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Gene Autry is a town in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 154 at the time of the 2020 census , [ 4 ] down just slightly from the 158 reported in the 2010 census . [ 5 ] It is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch is a Western variety radio show in the United States.A 15-minute pilot show aired on December 31, 1939. The program ran from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943, and from September 23, 1945 to May 16, 1956. [1]
His parents, Delbert Autry and Elnora Ozment, moved in the 1920s to Ravia in Johnston County in southern Oklahoma. Gene Autry worked on his father's ranch while growing up and going to school. In 1925, Autry left the family ranch. With only his high school education, Autry became a telegrapher [8] for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. His ...
The family moved several times, eventually ending up owning a ranch in southern Oklahoma. ... Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, which ran from 1940 to 1943 and from 1945 to 1956. He was nominated for ...
Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller.Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. [2]
Gene Autry is a singing cowboy who runs Radio Ranch, a dude ranch from which he fulfils a contract to makes a daily live radio broadcast starting at 2:00 pm. Gene has two kid sidekicks, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy King Ross), who lead a club, the Junior Thunder Riders, in which the kids play at being armored knights of an unknown civilization, the mysterious Thunder ...
During a tour through Oklahoma, the musician and movie star Gene Autry invited Wakely to come to California. [2] Autry felt the group might be a good addition to his new Melody Ranch radio show, which debuted on CBS in January 1940. [4] The Wakely Trio joined the show in mid-1940.
Bond first performed on radio in Oklahoma City when he was 19 years old. In 1937, he began performing with Jimmy Wakely and Scotty Harrell in the Bell Boys trio, named after the Bell Clothing Company, which sponsored the group [3] on radio station WKY in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. [4]