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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
"My Oklahoma Home" – Gene Autry, 1929. [150] "My Oklahoma Home" – written by Reed Mathis, recorded by him with Tea Leaf Green, 2011. [151] "My Oklahoma Home Blowed Away" – Sis Cunningham and her brother Bill, recorded most famously by Pete Seeger, 1961, and on a Seeger tribute CD by Bruce Springsteen, as "My Oklahoma Home," 2006. [152]
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]
The Singing Hill is a 1941 American western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Virginia Dale. [1] Based on a story by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Richard Murphy, the film is about a singing cowboy and foreman of a ranch that may be sold to an unscrupulous banker by the young madcap heiress who is unaware that the sale will result in the local ranchers losing ...