Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started ... harmonies and classic songs (“Cool Water” and “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”), written by Bob Nolan.

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” — Gene Autry (1949) Gene Autry’s cheerful ... making it one of the season's most popular songs. Written by the legendary songwriting duo Sammy Cahn and ...

In 1952, a Dallas department store executive dashed off a few lines for the flip side of what The Dallas Morning News called a Gene Autry ... California, Autry recorded both songs.

His Christmas songs were so popular that they are inescapable part of the season even decades later. In 1950, his radio show ...