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Bob Wills

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Aliases
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Bob Wills and His Western Swing Band
Real name
James Robert Wills
Born
March 6, 1905
Died
May 13, 1975
Country
United States
IPI
00033017527 41 works
00063707380 13 works
00063787054 13 works
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
One of the originators of Western swing and legendary bandleader. Wills was often referred to as the "King of Western Swing". He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968 and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Member of
The Light Crust Doughboys
Family
Luke Wills Brother
Johnnie Lee Wills Brother
Billy Jack Wills Brother
Related
Tommy Duncan Singer of The Texas Playboys
Leon Rausch Vocalist for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from 1958 into the early-1960s
Johnny Gimble With a break of about two years, member of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys from the late-1940s into the early 1960s
Sleepy Johnson Member of the Texas Playboys
Bob Wills' Original Texas Playboys
Leon McAuliffe Steel guitarist with The Texas Playboys from 1935 to 1942.
Eldon Shamblin Guitarist and arranger for Bob Wills' Texas Playboys
Harley Huggins Guitar and vocals with The Texas Playboys
Junior Barnard
Jack Loyd Singer of The Texas Playboys
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Covers by Bob Wills

Title Performer Release date Originally by
October 1935 Western Wanderers (Bob Haring)
October 1935 Prince's Band
  November 1935 International Novelty Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret) REC, Jack Tenney and the Majestic Orchestra PRF
i December 1935 Alabama Rascals
February 1936 Mississippi Sheiks
April 1936 Marion Harris
April 1936 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive   August 1936 Adelaide Hall PRF, Meyer Davis' Swanee Syncopators – Vocal Chorus by Al Shayne REC
  September 1936 Frank Crumit REC, Ina Duncan, Adelaide Hall and Arthur Porter PRF
November 1936 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
November 1936 (unknown)
November 1936 Thelma La Vizzo
listen on Internet Archive December 1936 Frankie Half Pint Jaxon
i December 1936 Sylvester Weaver
Covered by (81 artists)
listen on Internet Archive December 1936 Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band
January 1937 Nichols Brothers
January 1937 Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie
Covered by (7 artists)
February 1937 Tuskegee Institute Singers, (unknown)
February 1937 Markel's Orchestra
May 1937 Tampa Red and Georgia Tom
May 1937 Charley Straight's Orch. - Vocal Chorus by Frank Sylvano
June 1937 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
July 1937 Bessie Smith - Fletcher Henderson at the Piano
July 1937 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
i August 1937 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
September 1937 Jay C. Flippen
September 1937 Earl Hines and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Walter Fuller
Bring It on Down to My House Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 1937 Unverified
January 1938 Hollywood Dance Orchestra [Nathan Glantz]
i February 1938 (unknown)
Covered by (68 artists)
June 1938 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
July 1938 "Boodle It" Wiggins
  August 1938 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
August 1938 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
November 1938 Ladd's Black Aces (Original Memphis Five)
November 1938 Mark Andrews [US1], Henry Halstead and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   December 1938 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
listen on Internet Archive December 1938 Billy Murray and American Quartet with Orchestra
January 1939 Phil Harris and Orchestra
February 1939 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i   July 1939 Stanley and Burr REL, Peerless Quartet REC
listen on Internet Archive July 1939 (unknown)
i August 1939 Smith's Garage Fiddle Band
August 1939 Wayne King and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ernie Birchill
i October 1939 Willie & Eugene Howard
October 1939 Fiddlin' Powers and Family
October 1939 "Fats" Waller and His Rhythm
i November 1939 Kessinger Brothers
i December 1939 Charlie Poole accomp. by The North Carolina Ramblers
January 1940 Casa Loma Orchestra, Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers
March 1940 Gene Rogers
i March 1940 Earl Johnson and His Clodhoppers
listen on Internet Archive August 1940 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Covered by (151 artists)
March 1941 Ted Daffan's Texans
May 1941 (unknown), Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Covered by (17 artists)
August 1941 Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band
November 1941 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
December 1941 Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman
February 1945 Foy Willing and His Riders of the Purple Sage
February 1945 Red Foley
March 1946 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Covered by Merle Haggard and The Strangers
October 1946 Roy Rogers with Morton Scott and His Orchestra
1946 John Estes
1946 Isham Jones' Orchestra
January 1947 Dykes' Magic City Trio
April 7, 1947 Kokomo Arnold
Covered by (9 artists)
i October 6, 1947 Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen
April 19, 1948 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
April 19, 1948 Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar
October 26, 1948 A.C. (Eck) Robertson
December 6, 1948 Arthur C. Clough
April 1949 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive May 1949 Cindy Walker - Ray Sinatra's Orchestra
March 1951 Zeke Manners and His Gang
  May 1952 Bob Atcher REL, Wesley Tuttle REC
July 1952 Carolina Cotton
February 1955 The Moonglow's
December 1956 Billy Jack Wills and His Western Swing Band
June 1957 Standard Quartette, Ted Weems and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Country Washburn
i   1958 Russel Wise and Mr. White, Walter Hurdt and His Singing Cowboys REL, Roy Hall and His Blue Ridge Entertainers REC
December 1960 Markel's Orchestra
December 1960 Isham Jones Orchestra
August 1961 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
August 1961 Tommy Duncan and His Playboys
July 1963 Joe Henderson [US2]
July 1963 Carter Family
December 1964 Asher and Rodeheaver
October 1966 Billy Golden
October 1966 Little Willie Littlefield
October 1966 Gene Autry
June 1967 Harlan Howard
August 1967 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
August 1967 Chuck Berry
August 1967 Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen, Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland
i January 1968 Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra
i January 1968 Jimmy Wakely and His Rough Riders
i January 1968 Bob Geddins Cavaliers
May 1968 Woody Herman accompanied by The Four Chips
i June 1968 Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan
June 1968 Johnny Preston
June 1968 Billy Cotton and His Band
i 1969 Kokomo Arnold
1969 Stuart Hamblen
1969 Ted Daffan's Texans
i 1969 Leon McAuliffe and His Western Swing Band
1969 Spade Cooley and His Orchestra - Vocal by “Tex” and “Oakie”
1969 Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys
1969 Douglas Richardson
1969 Memphis Minnie
1973 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
1973 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
May 1974 Jim Ed Brown
i 1976 Bert Stock and His Orchestra
i 1976 Woody Herman and His Orchestra
1977 Dinah Shore with Orchestra - Albert Sack, Conductor
  1982 The Revelers [US1] REC,REL, Eddie Cantor PRF
i 1982 Count Basie and His Orchestra
1982 Kessinger Brothers
i 1982 (unknown)
1982 Fort Worth Doughboys
1982 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
1982 The King Cole Trio
1982 (unknown)
i Take the "A" Train Bob Wills and His Texas Play Boys 1984 Unverified
1985 Ernest Hare
1985 Stuart Hamblen
1985 Stuart Hamblen and His Covered Wagon Jubilee
1986 Charles Mitchell and His Orchestra
1986 The Whispering Pianist (Art Gillham)
1986 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
1986 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
My Gal Sal Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 1987 Unverified
1990 Crowel Glee Club
November 27, 2011 Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans
April 29, 2014 Bill Chitwood and Bud Landress
April 29, 2014 Ben Jarrell - Acc. by Da Costa Woltz‘s Southern Broadcasters