WESTERN SWING BOB WILLS 78 FAT BOY RAG /YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT US COL 37824 E-
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TWO GREAT WESTERN SWINGS SIDES FROM BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS
FAT BOY RAG b/w
YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the co-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).
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. 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. Wills favoured jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima", and "New Spanish Two Step".
"Fat Boy Rag" was christened after its inventor, Texas Playboys' guitarist Lester Robert Barnard Jr. aka Junior, whom Bob Wills occasionally called "Fat Boy". Some say that Junior Barnard was one of the forerunners of rock 'n' roll (or even rock) guitar.
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US COLUMBIA 37824 (1942) 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
A: BAD BOY RAG Instrumental
Recorded Sep 6, 1946, mx: HCO 2017;
B: YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE Vocal by Tommy Duncan with Instrumental Acc.
Recorded Jan 28, 1945, mx: H 1250; CBS Studio (Radio Station KNX), 6121 Gower & Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
CONDITION - E-
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