Groupe Western Swing US, les Tune Wranglers ont été très populaire dans les années 30 dans la région de San Antonio (Texas).

During the 1930s, the Tune Wranglers were a very popular band in San Antonio, Texas. Like many Texas swing players of their era, the Wranglers played pop-flavored cowboy tunes and traditional country music. The group included guitarist and singer Buster Coward, banjoist Eddie Fielding, and the fiddler and singer Charlie Gregg. Fielding's eventual replacement would become one of the group's hot attractions: the banjoist Joe Barnes, hiding behind the stage name of Red Brown, sported a rapid soloing style that influenced a wide range of musicians from heavy metal fuzz boxers to the makers of the Indian film music. The players apparently never went full-time with their musical pursuits, keeping a hand and a lasso or two in play as cowboys. Nonetheless, time was made to cut some 80 sides, some of them in Spanish, and to do gigs in some 200 different towns annually, traveling more than 200,000 miles to get there and back. "Texas Sand" was the group's most well-known song.
The band's popularity wandered over the border into Mexico courtesy of the frequent broadcasts over WOAI and other regional radio outfits. This airplay dramatically increased when the Tune Wranglers released their side entitled "El Rancho Grande." The Bluebird label honchos liked the Mexican angle well enough to begin an entire series, promoting Tune Wranglers sides under the band name of Tono Hombres. The group first began recording for the firm in 1936, shortly before adding steel guitar legend Eddie Duncan to the band. Vocal chores tended to be divided up within the band based on the genre of the song, with the steel guitarist picking up pop ditties and Coward singing the blues. Revard's Playboys was another band from the same time that was considered quite similar, and with good reason; many of the same guys were on-stage in a series of revolving-door lineups. (Eddie Whitely was out of the Tune Wranglers to sing on the early Revard's Playboys sides, for example, then he went back to his original band; meanwhile, his replacement switched places with him in the second band.) The band's third and final recording session consisted mostly of Hawaiian numbers including the romantic "Hawaiian Honeymoon" By then band membership had swollen to include the musical twins Neal & Beal, handling banjo and reeds respectively.

Talents : Buster Coward : Vocals, Guitar - Eddie Fielding : Banjo, then  Joe Barnes (known as Red Brown) - Charlie Gregg : Vocals, Fiddle -Eddie Duncan : Steel Guitar - Leonard Seago & Noah Hatley : Fiddle

Style musical : Western Swing

Texas Sand (1936)

Oh, Look At That Baby (1937)

SWEET MAMA BLUES (1937)

Shawnee (1938)

RIDING FOR THE RIO GRANDE (1939)

Years in activity :

1910 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 2000 10 20

DISCOGRAPHY

78 t.

03/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6310 (US)

They Simply Go Wild Over Me / I'm Wild About That Thing
04/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6326 (US)

She's Sweet (Ain't She Sweet) / My Sweet Thing
05/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6365 (US)

I Can't Change It / It Was Midnight On The Ocean
06/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6397 (US)

Chicago Rhythm Kings - Sarah Jane / Martins And The Coys
06/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6403 (US)

Drivin' The Doggies Along / Ride On Old Timer, Ride On
06/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6421 (US)

I Was Born Too Soon / Sweet Violets
07/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6438 (US)

Ragtime Cowboy Joe / Red's Tight Like That 
09/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6513 (US)

Lonesome Blues / Texas Sand

10/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6554 (US)

Buster's Crawdad Song / El Rancho Grande
11/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6655 (US)

In The Shadow Of The Pines / The One Rose In My Heart
11/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6692 (US)

I'll Be Hanged If They're Goin' To Hang Me / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree
12/1936 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6703 (US)

Yesterday / Echo In The Valley
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-4762 (US) She's Sweet (Ain't She Sweet) / My Sweet Thing
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-4763 (US) They Simply Go Wild Over Me / I'm Wild About That Thing
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-4764 (US) I Can't Change It / It Was Midnight On The Ocean
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-4765 (US) Drivin' The Doggies Along / Ride On Old Timer, Ride On
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-4766 (US) Lonesome Blues / Texas Sand
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7039 (US) Buster's Crawdad Song / El Rancho Grande
1936 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7041 (US)

Sarah Jane / Born Too Soon
02/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6783 (US)

The Girl I Left Behind Me / I Believe In You
02/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6828 (US)

Oh, Look At That Baby / That Little Texas Town
03/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6856 (US)

Sweet Mama Blues / I Wish You Were Jealous Of Me
03/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6900 (US)

Let's Go / Get With It
04/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6947 (US)

When It's Tune Wrangling Time In Texas / Rodeo Rose
04/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-6962 (US)

Dreams Of Silver And Memories Of Gold / When The Sun Goes Down In Arizona
06/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7030 (US)

A Little While Ago / Shine On, New Mexico Moon
08/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7076 (US)

That's Just My Way Of Loving You / Why Do You Knock At My Door?
08/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7089 (US)

Cielito Lindo / I've Got No Use For Women
10/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7200 (US)

Sweetest Girl In The World / Whistling Waltz
11/1937 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7272 (US)

Leave Me With A Smile / It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7184 (US) When It's Tune Wrangling Time In Texas / Rodeo Rose
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7194 (US) I'll Be Hanged If They're Goin' To Hang Me / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7195 (US) In The Shadow Of The Pines / The One Rose In My Heart
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7196 (US)

Shine On, New Mexico Moon / When The Sun Goes Down In Arizona
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7197 (US)

Back To Nevada / Dreams Of Silver And Memories Of Gold
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7198 (US)

A Little While Ago / That¢s My Way Of Loving You
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7199 (US)

Sweet Mama Blues / Hot Peanut
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7200 (US)

The Girl I Left Behind Me / Cielito Lindo
1937 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7367(US)

Four Leaf Clover / Cowboys And Indians
01/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7336 (US)

Who'll Take Your Place When You're Gone / Honey Smile For Me
02/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7413 (US)

Four Leafed Clover / When You Think A Lot About Someone
05/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7571 (US)

Laughter And Tears / Sing A Song Of Harvest
06/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7612 (US)

Old Montana Moon / Chopo - Waltz
1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-3196 (US)

Tuno Hombres - Rainbow - Arco Iris / Centeno Waltz
07/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7673 (US)

Blue Bonnet Rhythm / Rainbow
08/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7703 (US)

Solita / Little Love Ship
09/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7766 (US)

Shawnee / Cowboys And Indians
10/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7830 (US)

Look Out For The Ghost Of Red / Black Eyed Susan Brown
10/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7867 (US) Cemetary Sal (Bill BOYD & His COWBOY RAMBLERS) / Hot Peanuts (TUNE WRANGLERS)
12/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7934 (US)

Dixie Moon / I'll Never Let You Cry
12/1938 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7947 (US)

You Lost A Friend / Singing Clarinet Blues
01/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7966 (US)

Island Reverie / Hawaiian Honeymoon
01/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7972 (US)

Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts / I Love Hero
01/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-7992 (US)

Sweet Fiddle Blues / Rio Pecos Rose
02/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-8014 (US)

Kalua Sweetheart / Rio Grande Lullaby
02/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-8032 (US)

Ye Olde Rye Waltz / Riding For The Rio Grande

03/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-8062 (US)

Sugar Blues (TUNE WRANGLERS) / All Dolled Up (Glad Rag Doll) (Jimmie REWARD OKLAHOMA PLAYBOYS)
05/1939 78 t. BLUEBIRD B-8133 (US)

Using That Thing (DOUGLAS BINE'S DIXIE RAMBLERS) / It Don't Mean A Thing (TUNE WRANGLERS)
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7660 (US)

Dixie Moon / Kalua Sweetheart
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7661 (US)

Rio Grande Lullaby / Rio Pecos Rose
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7662 (US) Island Reverie / Hawaiian Honeymoon
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7663 (US)

Sweet Fiddle Blues / Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7664 (US)

You Lost A Friend / I'll Never Let You Cry
1939 78 t. MONTGOMERY WARD M-7665 (US)

Singing Clarinet Blues / I Love Her
01/1947 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2070 (US)

Hawaiian Honeymoon / Texas Sand



Albums

1982 LP 12" Texas Rose TXR-2703 (US)

The Tune Wranglers 1936-38 - Black-Eyed Susan Brown / Let's Go / I Wish You Were Jealous Of Me / Chopo / Why Do You Knock At My Door / Red's Tight Like That / Shawnee / I'll Be Hanged If They're Goin' To Hang Me / El Rancho Grande / Blue Bonnet Rhythm / Sweet Fiddle Blues / Oh, Look At That Baby / Hawaiian Honeymoon / Yesterday / Buster's Crawdad Song / Rainbow 
2000 CD Krazy Kat KK-CD 28 (UK)

Tune Wranglers 1936-1938 - It Was Midnight On The Ocean / They Go Wild Over Me / El Rancho Grande / Texas Sand / My Sweet Thing / Sarah Jane / Red's Tight Like That / I Can't Change It / Ragtime Cowboy Joe / I'm Wild About That Thing / She's Sweet; Lonesome Blues / Up Jumped The Devil / I'll Be Hanged If They're Gonna Hang Me / I Believe In You / Oh, Look At That Baby / I Wish You Were Jealous Of Me / Yesterday / Hot Peanuts / Let's Go / Rodeo Rose / Get With It / It Don't Mean A Thing / Black-Eyed Susan Brown / Cowboys And Indians / Shawnee / Sweet Fiddle Blues
2012 CD BACM CD D 372 (UK)

Drivin’The Doggies Along - They Go Wild Over Me / Drivin’The Doggies Along / Ride An Old Timer Ride On / They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree / In The Shadow Of The Pines / I’ve Got No Ouse For The Women / Echo Valley / That Little Texas Moon / Dreams Of Silver Memories Of Gold / When The Sun Goes Down In Arizona / Back To Nevada / A Little While Ago / Who’ll Take Your Place / Look Out For The Ghost / Honey Smile For Me / Leave Me With A Smile / It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More / Sweetest Girl In The World / Old Montana Moon / Ridin‘ For The Rio Grande / Dixie Moon / Rio Pecos Rose / I’ll Never Let You Cry (instr.)

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