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Oct 2, 1998 · Gene Autry covered When They Sound the Last "All Clear", When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano, My Star of the Sky, I'll Always Be a Rambler and other songs. Gene Autry originally did When They Sound the Last "All Clear", My Star of the Sky, When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano, I'll Always Be a Rambler and other songs.
- September 29, 1907
- October 2, 1998
Oakley Haldeman and Gene Autry. " Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) " is a popular Christmas song written and originally performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Oakley Haldeman. Autry's original recording (in which he pronounces Santa Claus as "Santy Claus") was a top-10 hit on the pop and country charts; the song ...
- "An Old Fashioned Tree"
- October 6, 1947
- August 28, 1947
- Christmas
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Dec 24, 2023 · Christmas time in 1979, the newspaper reported Autry made a public appearance at the Desert Press Club “and won over the audience just as he used to win over the girl in his film career.”
- 'Here Comes Santa Claus'
- 'Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer'
- 'Frosty The Snowman' and More
- ASCAP 2020 Most-Played Holiday Songs
Autry was grand marshal of the Hollywood Christmas Parade in 1939 (as well as in 1961 and 1980) and rode his horse Champion in many others along Hollywood Boulevard, which was renamed Santa Claus Lane for the one-mile route on parade day. When asked to record "An Old-Fashioned Christmas Tree" in summer 1947, Autry is said to have inspired the flip ...
The story of how "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" became Autry’s follow-up Christmas hit starts with copywriter Robert May writing a poem in 1939 for a Montgomery Ward department store/catalog holiday promotion followed by a children’s book. Johnny Marks, May’s brother-in-law, turned the poem into a song that he unsuccessfully pitched to such stars...
Autry hit the Christmas trifecta in 1950 with "Frosty the Snowman," written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, the same composers of "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," an Autry hit earlier that year. “It just really kept his recording career, going doing these holiday songs,” George-Warren says. “First and foremost, Gene loved music. He had a great voic...
1. "All I Want for Christmas" (1994) 2. "It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951) 3. "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (1962) 4. "Sleigh Ride" (1948) 5. "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (1945) 6. "Jingle Bell Rock" (1958) 7. "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree" (1958) 8. "Last Christmas" (1984) 9. "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"...
- Jeff Metcalfe
Dec 3, 2019 · In 1951, cowboy crooner Gene Autry released a song titled “The Three Little Dwarfs,” that playfully told the story of three “helpers” trusted by Santa to “drive” his sleigh on Christmas Eve. The song was written by Stuart Hamblen, a singer, songwriter and politician who ran for President of the United States in 1952 on the ...
Christmas Song History. Every song has a story behind its genesis and Gene Autry's music has some great tales to tell. Here is a brief history of Gene's beloved holiday hits written by Jon Guyot Smith from the Grammy Nominated box set Sing, Cowboy, Sing!:
