Effective period / Period of releases: 1967

Bob Homan of Tiffin, graduated from Columbian High School in 1948 and was drafted in the U.S. Army in 1950 and served two years in Japan during the Korean War.
When his sister brought home an old, used guitar, Homan would stay home to practice rather than go fishing with his father and brothers.
Besides guitar, Homan also plays bass and “a little mandolin.
Homan said he always dreamed of playing and singing on the radio and, at age 20, he got his chance, playing on radio stations WKJG and WOWO of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Homan said he grew up listening to the “cowboy” songs and it was the song “Home on the Range” that drew him to the radio and country and western music.
After listening to the Hoosier Cornhuskers on the station WFIN in Findlay, he joined his first band in 1950.
While in the Army, Homan met Bert Wells, who became a lifelong friend and helped jump start Homan’s career with performances on Wells’ television program in Yakima, Washington.
During the summer of 1956, Homan and his band performed at the Buck Lake Ranch, where he got the chance to meet Nashville stars such as Ray Price, Ferlin Husky, Jean Shepherd, Red Sovine, Hackshaw Hawkins, Tex Ritter and The Wilburn Brothers, who became great friends with Homan.
He moved to Nashville in the summer of 1959, hoping for his big break. There, he was supposed to record his first record, but – according to Homan – the deal never panned out.
Homan was able to record two long-play records, “Beamin’ All Over” in 1969 and “Phases of Love” in 1972, which he recorded with Don Rich and the Buckaroos in Buck Owens Studios in Backersfield, California.