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James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
" I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not ," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, " but they sang blues you never heard before.
The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.
During the postwar period, KGO radio in San Francisco syndicated a Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys show recorded at the Fairmont Hotel.
He opened a second club, the Bob Wills Ranch House in Dallas, Texas.
On Wills ' return to Tulsa late in 1957, Jim Downing of the Tulsa Tribune wrote an article headlined " Wills Brothers Together Again — Bob Back with Heavy Beat ".
" The use of amplified guitars accentuates Bob's claim, some Bob Wills recordings from the ` 30's and ` 40's sound similar to rock and roll records in the ` 50's.
Bob Wills, 70, " Western Swing " bandleader-composer ; of pneumonia ; in Fort Worth.
A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.
By 1971, Friedman had formed his second band, Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys, which many took to be a play on the name of the famous band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.
* 1905 – Bob Wills, American singer ( d. 1975 )
Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.
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His early influences were Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Carl Smith and Elvis Presley.
He discovered disco / soul artists, Viola Wills and Felice Taylor in 1965 and signed them to Mustang / Bronco Records, for which he was working as A & R manager for Bob Keane, the man who discovered Ritchie Valens.
And, a New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an " Oklahoma version of shag " done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.
They caused a conflict when Bob Wills and Pee Wee King defied the show's ban on drums.
Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

Bob and bus
In the controversial claims of Bob Lazar, he states that during his employment at the mysterious S-4 facility in Nevada, he briefly witnessed an Aurora flight while aboard a bus near Groom Lake.
Other visitors to the station include various townspeople, such as socialite and gossip Midge Smoot, farmer Ginny, general store proprietor Barton Winslow, bus driver Felix Perez, newspaper reporter Jake Scoop, Mayor Osgood Bob Flopdinger of East Shemp ( The town name likely a reference to comedian Shemp Howard ), and Mr. J. B. King, Esq., the superintendent of the Indian Valley Railroad.
When the tour bus breaks down in the middle of the desert, the trio meet Bob ( Bill Hunter ), a middle-aged mechanic from a small outback town who joins them on their journey.
It starred Reg Varney as bus driver Stan Butler, with Bob Grant as his bus conductor Jack Harper, Cicely Courtneidge and later Doris Hare as his Mum, Michael Robbins as his brother in law Arthur, Anna Karen as his plain sister Olive and the memorable lip-quivering Stephen Lewis as bus Inspector Cyril Blake, usually referred to as ' Blakey ' or ' Dracula '.
It started across Canada, then zigzagged endlessly across the United States in Bob Dylan's Tour bus.
* The scenes of Bob arriving in town on the bus with his goldfish were filmed in downtown Moneta, which was spruced up and repainted for the movie.
The show featured the musician, Charlie Grindle ( Nick Mercer ), who also appeared as one of the bus drivers from The Why Bird Stop, Bitsy Bob ( Michele Durler ), who played music and made things, and the puppets Morris Cog and Milly Sprocket ( Nick Mercer and Michele Durler ), who presented a segment called " Morris and Milly's Numerical Melodies ", where they sang a song glorifying a particular number.
The first three songs (" Make Yourself at Home ", " Selective ", and " Playing Favorites ") ( recorded in The Prize Fight's Bob Jones ' bedroom in August 2002 ), the second session (" The Nightlife " and acoustic version of " Best of Me ") ( recorded in Vasoli's basement in March 2003 ) and the last track (" Lasting Impressions ") ( recorded on the band's touring bus in April 2003 ) became The Make Yourself at Home EP, released on November 25, 2003.
It takes place on a school bus rather than an airplane, and puts Bart Simpson in the role of Bob Wilson.
In 1963, Woods and WDAS radio station General manager Bob Klein chartered buses to take people down to the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, D. C. ( subsequently famous for its " I Have a Dream " speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr .) and had asked a young Ed Bradley, who later went on to be a well-known CBS correspondent, to be a bus captain.
* Bus Driver BobBob drives the Doodlebop bus.
The Doodlebops each join Bus Driver Bob on his bus after their session at the recording studio ends.
Bob honks the bus ' horn, the Doodlebops board, and dance and sing their way to the Doodlebops concert.
In 1992 former Mayor of Houston Bob Lanier proposed converting the former Milby Bus Barn site into a 59-family low income development which would have been called La Villa de las Flores ( Spanish for " the Village of the Flowers "); the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas used the site as a bus barn from 1976 to 1983.

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" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.
The team suffered a tragedy during spring training of, when a boat carrying pitchers Steve Olin, Tim Crews, and Bob Ojeda crashed into a pier.
In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.
The lineup was occasionally fluid, and Bob Lewis would sometimes play guitar during this period.
ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.
In the mid-1940s, during a depressing lull in his career ( his radio show Blue Ribbon Town had failed, and the Marx Brothers as film performers were well past their prime ), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with Bob Hope.
Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.
He brought Bob Seger back from semi-retirement during his pre-Super Bowl concerts on February 2 and 3, 2006 in Detroit.
Contrary to rumors, Marvin did not serve with producer and actor Bob Keeshan during World War II.
Six future Football Hall of Fame members played for Miami during the 1970s, including fullback Larry Csonka, quarterback Bob Griese, and linebacker Nick Buoniconti.
QB Bob Greise was victim to a broken leg and dislocated ankle in Week 5 versus the San Diego Chargers and was replaced by veteran Earl Morrall for the rest of the regular season, but returned to the field as a substitute during the AFC Championship game versus the Pittsburgh Steelers and then started in Super Bowl VII.
Mickey Hart ( in background, playing drums ) and Bob Weir ( playing guitar ) performing at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball during the Inauguration of Barack Obama | presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.
The National Cartoonists Society had its origins during World War II when cartoonists Gus Edson, Otto Soglow, Clarence D. Russell, Bob Dunn and others did chalk talks at hospitals for the USO in 1943.
James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Bob Fitzsimmons, and later Jack Dempsey were the names that inspired during those years, and he grew up a lover of all contests of violent, masculine struggle.
Quarterback Bob Griese, the AFC's leading passer and most valuable player, put up an impressive performance during the season, completing 145 passes for 2, 089 yards and 19 touchdowns with only 9 interceptions.
In his introduction of The Band during the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert, Clapton announced that in 1968 he'd heard the album, " and it changed my life.
At one time, Former Church of Satan members Nikolas Schreck and Zeena Schreck were priest and priestess within the Temple, once appearing with Bob Larson during an interview to discuss their beliefs.
George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the Rockline radio station in February 1988.
Bob Dole's tax-cut plan found itself under attack from the White House, who said it would " blow a hole in the deficit " which had been cut nearly in half during his opponent's term.
File: Joan Baez Bob Dylan. jpg | Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights " March on Washington ", August 28, 1963
Among the many baseball players ( including well known stars ) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial ( in 1945 ), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.
U. S. Senator Bob Dole decried its supposed moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film.

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