Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans - these people are giants, legends; their names are household words. Of course, so's Jell-O.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.
I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.
Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.