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    • Apr 3, 1936
    Songwriter Carol Hall is born in Abilene, Texas. Associated with Broadway, she writes the music and lyrics to the songs in "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas." One of those titles, "Hard Candy Christmas," becomes a country holiday track when it's recorded by Dolly Parton
    Apr 4, 1936
    Pop singer Margo Sylvia is born in Woburn, Massachusetts. As a member of The Tune Weavers, she co-writes the 1957 pop single "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," remade as a 1986 country hit by Ronnie Milsap
    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 4, 1936
    Smoky Mountain Boy Bashful Brother Oswald and his first wife, Lola, are married
    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 12, 1936
    Judy Lynn is born in Boise, Idaho. She earns a hit with her 1962 country single "Footsteps Of A Fool"
    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 17, 1936
    Tenor Alexander Graves is born in Alabama. A member of the R&B act The Moonglows, he appears on their 1955 pop hit "Sincerely," revised for the country audience in 1988 by The Forester Sisters
    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
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