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| | Bob Wills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bob Wills was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. | | | With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills (something he learned clowning in medicine shows), the band became the first superstars of the genre. | | | The song's title referred to the fact that Wills had recorded it as a fiddle instrumental in 1938 as "San Antonio Rose". |
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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 & His Texas Playboys were a dance band with a country string section that played pop songs as if they were jazz numbers. | | | Wills stayed with OKeh for about year, having several Top Ten hits, as well as the number ones, "Smoke on the Water" and "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima." After he left OKeh, he signed with Columbia Records, releasing his first single for the label, "Texas Playboy Rag," toward the end of 1945. |
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| | Bob Wills Museum |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Don Cherry had a hit record on it, Bob wanted to record it on this album and wanted me to do it. |
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| | Bob Wills Biography : Oldies.com |
| | 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. | | | Wills left Columbia Records in 1947 to record for MGM Records and in 1950, he recorded his classic "Faded Love' - a composition that he and his father wrote with some words added by brother Billy Jack Wills. | | | The band recorded for RCA-Victor Records in 1932, the only recordings made by Wills with the Light Crust Doughboys. |
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| | A bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter, James Robert Wills is the most famous exponent of the popular musical amalgam now known as western swing, which synthesized ragtime, traditional fiddling, New Orleans jazz, blues, Mexican songs, and big band swing. | | | After the war Wills decided to give up most of the brass and reeds in his band and rely more fiddles, guitars, steel guitars, and mandolins. | | | 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. |
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| | 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's vision of a jazzy fiddle band was taking shape throughout the '30s, but, to be fair, he wasn't the only one west of the Appalachians bringing together big city jazz and frontier fiddle. | | | Bob would later sign over all royalties from the song to his mother, as an appropriate provision for her financial security. |
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http://www.texasplayboys.net/Biographies/bobwillsbio.htm
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| | 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. | | | Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys started recording transcription discs for the Tiffany Music Company and between 1946-47 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys made over 370 recordings. | | | Making the acquaintance of guitarist Herman Arnspiger, the pair formed the Bob Wills Fiddle Band, playing at local dances and parties and even recorded two songs for Brunswick in Dallas, which were not released. |
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| | Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues |
| | Wills’ effective use of Walker’s compositions is another example of his adaptability and ear for a good song. | | | What set Wills apart was the ease with which he adapted the different strains of music he heard into a new, danceable sound. | | | This was music for dancing, and Wills got immediate feedback on his experiments from the audiences in the dance halls. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: WILLS, JAMES ROBERT |
| | 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. | | | In 1969 the governor and legislature of Texas honored Wills for his contribution to American music, one of the few original music forms Texas and the Southwest have produced. | | | In Hall County Wills learned to play the violin; in 1915 he played at his first dance. |
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| | This was still the Jazz Age, and by listening to the radio and phonograph, Bob and his musicians heard swingy jazz in all kinds of dance music. | | | 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. | | | Improvised jazz choruses were one of the contributions Bob Wills made to what was later called western music. |
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| | WESTERM SWING - A HISTORY |
| | The 'Doughboys', a string band, formed in 1930, first consisted of Bob Wills (violin); Truett Kimzey (their announcer); Milton Brown (vocals), and Herman Arnspiger (guitar). | | | She recorded 4 tracks with Bob Wills and the Texas | | | They were the first regional band to appear in a Hollywood film, they had a future Texas Governor as one of the group, and two of the original members went on to form famous bands of their own; Bob Wills and Milton Brown. |
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| | Bob Wills on LoneStarMusic.com |
| | 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. | | | No Elvis, no John Cash, no cash...how do you feel about Perry Como's MTV New Years Special. |
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| | Amazon.com: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - 24 Greatest Hits: Music: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys |
| | He's the father and foundation, and his trademark "Ah ha!" is as much a signature to his music, and as loved by his fans, as the exquisite guitar licks. | | | After being further exposed to a bit more of Wills' music, I still recommend this 24 song collection. | | | There's some classic songs included on here (we're missing some of my favorites...but 24 songs aren't enough!) and this CD is a good into to Bob and the boys. |
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| | Western Swing |
| | Clicking on the CD NOW image will take you directly to a list of available Bob Wills recordings. | | | In 1946, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys began recording a series of radio transcriptions for Oakland, CA's Tiffany Music Corporation. | | | This a an excellent double CD import from France, which will set you back about $30 if you can find it. |
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| | JR.com: Bob Wills - Take Me Back To Tulsa: The Original Columbia... in Music: Western Swing: |
| | The first and greatest major figure of Western Swing music, Bob Wills (and his band the Texas Playboys) melded country fiddling, big-band swing, Tex-Mex music, polka, and other regional folk traditions into a new and sophisticated genre. | | | Merle Haggard so loved Wills's music and band that he recorded a tribute album to him and, after Wills retired, he recruited many of the Texas Playboys for his own band. | | | Personnel includes: Bob Wills (vocals, fiddle); Leon McAuliffe (vocals, steel guitar); Eldon Shamblin (guitar); Louis Tierny (fiddle, reeds); Alton Stricklin (piano); Son Lansford (bass); Gene Tomlin (drums). |
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| | ASPA-SFSU "Bob Wills on FIlm" |
| | Personnel: Bob Wills and Joe Holley, fiddles; Skeeter Elkin, piano; Joe Ferguson, bass (Joe Andrews, bass on 2); Bobby Koefer, steel guitar; Paul McGhee, drums, Ocie Stockard, tenor banjo; Cotton Whittington, electric guitar. | | | Personnel include: Bob Wills, fiddle; Al Stricklin, piano; and Leon McAuliffe, steel guitar. | | | He has contributed biographies for The Encyclopedia of Country Music, publishes the Western Swing Newsletter, and maintains a website devoted to western swing music, westernswing.com. |
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| | Bob Wills History |
| | May 13, 1975 Bob Wills dies after 18 month coma; 58 years of show business, 44 years recording music | | | 1963 Bob Wills has fifteen in band, recording in Hollywood again; Bob Wills moves to Ft. Worth, sells band for $10,000 | | | 1945 Bob Wills reported making $340,00 year in Time magazine; Bob Wills’ dances outdraw Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman; Bob Wills lives in Santa Monica and Fresno; Bob Wills and Betty have son, Jim |
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| | Bob Wills |
| | • Haggard cuts a Wills tribute album in 1970, “A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World,” featuring many of the original Playboys |
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| | Re: OT Bob Wills Free discussion |
| | Jimmy Wyble was another great who played guitar with this band. | | | Anyway, the band is the Oklahoma Twisters and we just played a Bob Wills | | | IMO Jimmy Wyble was the best lead guitarist Bob ever had. |
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| | NPR : Bob Wills, the Fiddler of Western Swing |
| | NPR's John Burnett takes a look at the life of the man who with his band, the Texas Playboys, combined jazz and country music to create Western Swing. | | | Weekend Edition Sunday, March 6, 2005 · Bob Wills would have been 100 years old today. | | | NPR : Bob Wills, the Fiddler of Western Swing |
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| | Bob Wills - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review |
| | San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills | | | A classic souvenir collection of 46 hits from those Kings of Western Swing, complete with an introduction and an extensive photo section of the band through the years. | | | Creative Concepts Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Greatest Hits (Songbook) |
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| | Bob Wills Music |
| | Help build the largest human-contributed music project online | | | Music »; Bands and Artists » W » Wills, Bob |
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| | BOB WILLS WESTERN SWING |
| | 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. | | | This folk environment contributed to Wills' uninhibited, free, experimental, and often radical approach to music that put him years ahead of his time. | | | He made his first record in 1929 and his last forty-four years later. |
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| | BOB WILLS |
| | BUt,nevertheless,without Wills,Western swing would never have existed.He was one of a vital set of building blocks that made this music what it is. | | | Duncan proved he was a master of this,too,but the blues were scarce enough.Moon was also like Duncan capable of doing conventional crooning and cowboys songs but Moon always did blues,too.The difference is: Wills' band seemed to move away somewhat from the blues in the 1940s. | | | 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. |
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| | Bob Wills (I) |
| | Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (1944) (song "San Antonio Rose") (uncredited) | | | They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. | | | Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys,... |
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| | Rolling Stone : Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys |
| | 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. | | | Rolling Stone : Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
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| | Bob Wills Forum - Welcome to the Bob Wills Forum |
| | This free forum is for fans of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. | | | Then click the forum button on the left to participate with other Bob Wills fans! | | | Become a member of the Bob Wills Forum by clicking the join button on the upper right bar and then login. |
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