"Reb" Benjamin Spikes and his brother John led bands in California area for the first thirty years of the 20th century. The Spike brothers are also listed as co-writers of Someday Sweetheart with Jelly Roll Morton, and Reb wrote lyrics to Wolverine Blues. Some Jazz historians have suggested that his involvement in the authorship of these songs may have been only as the publisher, but we will probably never know for sure. The Spike brothers owned the Sunshine record label which released only three records, but one of them was the first African-American Jazz record by a group from New Orleans. It was released under the name of Spikes Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra which was Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra.