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SINGING COWBOY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY

Gene Autry - spclarke.comspclarke.com

Gene Autry And Champion--#102--1955--COMIC BOOK--Dell--VF | eBay
1955

Gene Autry, The Singing Cowboy - Legacy.com

Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October
2, 1998)

Gene Autry, perhaps the greatest singing cowboy of all time, 
was born on September 29, 1907, in Tioga,
Texas.

While still a boy, Autry moved with his family to a ranch in
Oklahoma where he learned to play the guitar and sing.

The young Autry was quickly attracted to a new style of music
that was becoming popular at the time, which combined the
traditional cowboy music popular in Texas and Oklahoma and
the folk songs, ballads, and hymns of southern-style country
music.

Known as country-western, the new sound was popularized by musicians from the East Coast and the South who had never
been near a horse and couldn’t tell a stirrup from a lariat.

Donning cowboy hats and boots and affecting what they thought
were western drawls, hundreds of these newly minted “cowboys”
were soon crooning popular western ballads like “Tumbling
Tumble Weeds” all around the nation.

Gene Autry: More than just an owner. – LA Dodger Talk

Rim of the Canyon (1949) Gene Autry | Classic Western | Full Length Movie

CD Gene Autry Sings Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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TV SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1970

Classic TV Theme: The Partridge Family

On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot immediately
following "The Brady Bunch," ABC premiered a program that
would give television production company Screen Gems its
second TV-to-pop-chart smash: "The Partridge Family."

Unwilling to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit,
"The Monkees," went off the air in 1968, Screen Gems was
wasting no time in trying to repeat its success.

The series follows the lives of a fictional pop music band
formed by the titular family, including Shirley (
Shirley Jones),
Keith (
David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), and Danny (Danny
Bonaduce
), as well as their manager Reuben Kincaid (Dave
Madden
).

The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family
the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

OnThisDay… September 25, 1970 • THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY: TV Series Debuts on  ABC [AUDIO+VIDEO] / | House of the Hits

original bus

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MOVIE PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: From Traditional Western Values to  Peace and Love by Keira C Wingert – American Icons

On September 23, 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a team of bank
robbers in the Old West, premiered in New York City.

The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving seven
Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director)
and winning in the categories of Best Screenplay (William
Goldman), Best Song (Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep
Falling on My Head”), Best Score and Best Cinematography.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Movie - Where To Watch
Paul Newman and Robert Redford

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 | More Obscure Train Movies

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LEGENDARY ACTOR HAS DIED AT AGE 89

Robert Redford: 15 Memorable Movies to Stream - The New York Times

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Posters — The Movie Database  (TMDB)
1969

Dark Winds' Stars React to Robert Redford Cameo in Season 3 Premiere
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025)

(FOXNEWS) – "Robert Redford passed away in his sleep today 
at his home in the Sundance mountains of Utah – the place
he loved, surrounded by those he loved," his representative
told Fox News Digital. "He will be missed greatly. The family
requests
privacy."

The Hollywood icon was best known for classics like "Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."

Glen Weldon on X: "The OG TWILIGHT ZONE episode “Nothing in the Dark” stars Robert  Redford as Death, attempting to convince an old lady to take his hand and  well I mean

The Twilight Zone - Wikipedia
       Nothing in the Dark (1962)

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ICONIC COSTUME PIECE SELLS AT AUCTION

Iconic 'Lone Ranger' costume piece sells at auction for over $300,000 photo 2

Clayton Moore's 'The Lone Ranger' Hat Fetches Over $300,000 at Auction
Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999)

The Stetson hat worn by Clayton Moore during promotional
appearances as “The Lone Ranger” was just sold at auction
for just over $300,000.

The iconic accessory, a white beaver-felt size 6 34 Stetson
hat, was sold on day one of
Propstore’s Los Angeles
Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction
last Thursday.

It had been part of Moore’s personal collection, and sold for
a final price of $302,400.

The auction ran from September 4-6 and included other items
like Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2 costume and Michael
Keaton’s Batman suit.

(KATU)

Clayton Moore's 'The Lone Ranger' Hat Fetches Over $300,000 at Auction

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