#Gene Autry

[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)

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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."

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Birthday remembrance - Gene Autry #botd

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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.

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Geddy Lee (1953-) Rush - bass guitar and lead vocals Songs: "Fly By Night," "Closer to the Heart" Defeated Opponents: Smith Ballew Propaganda: "man is one of the most talented bassists in the world, he's been hot non-stop since the 70s, he's a dork and dorks are sexy"

Gene Autry (1907-1998) solo Songs: "Back in the Saddle Again," "Mexicali Rose" Defeated Opponents: Nigel Olsson Propaganda: see visual

Visual Propaganda for Gene Autry:

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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.

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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."

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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

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Pulptober 2024 Day 30: Hero in Adaptation

That is, real people being treated as (pulp) heroes in fictitious stories. Depending if you believe there ever were real people who are the basis of the legends, this goes back to at least King Arthur and Robin Hood. More firmly established, this was a thing with the penny dreadfuls and real-life highwaymen who got given sympathetic backstories and codes of honor they probably didn't have in real life.

Buffalo Bill and others got this treatment in the dime novels.

And there was a definite trend for real life celebrities to have licensed children's books. Western film actors were especially prone to this. Roy Rogers and Gene Autry essentially played fictional versions of themselves in their movies, so it wasn't a big jump to have them do the same in books.

Interestingly, Gene Autry also starred in a "Ghost Riders" movie which is entirely unconnected and has almost no plot similarities. He sings "Ghost Riders in the Sky" in that one, so recommended for fans of cheesy Westerns.

More unusual is this book starring a fictional version of Ginger Rogers as a hotel telephone operator who gets mixed up with spies--written by her real-life mother!

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Gene Autry – Peter Cottontail (1950) (2022 Remaster) Steve Nelson / Jack Rollins from: "Peter Cottontail" / "The Funny Little Bunny" (Single)

Children's Song | Easter Song | Pop

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Gene Autry Vocals

Recorded: @ The Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, New York USA on March 2, 1950

Released: on March 13, 1950 Columbia Records

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lot going on here

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Gene Autry reading a script at home in the 1940s

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Gene Autry

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Gene Autry Sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - 1949.