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    • Mar 5, 1936
    Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies hold what proves to be their final recording session, for Decca Records, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans
    Apr 4, 1936
    Western swing band The Light Crust Doughboys hold a recording session in Fort Worth, their first to feature banjo player/guitarist Marvin Montgomery. Also present: Dick Reinhart, who goes on to record with Al Dexter, Gene Autry and Johnny Bond
    Apr 11, 1936
    Milton Brown's Musical Brownies play their regular show at the Crystal Springs Dancing Pavilion in Fort Worth, Texas. As it turns out, it's the last live performance Brown ever gives
    Apr 13, 1936
    Bandleader Milton Brown is injured when he crashes his car into a telephone pole alongside the Jacksboro Highway outside of Fort Worth, Texas, killing a 16-year-old female passenger. Five days later, he dies after a punctured lung leads to pneumonia
    Apr 14, 1936
    A day after breaking six ribs and puncturing a lung in an auto accident, Milton Brown is placed in an oxygen tent at Fort Worth's Methodist Hospital, where the western swing legend has developed pneumonia
    Apr 18, 1936
    Bandleader Milton Brown dies at Fort Worth's Methodist Hospital, five days after a car crash. He stood alongside Bob Wills as one of the founders of western swing
    Apr 19, 1936
    Funeral services are held for western swing figure Milton Brown at the Lucas South Side Funeral Home in Fort Worth. The Chuck Wagon Gang performs, The Musical Brownies serve as pallbearers, and fellow musician Bob Wills attends
    Apr 22, 1936
    Just days after the death of bandleader Milton Brown, his Musical Brownies perform their first date without him in Waco, with brother Derwood Brown now leading the western-swing group
    Sep 29, 1936
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys record "Steel Guitar Rag" and "Trouble In Mind" among 18 songs during a session at the Furniture Mart Building in Chicago, with drummer Smokey Dacus playing in the bathroom
    Sep 30, 1936
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys record "Right Or Wrong" in Chicago



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