you can hear a lot of music but there will never be another group like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys the song Faded love is one of the greatest I have ever heard
Here I sit at 83 years old listening to Leon play and the memories go way back to a kid down in Garden City, out by Red Fork and West Tulsa near the ols Park Plaza motel and the Pig-in-Pen café...Can't go home again...
Definitely a trip down memory lane . Can't get any better then this. Real country singing, and awesome singers . Thank you so much for posting this. I'm 79 . Brings back a lot of memories
Lyrics to "Faded Love" and "New San Antonio Rose" were written by Bob's youngest brother, Billy Jack, who organized a band for Bob's amusement park, Wills Garden's dance pavillion northeast of Sacramento, from 1942 through 1952. Billy and Tiny Moore developed a faster 4/4 beat music to warm dancers and encourage beverage sales. It seems Bob got the box office and the band had the concessions. There were albums taken from wire recordings from the band's KFLA broadcast which reveal that as early as 1943, Billy Jack's band was playing pure 4/4 beat Rock and Roll, only they referred to it as "fast beat" or "beer selling music."
I got acquainted with a few of them ole boys back in the 80's and 90's when I was going to Bob Wills Day in Turkey. Ole Eldon Shamblin was one of em. He and some of em did a show here in Wichita Falls at one point and he remembered me and came off the stage to shake my hand. I was certainly humbled and impressed with him doing that.
As a kid my Dad and I used to fight over the radio. He said some day your gonna like country music. Well I heard this band and been hooked on country music ever since. Ive never been able to get the CD. Thanks for posting such a wonderful couple of songs. CLASSICS.
My mom used to take my sister and I, to daytime performance's at Cimarron Ballroom (now called the Akdar Theater). It was at 4th & Denver. Leon Mcauliffe and Bob Wills played there often. Around 1949-1951. It was great!! I was about eight or nine and my sister was a year younger than I.
My dad was a huge Bob Wills fan starting back in the late 30s as a teenager...lasted throughout his life..."Faded Love" was his favorite song of all time...Every time I hear it live I promptly burst into tears. Mr. Leon kills it!
Once upon a time, I used to sit outside Cain's (too young and they wouldn't let me in) and listen to Bob and Playboys. What is left of them sounds just like they used to many years ago. Timeless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George is a very close second, along with Asleep at the Wheel. They've both done a great job of keeping interest in Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys alive for the younger generation.
I'm 47 yrs old and enjoy just as others do..age has nothing to do with music..it's amazing grace for us to enjoy and cherish...wish I could have been there for a live concert..Faded 💕 Love..it's gives me chills
I own the barbershop in Turkey, Texas where Bob Wills was a barber in 1927 & 1928. Ham's Barber Shop is on Main Street in Turkey, TX and I am in the process of restoring it to what it looked like in 1925. We should be done with the restoration this year (2021). I also own the 1948 "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys" tour bus parked on Main Street at my restored 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station. Turkey has the Bob Wills museum in town and a pretty large monument to Bob Wills in the city park.
I've been to Turkey !!!! Took pictures by his statue, and sign on the edge of town !!!! Did that to honor my Mom and Dad!!! They dearly loved Bob and the Playboys!!!! That's all I heard growing up !!!! Love it!!!!!
I love all forms of Country Western! It can be Old Country. It can be Western Swing. It can be Country Blues. It can be Cajun. It can be Country Rock. I love it all!!
Thank you so much for posting this!! I got to meet the gentlemen back in 1987 at Seminole State College in Seminole, Oklahoma; they were as down home, friendly and I had a blast. I could’ve listened all night but, Leon MacAulliff said they had to get on the road. The band signed my program ☺️ and I don’t let anyone touch it - it’s framed and not in light. At one point Al Stricklan stopped the show so I could take his picture!
When I was 12 someone put a nickel in a juke box in Cafe I was eating in with my dad and that was the first time I heard Faded Love, an instrumental record of it In Roscoe Texas.
I remember dancing in a place "Gruene Hall" that he played often, . We had a country band back in the 80's and played both of these songs and other Bob Wills tunes. I used to really like to play Texas swing on the Bass and can still play all these songs today.
I own property in Blanco County ,TX and have been to Gruene Hall many times over the years. I own the barber shop in Turkey, Texas where Bob Wills was a barber in 1927 & 1928. I'm in the process of restoring the barber shop (Ham's Barber Shop) back to what it looked like in 1925. The restoration should be done this year (2021). I also own the 1948 "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys" tour bus parked on Main Street in Turkey at my restored 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station. Stop by and take a look if you ever get up to Turkey !
I'm the bored-looking kid in the blue shirt in the first couple of frames. Believe me, I wasn't bored when they played Steel Guitar Rag! Still my favorite song to this day.
I believe this may be at Roundup, Oklahoma. They had a matinee and evening concert. I recall as the curtain went up the crowd gave them a 5 minute standing ovation before they played the first note. It was great. I went to both shows. Never forget it.
This may have been Al Strickland's last show have to study that one but it wasn't the incorporated Texas Playboys last show or show. Great Video. I was playing with Leon when he passed what a great man and educated musician. Eldon and Leon started twin parts that were inspirational to the Allman Brothers and more.
Howdy! Al Strickland passed shortly before this performance. The Playboys agreed that when one of the first of the original group died, they would stop performing as the Playboys. This show in Ft. Worth in June 1986 was supposed to be their last, but they did play more shows.
My mom use to tell me stories about a short man with a fiddle and a cigar that use to visit her dad in Sugartown, Louisiana back in the late 30s, and early 40s, where he and my grandpa would pick and fiddle and Faded Love was the one they played the most.
Howdy! This concert was supposed to be their last, but they did play together for several more years. This performance is at the old Ft. Worth Convention Center in June, 1986. Thanks for all the great comments!
James Shambling, I know your Dad was from Cyril, Oklahoma!!!! I think the city stadium is named after him. Seems like they used to have an Eldon Shamblin day every year!!! Love his music and of course the Bob Wills and Playboys music!! My Mom and Dad worshipped Bob Wills music, so I heard it a lot when I was young!!! My husband and I went through Turkey, Texas a few years ago, and I took pictures!!! Loved it!!!
Many thanks jsham66 for posting this whole final series concert of the Texas Playboys. I did not know about them and stumbled here by accident. Now I know why these boys were, and still are, very much loved by those who grew up with their music. I agree with luvaguitaror2's comments - "simply monumental", "immortal" - and I'll add my own "pure magic". But then words just don't/can't sum them up do they? The only thing to do, really, is just keep going back and hit that replay button :-)
My grandmother Ollie Camren would play this song 'Faded Love' well into her 80;s, She lived to age 97. I have her fiddle that she played along with the old 'coffin box' case.
What I can see it's Leon McAuliffe who makes the introIt's the same words he used for Tompall Glaser's version of this song. This is one of my top 10 songs and I think Tompall's version is the very best.
Simply monumental! How many contributed to that sound and how long it took to build! A genuine work of art by Bob Wills. " Immortal" nails it! Many thanks to jsham66!
My pa paw played fiddle for Bob Wills during B W'S career ,,,, Years later 70's ,,, I'd go to pa paw's house with my guitar.. We'd sit in his living room and he would play this song note for note on his fiddle while i played the guitar. a jam session lol..Pa paw lived behind a Shamrock gas station ... He'd give me a 5.00$ bill and ask me to get us some beer And we would play Faded love over and over,,,I guess he missed ma maw ..this was years ago... Love you Pa paw ,,Man !!! You and ma maw are truely missed
It's a Quad neck Fender Stringmaster; the only one made in cimarron red; the push buttons are replaced by 4 switches. Leon's style is awesome, really an execellent steel player! Great musicians!
On October 1st 1977 I carried Leon's 'widow maker' 4 neck Stringmaster from the Wagon Camp stage out to his rental car in the parking lot of Knott's Berry Farm after he and the Texas Playboys recorded their 'Live and Kickin' album for Capitol Records.
My daddy would sing bob wills songs to me as a child and I grew up dancing with daddy to theses same songs I would give anything to dance one more set with my daddy and bob wills
got to shake hands with these men maybe '83-4....gentlemen all, a dream for aa kid that played drums behind his dad in the '60s who always opened with the San Antonio Rose
Im 80 and remember Eldon Shamblin who I assume posted this video, SmokeyMontgomery, Leon McCauliff, Smokey Dacus. Bob Boatwright, and Furgeson.My uncle George tried out for Bobs band (and was rejected BTW)Imagine recording with such primitive equipment . Amazing. Goodbye Jim RobWills.
Howdy Arthur! The videos were posted by me, James Shamblin. I am Eldon's nephew. Carl Shamblin was Eldon's older brother. My dad was 51 when I was born and I am now in my early 50's. I am glad I was able to transfer the VHS tape of this concert to digital video. So many seem to be enjoying it. Take care!
Love the music, love that song, love the band. Can someone who 's better educated than me tell me who's singing? I'm pretty sure it's not Tommy Duncan, but that's about as far as I can go ... thanks.
George Strait hired as many of Playboys as could still play. I'm not fond of Texas politics, I just know these guys could play WE are one America,against all foes, foreirn and domestic, Put some twin fiddles on them!
I was pretty sure this wasnt really their last appearance. Seems to me I saw emat an aopearance in the stockyards in front of Leddy Bros..Bob Boatwright didthe emceeing..On the last number said "We need to do this last number rast soI can get back to the old folks home before they lock the gate..Lol.
James Shamblin. Where was this recorded? I remember when Bob would playFt Worth Crystal Hill Ball Room and out draw Tommy Dorsey and Glen Millerinndowntown Ft Worth
Howdy! This performance was in Ft. Worth in June 1986. It was supposed to be their last as the Playboys, but they ended up playing more shows together.
What I miss the most is the steel Gitarre , ts hard to find any in the NEW country , is m not crazy about the new anyway , besides they all sound the same these days .
6-19-2024 anybody besides me still listening to bob willis and the Texas playboys
6-30-2024... I have listened to this way more times than I can count.
you can hear a lot of music but there will never be another group like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys the song Faded love is one of the greatest I have ever heard
Roger Cole amen!
Bob Wills learned that song from his Dad, who knew it as Darling Nellie Gray.
Bob and his brother John wrote the song. In 1963 it became a Patsy Cline classic.
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Faded love is probably the greatedt western song ever written
Here I sit at 83 years old listening to Leon play and the memories go way back to a kid down in Garden City, out by Red Fork and West Tulsa near the ols Park Plaza motel and the Pig-in-Pen café...Can't go home again...
Definitely a trip down memory lane . Can't get any better then this. Real country singing, and awesome singers . Thank you so much for posting this. I'm 79 . Brings back a lot of memories
Long long time ago, my mom (a W Texas farm girl) got to dance w/him at a local joint. Remembered it all her life.
Big deal for her!
1986 I graduated high school . My dad took me to see this live ..2020 1 day away .. sure miss this in my life ! Leon and Tommy. Bob wills.
It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is STILL the King.
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Lyrics to "Faded Love" and "New San Antonio Rose" were written by Bob's youngest brother, Billy Jack, who organized a band for Bob's amusement park, Wills Garden's dance pavillion northeast of Sacramento, from 1942 through 1952. Billy and Tiny Moore developed a faster 4/4 beat music to warm dancers and encourage beverage sales. It seems Bob got the box office and the band had the concessions. There were albums taken from wire recordings from the band's KFLA broadcast which reveal that as early as 1943, Billy Jack's band was playing pure 4/4 beat Rock and Roll, only they referred to it as "fast beat" or "beer selling music."
I am too young to have heard Bob Wills live, but my grandparents probably danced to his live music at ballroom he and his band played at all the time.
Bob Wills was a mainstay in my household as a child back in the early 70's .
Been listening to Bob Wills ever since!!!! What a showman!
Ditto
I used to dance with my grandad to this music back then. I so very dearly wish I could still.
I got acquainted with a few of them ole boys back in the 80's and 90's when I was going to Bob Wills Day in Turkey. Ole Eldon Shamblin was one of em. He and some of em did a show here in Wichita Falls at one point and he remembered me and came off the stage to shake my hand. I was certainly humbled and impressed with him doing that.
It really doesn't get much better than this
As a kid my Dad and I used to fight over the radio. He said some day your gonna like country music. Well I heard this band and been hooked on country music ever since. Ive never been able to get the CD. Thanks for posting such a wonderful couple of songs. CLASSICS.
My mom used to take my sister and I, to daytime performance's at Cimarron Ballroom (now called the Akdar Theater). It was at 4th & Denver. Leon Mcauliffe and Bob Wills played there often. Around 1949-1951. It was great!! I was about eight or nine and my sister was a year younger than I.
Watching these videos makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
My dad was a huge Bob Wills fan starting back in the late 30s as a teenager...lasted throughout his life..."Faded Love" was his favorite song of all time...Every time I hear it live I promptly burst into tears. Mr. Leon kills it!
I love this song I heard a lot about Bob Wills what a unique voice. How are you Laura ?
Pure Western Swing Gold! I grew up listening to this music. When my Dad was transferred to San Antonio, I was so excited, I couldn't sleep for days!
The Sweetest music, to ever come out of "A Texas Fiddle" Mr. Bob & His Texas Boys.
Thank You All, Bobs fans. Jerry V. North Georgia.
Once upon a time, I used to sit outside Cain's (too young and they wouldn't let me in) and listen to Bob and Playboys. What is left of them sounds just like they used to many years ago. Timeless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A late friend of mine, Abe Mulkey played guitar for Bob Wills and the Texas Playboy's. Bob is definitely an American/ Texas icon.
I'm a NC country boy and I really appreciate this.
Bob Wills is still the King.
Sorry, George.
George is a very close second, along with Asleep at the Wheel. They've both done a great job of keeping interest in Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys alive for the younger generation.
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Agree.
King George is a very close #2
Simply, beautiful music and singing. Brings back memories of those awesome days and times.
Faded Love, still one of the best and most requested songs by The Texas Playboys...
I'm 47 yrs old and enjoy just as others do..age has nothing to do with music..it's amazing grace for us to enjoy and cherish...wish I could have been there for a live concert..Faded 💕 Love..it's gives me chills
Bob Wills will always be the King. Thanks for posting
I own the barbershop in Turkey, Texas where Bob Wills was a barber in 1927 & 1928. Ham's Barber Shop is on Main Street in Turkey, TX and I am in the process of restoring it to what it looked like in 1925. We should be done with the restoration this year (2021). I also own the 1948 "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys" tour bus parked on Main Street at my restored 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station. Turkey has the Bob Wills museum in town and a pretty large monument to Bob Wills in the city park.
I've been to Turkey !!!! Took pictures by his statue, and sign on the edge of town !!!! Did that to honor my Mom and Dad!!! They dearly loved Bob and the Playboys!!!! That's all I heard growing up !!!! Love it!!!!!
Nobody could take it away like Leon
Nobody could sing it like the other Leon, Leon Rauch.
Always enjoyed Johnny Gimble fiddle playing on the intro to this.
What a gas to see and hear these guys again! Thanks, James! Hey, there's Eldon playing hot lead on Steel Guitar Rag!
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Thank you so much for putting this on You Tube. I had taped this when they did it and somehow lost it in a move. These guys were the best ever.
I love all forms of Country Western! It can be Old Country. It can be Western Swing. It can be Country Blues. It can be Cajun. It can be Country Rock. I love it all!!
I was going to say rest in peace Leon, but I'm sure he is making some sweet music in heaven.
Thank you so much for posting this!!
I got to meet the gentlemen back in 1987 at Seminole State College in Seminole, Oklahoma; they were as down home, friendly and I had a blast.
I could’ve listened all night but, Leon MacAulliff said they had to get on the road.
The band signed my program ☺️ and I don’t let anyone touch it - it’s framed and not in light.
At one point Al Stricklan stopped the show so I could take his picture!
The greatest band of all time the Texas Playboy's
Absolutely !!!! The greatest !!!!!!
When I was 12 someone put a nickel in a juke box in Cafe I was eating in with my dad and that was the first time I heard Faded Love, an instrumental record of it In Roscoe Texas.
RIP Leon. Sadly missed
Now That's how Country music is Done The Real Thing Thanks
..erm WESTERN....
I remember dancing in a place "Gruene Hall" that he played often, .
We had a country band back in the 80's and played both of these songs and other Bob Wills tunes. I used to really like to play Texas swing on the Bass and can still play all these songs today.
Awesome, I met my girlfriend at Gruene Hall! Love Western swing and I play the bass too!
I own property in Blanco County ,TX and have been to Gruene Hall many times over the years. I own the barber shop in Turkey, Texas where Bob Wills was a barber in 1927 & 1928. I'm in the process of restoring the barber shop (Ham's Barber Shop) back to what it looked like in 1925. The restoration should be done this year (2021). I also own the 1948 "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys" tour bus parked on Main Street in Turkey at my restored 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station. Stop by and take a look if you ever get up to Turkey !
@@BigTex347 If I'm ever that way I would love to see all of that. It would be nice if you had a website with all of these restorations shown also....
Yeah, this is the U.S. I love.
I'm the bored-looking kid in the blue shirt in the first couple of frames. Believe me, I wasn't bored when they played Steel Guitar Rag! Still my favorite song to this day.
I believe this may be at Roundup, Oklahoma. They had a matinee and evening concert. I recall as the curtain went up the crowd gave them a 5 minute standing ovation before they played the first note. It was great. I went to both shows. Never forget it.
this was the final concert in Fort Worth after Al Stricklin died. and they retired
This may have been Al Strickland's last show have to study that one but it wasn't the incorporated Texas Playboys last show or show. Great Video. I was playing with Leon when he passed what a great man and educated musician. Eldon and Leon started twin parts that were inspirational to the Allman Brothers and more.
Unfortunately Al passed before this show. The piano player for this show was Clarence Cagle.
Howdy! Al Strickland passed shortly before this performance. The Playboys agreed that when one of the first of the original group died, they would stop performing as the Playboys. This show in Ft. Worth in June 1986 was supposed to be their last, but they did play more shows.
The Reel McCoy Productions I heard an instrumental version of this the first time i heard it on a jukebox in Roscoe Texas when i was about ten.
Leon was great!!
My mom use to tell me stories about a short man with a fiddle and a cigar that use to visit her dad in Sugartown, Louisiana back in the late 30s, and early 40s, where he and my grandpa would pick and fiddle and Faded Love was the one they played the most.
Howdy! This concert was supposed to be their last, but they did play together for several more years. This performance is at the old Ft. Worth Convention Center in June, 1986. Thanks for all the great comments!
James Shamblin is every man on that stage gone except for mr. Roushe
James Shambling, I know your Dad was from Cyril, Oklahoma!!!! I think the city stadium is named after him. Seems like they used to have an Eldon Shamblin day every year!!! Love his music and of course the Bob Wills and Playboys music!! My Mom and Dad worshipped Bob Wills music, so I heard it a lot when I was young!!! My husband and I went through Turkey, Texas a few years ago, and I took pictures!!! Loved it!!!
God bless Texas
When he cracked and cried for a second, I shed a tear at 0:45
Bob wills is still the KING!
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Many thanks jsham66 for posting this whole final series concert of the Texas Playboys. I did not know about them and stumbled here by accident. Now I know why these boys were, and still are, very much loved by those who grew up with their music. I agree with luvaguitaror2's comments - "simply monumental", "immortal" - and I'll add my own "pure magic". But then words just don't/can't sum them up do they? The only thing to do, really, is just keep going back and hit that replay button :-)
Where has America gone?
+billy montella jr _____ In The Toilet Billy, & If Witch Hilda Gets In,"She'll Flush It".
+JERRY VANDIVER You mean "Billary"? Or do you mean "Hildabeast"?
+popoaggie Hildabeast"
Well we have a new artist named Clay Aery and you will like his music, of course he’s from Tulsa. Lol
Gone with the Wind!
Even the Rolling Stones covered "Bob Wills is Still the 'Kang'" with Ron Wood playing steel.
My grandmother Ollie Camren would play this song 'Faded Love' well into her 80;s, She lived to age 97. I have her fiddle that she played along with the old 'coffin box' case.
Bob Wills is Still the King 🤴 of Western Swing!!!
My great uncle Wes Nivens played with the Texas Playboys. Love this music.
What I can see it's Leon McAuliffe who makes the introIt's the same words he used for Tompall Glaser's version of this song. This is one of my top 10 songs and I think Tompall's version is the very best.
A real good singer. One of the greats for sure.
Yes. This is classic country music I love it so emotional. How are you Kathleen ?
Tears me up.
Simply monumental! How many contributed to that sound and how long it took to build! A genuine work of art by Bob Wills. " Immortal" nails it! Many thanks to jsham66!
I play the Steel Guitar Rag the same way that Leon plays it. I always admired Leon.
My pa paw played fiddle for Bob Wills during B W'S career ,,,, Years later 70's ,,, I'd go to pa paw's house with my guitar.. We'd sit in his living room and he would play this song note for note on his fiddle while i played the guitar. a jam session lol..Pa paw lived behind a Shamrock gas station ... He'd give me a 5.00$ bill and ask me to get us some beer And we would play Faded love over and over,,,I guess he missed ma maw ..this was years ago... Love you Pa paw ,,Man !!! You and ma maw are truely missed
wow the year I was born.
It don't matter whose in AUSTIN OR NASHVILLE, BOB WILS IS STILL THE KING -FOREVER...
For me, Eldon defined the difference between this and everything else. Those descants are genius.
That's Leon McAuliffe on the steel guitar. He's got that signature 4-neck steel. Great video!!!
Randy Frost Take it away, Leon!
It's a Quad neck Fender Stringmaster; the only one made in cimarron red; the push buttons are replaced by 4 switches. Leon's style is awesome, really an execellent steel player! Great musicians!
On October 1st 1977 I carried Leon's 'widow maker' 4 neck Stringmaster from the Wagon Camp stage out to his rental car in the parking lot of Knott's Berry Farm after he and the Texas Playboys recorded their 'Live and Kickin' album for Capitol Records.
Bob and Leon wrote " Steel Guitar Rag".
Bob was right there with them, no doubt.
Remember when Bobs daughter opened the oldie Bob Wills Record Shop n theStockyards? Fave song "Stay all nite, stay a little longer"?
magnificently understated.....
Ijail Swindlers lee Ann romorrs
My daddy would sing bob wills songs to me as a child and I grew up dancing with daddy to theses same songs I would give anything to dance one more set with my daddy and bob wills
got to shake hands with these men maybe '83-4....gentlemen all, a dream for aa kid that played drums behind his dad in the '60s who always opened with the San Antonio Rose
Truly wonderful. But what are we going to be left with when all the old stagers who played the music coz they loved it are called home?.
sledge1960 You mean we will not be able to get by with the likes of what Nash Vegas is calling country music these days?
Dang beautiful.
I miss waltzing to Faded Love and dancing to San Antonio Rose.
Outstanding
Im 80 and remember Eldon Shamblin who I assume posted this video, SmokeyMontgomery, Leon McCauliff, Smokey Dacus. Bob Boatwright, and Furgeson.My uncle George tried out for Bobs band (and was rejected BTW)Imagine recording with such primitive equipment . Amazing. Goodbye Jim RobWills.
Howdy Arthur! The videos were posted by me, James Shamblin. I am Eldon's nephew. Carl Shamblin was Eldon's older brother. My dad was 51 when I was born and I am now in my early 50's. I am glad I was able to transfer the VHS tape of this concert to digital video. So many seem to be enjoying it. Take care!
James Shamblin Thank you Mr. Shamblin!
I remember seeing some of the Texas playboys over in parsons Kansas
Shout out to Rick Dudley, turkey texas
Miss that country western sound.
Beautifu Bob Wills and this concert so important
Great
great!
Leon sounds great here.
Leon was kin to me some how I play a lap steel wish I had more family info
That was in Tulsa Oklahoma.
Love the music, love that song, love the band. Can someone who 's better educated than me tell me who's singing? I'm pretty sure it's not Tommy Duncan, but that's about as far as I can go ... thanks.
Hot as Firecrackers!!!
bravo, eldon shamblin and leon mc. auliffe
this is great
You can hear Leon start to choke up at the end of the introduction! Music was their passion.
George Strait hired as many of Playboys as could still play. I'm not fond of Texas politics, I just know these guys could play WE are one America,against all foes, foreirn and domestic, Put some twin fiddles on them!
WESTERN swing..
I was pretty sure this wasnt really their last appearance. Seems to me I saw emat an aopearance in the stockyards in front of Leddy Bros..Bob Boatwright didthe emceeing..On the last number said "We need to do this last number rast soI can get back to the old folks home before they lock the gate..Lol.
James Shamblin. Where was this recorded? I remember when Bob would playFt Worth Crystal Hill Ball Room and out draw Tommy Dorsey and Glen Millerinndowntown Ft Worth
Howdy! This performance was in Ft. Worth in June 1986. It was supposed to be their last as the Playboys, but they ended up playing more shows together.
A friend and I were both agreeing with one another that we dislike country music, but we both appreciate Western swing. Aah, I holler!
My Dad was Tommy Jackson. Or that's what Bob called him. He could never remember that Dad's last name was Ashmore.
Bob's brother, it was told wrote lyrics for this.
never mind
Hey some we are not forgotten bobstill is theking
While many wills copy the sound these made,
theres none that swing it like these ding dong daddys.
What I miss the most is the steel Gitarre , ts hard to find any in the NEW country , is m not crazy about the new anyway , besides they all sound the same these days .
Are you related to Eldon?
Bob Wills is still the king!
White boy soul music.