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Light Crust Doughboys 1931 – 1933

In Fort Worth, Wills met Herman Arnspinger and formed The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1930 Milton Brown joined the group as lead vocalist and brought a sense of innovation and experimentation to the band, now called the Light Crust Doughboys due to radio sponsorship by the makers of Light Crust Flour.

George Strait Also known as King George Born May 18, 1952 Poteet, Texas, U.S. Origin Pearsall, Texas, U.S. Genres Neotraditional country Western swing

Limestone County, Texas, United States

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Former England captain Bob Willis has died at the age of 70. The fast bowler took 325 wickets in 90 Tests from 1971 to 1984, claiming a career-best 8-43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 Ashes. In a statement, Willis’ family said he had died “after a long illness”.

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Leon McAuliffe. Houston, Texas, U.S. Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. William Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917 – August 20, 1988) was an American Western swing guitarist who was a member of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys during the 1930s.

During the 1930s, when Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys were gaining fame, they began showcasing their unique sound during live shows at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, packing in fans and cementing Tulsa as the home of Western swing.

Western swing music 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. Western swing differs in several ways from the music played by the nationally popular horn-driven big swing bands of the same era.

The origins of country music can be found in recordings Southern Appalachian fiddle players made in the late 1910s. It wasn’t until the early ’20s, however, that country music as a viable recorded genre took hold. The first commercial country record was made by Eck Robertson in 1922 on the Victor Records label.