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	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
		The Texas Playboys always had fine singers like Tommy Duncan and Leon McAuliffe, and Wills punctuated the tunes with jive talking, falsetto asides and cries of “ah-ha!” He’d call out soloists by name and instrument, good-naturedly goading them on to rollicking performances.
		In terms of personnel, the Texas Playboys expanded and contracted like an accordion over the years, according to Wills’ desires and the whims of the market.
		At one point the Texas Playboys were 22 pieces strong, although the band more typically numbered between 9 and 18 members.
	www.rockhall.com /inductee/bob-wills-and-his-texas-playboys (1226 words)

	Western Swing
		Beginning in the country dance halls of Texas and Oklahoma, an infectious combination of country, cowboy, polka, and folk music was blended with "swing" to create a variation played by so-called "hot string bands," which would later come to be known as "Western Swing."
		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.
		Available in nine individual volumes, every disc of the Tiffany Transcriptions illustrates the depth and breadth of the Texas Playboys and is one of the few recordings that captures all of their eclectic talents intact.
	www.yodaslair.com /dumboozle/western/westdex.html (2872 words)

	Texas Playboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bob Wills formed his legendary Texas Playboys in 1933, and with him, they became one of the most innovative and popular bands of the next several decades with probably a greater impact and influence on music in general than any other single group from that era.
		The band is a collection of Texas Playboys from the various eras of the group's career.
		Leon Rausch was a late member of the Playboys, but his association with the band (on and off from 1958 to 1965) quickly established him as one of the top Western Swing vocalists ever, firmly in the tradition of Wills' longtime singer Tommy Duncan, yet with a unique style of his own.
	www.artfeganentertainment.com /playboys/texasboys.html (427 words)

	Governor Rick Perry - March 6, 2005 will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bob Wills. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I think a celebration troupe, headlined by the Texas Playboys, who would travel from town to town over a couple of months, appearing not only in major cities but in areas where historic theaters would be a great forum....such as Conroe, 45 min north of Houston.
		Turkey, Texas, already has a memorial in the park (fiddle and information on a tall base); it has been defaced some last time I was there; therefore, whatever is decided on probably should in Austin, on Capitol grounds.
		Texas musicians could get sponsors, and raise money for a Texas musicians' fund, and do a walk/waltz across Texas for a month, each one passing a replica of Bob's guitar to the next walker every few miles.
	www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/music/bobwills.htm (12988 words)

	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - The Best of Bob Wills, Vol. 1 @ Soundbug
		These recordings were made in Nashville toward the end of Bob's life, and they do not capture the authentic sound of Bob Wills and HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS.
		They are, by and large, not recorded with the Playboys (though one or two show up on a few tracks).
		Instead of the 30's/40's West Texas sound I love, these recordings have something of a Vegas/Sinatra 60's feel to them, especially in the backing.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B000002O3P (353 words)

	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - The king of lone star swing CD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - The king of lone star swing CD Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - The king of lone star swing
		Bob Wills was born March 6, 1905 in Kosse, Texas and died May 13, 1975, Fort Worth, Texas.
		From the horse and carriage to the space age, from the telephone to telstar, from the model T Ford to President Gerald R. Ford, few performers, in music or any other art, have appealed to the public through such a vast and changing period in history.
	www.nervous.co.uk /reviews/plcd553.htm (284 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.
		While he lived in West Texas he began to combine the folk-fiddle music he learned from his family with the Negro blues and jazz to develop his own style of dance music.
		They began broadcasting over WKY in Oklahoma City as "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys", and in less than a week O'Daniels got their sustaining show cancelled by promising to put his Light Crust Doughboy show on the station.
	www.southlandrecords.com /willsbob.htm (2645 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
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		Large ensembles developed and combined the Northern sound of big-band jazz with the Southern repertoire of country music, creating a genre known as Western swing.
		Foremost among these groups was Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, heard in this 1956 Nashville recording of âLittle Star of Heaven.â
	encarta.msn.com /media_701506628/Bob_Wills_and_His_Texas_Playboys.html (154 words)

	Bob Wills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		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.
		The Playboys were left under the musical leadership of Leon Rausch, a longtime singer with the band (Tommy Duncan had been fired some years earlier, and a number of other singers had passed through since).
	www.famoustexans.com /bobwills.htm (6646 words)

	Governor Rick Perry - Texas Music Bibliography S-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Texas Department of Publicity for Centennial Celebrations, Public School Division (ed.), Songs Texas Sings (Marfa: Sesquicentennial Committee of Marfa/Presidio County, 1986).
		Texas Music Educators Association, A Bibliography of Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in Music Completed at Texas Colleges and Universities, 1919-1972 (Houston: Texas Music Educators Association, 1974).
		Texas, Office of the State Auditor, Special Investigation: Texas Southern University "Ocean of Soul" Band (Austin: Office of the State Auditor, 1993).
	www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/music/education/biblio/biblio4.htm (3246 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.
		Throughout the post-war years Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were somewhat reduced in size, concentrating more on string instruments, than the horns of the Tulsa days.
		In 1959 the Texas Playboys appeared for a two-week gig at the Showboat and followed by a lucrative contract at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.
	www.gpservices38.freeserve.co.uk /texasplayboys.htm (1893 words)

	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol.3 - Basin Street Blues : Queer Pop Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		They play fiddles and ride horses and hail from Texas (Wills is from Turkey, Texas to be exact).
		Luckily the stereotypes will be greatly disappointed by the rich and almost eclectic mix on this CD (or any of the Tiffany Transcriptions CDs).
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys show their chops, in this masterpiece.
	www.queerpopculture.com /entertainment/asinsearch_B00000333V (237 words)

	Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Quilt
		A new brand of music that became known as "western swing" was very popular and the icon of the style was Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.
		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.
		Each square with the horses was cut from Playboy flour sacks and each square is autographed by a member of the band.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~fisherpages/Quilt/quilt.htm (585 words)

	Bob Wills (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blazing the Western Trail (1945) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
		The Last Horseman (1944) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
		The Lone Prairie (1942) (as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys)....
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	Traditional Country - The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys / CD / 1992
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys / CD / 1992
		A basic 20-track primer to some of the Western swing master's best sides.
		Acknowledged classics like "Steel Guitar Rag," "Take Me back to Tulsa," and "Stay a Little Longer" are all here, with the players and arrangements that made Wills and his Texas Playboys legends in country music.
	shop.cmt.com /viewproduct.htm?productId=124617 (151 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is a collection of recordings by the Texas Playboys band from around 1936 until around 1947, the years they recorded for Columbia and its various sub brands like Okeh.
		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.
		The Playbou image was originally associated with kind of "collegiate" a 1920's Jazz age image if you look at the photographs of the original Playboys in their "college" sweaters.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000288D?v=glance (1653 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		A December 1942 induction into the army broke up the Texas Playboys, but upon Wills’s discharge in 1943 he relocated to southern California and reformed the band.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/bob_wills.html (892 words)

	Bob Wills His Texas Playboys cd music
		The CD kicks off with the band's biggest western swing hit, "New San Antonio Rose" and then jumps back to their first recording, "Osage Stomp" (a rough and ready tune that's part barn dance and part Dixieland).
		Among the songs are vocals by young Tommy Duncan (born 1911) and younger Leon McAuliffe (born 1917), whose clear, mellow voices ring bright and sweetly smooth.
		During the War itself Wills fronted the largest and according to those who heard it--it was never recorded due to the various recordinjg bands and vinyl shortages during the war--most beautiful big band aggregation he ever had.
	www.m-zine.com /shop/Bob_Wills___His_Texas_Playboys/usa/B0000063CZ.htm (883 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
		Wills, who grew up in the cotton fields of northern Texas during the World War I era, combined the blues of fl sharecroppers with southern "hillbilly" music.
		In the mid-1930s, Wills formed the Texas Playboys, a band using experienced swing and Dixieland jazz musicians, who toured throughout the southwest to packed houses.
		Western swing became a national phenomenon after their 1940 hit "New San Antonio Rose," and Wills was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201315 (199 words)

	Tommy Allsup & The Texas Playboys at Hobbs August Nites 2003
		Tommy Allsup and The Texas Playboys at Hobbs August Nites 2003
		Western Swing, that exciting music of the western dance hall, is a subtle and compelling mixture of square dance, big band swing, blues, Mexican mariachi, country and hot jazz played mostly on string instruments.
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	www.webdesignbytlc.com /han/2003/tp.htm (522 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	Asleep at the Wheel: Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys at Bikini Pictures U.S.A. Books Aaron ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	Buy.com - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Anthology (1935-73) CD
		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.
		From 1935's "Maiden's Prayer" to 1973's "What Makes Bob Holler," ANTHOLOGY follows Wills's journey through a flurry of different labels, vocalists, and band members, collecting along the way some of the most exuberant, accomplished Western Swing ever put to tape.
		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.
	www.buy.com /prod/Anthology_1935_73_/q/loc/109/60101580.html (396 words)

	AMERICAN GRAMOPHONE & WIRELESS Co. "Western Swing Music Recordings" Cassettes
		Over 200 Recordings made by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys for their radio shows which were broadcast all over the country.
		These 15 inch transcription discs were made in Oakland, California and also in the basement of The Mark Hopkins Hotel on Knob Hill, San Francisco, from 1945 through 1947 and possibly later.
		This is by far the finest show ever produced on the history of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys.
	members.aol.com /AGW1886/cwesternswing.htm (1140 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.
		He and his band, the Texas Playboys, emerged in the 1930's and reached national prominance with their Texas brand 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 (273 words)

	Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Each year, during the second full weekend in October, Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico plays host to the nation's finest cowboy poets, musicians (including the world famous Texas Playboys), chuckwagon cooks, western artists and craftsmen for three days of events, competitions, and workshops.
		Each year, there's a Thursday night concert with Tommy Allsup, Leon Rausch and the Texas Playboys.
		The Texas Playboys and many more great entertainers and sometimes a surprise guest join forces to get the crowd swingin' to the liveliest music west of the Mississippi!
	www.cowboysymposium.org (382 words)

	freedb.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		North Texas Wind Symphony - Keystone Wind Ensemble / TMtPiB Vol.
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	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Anthology (1935-1973) - at Rhino
		Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Anthology (1935-1973) - at Rhino
		Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: Anthology (1935-1973)
		Texas Playboy Rag - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
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