found: This is how it all began [SR] p1982:label (Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy) container (Jimmy Liggens, guitar; Harold Land and Charles Ferguson, tenor saxes; Walton Willis, Eugene Watson, Leon Petties, James Dedmon, Nathan Bagsby; recorded May 31, 1950 in Hollywood, Calif.)
found: OCLC, July 12, 1999:(hdg.: Drops of Joy (Musical group))
found: Oxford music online, July 17, 2017:New Grove dictionary of jazz, 2nd edition (under Liggins, Jimmy: in 1946 in San Diego he formed his own group, which began recording for Specialty in 1947 as the Drops of Joy)