Question: Tom Merriman arranged and/or produced music for which singer strongly associated with the Cotton Club?
Context: "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.  Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.  Also 1933, for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities.  The revue was originally called "The Cotton Club Parade of 1933" but for the road tour it was changed to the "Stormy Weather Revue" and as the name implies, the show contained the hit song "Stormy Weather" which was sung by Adelaide Hall. Jimmy Rollins "(né" James Rollins) is an American guitarist, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer from Dallas who flourished in the 1950s, playing guitar on recordings as sideman with Lefty Frizzell, Billy Walker, Marty Robbins, and Sid King and the Five Strings.  Rollins composed songs recorded by Connie Smith, Jean Shepard, and Porter Wagoner.  As an audio engineer, he worked at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas during the mid-1950s and in 1956, he worked at Tom Merriman's recording studio at 3104 Maple Avenue, Dallas. Babalú-Ayé is an Orisha strongly associated with infectious disease and healing.  The name Babalú-Ayé translates as “Father, lord of the Earth” and points to the authority this orisha exercises on all things earthly, including the body, wealth, and physical possessions.  In West Africa, he was strongly associated with epidemics of smallpox, leprosy, influenza, ebola, and HIV/AIDS.  Although strongly associated with illness and disease, Babalú-Ayé is also the spirit that cures these ailments.  Both feared and loved, Babalú-Ayé is sometimes referred to as the “Wrath of the supreme god” because he punishes people for their transgressions.  People hold Babalú-Ayé in great respect and avoid calling his actual name, because they do not wish to invoke epidemics. Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.  He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. "I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.  It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23, 1932, the first of the Cotton Club Parades. The Cotton Club Boys were nationally acclaimed American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, performed class act dance routines – that is, precision unison dance drills – as part of musical revues produced almost exclusively by the Cotton Club in New York until 1940 – when the Broadway Cotton Club closed – then as part of Cab Calloway's Revue on tour, until the end of 1942.  They debuted in the 24th edition of "Cotton Club Parade," spring 1934 — (i) a period that marked the beginning of the swing era, (ii) the post-Harlem Renaissance, (iii) about a year after the Prohibition, and (iv) the trough of the Great Depression.  The chorus line name often included a prefix that reflected the number of members; "viz. ," "The Six Cotton Club Boys," "The 12 Cotton Club Boys," and the like. Roy Radin (13 November 1949 – 10 June 1983) was a show business promoter who packaged vaudeville shows in the 1970s and early 1980s.  He was probably best known for his attempts to help finance the film "The Cotton Club", and as the subsequent victim of a murder-for-hire at age 33.  The trial in which four people were sentenced related to Radin's killing became known as "The Cotton Club Murder."  The story of Radin's murder became the subject of a book, "Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood and the Cotton Club Murder". ""Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)"" is a song composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Ted Koehler.  It was written for their last show at the Cotton Club in 1934 and was sung by Adelaide Hall In an interview Adelaide Hall explained how she performed the song to great effect during the show, I starred in the Cotton Club Parade where I sang 'Ill Wind', which Harold Arlen had written for me.  There were twenty-four girl dancers behind me all dressed in grey and I was in pink.  It was the first show ever that had nitrogen smoke rise from the floor on stage".'  The melody came to Arlen whilst he was visiting Anya Taranda, a model who was to become Arlen's wife. The Cotton Club is a 1984 American crime-drama film centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. Thomas Wayne Merriman (20 March 1924 Chicago – 11 November 2009 Dallas) was an American music composer based in Dallas, Texas, who in 1955 created the first production company specializing in radio station advertising campaigns and jingles.  Merriman led the Liberty Network Band, and arranged and/or produced music for Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway.
Answer: Cabell "Cab" Calloway III