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Christmas time is here -- and gone

...case every room is loaded like this.Images wherever I turn. A partridge in a pear tree. Nat King Cole. Chestnuts. Gene Autry. Rudolph. The Grinch. Scrooge. Frosty. Yes, Virginia. A little drummer boy. Miracles, in the manger and on 34th...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-12-23/christmas-time-here-and-gone
Gene Barnes

THOMSON, Ga. - Mr. Gene Autry Barnes of Thomson, GA passed away on January 27, 2013 at his residence. He was a native of Lincolnton, GA. His memorial services...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000162739540
AMPED Music Contest finalists set to take the stage

...her husband was at the top of the list.Teston's entry in the AMPED competition is called Gene & Roy and is about Gene Autry and Roy Rogers."In the '60s, the world was in a mess. The president was assassinated; Martin Luther King was assassinated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2012-09-12/amped-music-contest-f
Ordinary people often play heroic roles in our lives

...Roger Bannister, Mark Twain, Albert Schweitzer and Thomas Edison. Because of the time I grew up, movie stars such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers were on my list, too.I recently read a new biography of Autry, a singing cowboy in the movies from...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/glynn-moore/2011-09-11/ordinary-people-often-p
Not many singers have had military slant on patriotism

...military. Here's a glance at several country performers who did put on military uniforms in service to their country: GENE AUTRY: He was a major Western music and movie star when World War II broke out. During a live broadcast of his network radio...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/05/21/rho_524675.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
British cowboy visits Augusta for barrel horse competition

...Lester Alvin "Smiley" Burnette, Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter, Walter "Dub" Taylor, Sky King (Kirby Grant), Gene Autry and the legendary William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley. "One of the regrets of my life is that I never...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/10/30/rho_481368.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
Winds of March leave mark on country music

...New York City for Columbia Records. The duo had been singing for two years on WSB radio in Atlanta. MARCH 3, 1950: Gene Autry performs two shows at Bell Auditorium, with his horses Champion and Little Champ and a cast of 40 entertainers. He...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/03/06/rho_189870.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
Futurity continues Augusta's history with equine stars

...rider, cowboy movie star Tom Mix, for an appearance at the Imperial Theatre on Dec. 14, 1933. Another film cowboy, Gene Autry, brought his horse Champion to Augusta's Bell Auditorium in 1948 and in March 1950. Mr. Autry didn't ride into...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/01/17/rho_180628.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes
Readers know how to deliver original punch lines

...Or, "You'd just get wireless." - all from Paul Filpus-Luyckx - REACH FOR THE SKY: Who was the better cowboy - Gene Autry or Roy Rogers? Maybe we'll find out this week. The Augusta Museum of History will present its monthly Brown Bag History...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/03/06/kir_119097.shtml
Bill Kirby
Western stars rode musical trails to CMA Hall of Fame

...Fame. Here's a look at several: GENE AUTRY (1907-98): Inducted 1969. Orvon Gene Autry, born in a farmhouse near Tioga...television's biggest Western stars with The Gene Autry Show. JOHNNY BOND (1915-78...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/01/19/rho_47459.shtml
Ramblin' Rhodes