Okeh 41454 78 RPM shellac record signed by Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden on the label in white ink. Louis is backed by Earl Hines on "Weather Bird" and by Buck of Buck and Bubbles on "Dear Old Southland" (title scratched off). Teagarden did not perform on the record but must have been standing by on the occasion of the item's signing. Untested for playing condition, but with many evident scratches and smudging to the signatures, else fine.

"Weather Bird" has generally been considered to be a musical composition by Joe Oliver, however Thomas Brothers (Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism) has more recently written that it was actually composed by Louis Armstrong during his time on the Mississippi river boats and that Armstrong sent a lead sheet of "Weather Bird Rag" to Washington, D.C. for copyright in April 1923.

On December 5, 1928, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded it as a duet between trumpet and piano and this recording is now regarded as the "most famous duet in jazz history" (Ilse Storb, "Louis Armstrong: the definitive biography"). In fact, it is listed on this record issued by Okeh Records as Louis Armstrong's "trumpet solo with piano accompaniment by Earl Hines" and is sometimes considered a solo. Armstrong had also performed the composition before, as second cornet with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923. Citing its improvisational sound, Brothers describes this recording as "fun and exceptional, a worthy document of a unique musical friendship." It was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.