Robert Earl Hames (January 22, 1920 – September 6, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist from Texas who played with the dance orchestras of Jan Garber, Orrin Tucker, and Stan Keller.
[2] In the mid-1940s Hames was a member of the Jan Garber Orchestra and the Orrin Tucker band[3] before enrolling at the University of North Texas.
While there, he played electric guitar in 1945 with the Aces of Collegeland,[4] the forerunner to the One O'Clock Lab Band.
[5][6] Hames introduced Petersen to jazz recordings of Karl Kress, Tal Farlow, Chuck Wayne, Herb Ellis (then a student at North Texas), Barney Kessel, Barry Galbraith, Remo Palmieri, Oscar Moore, and Charlie Christian.
[7] Hames was a guitarist on the Jerry Haynes Show on WFAA TV in the mid-1950s, which aired Monday through Friday at noon.