Right-Click to Save    Do you need a toe-tapper?  Even if you’re performing hip-hop (I sincerely hope not),  every now and then you need to throw in something completely different.  Something that makes people think, “Oh, that’s fun!”.  This classic country tune would be the one.

Bob Wills recorded “San Antonio Rose” as an instrumental in 1938.  He came from a musical family in Texas (father was a champion fiddle player – mother an accomplished pianist), so he naturally gravitated toward music as a career.  His band ( the Texas Playboys) wrote lyrics to the tune and it became “New San Antonio Rose” –  soaring to number one on the “Western” charts and staying there for a very long time.  Other versions became popular later on, most notably Floyd Cramer’s piano instrumental in the ’60s (which I’m trying to emulate here – to no avail).  This is the way I prefer to do it (duh),  but it’s got some pretty good lyrics so don’t be afraid to hand it to your singer.

When Wills and his band performed it at the Grand Ole Opry with horns and drums, it caused quite the controversy.  Seems the Opry people didn’t think those instruments belonged in a country-western band.  Could be they were right.