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Pages in category "Western swing songs" ... out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. ... (Cooley song) Sitting on Top of the World; Sleepy-Eyed John;
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 ...
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).
Western swing songs (33 P) Pages in category "Western swing" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Other stations followed and soon, anyone with a radio could hear music previously unavailable to them. Still, many radios broadcast local music. KVOO in Tulsa aired Western swing from Bob Wills for more than twenty years. In 1958, KOMA, a 50,000 watt radio station in Oklahoma City, began a format of playing Top 40 recordings and Rock & Roll ...
Western swing star Bob Wills tops the chart with "Smoke on the Water"; as this had already been a number one for Red Foley the previous year, it is the first song to be a country number one for two different acts since Billboard dropped its brief initial policy of treating multiple recordings of a song as one entry. [18] 1946
(Top) 1 Swing. 2 Western swing. 3 Swing revival groups (post-1960) 4 References. ... This is a list of swing and Western swing musicians. Swing. Anita O'Day (1919–2006)
Asleep at the Wheel is an American Western swing music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, in 1970, [4] and is based in Austin, Texas.The band has won nine Grammy Awards, released over 20 albums, and has charted more than 21 singles on the Billboard country charts.