Welcome to the Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys Tiffany Transcriptions website. 
The Tiffany Transcriptions, recorded in San Francisco between 1946 and 1947 are some of the most revered recordings, of any type music, ever made. The Tiffany Transcriptions were designed to be a pre-recorded (transcribed) radio show of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, hosted locally by radio stations across America. This website will tell the history of these legendary recordings and other related information about Bob Wills and his years in California. There were over 458 individual recordings made for the Tiffany Music Company of Oakland, California. This number includes false starts, incomplete takes, mic checks, intros and outros, etc. There were more that 360 complete takes recorded. Only around 150 have been issued on LP or CD. See the discography above for details. Check out the items from the menu above and come back often as we will be updating and adding information and items frequently! Please do not reprint anything on this website without permission from info@tiffanytranscriptions.com. The purpose of this site is to give information about the Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions. It is not owned or associated with the current owners of the Tiffany Music Company. If you believe that any material on this site infringes on a copyright held by you, contact us and we will remove it. January 15, 1944 
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1/23/2012 update The Zoom Radio Show page has been updated. New information about the show has been discovered and an audio outro of the show has been added. Check it out! 1/10/2012 Evelyn McKinney Stevens of the McKinney Sisters died on December 24th 2012. The McKinney Sisters were prominently featured on the Tiffany Transcriptions and in the Bob Wills band. Evelyn and her sister Dean (who died in 2009) were a great resource and inspiration to the Kaleidoscope Records Tiffany Transcriptions reissue series. A CD and cassette of many of their songs from the Tiffany Transcriptions were issued as Kaleidoscope #6002. Here’s a link to Evelyn’s obituary. 12/31/2011 Happy New Year message. Bob Wills in California New Years Eve. 12/8/11 Happy Holidays! We’ve been working on the next part of the Tiffany Transcriptions Story, The Kaleidoscope Records Years. We’ve also been going through the discography, session by session (just the first three so far),and adding new information. 11/13/11 New! The first part of the Tiffany Transcriptions is complete and you can read it now. It includes the story of the Tiffany Music Company and the recording of the transcriptions, the demise of the company and the Tishomingo and Lariat reissues. Start here! New! You can now listen to excerpts of the Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions B.F. Goodrich disc courtesy of University of Missouri. Click here to go to their website then scroll down the page and click of the image of the Sound Recorders B.F. Goodrich disc. You’ll need Real Player to hear it. New: An interview with Texas Playboys Eldon Shamblin, Tiny Moore, & Dean McKinney Moore. |
Original Tiffany Transcriptions Poster (slightly alter for this web site!)
This is totally off subject but I asked once before on another Bob Wills site and got no response. I was wondering if you knew if the performance Of Bob and The Playboys on The Grand Ole Opry exists? Is so have you heard it?
Randy
Good question! I don’t know the answer. This is a question the Country Music Foundation in Nashville hopefully can help you with. It seems if they don’t know the answer, they should know who the expert on Opry recordings is. I’ll put the word out with the people I know. If you find out the answer, let us know.
I have recently acquired a recording of the 1948 Grand Ole Opry show in which Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
did three songs. I will transfer to CD and will make available to those interested. To my knowledge Bob and the boys played three shows there: the first in 1941 and the 1948 show and one later on. Since then the Texas Playboys have played there other times but this not with Bob.
Do you have t-shirts available? I have volumes 5,7,9 and 10 missing. Can you help
I do not have any T-shirts. However, Down Home Music in El Cerrito, California (510-525-2129) found a stash of them in an old cabinet of their’s. They have some for sale, but warning! some of them, although they look fine, have rotted and as soon as you try to put them on they rip. If you do buy one try to get some kind of guarantee. Try EBay for the albums you’re missing.
Several years ago a friend sent me an origional copy of that Transcription Flyer Red and Black. It is in mint condition.
I have made copies for friends and would be glad to send one to anyone wanting one. Thanks for all the information and work you have put into this information and making available.