Career
In around 1915, the Spikes were performing in San Francisco under the name The Original So-Different Orchestra, with Reb Spikes billed as the "World"s Greatest Saxophonist". Around 1919, they then settled in Los Angeles, where they started a music store, a nightclub, an agency and a publishing house. They were the first to record an all-black jazz band in 1922.
In 1927, they shot a short sound film that predated The Jazz Singer, the first full-length sound film.
Their most enduring musical collaborations were writing the lyrics to Morton"s "Wolverine Blues" and their own composition, "Someday Sweetheart", which has become a jazz standard.
