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.

Record Information

The Statue in the Bay / God Bless America

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Gene Autry with Orchestra under the Direction of Carl Cotner

45 Record
Columbia
38-06189

Track Listing

Side 1

The Statue in the Bay (2:58)
(M. Hale-B. Wagner-J. Carlyle)
Gene Autry with the Cass County Boys & The Pinafores

Side 2

God Bless America (2:35)
(I. Berlin)

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