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The Original Texas Playboys Under The Direction Of Leon McAuliffe

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World
A.k.a. Bob Wills' Original Texas Playboys

The Original Texas Playboys were organized after Bob Wills's death in 1975. The band was made up of a core of Texas Playboys from the glory days in Tulsa -- Leon McAuliffe, Smokey Dacus, Al Stricklin, Joe Frank Ferguson -- and included Playboys from later eras -- Keith Coleman, Leon Rausch, Johnny Gimble, Gene Gasaway. A few years later, Eldon Shamblin would rejoin the group. The agreement was that when one of the originals died, the band would fulfill their remaining engagements and then disband, which they did after the death of Pianist Al Stricklin in October 1986.

Members

	Johnny Gimble vn, man 1926-2015 US
	Al Stricklin p 1908-1986 US
	Joe Ferguson b, voc, bvoc US
	Eldon Shamblin eg, g 1916-1998 US
	Leon McAuliffe stg, bvoc, voc 1917-1988 US
	Leon Rausch voc, b *1927 US
	Keith Coleman vn, bvoc US
	Smokey Dacus dr *1911 US
	Gene Gasaway vn *1931 US
	Bob Kizer g US
	Bob Boatright vn *1939 US
	Clarence Cagle p *1920 US
	Jack Stidham vn 1930-2007 US
	Joe Frank Ferguson b, voc US