A WELCOME VISITOR: SUPER GADJO!!!!
We had a nice long visit yesterday with Davd Chabira who always finds time to stop & cut up some Jackpots on his way to or from visiting his in-laws Irene & Tony Fossett.
For those who don't know, David, who did several types of Aerial Acts, including designing, & building The Centron Aerial Platform Motorcycle Act, is now the Rigging Supt. for Cirque Du Soliel's, "O", in Las Vegas.
He left a very nice family portrait that you see below, but first a snapshot of another David from years ago that not many of us remember. 
THE CHABIRA FAMILY
From right to left are, David, Christine, Lance, & Eric. Christine of course is the daughter of Irene, & Tony Fossett.
In the meantime I'm going to sit here watching a movie of Gene Autry, riding down the trail on his trusty horse Champion, chewing his Wriggley's Speermint Gum, pickin his Guitar, and singin,"I'm a rollin, I'm a rollin"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GENE AUTRY
,,,,,,fact!!!!
posted by 24-HOUR-MAN | 7:41 PM
21 Comments:
Let me get this streight -- Gene's riding a horse , playing a guitar , chewing gum , and singing too? how do you play a guitar on a horse -- wait, which way was he facing on the horse? Also, did I just post a picture of David 's wife tonight ???
Because he's Gene Autry!!!! That ain't nothin, on one side of him are 50,000 Sooooox Indians, & on the other side are 40,000 Earakoosy Indians, but he ain't worried, he just rides along, strummin his guitar, chewin his Speermint gum, singin, "I'm a rollin, I'm a rollin"!!!!
Yes that's David's wife.
don't you understand??? that's how it was in them thar good ole
days...
FATIMA...IS THAT OLE.... FOR...
OLE TOROS...OR OLE...FOR CAFFE OLE...
????? AAS ...LOL...
I think both ways are acceptable, "ole",(without pronouncing the "e") or "ol", as in the song, "Ol Man River", except Lum Wong used to sing, "Ol Man Liver", & "Mexicali Lose".
thank you, 24-hour man, for clearing that up for anonymous..LOL
A very dear friend in Colorado was from Japan. She told me I made a better Japanise wife then she did. She called me by the name of the female star in Shogun. Some letters are hard for them to pronounce. When I got divorced she called my X ah sew
I didn't know that you could ride a horse AND play a guitar !!! Say , wait a minute -- where's his amplifier for the guitar ???
24-HOUR-MAN.
YOU LOOK LIKE GENE AUTRY....
DO YOU SING...LIKE HIM....2.....?
AND CHEW...LIKE HIM....2...?
AND PICK...LIKE HIM..ON..GUITAR.,.2..?
GOOD...
GLAD U R BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK.
They can say all they want about the other guy, this was my, "King of the Cowboys"!!!!
I don't know of the chuwing gum, but I can recall when Gene Autry was going to follow the show in some bldg. he sent his manager to see if I would be his gest. I nicely said' Thank you' but No thank you. Now' if he would had said you' and your family then o.k.
But I do have his records for nostalgia reason.
By the way Anonymous'.
What kind of caffe that has ole. Are you maybe referring to the French cafe aux lai't. ??
Just for the record Gene Autry was a good friend of Dads. I remember him visiting with Gene many times when he was strummin his guitar on the same fair dates we were playing.
By the way the dictionary explains strummin as "to play on a stringed instrument noisily and with out expression." Fits in with some of todays music don't you think.
Penny
PENNY... DID YOU REALY...HAD TO...
CHECK....IN THE DICK'....
I MEAN THE DICTIONARY'...
TO FIND OUT WATH...THE STRUMMIN... MEANINGGGGGG...???????.
HOW ....WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!
Just had to play Gene Autry music, and the one that is really nostalgia for me, is the "Deep in the heart of Texas' It was played in our Theron's bicycle act.
Does anyone remember his sidekick and bass singer or the name of the back-up singers crooning along as they rode the trails ?
That would be Lester "Smiley" Burnette.
Did you know that while traveling in the car with Gene & hie wife on the way to Calif. Smiley was so impressed with the scenery in New Mexico he wrote a song on the back of a magazine cover. He thought he was pretty smart when he sold the song to Gene for $5.00.
When they sang it as a duet for the last time in 1965 on a TV Special, Smiley asked Gene if he thought the song might be worth another $5.00.
The name of the song was, "Ridin' Down The Canyon"
My favorites were "The Son's of the Pioneers", backed Roy Rogers a lot, in his early career he was part of that group.
Gene had a group on his, "Melody Ranch Radio Show" called, "The Cass County Boys"!
Lee Marvin is my kind of cowboy. His horse almost won an Oscar.
Was Smiley Burnette the guy that was called "Froggy"?
Or am I thinking og another show ?
And didn't Gabby Hayes work on both Gene Autry's show and Roy Rogers show ?
I thought Sons of the Pioneers were Roy's back up ?
Yes Smiley had sort of an alter ego, "Froggy Millhouse".
I can't remember if Gabby was sidekick for Gene or not, another sidekick was Pat Butrum(?sp), & then there was "Fuzzy" Knight, & I believe Fuzzy Q Jones(?).
Yes "The Son's" were Roy's back up, he started out in that group. I'm not sure though if they were in Gene's Movie "Tumbling Tumble Weeds".
Roy's real name was Leonard Sly, and it was one of those families where all the boys looked alike. My mother dated a cousin of his named Art Sly who looked just like Roy. Do you know another name Roy used when he first started in the movies?
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