Tex Williams foi un músicu y actor d'Estaos Xuníos.
Biografía El so verdaderu nome yera Sollie Paul Williams, y nació en Ramsey, Illinois.
Ye conocíu principalmente por el so estilu de blues faláu. El so mayor ésitu foi'l cantar de tema humorística "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," que lu caltuvo na primer posición de les llistes Billboard mientres seis selmanes en 1947. "Smoke" foi'l cantar númberu cinco nel Top 100 del Billboard de 1947, y númberu unu de la llista country d'esi añu. Esta tema podía escuchase nes escenes d'apertura de la película de 2006 Gracies por fumar.
La banda de Williams, los Western Caravan, taba compuesta por una docena de miembros, perfectamente acompasaos y con un gran nivel d'interacción ente los diversos preseos, guitarra llétrica, steel guitar, violinos, baxu, acordión, trompeta, y otros (inclusive, dacuando, un arpa). De primeres grabaron polkes para Capitol Records con un ésitu llindáu. Esto camudó gracies a la bon resultáu de "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke", escrita en gran parte por Merle Travis.
Tex Williams finó por causa de un cáncer d'entrellenzu en 1985, en Newhall, California.Kienzle, Southwest Shuffle, p. 99: "In 1985, he died of pancreatic cancer (not lung cancer, as was widely reported)." Foi enterráu nel Campusantu Eternal Valley Memorial Park de Newhall.
Filmografía Williams y la Western Caravan actuaron nos siguientes filmes: Tex Williams and His Western Caravan (1947) Tex Williams & Orchestra in Western Whoopee (1948) Tex Williams' Western Varieties (1951)
Discografía Álbumes Añu Álbum Top Country Sellu 1955 Country and Western Dance-O-Caña 5 Decca 1960 Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! Capitol 1962 Country Music Time Decca 1963 Live in Las Vegas Liberty 1966 A Voice of Authority Imperial 1966 Two Sides of Tex Williams 26 Boone 1971 A Man Called Tex 38 Monument 1974 Those Lazy, Hazy Days Granite
Singles Añu Single Posiciones na llista Álbum Hot Country Songs Billboard Hot 100 1946 "The California Polka" 4 Solo singles 1947 "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" 1 1 "That's What I Like About the West" 4 "Never Trust a Woman" 8 1948 "Don't Telephone - Don't Telegraph (Tell a Woman)" 2 "Suspicion" 4 "Banjo Polka" 5 "Who? Me?" 6 "Foolish Tears" 15 "Talking Boogie" 6 "Just a Pair of Blue Eyes" 13 "Life Gits Tee-Jus, Don't It?" 5 27 1949 "(There's a) Bluebird On Your Windowsill" 11 1965 "Too Many Tigers" 26 Two Sides of Tex Williams "Big Tennessee" 30 1966 "Bottom of a Mountain" 18 "First Step Down" Solo singles "Another Day, Another Dollar in the Hole" 44 1967 "Crazy Life" "Black Jack County" 57 "She's Somebody Else's Heartache Now" 1968 "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke - '68" 32 "Here's to You and Me" 45 "Tail's Been Waggin' the Dog" 1970 "Big Oscar" A Man Called Tex "It Ain't Non Big Thing" 50 1971 "The Night Miss Nancy Ann'sHotel for Single Girls Burned Down" 29 1972 "Everywhere I Go (He's Already Been There)" 67 "Glamour of the Night Life (Is Calling Me Again)" Solo singles "Tennessee Travelin'" "Cynthia Ann" 1974 "Is This All You Hear (When a Heart Breaks)" Those Lazy, Hazy Days "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer" 70 "Bum Bum Bum" 1978 "Make It Pretty for Me Baby" solo single
Referencies
Kienzle, Rich. Southwest Shuffle: Pioneers of Honky Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-94102-4 Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books, 2006. ISBN 0-8230-8291-1
Enllaces esternos
Tex Williams en Allmusic
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