Texas Playboys on TV 1976
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at
9:47 am
When my cousin Skeeter Elkin, piano player for Bob Wills, gave me this video he told me that when it aired it pre-empted the traditional national TV sunday night programming of The Wonderful World of Walt Disney. Only Bob Wills and cheap drugs no prescription the Texas Playboys ever had power to bump the mouse! … Bob Wills Texas Playboys Dolly Parton Merle Haggard
Bob Wills is the only music me and my grandparents have in common but im sure glad they got me hooked on him. Bob Wills can make u feel good at the worst of times.
wonderful video….it don’t get no better.
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+these guys were the best of the best,why do we have to lose such priceless talent.merle haggard, thanks for putting that show together,and thanks to the guy who posted the clip, without himm we would have missed a very special moment in time
Well I’m a girl so there you go. My pleasure.
Amazing talented musicians!
My first guitar teacher was Tiny Moore, in Sacramento. I was 10 (1963) when I first started taking lessons. He once told me that if I would learn to play the pedal steel, I’d never be out of work. Wish I’d listened! I got my first Alamo guitar & amp from Tiny, and years later he sold me his own Gretch Tennessen. Wish I still had that guitar! One day I’ll see Tiny in the big band in the Sky, and show him that I really did pay attention to what he taught me! They don’t make guys like him anymore!
Who is the steel player? There is still a thriving western swing scene in many parts of the country but nothing approaches the full talent of the Wills Band on all cylinders. The Tiny Moore solo was terrific. Man could that guy play. Check out Back To Back, the disc he recorded with Jethro Burns.
I think the steel player is Herb Remington, maker of Remington Steel Guitars. Great , isn’t he?
yup, Herb Remington
This is good!
I didn’t know the Hag played the fiddle…that’s crazy! Great music though….I really have been getting more and more into merle…he could do just about anything… Western Swing, Old School, Bakersfield…the list goes on…but needless to say, good job to the Texas Playboy’s and Merle Haggard…
RIP Bob!
The dude on the right is playing the fiddle left handed. Never seen it before. No reason it can’t be done, just never seen it done.
The dude on the right is my late father Joe Holley. He played left handed on a right hand strung fiddle. He was self taught and worked with Bob longer than any outher fiddle player.
James Holley By Golly
I played with a few of Bob’s or JL’s alums around Tulsa. Autry Rutledge, Gene Crownover and maybe some others. Its been awhile. Not sure I spelled Gene’s name.right.
I knew a bunch of those guys. I loved Gene Crownovers playing. If your in Tulsa, stop in to Roy and Candies music. Tell them Joe Holleys son said howdy. This video was cut in 1978 in Nashville. It was broadcast on NBC in a three hour special called 50 Years Of Country Music.
Flawless. Especially San Antonio Rose.
He’s still got it, too. I saw him in Dallas back in March of this year and he can still play circles around anybody!
I’m a yankee who loves bob wills and texas swing. I put this on the cd player and everyone else loves it too, my friends in their 20’s, too, which is kind of a surprise.
I’m a big Merle fan but Bob Wills is still the king
i didn’t know merle played the fiddle
1:48 GO ELECTRIC MANDOLIN GO!!!!!!
a great clip of the way it is and the way it’ll always be!
“Ahhhaahhhhhhh well, Skeeter..you heard what I said, boy…Dirty!…Diiiirty!”
One of the first Bob Wills songs I ever heard was “Texas Blues.” I love that line in that song. Skeeter played piano on that. It’s awesome that he’s your cousin. Western Swing was one of the first genre’s of country that I got into (after getting into bluegrass). Wills music & his great musicians influenced much of my musical taste. Love it!
I believe that the mandolinist on the video is Tiny moore, now deceased from Sacramento, CA. He was one of the greats. He played a five-string Electric Mandolin (C below G) A great video!