Beer Haiku Daily (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... some uplifting thoughts after my ordeal and it would really help me out. Thanks. Thing of the Day: Gene Autry Collection - Back in the Saddle
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Cowboy singer Gene Autry starred in a 1937 movie pitting sheepherders against cattlemen in the American West. Betty Grable starred in a 1942 movie recounting the romantic capers of a couple at Lake Louise.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Eddy Arnold, who has died aged 89, brought a new sound to country music in the 1940s and 50s: a warm, buffed vocal manner, pitched between the smooth - but still country - style of a Gene Autry or Jimmie Davis and the out-and-out crooning of a Bing Crosby or Perry Como. Exemplified by his 1965 hit Make the World Go Away, it was a style, in the words of the country music historian Bill...
ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... were “hillbillies”, singing their folk music. However, country music is NOT folk music. When Gene Autry went to Hollywood in 1934 and became “the movies first singing cowboy” the image of the cowboy stuck with the “hillbilly sound” (Scherman, 1994). Gene Autry's biggest rival was Roy Rogers. Roy Rogers starred in over 100 movies and headed his own television show (Walker,...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... he sang not through his nose but from his diaphragm. Influenced by crooners like Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, he favored romantic ballads and novelties over songs about drinking and cheating. Intimacy was his calling card.Reviewing a concert he gave at Carnegie Hall in March 1968, Robert Shelton observed in The New York Times: "His singing is smooth, earnest, buoyant and uncomplicated....
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... the help of an itinerant musician. He was soon playing along to records by the “singing cowboy” Gene Autry and pop crooners such as Bing Crosby, and was also an enthusiastic singer in church and at school. This rural idyll was rudely interrupted when his father died in 1929 and the family farm was auctioned to pay off creditors. Early victims of the Great Depression, the Arnold family...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... -- a trend you could almost guess by knowing that his early musical favorites were Vernon Dalhart, Gene Autry, Gene Austin and Bing Crosby. The list of those he influenced is headed by Marty Robbins and Jim Reeves.Richard Edward Arnold was born in the West Tennessee community of Henderson in Chester County (he titled his 1969 autobiography It's a Long Way From Chester County)...
CMT News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
... of pop hits during the 1920s before finding success with Western songs popularized by Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, the Sons of the Pioneers and others. His most famous song, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," was a hit for Willie Nelson in 1975.The ACM will present the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award, Jim Reeves International Award and Poet's Award -- along with its musicians awards -- in Nashville...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
2008 Hall of Famer to Offer Baseball Tips to Young Players at Stadium on April 29 ANAHEIM, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of AutoTrader.com's new car focus, the company has teamed up with 2008 National Baseball Hall of Famer Goose Gossage for "Drive to a New Start," multi-city road tour, and will visit Angels Stadium on April 29 to raise money for the Angels Gene Autry Reviving...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Fox News (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
+ Page 1 of 1 You can't buy championships just look at the Yankees and study Gene Autry. I would like to see a price tag put on the KU championship that kind of season is priceless. Everyone thinks its all about money. Money. What would it cost to keep Arthur, Collins and Chalmers? Rose? Chris DR? Really in the end it is all about the money'A lot of speculation but who really cares? Speculation...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
... with gangs. These are some rough kids. You see some guy with shades, tattoos and all and then a Gene Autry song comes on, like "Happy Trails," and it's nails on a blackboard for them. They're extremely annoyed. Q: Do you get feedback on which songs they really despise? A: Yes, we have people fill out forms for feedback. The worst is always the Barney music, especially a song about...
Chicken Spaghetti (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
... there. (And if the kiddos are still in the mood for western songs, track down "Always Your Pal, Gene Autry," a fun CD much loved in these parts a while back. Oh, and Asleep at the Wheel's Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys . ) The Diamond R Ranch is part of the online home of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum , in Oklahoma City. The museum sponsors...
Marc Cooper (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
... -- Dean Armstrong and the Arizona Dance Hands. These folks were actually the staff musicians for Gene Autry in the early 1950's. They were the stars of the first ever live TV show broadcast from Tucson. They still sing Autry's tunes. And Roy Rogers ' too. And without even a whiff of irony, thank you very much. They've been playing at Lil Abner's at least twice a week for the...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
... most of them while growing up. Apparently, his local movie theater in Waco had shown Roy Rogers or Gene Autry flicks but skipped John Wayne.Brown moved to this part of the state when he went to work for the power company in Sherman.He came to Mount Pleasant in the 1970s when he went to work for the Monticello power plant.It was while working there that he and a co-worker got into...
