Unissued on 78s means just that: some of the songs here may have appeared on LPs, but even so they would be several decades old by now, and collector s items in their own right! When Victor s mobile recording unit arrived in Houston, Texas in March 1925, one of the bands they chose to record was led by Lloyd Finlay. Seven titles were made, of which six were issued. Beyond the facts that Seger Ellis was their piano player, and that Jack Murhill sang on the unissued title, nothing else is known about this quite interesting group, which falls stylistically somewhere between hot dance music and country. Victor s second choice for that trip was Fatty Martin s Orchestra, a much more straightforward jazz outfit than Finlay s. Two excellent titles resulted, and although we do have a partial list of personnel for the orchestra, that is as far as our knowledge goes! After this one session, the participants returned to recorded obscurity. Next up are two titles also made for Victor s mobile unit, but in New Orleans by Tony Parenti and his Famous Melody Boys. This was their third recording session of 1925, having already made one Victor session on the previous day, and one several months earlier for Columbia. The two selections here are first-rate examples of New Orleans jazz of the middle 20s.