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Cecil Brower
Cecil Brower
musician
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Light Crust Doughboys
Light Crust Doughboys
American band
2
Bob Wills
Bob Wills
American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (1905-1975)
3
Leon McAuliffe
Leon McAuliffe
American musician
4
Tommy Duncan
Tommy Duncan
American musician
5
Bob Dunn
Bob Dunn
American musician
6
Cliff Bruner
Cliff Bruner
American musician
7
Hank Penny
Hank Penny
American musician
8
Johnny Gimble
Johnny Gimble
American musician
9
Adolph Hofner
Adolph Hofner
American musician
10
Roger Brown
Roger Brown
American singer-songwriter from Texas
11
The Hot Club of Cowtown
The Hot Club of Cowtown
hot jazz/western swing trio
12
The Quebe Sisters Band
The Quebe Sisters Band
13
Jan Garber
Jan Garber
American musician
14
Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson
American country musician
15
Spade Cooley
Spade Cooley
Big band leader, Actor, Television personality (1910-1969)
16
Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
17
George Barnes
George Barnes
American musician
18
Bill Boyd
Bill Boyd
American actor and singer (1910-1977)
19
Guy Lombardo
Guy Lombardo
Canadian-American bandleader
20
Emmett Miller
Emmett Miller
American entertainer
21
Shoot Low Sheriff
Shoot Low Sheriff
22
Bob Crosby
Bob Crosby
American dixieland bandleader and vocalist (1913-1993)
23
Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
24
Les Brown
Les Brown
American bandleader, jazz musician, songwriter
25
Smith Ballew
Smith Ballew
American actor, singer andorchestra leader (1902-1984)
26
Roger Miller
Roger Miller
American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (1936-1992)
27
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
28
Jonah Jones
Jonah Jones
American musician
29
Jerry Gray
Jerry Gray
American violinist, arranger, composer, and bandleader
30
Clyde Hurley
Clyde Hurley
American musician
31
Connee Boswell
Connee Boswell
American musician (1907-1976)
32
Larry Elgart
Larry Elgart
American jazz bandleader (1922-2017)
33
Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
34
Cindy Walker
Cindy Walker
American songwriter, country music singer and dancer
35
Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
36
Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
37
Ray Bauduc
Ray Bauduc
American musician
38
Clyde McCoy
Clyde McCoy
American jazz trumpeter and recording artist
39
Jack Hylton
Jack Hylton
British band leader and impresario
40
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
American singer and songwriter of country music (1914-1984)
41
Frank Rehak
Frank Rehak
American musician
42
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
43
Buster Smith
Buster Smith
Jazz alto saxophonist
Intro
American musician
Record Labels
Awards Received
Western Swing Hall of Fame
Music

Milton Brown (September 8, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, "Father of Western Swing". The birthplace of Brown's upbeat "hot-jazz hillbilly" string band sound was developed at the Crystal Springs Dance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas from 1931 to 1936.

Along with Bob Wills, with whom he performed at the beginning of his career, Brown developed the sound and style of Western swing in the early 1930s. For a while, he and his band, the Musical Brownies, were more popular than Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Brown's career was cut short in 1936 when he died following a car accident.