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	Bob Wills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born near Kosse, Texas; his father was a fiddle player who along with his grandfahter, taught the young Wills to play the fiddle and the mandolin.
		Wills soon settled the renamed "Texas Playboys" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50,000 watt KVOO radio station.
		By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bob_Wills (1165 words)

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		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.
		Texas songwriter Cindy Walker was responsible for a number of the songs in the films, as well as other classics like 'Cherokee Maiden' and Roy Orbison's 'Dream Baby.' One tune she'd written when she was eleven years old would also be interpreted by the Playboys.
		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)

	Handbook of Texas Online: DUNCAN, THOMAS ELMER
		Thomas (Tommy) Elmer Duncan, singer and songwriter, was born on January 11, 1911, in Whitney, Texas, into a large and impoverished family of truck farmers.
		The song that made the Texas Playboys famous was a folk-rooted pop song that Irving Berlin heard Wills play as a fiddle instrumental and published in 1940.
		He rejoined Wills in 1944 as the war neared its end and as Bob Wills was becoming even more famous in music and the movies.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/DD/fdu57.html (947 words)

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		Bob's hypnotic hollers of 'San Antone!' could be heard in all the versions that he would eventually record, each time with a different Playboy vocalist.
		Bob had pursued several business ventures, such as the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, which was intended to become a sort of home base.
		Bob Wills died on May 13, 1975 at the age of 70.
	www.famoustexans.com /bobwills.htm (6646 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)

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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.
		His greatest success was with his Texas Playboys band while based at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between 1934 and 1942.
		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 (638 words)

	Amazon.com: Take Me Back to Tulsa [BOX SET]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Wills took his love of jazz and blues he had learned from fl musicians, and applied the instruments of country folk to it: fiddles, banjos, and especially the distinctive sounds of the steel guitar.
		Wills had some incredible musicians in his stable, such as singer Tommy Duncan, banjoist Johnny Lee Wills (Bob Wills's younger brother), and piano player Al Stricklin, but most importantly he had steel guitar genius Leon McAuliffe, whose tune "Steel Guitar Rag" is one of the masterpieces from the Texas Playboys.
		Bob Wills and his band were a perfect example of a group of musicians who played live several hours a day, perfecting their craft - not the talentless celebrities of today who rely on tape loops and beat machines.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005TO15?v=glance (1811 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.
		Nevertheless, the Texas Playboys made a number of transcriptions in '46 and '47, and these are the only recordings of the band playing extended jams.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/western/westdex.html (2978 words)

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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.
		Though Wills and his Playboys did quite well in Waco, their stay was just from September 1933 to January 1934.
		Bob and the Playboys won their lawsuit and headed for Oklahoma where their destiny lay.
	www.southlandrecords.com /willsbob.htm (2587 words)

	NPR : Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues
		Bob Wills, the king of Western Swing, in a publicity photo from the late 1940s.
		Bob Wills recalls the origins of Western swing music, in a 1949 interview.
		Merle Haggard describes how Bob Wills bequeathed him his fiddle, his relationship with Wills and his efforts to revive Western swing.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2003/honkytonks/index.html (1464 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After WWII Wills dropped the big band and had a western swing combo with usually one horn either a trumpet or a sax, and rarely he had fiddler Louis Tierney double on sax along with the trumpet.
		In fact in 1945 when the Playboys were the biggest grossing act in all popular music (bigger than Sinatra or Glenn Miller or Bing Crosby who actually had a big hit on Wills' San Antionio Rose and who performed withthe Playboys during WWII bond drives!) they were finally invited on the Grand Ole Opry.
		Bob fell into a comma that he never recovered from during the session and there was even more emotion in the playing on that Album.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000288D?v=glance (1835 words)

	John T. Wills Western Swing Page
		John T. Wills is the son of the late western swing song writer and band leader, Johnnie Lee Wills.
		And while Bob Wills name may be the most recognized of the Wills brothers, they all were great western swing artists.
		Music-savvy fans will find some familiar names here, from Bob Kiser, who played guitar with western-swing legend Leon McAuliff in the 40's to Tommy Tripplehorn, whose musical talents helped launch many top40 rock hits as a member of Gary Lewis and the Playboys.
	members.tripod.com /%7Eamp57/JTW.html (755 words)

	Bob Wills (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys,...
		Blazing the Western Trail (1945) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
		The Lone Prairie (1942) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
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	Roughstock's History of Country Music - Western Swing
		It was a Saturday night dance type of music which combined the style of jazz and big band swing with the culture of the Southwest.
		Bob Wills, born east of Kosse, Texas in an area known as The Moss Springs Community, is known as the "King of Western Swing".
		He perfected this style in the late 1930's with his band the "Texas Playboys." Many of his greatest hits were recorded between 1936 and 1943.
	www.roughstock.com /history/westernswing.html (211 words)

	Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Quilt
		You may or may not know that the reason they were called the Playboys was because their main sponsor on the radio was Playboy flour.
		She cut them into squares and took them with her one night when Bob Wills was in town.
		Each square with the horses was cut from Playboy flour sacks and each square is autographed by a member of the band.
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	Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music From Back Roads To Big City
		Additional assistance from Texas Public Radio, the National Council for Traditional Arts, the Texas Heritage Music Foundation, and NPR Online.
		Bob Wills, King of Western Swing, in a publicity photograph from the late 1940s.
		This story will explain how the powerful border radio stations of the 1930s and ‘40s, located in Mexico, first helped spread the family’s parlor-style country music to a mass audience.
	www.honkytonks.org (1785 words)

	Western Swing Monthly
		Leon Rausch and the Bob Wills Texas Playboys with the Midland/Odessa Symphony Orchestra in Midland, TX
		Bob Wills Texas Playboys with Leon Rausch and Tommy Allsup in Jacksonville, FL.
		Billy Mata and Texas Tradition at the Knights of Columbus in Rockdale, TX.
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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)

	Adolph Hofner
		Adolph Hofner was born on June 8, 1916, in Moulton, Texas, a small Czech community in Lavaca County between Houston and San Antonio.
		With all due respect to Bob Wills, Adolph Hofner can also lay claim to a share of the credit for pioneering and spreading the popularity of Western Swing music from Texas to California and around the world.
		A modest crowd of only 50 or so were there to recognize that there was more to Western Swing than Bob Wills, and I wanted to make sure Hofner knew that a new generation of Texans still loved his work.
	www.geocities.com /~jimlowe/western/hofner.html (3214 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.
		He and his band, the Texas Playboys, emerged in the 1930's and reached national prominance with their Texas brand of Western Swing.
	www.bobwillsvideo.com (264 words)

	Moviefone: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Movie
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys movie trailer, showtimes,...
		By 1945, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys had achieved enough notoriety that...
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol.
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	JR.com: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Anthology (1935-1973) in Music: Western Swing: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Rhino's double-disc Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys retrospective provides an invaluable service in collecting material from every phase of the group's career.
		In its breadth, arrangement, and quality, this is a definitive Bob Wills overview and--consequently--a slice of the best Western swing in the world.
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	The River Road Boys
		Clyde, the leader of the band, was born in Luling, Texas and was raised in Beaumont.
		While with the Texas Playboys, he wrote and recorded "Boot Heel Drag," which was released on the flip side of Wills' all time best recording, "Faded Love." Later while working with Hank Penny he wrote and recorded "Remington Ride," which has also become a standard for steel guitarists everywhere.
		Since leaving the Texas Playboys, Herb has played all over the world, has been awarded many honors, and is a member in various Halls of Fame, including the National Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.
	www.riverroadboys.com (2033 words)

	RollingStone.com: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Often credited with the birth of Western swing, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys redefined this now-bygone genre, updating it and making it more accessible to the mainstream.
		By adding a big band and altering the formula to include a jazz sensibility over the simple pop arrangements, Wills & His Texas Playboys got people out on the dancefloor in droves.
		The band's ambition to change what was once a strict structure in the face of purists is commendable enough - that they succeeded and developed bouncy twang-jazz songs that gave 1940s cowboys something to swing to is what made Wills & His Texas Playboys golden.
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	Tune Lovers Web Pages (Cowboy Song Corral)
		Bob Nolan: A Biographical Guide and Annotations to the Lyric Archive at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
		But anyone who tries to understand the Russian choir will probably be at a loss to understand what they are singing.
		Bob Nolan's "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is one of the greatest cowboy classics and it's sung beautifully by Gene from a 1939 western.
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	Bill Wills
		Artists: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (1938), Floyd Cramer, Ray Price, Asleep at the Wheel, Patsy Cline, John Denver, Pee Wee King, Mills Brothers, Jim Nabors, Willie Nelson, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Ricky Skaggs, Tanya Tucker, Tex Williams
		Artists: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (1944), Bing Crosby, Ventures, Asleep at the Wheel, Commander Cody, Merle Haggard,
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