| Artist |
Track |
Album |
Label |
Format |
Comments |
Year |
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Mound City Blue Blowers
|
Hello Lola
|
Early Jazz Greats
|
Jazztone
|
LP
|
reissue of 1929 recording
|
|
|
Charlie Ventura
|
Dark Eyes
|
Tenor Sax
|
Concord
|
LP
|
various artists LP. Dark Eyes reissue of 1946 recording features Specs Powell drum solo.
|
|
|
Guy Warren w/Red Saunders O.
|
Monkies & Butterflies
|
Africa Speaks, America Answers!
|
Decca
|
LP
|
|
early '60s
|
|
Nina Simone
|
Sea Lion Woman
|
|
Philips
|
45
|
|
1960s
|
|
|
|
Rosetta Howard & Big Three Trio
|
When I Been Drinking
|
|
Columbia
|
78
|
Big Bill Broonzy on guitar
|
1947
|
|
Trixie Smith
|
Jack I'm Mellow
|
|
Decca
|
78
|
w/Charlie Shavers, tpt, Sidney Bechet, clt, Sam Price, pno
|
1938
|
|
Yas Yas Girl & Her Jazz Boys
|
I'd Rather Be Drunk
|
|
Vocalion
|
78
|
Yas Yas Girl's real name was Merline Johnson
|
1939
|
|
Helen Humes
|
They Raided the Joint
|
|
Decca
|
78
|
live from Frank Bull & Gene Norman's Blues Jubilee Concert, Feb. 1952
|
1952
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
George Jenkins
|
Drum Boogie
|
|
Skylark
|
45
|
|
1955
|
|
Bobbettes
|
Mr. Lee
|
|
Atlantic
|
45
|
|
1957
|
|
Bobbettes
|
Come-a Come-a
|
|
Atlantic
|
45
|
Possibly the only 1950s R&B girl group recording with a steel guitar break!
|
1957
|
|
Blue-Belles
|
I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
|
|
Newtown
|
45
|
feat. Patti Labelle lead vocal
|
1962
|
|
Ann Cole & the Suburbans
|
Got My Mo-Jo Working
|
|
Baton
|
45
|
|
1957
|
|
Ann Cole
|
I've Got Nothing Working Now
|
|
Baton
|
45
|
|
1959
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
Youngpeople
|
Back to School
|
|
Truth
|
45
|
|
1960s?
|
|
Sarah Vaughan
|
Mean to Me
|
Hi-Fi Jazz Session
|
Masterseal
|
LP
|
reissue of 1945 recording w/Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips & Dizzy Gillespie, from various artists lp.
|
|
|
Sarah Vaughan
|
Over the Rainbow
|
In the Land of Hi-Fi
|
Mercury/EmArcy
|
LP
|
feat. Cannonball Adderly, Roy Haynes, Jimmy Jones.
|
1955
|
|
Sarah Vaughan
|
Doodlin'
|
Count Sarah
|
Mercury
|
LP
|
Yup, her version the Horace Silver hit
|
1958
|
|
Sarah Vaughan
|
Mama You Treat Your Daughter Mean
|
World of Sarah Vaughan
|
Roulette
|
LP
|
Yup, her version the Ruth Brown hit.
|
1964?
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
LTG Exchange
|
Corazon
|
|
Fania
|
45
|
|
1973
|
|
Lil Armstrong
|
Rock It
|
|
Eastwood
|
78
|
|
1947
|
|
The Blues Woman (Marion Abernathy)
|
Voo-It! Voo-It!
|
|
Juke Box
|
78
|
|
1945
|
|
Wynona Carr
|
Jump Jack, Jump!
|
|
Specialty
|
45
|
|
1956
|
|
Trixie Smith
|
My Daddy Rocks Me
|
|
Decca
|
78
|
|
1938
|
|
Big Maybelle
|
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
|
|
Okeh
|
45
|
Yup, the future Jerry Lee Lewis hit, with orchestra cond. by a young Quincy Jones
|
1955
|
|
|
Mercy Dee Walton as "Mercy Dee"
|
Rent Man Blues
|
|
Specialty
|
45
|
Although her name doesn't appear on the label, I've seen a discography identifying the singer as simply "Thelma." Update! A reissue cd identifies her as Thelma Walton, Mercy Dee's wife. Thanks to listener Vic Ferri for clearing up this old R&B mystery.
|
1953
|
|
Willie Johnson with Thelma
|
Don't Tell Mama
|
|
Savoy
|
45
|
Record label does not give Thelma's last name. She sounds like a different Thelma than the Mercy Dee singer.
|
1953
|
|
Margie Day & the Griffin Brothers
|
Stubborn as a Mule
|
|
|
45
|
orig. on 1950s Dot label, this off a Jamaican bootleg
|
|
|
Little Esther w/Mel Walker & Johnny Otis Orch.
|
Mistrustin' Blues
|
|
Savoy
|
2 LP
|
rec. 1950. Little Esther later rec. as Esther Phillips
|
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
Johnny Otis O. feat. Goucho & his Jungle Drums
|
Mambo Boogie
|
|
Savoy
|
45
|
|
1954
|
|
Mildred Bailey
|
It's a Woman's Prerogative
|
Me and the Blues
|
Regent
|
LP
|
reissue of 1946-47 recordings for Majestic on 1950s/60s Savoy budget label
|
|
|
Mildred Bailey
|
The Lonesome Road
|
Mildred Bailey 1938/39
|
JazzDocument
|
LP
|
reissue of 1938 recording, orig. Brunswick
|
|
|
Mildred Bailey
|
Lover Come Back to Me
|
Me and the Blues
|
Regent
|
|
1946-47 (see above)
|
|
|
Mildred Bailey
|
Down Hearted Blues
|
Mildred Bailey 1938/39
|
JazzDocument
|
LP
|
1939 recording, orig. Vocalion
|
|
|
Ace Cannon
|
38 Special
|
|
Santo
|
45
|
|
1962
|
|
Lula Reed & the Harmonaires
|
Heavenly Road
|
|
King
|
78
|
|
1953
|
|
Lula Reed
|
Watch Dog
|
|
King
|
45
|
|
1953
|
|
Lula Reed
|
I'll Drown in My Own Tears
|
|
King
|
45
|
|
1956
|
|
Lula Reed
|
Your Key Don't Fit It No More
|
|
King
|
45
|
|
1953
|
|
Lula Reed & the Harmonaires
|
My Mother's Prayers
|
|
King
|
78
|
|
1953
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
James Booker
|
Cool Turkey
|
|
Peacock
|
45
|
|
1960s
|
|
Rose Murphy
|
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
|
|
Majestic
|
78
|
|
1948
|
|
Rose Murphy
|
Busy Line
|
|
RCA
|
78
|
|
1949
|
|
Rose Murphy
|
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
|
|
Majestic
|
78
|
|
1948
|
|
Toni Harper & Eddie Beal & his Sextet
|
Candy Store Blues
|
|
Columbia
|
78
|
|
1948
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
Jan August
|
Miserlou
|
|
Mercury
|
45
|
|
1957
|
|
Perline Ellison
|
Razor Totiin' Mama
|
|
Decca
|
78
|
|
1944
|
|
Linda Hopkins
|
Three Time Loser
|
|
Crystalette
|
45
|
Contrary to my speculation, sawed-off 44s were once common. A gun expert friend says Colt made some 44s in barrel lengths up to 7-1/2". They were often sawed down for easier carrying & faster drawing.
|
1954
|
|
Dinah Washington
|
Postman Blues
|
Slick Chick (on the Mellow Side)
|
Mercury
|
2 LP
|
reissue of 1946 recording
|
|
|
Dinah Washington
|
Short John
|
Late Late Show
|
Short John
|
LP
|
follow up to her hit Long John Blues.
|
1960s
|
|
Helen Humes
|
Million Dollar Secret
|
|
Modern
|
78
|
live from Frank Bull & Gene Norman's Blues Jubilee
|
1952
|
|
Lil Green
|
Knockin' Myself Out
|
|
Bluebird
|
78
|
w/Big Bill Broonzy, gtr
|
1941
|
|
Georgia White
|
Grandpa and Grandma
|
|
Decca
|
78
|
w/Les Paul, gtr
|
1937
|
|
Etta Jones w/J.C. Heard & his Band
|
I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
|
|
RCA
|
78
|
|
1947
|
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