A few years ago something brought an old thought to the fore; so far as I can remember, the first "favorite song" I ever had was "The Strawberry Roan", which Gene Autry was singing with some regularity on his radio program at the time. For a good two years after the reminder, I gleaned through all sources of his recordings, but it was nowhere to be found. I finally found a three-disk set of clips from his old shows, with the song listed. Turned out it's just the first couple of verses, and his version is sorta processed-by-Gerber compared to the best; not a heartbreaker, but a little let-down. A lot of the album, not suprisingly, is made up of songs written to be forgotten; but there are gems scattered throughout. I was taken completely off guard by his beautiful, flowing rendition of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot".