Bob Wills
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1905-03-06
- Died
- 1975-05-13
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Last Buffalo in Kansas
- Ideas
- Bob Wills - King of Western Swing
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Limestone County, Texas, USA
Bob Wills, fiddler and band leader of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys, was an influential developer of the western swing music style in the late 1930s through the 1940s. He appeared on over a dozen Western films.
Known for
- This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)2021
- Austin City Limits — Self1975
- Blazing the Western Trail — Bob1945
- Lawless Empire — Bob1945
- Rhythm Round-Up — Bob Wills1945
- Wyoming Hurricane — Bob1944
- The Last Horseman — Bob1944
- Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys — Himself1944
- Saddles and Sagebrush — Bob -Texas Playboys Band Leader1943
- Riders of the Northwest Mounted — Mountie Bob Wills1943
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 56,307
- Total plays
- 413,295
Tags
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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing. Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals <a href="https://www
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,105x
- Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.
· 1985 · cited 14,834x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
- <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data
· 2004 · cited 8,859x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,083x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 6 March 1905
- Died
- 13 May 1975
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kosse
- Place of death
- Fort Worth
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- music
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1905 births1975 deaths20th-century American fiddlers20th-century American male singers20th-century American singer-songwritersAmerican bandleadersAmerican country singer-songwritersAmerican male singer-songwritersBlackface minstrel performersCharly Records artistsCountry bandleadersCountry Music Hall of Fame inductees