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Birthday
*** ,1905
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Death day
May 13, 1975 (70 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
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Celebrities born on March 6
Born in 1905
Born in Kosse, Texas
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Bob Wills
James Robert Wills is an American Western musician, musician and swing group. Regarded by music governing bodies as the co-founder of Western swing, he is widely known as the king of Western swing. Wills formed several groups and played radio stations across the South and West until he founded Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on violin, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin. , Singer Johnnie Lee Wills and Kermit Whalin, who played steel. and bass guitar. The group performed regularly on Tulsa, Oklahoma KVOO radio and added Leon McAuliffe on a steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus and a trumpet which broadened the band's sound. Wills loved jazz-type remixes and the band rose to national popularity in the 1940s with hits like "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima "and" Two New Stages of Spain ".
Birth nameJames Robert Wills
Also known as"King of Western Swing"
BornMarch 6, 1905, Kosse, Texas, U.S.
DiedMay 13, 1975, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
GenresWestern swing
Years active1929‒1973
LabelsVocalion, OKeh, Columbia, MGM, Liberty
Associated actsThe Strangers, Light Crust Doughboys, Texas Playboys

About Bob Wills

Guitarist Bob Wills was born on March 6, 1905 in Kosse, Texas, United States (He dies at the age of 70, on May 13, 1975).

He was a Western swing musician with the Texas Playboys band who impacted generations of country musicians.

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Bob Wills before becoming famous

Bob Wills was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1905 is also the year of Serpent (蛇) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He began playing the mandolin, guitar, and fiddle as a child, and by his teens, he was performing professionally and at neighborhood dances.

Achievement of Bob Wills

Beginning with jazz-inflected radio hits like"Steel Guitar Rag" in the 1940s, he transitioned into the 1950s with the top ten hit"Faded Love".

Bob Wills's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His father and grandfather instilled in him a passion of music and musical ability when he was born in Kosse, Texas.

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Bob Wills Collabed with

He was still working in his latter years when he died of a stroke, recording an album with Country Singer Merle Haggard.

Merle Haggard (1937 - 2016) (Country Singer)
Merle Haggard (1937 - 2016)

Country Singer

Bob Wills Income & Net worth

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