78 rpm Brunswick "Lightning Bolt" label and more...

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These Lightning Bolt Brunswicks might be common, but are far less common than the popular Brunswick label which has an ornate leafy design. I have some Brunswick Lightning records with some singing preachers and hill billy music. These records were aimed for sale in the South. I looked up this record in my Brian Rust Jazz Records 1897-1942 book vol. 1 which gives the personnel as Junie or Jimmie Cobb-c/Cecil Irwin-cl-ts/Ernie Smith-bar/Frank Melrose-p/Tommy Taylor-d/Jimmy Bertrand-x. It says it was recorded on March 15, 1929 and was issued on Br 7066, 4965, and Creole 9. The Creole 9 refers to Creole Records which was a record label in the 1940s that reissued collector jazz records on vinyl 78s. If you could find the reissue, it would be much cheaper than the original Brunswick.