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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
Apr 23, 1936
Roy Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas. A 1987 addition to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he reaches the country charts with his solo hit "You Got It" and a duet with Emmylou Harris. His songs "Crying" and "Blue Bayou" also become country hits for Don McLean and Linda Ronstadt, respectively
Jun 3, 1936
Novelist Larry McMurtry is born in Wichita Falls, Texas. The author of such titles as "Lonesome Dove" and "The Last Picture Show," his son, James McMurtry, becomes an alternative country singer/songwriter
Jun 22, 1936
Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas. He records the 1973 hit "Why Me," becomes a member of The Highwaymen, appears in numerous movies and writes such classics as "Help Me Make It Through The Night" and "For The Good Times," landing in the Country Music Hall of Fame
Sep 7, 1936
Rock & roll pioneer Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas. Cohorts Waylon Jennings, Sonny Curtis and Bob Montgomery go on to find success in country music, while Holly's "True Love Ways" becomes a country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1980
Sep 17, 1936
Songwriter Dewayne Blackwell is born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He pens Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places," T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day" and David Frizzell's "I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home"
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