BOB WILLS – Sånger om Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
And God Created Texas – Johnny Bush
A Tribute to Bob Wills – Jimmy Wakely
Back in the Swing of Things – Tracy Byrd / Vern Gosdin / Playboys II
Big Country Singer – Randy Brown
Bob, All the Playboys and Me – Dorsey Burnette
Bob Said Aw (And Called It Western Swing) – Johnny Bush
Bob Who? – Ted Scanlon
Bob´s Got A Swing Band in Heaven – Stonehorse / Red Steagall
Bring Back the Waltzes – Hank Thompson
Bob Wills Is Still the King – Waylon Jennings / Clint Black / Original Texas Playboys
Bob Wills´Song - Todd Fitch
Carrying on the Show – Jody Nix
Don´t Ask Me Why - Asleep at the Wheel
Don´t Change the Rose of San Antone - Dave "Pappy" Hamel
Don´t Mess With Texas - Kelli Grant
Everytime I Hear A Fiddle Play - Curtis Potter
Give Me Western Swing – River Road Boys
I´ve Shook the Great Bob Wills Hand –
Pete Sullivan
Let Me Swing – Ray Price / Curtis Potter
& Willie Nelson, Swing Shift Band
Let´s Go Dancing – Rooster Quantrell / Buster Doss a.o.
Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music - Red Steagall / Dave Alexander a.o.
Mama Loved Bob Wills - Ace Ford
Mr Western Swing - Gene Allen
My Baby Don´t Dance to Nothin´ But Ernest Tubb – Junior Brown
Make Mine Western swing – Gene Allen
Ode to Bob Wills – Tagg Lambert
Ode to Tommy Duncan – River Road Boys
Playboy Beat – Johnny Gimble & The
Basque Bandits
The Party Don´t Start `Till The Playboys Are Here – Don Walser
Play Me Something I Can Swing To - Jimmy Wakely
Play That Country Music Black Boy - Carl Ray
Put A Little Texas In Your Swing - Mary Allen-Keating
Somewhere in Texas – Ray Price / Ray
Pennington / Willie Nelson
Steelin´ the 2 Step – Jean Stafford
Swing Me A Song - Joe Paul Nichols
Swing Me Back to Texas - Kelli Grant
Swing Through Dallas - Clint Daniels
Swing Til´ We Can´t See Straight - Dan Roberts
Swing Town – Shelby Lynne / Felicity
Take Me Back to Texas – Geronimo Trevino
III
Tennessee Has Swing – Bill Foster
Texas Fiddle Man - Jody Nix
Texas Greats - Bill Green
Texas Home – Bad Bob Rohan
Texas in Your Swing - Liz Talley
Texas Playboy Beat - Playboys II
They´re Taking Bob Back to Tulsa – Stonehorse / Buck Reams & The Range Riders
Tight As Twin Fiddles – Vern Gosdin
Traditional Sugar - Gayla Earlene
Tulsa On A Saturday Night – Benny Kubick
Turkey Texas (Home of Bob Wills) – Alvin Crow / Gene Henslee
Two Beer Limit - Jerry
Webb
Under Swinging Western with Bob Wills –
R.J. Hogan
We´re Taking Bob Back to Tulsa - Leon Rausch
Western Boogie – Dave Alexander & His
Big Texas Swing Band
What Makes Bob Holler - Lionel Wendling
When Bob Wills Comes to Town – Les Gilliam
When Bob Wills Played the Fiddle – Gary Van
When It´s All Said and Done – Jody Nix
When You Play the Fiddle in Texas – Bad Bob Rohan
Where the Wind Pumps the Water – Pete Sullivan
1100 Springs – Jerry Naill
Yesterday Once More –Hermann Lammers Meyer
*** Some more Gene Henslee songs:
The Boy from Turkey, Texas
Nobody´s Done It Like Bob
Bob, All the Playboys and Me
Saturday Night at Cain´s
Life to Legend
I Cut My Teeth on Good Old Western Swing
Any more, let us know * hittar du flera
skriv till oss!
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FROM WESTERN SWING DISCUSSION GROUP:
Re: The last recording
From: Buddy McPeters
Date: December 20, 2009
Comments
The last song that Bob Wills recorded as an active participant was the 2nd take of 'My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You' which was the 6th song cut that day with Bob present, actively directing his own hand-picked all-star line up of Texas Playboys and guest musicians from his wheelchair in the middle of the room and adding his famous 'ah-hah's!' which were dubbed in during the individual in-studio playback of each take. This session began with Bob present and contributing for 6 of the 16 songs recorded on the first of a two day session beginning on December 3, 1973 and ending on the evening of the following day commencing without Bob's presence for the remaining 11 songs. Of the 27 total songs recorded in the two day session 24 were issued on what resulted in the award winning 'For The Last Time' double album on the United Artists label which was recorded at Sumet-Burnet Studios in Dallas, TX, produced by Tommy Allsup and engineered by Bob Sullivan. (The three unissued tracks i.e. 'La Golondrina', 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' & 'Bob Wills Special' etc, survive as 2-track rough-mix Safety Tape exemplars given to me by Tommy Allsup which were digitized from 2-track analog 7 inch open reel tape direct to disc which I donated to the 2nd big comprehensive Bob Wills boxset 'Faded Love 1947-1973' which was issued by Bear Family Records
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From: Jody Nix
Date: December 21, 2009
Comments
I don't remember Bob doing any overdubs of any ah-haa's all of them were live and My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You was done in one take. My dear Daddy Mr. Hoyle Nix did all of the Bob Wills ahh-haa's and hollers the second day after Bob had the massive stroke...that was a very historical 2 days...I was there from start to finish..
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Re: The last recording
From: Jody Nix
Date: December 21, 2009
Comments
Larry Scott brought the album and presented it to Daddy on the bandstand in April of 1974, he held it like he would a child.....
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Re: The last recording
From: Buddy McPeters
Date: December 22, 2009
Comments
Well Jody, that was a long time ago and it's too bad that you don't remember. I posted this information here back in 2003 on the 30th anniversary of the session and you basically called me a liar. I then emailed Robert and asked him to remove the post I had made which initiated the discussion to alleviate the controversy. He removed the thread for the sake of peace on the board. I didn't initiate this discussion and I won't back down this time. The tapes don't lie - and neither am I. There are TWO TAKES of 'My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You' the 2nd of which is the issued take. The first TAKE is complete and not a talk thru. There's even an in-studio playback of that 1st TAKE present on the tape and ALL present agreed with Tommy who says, "Let's do another 'TAKE', OK?" There were several alternate TAKES made that day of some of the songs and at least one alternate TAKE of all songs except for 6 of them. One tune particular has so many false starts and near complete takes that break down that Tommy tells Bob Sullivan in the control booth, "Turn off the master deck and the safety tape until we get this sorted out" which was because of the excessive starting and stopping of the master reel. Rest assured this material will eventually become available and then everyone will get to hear you sing on all FOUR TAKES of 'When You Leave Amarillo'! The final song cut that night was 'I Can't Go On This Way' which had TWO TAKES - the 1st of which was in the original key of 'C' which was difficult for Leon Rausch to sing in which was probably because he was tired, and at Tommy's advice (again!) they took a 2nd TAKE which is in the Key of 'D' (at Tommy's advice - again!) which is the TAKE issued on the album. There's even an alternate of 'Coming Down From Denver' and your Daddy Hoyle Nix, asked Tommy, "I'd like to do another one!" Tommy agrees and says, "Let's do another TAKE!" There are enough alternate TAKES of the 1st day of recording (Dec 3, 1973) to make a decent alternate version of about half of the album or at the very least make it a 2 disc set reissue
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Re: The last recording
From: Jody Nix
Date: December 22, 2009
Comments
Mr. McPeters, I didn't call you a liar, and wouldn't but I was there from the jam session at Bob's house until the last overdub was done at the session, and Leon Rausch did not sing I can't go on this way...I did at the request of Tommy. Ray Benson and I went to AATW's bus and I listened to it, copied it down so I would have all the words right..at any rate it was very historical....and I meant no harm, I just know what I did and how we did it.
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Re: The last recording
From: Buddy McPeters
Date: December 22, 2009
Comments
Jody, My mistake - I misread the log notes, and you did indeed sing "I Can't Go On This Way" and you did a fine job - but there are 2 Takes of the song. The 1st one is in the original key Tommy Duncan sang it in ("C") and the 2nd Take was in the Key of "D" which is the issued Take released on the For The Last Time double LP set. For the record both Takes are wonderful - as are all the other 'Takes'! There's not a stinker in the pile.
Just for the record there are no Safety Tapes for the 2nd day of recording in existence because as Tommy Allsup told me "There were no Safety's made that 2nd day because we did a lot of overdubbing with Merle there and we recorded everything a little different than that first day which was all recorded 'LIVE' in the studio with the exception of Gimble's banjo tracks some of Bob's 'ah-hah's and a steel solo that was flubbed due to a faulty volume pedal Leon McAuliffe was using. Jimmy Day was in the studio and loaned him his pedal to finish the session." For the record Day can be heard in between songs offering his pedal - and of course Leon McAuliffe told me this story long before I ever heard these tapes.
I mean no harm either Jody - I just felt 6 years ago when I made that first post about the existence of alternate takes on safety tapes that you came on kinda strong in insinuating that I was lying. I wouldn't lie about something as historically significant as this - especially about Bob Wills and a room full of Texas Playboys some of which were lifelong friends, mostly all gone now except Johnny, who is a dear friend.
One more tidbit: There's a short spontaneous jam between Johnny Gimble & Keith Coleman who start playing twin-fiddles on 'Out Of Nowhere' behind some of the arrangement discussion between tunes, which they are joined in by a couple other guys before it's halted to resume recording. One sad moment is when Betty realizes that Bob has had too much excitement for one day and tells everyone that he has to leave, then declares to the room, "and he's had way too much coffee!"
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| Top 40 Hits.[35] |
| Year |
Position |
Title |
Label |
| 1944 |
3 |
New San Antonio Rose |
OKeh 5694 |
| 1944 |
2 |
We Might As Well Forget |
OKeh 6722 |
| 1944 |
2 |
You're From Texas |
" |
| 1945 |
1 |
Smoke On The Water |
OKeh 6736 |
| 1945 |
3 |
Hang Your Head In Shame |
" |
| 1945 |
1 |
Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima |
OKeh 6742 |
| 1945 |
5 |
You Don't Care What Happens to Me |
" |
| 1945 |
1 |
Texas Playboy Rag |
Columbia 36841 |
| 1945 |
1 |
Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Tonight |
" |
| 1945 |
1 |
White Cross On Okinawa |
Columbia 36881 |
| 1946 |
1 |
New Spanish Two Step |
Columbia 16966 |
| 1946 |
3 |
Roly Poly |
" |
| 1946 |
2 |
Stay A Little Longer |
Columbia 37097 |
| 1946 |
4 |
I Can't Go On This Way |
" |
| 1947 |
5 |
I'm Gonna Be Boss From Now On |
Columbia 37205 |
| 1947 |
1 |
Sugar Moon |
Columbia 37313 |
| 1947 |
4 |
Bob Wills Boogie |
Columbia 37357 |
| 1948 |
4 |
Bubbles In My Beer |
MGM 10116 |
| 1948 |
8 |
Keeper Of My Heart |
MGM 10175 |
| 1948 |
15 |
Texarkana Baby |
Columbia 38179 |
| 1948 |
10 |
Thorn In My Heart |
MGM 10236 |
| 1950 |
10 |
Ida Red Likes The Boogie |
MGM K10570 |
| 1950 |
8 |
Faded Love |
MGM K10786 |
| 1960 |
5 |
Heart To Heart Talk |
Liberty 55260 |
| 1961 |
26 |
The Image Of Me |
Liberty 55264 |
Bob Wills Filmography
Filmography provided by Les Adams
Release
Date |
Film Title |
Company |
Star |
| 11/11/40 |
Take Me Back To Oklahoma |
Monogram |
Tex Ritter |
| 11/15/40 |
Melody Ranch |
Republic |
Gene Autry |
| 11/27/41 |
Go West, Young Lady |
Columbia |
Penny Singleton |
| 10/15/42 |
The Lone Prairie |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 12/15/42 |
A Tornado in the Saddle |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 2/15/43 |
Riders of the Northwest Mounted |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 4/27/43 |
Saddle and Sagebrush |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 9/10/43 |
Silver City Raiders |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 12/23/43 |
The Vigilantes Ride |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 4/20/44 |
Wyoming Hurricane |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 6/22/44 |
The Last Horseman |
Columbia |
Russell Hayden |
| 10/7/44 |
Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys |
Warners |
Bob Wills |
| 9/7/45 |
Rhythm Round-Up |
Columbia |
Ken Curtis |
| 9/18/45 |
Blazing the Western Trail |
Columbia |
Charles Starrett |
| 11/15/45 |
Lawless Empire |
Columbia |
Charles Starrett |
| 8/14/46 |
Frontier Frolics |
Universal |
Bob Wills |
TiffanyTranscriptions.com
From: Michael Bates
Date: June 15, 2009
Comments
Just came across a website specifically devoted to the Tiffany Transcriptions recordings. It's called TiffanyTranscriptions.com, and it was set up by Tom Diamant. Diamant was co-owner of Kaleidoscope Records; he and his partner Jeff Alexson rescued the transcriptions from Cliff Sundlin's basement and put together the nine LP releases on Kaleidoscope, plus the McKinney Sisters' CD, which was meant to be the first in a series of "For Collectors Only" releases. Diamant plans to post Tiffany-related material as he has time. He already has scripts, photos, and some audio clips from the Texas Playboys' weekly broadcast on San Francisco's KGO radio. The announcer was Jack Webb, who went on to create and star in Dragnet. I've posted about it on my blog, along with lots of links to reviews of the Tiffany Transcriptions box set: http://www.batesline.com/archives/2009/06/just-the-facts-bob.html
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THE TIFFANY TRANSCRIPTIONS
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- Bob Wills
THE TIFFANY TRANSCRIPTIONS
- 10 CDs - all originally issued as Kaleidoscope LPs - 150-track boxed set featuring their radio shows, capturing not only their hits and bandstand repertoire, but also chronicling the band in more jamming scenarios. These 1945 recordings feature Tommy Duncan, Noel Boggs, Roy Honeycutt, Tiny Moore, Ocie Stockard, Herb Remington, Elden Shamblin, Lester "Junior" Bernard, Louis Tierney, the McKinney Sisters, others. A treasure trove of Western Swing's Prime Movers! No additional discount Release date 01/27/2009
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BOB WILLS RECORDINGS
Det finns massor av Bob Wills plattor på marknaden, mängder av samma låtar i all
oändlighet. Här har jag samlat några CD med udda inspelningar från radiostationer och
kvalitén är för det mesta klart godkänd. So here goes:
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Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
"Harmony Park Airshots January 1953"
Country Routes RFD CD 21
Inspelningar från KXLA, Pasadena, California och järngänget som kompar består av Keith
Coleman-fiddle; Eldon Shamblin-el-guitar; Jack Loyd-bas; Jack
Greenback-drums; Louise Rowe & Bill Choate-sång. På steel guitar Billy
Bowman".
En hel del snack, brevönskningar mellan låtarna – man river igång med "San
Antonio Rose" och "In the Mood", Louise sjunger "Jambalaya" och
Bob själv drar "Yearning". Några häftiga breakdowns: "Crippled
Turkey" och "Draggin´ the Bow".
Torsdagen 22 januari kommer Patsy Montana, Billy Strange & Speedy West in i
programmet (i väntan på egna program) och Patsy sjunger "Texas Plains. En
intressant låt är "Faded Love" – här sjunger Billy Bowman samma
höga stämma som han gjorde på MGM-sessionen två år tidigare. Plus att Speedy West är
med i refrängen…utan sin steelguitar.
CDn rundas av med
en bonuslåt från Fresno, Calif. 1946, "Texas Playboy Theme/Beaumont Rag" med
Lewis Louie & Joe Holley-fiddles; Millard Kelso-piano; Billy Jack Wills-bas;
Johnnie Edwards-trummor; Harley Huggins & Bill Mounce är troligen med; Alex
Brashear-trumpet samt min gitarrhjälte Lester "Junior" Barnard. En värdig
avrundning på en bra sammanställd CD.
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BOB WILLS Rare California Airshots 1945-1946
Country Routes RFD CD 24
Drar gänget som kompar, på fiddles utöver Bob Joe Holley & Louie Tierney;
Brashear på trumpet och på steelguitar Les Anderson, Kelso piano och på
gitarrer Junior Barnard & Harley Huggins, Billy Jack Wills bas och på trummor Edward
John Courville och Luke Wills kommer in på string bass. Junior Barnard får en
lindrigt sagt kufisk intro av Bob när han ska dra sin "When They Baptized Sister
Lucy Lee". På denna CD finns en rad ovanliga inspelningar av gänget, låtar man
innan detta tillfälle ej har haft med på repertoiren. Man har t.ex. från Milton
Brown tagit upp "Crafton Blues" och "Precious Little Sonny Boy",
en låt egentligen skriven för Derwood Browns son.
"Seven Come Eleven", från Benny Goodman, finns på många bands playlist
– alltid skön att höra. Nämnde inte vokalisten, men det är så klart TOMMY
DUNCAN, och han glänser i "31st Street Blues", "Basin
Street Blues", "Milk Cow Blues", med flera sånger. Luther J. Luke Wills hör man inte så ofta men här sjunger han "I´ll Walk Alone".
Ljudkvalitén skiftar något, men det får man ha överseende med och tacka och ta emot
att man kunnat rädda dessa inspelningar till eftervärlden. Det är 24 låtar och det
går bra att kolla resten på Interstates hemsida
www.interstate-music.co.uk
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BOB WILLS and his Texas Playboys
"Ole Buttermilk Sky"
British Archive of Country Music BACM CD D 033
Detta är en platta man har diskuterat i swingkretsarna over there därför att det är
Tiffany Transcriptions och merparten här har inte figurerat på de tidigare
släppta plattorna i Tiffany serien. Har inte kläm på medlemmarna men eftersom dessa
inspelningar rör sig om åren 1945-47 så är det i stort samma gäng som på de
tidigare. Klart är att Tommy Duncan är vokalisten och drar "I´ll Get
Mine", "My Brown Eyed Texas Rose", "Who´s Sorry Now",
titellåten "Ole Buttermilk Sky" ovanligt tjusig, "Travelling Blues",
och den enormt vackra "Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" med flera. Luke
Wills sjunger "I´ll Keep On Loving You", Tommy Doss "Moonlight
on the Prairie", Joe Holley, Dean & Evelyn McKinney "I Don´t Know
Why" och "Sleepy Rio Grande" med lite cowboytouch. Noel Boggs steelguitar
och trumpetaren Alex Brashear glänser i "On the Alamo". Och Bob Wills släpper loss felan i "Durang´s Hornpipe", "Sally Gooden #1",
"Grey Eagle", "Patty on the Turnpike", "Chicken Reel",
"Hoppin´ Lucy aka Texas Two-Step". CDn är ett samlarobjekt med god variation
på innehållet.
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För vinylsamlarna vill jag påminna om Bear Family boxen BOB WILLS * The MGM
Years * PAPA´S JUMPIN´- BFX 15179 Fem LP-skivor täckande MGM åren.
Samlarna av BOB WILLS & His Texas Cowboys får ej glömma Bear Familys
ENORMA BOXAR "SAN ANTONIO ROSE" – BCD 15933 LL * 11 CD & DVD + en
makalös bok med all info man önskar sig. Det är inspelningarna från begynnelsen
fram till oktober 1947 med bonus i form av airchecks 1943, 1944 samt 1945. DVDn är från
filmen "Take Me Back to Oklahoma" med bl.a. Tex Ritter.
Så släpper Bear Family "FADED LOVE" * BCD 16550 * 13 CD + DVD + en bok
som många anser bara den är värd inträdet. Inspelningarna börjar med MGM-perioden
(nu på CD) fram till de sista inspelningarna inklusive den med Merle Haggard. DVDn
med BOBBY KOEFER höjer värdet. Dessa boxar är perfekta presenter till Western
Swing-diggare liksom Country Music-fansen.
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Trax: I ntro-South-The Kind of Love I Can´t Forget-In the Mood -It´s the Bottle Talking-Steel Guitar Rag-Silver Bells-Tennessee Waltz-Ten Years-My Confession-San Antonio Rose-14 minutes interview with Bob Wills
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