A humble family-owned bakery provided bread to Knoxvillians for over a century − and gave rise to an iconic 20th-century gospel group. The Swan Brothers Bakery, better known as Swan's Bakery ...

By the 1940s, the group had moved to Knoxville and become known as the Silvertone Singers. They were featured Monday-Friday at 12:45 p.m. in a WBIR show sponsored by Swan's Bakery. The group ...