EP-11 This is a rare undiscovered recording by Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys on January 4, 1958. It was recorded during a KVOO On-Air Radio Broadcast from the Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bob and the Boys are talking with the radio announcer and performing live on stage. The song they are performing in this video is “I Wish You Could Learn to Love Me”.
After Bob Wills left his daily KVOO radio show to go to California in 1941, he took his some of his band members to Hollywood with him. It was determined that the daily KVOO broadcasts should continue, so Bob turned the remaining band members in Tulsa, Oklahoma over to his brother, Johnnie Lee Wills.
Johnny Lee merged the band with musicians of his own choosing. So long as the Bob Wills sound was kept in place, that was all that mattered, since it was such a winning formula for success. For the next 16 years, Bob Wills and Johnnie Lee Wills would trade band members. Often the Johnnie Lee Wills organization served as a stepping stone to the Bob Wills organization, and sometimes vice-versa when band members did not want to be on the road all the time. However, Johnnie Lee could not play only Bob Wills numbers; he had to develop a repertoire of his own songs, which he did. This is one of those numbers that he used to play frequently which he sings here. Broadcast on KVOO on January 4, 1958.
What you are about to hear is a rare recording of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys performing “I Wish You Could Learn to Love Me” live on stage during the KVOO On-Air Radio Broadcast at the Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 4, 1958. Johnny Lee Wills sings the vocals.
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