HOME ON THE RANGE - ROY ROGERS/GENE AUTRY (AUDIO ONLY)

[Kern1996]

Fallout New Vegas brought me here.

[decoycarver17]

Roy and Gene sure could sing.

[ScottishgirlAnnlorie]

As much as I love the folk songs of Scotland, England, and Ireland; nothing can ever make my heart stir like the song of good ol' America.

[hcaltrop]

Roy Rogers fished at Lake Henshaw in the early 1940's. His picture was posted at Charley and Mary's Lodge on the south shore. When my dad took me fishing with him I would run up and down the shore trying to find him. Never did. I really liked Roy and (Cookie) Andy Devine.

[forsythbill1]

It has lovely almost melancholic refrain,we used to sing this 40 odd years ago at school in scotland.

[macvatu]

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How about Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, Tarzan, Superman and Batman and Robin??? They were our favourite Saturday Matinee in the 50s. What's more, they had them in Double Features, usually with a Western. Simple fun but enjoyable and unforgetable, thanks for sharing !!

[skychy]

I'm 16 and im taking a music history class :D

[boyamIhappy]

heck I miss those guys! The world seems that much better while I listen to them sing. Happy days!

[visionsocialpadilla]

I am 56. Dominican Republic. I remember when I was 5....going to see a Gene Autry movie. I won't never forget that experience...Thanks YOUTUBE!

[desert1939]

MY dad's favorite too. He often sang when we took road trips. Miss you much dad.

[TchecaBoy]

I'm Just 16, I heard this song on a film called The Messenger, I liked it. Now I'm listening this beautiful and peaceful song 24/7.

I don't understand how could people dislike it.

Those 9 who dislike it will never have their own house on the range.

[chenzenzo]

@TchecaBoy

don't matter if they dislike it.

It's about home.

Home is where you hang your hat, kiss your lover and lay yourself to rest after a hard days work.

I've sang this song since I was a kid and if there's one thing I know;

a discouraging word is seldom heard at home.

Cheers too ya Feller!

[fowter1]

@TchecaBoy people dislike it because there are some racist aspects to it

[jalal209]

i only wanted to hear this song because i heard it on wizards of waverly place ::DD

[kblurv4eva]

My Papa's dream was to be a cowboy and he almost did it too, but now he's sitting in a hospital bed on his last limbs. I'm praying for him and almost every single old country song reminds me of him. He was a great singer, and great guitarist, but an even better person. Roy Rogers, Wilf Carter, Gene Autry, Hank Williams, you name it. He knew every song :)

[TDS4UT]

Thanks for the introduction. I am trying to incorporate a program for seniors. I have a country set in the program including "Home on the Range."

[1958mjj143]

in our mapeh major, we're going to have our own version, and we're the one to conduct while our choirs are singing ,,

[cowbellpeaceprize]

This is a great song to rock a baby to! So is Tumbling tumbleweeds!

[richardegoful]

Thanks for posting this great song. The verse in question by the A.C.L.U. is sympathetic and remorseful in it's tone. Should they have used the term Native American instead of Red Man? Does anyone out there think this person has a problem with the term white boy? A term used to describe me and people who look like me on a daily basis!

[etbella3]

@richardegoful Red man is code for "Read, man". The 2008 movie The Reader was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and Kate Winslet won Best Actress for starring in this movie about the Nazis from a different point of view.

[fowter1]

@richardegoful Listen to american ghost dance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and you'll hear Anthony keidis's opinion. lol

[Nod4Eight]

@fowter1 Do you not think different tribes did the same thing to each other once they had the technology? What happened was inevitable - there never has been an "Indian Nation".

[johnwpeters]

@fowter1 anthony keidis is an autistic junkie.

[temoei]

Without barbarous red Indians but with alway servile negroes with glittering teehth, having the time of their life. Life was really wonderful!

[Maputort]

I knew this song when I was a kid, heck probably since '68. I can't say I ever heard the "excluded" version at all. Not in the far West where I lived, not South where I once worked, and not now in the Northeast where I now live. And I'm not red or white and I love Bluegrass and Pavarotti just the same. It's just a nice song.

[aqx770]

I was raised next to a "res", my mother's people are Lakota.. I love this song as it reminds me of home. BTW, I wouldn't give the sweat off a bull's balls for AIM.

[guambetty]

Listened twice, and for the life of me I couldn`t find anything racist about the song. So

this guy talks nonsense. You native American ghedehougan?

[Pacopicksstrawberry]

@guambetty The verse where he says " The red man was pressed from this part of the west, 'tis unlikely he'll ever return" etc. is completely racist... Referring to Native Americans as "Red men" which is why when it is sung in schools or other places they usually cut out that verse... I'm not calling Roy Rogers racist I think he chose to include it because it's a dark part of American History that people would rather forget but needs to be brought out into the light.

[kvdye]

@Pacopicksstrawberry

I'm proud to say that I am 1/4 Cherokee on my mother's side and 1/4 Cherokee on my father's side.

You sound just like my sister, always finding something wrong instead of seeing BEAUTY.

I'm certainly not offended by things like that.

God almighty, how people like you irritate me with your STUPID negativity!

Get a life!

That song has always been a REAL American favorite, by the way.

[Pacopicksstrawberry]

@kvdye I'm pretty sure I didnt say that this is a bad song because of that verse. I also think this is a great song but I'm just saying that the verse is racist. Lastly youre sounding a bit ignorant to your peoples plight being 1/4th cherokee maybe you should look at what your ancestors went through to get where you are and ask yourself if they would appreciate that verse. I dont understand you telling me to get a life when this is just a small debate on youtube.. don't blow it out of proportion

[kvdye]

@Pacopicksstrawberry

Well thanks for taking the time to respond. I just think that bringing something like racism into a discussion about one of our dear old songs is like Jackson/Sharpton trouble making.

All comments are welcome, I'll listen.

[russellrvr]

One of the great songs of the West, sung by a western icon. Thank You.

[1954WBA]

Brings back childhood memories for me ... watchin them early westerns on a black and white TV .....

[ghedehoungan]

anyone who appreciate this song without even notice how racist it is, is an ignorant.

I'm sorry, but this song is as idiot as a nazi song saying how nice it is to get rid of the jews.

[rockon1898]

@ghedehoungan This is a song all AMERICANS respect, including Native Americans. Will Rogers loved this song. You're the ignorant racist, so get a life, bozo.

[ghedehoungan]

@rockon1898 I am very curious to know how much Native americans respect a song that rejoices for "compressing" the "red man".

And who cares if Will Rogers respected it- the lyrics are CLEAR, and since there are other more respectful versions of this songs, I find no reason NOT to address the racist content of this version.

And besides quoting mr Rogers, and insuting me, I wonder how you can possibly say this song isn't racist.

[kvdye]

@ghedehoungan "compressing the redman"?????

How old are you? ".....the redman was best in this part of the west", yeah sure sounds racist to me.

Thanks Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton!

[muchosofficiel]

@kvdye

« The red man was PRESSED from this part of the West,

[He's likely no more to return]

To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever

Their flickering campfires burn. » (but I'm French... so I don't understand !)

[temoei]

@muchosofficiel

Without barbarous red Indians but with alway servile negroes with glittering teehth, having the time of their life. Life was really wonderful!

[ghedehoungan]

THE WHITE MAN CAME,

"THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS IS YOUR LAND" THEY SANG:

HOME, HOME ON THE RANGE...

(Tori Amos, Home On The Range-Cherokee Edit.)

[HannahGrahamOfficial]

I have to sing this, and Moon River for my singing exam?! :-)

[beachbumdave]

Yes remember going to the pictures in South Australia for the mattinee as kids,Gene Autry, Roy and Dale, Hoppalong Cassidy, Lone Ranger etc. Big programmes two movies seperated by serial, cartoons, newsreel, no airconditioning in theatres in those days, on the rare days we went into Adelaide we had someone playing the wuilitzer organ before and at interval time at the best theatres. Brings back memories of my childhood, many thnx.

[rockgor]

Great song. Roy and Gene were my heroes when I was a kid. Don't

seem to have any nowadays.

I visited the Roy Rogers Museum when it was in Apple Valley, CA. Sad to

say it moved to Bronson, MO and now has closed.

There is a great Western Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, named

after Gene. If my health were better, I'd volunteer as a docent.

Tnx for the musical post.

[oddball2036]

a great pity the red man had his land stolen from you yanks

[kvdye]

@oddball2036 How are the Aborigines doing nowadays?

[ibanezrocker12]

What if you didn't want to wear a cowboy hat?

[teagueh]

When my kids used to argue, we'd have them put their arms around each other and sing "Home on the Range" together. By the time the song was over, they'd be friends and happy once again.

I love this old song.

[SexyKehoe]

cool~nice~

[comeonfolks]

I am 20 and this stuff is better for my soul than anything today is, but it is kind of sad because when I am 70, I don't know if anyone will remember this music or if this music will be even available.

[WOWJBEOWULF]

Roy Rogers did good.

[Corrie121]

Rekindles childhood memories.

Thanks for sharing this piece of nostalgia.

[gabriel966427]

ugghhh.... it soothed to my nerve... i missed my dad who used to sing this every time i go to sleep....... RIP daddy...

[flyingbluegoose]

for those the like those movies of Gene and Roy they have a lot of them on Netflix

[wdeadman49]

I love this song

[fabiandoulton]

I know some great harmony for this song.

Those in New Orleans could hear me play this on the piano sometime.!!!

[mongoose100989]

why does leather start to stink after a while???

[spoiledbrat1440001]

Wonderful singing, and a good song EXCEPT the part about the Red Man. True story, but so wrong of some White Men to do to the Native Americans.

[theshadow1932]

The "red man" had the same chance as we did. If they'd progressed as fast as we whites, they'd have sent us packing. Since they DIDN'T they COULDN'T. So, we hung in and created America. Not "discovered" it, CREATED it.

Norm

[hellomellojello10]

i think it was more complicated than that

[fabiandoulton]

I think the Indians from India created America. The Red Indians did not have the education that the Asian Indians have.

[dracodormiens7]

@theshadow1932 So it's a positive thing to exploit those with less resources? Thus was the thinking of those times. This is the 21st century and you are an idiot.

[theshadow1932]

@dracodormiens7

Those with less resources.......... you mean the entire North American CONTINENT, with all of its' natural riches and with which they'd done virtually NOTHING while the Europeans were building all of Western Civilization? My friend, you MUST have gone to college. A statement as moronic as yours can ONLY be the product of higher education. I pity you.  Please don't breed.

Norm

[dracodormiens7]

@theshadow1932 HUMAN resource, not natural resources. A statement such as yours can only be the product of someone who didn't make it in to college. Vindictive much? Honestly, my level of education has nothing to do with my views on imperialism.

[theshadow1932]

@dracodormiens7 I did just fine, actually. Given another chance, though, I wouldn't bother. So much of what passes for education is simple indoctrination; an exchange of ignorance. What saved me was that I was a grown man, when I attended, so had a well developed BS detector and couldn't be snowed as were so many of the kids. What you said, though, brought back some amusing memories of smug academics who probably couldn't have managed a McDonald's drive through.

[dracodormiens7]

@theshadow1932 I'm not being smug. You just seemed to have some sort of vendetta against it. It isn't indoctrination unless the person isn't allowed to question or critique the information given to them, and I find that college allows for plenty of opportunities to do so. At least in the field I'm in.

As far as imperialism goes, I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing that technology and "civilization" was brought over. Displacing people and mass murdering them tends to be a negative thing.

[theshadow1932]

@dracodormiens7 You're damned right I've got a "ventetta". I was present the night that Benjamin Netanyahu was shouted down from the podium at Cal Berkeley, the BIRTHPLACE of the so-called "Free Speech Movement". What a goddamned LAUGH! What frightens me about academia is that it's literally the only place where a guy can be asininely wrong throught an entire career and nevetr be called on it. Look at the recent exposure of the global warming scam. The "scholars" responsible for it were

[theshadow1932]

@dracodormiens7 Imperialism? Hell yeah! Nobody with any brains can claim that the world didn't work better when more of it was in the hands of civilized people.

Norm

[theshadow1932]

@dracodormiens7 not only exposed as FRAUDS, but were caught, red handed, trying to cover their tracks. My, God, how much more could an unbiassed observer ask?

"Peak oil" is the bookend. We've something like 300% on reserve as in '70. The discredited Paul Erlich still holds sway at Stanford, one of Americas' foremost institutes of "Higher learning". His "The Population Bomb" came off the press forty years ago. THREE out of ONE HUNDRED predictions that he made have come to pass.

[kvdye]

@theshadow1932 I agree Norm, I bet he/she got a four year Liberal Arts Degree.

[marv5962]

Always a great song :) Thanks for the audio.

[leoseries]

What about some credit for the "Sons of the Pioneers?"

[vxSeanvx]

read the info dipshit

[AIKevorkian]

A tip of the hat to my Great Grandpa, James (Jim) 1888-1982.

[VWingTMA]

Man.... this is really amazing and a treasure.. It's very sad how music isn't like this anymore. EVER. This is classic and beautiful. Rare, precious gem that's timeless, this era was and is.

[wayfinder01]

this is amazing and awesome my grandpa and my papa like this song!

[wizzard1956]

Im from Roswell NM USA and a night range detective , for all you old timers that know what that is, . . . I was raised in the honor ideals of Roy , gene , bob wills , tex williams, honor, something thats missing these days, thats why Im a range dic

[tomtesticle]

I remember screaming at the movies in the fourpenny seats so that no one could hear the song!

That's Gabby Hayes on the right in the beginning. RIP them all.

[jamieson1901]

Roy Rogers. My childhood sweetheart. Thank you for sharing this with me

[jamieson1901]

Roy Rogers! My childhood sweetheart. Thanks for sharing this.

[viennado]

Thank you!

[hcseoj]

HCSEOJ iF Gene and Roy had had a gun draw, who woukd survuve? Answere , Both thye woukd shoot ther gun out of each others hands,

[kennbix]

I don't think there will ever be 2 human beings better than Gene & Roy....They were genuine people...

[ksa4ever85]

wheres the part that goes: oh give me a home.. where the buffalo roam.. ??

[54spiritedwill54]

Gorgeous!

[loracae]

For those of us who are 70 or so....this was our Saturday afternoon...going to the movies watching Roy, Hoppy, Gene, Hapalong, Tex, Gabby and so many others. Listening to them sing around the campfire brought tears to your eyes....it was such a peaceful time during those years. How fortunate we are to have U-Tube in this age so that we can not only hear those old Western songs but see the people in the video as well.....what memories/nostalgia. Thank you U-Tube!

[nala830]

its youtube

[sagrocket]

@loracae fuck u old man

[peterpun1]

@loracae

it also works for us who are 60 or so...

[etbella3]

@loracae A "peaceful" time when exactly five species of tigers were well on their way to extinction. Point/counterpoint.

[Coolshows101]

@etbella3 Do you mean Tiger as in Tiger from whinny the pooh?

[edtx1949]

@Coolshows101 I think is triger roys horse

[Coolshows101]

@edtx1949 OK. I don't know much about Roy Rogers.

[yrtuag]

@loracae You are so fortunate to have been able to have been in that time period. I wish I was. Thanks for the songs 19131915

[Pantherandpolitics]

Don't forget Trigger n' Bullet please!

lol

[queenievenus]

What a great deal of enjoyment and entertainment we as children had from the western pictures, with Roy Rogers,Dale Evans Gabby Hayes many I can't remember , it seems a lifetime away. It was really good clean fun.

This is a great song,reminds me of a great time growing up how we loved cowboy film,sitting in the pit on Sunday goggle eyed,this sure brings back very fond memories.

[QWZXM]

Yes, you got it right,oh the memories of a tougher time but people acted more sensible in these days-or so it seems.

[Labaron26]

An era in history that will never be repeated. It has been turned to shambles by that group that calls themselves Country Western singers, but bare no resemblance to what I remember in years past, and never will.

[CledusTJuddfan]

a classic...i got this and a couple other of his songs on my psp:D

[zachariukbritney]

My dads favorite song, unfortunally he heard it that last time, then he went to heaven.god bless hos soul

[sagrocket]

@zachariukbritney "hos" soul....what a dick lololol

[1rockcut]

@sagrocket you are a good reason to support abortion. Maybe you could do something useful? Possibly commit suicide.

[QWZXM]

Lovely: Roy Rogers and Gene Autry did more for United States and Canadian(I live at Newfoundland) MOvie goers than all the trash actors we have today combined. My,I was so pleased to find this video this am-Thanks to the person who placed it on youtube. Reminds me of what we were and who we were. Times now even in my small town of 3000 people are so crazy. God Bless Roy and Gene, they'll be remembered after all these Rap singers are long gone.

[theshadow1932]

Well said. I'm not quite old enough to remember this era, but wish I were. The TV iterations of these men had an effect on my character that's too big for even me to evaluate. In the early '70s, I had the good luck to run into Gene in a mall parking lot. He was retired and wealthy by then. Still, when I approached him he was as generous with his time as if his career were only beginning and his success still depended on the impression he made. What a true gentleman.

Norm

[chinook40]

So rare and so treasured, how did you get these wonderful pictures? I feel as though I've been given a very unexpected gift, these guys have been my heroes since childhood. Many thanks.

[CowgirlKittyKaty]

Now this is music that I hope lasts forever.

[tutormac]

Thanks.  Wonderful memories of two great heroes.

[jimbobbarley]

aw skit your making me feel old I watched gene and roy every sat. morning and afternoon , Thanks for the memories

[arkyheber]

Two beautiful renditions of a tremendous song done by the two greatest cowboy stars of all time. It doesn't get any better.

[arkyheber]

the two greatest cowboy stars on one video--I love both renditions

[toptennor]

thanks they bring back fantastic memorys lets have more.

[brucepapoose]

Nooooooooooooooo no pope of rome no chapels to sadden my eyes, no nuns and no priests, no rosary beads and every day is the 12th of July

[x3malibubarbiex3]

This is my mum's favourite she sings it all the time @ home, its my grandads song.

Thanks for sharing x

[7thstooge]

Thank you for the music!!! Amazing!!!!!

[richpat]

my dad used to sing this to me!!

Thanks for sharing it

[graham1281]

Gorgeous

[m1947n]

Red men came again through the open backdoor.The Globaliation

[DailyListening]

I agree with Della! I've linked to you from my Song A Day blog. Roy Rogers and Gene Autry--who could ask for more? :) Thanks for sharing it! -Catherine

[dellajones43]

Thanks for the memories! 5 stars for rarity.