Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers Born:  September 29, 1910 Died:  December 7, 1977

Bill Boyd was born on the family's cattle ranch at Ladonia, Texas. He also had three brothers who were also later well-known in the field of music and radio entertainment. He grew up in a typical cowboy sense on a ranch with the chores and all. But when chores got light, the brothers took to learning music of the western kind. Bill first learned to play the harmonica. As time went by, neighbors near and far were coming by to hear the Boyd brothers play their home-style tunes of the west. When he was 19, Bill was pretty good at the guitar and piano and got himself an offer from a radio station. Along the way, Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers were formed around 1930. They began recording on the Victor and Bluebird record labels and were one of the more popular acts then. While performing, Bill also managed to open and run a school of music in Dallas, Texas which ran for at least ten years and gave instruction to thousands of youths who wanted to learn the elements of the guitar and other popular instruments. Around 1939, they were being heard over WRR on a one hour daily program in Dallas that was part of the Texas state network. In addition to their performances and recordings, Bill also wrote some tunes. Timeline and Trivia Notes Group members included: Bill Boyd, guitar, vocals Kit Cason, banjo John Boyd, guitar Gar Austin, fiddle Julian Akins, bass Get The Music

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Bluebird Rec. No. Side Song Title   5608 A Ridin' On A Hump Backed Mule   5608 B On The Texas Plains   5667 A Ridin' Old Paint And Leadin' Old Ball   5667 B The Strawberry Roan   5740 A Rambler's Rag   5740 B I'M Gonna Hop Off The Train   5788 A Way Down Missouri   5788 B The Lost Wagon   5819 A When I Find My Dear Daddy Is Waiting   5819 B Broken Man   5828 A St Louis Blues   5828 B Thousand Mile Blues (Vbill Boyd)   5855 A Mama Don't Like No Music Playin' Here   5855 B Wind Swept Desert   5894 A Song Bird Yodel   5894 B Harvest Time   5923 A Going Back To My Texas Home   5923 B Watching The World Go By   5945 A Under The Double Eagle   5945 B The Train Song (Just Because)   8533 A There's A Light Shining Bright   8533 B If You'll Come Back   8721 A Swing Steel Swing   8721 B I'll Be Back In A Year Little Darling   8728 A Now I Feel The Way You Do   8728 B Sweethearts Or Strangers   8747 A Don't Let The Barrel Go Dry   8747 B They Go Googoo Gaga Goofy Over Gobs   8769 A Flower Of Texas   8769 B I Can't Forget No Matter How I Try   8787 A Jitterbug Jive   8787 B I Guess You Don't Care Anymore   8823 A No Dice   8823 B Hold On To That Thing   8885 A Rolling Down The Great Divide   8885 B My Pony On The Range   8900 A Over The Waves Waltz   8900 B Home Coming Waltz   8910 A Tell Me Why My Daddy Don't Come Home   8910 B Letter I Never Did Mail   B-7691 A New Steel Guitar Rag   B-7691 B Jig   Montgomery Ward Rec. No. Side Song Title   4778 A The Strawberry Roan   4778 B Riding Old Paint   4790 A My Ball And Chain   4790 B Wah Hoo   4791 A Mama Don't Like No Music   4791 B Wind Swept Desert   4792 A That Ramshackle Shack   4792 B When They Play That Rural Rhythm   4793 A Lone Star   4793 B The Eyes Of Texas   4794 A Thousand Mile Blues   4794 B St Louis Blues   4795 A Oh No, She Don't   4795 B Mama's Gettin' Hot And Papa's Gettin' Cold   4905 A The Train Song   4905 B Under The Double Eagle   7028 A When The Sun Sets On My Swiss Chalet   7028 B Saturday Night Rag   7029 A Hobo's Paradise   7029 B Going Back To My Texas Home   7030 A Beale Street Blues   7030 B Floating Down To Cotton Town   7189 A Yellow Rose Of Texas   7189 B Old Watermill By A Waterfall   7190 A You Shall Be Free, Monah   7190 B Show Me The Way To Go Home   7191 A She's Killin' Me   7191 B She's Doggin' Me   7192 A You Can't Come In   7192 B Fan It   7193 A Put Me In Your Pocket   7193 B Away Out There   7630 A New Spanish Two Step   7630 B Spanish Fandango (W)   7631 A Jig   7631 B New Steel Guitar Rag   7632 A Never Let You Cry Over Me   7632 B Here Comes Pappy   7633 A Weeping Blues   7633 B Boyd's Kelly Waltz   7634 A Singing And Swinging For Me   7634 B Tomcat Rag   7811 A Broadway Mama   7811 B When My Dreams Come True   7812 A Boyd's Tin Roof Blues   7812 B I Get The Blues When It Rains   7813 A Come Easy, Go Easy   7813 B Frosty Mornin'   7814 A So Tired Of Waiting Alone   7814 B Won't You Please Come Home   7815 A La Golondrina Waltz   7815 B I Want To Go Back   7816 A My Baby Loves Me, I Know   7816 B I Love My Baby   8416 A My Wonderful One   8416 B I Saw Your Face   8417 A Devilish Mary (Ft)   8417 B Cross Eyed Gal On The Hill   8418 A Jungle Town   8418 B Can't Use Each Other   8419 A An Ace   8419 B That's Why I'm Jealous Of You   8420 A Riding On The Old Ferris Wheel   8420 B Don't Drop A Slug In The Slot   8421 A Someone In Heaven Is Thinking Of You (W)   8421 B I've Got Those Oklahoma Blues   8422 A I Get The Blues For Mammy   8422 B Mill Blues   8423 A Meant For Me   8423 B Like You   8424 A Song Of The Waterfall   8424 B Troubles (W)   8425 A Mississippi Mud   8425 B Home In Indiana   8677 A Drink The Barrel Dry   8677 B The Sunset Trail To Texas   8678 A The Zenda Waltz   8678 B Down At Polka Joe's   8679 A I Wish You Knew The Way I Feel   8679 B You Take It   8680 A You Better Stop That Cattin' Round   8680 B Pussy Pussy Pussy   8681 A I'll Take You Back Again   8681 B I Want A Feller   8682 A If You'll Come Back   8682 B There's A Light Shining Bright   M 4789 A Tumbling Tumbleweeds   M 4789 B When Its Twilight Time On Sweetheart Lane   RCA Victor Rec. No. Side Song Title   20-0109 A Pass The Turnip Greens   20-0109 B Poison Ivy   20-0164 A Texas Blues   20-0164 B Yes You Did   20-1793 A Roadside Rag   20-1793 B These Tears Are Not For You   20-1888 A I Don't Know Why But I Do   20-1888 B Trail To San Antone   20-1907 A New Spanish Two Step   20-1907 B New Steel Guitar Rag   20-2050 A Jim's Polka   20-2050 B Oklahoma Bound   20-2068 A Over The Waves Waltz   20-2068 B Under The Double Eagle   20-2069 A Homecoming Waltz   20-2069 B Shame On You   20-2172 A I Wish We'd Never Met   20-2172 B Palace In Dallas   20-2270 A Dream Train   20-2270 B New Fort Worth Rag   20-2379 A Now Or Never   20-2379 B Tellin' Lies   20-2562 A Don't Turn My Picture To The Wall   20-2562 A Don�t Turn My Picture To The Wall   20-2562 B Out In The Rain Again   20-2562 B Out In The Rain Again   20-2697 A I'm Writing A Letter To Heaven   20-2697 B Vacant Heart   20-2800 A The Train Song   20-2800 B Way Out There   20-2833 A American Patrol   20-2833 B Closed For Repairs   20-2960 A Monterey Polka   20-2960 B Pull Down The Shades And Lock The Door   20-2967 A I'm Writing A Letter To Heaven   20-2967 B Vacant Heart   20-3067 A Never Break Your Promise To A Woman   20-3067 B The Skater's Waltz   20-3190 A Southern Steel Guitar   20-3190 B You're Laughing Up Your Sleeve   21-0000 A I Always Lose   21-0000 B Too Blue To Care   21-0045 A Lone Star Rag   21-0045 B Without A Woman�s Love   21-0071 A Varsoviana   21-0071 B Blue Danube Waltz   21-0126 A Jingle Bells   21-0126 B Up On The House Top   21-0208 A Letters Have No Arms   21-0208 B The Bandera Waltz   21-0335 A Red River Rag   21-0335 B Come And Get It   21-0351 A Why Don�t You Love Me   21-0351 B Red Lips Kiss My Blues Away   21-0410 A Mean, Mean, Mean   21-0410 B Cuckoo Waltz   21-0482 A Gladiola Waltz   21-0482 B Why Do You Punish Me   TNT Rec. No. Side Song Title   1019 A Definition Of Love   1019 B Work

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