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3. März 2022 · Three years later, Wills relocated to Waco, Texas, and built another band, The Playboys – which became very popular. 8. He was a stylish, western rogue. In addition to his fiddle, his cowboy hat and cigar were all part of his hallmark appearance. 9. He also had a successful Hollywood career. Wills actually appeared in a total of nineteen ...
Bob Wills, who grew up playing fiddle with his father and grandfather, moved to Fort Worth in 1929 from his West Texas Panhandle home of Turkey. He ended up in a band with the innovative jazz-blues vocalist Milton Brown, forming the Wills Fiddle Band which became the basis of the Light Crust Doughboys in 1930. The Doughboys were the promotional flour children of W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, the ...
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Bob Wills (James Robert Wills, March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and big band leader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, 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 ...
San Antonio Rose. " San Antonio Rose " is a swing instrumental introduced in late 1938 by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Quickly becoming the band's most popular number, Wills and band members devised lyrics, which were recorded on April 16, 1940, [3] and released on Okeh 5694 in August as "New San Antonio Rose".
