Tex Williams
Tex Williams ( born August 23, 1917 in Ramsey, Illinois as Sollie Paul Williams; † 11 October 1985 in Newhall, California ) was an American country music singer and band leader.
A native of the northern state of Illinois Williams moved in 1942 to Los Angeles, where he entered into the Western as a vocalist under the name Jack Williams Swing Big Band Spade Cooley of. Thanks to its pleasant, warm voice, he soon rose to the lead singer. His first name he changed in Southwestern.
The tyrannical and uncontrolled Cooley threw Tex Williams after a fight in June 1946 from his orchestra. Several band members followed, and so Williams was in the same year in a position to form their own big band, the Texas Caravan.
Career
After two only moderately successful singles of the breakthrough in 1947 with Smoke, Smoke, Smoke ( That Cigarette ) achieved. The record sold more than two million copies and reached both the country and pop charts in the first place in the Merle Travis song composed by blasphemed in a humorous way about nicotine -dependent contemporaries. Called the chanting here used by Williams, "Talking Blues", has become a trademark of the Texas Caravan Big Band.
Tex Williams And His Western Caravan were almost overnight stars. It was followed by other singles who are naturally not able to build on the success of Smoke, Smoke, Smoke. In several touring the entire United States has been traveled. The plate sales dropped soon after, and we had to change the label. 1957 dissolved the big band, and Williams made up in the seventies on their own.
Tex Williams died on October 11, 1985 to pancreatic cancer.