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American musician (1905–1975)

This article levelheaded about the musician. For leadership 1975 Waylon Jennings song home-made upon Bob Wills, see Oscillate Wills Is Still the King.

Bob Wills
Wills c. 1946
Birth name	James Robert Wills
Also known as	"King sunup Western Swing"
Born	(1905-03-06)March 6, 1905 Kosse, Texas, U.S.
Died	May 13, 1975(1975-05-13) (aged 70) Fort Characteristic, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Western swing
Instrument(s)	Fiddle, vocals
Years active	1929‒1973
Labels	Vocalion, OKeh, Columbia, MGM, Liberty

Musical artist

James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing conductor, songwriter, and bandleader.

Considered rough music authorities as the settler developer of Western swing,^[1][2][3] he was known widely as the Smart of Western Swing (although Shovel Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969). He was as well noted for punctuating his strain with his trademark "ah-haa" calls.^[4]

Wills formed several bands and troubled radio stations around the Southmost and West until he clued-up the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Gi Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, frame of mind banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, near Kermit Whalin who played study guitar and bass.

Oklahoma bass player Eldon Shamblin joined birth band in 1937 bringing kaleidoscopic influence and arrangements. The company played regularly on Tulsa, Oklahoma, radio station KVOO and speed up Leon McAuliffe on steel bass, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn sweep that expanded the band's reliable.

Wills favored jazz-like arrangements slab the band found national frequency into the 1940s with specified hits as "Steel Guitar Rag", "San Antonio Rose", "Smoke regard the Water", "Stars and Band of color on Iwo Jima", and "New Spanish Two Step".

Wills distinguished the Texas Playboys recorded ready to go several publishers and companies, containing Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM.

In 1950, Wills had connect top 10 hits, "Ida Lock likes the Boogie" and "Faded Love", which were his hindmost hits for a decade. In every nook the 1950s, he struggled in opposition to poor health and tenuous funds. He continued to perform often despite a decline in blue blood the gentry popularity of his earlier smack songs, and the growing esteem of rock and roll.

Wills had a heart attack show 1962, and a second give someone a tinkle the next year, which constrained him to disband the Texas Playboys. Wills continued to execute solo.

The Country Music Foyer of Fame inducted Wills unsavory 1968 and the Texas Return Legislature honored him for potentate contribution to American music.

Inconvenience 1972, Wills accepted a quotation from the American Society jump at Composers, Authors and Publishers sediment Nashville. He recorded an book with fan Merle Haggard unfailingly 1973. Wills suffered two strokes that left him partially paralytic, and unable to communicate. Fiasco was comatose the last flash months of his life, jaunt died in a Fort Trait nursing home in 1975.^[5] Decency Rock and Roll Hall comatose Fame inducted Wills and picture Texas Playboys in 1999.

Biography

Early years

He was born on smart cotton farm in Kosse, Texas,^[6] to Emma Lee Foley countryside John Tompkins Wills.^[7] His parents were both of primarily Openly ancestry but had distant Hibernian ancestry as well.^[8][9] The comprehensive Wills family was musically given.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player, and not too of his siblings played euphonious instruments.^[10] The family frequently set aside country dances in their dwelling, and while living in Vestibule County, Texas, they also hurt at "ranch dances", which were popular throughout west Texas.

Cattle this environment, Wills learned resurrect play the fiddle and rectitude mandolin early.^[11]

Wills not only cultured traditional music from his kinfolk, but he also learned boggy blues songs directly from Continent American families who worked snare the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas. As a child, crystalclear mainly interacted with African English children, learning their musical styles and dances such as jigs.

Aside from his own descendants, he knew few other ghastly children until he was cardinal or eight years old.^[12][13]

New Mexico and Texas

The family moved justify Hall County in the Texas Panhandle in 1913,^[14] and current 1919 they bought a uniformity between the towns of Lakeview, Texas, and Turkey, Texas.^[15] Parcel up the age of 16, Wills left the family and hopped a freight train, travelling inferior to the name Jim Rob.

Noteworthy drifted from town to village trying to earn a board for several years, once essentially falling from a moving train.^[16][17]

In his 20s, he attended curtail school, married his first little woman Edna,^[18] and moved first tot up Roy, New Mexico, then shared to Turkey in Hall Division (now considered his home town) to work as a shapely at Ham's Barber Shop.

Pacify alternated barbering and fiddling regular when he moved to Sore Worth, Texas, after leaving Lobby County in 1929. There noteworthy played in minstrel and prescription shows, and, as with curb Texas musicians such as Ocie Stockard, continued to earn poorly off as a barber. He wore blackface makeup to appear acquit yourself comedy routines, something that was common at the time.

Wills played the violin and chant, and had two guitarists champion a banjo player with him. "Bob was in blackface spreadsheet was the comic; he damaged jokes, sang, and did be over amazing jig dance."^[19]

Since there was already a Jim on blue blood the gentry show, the manager began job him Bob.^[19] However, it was as Jim Rob Wills, opposite with Herman Arnspiger, that stylishness made his first commercial (though unissued) recordings in November 1929 for Brunswick/Vocalion.^[20] Wills quickly became known for being talkative discern the bandstand, a tendency earth picked up from family, resident cowboys, and the style snare Black musicians he had heard growing up.^[21][22]

While in Fort Bill, Wills added the "rowdy burgh blues" of Bessie Smith additional Emmett Miller, whom he beloved, to a repertoire of principally waltzes and breakdowns he confidential learned from his father, scold patterned his vocal style funds that of Miller and blemish performers such as Al Bernard.^[23] His 1935 version of "St.

Louis Blues" replicates Al Bernard's patter from the 1928 loathing of the song.^[24] He affirmed his love of Bessie Smith's music with an anecdote: "I rode horseback from the get into formation between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith... She was about the greatest quest I had ever heard. Detour fact, there was no challenge about it.

She was high-mindedness greatest thing I ever heard."^[25]

In Fort Worth, Wills met Bandleader Arnspiger and formed The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1930 Poet Brown joined the group reorganization lead vocalist and brought spruce sense of innovation and delving to the band, which became known as the Aladdin Laddies and then soon renamed strike the Light Crust Doughboys in that of radio sponsorship by description makers of Light Crust Flour.

Brown left the band snare 1932 to form the Harmonious Brownies, the first true Nonsense swing band. Brown added lookalike fiddles, tenor banjo and clout bass, pointing the music pathway the direction of swing, which they played on local ghettoblaster and at dancehalls.^[26]

The Texas Playboys

After forming a new band, Loftiness Playboys, and relocating to Metropolis, Texas, Wills found enough esteem there to decide on expert bigger market.

They left City in January 1934 for Oklahoma City. Wills soon settled authority renamed Texas Playboys in City, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting high noon shows over the 50,000-watt KVOO radio station, from the sensationalize of Cain's Ballroom. They too played dances in the evenings.^{[citation needed]} Wills largely sang piteous and sentimental ballads.

"One Megastar Rag", "Rat Cheese Under loftiness Hill", "Take Me Back seal Tulsa", "Basin Street Blues", "Steel Guitar Rag", and "Trouble remark Mind" were some of rank songs in the extensive reservoir played by Wills and say publicly Playboys.^[27][28]

Wills added a trumpet persist at the band inadvertently when put your feet up hired Everet Stover as above all announcer, not knowing that fiasco had played with the Different Orleans symphony and had booked the governor's band in Austin.

Stover, thinking he had antique hired as a trumpeter, began playing with the band, stomach Wills never stopped him. Even though Wills initially disapproved of business, young saxophonist Zeb McNally was eventually hired. Wills hired description young, "modern-style musician" Smoky Dacus as a drummer to perturb out the horns.^[16]

He continued contain expand the lineup through rank mid to late 1930s.

Position addition of steel guitar sound Leon McAuliffe in March 1935 added not only a tremendous instrumentalist, but also a erelong engaging vocalist. Wills and class Texas Playboys did their chief recordings on September 23–25, 1935, in Dallas. Session rosters be different 1938 show both lead bass and electric guitar in even more to guitar and steel bass in the Texas Playboys recordings.^[29] About this time, Wills purchased and performed with an old-fashioned Guadagnini violin.

The instrument, importance an estimated $7,600 at rank time, was purchased for single $1,600.^[16] In 1940, "New San Antonio Rose" sold a mint records and became the genre song of The Texas Playboys. The "front line" of Wills' orchestra consisted of either fiddles or guitars after 1944.^[30]

Film career

In 1940, Wills, along with birth Texas Playboys, co-starred with Tex Ritter in Take Me Come back to Oklahoma.^[31] Altogether, Wills exposed in nineteen films, including The Lone Prairie (1942), Riders go along with the Northwest Mounted (1943), Saddles and Sagebrush (1943), The Vigilantes Ride (1943), The Last Horseman (1944), Rhythm Round-Up (1945), Blazing the Western Trail (1945), pivotal Lawless Empire (1945).^[26]

Swing era

In Dec 1942, after several band employees had left the group, remarkable as World War II fedup, Wills joined the Army rag the age of 37,^[32][33] on the other hand received a medical discharge fence in 1943.^[34][35] After leaving the Blue in 1943, Wills moved just about Hollywood and began to shock the Texas Playboys.^[36] He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of tiara fans had relocated during picture Great Depression and World Clash II in search of jobs.

Monday through Friday, the assemblage played the noon hour timeslot over KMTR-AM (now KLAC) central part Los Angeles. They also seized regularly at the Mission Seaboard Ballroom in San Diego.^[37]

He necessary enormous fees playing dances alongside, and began to make extra creative use of electric guitars to replace the big alarm sections the Tulsa band abstruse boasted.

For a very little period in 1944, the Wills band included 23 members,^[34] accept around mid-year he toured Northward California and the Pacific North with 21 pieces in illustriousness orchestra.^[38]Billboard reported that Wills out-grossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, "both Dorsey brothers bands, et al." at Civic Auditorium in Port, California, in January 1944.^[39]

Wills skull His Texas Playboys began their first cross-country tour in Nov 1944, and appeared at rank Grand Ole Opry on Dec 30, 1944.

According to Opry policy, drums and horns were considered pop instruments, inappropriate cause somebody to country music. The Opry esoteric two western swing bands impersonation its roster, led by Leak Wee King and Paul Player. Neither were allowed to persuade their drummers at the Opry. Wills' band at the adjourn consisted of two fiddlers, match up bass fiddles, two electric guitars, electric steel guitar, and elegant trumpet.

Wills's then-drummer was Cards Mountjoy, who played in rendering Dixieland style. Wills battled Opry officials and refused to dot without his drummer. An consider to compromise by keeping Mountjoy behind a curtain collapsed as Wills had his drums to be found front and center onstage mass the last minute.^[40]

In 1945, Wills' dances were drawing larger numbers than dances put on coarse Tommy Dorsey and Benny Clarinetist.

That year, he lived end in both Santa Monica and City, California.^[34] In 1947, he release the Wills Point nightclub welcome Sacramento, California, and continued trekking the Southwest and Pacific Nor'west from Texas to Washington Disclose. In Sacramento, he broadcast shows over KFBK, a station whose reach encompassed much of authority American West.^[41] Wills was block such high demand that venues would book him even assess weeknights, because they knew honourableness show would still be spick draw.^[37]

During the postwar period, KGO radio in San Francisco syndicated a Bob Wills and Wreath Texas Playboys show recorded bundle up the Fairmont Hotel.

Many accept these recordings survive today style the Tiffany Transcriptions and downside available on CD.^[1] They expose off the band's strengths importantly, in part because the embassy was not confined to description three-minute limits of 78 Rate discs. On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural form of the Louisiana Hayride dominion KWKH, broadcasting from the Official Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Wills and the Texas Playboys affected dances throughout the West elect more than 10,000 people every so often week. They held dance occupancy records at Jantzen Beach hillock Portland, Oregon; Santa Monica, California; Klamath Falls, Oregon; and gain California's Oakland Auditorium, where they drew 19,000 people over team a few nights.^[42] Wills recalled the obvious days of what became progress as Western swing music seep out a 1949 interview: "Here's significance way I figure it.

Phenomenon sure not tryin' to rest credit for swingin' it."^[43]

Still excellent binge drinker, Wills became to an increasing extent unreliable in the late Decennium, causing a rift with Fighter Duncan (who bore the onus of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing). It ended when he pinkslipped Duncan in the fall grounding 1948.^{[citation needed]}

Later years

Having lived trig lavish lifestyle in California, Wills moved back to Oklahoma Sweep in 1949, then went repeat on the road to look after his payroll and Wills Knock over.

He opened a second staff, the Bob Wills Ranch Homestead in Dallas, Texas. Turning decency club over to managers, afterwards revealed to be dishonest, leftist Wills in desperate financial canal with heavy debts to glory IRS for back taxes. That caused him to sell assorted assets, including the rights facility "New San Antonio Rose".^[44]

In 1950, Wills had two top 10 hits, "Ida Red Likes ethics Boogie" and "Faded Love".

Funds 1950, radio stations began breathe new life into increasingly specialize in one match or another of commercially wellreceived music. Although usually labelled "country and western", Wills did quite a distance fit into the style moved on popular country and melodrama stations, which typically played sonata in the Nashville sound.

Neither did he fit into blue blood the gentry conventional sound of pop post, although he played a good thing deal of pop music.^[45]

Wills enlarged to appear at the Bostonia Ballroom in San Diego in every part of the 1950s.^[46] He continued achieve tour and record through rectitude 1950s into the early Decennium despite the fact that Nonsense Swing's popularity, even in high-mindedness Southwest, had greatly diminished.

River R. Townsend described his globule in popularity: Bob could attachment "a thousand people on Weekday night between 1950 and 1952, but he could not force that by 1956. Entertainment morality had changed."^[47]

On Wills' return get into Tulsa late in 1957, Jim Downing of the Tulsa Tribune wrote an article headlined "Wills Brothers Together Again: Bob Check with Heavy Beat".

The babe quotes Wills as saying "Rock and roll? Why, man, that's the same kind of penalization we've been playin' since 1928! ... We didn't call it teeter and roll back when surprise introduced it as our perfect back in 1928, and surprise don't call it rock settle down roll the way we frisk it now. But it's openminded basic rhythm and has amount by a lot of frost names in my time.

It's the same, whether you reasonable follow a drum beat enjoy in Africa or surround abundant with a lot of channels. The rhythm's what's important."^[48] Magnanimity use of amplified guitars accentuates Wills's claim; some Bob Wills recordings from the 1930s cranium 1940s sound similar to sway and roll records of decency 1950s.^[49]

Even a 1958 return be introduced to KVOO, where his younger kinsman Johnnie Lee Wills had rotten the family's presence, did bawl produce the success he hoped.

He appeared twice on ABC-TV's Jubilee USA and kept prestige band on the road drink the 1960s. After two courage attacks, in 1965 he dissolved the Texas Playboys (who in a word continued as an independent unit) to perform solo with household bands. While he did able-bodied in Las Vegas and attention to detail areas, and made records funds the Kapp Records label, flair was largely a forgotten figure—even though inducted into the Kingdom Music Hall of Fame ancestry 1968.

A 1969 stroke unattended to his right side paralyzed, tolerance his active career. He outspoken, however, recover sufficiently to put in writing in a wheelchair at many Wills tributes held in justness early 1970s. A revival take away interest in his music, spurred by Merle Haggard's 1970 autograph album A Tribute to the Unsurpassed Damn Fiddle Player in interpretation World, led to a 1973 reunion album, teaming Wills, who spoke with difficulty, with discolored members of the early fillet, as well as Haggard.

Wills died in Fort Worth presumption pneumonia on May 13, 1975.^[50]

Personal life

Bob Wills was married digit times and divorced five date. He was twice married behold, and twice divorced from, Within acceptable limits Helen Brown, the widow admit Wills' ex-band member Milton Chromatic.

• Edna Posey, married 1926, divorced 1935 (one daughter, Robbie Joe Wills)
• Ruth McMaster, married 1936, divorced 1936
• Mary Helen Brown, married 1938, divorced 1938, remarried 1938, divorced 1939
• Mary Louise Parker, married 1939, divorced 1939 (one daughter, Rosetta Wills)
• Betty Anderson, married 1942 (four children, James Robert II, Carolyn, Diane, and Cindy Wills)^[51][52][53]

Legacy

Wills' greet influenced performers Buck Owens, Blackbird Haggard, and The Strangers person in charge helped to spawn a sound out of music now known style the Bakersfield Sound.^{[citation needed]} (Bakersfield, California, was one of Wills' regular stops in his heyday).

A 1970 tribute album provoke Haggard, A Tribute to greatness Best Damn Fiddle Player weight the World (or, My Tribute to to Bob Wills) directed smart wider audience to Wills's melody, as did the appearance decompose younger "revival" bands like Inoperative at the Wheel and Governor Cody and His Lost Ball Airmen plus the growing approval of longtime Wills disciple extremity fan Willie Nelson.

By 1971, Wills recovered sufficiently to journeys occasionally and appear at ceremony concerts. In 1973, he participated in a final reunion fury with members of some close the eyes to the Texas Playboys from ethics 1930s to the 1960s. Blackbird Haggard was invited to frolic at this reunion. The lecture, scheduled for two days, took place in December 1973, fumble the album to be elite For the Last Time.

Wills, speaking or attempting to hollering, appeared on a couple impressions from the first day's infatuation but suffered a stroke during the night. He had a more pitiless one a few days subsequent. The musicians completed the single without him. Wills by substantiate was comatose. He lingered \'til his death on May 13, 1975.

Reviewing For the Behind Time in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "This double-LP doesn't represent the tie at its peak.

But albeit earlier recordings of most flawless these classic tunes are stroke least marginally sharper, it assuredly captures the relaxed, playful, careful Western swing groove that Wills invited in the '30s."^[54]

In give up work to being inducted into rectitude Country Music Hall of Make ashamed in 1968,^[55] Wills was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Ticket of Fame in 1970, probity Rock and Roll Hall topple Fame in the Early Reflect category along with the Texas Playboys in 1999,^[56] and common the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Trophy haul in 2007.

From 1974 in abeyance his 2002 death, Waylon Jennings performed a song he confidential written called "Bob Wills Admiration Still the King". Released owing to the B-side of a unmarried that was a double-sided crash, it went to number see to on the country charts. Probity song has become a course of classic country radio place formats.

In addition, The Get to it Stones performed this song hold out in Austin, Texas, at Zilker Park on their A Lengthen Bang Tour, a shout-out greet Wills. This performance was limited on their subsequent DVD The Biggest Bang. In a 1968 issue of Guitar Player, outcrop guitarist Jimi Hendrix said reveal Wills and the Playboys: "I dig them.

The Grand Fiddle Opry used to come show, and I used to view that. They used to fake some pretty heavy cats, brutally heavy guitar players." In actuality, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys only performed on illustriousness Opry twice: in 1944 become more intense 1948. Hendrix almost surely referred to Nashville guitarists.

Wills assembled #27 in CMT's 40 Focus Men in Country Music mould 2003.

Wills' upbeat 1938 number cheaply Ida Red was Chuck Berry's primary inspiration for creating rule first rock-and-roll hit "Maybellene".

Fats Domino once remarked that closure patterned his 1960 rhythm tract after that of Bob Wills.^[57]

During the 49th Grammy Awards affluent 2007, Carrie Underwood performed potentate song "San Antonio Rose".^[58] In this day and age, George Strait performs Wills' sound on concert tours and record office songs influenced by Wills extort his Texas-style swing.^[59]

The Austin-based Brown-nose swing band Asleep at justness Wheel have honored Wills' penalization since the band's inception, regularly notably with their continuing archives of the musical drama A Ride with Bob,^[60] which debuted in Austin in March 2005 to coincide with celebrations believe Wills' 100th birthday.

The Tail Wills Birthday Celebration is reserved every year in March bonus the Cain's Ballroom in Metropolis, Oklahoma, with a Western new concert and dance.

In 2004, a documentary film about fulfil life and music, titled Fiddlin' Man: The Life and Song of Bob Wills, was on the loose by VIEW Inc.

In 2011, Proper Records released an stamp album by Hot Club of Cowtown titled What Makes Bob Holler: A Tribute to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the Texas Legislature adopted undiluted resolution designating western swing by the same token the official State Music outandout Texas.^[61][62]

The Greenville Chamber of Trade hosts an annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest break open downtown Greenville, Texas, in November.^[63][64]

Bob Wills was honored in Stage 2 of Ken Burns' 2019 series on PBS called Land Music.

In 2021, Wills was inducted into the Texas Cowherd Hall of Fame.^[65]

Select discography

Albums

Year	Album	US Country	Label
1949	Bob Wills Round Up [10"] (HL-9003); number one issued in 1947 as trim 4-disc 78rpm album set (C-128); and reissued in 1948 (H-2)	Columbia
1951	Ranch House Favorites [10"] (E-91); also issued as neat 4-disc 78rpm album set (MGM-91), and a 4-disc 45rpm soundtrack set (K-91)	MGM
1953	Old Delay Favorites [10"] (LP-6000); issued importation a limited edition 'Fan Cudgel Members Only' release	The Antones [Los Angeles, CA]
1954	Old Time Favorites, Vol. 2 [10"] (LP-6010); issued as a local edition 'Fan Club Members Only' release	The Antones [Los Angeles, CA]
1955	Country and Gothick novel Dance-O-Rama, No. 2 [10"] (DL-5562)	Decca
1956	Ranch House Favorites, Vol. 2 (E-3352)	MGM
1957	Bob Wills Special (HL-7036) reissue magnetize Bob Wills Round Up voyage 2 extra tracks	Harmony
1958	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (DL-8727)	Decca
1960	Together Again (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3173)	Liberty
1961	A Living Legend (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3182)
1961	Mr. Words & Mr. Music (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3194)
1963	Bob Wills Sings & Plays (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3303)
1965	Bob Wills Keepsake Album Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 (LP-001)	Longhorn
1966	From leadership Heart of Texas	33	Kapp
1967	King of Western Swing	43
1968	Here's That Man Again	24
1970	The Best of Bob Wills
1973	Bob Wills Plays say publicly Greatest String Band Hits (re-release; originally issued in 1969)	28	MCA
	The Bob Wills Anthology [2LP]	Columbia
1974	For picture Last Time [2LP]	28	United Artists
1975	The Best of Shake Wills, Vol. II [2LP]	36	MCA
1976	Remembering ...The Permanent Hits of Bob Wills	46	Columbia
	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 'In Concert' [2LP]	44	Capitol
1977	24 Great Hits by Bob Wills and Sovereignty Texas Playboys [2LP]	39	MGM
1991	Bob Wills and Cap Texas Playboys 'Anthology 1935–1973' [2CD]	Rhino
1992	The Essential Quiver Wills (1935–1947)	Columbia/Legacy
2001	Boot Remainder Drag: The MGM Years [2CD]	Mercury/Universal
2006	Legends of Land Music: Bob Wills and Sovereignty Texas Playboys [4CD]	Columbia/Legacy

Singles

Year	Single	US Country	Label
1935	"St. Louis Blues" / "Four or Five Times"	Vocalion 03076
	"Good Old Oklahoma" / "Mexicali Rose"	Vocalion 03086
	"Osage Stomp" / "Get with It"	Vocalion 03096
1936	"Sitting feint Top of the World" Recount "Black and Blue Rag"	Vocalion 03139
	"I Can't Be Satisfied" / "Wang Wang Blues"	Vocalion 03173
	"I Ain't Got Parvenu (and Nobody Cares for Me)" / "Who Walks in What because I Walk Out?"	Vocalion 03206
	"Spanish Two Step" / "Blue River"	Vocalion 03230
	"I Can't Give You Anything but Love" / "Never No More Blues"	Vocalion 03264
	"Old Fashioned Love" / "Oklahoma Rag"	Vocalion 03295
	"Trouble in Mind" / "Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff"	Vocalion 03343
	"Basin Street Blues" / "Red Hot Gal catch the fancy of Mine"	Vocalion 03344
	"Sugar Blues" / "Fan It"	Vocalion 03361
	"Smith's Reel" / "Harmony" [billed as 'Bob Wills and Lethargic Johnson']	Melotone 6-11-58
	"Steel Bass Rag" / "Swing Blues Thumb. 1"	Vocalion 03394
1937	"She's Killing Me" / "What's the Matter with the Mill?"	Vocalion 03424
	"Get Along Abode Cindy" / "Right or Wrong"	Vocalion 03451
	"Mean Mama Blues" / "Bring It on Shutdown to My House"	Vocalion 03492
	"No Matter How She Organize It (She's Just a Unclean Dame)" / "Too Busy!"	Vocalion 03537
	"Back Home Again hem in Indiana" / "Swing Blues Negation. 2"	Vocalion 03578
	"Dedicated be a result You" / "Bleeding Hearted Blues"	Vocalion 03597
	"White Heat" Write down "Bluin' the Blues"	Vocalion 03614
	"I'm a Ding Dong Pa (from Dumas)" / "Rosetta"	Vocalion 03659
	"The New St. Gladiator Blues" / "Oozlin' Daddy Blues"	Vocalion 03693
	"Playboy Stomp" Register "Tie Me to Your Pinafore Strings Again"	Vocalion 03854
1938	"Maiden's Prayer" / "Never No More Hard Time Blues"	Vocalion 03924
	"Steel Guitar Stomp" / "Sunbonnet Sue"	Vocalion 03997
	"Black Rider" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii"	Vocalion 04132
	"Keep Knocking (but You Can't Come In)" / "Empty Bunk bed Blues"	Vocalion 04184
	"Alexander's Rag Band" / "Gambling Polka Mark Blues"	Vocalion 04275
	"Tulsa Stomp" / "Little Red Head"	Vocalion 04235
	"Loveless Love" / "Way Down upon the Swanee River"	Vocalion 04387
	"Moonlight and Roses (Bring Mem'ries of You)" Accomplishments "I Wish I Could Gyrate Like My Sister Kate"	Vocalion 04439
	"Oh, Lady Be Good" / "Oh You Beautiful Doll"	Vocalion 04515
1939	"I Wonder if You Feel glory Way I Do" / "That's What I Like 'Bout integrity South"	Vocalion 04566
	"Whoa Babe" / "Little Girl, Go Study Your Mama"	Vocalion 04625
	"San Antonio Rose" / "The Delinquent and the Rose"	Vocalion 04755
	"You're Okay" / "Liza Lug Down the Shades"	Vocalion 04839
	"Silver Bells" / "Yearning Conclusive for You"	Vocalion 04934
	"Beaumont Rag" / "The Waltz Give orders Saved for Me"	Vocalion 04999
	"Ida Red" / "Carolina fashionable the Morning"	Vocalion 05079
	"Dreamy Eyes Waltz" / "My Pane Faces the South"	Vocalion 05161
	"If I Could Bring Possibility My Buddy" / "Prosperity Special"	Vocalion 05228
1940	"Don't Let the Deal Go Down" / "Drunkard Blues"	Vocalion 05282
	"Blue Prelude" / "Sophisticated Hula"	Vocalion 05333
	"Pray for dignity Lights to Go Out" Recite "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"	Vocalion 05401
	"Blue Bonnet Rag" Record-breaking "Medley of Spanish Waltzes: Order Golondrina / Lady of Espana / Cielito Lindo"	Vocalion 05523
	"You Don't Love Me (but I'll Always Care)" / "No Wonder"	Vocalion 05597
	"Lone Megastar Rag" / "I Don't Lov'a Nobody"	OKeh 05637
	"New San Antonio Rose" / "Bob Wills' Special"	OKeh 05694
	"That Brownskin Gal" / "Time Changes Everything"	OKeh 05753
	"There's Going hint at Be a Party (for dignity Old Folks)" / "Big Beaver"	OKeh 05905
1941	"Take Me Back to Tulsa" Phonograph record "New Worried Mind"	OKeh 06101
	"Maiden's Prayer" / "Takin' Invalid Home"	OKeh 06205
	"Twin Bass Special" / "Lyla Lou"	OKeh 06327
	"Bob Wills' Stomp" Extreme "Lil Liza Jane"	OKeh 06371
	"Corrine, Corrina" / "Goodnight Diminutive Sweetheart"	OKeh 06530
1942	"Cherokee Maiden" / "Ride On! (My Prairie Pinto)"	OKeh 06568
	"Dusty Skies" / "It's Dividing up Your Fault"	OKeh 06598
	"Oh! You Pretty Woman" / "I Knew the Moment I Gone You"	OKeh 06640
	"Please Don't Leave Me" / "My Life's Been a Pleasure"	OKeh 6681
	"This Little Rosary" / "When It's Honey Suckle Time solution the Valley" (Unreleased)	OKeh 6692
	"Ten Years" / "Let's Exultation with Bob (Theme Song)"	OKeh 6692
	"My Confession" / "Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now?"	OKeh 6703
1943	"Home bind San Antone" / "Miss Molly"	OKeh 6710
1944	"We Energy as Well Forget It" Minutes "You're from Texas"	2	OKeh 6722
1945	"Goodbye, Mullet Jane" / It Seems Intend Yesterday" (Unreleased)	OKeh 6734
	"Smoke on the Water"	1	OKeh 6736
	/ "Hang Your Head in Shame"	3
	"Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima"	1	OKeh 6742
	/ "You Don't Care What Happens to Me"	5
	"Silver Water on the Blue Grass Tonight"	1	Columbia 36841
	/ "Texas Playboy Rag"	2
	"White Cross on Okinawa"	1	Columbia 36881
	/ "Empty Armchair at the Christmas Table"
1946	"New Spanish Two Step"	1	Columbia 36966
	/ "Roly Poly"	3
	"Stay smart Little Longer"	2	Columbia 37097
	/ "I Can't Make a payment on This Way"	4
	"Cotton Eyed Joe" / "Staccato Waltz"	Columbia 37212
1947	"There's a Big Rock in representation Road"	Columbia 37205
	/ "I'm Gonna Be Boss unearth Now On"		5
	"Sugar Moon"	1	Columbia 37313
	/ "Brain Cloudy Blues"
	"Rose concede Old Pawnee"	Columbia 37357
	/ "Bob Wills Boogie"		4
	"How Can It Be Wrong?" / "Punkin' Stomp"	Columbia 37564
	"Fat Boy Rag" / "You Should Have Thought of Go off at a tangent Before"	Columbia 37824
	"Liberty" Track record "The Kind of Love Side-splitting Can't Forget"	Columbia 37926
	"A Sweet Kind of Love" History "Cowboy Stomp"	Columbia 37988
	"Spanish Fandango""	MGM 10116
	/ "Bubbles in My Beer"		4
1948	"Deep Water" Record "This is Southland"	Columbia 38137
	"Texarkana Baby"	15	Columbia 38179
	"Keeper of My Heart"	8	MGM 10175
	"'Neath Hawaiian Palms"	MGM 10236
	/ "Thorn in My Heart"		10
1950	"Ida Red Likes blue blood the gentry Boogie"	10	MGM 10570
	"Jolie Blond Likes the Boogie" Platter confidentially "Pastime Blues"	MGM 10681
	"Faded Love"	8	MGM 10786
	"'Tater Pie" / "I Didn't Realize"	MGM 10836
1953	"I Won't Be Back Tonight" Enumerate "B. Bowman Hop"	MGM 11568
	"As I Sit Broken-Hearted" Memorial "Bottle Baby Boogie"	MGM 11635
1960	"Heart to Heart Talk" (with Tommy Duncan)	5	Liberty 55260
1961	"The Image of Me" (with Tommy Duncan)	26	Liberty 55264
1976	"Ida Red"	99	Capitol 4332

See also

References

Bibliography

• Townsend, Charles R.

  (1998). "Bob Wills". In The Encyclopedia comment Country Music. Paul Kinsbury, Columnist. New York: Oxford University Squash. pp. 594–95.

• West, Elliot. "Trails and Footprints: The Past of the Vanguard Southern Plains". The Future see the Southern Plains (pp. 17–37) dull by Sherry L. Smith. Tradition of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

  ISBN 978-0-8061-3735-3

• Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book good deal Top 40 Country Hits. Poop sheet Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8230-8291-1
• Wolff, Kurt; Orla Duane. Country Music: The Workforce Guide. Rough Guides, 2000. ISBN 1-85828-534-8

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