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Milton Brown

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Milton Brown (September 7, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. [1]

23 relations: Arlington Heights High School, Bob Dunn (musician), Bob Wills, Cecil Brower, Cigar, Decca Records, Django Reinhardt, Fort Worth, Texas, Great Depression, Hokum, Hot Club de Paris, Jazz, Jazz guitarist, Light Crust Doughboys, Narcolepsy, Pneumonia, Radio station, Stéphane Grappelli, Stephenville, Texas, University of Illinois Press, W. Lee O'Daniel, WBAP (AM), Western swing.

Arlington Heights High School

Arlington Heights High School (AHHS, Heights) is a secondary school located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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Bob Dunn (musician)

Robert Lee "Bob" Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist.

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Bob Wills

James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

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Cecil Brower

Cecil Lee Brower (November 28, 1914 – November 21, 1965) was a classically trained American jazz violinist who became an architect of Western swing in the 1930s.

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Cigar

A cigar is a rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hokum

Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos.

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Hot Club de Paris

Hot Club de Paris were an English band from Liverpool.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz guitarist

Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing.

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Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.

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Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a long-term neurological disorder that involves a decreased ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Radio station

A radio station is a set of equipment necessary to carry on communication via radio waves.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

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Stephenville, Texas

Stephenville is a city in and the county seat of Erath County, Texas, United States.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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W. Lee O'Daniel

Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (March 11, 1890May 11, 1969) was an American conservative Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program.

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WBAP (AM)

WBAP (820 kHz) is an AM News/Talk radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

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Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Brown

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