For the Scottish footballer, see Tommy Duncan (footballer).
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Tommy Duncan
Background information
Birth name
Thomas Elmer Duncan
Born
(1911-01-11)January 11, 1911 Whitney, Texas
Died
July 25, 1967(1967-07-25) (aged 56)
Genres
Western swing
Occupation(s)
Singer-songwriter
Years active
1930s–1960s
Labels
Capitol
Formerly of
Bob Wills
Musical artist
Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11, 1911 – July 25, 1967),[1] was an American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys.[2] He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1993). The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 127. ISBN 0-85112-726-6.
^Goodspeed, John (December 7, 2016). "Billy Mata a crusader for unsung hero Tommy Duncan". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
to form his own band. He organized another Western swing band called 'TommyDuncan and His Western All Stars' featuring his younger brother Glynn (1921–2013)...
West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, TommyDuncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie...
"Take Me Back to Tulsa" is a Western swing standard song. Bob Wills and TommyDuncan added words and music to the melody of the traditional fiddle tune "Walkin'...
singers, including Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Milton Brown, TommyDuncan, and Merle Haggard. His music provides a link among old-time Southern...
first person to die of Ebola in the United States TommyDuncan (1911–1967), American musician TommyDuncan (footballer) (born 1936), Scottish footballer and...
[citation needed] Songs about Salome have been written by, among others, TommyDuncan (1952), Karel Kryl (1965), Drs. P (1974), John Cale (1978), Kim Wilde...
Year Title Role Notes 1992 The Mighty Ducks TommyDuncan Nominated – Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture 1993 The...
Records, playing backup for Tennessee Ernie Ford, Wanda Jackson, Tommy Collins, TommyDuncan, and many others. Using the pseudonym "Corky Jones" to prevent...
Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and TommyDuncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus: Stay all night, stay a...
Songs and Waltzes" 3:08 4. "Local Memory" 2:19 5. "Slow Down Old World" 2:54 6. "Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)" (Bob Wills, TommyDuncan) 2:36...
Central Los Angeles beer bars. By age 19 he joined the TommyDuncan Band playing pedal steel guitar. Duncan, the former lead singer with Bob Wills and His Texas...
provided a platform for many of the best musicians of the genre, including TommyDuncan, Cecil Brower, John Parker and Kenneth Pitts. The original group disbanded...
Jimmie Rodgers Snow. TommyDuncan, vocalist for "Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys", was a good yodeler. (See the sound file with Duncan singing Rodger's "Blue...
can be heard on YouTube. Wills, Bob and TommyDuncan, "Oklahoma Gals," performed by Bob Wills & TommyDuncan with the Texas Playboys, Liberty 55450, 1962...
subject of different accounts (see TommyDuncan for one); but there is agreement that Texas Playboys vocalist Duncan came up with the song's title and...
Davis, as well as western swing singer TommyDuncan, were heavily influenced by Rodgers. Autry, Davis and Duncan recorded multiple songs of his repertoire...
Morton Ahmet Ertegun 1999 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Bob Wills, TommyDuncan, Leon McAuliffe, Johnny Gimble, Joe "Jody" Holley, Tiny Moore, Herb Remington...
Bob Wills–TommyDuncan pairing, Cooley hired vocalist Tex Williams, who was capable of the mellow deep baritone sound made popular by Duncan. Cooley's...
Cowboy Copas Eddie Dean, singer, actor Little Jimmy Dickens Jimmie Dolan TommyDuncan Bob Dunn Don Edwards Dale Evans, actor, singer Juni Fisher Curley Fletcher...
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