78 RPM - Gene Autry - I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / I'll Be True While You're Gone - OKeh - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Gene Autry
Label:	OKeh
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	06648 / 6648
Date:	17 Apr 1942
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	7 Own
Price Guide:	$18
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PRICE GUIDE

$18

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes	Carter	Rate
B	Gene Autry	I'll Be True While You're Gone	Autry	Rate

Notes

Vocal with Instrumental Acc.

A mx: H 678, recorded at CBS Studio (Radio Station KNX), 6121 Gower & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, February 24, 1942.
B mx: H 385, recorded at CBS Studio (Radio Station KNX), 6121 Gower & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, July 28, 1941.

Images

Number: 2751530 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: historyofcountrymusic Edited By: scrough Description: Okeh 06648 A side label (original release)	Number: 2751531 Uploaded By: historyofcountrymusic Description: Okeh 06648 B side label (original release)	Number: 826277 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Okeh 6648 A side label (repress)	Number: 826278 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: Okeh 6648 B side label (repress)
Number: 1641993 Uploaded By: musicdoc8 Edited By: KeithS Description: Okeh 6648 A side label (repress)	Number: 1641994 Uploaded By: musicdoc8 Edited By: KeithS Description: Okeh 6648 B side label (repress)

Comments and Reviews


Mike Gann 30th Nov 2021



Mike Gann 30th Nov 2021



historyofcountrymusic 18th Sep 2021		@fixbutte - added images with the “06648” catalog number; I just discovered that I had OKeh pressings with and without the “0”. Maybe the number in the database should change to 06648, if that’s not too trivial! The Russell discography does not list a "06648" issue.



fixbutte 25th Aug 2015		Trivia: If the release date, taken from The Essential Gene Autry compilation, for this record here is right, then it was the first date when OKeh dropped the "0" as the first digit of the cat# of their C&W (Folk) and R&B (Race) issues.



fixbutte 25th Aug 2015		As already said on the entry of the Carter Family's original version on Victor V-40089, the melody of "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" was subsequently used for Roy Acuff's "Great Speckled Bird" (recorded 1936 and a big hit in 1938), Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" (15 weeks at #1 C&W in 1952), and Kitty Wells' answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (six weeks at #1 C&W in 1952 as well). Although credited on the Gene Autry record, A. P. Carter wasn't the composer of the melody either. It was already used some years before, in the song "Thrills That I Can't Forget," recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz in 1925 (Gennett 3228). And: ... then there is the striking resemblance with "The Prisoner's Song" recorded in 1924 by Vernon Dalhart. ... "The Prisoner's Song" rates as a 1920s all-time best-seller with a staggering seven million-plus copies sold worldwide in the version by Vernon Dalhart (see Joop's Musical Flowers).

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Linked Releases

UK - Regal Zonophone - 1942

Ireland - Columbia - 1953