The Texas Musician Jesse Smith

The Texas Musician Jesse Smith
Famous Unknown Tomball Musician
Showing posts with label Hank Thompson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hank Thompson. Show all posts

Pictures of Bob White

This is Daddy Bob singing  Sweet Moments also Faded Love and of course the ever popular Orange Blossom Special this was done with The River Road Boys.
 Daddy studied Violin at age 12 in a music school in L A, California. He played with Roy Rogers before he was Roy Rogers, Bob Wills, Leon Raush,Tommy Duncan, Hank Thompson, Tennesse Ernie Ford and Ray Price in the 60's,  We lived in Nashville TN were he played on the Mel Tilis varity show in the early 70's.  George Jone's Possum Hollar house band in the eveings, and studio Muscian by day with Dottie West, Marty Robins, Porter Wagner, Dolly Pardon and so many more I can't remember them all. From Nashville returning to Houston playing with the River Road Boys at Frank's Ice House, Moved from Houston in 1989 were dad played with serveral local bands in Colorado Springs, CO, It was a friday night while dad was playing The Devil went down to Georgia when Dad fell from the stage and went into a ceisure, It was then they found the brain tumor, Dad went under three operations to remove it  they dicribed it as a spider removing the mass of the body but leaving behind the legs, What took over 20 years to grow the first time took only months to grow back  in which grew even faster the third time.  Daddy pasted away in October 1991. Listening to his music as he pasted in peace, My mother was always by his side day and night never leaving, I was there that morning as he took his last breath. I remember telling Mother it was over now he can rest.  
   
Sincerely
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M K Wages
I found these pictures on an email from Mary Wages dated 01/10/2011. Bob worked with me a lot.


The names of the pics.
01 Amos Hedrick.Bob White.DubertDobson

02 Best little Whorehouse in Texas
03 Bob and Helen White
04 Bob White and Bob Wills
05 Bob White and Clyde Brewer
06 Bob White with Hank Thompson.
07 Bob White
08 Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys
09 BobWills&TPs1







































Country Music Hall of Fame Member Hank Thompson Died Nov, 06,07


CMT News

Country Music Hall of Fame Member Hank Thompson Dies
Texas Native Best Known for "The Wild Side of Life"
Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson
Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Thompson died late Tuesday (Nov. 6) at his home near Fort Worth, Texas, following a battle with lung cancer. The 82-year-old singer, songwriter and bandleader last week canceled all of his tour dates after being hospitalized. He played his last concert on Oct. 8 in his native Waco, Texas, when Hank Thompson Day was declared by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Waco Mayor Virginia DuPuy.

According to Thompson's official Web site, a celebration of his life will take place Nov. 14 at Billy Bob's Texas, the famed nightspot in Fort Worth.

Few performers in any era of the music have known and appreciated its history as well, and Thompson, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989, was a big part of that history. His warm and rich baritone graced hits from the 1940s to the 1970s, as his award-winning Brazos Valley Boys band gave those honky-tonk hits a distinctive flavor of Western swing, much in the pattern followed later by fellow Texan George Strait.

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