Melody Ranch: “Uncle Billy Harlow First Song - Make The San Fernando Valley My Home”, first broadcast on September 19, 1948. Old-time radio western.

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Melody Ranch: “The Story of Genes Guitar”, first broadcast on August 20, 1949. Old-time radio western.

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Gene Autry, a former cowboy, is in a small Oklahoma town working as a railroad depot telegraph operator and ticket seller, looking for something more out of life. His old friend Tex, who used to ride the range with him, finds him at the depot and asks him to return to the ranch. Gene explains that he wants to test himself in the wider world before going back. A customer at the window hears Gene play his guitar and sing, and urges him to try show business in New York. Melody Ranch is a Columbia Broadcasting System program, presented in this promotional episode for Doublemint gum dealers, and this recording dates from January 1940.

With Gene Autry, Tex, Ken, Will Rogers.

Listen for: Gene's guitar and his song 'Back in the Saddle Again' at the depot window, and the stranger's advice to go to New York.

First aired on January 4, 1940.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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