Images with Johnnie Simmons and His Orchestra
Johnny Simmons and his Orchestra, L.C. Anderson High School Prom, 1947 Austin History Center, Austin Public Library PICA 30019
The earliest documentation of Johnny Simmons's orchestra, the “Blue Devils,” at a 1938 dance at the Cotton Club. Daily Texan March 8, 1938, 2.
Austin American July 2, 1939, 6.
A reference to Simmons's membership in the Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra in the Daily Texan. Daily Texan January 4, 1946, 3.
1949 gig at the Cinderella Club following C&W acts Dolores and the Bluebonnet Boys and Roy Rogers. Daily Texan April 1, 1949, 10.
A description of Simmons as a boogie woogie pianist. Daily Texan January 9, 1945.
Joe Houston with Simmons’s band in Corpus Christi, 1949. PICA 30020, Austin History Center.
