In fact, you almost can’t tell their voices apart on Gene Autry’s 1928/1929 records. And part of that was quite deliberate: if you couldn’t spend seventy-five cents to hear Jimmie Rodgers ...
Autry’s recording was released by Vocalion in 1939 and it became the theme song of his television series Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch. Another version by bandleader and saxophonist Art Kassel ...