Birth of Western Swing ･ﾟ✧

The Black music market expanded, and in 1931, Cab Calloway may have become the first African-American to sell a million copies with Minnie the Moocher [Brunswick 6074].

Jazz’s popularity influenced country music’s output. Nowhere is this more evident than the repertoire of Bob Wills, who combined Western string band music with the complex, chromatic music theory and big brass sections of jazz. Western swing hits from Bob Wills came in the 1930s and endured well into the 1940s [Columbia 37313].