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==Select discography== ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Album ! <small>[[Top Country Albums|US Country]]</small> ! Label |- | 1949 | ''Bob Wills Round Up'' [10"] (HL-9003); originally issued in 1947 as a 4-disc 78rpm album set (C-128); and reissued in 1948 (H-2) | | [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] |- | 1951 | ''Ranch House Favorites'' [10"] (E-91); also issued as a 4-disc 78rpm album set (MGM-91), and a 4-disc 45rpm album set (K-91) | | [[MGM Records|MGM]] |- | 1953 | ''Old Time Favorites'' [10"] (LP-6000); issued as a limited edition 'Fan Club Members Only' release | | The Antones [Los Angeles, CA] |- | 1954 | ''Old Time Favorites, Vol. 2'' [10"] (LP-6010); issued as a limited edition 'Fan Club Members Only' release | | The Antones [Los Angeles, CA] |- | 1955 | ''Country and Western Dance-O-Rama, No. 2'' [10"] (DL-5562) | | [[Decca Records|Decca]] |- | 1956 | ''Ranch House Favorites, Vol. 2'' (E-3352) | | MGM |- | 1957 | ''Bob Wills Special'' (HL-7036) reissue of ''Bob Wills Round Up'' plus 2 extra tracks, August<ref name="Evidence, month of release, album Bob Wills Special, 1957">{{cite journal |last1=The Cash Box |title=August Album Releases |journal=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box,The]] |date=10 August 1957 |volume=18 |issue=47 |page=26 |url=https://ia800502.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/26/items/cashbox18unse_45/cashbox18unse_45_jp2.zip&file=cashbox18unse_45_jp2/cashbox18unse_45_0026.jp2&id=cashbox18unse_45&scale=2&rotate=0 |access-date=13 March 2025 |publisher=Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc.}}</ref> | | Harmony |- | 1958 | ''Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys'' (DL-8727), July<ref name="Evidence, month of release, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, 1958 S/T album">{{cite journal |last1=The Cash Box |title=July Album Releases |journal=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box,The]] |date=12 July 1958 |volume=19 |issue=43 |page=6 |url=https://ia801502.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/23/items/cashbox19unse_41/cashbox19unse_41_jp2.zip&file=cashbox19unse_41_jp2/cashbox19unse_41_0006.jp2&id=cashbox19unse_41&scale=2&rotate=0 |access-date=13 March 2025 |publisher=Cash Box Publishing Co., Inc.}}</ref> | | Decca |- | 1960 | ''Together Again'' (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3173) | style="text-align:center;"| | rowspan="4" | [[Liberty Records|Liberty]] |- | 1961 | ''A Living Legend'' (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3182) | style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1961 | ''Mr. Words & Mr. Music'' (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3194) | style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1963 | ''Bob Wills Sings & Plays'' (with Tommy Duncan) (LRP-3303) | style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1965 | ''Bob Wills Keepsake Album No. 1'' (LP-001) | style="text-align:center;"| | [[Longhorn Records|Longhorn]] |- | 1966 | ''From the Heart of Texas'' | style="text-align:center;"| 33 | rowspan="4" | [[Kapp Records|Kapp]] |- | 1967 | ''King of Western Swing'' | style="text-align:center;"| 43 |- | 1968 | ''Here's That Man Again'' | style="text-align:center;"| 24 |- | 1970 | ''The Best of Bob Wills'' | style="text-align:center;"| |- | 1971 | ''San Antonio Rose'' (VL 73922) | style="text-align:center;"| | [[Vocalion Records|Vocalion]] |- | rowspan="2" | 1973 | ''Bob Wills Plays the Greatest String Band Hits'' (re-release; originally issued in 1969) | style="text-align:center;"| 28 | MCA |- | ''The Bob Wills Anthology'' [2LP] | style="text-align:center;"| | Columbia |- | 1974 | ''For the Last Time'' [2LP] | style="text-align:center;"| 28 | [[United Artists Records|United Artists]] |- | 1975 | ''The Best of Bob Wills, Vol. II'' [2LP] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | MCA |- | rowspan="2" | 1976 | ''Remembering ...The Greatest Hits of Bob Wills'' | style="text-align:center;"| 46 | Columbia |- | ''Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 'In Concert' '' [2LP] | style="text-align:center;"| 44 | [[Capitol Records|Capitol]] |- | 1977 | ''24 Great Hits by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys'' [2LP] | style="text-align:center;"| 39 | MGM |- | 1991 | ''Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 'Anthology 1935β1973' '' [2CD] | | [[Rhino Records|Rhino]] |- | 1992 | ''The Essential Bob Wills (1935β1947)'' | | Columbia/Legacy |- | 2001 | ''Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years'' [2CD] | | Mercury/Universal |- | 2006 | ''Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys'' [4CD] | | Columbia/Legacy |} ===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Single ! <small>[[Hot Country Songs|US Country]]</small> ! Label |- | rowspan="3" | 1935 | "St. Louis Blues" / "Four or Five Times" | | Vocalion 03076 |- | "Good Old Oklahoma" / "Mexicali Rose" | | Vocalion 03086 |- | "Osage Stomp" / "Get with It" | | Vocalion 03096 |- | rowspan="11" | 1936 | "[[Sitting on Top of the World]]" / "Black and Blue Rag" | | Vocalion 03139 |- | "I Can't Be Satisfied" / "Wang Wang Blues" | | Vocalion 03173 |- | "I Ain't Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares for Me)" / "Who Walks in When I Walk Out?" | | Vocalion 03206 |- | "[[New Spanish Two Step|Spanish Two Step]]" / "Blue River" | | Vocalion 03230 |- | "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" / "Never No More Blues" | | Vocalion 03264 |- | "Old Fashioned Love" / "Oklahoma Rag" | | Vocalion 03295 |- | "Trouble in Mind" / "Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff" | | Vocalion 03343 |- | "Basin Street Blues" / "Red Hot Gal of Mine" | | Vocalion 03344 |- | "Sugar Blues" / "Fan It" | | Vocalion 03361 |- | "Smith's Reel" / "Harmony" [billed as 'Bob Wills and Sleepy Johnson'] | | Melotone 6-11-58 |- | "[[Steel Guitar Rag]]" / "Swing Blues No. 1" | | Vocalion 03394 |- | rowspan="10" | 1937 | "She's Killing Me" / "What's the Matter with the Mill?" | | Vocalion 03424 |- | "Get Along Home Cindy" / "[[Right or Wrong (1921 song)|Right or Wrong]]" | | Vocalion 03451 |- | "Mean Mama Blues" / "Bring It on Down to My House" | | Vocalion 03492 |- | "No Matter How She Done It (She's Just a Dirty Dame)" / "Too Busy!" | | Vocalion 03537 |- | "Back Home Again in Indiana" / "Swing Blues No. 2" | | Vocalion 03578 |- | "Dedicated to You" / "Bleeding Hearted Blues" | | Vocalion 03597 |- | "White Heat" / "Bluin' the Blues" | | Vocalion 03614 |- | "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (from Dumas)" / "Rosetta" | | Vocalion 03659 |- | "The New St. Louis Blues" / "Oozlin' Daddy Blues" | | Vocalion 03693 |- | "Playboy Stomp" / "Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again" | | Vocalion 03854 |- | rowspan="9" | 1938 | "[[Maiden's Prayer]]" / "Never No More Hard Time Blues" | | Vocalion 03924 |- | "Steel Guitar Stomp" / "Sunbonnet Sue" | | Vocalion 03997 |- | "Black Rider" / "Everybody Does It in Hawaii" | | Vocalion 04132 |- | "Keep Knocking (but You Can't Come In)" / "Empty Bed Blues" | | Vocalion 04184 |- | "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / "Gambling Polka Dot Blues" | | Vocalion 04275 |- | "Tulsa Stomp" / "Little Red Head" | | Vocalion 04235 |- | "Loveless Love" / "Way Down upon the Swanee River" | | Vocalion 04387 |- | "Moonlight and Roses (Bring Mem'ries of You)" / "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" | | Vocalion 04439 |- | "Oh, Lady Be Good" / "Oh You Beautiful Doll" | | Vocalion 04515 |- | rowspan="9" | 1939 | "I Wonder if You Feel the Way I Do" / "[[That's What I Like About the South|That's What I Like 'Bout the South]]" | | Vocalion 04566 |- | "Whoa Babe" / "Little Girl, Go Ask Your Mama" | | Vocalion 04625 |- | "[[New San Antonio Rose|San Antonio Rose]]" / "The Convict and the Rose" | | Vocalion 04755 |- | "You're Okay" / "Liza Pull Down the Shades" | | Vocalion 04839 |- | "Silver Bells" / "Yearning Just for You" | | Vocalion 04934 |- | "Beaumont Rag" / "[[The Waltz You Saved for Me]]" | | Vocalion 04999 |- | "[[Ida Red (song)|Ida Red]]" / "Carolina in the Morning" | | Vocalion 05079 |- | "Dreamy Eyes Waltz" / "My Window Faces the South" | | Vocalion 05161 |- | "If I Could Bring Back My Buddy" / "Prosperity Special" | | Vocalion 05228 |- | rowspan="9" | 1940 | "Don't Let the Deal Go Down" / "Drunkard Blues" | | Vocalion 05282 |- | "Blue Prelude" / "Sophisticated Hula" | | Vocalion 05333 |- | "Pray for the Lights to Go Out" / "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" | | Vocalion 05401 |- | "Blue Bonnet Rag" / "Medley of Spanish Waltzes: La Golondrina / Lady of Spain / Cielito Lindo" | | Vocalion 05523 |- | "You Don't Love Me (but I'll Always Care)" / "No Wonder" | | Vocalion 05597 |- | "Lone Star Rag" / "I Don't Lov'a Nobody" | | OKeh 05637 |- | "New San Antonio Rose" / "Bob Wills' Special" | | OKeh 05694 |- | "That Brownskin Gal" / "[[Time Changes Everything (song)|Time Changes Everything]]" | | OKeh 05753 |- | "There's Going to Be a Party (for the Old Folks)" / "Big Beaver" | | OKeh 05905 |- | rowspan="5" | 1941 | "[[Take Me Back to Tulsa]]" / "New Worried Mind" | | OKeh 06101 |- | "[[Maiden's Prayer]]" / "Takin' It Home" | | OKeh 06205 |- | "Twin Guitar Special" / "Lyla Lou" | | OKeh 06327 |- | "Bob Wills' Stomp" / "Lil Liza Jane" | | OKeh 06371 |- | "[[Corrine, Corrina]]" / "Goodnight Little Sweetheart" | | OKeh 06530 |- | rowspan="7" | 1942 | "[[Cherokee Maiden]]" / "Ride On! (My Prairie Pinto)" | | OKeh 06568 |- | "Dusty Skies" / "It's All Your Fault" | | OKeh 06598 |- | "Oh! You Pretty Woman" / "I Knew the Moment I Lost You" | | OKeh 06640 |- | "Please Don't Leave Me" / "My Life's Been a Pleasure" | | OKeh 6681 |- | "This Little Rosary" / "When It's Honey Suckle Time in the Valley" (Unreleased) | | OKeh 6692 |- | "Ten Years" / "Let's Ride with Bob (Theme Song)" | | OKeh 6692 |- | "My Confession" / "Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now?" | | OKeh 6703 |- | 1943 | "Home in San Antone" / "Miss Molly" | | OKeh 6710 |- | 1944 | "We Might as Well Forget It" / "You're from Texas" | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | OKeh 6722 |- | rowspan="9" | 1945 | "Goodbye, Liza Jane" / It Seems Like Yesterday" (Unreleased) | | OKeh 6734 |- | "[[Smoke on the Water (Red Foley song)|Smoke on the Water]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | OKeh 6736 |- | / "Hang Your Head in Shame" | style="text-align:center;"| 3 |- | "[[Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | OKeh 6742 |- | / "You Don't Care What Happens to Me" | style="text-align:center;"| 5 |- | "[[Silver Dew on the Blue Grass Tonight]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | Columbia 36841 |- | / "Texas Playboy Rag" | style="text-align:center;"| 2 |- | "[[White Cross on Okinawa]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | Columbia 36881 |- | / "Empty Chair at the Christmas Table" | style="text-align:center;"| |- | rowspan="5" | 1946 | "[[New Spanish Two Step]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | Columbia 36966 |- | / "[[Roly Poly (Bob Wills song)|Roly Poly]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 3 |- | "[[Stay a Little Longer]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | rowspan="2" | Columbia 37097 |- | / "I Can't Go on This Way" | style="text-align:center;"| 4 |- | "Cotton Eyed Joe" / "Staccato Waltz" | | Columbia 37212 |- | rowspan="12" | 1947 | "There's a Big Rock in the Road" | style="text-align:center;"| | rowspan="2" | Columbia 37205 |- | / "I'm Gonna Be Boss from Now On" | style="text-align:center;"| 5 |- | "[[Sugar Moon]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | rowspan="2" | Columbia 37313 |- | / "Brain Cloudy Blues" | style="text-align:center;"| |- | "Rose of Old Pawnee" | style="text-align:center;"| | rowspan="2" | Columbia 37357 |- | / "Bob Wills Boogie" | style="text-align:center;"| 4 |- | "How Can It Be Wrong?" / "Punkin' Stomp" | | Columbia 37564 |- | "Fat Boy Rag" / "You Should Have Thought of That Before" | | Columbia 37824 |- | "Liberty" / "The Kind of Love I Can't Forget" | | Columbia 37926 |- | "A Sweet Kind of Love" / "Cowboy Stomp" | | Columbia 37988 |- | "Spanish Fandango"" | style="text-align:center;"| | rowspan="2" | MGM 10116 |- | / "[[Bubbles in My Beer]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 4 |- | rowspan="5" | 1948 | "Deep Water" / "This is Southland" | style="text-align:center;"| | Columbia 38137 |- | "[[Texarkana Baby (song)|Texarkana Baby]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 15 | Columbia 38179 |- | "Keeper of My Heart" | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | MGM 10175 |- | "'Neath Hawaiian Palms" | style="text-align:center;"| | rowspan="2" | MGM 10236 |- | / "Thorn in My Heart" | style="text-align:center;"| 10 |- | rowspan="4" | 1950 | "[[Ida Red (song)|Ida Red]] Likes the Boogie" | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | MGM 10570 |- | "Jolie Blond Likes the Boogie" / "Pastime Blues" | style="text-align:center;"| | MGM 10681 |- | "[[Faded Love (Bob Wills song)|Faded Love]]" | style="text-align:center;"| 8 | MGM 10786 |- | "'Tater Pie" / "I Didn't Realize" | style="text-align:center;"| | MGM 10836 |- | rowspan="2" | 1953 | "I Won't Be Back Tonight" / "B. Bowman Hop" | style="text-align:center;"| | MGM 11568 |- | "As I Sit Broken-Hearted" / "Bottle Baby Boogie" | style="text-align:center;"| | MGM 11635 |- | 1960 | "Heart to Heart Talk" <small>(with Tommy Duncan)</small> | style="text-align:center;"| 5 | Liberty 55260 |- | 1961 | "The Image of Me" <small>(with Tommy Duncan)</small> | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | Liberty 55264 |- | 1976 | "Ida Red" | style="text-align:center;"| 99 | Capitol 4332 |}
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