Touring Buses...?!
Question: 1.The history of touring buses can be traced back to who? This Texas great was credited for being the first to tour in a bus.
2.“Big Blue” was purchased by _______on January 23, 1961. He borrowed $7,500.60 from the Third National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee to pay for the bus. He made monthly payments of $291.90 on the bus until it was paid off on January 18, 1963. Big Blue had a 1956 GMC Bus Chassis with 29 passenger Flexible body with air conditioning. Its serial number is 30923 with a motor number of 4A56589. It was his first and only bus.
Answers: 1.The history of touring buses can be traced back to who? This Texas great was credited for being the first to tour in a bus.
2.“Big Blue” was purchased by _______on January 23, 1961. He borrowed $7,500.60 from the Third National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee to pay for the bus. He made monthly payments of $291.90 on the bus until it was paid off on January 18, 1963. Big Blue had a 1956 GMC Bus Chassis with 29 passenger Flexible body with air conditioning. Its serial number is 30923 with a motor number of 4A56589. It was his first and only bus.
1) According to the Ernest Tubb biography that I just finished reading it was in 1946 that Ernest Tubb bought a old school bus and painted "Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours WSM Grand Ole Opry" on the sides of it using black paint.That bus still had the poles in it that people used to hold on to. He later bought Pee Wee King's bus which was called a flex bus.
2) I believe that is correct in that it was Jim Reeves bus.
Ernest Tubb (?)
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(hey, I did'nt know, But I guessed, and if I was wrong, cool,
BUT I KNOW NOW!!! lol
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1. On his tribute show this past week, Eddie Stubbs said that Hank Thompson was the first country star to have a touring bus. The story he told with one of the former members of the Brazos Valley Boys was that Thompson had a bus, then temporarily toured without one. When the station wagon ended up way too croweded, he returned to having a tour bus.
2. Big Blue was the tour bus of my favorite male singer, Jim Reeves. It was on display at the Jim Reeves Museum for years before it closed. I believe that the Texas Country Music Museum purchased it after the very, VERY ugly battle over Reeves' estate was ironed out following Mary Reeves' death in 1999.