Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: "Stay a Little Longer"

[ignatz18cu]

Joe Holley on left-handed fiddle; Noel Boggs on Epiphone steel, and jazz guitar great Jimmy Wyble taking the ride at 1:03.

[SpeegBJ]

Could have this for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Delicious!

[sean57]

yeeehhhaaaaa!!!!!!!!!



[Sonogal4]

Is that Bob Kaiser on the lead guitar, and his brother?

[rlpittsjr]

A nice blending of Texas swing and Jazz.

[DeAnneisaAggie]

I'm related to bob wills he is my great granpas cousin!...well was! Haha

[Flint3162]

arlichar...

bob was a breakdown fiddler, one of the best! He put the band together, wrote, played, hollered, arranged (though Eldon Shamblin was the great guitarist and the main arranger)...it was his baby. In those days you had band leaders who also played, but were the face of the band.

[gringoflamenco]

"grab yo' gal an' pat her on the head

If she don't like biscuits, feed 'er cornbread

girls down on Big Creek, 'bout half-grown

jump on a man like a dog on a bone"

Makes me smile ever time I hear it, this is an all time great.

Bob Wills and Tomy Duncan

Joe Holley (aka "Jody") is the left hand fiddler btw

[fiddlersas]

Who's the left handed fiddler?

[arlichar11]

again tommy and the playboys make magic while bob just looks silly and gets all the credit....

[McGrenzer]

"Hammy," maybe, but a great moment and so entertaining!

[GirlCousins]

That ain't hammy--that's Bob Wills!

[jmak2268]

Love the pan to the "cowboys", notice all the guns, fella's gotta have guns when he plays the fiddle... Bob looks a little chubby?  And the horn at the end...

[bigsurmac]

Had to be the early WWII years. Tommy Duncan was still there, Leon was not.

Caling Bob "Hammy" is failing to realize this genius lived for the music. His blend of New Orleans/Natchez/Memphis/Kansas City/Chicago jazz, Big Band swing, Broadway, even light opera, Mexican sounds and rhythms, traditional Celtic fiddle tunes, "Cowboy" music, Gospel and Delta Blues and Soul changed the face of American Music. Billy Jack Wills, in mid-teens in 1942,was on drums some, leading to his creation of R&R.

[guambetty]

I love their "HAMMING" it up!!!!

[AirstripBum]

Fantastic! What movie was this in? Looks like it might have been a Tex Ritter movie. Bob was in a couple of those. But there must be others too.

[deanhamilton]

Ya just gotta wear your guns when you are jamming.

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! If the late great Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys had been any cooler they'd have been frozen! Certainly the KINGS of Western Swing! THANKS so much for sharing this titillating treasure of a toe tapper for us to enjoy! :)

[robbyscotthill]

Everybody knows who Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson are. Before they became famous, they grew up listening to Bob Wills, The Original King of Country Music.

[mjazzguitar]

Those solos were great! Nice tune.

[downhill240]

Hot diggity-dawg! LOL Great vid.