So entrenched are Gene Autry’s songs in Christmas celebrations today, it is perhaps hard to imagine these tunes only date back to the 1940s. That they were written by or made famous by the ...

Cowboy singer Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards dating back to 1948, 1949 and 1950. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals MUSIC ...

"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 ...

The Gene Autry Collection: Gene was riding his horse, Champion, down Hollywood Boulevard for the annual Christmas parade in 1946 when, hearing the crowds of children gleefully crying, "Here comes ...

Among Gene Autry's Christmas recordings: 'Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)", "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Sports Business News Life Opinion Advertise Obituaries ...

OKC native Gayla Peevey used her holiday hit "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas" to help her hometown zoo buy a real-life hippo 70 years ago.

Which animal is inextricably linked with Santa and Christmas in the minds of young and old? Reindeer, of course. In 1949, singing cowboy Gene Autry probably didn’t believe that Rudolph the red ...

On Merry Christmas With Gene Autry, Columbia Records gathered those hits plus a few other Xmas tunes on an eight-song, 10” 78 R.P.M. album in 1950. Its jaunty, ...

Gene Autry lets "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" guide him back to the Billboard Hot 100 this week (dated Dec. 14), as the Christmas carol mounts the No. 44 spot. × Skip to main content ...

"Here Comes Santa Claus" Composed: 1947. Written by: Gene Autry and Oakley Haldeman. Recorded by: Autry, Elvis Presley Destiny's Child, Glen Campbell, Mariah Carey, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Bing ...

Cowboy singer Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards dating back to 1948, 1949 and 1950. How 'Singing Cowboy' Gene Autry became the Christmas Cowboy with a holiday trifecta of ...