[3] There he led the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils,[4] who performed regularly on Duke's campus and up and down the east coast.

In 1942, Brown and his band concluded work on an RKO picture, Sweet and Hot; played at the Palladium Ballroom, Hollywood.

[1] The song's release coincided with the end of World War II in Europe and became an unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans.

[5] Les Brown and the Band of Renown performed with Bob Hope on radio, stage and television for almost fifty years.

Rock-A-Billy Baby, a low-budget 1957 film, was the Band of Renown's second, and in 1963 they appeared in the Jerry Lewis' comedy The Nutty Professor playing their theme song "Leap Frog".

[citation needed] Les Brown Sr. died of lung cancer in 2001, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

His grandson, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, co-created the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law.

Brown Jr. was a television actor in the 1960s (Gunsmoke, General Hospital, The Baileys of Balboa, Gilligan's Island), a rock musician and producer who worked with Carlos Santana, and a concert promoter for many country music artists including Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn.