Classic Tracks: What Makes Bob Holler (Leon McAuliffe), Sally Goodin (Tommy Duncan)

Classic Tracks: What Makes Bob Holler (Leon McAuliffe), Sally Goodin (Tommy Duncan)

Single: What Makes Bob Holler
Vocals: Leon McAuliffe
Columbia Records (Date unknown)

Single Sally Goodin
Vocals: Tommy Duncan
Backing Vocals: The McKinney Sisters
Columbia Records (Date unknown)

About Leon McAuliffe: William Leon McAuliffe (Jan. 3, 1917 ~ Aug. 20, 1988) was a western swing musician and band leader famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys. McAuliffe achieved fame as a steel guitarist in the heyday of Western Swing. His now classic tune Steel Guitar Rag inspired Wills to spotlight McAuliffe by calling out, Look out, friends -- here's Leon. Take it away, boys, take it away! McAuliffe began playing both Hawaiian and standard guitar at age fourteen. Leon began appearing on a local radio station as part of the group the Waikiki Strummers in 1931.

McAuliffe, at age 16, worked with the Light Crust Doughboys, playing both rhythm guitar and steel guitar. In 1935, he joined Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, who would soon become the premier western swing band in existence. Leon stayed with Wills until World War II. While with Wills he helped compose San Antonio Rose (instrumental version). Leon is more noted, however, for his most famous composition, Steel Guitar Rag and his playing, along with that of Houston's Bob Dunn (Light Crust Doughboys) that popularized the steel guitar in the United States. McAuliffe learned to electronically amplify his guitar from Bob Dunn, who later was a member of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies.

About Tommy Duncan: Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11, 1911--July 25, 1967), better known as Tommy Duncan, was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys. He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s.

About Bob Wills: James Robert Wills was born in 1905 on a farm in Limestone County near Kosse, Texas. Jim Rob as he was known in his youth grew up in a musical family of frontier fiddlers. When Bob was eight years old the family moved to Turkey, Texas. It was there at the age of ten that he played the fiddle at his first ranch dance as a fill-in for his father. Turkey has celebrated, for many years, his life and music with a Bob Wills Day that annually draws several thousand people. It is a little overwhelming since the town has a population of just six hundred.

About Columbia Records: Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment and operates as an imprint of the Columbia/Epic Label Group. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company; successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers. From 1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada on the CBS Records label before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world.


RJB: Country Music Historian, June, 2011. References: Record Research: Country Music Singles 1944 -- 1993; Billboard Magazine; RJB: Original Country Music Chronicles

We need to identify the female vocalist in Sally Goodin. If you know who they are, please advise.

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[hagblay]

flash--ty so much for the oldies--i love it--it was down to earth--not like this nashville crap that they r jamming down peoples threoats--but not this guy--no way ty john

[jtls8]

Excellent upload!!!!!