 "Yodelin  Kid from Pine Ridge" is a (only slightly) revision of "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", Gene Autry s first starring western for Republic in which the story conflict is switched from cattleman-vs. -nesters to cattlemen-vs. -turpentiners, and the story locale is the only instance of the Georgia piney woods being used in a B-western series entry. Aside from those changes, everything else follows the form of the original in which Gene Autry played a "character" named Gene Autry (and not "Himself", since the real Gene Autry was not the son of a Georgia cattleman, his father was not murdered and he was not a rodeo champion) and has a falling out with his father (Charles Middleton) and leaves Georgia for the rodeo circuit, and joins a show owned by Colonel Millhouse (Smiley Burnette, in the only Autry film in which "Millhouse" was not preceded by "Frog". ) The show returns to Autry s hometown where local badman Lew Parker (LeRoy Mason) is still stirring up trouble between the cattlemen, who want the land for grazing, and the Turpentiners who make a hard-scrabble living off of the pine trees. Before Gene can put an end to Parker s cattle-rustling and tree-burning activities, Parker has the elder Autry murdered and also the head of the Turpentiners, Bayliss Baynum (Russell Simpson), the father of Gene s sweetheart Millie Baynum (Betty Bronson), and Gene is jailed for the killing of Baynum. Come to think of it, there is one other slight difference between the two films; the original version had the Sons of the Pioneers and this one has The Tennessee Ramblers, who were light-years removed from the music style of the Pioneers.