Gene Autry Christmas Album

Chet

Chet

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Growing up we had on a 78 album of Gene Autry Christmas music. I thought I found it at oldies.com so I ordered but it was the wrong one. I'm sure that album was a Christmas staple for many. Have you ever found it on CD?
 

I see that Amazon offers the CD. My dad was a huge Gene Autry fan so I have found memories of that album. However our go to Christmas album when I was a kid was Sing Along With Mitch Christmas album. I listed to it on Spotify the other morning šŸ˜
 
I loved the old Gene Autry Christmas records. My favorite Christmas song to this day is of Gene singing Old Fashioned Tree which was on the flip side of one of is more famous songs, not sure which one.
I've never found it on a CD but my son recorded most of my favorite records onto CDs. For that I'm so totally grateful to him.
 
Nat King Cole has an interesting history. All he wanted to do was play jazz piano, but there was not enough work in that so he was forced to sing. That is something he never wanted to do, but it worked out and he did really well with it. His experiences of racism, despite the fact that he was well loved by his fans is rather shameful as can be seen in the write up on wikipedia as well as a number of books that discuss his life and times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole

Tony
 

Presentingā€¦..Gene Autry "Christmas Songs"​

PRESENTING.....GENE AUTRY EPISODE 2: "CHRISTMAS SONGS" (8:20 mins) In this episode, Gene Autry talks with Pat Buttram about his iconic Christmas songs "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" and "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer."
 
It may be apocryphal but back-in-the-day a story making the rounds claimed that record execs wanted Bing Crosby to sing Ruldoph but he turned them down. Gene refused also, but changed his mind and the rest is history. Bing did record it the next year though.

Another story was that Will Rogers once observed Gene in the telegraph office but instead of diligently interpreting incoming clicks, ol' laid-back Gene was paying more attention to his six-string.

When in his mid-70s he married a 40-year-old. There were jokes about him being back in the saddle again. :giggle:
 

Gene Autry - Christmas Carols by the Old Corral (Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Radio Show Dec 23, 1945)​

 

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