Whitefang Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Can't find a less fuzzy clip, and no date available, but you can get a few good views of Bob Wills' guitar picker.so.... Who was he, and what's the guitar he's pickin'? Not a quiz. I'd really like to know. Whitefang 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Leon McAuliffe, most likely. If they used Bob's players, and not movie extras. Not sure about the guitar. Tough to tell with that film quality. Thanks for sharing that. I love old western swing music. One of my favorite acts in that genre is John England and the Western Swingers. 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Love that Western Swing. I learned Mama Dont Allow in Art School when I was 16. When I bought a ukulele a couple of years ago it was the first tune I figured out. I recorded it and put it on YT. Whatever the guitar is being used there, it sounds terrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 I would imagine it's a very early model Gibson electric. Mostly because I'm not sure when this performance was filmed and not sure when Epiphone or Gretsch started making electric guitars. Whitefang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Natural Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 22 hours ago, sparquelito said: Leon McAuliffe, most likely. If they used Bob's players, and not movie extras. ....😀 Bob and the band appeared in a dozen or so movies. A movie title and/or a date would be helpful. Leon McAuliffe was mainly a steel guitar guy but he did play guitar as well. I don't think he played with Bob much after the start of WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitefang Posted August 31, 2021 Author Share Posted August 31, 2021 I saw that film a couple of days before my post on TCM. But I "surfed" into it after it began and missed any opening credits that might have had a date displayed. It wasn't in or at the end of any movie they were showing as the movie displayed on "info" was much newer than the clip looked, and one I've seen before and was in color. It was one of their in between movies "fillers". Whitefang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 (edited) Reminds me of my dad watching the Lawrence Welk Show and the Burgermeister Beer commercials with German Alps girls singing "Role out the barrels lets have a barrel of fun". Edited September 8, 2021 by mihcmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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