WESTERN SWING 78 BOB WILLS - SPANISH FANDANGO US MGM EX

AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS GREAT DOUBLE-SIDER WESTERN SWING 78 FROM BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS

SPANISH FANDANGO  b/w  BUBBLES IN MY BEER

"The Texas Playboys are on the air!" A generation of Country Music fans welcomed this radio announcement into their homes, knowing that soon they would hear such standards as "San Antonio Rose" or "Faded Love" or "Bubbles In My Beer." And if they were able to see the Texas Playboys in person, they could scarcely keep their eyes off the energetic band leader. Wearing a big white hat and chomping on a cigar, fiddle-playing Bob Wills strutted in front of his band, grinning and shouting, "Ah, Ha!" and pointing to musicians for their instrumental breaks. Dominating every performance, Bob Wills proved over and over that he was the "King of Western Swing."

James Robert Wills was born on a farm near Kosse, Texas, on March 6, 1905. "Jim Rob" was the first of ten children, and in 1931 his parents moved their growing family to a cotton farm near Memphis in West Texas. His father, John Wills, was a country fiddler, and there were other fiddlers on both sides of the family. Jim Rob began playing as a boy, and for years he and his father were in great demand around West. Texas

In 1929 young Bob Wills moved to Ft. Worth, began calling himself "Bob," and hooked on with a medicine show. A natural leader, he soon organized the Wills' Fiddle Band, then the Alladin Laddies. In 1931 they were hired by W. Lee O'Daniel, manager of Burris Mill (and future Texas governor), to advertise Light Crust Flour over WBAP Radio. Changing the group's name to the Light Crust Doughboys, they appeared over a growing number of stations and began to record for Victor. But O'Daniel prohibited the band from playing for dances, beginning a series of clashes with Wills. Bob left the Doughboys in 1933, taking vocalist Tommy Duncan and organizing the Playboys. His new band played over WACO in Waco for a time, then moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Broadcasting over KVOO as "Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys," the group enjoyed soaring popularity. An excellent judge of talent, Bob enlisted gifted musicians, then extracted innovative performances from them. It was the Big Band era of popular music, when Dixieland jazz evolved into the larger sound of "Swing." Wills added reeds and drums to his band, blending jazz and country into the lively sounds of "Western Swing." By 1940 Wills had expanded the Texas Playboys to 18 pieces and had begun to record a string of legendary hits. In that same year singing cowboy star Tex Ritter persuaded Bob to appear with him in Take Me Back to Oklahoma, the first of several film appearances. He often collaborated with gifted songwriter and fellow Texan, Cindy Walker.

Bob's enormous success was diluted by personal difficulties. He struggled with a drinking problem and with seven marriages, and after a series of strokes, he died on May 3, 1975. But his latter years were highlighted by a series of honors, and he realized that he was widely appreciated. When he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame to 1968, for the first time in his long career Bob Wills doffed his white hat to an audience.

 My Sweet Senorita, My own Sweet Chiquita
   Let's dance once again,. The Spanish Fandango
  I long.. for the charms of your lovinâ arms
  So come let's begin the Spanish Fandango
 
 
  Hold me once more as we glide cross the floor
  It's you I adore, .My own Senorita
  My light of the moon,. let's dance to the tune
  Don't end it too soon, The Spanish Fandango

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GREAT WESTERN SWING 78

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