#Gene Autry

[captzerp]

Day 28-flat

[citizenscreen]

Roddy McDowall and Gene Autry at the 7th Annual American Cinema Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, late January 1990.

[our-arospec-experience]

And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single"

And that song ain't so very far from wrong

I AM VIBING SO HARD TO THIS SONG NEW ARO SONG JUST DROPPED (I know the song was released in the 1940's or something but let a guy have fun) AAAAAHHHHHH I AM NOT EVEN SURE IF THAT WAS THE INTENTION BUT IT'S AN ARO SONG TO ME NOW IDC WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS

:)

(the song is I’ve Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle by Gene Autry btw)

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Michael Redgrave (The Lady Vanishes)—my beautiful bisexual hot linguist geek dandy nerd. I'm specifically nominating him for "The Lady Vanishes," but how can you not love him in this—it's a strikingly modern performance, not a whiff of old school macho masculinity; he starts the movie as a bit of a cad, thoughtless and self-absorbed, but the second our heroine's in trouble he's attentive, he's helpful, he's running around speaking languages and helping her with international spycraft shenanigans and just being so funny and warm and JOYOUS. (and again. he is SO bisexual. see the picture [attached below]). he's hot in the debate club twink kinda way and i've never wanted to smooch an idiot more

Gene Autry (The Singing Cowboy, The Sagebrush Troubadour)—no propaganda submitted

This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

[propaganda photos submitted under the cut.]

"BISEXUAL."

[hollywoodlady]

Actors + Western

John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gary Cooper, Audie Murphy, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill & Glenn Ford.

[worst-xmas-song-bracket]

For songs like this that have been sung by many, many people, I want to know if you hate the actual song, not just how a particular artist sings it. If this song advances to the next round, I will choose a different version.

[bluejay-makes]

Scans from a Gene Autry book I found at the antique store

[obsidian-sphere]

The Phantom Empire, 1935.

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the day

(do you want the history of your favorite folk song? dm me or submit an ask and I'll do a full rundown)

"The Dying Cowboy" Cisco Houston, 1952

"The Dying Cowboy " or "Cowboys Lament" is based on an old sailors poem, written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin and published in 1839, "The Ocean Burial"

Edgar Allan Poe's "Southern Literary Messenger" vol V, pp.6l5-6l6, 1839

here's an example of the traditional song put to music by Eugene Jemison in 1954

by the 1880s, the lyrics had morphed into the famous cowboy song we all know and love, but it wasn't until 1910 that it was pared with its well-known melody by John Lomax in the album, "Cowboy Songs And Other Frontier Ballads" here (recorded 1942)

by far, the most interesting thing that happened to the song is that its meaning was reversed. in 1934, Carson Robison changed the lyrics and the song and titled it "Carry Me Back to The Lone Prairie" (recorded 1941) and several other contemporary famous country artists

like Sons of the Pioneers,

Riders in the Sky,

Gene Autry,

Johnny Bond,

and Roy Rogers.

covered this song.

this more Hollywood country version of the song changed the story away from the bitter toiling of cowhand workers and towards nostalgia for the West that fit right in with other popular country music of the 40s and 50s. At the same time, the song was covered by Cisco Houston, a leftwing activist and official Union Boy, among other progressives, as a criticism of working class conditions. This song is so utterly fascinating to me and the best way to visually and auditorially explain the historical split manufactured between folk and country.

[anexperimentallife]

my toddler, bawling her eyes out: "I *sob* wan you play *sob* the SAD song again *wailing and intense sobbing*

my wife: "I think she just discovered catharsis."

[citizenscreen]

Birthday remembrance - Gene Autry #botd

[catalisst]

[kaccvcate]

Don't Fence Me In (a Gene Autry cover)

I don't know if I'm enough of a musician to pull this one off, but I was really feeling the lyrics

[musicmags]

[destiel-loses-to-everything]

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