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Nov 28, 1914Fiddler Cecil Brower is born in Bellevue, Texas. He becomes an influential western swing musician after joining Milton Brown's Musical Brownies. He later plays on hits by Porter Wagoner, Bobby Bare and Loretta LynnMar 21, 1937Fiddler Cecil Brower marries Sybil Knight in Cleburne, Texas. He first met her when she attended a dance that Brower's band, Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, played at the Crystal Springs Dancing Pavilion in Fort Worth, TexasJun 27, 1959Bob Wills and Cecil Brower team up for a fiddle breakdown on the weekly ABC-TV series "Jubilee USA"Nov 21, 1965Fiddler Cecil Brower dies during a party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City of a perforated ulcer. One of the pioneers of western swing, he established the fiddle's role in the genre during his tenure with Milton Brown's Musical BrowniesNov 21, 1965Jimmy Dean performs at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York. The show represents the final appearance of fiddler Cecil Brower, who dies at a post-show party at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
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