Bob Wills
About Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969). He was also noted for punctuating his music with his trademark "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, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin who played steel guitar and bass. Oklahoma guitar player Eldon Shamblin joined the band in 1937 bringing jazzy influence and arrangements. The band played regularly on Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio station KVOO and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound.
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Discography
Bob Wills Round Up (1947)
Bob Wills Special (1957)
The Best of Bob Wills (1970)
Original Sound Track: The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Bob Wills Anthology (1973)
For the Last Time (1974)
Columbia Historic Edition (1982)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 1 (1982)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 3: Basin Street Blues (1984)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2: Best of the Tiffanys (1984)
Papa's Jumpin' - The MGM Years (1985)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Volume 4: You’re From Texas (1985)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 (1986)
The Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 7: Keep Knockin' (1987)
The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 6: Sally Goodin (1987)
