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Wybrana twórczość Kompozytor lub współkompozytor Five Pennies, Get With It, Hangover (wspólnie z Miffem Mole’em), Hurricane (wspólnie z Paulem Madeirą Mertzem), The King Kong, Lowland Blues, Meet Miss 8 Beat, Nervous Charlie Stomp, The Parade of the Pennies, Overnight Hop, Sugar, That's No Bargain, Trumpet Sobs Dyskografia 1943 Red Nichols Classics – Volume One – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (Brunswick) 1946 Red Nichols Classics – Volume Two – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (Brunswick) 1950 Jazz Time with Red Nichols (Capitol) 1954 Red Nichols and Miff Mole – New York Jazz of the Twenties (Riverside) 1958 Red Nichols and His Pennies – Parade of the Pennies (Capitol) 1959 Meet the Five Pennies – Red Nichols (Capitol) The Red Nichols Story – Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (Brunswick) – kompilacja 1963 Red Nichols and His Five Pennies – Vol. 2 – Original Recordings Made in 1926–1930 (Coral) – kompilacja 1974 Red Nichols (Parnaso Records) 1976 Sessions, Live – Red Nichols Firehouse Five Plus 2 (Calliope) 1982 Red Nichols and His Five Pennies – 1926–31 Rarest Brunswick Masters (MCA) – kompilacja Zestawienie wg dat wydania płyt