| Western Swing
Photos
Pictured here are just a sample of the over
1000 photos in my collection,
and new ones are being added each day.
Most are of Western Swing bands. Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys,
Spade Cooley, Tex Williams, Jimmy Revard and his Oklahoma Playboys,
Alabama Boys, Merl Lindsay, Johnnie Lee Wills, Noel Boggs,
Moon Mullican, Dickie McBride, Billy Briggs and the XIT Boys with
J. R. Chatwell and as they say, much more.
Click on any
picture for an enlargement.
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Bob
Wills in Ponca City, Oklahoma 1940
Photo #317 |
Bob
Wills and
Tiny Moore
Photo #45 |
Bob
Wills - or is that Humphrey Bogart?
Hollywood Photo
Early 1940's
Photo #273 |
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Jimmie
Widener
with
the Epiphone
Guitar
Bob Wills bought for him
when he replaced
Eldon Shamblin
in early 1947
Photo #5 |
Cindy
Walker studio
photo - early 1940
in New York.
Autographed to
Cliff Bruner
Photo #347 |
Keith
Coleman,
Jimmy Hall,
Leon McAuliffe
and Duane Bass
at KRMG - Tulsa
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Billie
"Tiny" Moore
and his custom five
string
electric
Roberts
Tiny Moore
model mandolin
Photo #100 |
Eldon
Shamblin,
Bob Wills and
Tommy Duncan in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
in front of Cain's
Photo #74 |
Jimmie
Revard
studio photo
Photo #256
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Luke,
Johnnie Lee, Bob
and Billy Jack Wills.
Riverside Rancho in
Los Angeles.
Early 1950's
Photo #108
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The
Billy Jack Wills Band
at Wills Point
1951
Tommy Varner, Kenny Lowery,
Dick McComb, Billy Jack Wills,
Charlie Moore, Cotton Roberts,
Tiny Moore, Lloyd Frankini
Photo #152 |
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The
Fort Worth
Doughboys 1932.
Standing:
Bob Wills,
Milton Brown
Sitting: Sleepy Johnson
and
Durwood Brown.
Comes with a copy of
the Texas Radio Sales Company Flyer that promoted their
Victor record
"Nancy Jane" and
"Sunbonnet Sue"
Photo #242 |
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Johnnie
Lee Wills
and All The Boys.
Wellington, Texas 1947
J.L. Jenkins-steel guitar
Leon Huff, Johnnie Lee Wills,
C.H. McRay, Henry Boatman,
Don Harlan, Wayne Johnson,
Curly Lewis- fiddle
Back Row: Jamie McIntosh
Chuck Adams, Son Lansford.
Standing at far right is
probably piano player.
The band was on its way back
to Tulsa after playing a battle
of the bands with Spade Cooley
in California
Photo #70 |
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Bob
Wills and His Texas Playboys.
Bob Wills, Joe Holley,
Tommy Duncan
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Eldon
Shamblin with
Gibson Super 400,
Son Lansford, Bob Wills,
Johnnie Lee Wills on banjo,
Tommy Duncan with tenor guitar
and Leon McAuliffe.
Photo #63 |
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The
Miller Brother's
Band out of Wichita Falls, Texas
Bill Jourdan, Paul Wayne,
Leon Gibbs, Dutch Ingram,
Bobby Rhodes, Jim McGraw,
Madge Suttee and Lee Miller
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Cliff
Bruner and the
Texas Wanderers.
Leo Raley, Dickie McBride,
Cliff Bruner, Moon Mullican
with banjo, Jo Jo Thames,
Randall Raley, Hessie Bryant
and Bob Dunn. It is Cliff
Bruner's writing on the photo.
Photo #46 |
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Pee
Wee King and His
Golden West Cowboys.
Pee Wee King, Bobby Koefer
at the drums, behind Bobby
Gene Engle, Terry Tichy,
Chuck Wiggins, Red Harron-fiddle,
"Sticks" MacDonald holding
the bass and Red Stewart
Photo #320 |
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The
Original Billy Gray and His
Western Okies Band
Oklahoma City - 1955.
Joe Hendrick, Billy Carson,
Leon Boulandger,
Wayne Foster, Billy Gray,
Bobby Koefer and
Arthur McNulty.
Photo #96 |
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The
Texas Swingsters, 1947
Left to Right: Lance Kenner,
Eugene Ashmead, Curt Schaffer,
Freeman Gibson, Vic Ashmead with his
Montgomery Ward lap steel and
Omar Schaffer
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Crystal
Springs Ramblers, WBAP Studios
Fort Worth, Texas 1937
Top Row: Morris Deason guitar,
Earl Driver sax, Jimmie McAdoo bass,
Ebb Gray tenor banjo, Joe Holley fiddle,
Seated: Pop "Sam" Cunningham manager
Henry "Babe" Cunningham driver & bouncer,
Loran Mitchell piano
Photo #298 |
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Roy
Newman and his Boys.
Back row: Ish Erwin bass,
Bob Dunn steel guitar,
Cecil Brower fiddle,
Jim Boyd guitar/vocals,
Charlie Lockhart vocals
Middle row: Randall "Buddy" Neal guitar
Thurman Neal fiddle,
Holly Horton clarinet,
Earl Brown guitar/vocals.
Walter may be Walter Kirkes tenor banjo,
Front row: Harry ?, Roy Newman
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Herb
Goddard and his Oklahoma Wanderers 1948. Radio station
KGGF in Coffeyville, Kansas.
Left to right: Herb Goddard trumpet & leader, Bob
Douglas fiddle, Randy Randolph drums, Chief Hourseberger
piano,
Edmond Kelton steel guitar, Sonny Tate fiddle, Leo Myers
fiddle and guitar and Ozzie Osborn announcer. At one time
Clarence Cagle was also part of the Oklahoma Wanderers.
Photo #216 |
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Country
Music Jubilee from Springfield. Mo.
Curley Chalker steel guitar
Bob Womack trumpet, Marty Allred drums
Merl Lindsay, Bobby Creighton fiddle
Curley Hollingsworth piano and
Thumbs Carlisle guitar
Photo #81 |
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Merl
Lindsay and the Oklahoma Nite Riders
"That Friendly Band From Oklahoma"
Daily except Sunday from KMTR,
Hollywood, Ca.
Calvin Martin, Freddie Loveland, Buddy Ray,
Bill ?, Vic Bias, Merl Lindsay, Gil Wright,
Paul Stambaugh, Louvenie Loveland
and J.L. Jenkins
Photo #300 |
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Dickie
McBride Band, Houston, Texas 1945, KTRH Radio
Left to right: Dickie McBride guitar, J.D. Standley steel
guitar, J.R. Chatwell fiddle, Dick Jones fiddle, Rome
Landy drums, Buck Henson bass.
Photo #93 |
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Cliff
Bruner's Texas Wanderers
Fall of 1949.
Deacon Anderson steel guitar, Richard Prine, Buck Henson
bass, Cliff Bruner, Ben Mullins piano, and Lee Bell.
Photo #82 |
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Milton
Brown and his Musical Brownies
WBAP Radio, Fort Worth, Texas 1935
Left to right: Ocie Stockard tenor banjo,
Fred Calhoun piano, Wanna Coffman bass,
Milton Brown leader and vocals,
Cecil Brower fiddle, Bob Dunn steel guitar,
Derwood Brown rhythm guitar & vocals.
This is the group that recorded for Decca in Chicago in
January 1935.
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The
Flinthill Boys from Enid, Oklahoma
Year unknown. Back row: Clarence Bailey fiddle, Floyd
Campbell sax, Dale Goens steel guitar, Floyd Mitchell
piano,
Front row: Tug Cruz trumpet, Rudy Martin sax, Tony Oldham
bass.
Photo #208 |
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These
are only a
few samples of our
picture collection of
over 1000 photos.
Let me
know what
you're looking for
and we'll try to find
that special photo. |
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The
Southernaires - 1958
Odessa, Texas at the Silver Saddle Club.
This band played there about three months.
Left to right: Louise Rowe/Allsup bass and vocals, Tommy
Allsup, Pete Waller bass,
Bob Walling drums, Tommy Camfield fiddle,
Chuck Caldwell steel guitar, Buddy Beasly fiddle. Behind
the band at the piano is Moon Mullican. According to
Louise Rowe, Moon played with the band most of the time.
For a short time there was a third fiddle, Little Joe
Carson - not in this picture.
Photo #224 |
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Photos
are carefully
packaged for shipping.
These
pictures also
make great gifts. |
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If you don't see what you are looking for in this sample, just
email me at
tiffanytra@aol.com
and let me know what
you are looking for. In case you have been wondering, tiffanytra is
short for the Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions.
If you let me know what you are looking
for I'll be happy to send you
a Xerox copy so you can see the photo before you
buy.
All photos are 8x10 or very close.
Each photo has a number. Please order by number
as this is the way I locate them in ten binders.
Note: The photos for sale do not have
"Western Swing Journal" printed across the
picture.
Each photo is $10.00 plus $3.75 postage for the first photo
and .50 cents for each additional photo. Checks
or
money orders must
be drawn on a U.S. Bank
Please make all checks or money orders payable to Jesse Morris.
Order by
mailing payment to:
Jesse Morris
120 West Van Buren Street #4
Colorado Springs, Co. 80907-6773
USA
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