Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery: A Life in Texas Music

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dc.contributor.authorDempsey, John Mark
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-28T10:04:55Z
dc.date.available2012-02-24T10:05:08Z
dc.date.issued2001-09
dc.description.abstractThe Light Crust Doughboys launched the careers of Bob Wills, who went on to legendary status as the "King of Western Swing," and W. Lee "Pappy" O’Daniel, who became a popular, but lightly regarded, governor of Texas and U.S. senator. Another original Doughboy, vocalist Milton Brown, was perhaps the most popular musical performer in Texas when he was killed in a car accident in 1936. The Doughboys’ popular noontime radio program became an integral part of daily life in Texas from the 1930s to the 1950s. The lives of Wills, O’Daniel, and Brown have been chronicled in full-scale biographies. But the man who became the Doughboys’ foundation, over an era lasting more than 65 years, was Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, a four-string banjo virtuoso whose boundless energy led him into other venues as Las Vegas entertainer, television performer, hit-record producer, and musical impresario.
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dc.format.extent13 pages
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dc.identifier.issn1535-7104
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/2723
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Center for Texas Music Historyen_US
dc.sourceJournal of Texas Music History, 2001, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Article 4.
dc.subjectMontgomery, Marvin
dc.subjectSmokey
dc.subjectTexas music
dc.subjectCountry music
dc.titleMarvin "Smokey" Montgomery: A Life in Texas Musicen_US
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