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Bob Wills' Texas Playboys Band SET TWO Recorded Live August 09, 2002, Featuring Legendary Western Swing Vocalist Leon Rausch and Grammy Award Winner Tommy Allsup
Bob Wills' Texas Playboys Band SET ONE Recorded Live August 09, 2002, Featuring Legendary Western Swing Vocalist Leon Rausch and Grammy Award Winner Tommy Allsup
Bob Wills' Texas Playboys Recorded Live May 21, 2000 © SR-7711 Featuring Legendary Western Swing Vocalsit Leon Rausch and Grammy Award Winner Tommy Allsup
LeonRausch "Millions have enjoyed Leon Rausch as 'the voice' of Bob Wills Texas Playboys. Now let Leon touch you with his own special brand of country, western and swing vocals."
1998 Studio Release
Leon Rausch "Deep In The Heart of Texas"
A 20 Son Western Swing Collection SR-7517 ©
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1998
Leon Rausch "Close To You"
A 20 SongSalute To TheMusic Of CindyWalker
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Voted by The Academy Of Western Artist as the Album Of The Year for 1998/1999, including Song Of The Year "Ruidoso".
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Leon Rausch "The Rausch Touch" (SR-7311) ©
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Leon Rausch
& Tommy Allsup
A 50 Song Box Set Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills
3 Compact Disc Box Set
Bob Wills "For The Last Time"
Bob Wills last recording sessions produced by Tommy Allsup and featuring Leon Rausch vocals on several of the 24 songs.
Bob Wills' "A Tribute to Bobs' 100th Birthday" from Leon Rausch and Tommy Allsup (0-97037-72302-6 Twenty One Songs on CD) $15.99 plus S/H
1. Big Beaver 2:48 (Texas Playboys) 2. New Worried Mind 3:29 (Leon Rausch) 3. Heart to Heart Talk 3:02 (Tanya Tucker) 4. Stay All Night 2:53 (Charlie Daniels) 5. Misery 3:11 (Merle Haggard) 6. San Antonio Rose 3:04 (Joe Diffie, Robin English) 7. Turkey Texas Blues 3:20 (Billy Grammer) 8. Milk Cow Blues 3:20 (Cody Canada of CCR) 9. Ten Years 3:15 (Dierks Bentley) 10. Lilly Dale 3:22 (Gene Watson) 11. Warm Red Wine 2:52 (Archie Bell) 12. I Want to be Wanted 3:38 (Glen Campbell) 13. Snap Your Finger 3:20 (Terry Bradshaw, Rachel Bradshaw) 14. Keeper of My Heart 3:24 (B.J. Thomas) 15. Take Me BAck to Tulsa 3:00 (Porter Waggoner, Terry Bradshaw, Tanya Tucker) 16. Across the Alley (From the Alamo) 3:28 Wilford Brimley) 17. Faded Love 4:02 (Johnny Rodriquez, Lynn Anderson) 18. Right or Wrong 2:46 (George Jones) 19. Sugar Moon 3:09 (Larry Gatlin) 20. That's What I Like About The South 2:48 (Chance/Muzik Mafia) 21. Bob's Got A Swing Band in Heaven 3:07 Red Steagall)
Leon Rausch / Texas Playboys Information
Books:
Leon Rausch
"The Voice" of the Texas Playboys
For three generations, millions of Western Swing fans---young and old---have listened to and been musically thrilled and entertained by Leon Rausch. He has vocalized the music of Bob Wills and Western Swing. Throughout the 270 pages of this book complete with more than 60 photographs depicting his colorful stage career, together with a complete discography of his recording, Leon's many fans - young and old, and musical admirers will be afforded a first hand opportunity to gain a greater insight not only into his warm and friendly personality, but also into his legendary vocal contributions to Bob Wills music and to Western Swing. Publisher: Swing Publishing Company
The Musicians & Fans Speak Out
"I think he was Bob Wills' favorite." Tommy Allsup
"Nobody can do it --- like Rausch. I rate him as a ten on a one to ten scale....the best singer there is." Eldon Shamblin
"I don't believe that any singer that Bob Wills ever employed exceeded his performance and ability to enrich a song." Al Stricklin
"I know that today Bob would be very proud of the contributions that Leon continues to make." Mrs. Betty Wills
"Leon Rausch is one of the greatest stylists of Western Swing music." Ray Benson
"No other artist can sing many types of material with such ease and showmanship as Leon Rausch." Cindy Walker
"Leon Rausch was the best singer that Uncle Bob ever had." Dayna Wills
About The Author:
John E. Perkins, Jr., is a retired professor of Economics from Texas Christian University. He has been a devoted fan of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys beginning in the late 1930's and has followed the career of Leon Rausch since the mid- 1960's when Leon and the Texas Playboys performed in a live television show from Panther Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Leon Rausch Book, $29.95 plus $5.00 S/H
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