"Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again ...
Christmas and cowboys seem an unlikely combination. But Christmas celebrations have a lot to do with one particular cowboy, who was also one of the most important personages to ever call Palm Springs ...
Writing for the Society for American Baseball Research, Warren Corbett captured Gene Autry’s character. “Autry was the kind of man who paid the bills for old friends in their old age, rode in the ...
It's hard to fathom a beginning for most Christmas carols. Our grandparents' grandparents probably sang all of the classics, and, even back then, those songs must've sounded like relics from another ...
If you're one of the people who can't start Christmas early enough, you're not alone. Christmas music is ready to make its ...
There was a day, 'round about the 1940s and early '50s, when radio reigned, and a person's weekly "stories" or show was worth making plans around. A friend wanted to go to dinner or the pictures? You ...
Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...
‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," "Rudolph the ...