JET RECORDS 1926 thru 1929

JET 1926 (22)
BENNIE HESS
Forever Gone (1926.A) [(ACA) 3268]
(Hess) (No Publisher Noted)
BENNIE HESS AND HIS NATION PLAY BOYS (sic)
Country Style Boogie (1926.B) [(ACA) 3267]
(Grace McPhail) (No Publisher Noted)

Billboard: 3rd December 1955




JET ????
BENNIE HESS
Treasured Memories [(ACA) 3266]
()
Haunted Heart [(ACA) 3269]
()

Note:
Hess later released the version above or a remake of “Treasured Memories” on PEARL Records. (Dave Sax)

JET 1927
DOYLE JONES
Eve Invented the Blues [(ACA) 3271]
()
King of Nothing [(ACA) 3270]
()

Note:
ACA files note client for ACA 3266 thru 3271 as “Oked Records”
Material mastered on 25th and 27th October 1955
Billboard: 3rd December 1955

JET ????
DIXIE EVANS
Foolish [(ACA) 3272]
()
You Been Cheatin’ [(ACA) 3273]
()
You Slipped In The Heart Of Me [(ACA) 3274]
()

Note:
If JET 1928 was actually released, It seems possible that Dixie Evans was the artist and that one side was # 3272, seeing that this side was recut.

JET 1929
BENNIE HESS
I Dreamed About Christmas Last Night [(ACA) 3275]
()
Oh, The Man In The Moon Is Santa Claus [(ACA) 3276]
(Elsie Pierce Wilks) (Peeples BMI)

Note: Billboard: 3 December 1955

Note:
ACA files note client for ACA 3272 thru 3276 as “Oked / Jet”
Material mastered 28th October 1955. ACA 3272 was recut 8th December 1955.

Just before we posted this listing, we saw – and heard – a record by a jump blues band with the number 1419, which is obviously a reversal of the first number, 1914. This release appears to be roughly contemporary with JET 1918:

Thanks to John Tefteller for the information on JET 1419.

JET 1419
LENARD ANDERSON & HIS SNATCH WIGS
I Know That Knock (Vocal - Grant Clark) (1419-A)
(Manuel Charles) (No publisher Noted)
Live Or Die (Vocal - Grant Clark) (1419-B)
(Manuel Charles) (No publisher Noted)

Note:
None of these recordings were made at ACA. The ones that have ACA master numbers in brackets were mastered there. That is why they have ACA master numbers but do not say “ACA” in the run off grooves.

A later Jet label from Houston (which specialized in R&B) is unrelated.

Listing compiled by information supplied by (in alphabetical order) Andy Brown, Dave Sax, and Al Turner. Andy Brown also provided ACA details.