Real name: Maurice Lafayette Cotton, Jr.

Big band tenor vocalist and songwriter in the 1930s and 1940s. Owner of Oroco Records. Born July 14, 1911 in Stigler, Oklahoma – died January 12, 1977 in Hollywood, California.

In the late 1930s Cotton joined Horace Heidt And His Musical Knights, appearing with them on Heidt’s US radio show "Pot O’ Gold" (1938-41), one of radio’s first ‘giveaway’ shows, and in the film version in 1941.