Texas Johnny Brown & His Blues Rockers - Atlantic 876 (1949)

Gotta call yesterday from my "record store guy" who just came into about 300-400 78s. Made a rare mid-week jaunt and snagged 'em all. They are mainly black big band/swing and post war jazz (many labels I have never seen except online) with just a smattering of earlier stuff. They all came from a meticulous collector as each disc had a typed artist/song tab adhered to the edge of each sleeve.

When I got home, I flipped more thoroughly through just one box and found this one from 1949 that was a bit out of place as far as genres included. I grew up listening to Atlantic records, The Drifters, Clovers, Ruth Brown...the usual. I had never heard of this one. Apparently he is still active around the Houston area.

EDIT: It was just a few months after originally posting this that Texas Johnny Brown passed away at 85 in July of 2013.

Recorded on April 6, 1949.

Gene Rodemich's Orchestra - Brunswick 2455 (1923)

Gene Rodemich p, dir / Charles Werner, another t / Larry Conley tb / Austin Wylie 2nd p / Paul Spoerloder d / Unknown cl, ss, as.

Recorded in New York on June 21, 1923.

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Harmony 1061 (1941/46)

Kind of an odd pairing in that these two songs were recorded five years apart yet this appears to be the only release for either. (I could be wrong)

Benny Goodman cl, dir / Billy Butterfield, Jimmy Maxwell, Cootie Williams, Irving Goodman t / Lou McGarity, Cutty Cutshall tb / Les Robinson, Gus Binova as / Georgie Auld, Pete Mondello ts / Skippy Martin bar / Johnny Guarnieri p / Mike Bryan g / Artie Bernstein sb / Dave Tough d / Jimmy Mundy a.

Recorded in New York on March 27, 1941.

Johnny Best, Nate Kazebier, Dick Main, Dale Pierce t / Cutty Cutshall, Leon Cox tb / Addison Collins fhr / Benny Goodman cl / Bill Shine, Larry Molinelli as / Cliff Strickland, John 'Zoot' Sims ts / John Rotella bar / strings / Joe Bushkin p / Barney Kessel g / Harry Babasin sb / Louie Bellson d. 

Recorded in New York on October 15, 1946.