Bob Wills

Birthday: March 06, 1906

"The King of Western Swing," Bob Wills became but one of the many hillbilly and country & western recording artists to be corralled by B-Western producers who counted on the genre's popularity in the South and Midwest. Accompanied by his band, the Texas Playboys, Wills found his way into Take Me Back to Oklahoma (1940), a Tex Ritter oater which, when premiering in the ...more