October 11, 1985(1985-10-11) (aged 68) Newhall, California, United States
Genres
Western swing
country
Occupation(s)
Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)
guitar, Harmonica
Years active
1946–1978
Musical artist
Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917 – October 11, 1985)[1] was an American Western swing musician. He is best known for his talking blues style; his biggest hit was the novelty song, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)", which held the number one position on the Billboard chart for sixteen weeks in 1947. "Smoke" was the No. 5 song on Billboard's Top 100 list for 1947, and was No. 1 on the country chart that year.[2]
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1993). The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 454. ISBN 0-85112-726-6.
^"Tex Williams | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 11, 2021. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917 – October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician. He is best known for his talking blues style;...
success of the Bob Wills–Tommy Duncan pairing, Cooley hired vocalist TexWilliams, who was capable of the mellow deep baritone sound made popular by Duncan...
made by Nudie Cohn for 1950s country and western musicians, including TexWilliams and the young Elvis. Suits as casual wear became popular among members...
joined Spade Cooley's band in the 1940s (who gave Rogers his stage name). TexWilliams, Rogers and other members of Cooley's band formed a group called The...
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1942 "Der Fuehrer's Face", which included raspberries in its chorus. TexWilliams's "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" topped the Billboard best-sellers...
tracks "Double Shuffle" b/w "Senator From Tennessee" Both sides with TexWilliams — — "Delicado" b/w "The World Has a Promise" 28 — "Blues In Advance"...
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety...
country singer TexWilliams to buy him a sewing machine with the proceeds from auctioning off a horse. In exchange, Cohn made clothing for Williams. As their...
short 1949 American Western film directed by Will Cowan and starring TexWilliams, Smokey Rogers, and Barbara Payton. This is a black and white film, a...
Artists who have covered "Giddyup Go" include Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, TexWilliams, Ferlin Husky, and Australian country singer Nev Nicholls. The song also...
career, she worked alongside the likes of Dale Evans, Stuart Hamblen, and TexWilliams. She won a yodeling competition in California two years in a row in the...
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American Country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s...
Adolph Hofner were other early western swing pioneers. Spade Cooley and TexWilliams also had very popular bands and appeared in films. At its height, western...
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Hollywood, her husband made many rhinestone-studded costumes for TexWilliams, Hank Williams, Cher, Elton John, Buck Owens, Clint Eastwood, John Lennon, Gene...
Neural Networks, in Bengio, Yoshua; Schuurmans, Dale; Lafferty, John; Williams, Chris K. I.; and Culotta, Aron (eds.), Advances in Neural Information...
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