Johnny Beecher AKA Plas Johnson

Johnny Beecher better known as Plas Johnson has some very sweet sax music under Beecher. His beecher recordings seem to go by un-noticed and can be bought for very little money. His styles vary from blues, R&B, and hardbop. He worked with Johnny Otis and Charles Brown, and he recorded on labels such as Tampa, Score, Capitol, Ava, and Concord. Around the Pittsburgh area where I live Beecher's (Sax Fifth Ave) was played a lot by the local DJ's and can be found on Charter records as well as Astra 1019 (a local Pittsburgh labe)l. Beecher put out two LP's on the Charter label one being (Sax 5th Ave) catalog 102 with 12 slow misty tunes made to put your mind at ease and carry you off to slumber land. I think you get the geist of the tempo. The record is very easy going and I find it relaxing, not for the mosh pit crowd.

Sax 5th Ave on the Astra label pressed on green wax

Here is a nude cover copy of Beecher's Sax 5th Ave from Japan that is quite rare and hard to find.

As Plas Johnson (Beecher) has this single on Capitol 4251 that is much in demand by the northern soul collector and is worth aound $80.00 in near mint condition. It's a smoking instrumental, listen.