Thursday, September 16, 2004
Bob Wills: Creative man with a big generous side
From the Enid News
There was another Bob Wills beyond the entertainer, the booze and the smoke-filled dance halls. He had been a barber and a preacher and a blackface fiddler in a medicine show band. The Bob Wills that few people knew was the creative and generous Bob Wills.
Wills’ creativeness is evident in the writing of what is probably his best known piece, “San Antonio Rose.” He wrote it in just a few minutes in a recording studio in 1938.
They had just recorded “Spanish Two Step,” a simple melody that Bob had written, but they needed another tune similar to it. Bob didn’t have one in his repertoire, but he told them if they could give him a few minutes he would see what he could come up with. He wrote it in just a matter of minutes and they named it “San Antonio Rose.”
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Enid News
There was another Bob Wills beyond the entertainer, the booze and the smoke-filled dance halls. He had been a barber and a preacher and a blackface fiddler in a medicine show band. The Bob Wills that few people knew was the creative and generous Bob Wills.
Wills’ creativeness is evident in the writing of what is probably his best known piece, “San Antonio Rose.” He wrote it in just a few minutes in a recording studio in 1938.
They had just recorded “Spanish Two Step,” a simple melody that Bob had written, but they needed another tune similar to it. Bob didn’t have one in his repertoire, but he told them if they could give him a few minutes he would see what he could come up with. He wrote it in just a matter of minutes and they named it “San Antonio Rose.”
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Enid News