He remained with Burke and Wills as far as the Darling River at Bilbarka, before returning to the settled districts of Victoria.

After eight years with Wills, Chappell capitalised on his fame as Australian captain by forming his own company specialising in advertising, promotion and journalism, which has remained his profession.

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys remained popular after the war, and could not provide enough new recordings to fill demand.

Brown and Wills remained friends ; and Wills ' Waco, Texas-based band, the Playboys, was modeled after the Musical Brownies.

The simplicity, functionality, and livability of the first Cape Cod houses remained prevalent features of Wills ’ updated design.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

A videotape released with The Wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs, was aired on Al Jazeera on April 16, 2002.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

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.

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.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

" However, it was as " Jim Rob Wills ," paired with Herman Arnspiger, that he made his first commercial ( though unissued ) recordings in November 1929 for Brunswick / Vocalion.

Wills added a trumpet to the band inadvertently when he hired Everet Stover as an announcer, not knowing that he had played with the New Orleans symphony and had directed the governor's band in Austin.

Stover, thinking he had been hired as a trumpeter began playing with the band with no comment from Wills.

Young sax player Zeb McNally was allowed to play with the band, although Wills initially discouraged it.

About this time Wills purchased and performed with an old Guadagnini violin that had once fetched $ 7, 600 for $ 1, 600, the equivalent of about $ 24, 000 in 2009.

In 1940 Wills, along with the Texas Playboys, co-starred with Tex Ritter in Take Me Back to Oklahoma.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

Still a binge drinker, Wills became increasingly unreliable in the late 1940s, causing a rift with Tommy Duncan ( who bore the brunt of audience anger when Wills's binges prevented him from appearing ).

Turning the club over to managers later revealed to be dishonest left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to " New San Antonio Rose.

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 ".

" Wills and Duncan left the Doughboys in 1933 after Wills had missed one show too many due to his sporadic drinking.

Commercial messages were regarded as intrusive, so these shows usually displayed the sponsor's name in the title, as evidenced by such programs as The A & P Gypsies, Acousticon Hour, Champion Spark Plug Hour, The Clicquot Club Eskimos, The Flit Soldiers, The Fox Fur Trappers, The Goodrich Zippers, The Ingram Shavers, The Ipana Troubadors, The Planters Pickers, The Silvertown Cord Orchestra ( featuring the Silver Masked Tenor ), The Sylvania Foresters, The Yeast Foamers, King Biscuit Time ( with Sonny Boy Williamson ), The Health and Happiness Radio Show ( with Hank Williams ) and the Light Crust Doughboys ( with Bob Wills and Milton Brown ).

Famous Texan musicians and groups include Bob Wills / Texas Playboys / Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown / Musical Brownies / Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z. Z.

T-Bone Walker, Lead Belly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, and even Robert Johnson himself first recorded in this area, just as Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys were leaving the studio.

Wills recruited the Light Crust Doughboys and they later changed their name to Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

In 1969, the Doughboys began recording again ; and in 1973, the band took part in the last recording session for Wills in Dallas for the album, For the Last Time.

Originally called the Light Crust Doughboys, notable musicians such as Bob Wills got their start with O ' Daniel.

Prominent groups during the peak of Western swing's popularity included The Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies, and Spade Cooley and His Orchestra.

In the early 1930s, Bob Wills and Milton Brown co-founded the string band that became the Light Crust Doughboys, the first professional band in this genre.

Photographs of the Light Crust Doughboys taken as early as 1931 show two guitars along with fiddle player Wills. Milton Brown led The Musical Brownies.

In October 1933, Wills was fired and a new group of Doughboys went to Chicago for a recording session with Vocalion ( later Columbia ) Records.

That helped the style gain a much wider following through the music of Wills and his Playboys in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Brown and the Light Crust Doughboys in Fort Worth.

* In 2010 a surf-pop version of the song was included on the album Wills & The Light Crust Doughboys: 80th Anniversary, Together Again and performed by Art Greenhaw.

Author Tony Wills, who analyzed attendance and " field worker " statistics, suggests it was the " more dedicated " Bible Students who quit through the 1920s, to be replaced by newcomers in larger numbers, although Rutherford dismissed the loss of the original Bible Students as the Lord " shaking out " the unfaithful.

" For Head Games, bassist Ed Gagliardi was replaced by Englishman Rick Wills.

When Mr. Wills returned, he saw that the tape had been replaced and called in the police.

Bex was soon replaced by John Wills ( The Servants ) and Glen Ray, with James Endeacott on guitar.

Ray and Bex left, to be replaced by Endeacott, Wills and Neil MacKay, the band also being signed up by Chapter 22 Records, returning with a more polished sound with the ' Collision ' single in 1988.

This was the album in which bassist Rick Wills replaced bassist Ed Gagliardi.

Director Lubin and Chill Wills were also absent, replaced respectively by Charles Lamont and voice actor Paul Frees, who did a close approximation of Wills ' voice.

Wills ' replaced him, and in March 1859 when his permanent appointment was confirmed, he moved into a room at the Observatory.