Bob Wills! 🎻 . May 13 1975 Today we remember the great Bob Wills who has died on this day in 1975. James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing,he was known widely as the King of Western Swing. He was also noted for punctuating his music with his trademark “ah-haa” calls. . He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose un