home
issue thirteen
issue fourteen
back issues
photos
favorite links
bob wills catalog
johnnie lee wills
mission statement
subscriptions

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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



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
Photo #95

 

 

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

 



Luke, Johnnie Lee, Bob
 and Billy Jack Wills. 
Riverside Rancho in Los Angeles. 
Early 1950's
Photo #108

 

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



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

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



Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. 
Bob Wills, Joe Holley,
 Tommy Duncan
Photo #69

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



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
Photo #117

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 



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

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



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
Photo #38

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



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
Photo #322

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



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

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



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

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



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.
Photo #42

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



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.

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

Photos are carefully
 packaged for shipping.

These pictures also 
make great gifts.


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

 

Copyright 2003 - Western Swing Journal - All Rights Reserved

  home ] issue thirteen ] issue fourteen ] back issues ] [ photos ] favorite links ] bob wills catalog ] johnnie lee wills ] mission statement ] subscriptions ]