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Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas, United States,[1] organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.[2] The band achieved its peak popularity in the few years leading up to World War II. In addition to launching Western swing pioneers Bob Wills and Milton Brown,[3] it provided a platform for many of the best musicians of the genre, including Tommy Duncan, Cecil Brower, John Parker and Kenneth Pitts.[4]

The original group disbanded in 1942, although band member Marvin Montgomery led a new version organized in the 1960s. A contemporary incarnation beginning in the 1990s (including Montgomery until his death in 2001)[5] bills itself as the longest-running country music band in the world.


The Light Crust Doughboys were charter inductees into the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame in 1989,[6] and were also inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.[7] In December 2005, the Light Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Quitman, Texas.[8] The Light Crust Doughboys Museum was later moved in 2015 to the Auvenshine Library at Hill College in Hillsboro, Texas.

Sunbonnet Sue (Victor, 1931)

Memories Of Jimmie Rodgers (Vocalion, 1934)

Beautiful Texas (Vocalion, 1934)

Kelly Waltz (Vocalion, 1934)

Roll Up The Carpet (Vocalion, 1934)

My Million Dollar Smile (Vocalion, 1935)

Prairie Lullaby (Vocalion, 1935)

(Vocalion, 1936)

My Blue Heaven

(Vocalion, 1937)

The Eyes Of Texas

(Vocalion, 1938)

Beautiful Ohio

It Makes No Difference Now (Vocalion, 1939)

Blue Eyed Sally (Vocalion, 1939)

Rainbow (Vocalion, 1940)

(Vocalion, 1940)

The Cattle Call

Too Late (Okeh, 1941)

Sweet Sally (Okeh, 1942)

Rainbow (Columbia, 1948; reissue)

The Ultimate All-Day Singing Songbook, Marvin Montgomery & Art Greenhaw, 1999, Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated, CD / Hardback book,  978-0786650156

ISBN

The Light Crust Doughboys Songbook, Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery & Art Greenhaw, 2001, Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated, CD / Hardback book,  9780786630707

ISBN

Dempsey, John Mark (2002). . University of North Texas Press. ISBN 9781574411515.

The Light Crust Doughboys are on the Air : Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music

Malone, Bill C. (1968). . Austin, Texas, United States: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292710962.

Country Music U.S.A.

Townsend, Charles R. (1976). San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills (1st ed.). . ISBN 9780252004704.

University of Illinois Press

Boyd, Jean A. (2003). (1st ed.). University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292709256.

"We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill": An Oral History

from the Handbook of Texas Online

Light Crust Doughboys

from the 1936 Gene Autry movie, Oh, Susanna.

Video clip of The Light Crust Doughboys performing the "Tiger Rag"

The Light Crust Doughboys at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame

Video clip of Marvin Montgomery playing and talking about the Light Crust Doughboys history

Video on the collaboration of Art Greenhaw, Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, and Neil Hess which resulted in two ballet productions starring the music of the Light Crust Doughboys