"Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again ...

GROSS: And since Gene Autry was the first popular singing cowboy in the movies, and since I love his singing, let's start there. And we'll start with a song that I always thought was a really corny ...

I’m a sucker for a singing cowboy movie marathon, and Encore Westerns has a doozy lined up for the end of this month to commemorate what would have been Gene Autry‘s 100th birthday on Sept. 29.

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...

In the 1950s, we were living in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I was 6. One Sunday morning, before anyone else got up, my two younger brothers started playing around with matches and caught our house on ...

The former home of America’s “Singing Cowboy” — Gene Autry — is for sale for $8.25 million in one of the oldest and most prestigious neighborhoods in Palm Springs. Gene and Jackie Autry purchased the ...

"Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new Ken Burns PBS series on the history of country music, my guest, Doug Green, talks about the era of the singing cowboy as epitomized by the most popular ...

‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," "Rudolph the ...