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.
The West Ain't What It Used to Be
from Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937)
Singing Cowboy Gene Autry sings the humorous song "The West Ain't What It Used to Be" from his musical B Western movie Public Cowboy No. 1 from Republic Pictures (1937).
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