Jaki Byard's debut featured the song "Garnerin' a Bit," his own homage to jazz pianist Erroll Garner. Erroll Garner cut his first recordings at the apartment of Danish jazz promoter Timme Rosenkrantz. The Chronological Classics: Erroll Garner 1944 collects this first batch of recordings.
Here is the discography surrounding Erroll Garner's debut recordings:
"Twenty-Four Hours in Georgia" by Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears
June Hutton followed in the music industry behind her half-sister Ina Ray Hutton. Ina Ray's career had two iterations. The first started in the mid-thirties as the leader of an all female Big Band, The Melodears. The second came during World War II as the leader of an all male Big Band Orchestra that toured military bases around the United States and eventually landed her as an early host of her own television show (where she would lead, again, an all-female band). Although Hutton never recorded an album nor very many singles, both careers have been captured by a few compilations that collect her bands' singles, radio broadcasts and film performances. The album for this whistle-stop is Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears released by Vintage Music Productions.
Here is Ina Ray Hutton's discography:
Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears
The Definitive Collection 1934-1944 (compilation album)
1943 Spotlight Band Broadcasts (radio compilation album)
Swing Hutton Swing (featuring Ina Ray Hutton and Her Melodears)
A 1940s short (featuring Ina Ray Hutton and Her Orchestra)
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" by Johnny Mercer and His Orchestra
Axel Stordahl's debut album came out on Capitol Records, a record label co-founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer. Although more renown for his song craft, Johnny Mercer was also an experienced performer and a big personality who would occasionally record his own songs. He released his debut album Songs by Johnny Mercer in 1944 on his own record label.
Here's the discography surrounding Johnny Mercer's debut album:
Fare-Thee-Well to Harlem (1934 single)
Jamboree Jones (1937 single with His Orchestra)
Murder of J. B. Markham (1937 single with His Orchestra)
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1938 single with Bing Crosby)
Lazybones (1939 single)
Friendship (1940 single with Judy Garland)
Mister Meadowlark (1941 single with Bing Crosby)
Strip Polka (1942 single)
I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City (1942 single)
G. I. Jive (1943 single)
The Old Music Master (1943 single)
"They Didn't Believe Me" (1943 single)
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (1944 single)
I'm Gonna See My Baby (1944 single)
Sam's Got Him (1944 single)
San Fernando Valley (1944 single) Songs by Johnny Mercer
