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    "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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    2017. Bob Marley at Wikipedia's sister projects Media from Commons Quotations from Wikiquote Data from Wikidata Bob Marley – official site Bob Marley...
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    the Western swing sound that Bob Wills and others played; the primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the...
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  • hired by Bob Wills to play with the Lonestar Rangers which was fronted by John Wills, Bob's father. This began an on-off relationship with the Wills family...
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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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