Alabama Boys

A western swing music group formed in 1934 that established themselves by their regular performing on Place KVOO as well as the Playroom Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma. They comprised Don Ivey (piano, electric guitar), Eldon Shamblin (electric guitar), Charlie Laughton (trumpet), Ray DeGeer (saxophone) and Harley Huggins (business lead vocals, electric guitar). Ivey previously used Bob Wills’ Tx Playboys and was the originator from the music group but still left after disagreements with KVOO’s Program Movie director. In 1937, Dave Edwards became head but soon soon after, Laughton, DeGeer and Shamblin became a member of Wills. In Dec that season the music group, composed of Huggins, Doc Eastwood (banjo), Darrell Jones (bass), Bud McDonald (electric guitar), Keith Payne (drums), Carl Rainwater (metal electric guitar), Man Thompson and Louis Tierney (fiddles) and Mancel Tierney (piano), but without brass musical instruments, recorded 15 edges for Decca Information in Dallas. Although billed as Dave Edwards And His Alabama Young boys, Edwards got no part within the program and Huggins, for reasons uknown, didn’t sing, the vocals getting used by McDonald and Thompson. Seven singles obtained discharge but disappointments and disharmony shortly noticed the group disband, with a lot of the members signing up for the rings of either Bob or Johnnie Lee Wills.