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Biography
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W. Lee O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys
Effective period / Period of releases: 1937
Members: Leon McAuliffe, W. Lee O'Daniel, Jim Boyd, Carroll Hubbard, William Perrin, Leon Huff (2), Kermit Whalen, Kitty Williamson, Pat O'Daniel, Herbert Bynum, Wallace Griffin
A Texan Western swing band with its own radio program during the mid-1930s. Pat O'Daniel, the son of "Pappy" O'Daniel, was the band's leader. The Hillbilly Boys, associated with Pappy O'Daniel's flour company which produced Hillbilly Flour, helped catapult Pappy O'Daniel to the governorship of Texas