SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — For the past five decades the music and comedy team of Williams and Ree entertained audiences all over the country.
They performed with some of the biggest names in country music and even had their own TV show. Sadly Terry Ree passed away in late December.
In tonight’s Eye on KELOLAND Tom Hanson looks back at their 56-year partnership and the impact they had on fans in KELOLAND.
Bruce Williams and Terry Ree met at freshmen orientation at Black Hills State in 1968, Williams tells us the first time he saw Ree play he was in awe.
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“I didn’t know a soul, but this big Sioux Indian fella got up on stage with his guitar and started singing, and since I was a guitar player as well I thought, man, this guy is, I just idolized him you know he was just such a presence, just him and his guitar on stage,” said Williams.
Together they became one of South Dakota’s most successful performing acts, mixing music and humor.
And they were good at it.
“The Indians they have a game and yes they call it Bingo, B-i-n-g-o B-i-n-g-o B-i-n-g-o, but not no more in Flandreau,” sang Ree.
Williams and Ree were inducted into the South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, the same year as Mogen’s Heroes.