The Bob Wills Collection 1935-50 - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Music - ACROBAT - 0824046316327 - May 6, 2016
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The Bob Wills Collection 1935-50

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

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The Bob Wills Collection 1935-50

Bob Wills was one of the two country music personalities, along with Spade Cooley, who pioneered the style of Western Swing music during the 1930s and '40s, combining the standard approach of hillbilly country with jazz, blues and pop styles, and using expanded instrumental line-ups, to create a highly distinctive, sophisticated, infectious and entertaining strand of country music. Between 1935 and 1950, with a variety of different incarnations of his band The Texas Playboys, he recorded for Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia and MGM while establishing himself as a top radio star and successful 'live' attraction. This great-value 53-track 2-CD collection cherry-picks the highlights from the 300 or so recordings he made during the period, including, of course, the twenty or more Top 10 country hits he had after the establishing of the airplay chart for "Folk" records during the '40s, with biggies like "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima", "Sugar Moon" and "New Spanish Two Step". While he remained a popular figure over the next two decades, his career was blighted by ill-health, and this collection provides a marvellously entertaining look at the real golden era of western swing. Includes comprehensive booklet notes, with complete recording session and personnel details

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 2
Released May 6, 2016
EAN/UPC 0824046316327
Label ACROBAT ADDCD3163
Genre Country
Dimensions 125 × 141 × 11 mm   ·   108 g

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Good Old Oklahoma (Vocalion 3086) Nov. 1935
    2. Osage Stomp (Rukus Juice Shuffle) (Vocalion 3096) Dec. 1935
    3. Sittin' on Top of the World (Vocalion 3139) Jan. 1936
    4. Wang Wang Blues (Vocalion 3173) Mar. 1936
    5. Spanish Two Step (Vocalion 3230) May. 1936
    6. Trouble in Mind (Vocalion 3343) Nov. 1936
    7. Steel Guitar Rag (Vocalion 3394) Dec. 1936
    8. Right or Wrong (Vocalion 3451) Feb. 1937
    9. Back Home Again in Indiana (Vocalion 3578) Jun. 1937
    10. I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas (Vocalion 3659) Sep. 1937
    11. Playboy Stomp (Vocalion 3763) Dec. 1937
    12. Maiden's Prayer (Vocalion 3924) Feb. 1938
    13. San Antonio Rose (Vocalion 4755) Apr. 1939
    14. Liza, Pull Down the Shades (Vocalion 4839) May. 1939
    15. Beaumont Rag (Vocalion 4999) Aug. 1939
    16. Ida Red (Vocalion 5079) Sep. 1939
    17. Medley of Spanish Waltzes: La Golondrina, Lady of Spain, Cie
    18. New San Antonio Rose (Okeh 5694) Aug. 1940
    19. Bob Wills' Special (Okeh 5694) Aug. 1940
    20. Time Changes Everything (Okeh 5753) Sep. 1940
    21. Big Beaver (Okeh 5905) Dec. 1940
    22. Take Me Back to Tulsa (Okeh 6101) Mar. 1941
    23. Twin Guitar Special (Okeh 6327) Aug. 1941
    24. Corrine Corrina (Okeh 6530) Dec. 1941
    25. Cherokee Maiden (Okeh 6568) Jan. 1942
    26. Dusty Skies (Okeh 6598) Feb. 1942
  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Let's Ride with Bob (Okeh 6692) Sep. 1942
    2. Home in San Antone (Okeh 6710) Jul. 1943
    3. You're from Texas (Okeh 6722) Jul. 1944
    4. We Might As Well Forget It (Okeh 6722) Jul. 1944
    5. Hang Your Head in Shame (Okeh 6736) Feb. 1945
    6. Smoke on the Water (Okeh 6736) Feb. 1945
    7. Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima (Okeh 6742) May. 1945
    8. You Don't Care What Happens to Me (Okeh 6742) May. 1945
    9. Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight (Columbia 36841) 1st O
    10. Texas Playboy Rag (Columbia 36841) 1st Oct. 1945
    11. White Cross on Okinawa (Columbia 36881) 12th Nov. 1945
    12. New Spanish Two Step (Columbia 36966) 1st Apr. 1946
    13. Roly Poly (Columbia 36966) 1st Apr. 1946
    14. I Can't Go on This Way (Columbia 37097) 14th Oct. 1946
    15. Stay a Little Longer (Columbia 37097) 14th Oct. 1946
    16. I'm Gonna Be Boss from Now on (Columbia 37205) 27th Jan. 194
    17. Brain Cloudy Blues (Columbia 37313) 7th Apr. 1947
    18. Sugar Moon (Columbia 37313) 7th Apr. 1947
    19. Bob Wills' Boogie (Columbia 37357) 26th May 1947
    20. This is Southland (Columbia 38137) 8th Mar. 1947
    21. Bubbles in My Beer (Mgm 10116) 8th Dec. 1947
    22. Texarkana Baby (Columbia 38179) 19th Apr. 1948
    23. Keeper of My Heart (Mgm 10175) 27th Apr. 1948
    24. Thorn in My Heart (Mgm 10236) 2nd Aug. 1948
    25. Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age (Mgm 10415) May. 1949
    26. Ida Red Likes the Boogie (Mgm 10570) Nov. 1949
    27. Faded Love (Mgm 10786) Sep. 1950

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