When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.
Tahiti Honey
from Cowboy Serenade (1942)
Fay McKenzie was Gene Autry's leading lady in five Republic Pictures B Westerns. Here Fay performs the Polynesian flavored song "Tahiti Honey" from Gene's Republic Pictures 1942 movie Cowboy Serenade. Fay's singing double for this film was Faith Kruger.
Composed by Jule Styne, George R. Brown and Sol Meyer
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