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    an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, he was known widely...
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  • in a band in Decatur, Texas that played swing music in the style of the Louisiana Five. In the early 1930s, Bob Wills and Milton Brown co-founded the string...
    30 KB (3,895 words) - 15:54, 22 April 2024
  • Mullican, Milton Brown and Bob Wills introduced elements of swing along with blues to create a genre called "western swing". Famous roma guitarist Django...
    39 KB (5,218 words) - 21:18, 8 May 2024
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    played a relaxed, propulsive swing, Bob Crosby (brother of Bing), more of a dixieland style, Benny Goodman a hard driving swing, and Duke Ellington's compositions...
    41 KB (4,647 words) - 20:45, 29 April 2024
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    Pendulum (redirect from Pendulum swing)
    pendulum swings away from vertical, θ0, called the amplitude. It is independent of the mass of the bob. If the amplitude is limited to small swings, the period...
    122 KB (14,432 words) - 02:33, 4 May 2024
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    Strings", "Your Feet's Too Big", "Don't 'Low No Swingin' In Here" and "Swing, Gate, Swing". Despite their rising popularity as performers, their early records...
    39 KB (4,225 words) - 14:05, 5 May 2024
  • out "Sultans of Swing" as a highlight of the album for its "inescapable hook" and compared Knopfler's vocal stylings to those of Bob Dylan. Cash Box said...
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  • "Faded Love" is a Western swing song written by Bob Wills, his father John Wills, and his brother, Billy Jack Wills. The tune is considered to be an exemplar...
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  • To Swing or Not to Swing (subtitled Barney Kessel Volume 3) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel released on the Contemporary label which was recorded...
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    "The Legendary Bob Dylan Unveils Seven Iron Gates Sculpture". artlyst.com. September 24, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2013. "Mood Swings". Halcyon Gallery...
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  • College Swing, also known as Swing, Teacher, Swing in the U.K., is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Burns, Gracie...
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  • wheels pivotably mounted upon a medial principal frame. Bob Hufford (July 11, 2010). "Swing Bike: The Wackiest Thing on Two Wheels". Retrieved 2012-07-19...
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  • Lunceford's big band at the height of the Swing era employed a beat that was simultaneously 2/4 and 4/4. The Bob Crosby Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton...
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    and President Gerald Ford at Tamarron Golf Resort Bob Fry's swing Bob Fry in later years "Bob Fry Halted in Finals of Amateur," Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa...
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  • blues with a syncopated beat.". Bob Wills is considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing along with his old Fort Worth friend...
    8 KB (1,119 words) - 06:39, 19 April 2024
  • by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in 1946, staying on the charts for 18 weeks and reaching number three. It has been recorded by many Western swing bands...
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    toured the midwest. Bob Haggart and Yank Lawson organized a band that combined dixieland and swing to try to carry on the legacy of Bob Crosby. From the...
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    the "bob" have evolved since. In the late 1980s, Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Corinne Drewery, singer of "Swing Out Sister"...
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    Swing Out Sister are a British pop group best known worldwide for the 1986 song "Breakout". Other hits include "You On My Mind", "Twilight World", "Waiting...
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  • Swing Symphony is an American animated musical short film series produced by Walter Lantz Productions from 1941 to 1945. The shorts were a more contemporary...
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