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Bob Wills

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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. [1]

151 relations: A Bigger Bang (concert tour), Al Bernard, Album, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Aragon Ballroom (Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California), Asleep at the Wheel, Austin, Texas, Bakersfield sound, Bakersfield, California, Ballad, Banjo, Basin Street Blues, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Blackface, Blues, Bob Wills, Bob Wills Is Still the King, Bubbles in My Beer, Buck Owens, Cain's Ballroom, California, Carrie Underwood, Cherokee Maiden, Classic country, Clint Eastwood, CMT (U.S. TV channel), Columbia Records, Compact disc, Corrine, Corrina, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Dallas, Dance hall, Drummer, Electric guitar, Emmett Miller, Faded Love, Fairmont San Francisco, Fats Domino, Fort Worth, Texas, Fresno, California, George Strait, Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grand Ole Opry, Great Depression, Hall County, Texas, Horn section, ..., Hot Country Songs, Ida Red, Internal Revenue Service, Jan Garber, Jantzen Beach Amusement Park, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmie Davis, Johnnie Lee Wills, Kapp Records, KFAQ, KFBK (AM), KGO (AM), Kosse, Texas, KWKH, Lakeview, Texas, Leon McAuliffe, Liberty Records, Light Crust Doughboys, Limestone County, Texas, List of signature songs, List of Texas state symbols, Longhorn Records, Louisiana Hayride, Maiden's Prayer, Mandolin, Maybellene, Medicine show, Merle Haggard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Records, Milton Brown, Minstrel show, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, New San Antonio Rose, New Spanish Two Step, Oakland, California, Okeh Records, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oregon, Ozark Jubilee, Pegasus News, Proper Records, Radio, Radio station, Reed (mouthpiece), Right or Wrong (song), Rock and roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roly Poly (song), Roy, New Mexico, Sacramento, California, Saint Louis Blues (song), San Francisco, Shreveport, Louisiana, Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight, Sitting on Top of the World, Smoke on the Water (Red Foley song), Spade Cooley, Springfield, Oregon, Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima, Stay a Little Longer, Steel guitar, Steel Guitar Rag, Sugar Moon, Take Me Back to Oklahoma, Take Me Back to Tulsa, Tax, Tex Ritter, Texarkana Baby (song), Texas, Texas Legislature, Texas Panhandle, That's What I Like About the South, The A.V. Club, The Biggest Bang, The Hot Club of Cowtown, The Last Horseman, The Lone Prairie, The Rolling Stones, The Strangers (American band), The Waltz You Saved for Me, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), Time Changes Everything (song), Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Duncan, Trouble in Mind (song), Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa World, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Turkey, Texas, Vocalion Records, Waco, Texas, Waylon Jennings, Western swing, White Cross on Okinawa, Willie Nelson, World War II, Zilker Park, 49th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (101 more) »

A Bigger Bang (concert tour)

A Bigger Bang was a worldwide concert tour by The Rolling Stones which took place between August 2005 and August 2007, in support of their album A Bigger Bang.

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Al Bernard

Alfred Aloysous Bernard (November 23, 1888 – March 6, 1949) was an American vaudeville singer, known as "The Boy From Dixie", who was most popular during the 1910s through early 1930s.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.

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Aragon Ballroom (Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California)

The Aragon Ballroom on Lick Pier in the Ocean Park district of Santa Monica, California, was a social-dance venue opened under the Aragon name in March 1942 by Swing Shift dance promoter Harry Schooler (né Harrison Augustus Schooler; 1918–2008).

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Asleep at the Wheel

Asleep at the Wheel is an American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia and is based in Austin, Texas.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Bakersfield sound

The Bakersfield Sound is a genre of country music developed in the mid- to late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California.

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Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Basin Street Blues

"Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Blackface

Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Wills

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

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Bob Wills Is Still the King

"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 icon Bob Wills.

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Bubbles in My Beer

"Bubbles in My Beer" is a Western swing song that was originally recorded by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in 1947.

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Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) professionally known as Buck Owens.

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Cain's Ballroom

Cain's Ballroom is a historic music venue located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, built in 1924 to serve as a garage for W. Tate Brady's automobiles.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carrie Underwood

Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Cherokee Maiden

"Cherokee Maiden" is a Western swing love song written by Cindy Walker.

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Classic country

Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.

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CMT (U.S. TV channel)

CMT, originally launched as CMTV, is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Corrine, Corrina

"Corrine, Corrina" (sometimes "Corrina, Corrina") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dance hall

Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Emmett Miller

Emmett Miller (February 2, 1900 – March 29, 1962) was an American minstrel show performer and recording artist known for his falsetto, yodel-like voice.

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Faded Love

"Faded Love" is a Western swing song written by Bob Wills, his father John Wills, and his brother, Billy Jack Wills.

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Fairmont San Francisco

The Fairmont San Francisco is an AAA Four-Diamond luxury hotel at 950 Mason Street, atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California.

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Fats Domino

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

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Fresno, California

Fresno (Spanish for "ash tree") is a city in California, United States, and the county seat of Fresno County.

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George Strait

George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer.

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Giovanni Battista Guadagnini

Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (or "G. B. Guadagnini"); (23 June 1711 – 18 September 1786) was an Italian luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hall County, Texas

Hall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Horn section

A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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Ida Red

"Ida Red" is an American traditional song of unknown origins that was made famous in the upbeat 1938 version by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.

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Jan Garber

Jan Garber (born Jacob Charles Garber, November 5, 1894 – October 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader.

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Jantzen Beach Amusement Park

Jantzen Beach Amusement Park was a popular amusement park from 1928 to 1970 in Portland, Oregon, on Hayden Island in the middle of the Columbia River.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmie Davis

James Houston Davis (September 11, 1899 – November 5, 2000) was an American singer and songwriter of both sacred and popular songs, as well as a politician and former governor of Louisiana.

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Johnnie Lee Wills

Johnnie Lee Wills (September 2, 1912–October 25, 1984) was an American Western swing fiddler popular in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Kapp Records

Kapp Records was an independent record label started in 1954 by David Kapp, brother of Jack Kapp (who had set up American Decca Records in 1934).

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KFAQ

KFAQ (1170 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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KFBK (AM)

KFBK (1530 AM) is a radio station in Sacramento, California broadcasting on a frequency of 1530 kHz.

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KGO (AM)

KGO (810 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to San Francisco, California.

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Kosse, Texas

Kosse is a town in Limestone County, Texas, United States.

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KWKH

KWKH (1130 AM) is a sports radio station serving Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Lakeview, Texas

Lakeview is a town in Hall County, Texas, United States.

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Leon McAuliffe

William Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917 – August 20, 1988) was an American Western swing guitarist who was a member of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys during the 1930s.

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Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label.

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Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.

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Limestone County, Texas

Limestone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.

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List of Texas state symbols

The following is a list of symbols of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Longhorn Records

Longhorn Records was an American country music record label based in Dallas, Texas.

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Louisiana Hayride

Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American country and western music.

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Maiden's Prayer

"A Maiden's Prayer" (original Polish title: "" Op. 4, French: "") is a composition of Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861), which was published in 1856 in Warsaw, and then as a supplement to the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris in 1859.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Maybellene

"Maybellene" is one of the first rock and roll songs.

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Medicine show

Medicine shows were touring acts (traveling by truck, horse, or wagon teams) which peddled "miracle cure" patent medicines and other products between various entertainments.

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Milton Brown

Milton Brown (September 7, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.

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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1970 by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc.

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New San Antonio Rose

"San Antonio Rose"/"New San Antonio Rose" was the signature song of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

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New Spanish Two Step

"New Spanish Two Step" is a Western swing standard based on a traditional fiddle tune, "Spanish Two Step," which was one of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys signature songs.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Okeh Records

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma Historical Society

The Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) is an agency of the government of Oklahoma dedicated to promotion and preservation of Oklahoma's history and its people by collecting, interpreting, and disseminating knowledge and artifacts of Oklahoma.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee, based in Springfield, Missouri, was a United States network television program to feature country music's top stars of the day, in the 1950s.

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Pegasus News

Pegasus News was an online-only hyperlocal news source for the Dallas–Fort Worth region founded by Mike Orren.

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Proper Records

Proper Records is an English record label founded by Malcolm Mills.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Reed (mouthpiece)

A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

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Right or Wrong (song)

"Right or Wrong" is a jazz ballad from 1921.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Roly Poly (song)

"Roly Poly" is a humorous Western swing standard written by Fred Rose in 1946.

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Roy, New Mexico

Roy is a village in Harding County, New Mexico, United States.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Saint Louis Blues (song)

"Saint Louis Blues" is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight

"Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight" is a 1945 song by Bob Wills.

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Sitting on Top of the World

"Sitting on Top of the World" (also "Sittin' on Top of the World") is a country blues song written by Walter Vinson and Lonnie Chatmon.

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Smoke on the Water (Red Foley song)

"Smoke On The Water" is a song written by Zeke Clements and recorded by Red Foley in 1944.

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Spade Cooley

Donnell Clyde Cooley (December 17, 1910 – November 23, 1969), better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality.

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Springfield, Oregon

Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States.

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Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima

"Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" is a 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

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Stay a Little Longer

"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan.

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Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.

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Steel Guitar Rag

"Steel Guitar Rag" is the seminal Western swing instrumental credited with popularizing the steel guitar as an integral instrument in a Western band.

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Sugar Moon

"Sugar Moon" is a Western swing love song written by Bob Wills and Cindy Walker.

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Take Me Back to Oklahoma

Take Me Back to Oklahoma is a 1940 American film directed by Albert Herman.

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Take Me Back to Tulsa

"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song.

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Tax

A tax (from the Latin taxo) is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer (an individual or other legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund various public expenditures.

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Tex Ritter

Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John and grandsons Jason and Tyler).

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Texarkana Baby (song)

"Texarkana Baby" is a song written by Fred Rose and.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Legislature

The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of Texas.

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Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state.

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That's What I Like About the South

That's What I Like About the South is the hallmark song of Phil Harris written by Andy Razaf, and covered by Bob Wills and Cliff Bruner.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Biggest Bang

The Biggest Bang is a four-disc concert DVD collection released by the Rolling Stones.

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The Hot Club of Cowtown

The Hot Club of Cowtown is an American hot jazz and Western swing trio that formed in 1997.

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The Last Horseman

The Last Horseman is a 1944 American western film directed by William Berke and starring Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor and Ann Savage.

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The Lone Prairie

The Lone Prairie is a 1942 American film directed by William Berke.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Strangers (American band)

The Strangers is an American country band best known as the back-up band for singer-songwriter Merle Haggard.

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The Waltz You Saved for Me

"The Waltz You Saved for Me" is a popular song written in 1930 by Emil Flindt, Gus Kahn, and Wayne King.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time Changes Everything (song)

"Time Changes Everything" is a Western swing standard with words and music written by Tommy Duncan, the long-time vocalist with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

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Tommy Dorsey

Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the Big Band era.

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Tommy Duncan

Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11, 1911 – July 25, 1967), better known as Tommy Duncan, was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys.

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Trouble in Mind (song)

"Trouble in Mind" is a vaudeville blues-style song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones.

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Tulsa Tribune

The Tulsa Tribune was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1919 to 1992.

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Tulsa World

The Tulsa World is the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and primary newspaper for the northeastern and eastern portions of Oklahoma.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States.

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Turkey, Texas

Turkey is a city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

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Vocalion Records

For Decca's Vocalion label, see Disques Vogue Vocalion Records is an American record company and label active for many years in the U.S. and the U.K.

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Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in central Texas and is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.

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White Cross on Okinawa

"White Cross on Okinawa" is 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zilker Park

Zilker Metropolitan Park is a recreational area in south Austin, Texas at the juncture of Barton Creek and the Colorado River that comprises over of publicly owned land.

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49th Annual Grammy Awards

The 49th Annual Grammy Awards was a ceremony honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning September 15, 2005 and ending September 14, 2006 in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wills

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