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Leon McAuliffe

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Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917 – August 20, 1988), born William Leon McAuliffe, was an American Western swing musician from Houston, Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, inspiring Wills's phrase, "Take it away, Leon." McAuliffe, at age 16, first played with the Light Crust Doughboys, playing both rhythm guitar and steel guitar. In 1935, at age 18, he went on to play with Bob Wills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Top songs

  1. Blue Guitar Stomp
  2. Take It Away, Leon
  3. Panhandle Rag
  4. Take It Away Leon
  5. Columbus Stockade - Original Starday Recordings
  6. Steel Guitar Rag
  7. Steel Guiter Rag
  8. This Side of Town
  9. Blacksmith Blues
  10. Twin Guitar Boogie
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  1. Take It Away, Leon!
  2. Cozy Inn
  3. columbus stockade
  4. Birmingham Bounce
  5. Red Skin Rag
  6. Tulsa Straight Ahead
  7. Rag Mop
  8. Bonaparte's Retreat
  9. Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy
  10. A Cowboy's Christmas Song
  11. Twin Fiddle Rag
  12. The Three Bears
  13. Honky Tonk Song
  14. Hear Me Now
  15. Cimarron Rag
  16. Redskin Rag
  17. There's A Right Way, A Wrong Way
  18. Wished You Would
  19. I've Never Lived In Tennessee
  20. Run 'em Off
  21. Eating Right Out Of Your Hand
  22. Tulsa, Straight Ahead
  23. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
  24. One O'Clock Jump
  25. Smooth Sailing
  26. Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)
  27. No One For Me
  28. Somebody Else Is Beatin' My Time
  29. Three Bears
  30. Daylight
  31. Boot Heel Drag
  32. Texas Drummer Boy
  33. Jelly Bean Rag
  34. Blue Skirt Waltz
  35. Juke Box
  36. In The Mood
  37. What've You Got
  38. Twin Guitar Special
  39. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
  40. Nobody Cares (For Me Anymore)
  41. Leon's Boogie
  42. I Don't Love Nobody
  43. Boil 'Em Cabbage Down
  44. Beaumont Rag
  45. Take It Away Len
  46. Mr. Steel Guitar
  47. Faded Love
  48. Bear Creek Hop
  49. Hard-Hearted Girl (2)
  50. Pan Handle Rag
  51. Night Train
  52. Goin' Home
  53. I'll Hold You In My Heart
  54. Sizzlin' Cecil
  55. What, Were And When
  56. Catfish
  57. I'll Fly Away
  58. Search My Heart
  59. (I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way
  60. Downhill Drag
  61. The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along
  62. Down At The Roadside Inn
  63. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
  64. Liberty
  65. Columbus Stockade Blues
  66. Lover's Leap
  67. Hard-Hearted Girl
  68. Opening & Hawaiian War Chant
  69. Mr Steel Guitar
  70. Blacksmiths Blues
  71. Tulsa Staright Ahead
  72. Blue Guiter Stomp
  73. Santa Fe (Is A Long Way From Broadway)
  74. This Is The Southland
  75. In Her Own Peculiar Way
  76. Hey Ba Ba Re Bop
  77. Eatin' Right Out of Your Hand
  78. Golden Chances
  79. Shape Up Or Ship Out
  80. Hard-Hearted Girl (1)
  81. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
  82. Long, Long Train
  83. Fiddle Boogie
  84. This Is Southland
  85. Junior's Shadow
  86. Reckon I Love You
  87. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
  88. A Plain Talking Man From The West
  89. My Little Red Wagon
  90. Naughty Angeline

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