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	Gene Autry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television.
		Shortly thereafter, Mascot was absorbed by the formation of Republic Pictures Corp. and Autry went along to make a further 44 films up to 1940, all B westerns in which he played under his own name, rode his horse Champion, had Burnette as his regular sidekick and had many opportunities to sing in each film.
		Gene Autry died of lymphoma at age 91 at his home in Studio City, California, and is interred in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Autry (856 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gene Autry
		Gene Autry was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003.
		Autry had a knack for knowing a good song when he heard it (though he almost passed on the biggest hit of his career), and for knowing when a song needed something extra in its arrangement, but it was Cotner who was able to translate his sensibilities into musical notes and arrangements.
		Autry's career was interrupted by his service in the military during World War II, but when he returned to the recording and movie studios in 1945, he resumed both his singing and film careers without skipping a beat.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gene-Autry (330 words)

	Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum - Dedicated to the Singing Cowboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Gene was an infant, the family moved to Achille, Oklahoma, and later moved to Ravia, Oklahoma which is located about 20 miles east of the present town of Gene Autry.
		Gene Autry touched, and improved, the lives of millions, and the spirit of the Singing CowBoy role model lives on in the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum.
		He visited Gene Autry, Oklahoma, in 1956 when he performed at the nearby Ardmore Rodeo, and he was in the town in 1991 during a trip when he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
	www.cow-boy.com /musaut.htm (1014 words)

	Gene Autry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television.
		Born as Orvon Gene Autry in Tioga, Texas (additional info and facts about Tioga, Texas), his family moved to Ravia, Oklahoma (additional info and facts about Ravia, Oklahoma) in the 1920s.
		In 1988 he opened the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum (now called the Museum of the American West) in Griffith Park (additional info and facts about Griffith Park), Los Angeles, featuring much of his collection of Western art and memorabilia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gene_autry.htm (731 words)

	PROFILE ON GENE AUTRY
		The famous and popular Gene Autry was born on a ranch on September 29, 1907 in Tioga, Texas.
		Gene said himself that he didn't act well, didn't ride well and didn't sing well, but people liked what he did and he was going to keep on doing it.
		Gene Autry Entertainment has given AC Comics onetime publishing rights to use Gene's photo on the cover of this issue.
	www.accomics.com /accomicswesterns/autry.htm (660 words)

	Classic Images: Gene Autry
		Gene Autry’s career has spanned more than 60 years in the entertainment industry, a career that has encompassed every facet of the business, from radio and recording artist to motion picture star, television star, broadcast executive, and major league baseball owner.
		Gene Autry is the only entertainer to have five stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, one each for radio, records, movies, television, and live theatrical including rodeo performances.
		Gene Autry’s great love for baseball prompted him to acquire the American League California Angels in 1961, and his ambition was to build a bigger and better baseball club, win the pennant, and be in the World Series.
	www.classicimages.com /1998/november98/geneautryamer.html (637 words)

	Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry Songfacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry Songfacts
		Autry was known as "The Singing Cowboy." He teamed up with Roy Rogers in the 1930's and 40's to make movies in a new genre called "Musical Westerns." Autry had his own TV show in the 1950's and was the owner of the California Angels baseball team, now known as the Anaheim Angels.
		Autry, who died in 1998, is the only person with 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which he earned for motion pictures, radio, music recording, television, and live theater.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.lasso?id=2417 (461 words)

	Gene Autry Virtual Memorial Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene Autry is survived by his wife, Jackie Autry, a sister, Veda, and several nieces and nephews.
		Gene Autry also was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
		Gene Autry's legacy will live on at the museum he founded, and in the hearts of his fans.
	digitalsol.com /geneautry (1171 words)

	Gene Autry: The Essential Gene Autry - PopMatters Music Review
		This devaluation is a shame, because this Gene Autry compilation is truly essential by several different standards.
		Autry began as an imitator of "the singing brakeman", Jimmie Rodgers, one of the first recorded country musicians and pioneer of the "blue yodel", who died of tuberculosis in 1933.
		Autry was discovered by frontier humorist and "cowboy philosopher" Will Rogers and had early hits with "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas".
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/autrygene-essential.shtml (797 words)

	Hollywood Honors Singing Cowboy Gene Autry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene Autry acted in more than 90 films, also turning out a string of musical hits, from his popular children's song Peter Cottontail, to his rendition of the tune You Are My Sunshine.
		Gene Autry is the only entertainer with five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for each branch of the entertainment business: movies, television, radio, stage performance and music.
		Gene Autry also left his mark by creating the Museum of the American West, considered one of the nation's best repositories of cowboy art and artifacts.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-02-09-voa75.cfm (591 words)

	Museum of the American West \| Gene Autry 1907—1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene Autry's career spanned some 60 years in the entertainment industry, encompassing radio, recordings, motion pictures, television, rodeo and live performances.
		Gene Autry began his radio career in 1928 and made his first recordings a year later.
		Gene Autry's beloved Christmas and children's records Here Comes Santa Claus (1947) and Peter Cottontail (1950) went platinum (for more than two million copies sold), while Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1949) remains the second best selling single of all time, with sales totaling more than 30 million.
	www.autry-museum.org /museum/gene_autry.php (992 words)

	Gene Autry
		Gene Autry was the nation's most popular movie cowboy in the 1930's.
		In contrast, the Angels were, as described by their own official team site, "Gene Autry's collection of untried rookies and major league castoffs." The Angels won that game 7-2, and went on finish their first season with 70 wins, topping the number of wins for expansion team's first season.
		Gene has been quoted as saying, "Phoenix is sort of a second home to me," and that he would like to retire to Arizona when his movie making days were over.
	www.doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/autry_gene.htm (1107 words)

	Gene Autry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Autry also learned to ride at an early age and worked the fields with his father.
		Champion III, who appeared in the Gene Autry television series and also as the star of the Adventures Of Champion television series, died in 1991 at the age of 42.
		Autry was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1969 for his songwriting abilities as well as his singing and acting.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=6072987 (1345 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Orvon Gene Autry, grandson of a Baptist minister, was born in a farmhouse near Tioga to Delbert and Elnora Autry.
		In the summer of 1934, Gene and his wife, Ina (Jimmy Long’s niece), and his friend Lester “Smiley” Burnette, musician-composer-comedian with the Autry radio troupe, drove to California, where the singing cowboy was to make a guest appearance in the Republic Pictures western movie, In Old Santa Fe.
		Autry produced his own feature films from 1947 through 1953 and, shrewdly judging the importance of the new medium (television), became the first major star to appear in his own filmed TV series.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/gene_autry.html (965 words)

	Gene Autry - Melody Ranch OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By 1940 Gene Autry was one of the four most popular movie stars in America, a major network radio star, and a top-selling recording artist and proud to have be on the air doing "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch," a radio version of his pictures.
		Gene had written many tunes, including "Here Comes Santa Claus," in 1949 but earlier in his career via his association with the Wrigley family of Doublemint and Chicago Cubs fame in Chicago, he had learned that owning a sports teams was a great investment.
		Autry's career included nearly a hundred movies, 16 years on radio, more than 600 records that sold millions (seven gold and two platinum), nearly a hundred TV shows, and more than thirty years of personal appearances across the country and overseas, Gene Autry was pushing 91 at the time of his death in 1998.
	www.otrcat.com /autry.htm (538 words)

	Roots66: Music: Reviews: The Essential Gene Autry
		Autry was born in Tioga, Texas on September 29, 1907, and raised in Oklahoma.
		Autry and Long's sentimental "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" was the first gold record ever awarded, back in 1931 when a million records was a significant achievement.
		Gene Autry was a major figure in American entertainment from the 1930s into the 1960s and beyond.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/reviews/autry.shtml (1684 words)

	Century of Country
		In 1942, Gene enlisted in the military, serving in the Army Air Corps, flying as a pilot in North Africa and the Far East.
		Autry also acquired a chain of TV and radio stations, opened a music publishing firm, started an hotel chain and even bought a Major League Baseball team, the California Angels.
		Gene Autry died on October 2, 1998 at the age of 91.
	www.countryworks.com /artist_full.asp?KEY=AUTRY (1265 words)

	AllRefer.com - Gene Autry (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Autry, America's top Western star during 1937–43, usually played a singing hero and rode his famous horse, Champion.
		Autry invested the fortune he amassed with skill, becoming the owner of many properties, including the California Angels baseball team.
		His collection of Western art and memorabilia is housed in the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AutryG.html (272 words)

	Roughstock's History of Country Music - Cowboy Music
		Orvon Gene Autry, the most successful of all singing cowboys to break into movies was born in Tioga, Texas, September 29, 1907.
		But in 1938, Autry and the studio found themselves in a contractual dispute that they were unable to resolve, and the cowboy star failed to report for his next movie.
		Autry was placed on suspension while the studio began looking for a replacement that they could put into the picture.
	www.roughstock.com /history/cowboy.html (3757 words)

	Classic Images: Gene Autry
		As a fan of Gene Autry from the early days of television, I had always wanted to meet him; and so, without knowing whether I could get an interview or not, I wrangled an assignment from Westerner editor Robert Wolenik to do an article on the Singing Cowboy.
		Gene Autry gave up performing in the early 1960s, and by the "counter-culture" 1970s he was better-known for his business acumen with radio and TV stations, hotels and real estate, and the California Angels baseball team than for his Saturday matinee horse operas.
		Gene Autry: I originally was raised on a ranch down in Texas.
	www.classicimages.com /1998/december98/geneautry1.html (2068 words)

	CNN - 'Singing Cowboy' Gene Autry dead at 91 - October 2, 1998
		In the early days of Western serials, when the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys wore fl, Gene Autry was always the hero, with his horse, Champion, and a song that needed to be sung.
		Autry hung up his performing spurs in 1956, but continued to own four radio stations, the Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, and several other properties.
		It said the young Autry needed to improve his acting, that a preliminary acting course was "evidently wasted" and that the actor needed darker makeup to "give him the appearance of virility."
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Music/9810/02/autry.obit (735 words)

	Tioga Texas, Gene Autry's hometown?
		Gene himself thought "it was a gag" and critics said it was a plot by Autry promoters and well owners to sell more mineral water with a famous cowboy's name.
		Gene, as you know, died only a few years ago and maybe it was drinking that Tioga water that aided his longevity.
		His biography stated Gene graduated from Tioga High in 1925, but this was disputed by a former teacher, who said Gene was long gone by '25 and never graduated there.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/Tioga/Tioga_Texas.htm (670 words)

	Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette & Pat Buttram Tribute Rifle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In tribute to Gene Autry and his sidekicks, Smiley Burnette and Pat Buttram, America Remembers proudly presents a limited edition rifle authorized by the Autry, Burnette and Buttram families and the Autry Museum of National Western Heritage.
		Pat appeared with Gene in 17 feature films and went on to appear in most of the 91 "Gene Autry Television Shows." They remained close friends until Pat's death in 1994.
		The left side of the receiver features Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette and Pat Buttram; their portraits glowing in 24-karat gold over a rich flened patinaed background.
	www.americaremembers.com /Products/GASTRI/GASTRI.asp (459 words)

	Gene Autry
		After leaving high school in 1925, Autry worked as a telegrapher for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
		From 1940 to 1956, Autry also had a weekly radio show on CBS, The Melody Ranch.
		In 1988 he opened the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles, featuring much of his collection of Western art and memorabilia.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gene_autry.html (691 words)

	Gene Autry Tribute Revolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gene flew supply planes in the China-India-Burma theater where he made numerous flights over "The Hump," the treacherous route over the Himalayas.
		Fans of Gene Autry were thrilled when the Anaheim Angels won the World Series in 2002, and banners on display during the Series remembered and celebrated Gene's passion for the Angels.
		There were plenty of reasons to admire Gene Autry, but most of all, we loved him because the Texas-born, Oklahoma-raised Autry genuinely loved the West and all that it stood for.
	www.americaremembers.com /products/GATRE/GATRE.asp (731 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Gene Autry, Singer
		Born Orvon Gene Autry on September 29, 1907 in Tioga, Texas.
		Autry's musical influence came early in life when he was taught to sing at age five by his grandfather, a Baptist preacher.
		Years later in 1927 while working as a telegraph operator, Autry would sometimes pass the time by singing and playing guitar.
	www.radiohof.org /musicvariety/geneautry.html (201 words)

	710/KMPC ABout Gene Autry
		The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles is devoted to preserving and interpreting the rich history and traditions of the American West.
		Gene was surprisingly modest, given the circumstances; only a tiny portion of the museum was dedicated to his own career.
		He first sang on radio in 1928, and then went on to films, and the lead role in television's "The Gene Autry Show" from 1950 to 1956.
	www.710kmpc.com /autry.htm (971 words)

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