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.

Bob Wills ' bus during a parade in TulsaAfter forming a new band, The Playboys, and relocating to Waco, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market.

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.

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 ".

Around 1969 / 70 he met Bob Dylan, who describes this encounter in the third chapter of Chronicles, Vol.

Four St. Bonaventure alumni have been elected to professional halls of fame: Baseball legends Hughie Jennings and John McGraw, for whom the university's athletic fields are named, are in the Baseball Hall of Fame ; Bob Lanier, ' 70, who led St. Bonaventure to the NCAA Final Four, is in the Basketball Hall of Fame ; and Jack Butler, ' 51, who had a stellar career with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was named to the NFL's All-Decade Team in the 1950s, was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2012.

He starred with Bob Denver ( Hale's Gilligan co-star ) in The Good Guys ( 1968 – 70 ).

* Bob Mellish 1969 – 70

He is survived by his wife of nearly 70 years, Mildred Schwartz and their four children: Donald, Lloyd ( the creator of The Munsters Today ), Ross, and Hope ( wife of Laurence Juber ; reportedly named after Bob Hope ).

The Harmonizers also included Marvin Pruitt — soon replaced by Ross and Don's cousin Bob Flanigan — and Hal Kratzsch ( 1925 – 70 ), replaced in 1953 by Ken Errair.

* Bob Inglis, Republican – 138, 165 ( 70. 93 %)

Nicol started his career with Ayr United in 1979 and spent just over two seasons with the Scottish side, racking up 70 league appearances, before Liverpool manager Bob Paisley decided to pay, what turned out to be, a bargain price of £ 300, 000 to bring Nicol to Anfield on 26 October 1981.

* January 1: Bob Knight becomes the winningest coach in men's college basketball history when Texas Tech defeats New Mexico, 70 – 68.

Noosa's mayor, Bob Abbot, won the mayoralty of the new Council over Maroochy's Joe Natoli with 70 % of the combined vote.

The fastest electronically timed anchor leg run is 8. 70 seconds by Asafa Powell in the 2008 Beijing Olympic final, though Bob Hayes was hand-timed as running 8. 5 seconds at the 1964 Tokyo Games.

* Died: Adrian Stokes, 70, British writer, painter and art critic ; and Bob Mosher, 57, sitcom writer ( Leave it To Beaver, The Munsters )

* Bob Kehoe ( 1969 – 70 )

** Series 70 Bob Chow Special Version II ( HW )

** Series 70 Bob Chow Special with Compensator ( HW )

In 1968 an exciting opportunity arose when Bob Clain's ( Commodore of the Down Cruising Club from 1969 / 70 ) father-in-law spotted an advertisement for the sale by tender of an Irish Lights lightship, the Petrel ( all the Irish light vessels were named after sea birds at that time ).

Famous swing orchestras in California realized that many of their followers were leaving to dance to Bob Will's Western swing.

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

* 1908 – Bob Dunn ( musician ), pioneer Western swing musician ( d. 1971 )

Bob Costas filled in those games, and Albert returned to call Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.

During a March 2007 interview with the Western Daily Press, Ferry confirmed that although the next Roxy Music album is definitely being made, it would not be vended for another " year and a half ", as Ferry had just released and toured behind his twelfth studio album, Dylanesque, consisting of Bob Dylan covers.

Six crossbenchers hold the balance of power: Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MPs Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor declared their support for Labor on confidence and supply, independent MP Bob Katter and National Party of Western Australia MP Tony Crook declared their support for the Coalition on confidence and supply.

Bob Murray replaced him as general manager, but the team struggled to make the playoffs as the eighth seed in the Western Conference.

The town of Turkey in Hall County is considered the home town of the late Western Swing performer Bob Wills.

Bessemer is served by one weekly newspaper, The Western Star, which is owned by Bob Tribble as part of his newspaper corporation based in Manchester, Ga. Coverage in this paper is not limited to the city proper, but instead covers all of the Bessemer Cutoff, including Bessemer, Hueytown, McCalla, Midfield, Fairfield, Brighton, Lipscomb, and the large sections of western Jefferson County that remain unincorporated.

* Bob Wills, Western Swing musician

First, as the gunfighter " English Bob " in the 1992 Western, Unforgiven ; second, as the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ).

Home On the Range became Jeffrey City when those who came to mine uranium sought to honor Dr. C. W. Jeffrey, a wealthy doctor from Rawlins, Wyoming, who initially financed the costs for prospector and businessman Bob Adams to start the Western Nuclear Corporation mining firm and open a Uranium mine near the area in 1957, during the cold war and the height of uranium demand.

In the 1960s, Japanese rock music bands imitated Western rock musicians such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones, along with other Appalachian folk music, psychedelic rock, mod and similar genres ; this was called Group Sounds ( G. S .).

As they extended their network to airports on the east coast like Washington-Dulles, Newark and Boston, and Chicago, Western Airlines became a prominent sponsor of the Bob Barker television show The Price is Right, to make customers in the East more aware of their presence.

More representative examples can be found in some of the songs of Western swing pioneer Bob Wills, and subsequent tradition-minded country artists such as Asleep At The Wheel, Merle Haggard, and George Strait.

Still, with the merit of supporting great opening initiatives: the appropriation of Western artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others from the Woodstock generation, the public performance of gospel-like music, the opening to big international issues ( pop culture, accountability of the leadership, tension surging during the Cold War-with surprisingly neutral positions etc.

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were the leading proponents of Western Swing, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences and horn sections ; Wills's music found massive popularity.

After four years of little success, he formed the Sons of the Pioneers with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer, a Western cowboy music group, in 1934.

Vaughn's first credited movie role came the following year in the Western Hell's Crossroads ( 1957 ), in which he played the real-life Bob Ford, the killer of outlaw Jesse James.

While Western participants ' responses were exactly what would have been expected by reading the philosophical literature, ( Bob only believes that Jill drives an American car ), the majority of East Asian participants actually reported the opposite ( Bob truly knows that Jill drives an American car ).