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The Prisonaires (members Johnny Bragg (lead), Edward Lee Thurman (tenor), John Edward Drue Jr. (tenor), Marcel Sanders (bass) and William Stewart (baritone))

Sun 186 - Just Walkin' In The Rain (2 Complete Versions) / Just Walkin' In The Rain (2 Incomplete Versions) - 1953 (Acetate) Recorded Monday 1-June-1953.
Sun 186 - Just Walkin' In The Rain / Baby Please - 1953 ( Red Vinyl Only Six Copies Known To Exist )
Sun 186 - Just Walkin' In The Rain / Baby Please - 1953 (Black Vinyl)
Sun 189 - My God Is Real / Softly And Tenderly - 1953
Sun 191 - A Prisoner's Prayer / A Prisoner's Prayer - 1953 (A Number Pressed With Same Track Both Sides)
Sun 191 - I Know / A Prisoner's Prayer - 1953
Sun 207 - There Is Love In You / What'll You Do Next - 1954

The Sunbeams (members Johnny Bragg, Edward Lee Thurmon, William Stewart, John Edward Drue (re-joined group), Hal Hebb and Willy Wilson with  Henry "Dishrag" Jones on piano and L. B. McCollough on guitar)

The Marigolds (members Johnny Bragg, Edward Lee Thurmon, John Edward Drue, Henry Jones, Hal Hebb, Willie Wilson and Alfred Brooks who replaced a pardoned William Stewart (died 1959 --- cause: drug overdose))

Excello 2057 - Rollin' Stone* / Why Don't You - 1955 *also released in 1955 by The Cadets on Modern 960.   

The Solotones (members Johnny Bragg, Edward Lee Thurmon, William Stewart, John Edward Drue, Henry Jones, Hal Hebb, Willie Wilson and Alfred Brooks)

Excello 2060 - Pork And Beans / Front Page Blues - 1955

The Marigolds

Excello 2061 - Two Strangers / Love You - Love You - Love You - 1955 

Johnny Bragg & The Marigolds

Excello 2078 - Foolish Me / Beyond The Clouds - 1956
Excello 2091 - Juke Box Rock ' N ' Roll / It's You Darling, It's You - 1956
Excello 2091 - It's You Darling,It's You / It's You Darling, It's You - 1956 (Dj. Copy) 

Johnny Bragg (Born 26-February-1925 in North Nashville, Tennesee --- died 1-September-2004 aged 79 at the Imperial Manor Convalescent Center in Madison, Tennessee - cause: cancer)

Decca 9 - 30917 - True Love Will Never Die /  Just So That Someone Is Me - 1959
Decca  9 - 30972 - World Of Make Believe / Everything's Alright - 1959
El Be Jay 100 - Fools Hill / No Chance For Happiness - 1967
El Be Jay 001 - They're Talking About Me* / Is It True, Darlin' - 1967 (some copies issued with picture sleeve)  
El Be Jay 104 - Walk Tall Like A man / I'm Free - 1967
El Be Jay 105 - I'm Free  The Prisoner's Song / Hurt And Lonely - 1967
El Be Jay - Just Walking In The Rain - (previously unissued version which was released in Germany on a 2007 Blue Label Cd "The Bullet And Sur-Speed Records Story - The R&B And Soul Sessions" SPV 95892)
El Be Jay - Goin  Over Fool Hill - (unissued track which was released in Germany on a 2007 Blue Label Cd "The Bullet And Sur-Speed Records Story - The R&B And Soul Sessions" SPV 95892) 
Hollywood 1130 - Freedom Marches - Pt. 1 / Freedom Marches -Pt. 2 - 1968 (unsure if this is the same Johnny Bragg) 
Bedflame 101 - Flame Of Love / Storybook Love - ?

Discography by Bosko Asanovic