Starter of this subject: Walter Boatner
Last post in this subject: 2/10/2005
Messages in this subject: 3
| Walter Boatner | 2/10/2005 3 replies |
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When I was a boy growing up in Oklahoma, I would have to lay down around noon on a blanket with my younger siblings for their nap. I remember well the shades down, but the radio on in the next room with Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys doing their daily program. I think the station was KVOO, Tulsa. Does anyone know what time they came on and how long the program was? It was because of this daily incarceration that I was introduced to Western Swing at such an early age. And it has stayed the test of time with me. Still like it very much.
Walter Boatner |
| jim isham | 2/10/2005 0 replies |
| Go to Google and do an Advanced Search for KVOO and Bob Wills. There's quite a bit on him. The show was on at 12:30 and started in 1934. First sponsor was Crazy Water Crystals and, later on, General Mills. |
| Ted Hering | 2/16/2005 1 replies |
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As I understand it, before he had his own band, Bob played with "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel's band in the 1930s, broadcasting a 15-minute show for O'Daniel Flour Company ("Please Pass The Biscuits, Pappy!") via DEL RIO, TEXAS! O'Daniel eventually went into politics with considerable success: he was elected Texas governor.
Some of Bob Wills radio shows ended up on a Liberty LP, being promoted as an "in concert" album.
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| Bob Flood | 3/1/2005 0 replies |
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I hate to admit knowing this fact but Bob Wills has been featured on a Texas Lottery ticket marking the centenial of his birth March 6th, 1905.
No I didn't win on both the tickets I bought...But I figured what a collector's item and maybe my wife will buy my reasoning for buying lottery tickets |