Thomas Elmer Duncan, known as Tommy Duncan, born January 11, 1911, in Whitney,
Texas, was an American Western swing singer-songwriter. He began his musical
career as a street musician in Fort Worth and joined the Light Crust Doughboys
in 1932, where he met Bob Wills. He became a founding member of The Texas
Playboys, contributing versatile vocals. As a lyricist, he contributed to "New
San Antonio Rose" (1940), which sold three million copies for Columbia Records.
During World War II, he volunteered for the military but received a medical
discharge, rejoining Wills in 1944. Togeth...