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From: Mike Gross
Date: October 04, 2005
Jim & Steve, Jim, I think that you are right and the Billy that Bob would be calling out to in that time period would be Billy Bowman unless Bill Choate was doing a sit in on that dance. However, I believe that it was early in 1958 that Billy Bowman was replaced by Gene Crownover in the band so that it would have to be early in the year to be Billy Bowman. Laura Lee along with Bob Wills' Texas Playboys Under The Direction of Leon McAuliffe recorded "Queen of Western Swing" for Delta in 1984. I still play that often on "Swingin' West" although the album has been long unavailable. From a personal standpoint I think that the LP that Laura did with the River Road Boys a few years earlier is much better and I really don't need excuses to still play cuts on "Swingin' West." Mike www.swinginwest.com