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Fun Autry Fact:

When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.

Watch a Gene Autry Video Clip

Blue Shadows on the Trail
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Radio Show
(January 9, 1949)


Singing Cowboy Gene Autry sings the Western classic "Blue Shadows on the Trail" from Gene Autry's Melody Ranch radio show January 8, 1949.

Composed by Johnny Lange and Eliot Daniel
Published by Santly-Joy

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