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Hi , another record i found ...but got totally confused !! Looked on John Manships' site...there were varying hues of green labels with different sizes of print. Could anyone tell me (i sure they can) any information on this particular record to enable me to list it correctly. Thanks again.

On the dead wax there is written NOT printed numbers 001A

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come back ....found 3w's very feint!!!! on both sides ....but they are together and positioned 3 ways..what do you think ?

Drew the w's on a piece of paper and photographed it.

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Thanks ....I nearly missed that w's mark...it is barely visible...very difficult with the naked eye..i used a magnifying glass in the end.

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Mine came in a paper picture cover....will have to dig it out.

Here you go wiggy, not in best of condition though.

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I seem to recall that he was a felon and in nick. Maybe a chance at re-forming?.

Story on the back of picture sleeve that i posted up.

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I seem to recall that he was a felon and in nick. Maybe a chance at re-forming? The backing group are The Prisonaires are something similare I think??  

 

Johnny Bragg was part of vocal group The Prisonaires (who were all inmates at Tennessee State Penitentiary) in the early '50s.  Bragg had been in prison since 1943, serving concurrent life sentences for six counts of rape.

 

The Prisonaires cut a few 45s / 78s for Sun around 1952 - 54 and, as the sleeve above states, Johnny Bragg wrote "Just Walkin' In The Rain", recorded by The Prisonaires in 1953, and became a UK / US No. 1 for Johnnie Ray three years later.

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Hiya I did,nt enlarge the picture. So did not read the info. Impressed I have some memory!!

Johnny Bragg was part of vocal group The Prisonaires (who were all inmates at Tennessee State Penitentiary) in the early '50s.  Bragg had been in prison since 1943, serving concurrent life sentences for six counts of rape.

 

The Prisonaires cut a few 45s / 78s for Sun around 1952 - 54 and, as the sleeve above states, Johnny Bragg wrote "Just Walkin' In The Rain", recorded by The Prisonaires in 1953, and became a UK / US No. 1 for Johnnie Ray three years later.

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