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Ted Fio Rito normally is outside the jazz field but was BIG among the sweeter big bands. Clyde Lucas - apparently one of the many jazzwise nondescript hotel bands catering to the "sedate set" and doing his patriotic duty on these V-Discs. Bill Heathcock (not even listed in Simon's book, not in Leo Walker's Big Band Almanac, so a maximum obscurity ) has some interesting names in the lineup of V-Disc 619, and "Late at Night" would be one I'd find interesting to explore.  Randy Brooks was a fairly big name back then and from today's listening perspective he should not put off anyone who is into the likes of Glenn Miller or the Dorseys.  Johnny Blowers admittedly IS obscure as a bandleader (his was one of those "sidemen-turned-bandleader" outfits, but apparently only briefly) but as a drummer he was present on many Swing sessions.  Mal Hallett (the chapter on him in George Simon's Big Bands" book had me intrigued when I first got hold of that book more than 40 years ago) seems to have had his heyday in the pre-Swing era years and recorded fairly little during the Swing era, and reissues of his recordings are very, very thin on the ground.  Tony Pastor, OTOH, recorded a lot; he had a very swinging and enjoyable band IMO, not least of all thanks to his hip (or should I say "offbeat"?) vocals which place him not too far away from Louis Prima, right down to some overlaps in their repertoire. Some of his V-Discs were reissued before on vinyl. However, I'd sure like to hear V-Disc 275 by the Tony Pastor band and his recording of a tune titled "Schickelgruber"!   Pity it's not on that Mosaic set. Now THAT would be one "period piece"!   

Clyde Lucas, Ted Fiorito, Johnny Blowers, Randy Brooks, Bill Heathcock are obscure to me... Also the Curtis Bay Coast Guard Training Station Dance band and the other military bands... Yet others like Mal Hallett or Tony Pastor do ring bells, but I don't know anything about their music... To be fair, most of the more obscure bands are only covered with relatively few tracks...

Which bands would you consider to be among the "really obscure"? Just wondering ...