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| name = Tex Williams | image =Tex Williams 1967.JPG | caption = Williams in 1967. | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Sollie Paul Williams | alias = Tex Williams | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|08|23}} | origin = Ramsey, Illinois | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|10|11|1917|08|23}} | death_place = Newhall, California | instrument = guitar, Harmonica | genre = Western swing, country | occupation = singer-songwriter | years_active = 1946–1978 | label = | associated_acts = | website = }} Sollie Paul "Tex" Williams (August 23, 1917{{spaced ndash}}October 11, 1985) was an American Western swing musician from Ramsey, Illinois. He is best known for his talking blues style; his biggest hit was the novelty song, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)", which held the number one position on the Billboard charts for sixteen weeks in 1947. "Smoke" was the No. 5 song on Billboard's Top 100 list for 1947, and was No. 1 on the country chart that year.[1] It can be heard during the opening credits of the 2006 movie Thank You for Smoking. Life and careerWilliams started out in the early 1940s as vocalist for the band of Western Swing king Spade Cooley, based in Venice, California. Williams' backing band The Western Caravan numbered about a dozen members. They attained an enviable level of fluid interplay between electric and steel guitars, fiddles, bass, accordion, trumpet, and other instruments (even an occasional harp). At first they recorded polkas for Capitol Records with limited success. That was changed by the success of "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" written in large part by Merle Travis.[2] In April 1956 Williams appeared on the Chrysler-sponsored CBS TV broadcast "Shower of Stars".[3] Williams died of pancreatic cancer on October 11, 1985.[4] FilmographyWilliams and the Western Caravan appeared in the following films:
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Notes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+Hot+100&g=Year-end+Singles&year=1947 |title=Information Not Found |publisher=Billboard.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-25}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/williams_tex/bio.jhtml |title=Tex Williams : Biography |publisher=CMT |date= |accessdate=2012-03-25}} 3. ^Disk Talent Feature of 'Stars' Show. Billboard Apr 14, 1956. page 36 4. ^Kienzle, Southwest Shuffle, p. 99: "In 1985, he died of pancreatic cancer (not lung cancer, as was widely reported)." References
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