78 RPM - Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Steel Guitar Rag / Swing Blues No. 1 - Vocalion - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
Label:	Vocalion
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	03394
Date:	Dec 1936
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$79
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PRICE GUIDE

$79

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	Steel Guitar Rag	Leon McAuliffe	9.0 Rate
B	Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys	Swing Blues No. 1		9.0 Rate

Notes

A: Novelty Hot Dance. B: Novelty Hot Dance with Singing [vocal by Tommy Duncan].

A composer's last name is misspelled on the label as McAulliffe.

Recorded Sep 29 & 30, 1936, Furniture Mart Building, 666 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL, mx: C 1479 (A), C 1504 (B).
Reissued on OKeh 03394 (1940), Columbia 37620 (Jun 1947), Columbia 20219 (1948).

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Comments and Reviews


Apes Ville 21st Jun 2024		" it was reissued many times in the 1940s, first on OKeh, then on Columbia." They are take 2 This is Take 1



W.B.lbl 14th May 2015		{Image #746453} was a circa 1939-40 pressing from the Romaine Street ARC / Columbia plant in Hollywood, CA; all other variants {Images #603292, 603293, 603294 & 603295} came from Bridgeport, CT.



slholzer 14th Feb 2015		A lot of what passes for western swing nowadays has lost track of the swing part. These two tracks have it covered. Steel guitarists like McAuliffe were blazing a trail for guitarists who would eventually have the advantage of electric gadgetry. I'm sure if you asked Chet Atkins or Les Paul about Leon McAuliffe they would acknowledge his influence without hesitation.



BigBadBluesMan 13th Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 13th Feb 2015



fixbutte 24th Nov 2014		Added the original 1936 Vocalion issue of this groundbreaking Western swing instrumental, with the first pressing's black labels and the blue labels of later pressings (1937 and after). Written by one of the Texas Playboys, steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe, "Steel Guitar Rag" was obviously inspired by a then popular Hawaiian song. It must have been a huge seller for CBS (owner of Vocalion since 1938), because after the discontinuation of Vocalion it was reissued many times in the 1940s, first on OKeh, then on Columbia.