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	Bob Wills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wills remained with the Doughboys and replaced Brown with new singer Tommy Duncan.
		Wills soon settled the renamed "Texas Playboys" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50,000 watt KVOO radio station.
		Bob Wills was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
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	VH1.com : Bob Wills : Biography
		Bob Wills was a maverick and his spirit infused American popular music of the 20th century with a renegade, virtuosic flair.
		Bob Wills was born outside of Kosse, TX, in 1905.
		Bob Wills enlisted in the Army late in 1942, but he was discharged as being unfit for service in the summer of 1943, primarily because he was out of shape and disagreeable.
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	BOB WILLS
		Wills' chosen instrument was the fiddle and while he may not have been as accomplished a fiddler as,say,Cliff Bruner, he was one of the most entertaining fiddlers of all time.Listen to his versions of "Sally goodin' " for example.
		Wills went through quite a few bands in his early years and these included the Light Crust Doughboys and the Forth Worth Doughboys in the late 1920s and early 1930s.He rubbed shoulders with other Western swing pioneers like Milton Browne during these times.
		Wills never was the sole inventor of Western swing that,say,Bill Monroe was to bluegrass or Scott Joplin was to ragtime.
	www.webspawner.com /users/BobWillsInfo (384 words)

	Bob Wills Museum
		We went to Bob Wills' home for a jam session, a meal, a get together, a rehearsal, a homecoming of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys in preparation of an album which was to make musical history, and I was part of it.
		The jam session had started, Betty rolled Bob into the living room, there were drums, fiddles, steel, guitars, all of it was there, and he was in the middle of it again......we rehearsed, played for fun, ran over songs for the session.
		Ol' Bob had his microphone and was trying to put his ahh-haa's in, they were there, but not as crisp as they were in days gone by.
	www.bobwills.com /museum.html (3264 words)

	Bob Wills
		Bob may have been country, but the image he wanted portrayed in both appearance and song, was far removed from the hillbilly style that had been coming out of Nashville, and he didn't want the Playboys to be another hillbilly band.
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys somehow found time to write, learn, and arrange new songs in the midst of their almost constant traveling and performing throughout the '30s, '40s and '50s.
		Bob Wills opened it up, he had his cigar in his mouth, he had his fiddle in his hand, and a cowboy hat on, and all those drunks at the bar and at a table, there was just a complete hush,' says White of that night in '66.
	www.texasplayboys.net /Biographies/bobwillsbio.htm (7866 words)

	Bob Wills Biography : Oldies.com
		John Wills was successful as a farmer and by 1921, he had moved to a 600-acre ranch/farm near Oxbow Crossing, which remained their home until 1931.
		Wills moved to KVOO Tulsa, where in February 1934, Bob Wills And The Texas Playboys finally began to broadcast and this time O'Daniel's attempts to stop them failed.
		Wills was unable to attend the recordings but in 1971, he was reunited with 10 of his old Texas Playboys at Haggard's house, near Bakersfield, and watched and listened as recordings were made.
	www.oldies.com /artist/biography.cfm/artist_3123.html (2352 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bob Wills
		James Robert (Bob) Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American country musician and songwriter.
		By 1945, Bob Wills had moved to Sacramento where he operated the Bob Wills Point nightclub, but continued to tour where his dances outdrew those of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and other high profile bandleaders of the day.
		Bob Wills continued to tour and record well into the 1960s, when he influenced performers Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in a style of music now known as the Bakersfield Sound.
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		Wills blended it all into a swinging dance music that was wildly popular in the Southwest and on the West Coast from the 1930s into the 1950s.
		Wills grew up in a musical family of fiddle players and in an area famous for African-American music that produced Scott Joplin, Victoria Spivey, and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys enjoyed their greatest success from 1935 to 1947 while recording for ARC/Vocalion/OKeh/Columbia.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/bob_wills.html (892 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WILLS, JAMES ROBERT
		James Robert (Bob) Wills, musician, was born on March 6, 1905, near Kosse, Limestone County, Texas, the first of ten children of John and Emmaline (Foley) Wills.
		The album, For the Last Time: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, sold more copies than any other in Wills's career and was awarded a Grammy Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the highest achievement of any Wills recording or any other recording in the history of western swing.
		Bob Wills died on May 13, 1975, and was buried in Memorial Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/fwi45.html (637 words)

	Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues
		Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were one of many bands traveling the Southwest in the 30s and 40s.
		Wills’ trademark was his asides to his fellow musicians—these exclamations intended to encourage band members were supposedly borrowed from jazz and blues musicians.
		Wills’ effective use of Walker’s compositions is another example of his adaptability and ear for a good song.
	www.honkytonks.org /showpages/lonestar.htm (1657 words)

	Western Swing
		Since the version at this address will be removed, it is recommended that you go to the new version and change your "favorite place" or "bookmark" accordingly.
		Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets are represented by the title tune.
		Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Adolph Hofner, the Light Crust Doughboys, and the Prairie Ramblers (with the great "title" tune) are to be found here, as well.
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	Reviews of Merle Haggard: A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World, and Horizontal Ladies Club
		Bob Wills, the inspiration for this set, first achieved fame with the Texas Playboys in Tulsa in the 1930s.
		Wills was hugely popular during the glory days of western swing, and played in countless dance halls from Oklahoma to Texas to California.
		Haggard sought to duplicate the original Bob Wills swing sound, and recalls that the disc was recorded with absolutely no rehearsal.
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	BOB WILLS WESTERN SWING
		This folk environment contributed to Wills' uninhibited, free, experimental, and often radical approach to music that put him years ahead of his time.
		Just how far ahead he really was is evident in the fact that his music appealed to both the age of jazz and swing era and continues to be popular in these times of rock and country and western.
		Bob Wills began his career as a fiddler in 1915 and ended it at a recording session for United Artist fifty-eight years later, in 1973.
	www.southernmusic.net /bobwills.htm (295 words)

	Bob Wills Texas Playboys
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were without doubt the best-known band in the history of Western Swing and was one of the very few bands to continue performing this once highly popular dance style music well into the 1970s.
		1933 Bob Wills was fired by O'Daniel for a combination of reasons, especially due to his indulgence in a little drink and the fact that it had caused Wills to miss a couple of shows.
		Bob was inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1968, but in 1969 Bob suffered a stroke and underwent two major operations, but was left paralysed on his right side and in 1971 Bob had another stroke on the left side.
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		It brought together Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, the man and the band that created Western Swing and, for over forty years, influenced popular American music in general and country and western in particular.
		John Wills and his family worked in the fields all day and played dances at night to earn a living and make mortgage payments on their river farm.
		While they were broadcasting over WACO in the fall of 1933, Bob first called his band "Bob Wills and his Playboys" The original Playboys were Bob Wills, fiddle; Tommy Ducan, vocals and piano; Kermit Whalen, steel guitar; Johnnie Lee Wills, tenor banjo, and June Whalen, bass and rhythm guitar.
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	WESTERM SWING - A HISTORY
		Bob Wills was often called the 'King of Western Swing', but it should be noted that the title first belonged to Spade Cooley, and only went to Wills on Cooley's death.
		Originally the band was called 'Bob Wills and His Playboys', but Jimmy Revard, whose own group was called, Jimmy Revard and the Oklahoma Playboys, convinced Wills to rename his group the "The Texas Playboys".
		Wills left home at age sixteen and supported himself by doing everything from picking cotton to preaching, -with the fiddle always at his side.
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	Amazon.com: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - 24 Greatest Hits: Music: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bob Wills is the king of Western swing, a country music hall-of-famer and honky-tonk legend whose place in the country pantheon is rivaled only by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams Sr.
		Starting in the '30s, Wills pioneered a new country sound that merged his Texas frontier fiddle with big band, Dixieland, and the blues, creating country swing with his band the Texas Playboys (and inspiring a young Merle Haggard and George Jones).
		Bob always gave his trademark yells as the boys did something well, put in vocal 'cuts' into the tune when it needed it...all part of what made it the Playboy Way.
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		Bob's marriage to Betty Wills in 1942 would last the rest of his life and produce three children.
		He didn't quite know how to handle it.' Bob had lived a life in barrooms and dance halls, and was acutely aware of the seedier aspects of those environments.
		Bob Wills died on May 13, 1975 at the age of 70.
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		Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys,...
		Blazing the Western Trail (1945) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
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	Bob Wills MP3 Downloads - Bob Wills Music Downloads - Bob Wills Music Videos
		Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys were a dance band with a...
		In a distinguished career that spanned over 50 years, guitarist and arranger Eldon Shamblin lent his considerable talents to many of country's biggest stars, including a 10 year stint in one of the...
		As the lead singer for the classic lineup of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys, Tommy Duncan was the definitive Western swing vocalist.
	www.mp3.com /bob-wills/artists/115165/summary.html (202 words)

	Bob Wills - Texas Playboys, Family and Friends: A video about Bob Wills, his music and the people who new him best. A ...
		Bob Wills - Texas Playboys, Family and Friends: A video about Bob Wills, his music and the people who new him best.
		Bob Wills is the King of Western Swing.
		In addition to Bob Will's and his Texas Playboys classic music, you'll see interviews with members of the Texas Playboys.
	www.bobwillsvideo.com (264 words)

	Bob Wills Forum - Welcome to the Bob Wills Forum
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		This free forum is for fans of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
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	Bob Wills History
		This section of the website will contain a detailed description of the historical timeline of Bob Wills personal and professional life, original articles and interactive presentations on the historical events of his life and the Western Swing era, and a historical timeline of other bands and bandleaders of the era.
		This chronology was created to provide an outline for a narrative screenplay on Bob Wills’ life and, though it was compiled from the biography San Antonio Rose written by Dr. Charles Townsend, it does not approach the depth of the scholarly research of Dr. Townsend’s definitive work.
		It is intended to provide a summary of Bob Wills' life for entertainment purposes only and we greatly encourage the truly interested devotee to read
	www.bobwills.com /history.html (797 words)

	Rolling Stone : Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys RSS Feed
		Often credited with the birth of Western swing, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys redefined this now-by...
		Play Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Trivia.
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	NPR : Bob Wills, the Fiddler of Western Swing
		NPR : Bob Wills, the Fiddler of Western Swing
		Bob Wills fiddled his way to legendary status.
		Weekend Edition Sunday, March 6, 2005 · Bob Wills would have been 100 years old today.
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		The BOB is clearly the Sport Utility of Strollers.
		This is one that Dad and the mountain Mom will be proud to push around.
		Strolling with the Weather Shield, your little one will be dry and comfortable in stormy weather.
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	Bob Wills on LoneStarMusic.com
		Rolly polly dadys little man will be a man some day
		Bob Wills is the single most important figure in popular music who is not of African American lineage.
		Hank Williams is an icon, but Bob Wills gave our music pulse.No Bob, no Elvis.
	www.lonestarmusic.com /artists.asp?id=338 (138 words)

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