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    • Oct 30, 1947
    Bob Wills records "Bubbles In My Beer" during his first MGM recording session at Hollywood's Radio Recorders. He also cuts "Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age," which becomes a hit for Ernest Tubb & Red Foley two years later
    Nov 12, 1947
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys record "Keeper Of My Heart" and "Thorn In My Heart" at Hollywood's Radio Recorders
    Apr 19, 1948
    Columbia releases Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys' "Texarkana Baby"
    Aug 7, 1948
    Spade Cooley hosts the first installment of his long-running TV show on Los Angeles station KTLA. It goes under several names over its run but is best known as "The Spade Cooley Show." The theme song: "Shame On You"
    Aug 31, 1948
    Spade and Ella Mae Cooley have a son, Donnell Cooley Jr., at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California
    Oct 11, 1948
    Tommy Duncan, former vocalist for The Texas Playboys, debuts his new band, The All-Stars, at Los Angeles' 97th Street Corral. The group includes ex-Playboys Noel Boggs, Joe Holley, Ocie Stockard, Millard Kelso, Jimmy Wyble and Cameron Hill
    Nov 8, 1948
    Steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe signs with Columbia as a solo artist
    Jan 9, 1949
    Leon McAuliffe and his Western Swing Band record "Panhandle Rag" in Dallas
    Jan 9, 1949
    Martha Annie Brown dies. She was the mother of Milton and Derwood Brown, members of the western swing band Milton Brown's Musical Brownies
    Jan 12, 1949
    Tommy Duncan, best known as the lead vocalist for Bob Wills, records as a solo artist for the first time. The session includes remakes of two songs he helped record with The Texas Playboys: "Take Me Back To Tulsa" and "Time Changes Everything"



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