Ten fave unreleased tracks chosen from my yearly Favorites lists
Today………from 1952
WOODROW ADAMS – THE LAST TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tI3SKPN4bY
From a session at 706 Union Ave (to be sent to Chess in Chicago) on May
24 1952 came the insistent blues
“The Last Time” by Woodrow Adams (vcl.gtr) aided and abetted by
Sylvester Hayes (hca) Joe Martin (dms)
other personnel unknown
Chess declined a release therefore the track went unreleased for decades
until Krazy Kat here in UK added
it to their album “Memphis Blues (Unissued Titles From The 50’s) in 1985
THE DOMINOES – I AIN’T GONNA CRY FOR YOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4t_8WT4E0s
“I Ain’t Gonna Cry For You” (with outfront vocals by Billy Ward & Dave McNeil) came from the same King
session that gave us the Clyde classics “I’d Be Satisfied” and “The Bells”. Unlike those two “I Ain’t Gonna Cry For You” was shelved and went unreleased
It was 1977 before “I Ain’t Gonna Cry For You” saw light of day when it was included on the King album
“The Dominoes Featuring Clyde McPhatter – 18 Hits Vol. 2”
THE FOUR BUDDIES – NOTHIN’ SHAKIN’ BABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJgMZ3QDP7E
Featuring Leon “Larry” Harrison (lead) Gregory Carroll (tenor) Bert
Palmer (baritone) Tommy Smith (bass)
“Nothin’ Shakin’ Baby” emanates from a New York City session for Savoy on April 10 1952 that produced
“Story Blues”,”You’re Part Of Me” and “What’s The Matter With Me” all of
which saw regular Savoy
releases
It was 1989 before “Nothin’ Shakin’ Baby” saw release---when it was included on the comprehensive
Marv Goldberg produced and annotated “The Four Buddies-Complete On
Savoy” collection
H-BOMB FERGUSON – WORK FOR MY BABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccmIjs6gQBo
July 18 1952 saw H-Bomb in the studio for Savoy at the same time as
Varetta Dillard whence comes the
torment of “Tortured Love” (with some input from Varetta) plus said
“Work For My Baby” (H-Bomb solo)
plus two Varetta solos “Double Crossing Daddy” and “Them There Eyes”
“Work For My Baby” is finally rescued from oblivion in 1986 when Savoy includes it on the LP “Life Is Hard” (that also includes some Varetta Dillard input) on Savoy Jazz SJL 1176
HOWLIN’ WOLF – C.V WINE BLUES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX216Xrhk9M
I have a recording date of October 1952 at 706 Union Av Memphis on this one,Chester’s ode to a particular favorite liquid refreshment.Apparently
the recording was sent to Chess who failed to release it for whatever
reason
After spending a couple of decades in the shadows the song finally shows
up thanks to the folk at Charly Records on the LP “Sam’s Blues : The
Roots Of Rock Vol. 2” in 1976
JACKIE BOY & LITTLE WALTER – SELLIN’ MY WHISKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3IABa3_RI
All that remains of the first item recorded at 706 Union to get a Sun
catalog number (174) allocated to it---but apart from a few
acetates---that’s about as far as a genuine Sun release seems to have
gone. So since this primitive Saturday stomp doesn’t ever seem to have
been made available to the general public I’m treating it here as “unreleased”
Recorded at Memphis Recording Service,706 Union Av Memphis February 1952
with Walter Horton (vcl/hca)
Jack Kelly (vcl/pno) Joe Hill Louis (gtr/dms)
Finally released in 1984 as part of the mammoth 9-CD Charly box set “Sun
: The Blues Years”
MOMS MABLEY & THE ORIOLES – YES INDEED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzI2h-Hv1nE
In what seems to be a “spur of the moment” thing fate had famous
comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley cast
together with The Orioles to record a spirited version of the jazz oldie
“Yes Indeed” during a session for
Jubilee on April 1, 1952 which also produced Orioles’ recordings of "I
Don't Want To Take A Chance,"
"Wanted," "I'm Beginning To Think You Care For Me" and " "Don't Keep It
To Yourself" .
After spending several decades in the dark dank Jubilee cellars “Yes Indeed” was finally given its long
overdue release in 1993---as part of the huge 6-CD Bear Family set of
Orioles material “The Jubilee
Recordings”
BIG MAYBELLE – SO GOOD TO MY BABY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmeZ0TgYO8
Signed by Okeh Records in 1952 the first thing the label did was to
rechristen plain old Mabel Smith
as “Big Maybelle”. The second thing was to bring her into the studio in
New York City where her first session for the label gifted them the big
#3 r&b hit “Gabbin’ Blues” The four song session also produced the strident “So Good To My Baby” which met a very different fate---being buried in the vaults unreleased for years
Until 1983 in fact when it appeared for the first time on “The Okeh Sessions” a 2-LP set that appeared on
Epic in the USA and on Charly pretty well everywhere else (this
compilation is not to be confused with the
later US-only “The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-55” set in 1994 and as
seen in the YT clip above)
LLOYD PRICE -MAILMAN BOOGIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02j-KwNONz8
Recorded for Specialty March 13 1952 at J and M Studio, New Orleans
supervised by Cosimo Matassa personnel
Lloyd Price (vcl) Dave Bartholomew (tpt) Joe Harris (alto sx) Herb
Hardesty (ten sx) Fats Domino (pno) Ernest McLean (gtr) Frank Fields
(bs), Earl Palmer (dms)). Producer: Dave Bartholomew the rockin’
“Mailman Boogie” originates from the same session that produced the huge r&b hit “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” and its flipside “Mailman Blues” (not to be confused with the different “Mailman Boogie” under consideration here)
Never released at the time and consigned to the Specialty vault it was
1986 before “Mailman Boogie” was
finally issued----on the Specialty album “Personality Plus”
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