· Besides being a skilled trumpeter, Brownie was also proficient on piano, bass, and vibraphone.
· The album The Beginning and The End claims to contain recordings from a jam session made the night that Clifford died, but biographer Nick Catalano believes this session actually took place one year before the accident.
· The car crash that took Clifford's life was actually his second. The first took place in 1950. It was quite serious and Brownie was forced to give up the trumpet for a year. He spent the time off learning the piano. Pain from injuries in the accident plagued him for the rest of his life.
