1936
Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)
Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)
Milton Brown
American band leader, singer and founder of Western swing (1903–1936)
- Died
- 1936
Milton Brown 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.