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  2. Category:Western swing songs - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Western swing songs" The following 33 pages are in ...

  3. Western swing - Wikipedia

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    Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...

  4. Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs - Wikipedia

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    Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs is the third album by Canadian country and western artist Colter Wall. [5] [4] [3] It was released on August 28, 2020, through La Honda Records and Thirty Tigers. [1] [2]

  5. The Hot Club of Cowtown - Wikipedia

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    The Hot Club's first album, 1998's Swingin' Stampede is a collection of standards, fiddle tunes, and classic Western swing songs, including two written by Bob Wills. Their 1999 follow-up album, Tall Tales, includes original songs by Smith and James, including Darling You And I Are Through by James, and Emily and When I Lost You by Smith, as well as more Western Swing standards by Bob Wills ...

  6. Take Me Back to Tulsa - Wikipedia

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    "Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin' Georgia Rose" in 1940. [3] The song is one of eight country music performances selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll". [4]

  7. Western swing fiddle - Wikipedia

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    Westerns swing originated in the 1920s and 1930s; small towns in the US Southwest. Although sometimes subject to the term "Texas swing" it is widely associated with Tulsa, [1] others contend that "Western Swing music finds deep roots in the dust bowl of Oklahoma", [2] and its influences include jazz from the major urban centers of the United States.

  8. Bob Wills - Wikipedia

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    James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).

  9. Category:Western swing - Wikipedia

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