Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry and eager fans help Santa Claus wave to the crowd of a Christmas parade, circa 1940. ‘Tis the season ...

Christmas and cowboys seem an unlikely combination. But Christmas celebrations have a lot to do with one particular cowboy, who was also one of the most important personages to ever call Palm Springs ...

Warner Chappell Music announced on Thursday that it has acquired the 1,500-plus songs of the Gene Autry Music Group. The “Singing Cowboy’s” catalogue includes the holiday standard “Here Comes Santa ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new Ken Burns PBS series on the history of country music, my guest, Doug Green, talks about the era of the singing cowboy as epitomized by the most popular ...

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did. In ...

‘Tis the season of the Christmas Cowboy. For more than 70 years, Gene Autry rides again every year with Christmas standards "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)," "Rudolph the ...