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Fun Autry Fact:

According to a 1953 fan magazine estimate, if all the recordings that Gene sold were stacked one atop of the other, the pile would be 57 miles high.

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If It Wasn't for the Rain
from On Top of Old Smoky (1953)


Gene Autry serenades an unhappy Gail Davis with "If It Wasn't for the Rain" during a rainstorm. The Cass County Boys provide musical back up while simultaneously escaping from jail under the "musical direction" of Smiley Burnette. From the 1953 Columbia Pictures movie On Top of Old Smoky.

Written by Gene Autry, Fred Rose, and Ed G. Nelson

© 1939 Gene Autry's Western Music Publishing and Sony ATV Music


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