Tommy Duncan

Tommy Duncan

Thomas Elmer Duncan (January 11, 1911 – July 25, 1967), was an American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys. He recorded and toured with bandleader Bob Wills on and off into the early 1960s.

Birth and Death Data: Born January 11, 1911 (Hillsboro), Died July 25, 1967 (San Diego)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1935 - 1955

Roles Represented in DAHR: vocalist, songwriter, composer, lyricist, speaker, arranger, harmony vocal, tenor saxophone, yodeling

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	BS-070336	10-in.	10/29/1941	Time changes everything	Wayne King Orchestra	Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo and male vocal trio	composer
Columbia	H372	10-in.	7/23/1941	Blue Bonnet Lane	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H374	10-in.	7/23/1941	Lil Liza Jane	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H375	10-in.	7/23/1941	Please don't leave me	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H377	10-in.	7/23/1941	Cherokee maiden	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H378	10-in.	7/24/1941	Ride on! (my prairie pinto)	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H382	10-in.	7/24/1941	Dusty skies	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H844	10-in.	7/15/1942	Goodbye, Liza Jane	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal trio	composer, lyricist
Columbia	DAL981	10-in.	4/16/1940	New San Antonio rose	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	vocalist
Columbia	H1241	10-in.	1/26/1945	Hang your head in shame	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1242	10-in.	1/24/1945	Smoke on the water	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1245	10-in.	1/26/1945	Roly poly	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1246	10-in.	1/26/1945	You don't care what happens to me	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1247	10-in.	1/26/1945	Stay a little longer	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, composer, lyricist
Columbia	H1250	10-in.	1/28/1945	You should have thought of that before	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1251	10-in.	1/28/1945	I can't go on this way	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1366	10-in.	4/20/1945	Stars and stripes on Iwo Jima	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1367	10-in.	4/20/1945	Silver dew on the blue grass tonight	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1369	10-in.	4/20/1945	New Spanish two step	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, composer, lyricist
Columbia	C1475	10-in.	9/29/1936	She's killing me	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1480	10-in.	9/29/1936	Get along home Cindy	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1481	10-in.	9/29/1936	Trouble in mind	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1482	10-in.	9/29/1936	What's the matter with the mill?	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solos	vocalist
Columbia	C1484	10-in.	9/29/1936	Basin Street blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1485	10-in.	9/29/1936	Red hot gal of mine	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1495	10-in.	9/30/1936	Mean mama blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1500	10-in.	9/30/1936	Bring it on down to my house	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solos	vocalist
Columbia	C1503	10-in.	9/30/1936	Right or wrong	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	C1504	10-in.	9/30/1936	Swing blues no.1	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1551	10-in.	10/3/1945	Empty chair at the Christmas table	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	H1553	10-in.	10/3/1945	White cross on Okinawa	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	HCO2004	10-in.	9/4/1946	Cotton eyed Joe	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with string band	vocalist, arranger
Columbia	HCO2007	10-in.	9/5/1946	Sugar moon	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	HCO2010	10-in.	9/5/1946	Brain cloudy blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, songwriter
Columbia	HCO2012	10-in.	9/6/1946	There's a big rock in the road	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with string band	vocalist
Columbia	HCO2018	10-in.	9/6/1946	The kind of love I can't forget	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4858	10-in.	10/15/1947	The devil ain't lazy	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4859	10-in.	10/15/1947	A sweet kind of love	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4861	10-in.	10/15/1947	Cowboy stomp	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4862	10-in.	10/15/1947	Misery	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, songwriter
Columbia	CCO4864	10-in.	10/15/1947	Bob Wills schottische	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band	speaker
Columbia	CCO4866	10-in.	10/16/1947	Texarkana baby	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4867	10-in.	10/16/1947	Good time cake-walk	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4868	10-in.	10/16/1947	Can't get enough of Texas	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4869	10-in.	10/16/1947	You're there	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4871	10-in.	10/16/1947	New Texas Playboy rag	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	CCO4873	10-in.	10/16/1947	Deep water	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	DAL978	10-in.	4/15/1940	Time changes everything	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Columbia	DAL979	10-in.	4/15/1940	Medley of Spanish waltzes	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, harmony vocal
Columbia	DAL1170	10-in.	2/24/1941	New worried mind	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band	vocalist
Columbia	DAL1176	10-in.	2/24/1941	I knew the moment I lost you	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with string band	vocalist, songwriter
Columbia	DAL1180	10-in.	2/26/1941	Take me back to Tulsa	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	Male vocal solo, with string band	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL127	10-in.	9/23/1935	Get with it	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, songwriter
Brunswick	DAL129	10-in.	9/23/1935	I can't give you anything but love	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	instrumentalist, tenor saxophone
Brunswick	DAL133	10-in.	9/23/1935	St Louis blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal duet	speaker
Brunswick	DAL134	10-in.	9/23/1935	Good old Oklahoma	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal duet	vocalist, songwriter
Brunswick	DAL138	10-in.	9/23/1935	Never no more blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL229	10-in.	6/8/1937	Never no more hard times blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist, yodeling
Brunswick	DAL230	10-in.	6/7/1937	Sunbonnet Sue	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL235	10-in.	6/9/1937	The new St. Louis blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	speaker
Brunswick	DAL239	10-in.	6/9/1937	Oozlin' daddy blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL577	10-in.	5/17/1938	Oh you beautiful doll	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL583	10-in.	5/17/1938	Empty bed blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL618	10-in.	11/28/1938	The convict and the rose	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL623	10-in.	11/29/1938	Ida Red	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL627	10-in.	11/29/1938	I wonder if you feel the way I do	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL630	10-in.	11/30/1938	The waltz you saved for me	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Brunswick	DAL633	10-in.	11/29/1938	Drunkard blues	Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys	String band, with male vocal solo	vocalist
Decca	L 7579		2/26/1954	The parting of the ways	Tommy Duncan and his Playboys		vocalist
Decca	L 7580		2/26/1954	Wastin' your life away	Tommy Duncan and his Playboys		vocalist
Decca	L 7581		2/26/1954	I just can't take it anymore	Tommy Duncan and his Playboys		vocalist
Decca	L 7582		2/26/1954	Walkin' in the shadow of the blues	Tommy Duncan and his Playboys		vocalist
Decca	L 7963		11/1/1954	Leavin' today	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 7964		11/1/1954	My son, my son	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 7965		11/1/1954	San Antonio rose	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 7966		11/1/1954	Times changes everything	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 8394		5/10/1955	I'll never worry you	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 8395		5/10/1955	Mirror on the wall	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 8396		5/10/1955	Sending your picture back	Tommy Duncan		vocalist
Decca	L 8397		5/10/1955	Somebody's pushin'	Tommy Duncan		vocalist

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Duncan, Tommy," accessed November 6, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/100089.

Duncan, Tommy. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 6, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/100089.

"Duncan, Tommy." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 November 2024.