Boots and His Texas Melody Boys
Boots and His Texas Melody Boys appears in 33 performances from 1943, 1945, 1946, and 1949.
Boots and His Texas Melody Boys sometimes appeared as ‘Boots and His Buddies’, ‘Boots and His Boys’, ‘Boots and His Melody Boys’, ‘Boots Jones and His Texas Melody Boys’, or ‘Boots Jones Orchestra’.
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