"ah-haa" calls. 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...
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"Bob Wills Is Still the King" is a song written and performed by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, as a tribute of sorts to the Western swing...
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ISBN 978-1-878923-16-5 ISBN 978-1-878923-16-5 The King of Western Swing - Bob Wills Remembered. Rosetta Wills. 1998. Billboard Books. page 119. ISBN 978-0-8230-7744-1...
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (1993) The Wheel Keeps on Rollin' (1995) Merry Texas Christmas, Y'all (1997) Ride with Bob: A Tribute to Bob Wills and...
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(or, My Salute to Bob Wills), rounding up six of the remaining members of the Texas Playboys to record the tribute: Johnnie Lee Wills, Eldon Shamblin,...
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fatty, Bet he's gonna be a man someday. "Roly Poly" was first recorded by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in 1946, staying on the charts for 18 weeks and...
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Faded Love (redirect from Faded Love (Bob Wills song))
Love" is a Western swing song written by Bob Wills, his father John Wills, and his brother, Billy Jack Wills. The tune is considered to be an exemplar...
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Tommy Duncan (section Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys)
which featured Bob Wills on fiddle. Duncan was hired after he sang a version of Emmett Miller's "I Ain't Got Nobody" and impressed Wills with his yodeling...
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American South, where it is still a popular folk song.[citation needed] Bob Wills and Adolph Hofner and his San Antonians both recorded the song, and according...
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of a Bob Wills song. The first was "Red Wing" on the 1993 album Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys; the second was "Bob's Breakdowns"...
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