Originals

Original songs by this artist are, for now, too exclusive to them to be listed here separately.

Covers

• Cover of UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG in 1936 - swing band from Kansas City; first on Columbia and three weeks later on Decca with cleaned up lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin; vocal by Pha Terrell; n°1 US
• Cover of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS in 1936
• Cover of TAKE IT AND GIT in 1942 - first n°1 on Harlem Hit Parade (soon to become R&B); for Decca, with Mary Lou Williams on piano