- Bob Wills( James Robert Wills )【 102 songs in total 】
- 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 universally known 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 a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound. Wills favored 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'.
Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving. In 1950, he had two Top 10 hits, 'Ida Red Likes The Boogie' and 'Faded Love', which were his last hits for a decade. Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over. Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.
The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.
In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville. He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.
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Song
Lyricist
Composer
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A Maiden's Prayer (Remastered)(Provided)
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2
A Maiden's Prayer
Ray Price, Bob Wills
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3
Blues for Dixie (Remastered)
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4
Blues For Dixie
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5
Brain Cloudy Blues (Remastered)
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6
Brain Cloudy Blues
Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills
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7
Bring It On Down to My House Honey
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8
Bubbles In My Beer (1948)
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9
Bubbles In My Beer (Remastered)
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10
Bubbles in My Beer
Tommy Duncan, Cindy Walker, Bob Wills
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11
Cherokee Maiden (Remastered)(Provided)
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12
Cherokee Maiden
Cindy Walker
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13
Closed For Repairs
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14
Corrine Corrina (Remastered)
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15
Corrine Corrina (Remastered)
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16
Corrine Corrina
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17
Corrine, Corrina (Remastered)
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18
Corrine, Corrina
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19
Cotton Eyed Joe
Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills
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20
Deep Water (Remastered)
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21
Deep Water
Fred Rose
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22
Dinah
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23
Faded Love (Remastered)
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24
Faded Love
Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills
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25
Goin' Away Party
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26
Hang Your Head in Shame (Remastered)
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27
Hang Your Head In Shame
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28
Home In San antone (Remastered)
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29
Home In San Antone
Fred Rose
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30
How Can It Be Wrong
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31
I Betcha My Heart I Love You
Bob Miller, Esther Van Sciver
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32
I Can't Go On This Way
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33
I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
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34
I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
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35
I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do
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36
I'll Have Somebody Else
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37
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)
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38
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
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39
I'm Gonna Be Boss From Now On
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40
I've Got A New Road Under My Wheels
Dude Rancher, Thomas E Wilson
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41
Ida Red (Remastered)
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42
It's the Bottle Talking
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43
Keeper of My Heart
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44
Keeper Of My Heart
Jerry Irby, Bob Wills
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45
Li'l Liza Jane
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46
Lilly Dale
Moore, Wills
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47
Lily Dale
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48
Maiden's Prayer (Remastered)(Provided)
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49
Milk Cow Blues
Kokomo Arnold
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50
Milk Cow Blues
Kokomo Arnold
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51
Miss Molly (Remastered)
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52
Miss Molly
Walker
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53
My Window Faces the South (Remastered)
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54
New San Antonio Rose (Remastered)(Provided)
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55
New San Antonio Rose
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56
No Matter How She Done It
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57
Oozlin' Daddy Blues (Remastered)
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58
Please Don't Leave Me
Jesse Ashlock
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59
Right or Wrong (Remastered)
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60
Right or Wrong
Paul Biese, Haven Gillespie, Arthur Sizemore
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61
Roly Poly
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62
Roly Poly
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63
Roly-Poly (Remastered)
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64
Rose Of Old Pawnee
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65
San Antonio Rose (Remastered)
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66
San Antonio Rose (with Ray Price) - (San Antonio Rose)
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67
Santa's on His Way
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68
Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight (Remastered)
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69
Silver Dew On The Bluegrass Tonight
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70
Snow Deer
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71
Sooner or Later (You'll Fall)
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72
South (Remastered)
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73
Spanish Two Step (Remastered)
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74
Spanish Two-step
Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills
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75
St. Louis Blues
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76
Stardust
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77
Stars & Stripes On Iwo Jima
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78
Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima (Remastered)
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79
Stay a Little Longer (Remastered)
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80
Stay a Little Longer
Bob Troup
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81
Stay All Night Stay A Little Longer (1946)
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82
Still Waters Run The Deepest
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83
Take Me Back to Tulsa (Live)
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84
Take Me Back to Tulsa (Remastered)
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85
Take Me Back To Tulsa
Tommy Duncan, Bob Wills
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86
Texarkana Baby
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87
Texas Playboy Rag (Remastered)
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88
Texas Playboy Rag (Remastered, Take 2)
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89
Texas Playboy Rag
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90
That's What I Like 'Bout The South
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91
The Kind Of Love I Can't Forget
Jessie Ashlock
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92
There's A Big Rock In The Road
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93
This Is Southland (Remastered)
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94
This Is Southland
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95
Thorn In My Heart
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96
White Cross on Okinawa (Remastered)
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97
White Cross On Okinawa
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98
Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now?
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99
Will You Miss Me When Im Gone
A P Carter
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100
With Tears in My Eyes
Paul Howard
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101
You Don't Care What Happens To Me
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102
You're from Texas (Remastered)