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The Texas Playboys. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. After forming a new band, The Playboys, and relocating to Waco, Texas, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market. They left Waco in January 1934 for Oklahoma City.
As Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, they became one of the most popular touring and recording acts in the nation, offering audiences the highly danceable musical mixture that came to be known as western swing.
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May 9, 2024 · Bob Wills was an American bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter whose Texas Playboys popularized western swing music in the 1930s and ’40s. Taught to play the mandolin and fiddle by his father and other relatives, Wills began performing in country string bands in Texas in the late 1920s.
Wills’s greatest success was with his Texas Playboys band while based at KVOO in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between 1934 and 1942. Today his compositions, such as “Faded Love,” “Maiden’s Prayer,” “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” and “San Antonio Rose,” are considered country and pop standards.
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May 16, 1982 · Almost everybody knows that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys performed in Tulsa years ago and that their music had some effect on country western music as we know it today. But Guy Logsdon, a Tulsa U…
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