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"Music has been the better part of my job. Movies are wonderful fun, plus they offer you a famous face. But how the words and melody are signed up with, how they come together out of air and enter in your brain, this is artwork. Songs are permanently." (Gene Autry) A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential results, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most significant women and men in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. In the early 20th century, Westerns were one of the very most popular styles in Hollywood. One of the young actors at the forefront was Gene Autry, a Texan whose life tale made him an all natural to be the country's most famous "singing cowboy". Autry would become a sign of masculinity and morality onscreen through the 1930s, but it was easy for someone who had already developed driving horses to college. Autry came of age at the same time when the "singing cowboy" was at the apex of its popularity, and, like his most famous successor, Roy Rogers, Autry actually got his begin in show business as a vocalist. Right now Autry might be best known for being a pioneer of country music and the author of Christmas hits "Here Comes Santa Claus", "Frosty the Snowman", and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Autry would produce hundreds of recordings during his life, helping ensure the popularity of the country music genre and earning inductions into several related halls of popularity.
