78 RPM - Gene Autry - Back To The Saddle / Little Old Band Of Gold - Vocalion - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Gene Autry
Label:	Vocalion
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	05080
Date:	22 Sep 1939
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Gene Autry	Back To The Saddle	Cherokose	Rate
B	Gene Autry	Little Old Band Of Gold	Autry, Newman, Glickman	Rate

Notes

A: Recorded Apr 18, 1939, mx: LA 1865-A. B: Recorded Apr 14, 1939, mx: LA 1855-A. CBS Studio (Radio Station KNX), 6121 Gower & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
Later issue on Vocalion 05080: A-side credited to Autry, Whitley.
Reissued on OKeh 05080, A-side now titled "Back In The Saddle Again (Theme Song)" (1940). Reissued again on Columbia 37010 (1946) and 20036 (1948).

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Description: A Side - 2nd version

Comments and Reviews


Mike Gann 16th Dec 2021



Mike Gann 16th Dec 2021



fixbutte 25th Aug 2015		As seen on the label, Gene Autry's later signature tune was first titled "Back To The Saddle" although he never sings it like that (he had made a film though in 1937, Boots and Saddles, in which he sang the rather similar "Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle"). Anyway, when the record was issued on the OKeh label around mid-1940, the song was retitled like its refrain, "Back In The Saddle Again". It was also subtitled as "Theme Song" then, which in retrospect was no exaggeration as it was associated with Autry's career from then on, and in 1976 it became the title of his autobiography. More surprising, however, is that the first Vocalion issue was not credited to Autry and Ray Whitley like all later issues, but to Cherokose, which seems to point to Eddie Cherkose who was a renowned movie songwriter in the 1930s and 1940s. Although Gene Autry might have bought the song, on closer examination the first credit looks like a mistake. Actually Cherkose had written "Born To The Saddle", sung by Roy Rogers and by The Sons Of The Pioneers, which is an entirely different song.