the up to date, current and popular. I prefer Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and their ilk. I prefer to live in the past, thank you.

[intotalawe]

@TheTexn Yea Texn - Like Floyd Tillman too

[cagedpet]

Those were the days :)

[raveon09]

great job,curley

[WELTERWillClineYah99]

nice one

[82abnoff]

Fuck you,, You silly assholes,

[SuperSermonator]

Highlawn Baptist Church

Welcome Back

I'm looking forward to hearing you praise our Lord in song. Thank you for all you do.

Dr. Ray

[kennbix]

I was born in 1944 and when I was old enough to relize who Gene Autry was, I never missed a movie or radio show that he had. This man is a true saint and more people should follow his footsteps. Mr Autry was worth 320 million dollars and never forgot us common people who worked hard every day to put food on the table and pay the mortgage. Boy could we use him in the senate and congress today.

[zipper179]

You said a mouthful, pardner! And, ya said it plain. Read his cowboy code. Now, if you've got kids, isn't so cool? From Beverly Hills to Watts and Compton, his fans were legion. Just to think, a hero who says a cowboy should have no racial or religious intolerance. I'dve rode in his posse any day! Let's see one of these sewer-mouthed celebrities make that claim!

[Bevet]

This takes me back to my brother and me listening to him on THE RADIO which sat were in later years the TV took over!

[texlavallee]

of course old gene was a great singer and wester movie star, in 1954 i meet him in montreal forum in canada, remark see my youtube posting and my web site, tex lavallee the canadian western performer

[Mike2008and2008]

Thanks Curley!

[candw87]

Ken Maynard-Tom Mix -Buck Jones-Tex Ritter were among my many Cowboy stars of our 1930 Saturday morning matinees Happy memories

[PitaLeCatt001]

This guy is the true Ameican.

A Total Innocent and Total Believer that proved dreams could happen.

I love him, and I love the dream he had.

[batzapper888]

I wasn't related to gene autry I was a fan of his at the age of six

back when music was not so pristine or bitterly in your face...

gene was a real hero to man young boys in the late fortys and fifties good singin cowboy stuff gary brumley

[redneckchick1001]

i love the gene autry show! and hes a good singer too :)

[kalukskate2]

awsome

[sholmes47]

Curley, I have been searching for a song my Dad used to sing. Part of it goes like this. Oh when your heart yearns for the West, Go get yourself that Gold Coast Express. Have you ever heard it? or know the lyrics to it?

Thank You Sholmes47

[Smiley15TV]

Gene Autry was my great great uncle. By blood. These other ppl on youtube try to claim it but i have the written documents hes in my reunion books.. I was just at the autry family reunion.

[sunnymars11]

cool maybe we related too! my great grandmother is related down the line

[CherokeeGeema]

My sister-n-law is his sister same father different Mother.

[StewedTomato]

Curley, have you ever heard of a Cowboy star from the 1940's or 50's named Jack Kleine? Or a "Cowboy Poet" named Baxter Black? Baxter is on YouTube. They are both neighbors of mine in the Arizona desert around Benson AZ

[curleyb3]

StewedTomato, Thanks for the comment.

They are good memories. I am 86 now and remember Gene when I was 16.

Curley

[TheDesertsItalian]

@curleyb3 God Bless you, i only wish i was alive back when music had soul, and meant somthing

[alanyoung2]

@curleyb3 He's sooo much better than Roy Rogers! At least Gene didn't have jeeps in his westerns.

[candw87]

@curleyb3 Happy memories -i'm almost 90 -remember all the old Gene Autry films in the Shoeburyness Royal Artillery Garrison Theatre in 1939

[StewedTomato]

Thanks for the memories Curley. When I was a little girl I remember The Gene Autry show, I wanted to be a cowgirl. Now I live in the Arizona Desert with critters, wild life all over the place and love it!

[whaleluver15freak]

back in the saddle again is the best.

[zaaritha]

Great! Memories............

[countryumb30]

thank you

[hourlynewscaster]

Gene's horse was named Champion. His radio show "Melody Ranch" was an interesting mix of comedy (with Pat Buttram, who would go to be Mr. Haney on "Green Acres") and music. There was also a radio drama, running about 10-15 minutes in the center of the show. It was one of the longest-running shows of its kind on radio. I have some of the old recordings. Dennis

[rockgor]

I used to listen to Melody Ranch when I was

a kid. It was a big thrill to see Gene in a

Wild West Show ca. 1950.

I think Melody Ranch is open to the public now.

It's a little north of Los Angeles, near Magic

Mountain and the Wm. S. Hart ranch.

Tx 4 the post.

[DAGUY]

This is way better than warren's saddleback.lol

[StewedTomato]

Thanks for shareing!

[nickwalco]

i love Gene Autry and im going on 21 ^_^

[curleyb3]

Thank you for the comment. I will check this out and want the right person to get the credit. I remember a Larry Phelps with Ray Whitley. Is he the Same Person?

[DaChikBehindU]

No. Ray whitely wrote it with Norman Phelps, but Ray Got all the credit because Norman wasn't the best businessman... if you know what I mean.

[curleyb3]

Yes, I checked it out. Your right. It's a shame Norman should have put his name on it. The song turned out to be a big hit.

[TheFrontrowkid]

@DaChikBehindU I don't know what Norman Phelps had to do with "Back in the Saddle." Ray Whitley wrote it and came up with the title. In the late Thirties, Whitley's music group that included Chill Wills was working at RKO making George O'Brien westerns. Whitley had to get up early in the A.M. in order to be on the set. He told his wife, "I'm back in the saddle again." When the song was written, he used it in an O'Brien western. Autry took it as his radio theme song in 1930.

[DaChikBehindU]

@TheFrontrowkid I apologize. I did not mean that it was not written by Ray Whitely as well. Ray Whitely and Norman Phelps co-wrote "Back in the Saddle" together. Unfortunately, Norman Phelps was a better musician than he was a business man, and through a series of unfortunate events, he was not given the co-writer credit he deserved. He couldn't have done it without Ray, though.

[TheFrontrowkid]

@DaChikBehindU Don't know what Norman Phelps had to do with the song. Ray Whitley wrote it and first performed in a George O'Brien western in 1938. At that Whitley had a musical group that appeared in the O'Brien westerns. He got the idea from the song when he was getting very early to go to the studio. He told his wife one day "Well, I'm Back in the Saddle Again." Autry bought the song for his radio program in 1940.

[DaChikBehindU]

This was not written by Ray Whitely. This was originally written by Norman Phelps. Look up the facts.

[Hikaru809]

I'm 18 and even I see Gene Autry as a great singer and person, wish I was around during his time ^^

[curleyb3]

Gene Autry - Horse Name, Champion

Roy Rogers - Horse Name, Trigger

[spacepatrolman]

@curleyb3 gene autry gave roy rodgers his name which was originaly leonard sly

gene autry had challenge records with the champs named after his horse

[TheFrontrowkid]

@spacepatrolman Whoever told you that Gene gave Roy Rogers (note your spelling: "rodgers") his screen name has space between his ears. Len Slye was given that name by Republic to cash in on Will Rogers' popularity. When the name of Roy was first mentioned, Slye said "No, because there was a kid in my school named Leroy and I hated him." But Roy Rogers sounded Western and more important, it fit better on the marquee.

[spacepatrolman]

@TheFrontrowkid the guy that told me knew gene autry and his promo man he was ahead of sly at republic and they filmed at his ranch

[zaaritha]

What were the name of his horse?

Roy Roger´s horse was called Trigger or am I wrong?

[zaaritha]

Good!

[scubasteve4sq]

gene autry is the last great american hero, he was an inspiration to all and an example of what it meant to do the right thing and stand up for what you believe in, even when the odds are stacked against you. hats off to you gene, you'll always be remembered

[texaz2006]

Gene Autry is my grandfathers cousin. Crazy huh

[aknowneemus]

god bless you curly. gene r.i.p

[curleyb3]

Thank you and God bless you too. Gene Autry was a favorite of mine. I can remember Listening to his records in my teens. I'm 85 now. Curley

[tutormac]

Wonderful tribute to a great American Hero.

[heiwaalchemist]

sounds soo good^^ nice pictures too.

i always enjoy his music..i sometimes watch him on encore westerns..alas the last of the great western heros T^T

[curleyb3]

Hi, Thank you for your comment. Yes, I watch Gene a lot on the Western programs. Also enjoyed the Cass County Boys on his radio programs too.

[dreadnought45]

Good presentation,curelyb3. Reminds me of those Saturday afternoons at the neighborhood movie theatre when I was growing up in

Toronto. Also, do you remember the Gene Autry radio show on Sunday night, sponsored by Wrigley Spearmint chewing gum?

[curleyb3]

Thank You for your comment. Yes I remember the Gene Autry radio shows. I wished they were back. Also remember when he used to come to Boston with the Rodeo and Ray Whitley used to broadcast here for the Rodeo. I was also a guest of Ray on his Radio program on WMEX in Boston.

[RubyWraith]

Gene was my first crush and my first hero. I watch him every day on cable. Hoppy, Gene, Roy and the Duke. The last of the great western heros.

[curleyb3]

Thank you for your comment. Gene was a favorite of mine.

[Xirdnehynnej]

I am an Autry! Great vid!

[curleyb3]

Thank you for your comment. I enjoyed Gene Autry from way back since I was 15 years young now I'm 85 and still enjoy his music.

Thanks again.

[bearandluludogs]

Good Pictures and sound is good, Thanks for the good ole days