Gene Autry Museum - Oklahoma Film and Music
Gene Autry may have been born a Texan and may have sung his way to Hollywood, but his heart and his name will always be in Oklahoma.
Presenting.....Gene Autry Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum
Gene Autry is an American icon whose career influenced entertainment in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. He became a successful businessman in broadcasting and baseball later in life. In the late 1980s, Gene Autry and his sidekick pal Pat Buttram hosted The Nashville Network (TNN) television series Melody Ranch Theater where they introduced their movies and offered anecdotes about the Westerns and the people in them. With a total of 91 episodes that included several guests from Western films and music, Gene and Pat's conversations covered a variety of topics. Gene Autry Entertainment has reviewed this treasure trove of firsthand, personal accounts on film making, music, horses, baseball, rodeos, and more and created the Presenting..... Gene Autry series with episodes on specific subjects from Gene Autry's life and career.
PRESENTING.....GENE AUTRY EPISODE 1: GENE AUTRY WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM (13:33 mins)
In this episode, Gene Autry talks about building the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles, California and discusses some of the artifacts that will be on display. Gene's wife, Jackie Autry, joins in with information and details on the museum including how it will be a serious, accredited museum designed by Walt Disney Imagineering. For more information on the Autry Museum visit their website:
0:10 - Melody Ranch Theater Barbed Wire - 1987
Photo - Autry Museum Barbed Wire Collection, 2018.
1:04 - Melody Ranch Theater Beyond the Purple Hills - 1987
Wyatt Earp's Gun was later removed from the museum's collection when authentication could not be confirmed.
1:42 - Melody Ranch Theater Whirlwind - 1987
Gene Autry's movie saddle and rodeo saddles; Ed Bohlin saddles.
Photo – Champion's saddle seen in a publicity photo from the film Whirlwind, 1987.
Photo - Saddle outfit, circa 1947. Edward H. Bohlin and the Edward H. Bohlin Company. Gift to the Autry Museum from Jackie and Gene Autry 91.221.603.
5:11 - Melody Ranch Theater Oh, Susanna! - 1988
Museum chat #1 with guest Jackie Autry.
Photo - Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum construction, 1987.
Photo - Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum construction, circa 1987.
Arial photo of completed Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, circa 1988.
10:35 - Melody Ranch Theater Oh Susanna! - 1988
Museum chat #2 with guest Jackie Autry.
Photo - Joanne Hale, Jackie Autry, and Monte Hale, circa 1987 in the museum warehouse.
Photo - Gene Autry and Monte Hale, circa 1987 in the museum warehouse.
ABOUT THE NASHVILLE NETWORK (TNN) SERIES MELODY RANCH THEATER
The program featured Gene Autry's classic B Western movies, cut down for television, with original opening and closing segments with America's favorite singing cowboy and his comedic sidekick Pat Buttram reminiscing about the making of the movies and events in the industry at the time. Guests also visited with Gene and Pat, including Pee Wee King, George Sherman, Ann Rutherford, and Roy Rogers. A total of 91 episodes were made and The Nashville Network received some of its highest ratings with Melody Ranch Theater. In 2001, after a yearlong search, these conversations, known as wraparounds, were found and restored by Gene Autry Entertainment. Each film's wraparounds can be seen on the DVD releases as bonus material. Read more:
ABOUT GENE AUTRY ENTERTAINMENT
Gene Autry Entertainment is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and promotion of Gene's music, films, radio and television programs so that future generations may know and enjoy the work of America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry. Gene Autry Entertainment is run by the estate of Gene Autry and located in Los Angeles, California. Visit Gene Autry's Official website at:
Presenting.....Gene Autry Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum
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Running time: 13:33
Produced by Karla Buhlman and Bob Fisher
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Town in Oklahoma renamed after singing cowboy Gene Autry
Born the same year as the birth of our state, Gene Autry created the image of the singing cowboy. We visit the town and museum that carries his namesake.
Gene Autry, “The Singing Cowboy,” is born
As a boy, Autry sang in the church choir in Tioga and mastered the mail-order guitar his parents bought him for his 12th birthday.
He was already an accomplished amateur and sometime-professional musician when, in the early 1920s, his family moved to Oklahoma, setting in motion the events that would make him into a star.
While Autry strummed his guitar and sang casually during a quiet swing shift in the telegraph office in Chelsea, Oklahoma, in the summer of 1927, Okahoma’s favorite son and one of America’s favorite entertainers, Will Rogers, happened into the office and encouraged young Gene to head to New York City to pursue a recording career. One year later, Autry did just that, landing an audition at RCA Victor that led to his first recording sessions in the autumn of 1929.
Autry’s commercial breakthrough came two years later with the first of his many big hits, “That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine.” When the record sold its first half-million copies, Autry’s label, American Records, presented the young star with a commemorative gold-plated copy of the disc—the first-ever Gold Record. A regular spot as “Oklahoma’s Yodeling Cowboy” on the National Barn Dance radio show out of Chicago soon followed, giving Autry the platform that made him a star nationwide.
Then, in 1934, Autry made his first film appearance in a movie called In Old Santa Fe, which in turn led to his being cast as Himself in a B-movie serial called The Phantom Empire, a series that featured not only singing cowboys, but also an advanced civilization called Murania driven underground during the last Ice Age.
The Phantom Empire also became one of the most successful film franchises of the first half of the 20th century, earning Gene Autry recognition as one of Hollywood’s top 10 box-office attractions.
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Gene Autry was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los AngelesAnaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.
From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films and 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, brave, and true—and profoundly touched the lives of millions of Americans. Autry was also one of the most important figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers. His singing cowboy movies were the first vehicle to carry country music to a national audience. In addition to his signature song, Back in the Saddle Again, Autry is still remembered for his Christmas holiday songs, Here Comes Santa Claus, which he wrote, Frosty the Snowman, and his biggest hit, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
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Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Radio Show July 26, 1942 - Full Show
Gene Autry Entertainment is pleased to present the complete July 26, 1942 episode of Gene Autry's Melody Ranch radio show broadcast from WBBM in Chicago, Illinois. This was a very special program because during the show, Republic Pictures great cowboy star Gene Autry became Sgt. Gene Autry when he was sworn into the United States Army Air Forces.
The very next week, the radio show changed its name to Sgt. Gene Autry and was part of Gene's military duties from August 2, 1942 until August 1, 1943. After the war, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch radio show returned to the CBS radio network on September 23, 1945.
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GENE AUTRY'S MELODY RANCH RADIO SHOW
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SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1942 [3:30-4:00 PM PWT]
LOCATION: CBS WBBM PLAYHOUSE, STUDIO 10 - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Talent: Carl Cotner, Paul Sells, Frankie Marvin, Dick Reinhart, Jimmie Dean, Eddie Dean, Virginia Vass, Ahlman, Engelhardt, Mazza, Nelson, Panico, Sosson
Announcer: Eddie Dunn
Program Director: Bradford Browne, J. Walter Thompson Company
0:03 - Opening Theme: Back In The Saddle Again
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
0:26 - Announcer's Opening: That Pleasant Smiling Son Of Oklahoma, That Bronc-Busting Balladeer, Gene Autry.
Eddie Dunn
0:55 - Let Me Ride Down In Rocky Canyon
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
02:09 - Comedy: Here's A Little Goin' Away Present For Gene Autry Who's Enlistin'... A Stop Watch.
Gene Autry, Shorty Long {Horace Murphy}, Virginia Vass, Dick Reinhart, Jimmie Dean & Eddie Dean
04:07 - Idaho
Virginia Vass & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
06:10 - Gum Pitch: We're All On Guard Against Sabotage These Days.
Eddie Dunn
07:32 - Tears On My Pillow
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
09:32 - Comedy: Shorty Wants To Enlist In The Army Just Like Gene.
Gene Autry, Shorty Long {Horace Murphy}, Virginia Vass & Dick Reinhart
10:25 - I'll Trade My Horse And Saddle For A Pair Of Wings
Dick Reinhart, Jimmie Dean & Eddie Dean
11:49 - Drama: Gene Autry's Dream About Why He Enlisted In The U.S. Army Air Forces - Uncle Sam's Recruiting For The War All The Red-Blooded, Real He-Americans He Can Get.
18:43 - Talk: What Are We Fighting This War For? 'Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness'.
Gene Autry & Shorty Long {Horace Murphy}
19:43 - Special Event: Oath Of Enlistment And Induction Ceremony Of Gene Autry Into The U.S. Army Air Forces With Rank Of Technical Sergeant By Colonel Edward F. Shaifer.
21:20 - Private Buckaroo
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
25:46 - Gum Pitch: Isn't It True That Little Things Can Often Be A Big Help To Us In Our Work?
Eddie Dunn
26:44 - God Must Have Loved America
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
28:17 - Closing Theme: Back In The Saddle Again
Gene Autry & Carl Cotner's Orchestra
28:40 - Announcer's Closing: Sgt. Gene Autry Is Currently Presenting His Flying 'A' Ranch Rodeo At Soldier's Field... His Latest Picture For Republic Studios Is Home In Wyoming... Today's Program Was Short-Waved To Soldiers, Sailors And Marines All Over The World.
Total Running Time 29:56
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