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Tommy Duncan
Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11, 1911 – July 25, 1967), was an American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys. He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s. Biography Early life Duncan was born in Whitney, Texas, United States, on a large farm into a large and impoverished family of truck farmers. He was one of 14 children. His most profound influences as a young singer were Jimmie Rodgers, Bing Crosby, Emmett Miller and other country and blues musicians. He left home at 13 to sharecrop on a cousin's farm, and by 1932 was surviving as a busker in Fort Worth singing at a root beer stand. That year he won an audition against 64 other singers to join the Light Crust Doughboys, a popular local band which featured Bob Wills on fiddle. Duncan was hired after he sang a version of Emmett Miller's "I Ain't Got Nobody" and impressed Wills with his yodeling ability and bluesy ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney, Texas
Whitney is a city in Hill County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,992 at the 2020 census. The city is east of Lake Whitney. The Amazon Prime original movie '' The Vast of Night'' was shot in Whitney, which doubled for the fictional town of Cayuga, New Mexico. History Whitney was established in 1876 when the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) built a line through Hill County to Cleburne. The town's namesake comes from Charles A. Whitney, principle stock holder of H&TC, and brother-in-law to Charles Morgan. Battle of the Benches In 1922, D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough, the druggist of Whitney installed a bench outside of his store. Within a short period of time, the bench became home to the local old men seeking refuge from the sun and women; comfortably installed on its well-worn planks, they whittled, spat tobacco juice on the sidewalks, studied the weather and damned the modern world with lordliness and venom. In the following years after World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Crust Doughboys
The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas, United States, organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas. The band achieved its peak popularity in the few years leading up to World War II. In addition to launching Western swing pioneers Bob Wills and Milton Brown, it provided a platform for many of the best musicians of the genre, including Tommy Duncan, Cecil Brower, John Parker and Kenneth Pitts. The original group disbanded in 1942, although band member Marvin Montgomery led a new version organized in the 1960s. A contemporary incarnation beginning in the 1990s (including Montgomery until his death in 2001) bills itself as the longest-running country music band in the world. The Light Crust Doughboys were charter inductees into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 1989, and were also inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In December 2005, the Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Quitman, Texa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bubbles In My Beer
"Bubbles in My Beer" is a Western swing song that was originally recorded by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in 1947. It later became a standard that has been performed by many country music artists. One critic of drinking songs ranks it number 20, calls it "the ultimate self-pity song," and credits it with "setting the tone for a whole genre of songs about drowning sorrows in the barroom." The song's origins are the subject of different accounts (see Tommy Duncan for one); but there is agreement that Texas Playboys vocalist Duncan came up with the song's title and refrain, at which point songwriter Cindy Walker became involved. Walker has been quoted as saying: "If you can get a real good title, you’ve got something. I always write from the title. I’ve never written a song without the title." Chart performance In 1971, a cover version by Ray Pennington peaked at number 68 on ''Billboards U.S. country singles chart. Album versions "Bubbles in My Beer" has appeared on albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Walker
Cindy Walker (July 20, 1918 – March 23, 2006) was an American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. She wrote many popular and enduring songs recorded by many artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring particular songs to specific artists. She produced a large body of songs that have been described as “direct, honest and unpretentious”. She had Top 10 hits spread over five decades. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in March 2011. Early life Cindy Walker was born on July 20, 1918, on her grandparents' farm near Mart, Texas (near Mexia, east of Waco), the daughter of a cotton-broker. Her maternal grandfather F.L. Eiland was a noted composer of hymns and her mother was a fine pianist. From childhood Cindy Walker was fond of poetry and wrote habitually. Career Beginnings As a teenager, inspired by newspaper accounts of the dust storms on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stay A Little Longer
"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus: The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song"Shinbone Alley": Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded it in 1945 and it reached number three in 1946.Whitburn, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits'', p. 493 Willie Nelson (number 22 in 1973) and Mel Tillis Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, ... (number 17 in 1982) also charted Top 40 hits. The song has been recorded numerous times. In The Andy Griffith Show episode "The Darling Baby", the lyrics went like this: References Bibliography *Cohen, Norm. ''Folk Music: A Regional Exploration''. Greenwood Press, 2005. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Spanish Two Step
"New Spanish Two Step" is a Western swing standard based on a traditional fiddle tune, "Spanish Two Step". Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded the latter on September 23, 1935, and released it on Vocalion 03230 in 1936. Ten years later, Wills and Tommy Duncan added lyrics and recorded it again on April 25, 1945, releasing it on Columbia 36966 in April 1946 as "New Spanish Two Step". It stayed on the charts for 23 weeks, reaching number one on the Folk-Jukebox chart for 16 weeks.Whitburn, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits'', p. 392. Both versions were one of the band's signature songs. Wills and his vocalist, Tommy Duncan, added lyrics to reflect the title: The "b" side, "Roly Poly", was also a big hit, reaching number three. See also * Billboard Most-Played Folk Records of 1946 The ''Billboard'' Most-Played Folk Records of 1946 is a year-end chart compiled '' Billboard'' magazine ranking the year's top folk records based on the number of times the record was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frontier Frolic
A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts on another country (see also marches). Unlike a border—a rigid and clear-cut form of state boundary—in the most general sense a frontier can be fuzzy or diffuse. For example, the frontier between the Eastern United States and the Old West in the 1800s was an area where European American settlements gradually thinned out and gave way to Native American settlements or uninhabited land. The frontier was not always a single continuous area, as California and various large cities were populated before the land that connected those to the East. Frontiers and borders also imply different geopolitical strategies. In Ancient Rome, the Roman Republic experienced a period of active expansion and creating new frontiers. From the reign of Augustus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawless Empire
''Lawless Empire'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Vernon Keays and written by Bennett Cohen. The film stars Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Mildred Law and Bob Wills. The film was released on November 15, 1945, by Columbia Pictures. Plot In the lawless town of Dusty Gulch, the Durango Kid comes to the aid of Reverend Harding in his fight against Blaze Howard and his henchman. When Durango foils all of Blaze’s plans, Blaze’s boss Doc Weston realizes that it's Cannonball who's tipping off Durango. Weston then lets Cannonball overhear false information that will send Durango into a fatal trap. Cast *Charles Starrett as Steve Ranson / The Durango Kid *Tex Harding as Reverend Tex Harding *Dub Taylor as Cannonball *Mildred Law as Vicky Harding *Bob Wills as Bob Wills *Johnny Walsh as Marty Foster *John Calvert as Blaze Howard *Ethan Laidlaw as Duke Flinders *Forrest Taylor as Doc Weston *Jack Rockwell as Jed Stevens *George Chesebro as Lenny *Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazing The Western Trail
''Blazing the Western Trail'' is a 1945 American Western film directed by Vernon Keays and written by J. Benton Cheney. The film stars Charles Starrett, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews and Bob Wills. The film was released on September 18, 1945, by Columbia Pictures. Plot Cast *Charles Starrett as Jeff Waring / The Durango Kid *Tex Harding as Tex Harding *Dub Taylor as Cannonball *Carole Mathews as Mary Halliday *Bob Wills as Bob *Alan Bridge as Forrest Brent *Nolan Leary as Bob Halliday *Virginia Sale as Nellie *Steve Clark as Dan Waring *Mauritz Hugo as Jim McMasters *Ethan Laidlaw as Santry *Edmund Cobb as Sheriff Turner *Frank LaRue as Mr. Spencer *Glenn Strange as Brent *Edward Howard as McMasters *James T. Nelson as Deputy *Budd Buster Budd Leland Buster (June 14, 1891 – December 22, 1965), usually credited as Budd Buster (and sometimes Bud Buster), was an American actor known for B western films. He sometimes was credited as George Selk in his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm Roundup
''Rhythm Roundup'' is an Australian television series for which little information is available. It was a music series featuring Roy Hampson, but the exact format is not known. It ran from 1957 to 1960 on Sydney stations ATN-7 and ABN-2. In 1958 the series featured the ''Poster Girl'' contest, with 19-year-old Annette Andre winning. She appeared on the series for four weeks. It should not be confused with ''Record Roundup'', which featuring the same host and aired on the same station. Although some ATN programming from the late-1950s survives, it is not known if any kinescopes or early video tape exist of either series, given the wiping Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop ... of the era. References External links *{{IMDb title 1957 Australian television series deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Changes Everything (song)
"Time Changes Everything" is a Western swing standard with words and music written by Tommy Duncan, the long-time vocalist with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Written as a ballad, the lyrics tell of a failed romance and of the hurt that has healed. Each verse ends with: :Time changes everything. Recording and legacy The Texas Playboys recorded "Time Changes Everything" during an April 15, 1940, recording session in Saginaw, Texas. It was first released on the OKeh label, and has been reissued many times. (05753). It became one of the top singles that year. Artists ranging from Roy Rogers (Decca 5908, 1940, with Spade Cooley on fiddle) to Woody Herman and His Orchestra (Decca 3751, 1941) soon brought out competing records. The Roy Rogers version reached number four on Billboard's "Hillbilly...Hits" chart in October, 1941 The Playboys recorded another version on July 1, 1960, in Hollywood, California. This version was also released on many labels. In 1968 yet another version w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
