Melody Ranch – I Hate to Say Goodbye 47-06-29
Gene opens with 'I Hate to Say Goodbye to the Prairie' and later recalls a ranch-versus-ranch rodeo competition decided by the saddle-bronc event. His draw, a paint horse later known…
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Gene opens with 'I Hate to Say Goodbye to the Prairie' and later recalls a ranch-versus-ranch rodeo competition decided by the saddle-bronc event. His draw, a paint horse later known…
After singing 'San Fernando Valley,' Gene tells of going undercover in Silver City as a Ranger investigating Jake Berdyck, a powerful local criminal accused of swindling and terrorizing residents. Gene…
Gene Autry hosts a Christmas edition of Melody Ranch four days before Christmas, opening with 'Here Comes Santa Claus' and filling the broadcast with holiday music, comedy and seasonal talk.…
Gene opens with 'The Lonesomest Cowboy' before recalling the trial of longtime country doctor James Reardon, charged with involuntary manslaughter after operating on Clyde Martin without permission while Martin's wife…
Gene opens this Melody Ranch broadcast with 'Ragtime Cowboy Joe' and mixes music and comedy with a western story about old prospector Caleb Hooten, whom Gene once found panning for…
This Armed Forces Radio Service Melody Roundup opens with Gene Autry singing 'Dixie Cannonball' and continues as a compact western music-and-comedy program. The cast trades jokes, performs additional songs, and…
Gene opens with 'Hair of Gold' and later recalls finding Pedro Chavez mortally shot in Redstone Canyon. Pedro manages to say 'Ringo,' leading Gene and Pat to the abandoned Ringo…
This short surviving Don Owens interview clip introduces Gene Autry as a veteran figure in country and western music. Owens notes that Autry had been making records since the late…
Merv Griffin interviews Gene Autry and Pat Buttram about Autry's long career in western entertainment. They joke about Autry's flashy stage clothes, discuss the several horses named Champion, recall Roy…
Charles Collingwood visits Gene Autry and his wife at their North Hollywood home for an informal filmed interview. Gene discusses his Newhall ranch, his collection of Western memorabilia and the…
In this short Merv Griffin interview clip, Gene Autry discusses his ownership of the California Angels, horses and riding, and his long motion-picture career. He recalls making large numbers of…
In this Mike Douglas interview, Gene Autry looks back on beginning in radio and records in 1927, becoming an early singing cowboy in motion pictures, and making his first film…
In this Steve Allen program excerpt, Gene Autry reminisces about the early Chicago radio world, including WLS performers, recording sessions and entertainers he knew during radio's earlier decades. The conversation…
Gene Autry opens this Melody Ranch broadcast with 'Be Honest With Me,' mixes songs and ranch-house banter with memories from his career, and presents a western story about rancher Mullins…
Gene opens with 'When the Bloom Is on the Sage' and the broadcast mixes songs and ranch comedy with a domestic mix-up that begins when an old friend asks Gene…
Gene opens with 'When the Bloom Is on the Sage' and later receives a letter from his friend Steve Williams asking to borrow $5,000. The letter contains a false memory…
This Melody Ranch broadcast mixes western music and Thanksgiving comedy with a story about a young girl who is kidnapped just before the holiday and held for a $5,000 ransom.…
Gene opens with 'Cowboy Blues' and recounts searching for a missing man whose earlier mineral research pointed to valuable deposits in the area. At a boarding house Gene is knocked…
Gene opens with 'Dear Hearts and Gentle People' before telling about elderly cowboy Billy, who insists he and his horse Dynamite can still handle a cattle drive. The younger hands…
This Melody Ranch broadcast opens with 'Dear Hearts and Gentle People' and develops a comic family story around Mike Connors, a tough, gun-toting, quick-tempered woman whose daughter Ruth is coming…
Gene opens with 'Dixie Cannonball' before recalling how he took a job with Mark Gentry, a rancher being squeezed by powerful banker Red Watson and ordered to pay $10,000 almost…
This Melody Ranch program opens with 'Dixie Cannonball' and comic talk about stocks, dividends and get-rich schemes before turning to a western story about ranchers whose water supply has been…
Gene opens with 'Down Yonder' before the show turns to comedy about Pat's new detective ambitions and a cattle-rustling case. Rustlers burn the Hastings ranch barn as a diversion and…
After opening music and vacation comedy, Gene tells the story of a young man, Eddie, who seems to straighten out but is secretly drawn back into crime by older ex-con…
This Melody Ranch broadcast mixes music and comedy with a story in which Gene searches for a missing Ranger friend and follows a tip to a bar where a concertina…
Gene opens with 'I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover' before a story about a dangerous livestock disease spreading into the cattle of Chief Silver Eagle's community. The chief rejects…
After the opening music, Gene recalls driving about 320 cattle toward a river crossing controlled by a reclusive landowner. A man claiming to be the hermit's nephew says the old…
After the opening song, Gene receives a coded poem from imprisoned bank robber Ben Curlin. Two criminals who intercepted the message believe it reveals where more than $60,000 in unrecovered…
Gene opens with 'Heart as Big as Texas' before becoming involved in a train holdup that local officials intended as a staged frontier stunt for visitors. The joke turns real…
Gene opens with 'Heart as Big as Texas' before taking responsibility for a troubled youth named Mike who otherwise faces reform school. Gene gives him work, a room and increasing…
The broadcast opens with 'Honey, I'm in Love with You' and then tells a western crime story about a robbery gang that repeatedly seems to vanish after each job. A…
This is the farewell Melody Ranch broadcast, with the cast mixing familiar songs and comedy with tributes to Gene Autry as he retires from the regular radio series. Gene reflects…
This surviving first-half fragment opens with Gene Autry singing 'I Tipped My Hat and Slowly Rode Away.' The recording then moves through Doublemint advertising and light ranch-house comedy, including Pat…
Following the opening song 'Idaho,' Gene investigates why cattle on young Betty Carson's ranch are mysteriously dying. Dead grass beside the ranch's salt blocks leads to laboratory tests showing that…
Gene opens with 'I'm an Old Cowhand' and later finds a runaway boy named Joe who says he wants to become a cowboy. Joe admits that his parents are always…
After 'I'm an Old Cowhand,' Gene tells of hiring a huge ranch hand calling himself Bill Collins and discovering that he is former strongman Moose Mallory. When a utility-company safe…
Gene opens with 'I've Got Spurs' before the program moves into a western mystery in which he is framed for the shooting death of Art Richards. A gun connected to…
Gene sings the cowboy blues before recounting a case in which criminals disguise themselves as Native Americans to frame Chief Whitebird's people for robberies. After a stolen bracelet is planted…
After the opening cowboy song, Gene recounts searching for a missing man whose earlier mineral research pointed to valuable deposits in the area. At a boarding house Gene is knocked…
After opening with songs about memories, Gene tells a stormy-weather story that begins when a single-engine airplane crashes near Melody Ranch and the pilot disappears. The aircraft is tied to…
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