1. Bob Wills - Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Wills's December 1942 induction into the Army broke up the Texas Playboys, but upon his discharge in 1943, he relocated to southern California and reformed the ...
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys enjoyed their greatest success from 1935 to 1947 while recording for ARC/Vocalion/OKeh/Columbia. These recordings sold in the hundreds of thousands, and his “San Antonio Rose” probably sold in the millions. On the strength of his popularity on radio and recordings, Wills began making musical westerns in Hollywood in 1940.
2. Bob Wills Biography - Alan Cackett
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3. Bob Wills | Western swing, Texas Playboys, fiddle - Britannica
Bob Wills was an American bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter whose Texas Playboys popularized western swing music in the 1930s and '40s.
Bob Wills was an American bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter whose Texas Playboys popularized western swing music in the 1930s and ’40s. Taught to play the mandolin and fiddle by his father and other relatives, Wills began performing in country string bands in Texas in the late 1920s. In
4. Bob Wills Biography - Bob Wills Day
James Robert (Bob) Wills, one of the originators of western swing music, was born on March 6, 1905 to parents, John and Emma Wills,on a farm near Kosse, Texas.
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5. Wills, James Robert | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History ...
Famed as "the King of Western Swing" James Robert (Jim Rob) "Bob" Wills was born on March 6, 1905, in Limestone County, Texas, into a family of musicians.
Famed as "the King of Western Swing" James Robert (Jim Rob) "Bob" Wills was born on March 6, 1905, in Limestone County, Texas, into a family of musicians. His parents were John and Emma Wills. As a youngster, when he played the fiddle, Wills was forced to use all of the bow (not just the upper end as breakdown fiddlers do) and he developed a long bow technique. By 1913 the family was in West Texas, and young Wills and his father played at dances. In his young adult years he knocked around that region, working at various jobs.
6. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
A Western rogue whose musical chemistry and repartee charged audiences with excitement. Bob Wills blended genres of all kinds to create a distinctly American ...
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys impromptu jams shot through with call and response "yee-ha"'s reveal what we can only call their raucous reverence for Western swing.
7. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Songs, Albums... - AllMusic
Bob Wills defined the genre. Take fiddle-based old-time string-band music from the 1920s and '30s, move it to a city such as Tulsa or Fort Worth, add jazz, ...
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8. Bob Wills: Home
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9. Bob Wills - Rocky-52
In the process, he reinvented the rules of popular music. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a dance band with a country string section that played pop songs ...
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10. Bob Wills | Humanities Texas
By 1934, Wills had formed a new band, the Texas Playboys. To the traditional fiddle and guitar, he added steel guitar, brass, reeds, and drums, producing a ...
March 6, 1905–May 13, 1975
11. Wills, James Robert - Texas State Historical Association
25 nov 2015 · Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys at the Showboat Hotel in Las Vegas (spring 1959). Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame Collection, Wittliff ...
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12. Bob Wills Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More - AllMusic
Bob Wills Biography by Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Bob Wills' name will ... Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a dance band with a country string ...
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13. Bob Wills | Country Music Wiki - Fandom
Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on ...
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing,[1][2][3] he was universally known as the King of Western Swing. Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist