Muddy Waters - Chess Masters

Side One:
01) Mannish Boy
02) Screamin' & Crying
03) Just To Be With You
04) Walking In The Park
05) Walking Blues
06) Canary Bird

Side Two:
01) Same Thing
02) Gypsy Women
03) Rollin' & Tumblin'
04) 40 Days & 40 Nights
05) Little Geneva
06) You Can't Lose What You Never Had

Side Three:
01) I Just Want To Make Love To You
02) Long Distance Call
03) Louisiana Blues
04) Honey Bee
05) Rollin' Stone
06) I'm Ready

Side Four:
01) (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
02) She Moves Me
03) I Want You To Love Me
04) Standing Around Crying
05) Still A Fool
06) I Can't Be Satisfied

Muddy Waters Chess Masters (Mega)

Muddy Waters Chess Masters (Zippy)

Ah, another "Chess Masters" double LP set that's been put together by PRT with absolutely no care whatsoever. What's a blogger to make of this? No sleeve notes. The tracklist on the back cover reverses the track lists on the actual discs. Many of the song titles contain spelling mistakes and a couple of the titles are just wrong. Before I dig in just let me say that the actual music is dynamite Chicago blues straight from the top drawer, so the effort to dig out info is well worth it.

Firstly I've gone with the track lists as they are on the discs, so sides one and two on the back cover are now sides three and four, and vice versa. The track titles are more or less as they appear on this 2LP set. You'll find the titles as they appeared on the original singles in the chronological single releases section, along with R&B chart entries. The mp3s are tagged with the LP set titles. It should be noted that 2 of the titles on this set are very inaccurate. "I Just Want To Make Love To You" was originally "Just Make Love To Me" and "I Want You To Love Me" was originally "Mad Love."

The recording dates are mostly from the booklet of the 2CD set "Muddy Waters The Anthology" - see under recommended purchases. The original single release details are mostly from 45worlds.com and the chart entry details are from Robert Gordon's biography of Muddy, "Can't Be Satisfied." Again see recommended purchases. Also consulted - The Cash Box, Bruyninckx, The Red Saunders Research Foundation, and YouTube.

There were a lot of clicks and pops on the vinyl but I've managed to eliminate most of it. There is some distortion on "Mannish Boy" which should have been spelt "Manish Boy."

The tracks with recording dates and single release numbers

01) Mannish Boy - Chess 1602 - rec May 24th 1955

02) Screamin' & Crying - Aristocrat 406 - rec September 1949

03) Just To Be With You - Chess 1644 - rec June 29th 1956

04) Walking In The Park - Chess 1718 - rec late 1958

05) Walking Blues - Chess 1426 - rec February 1950

06) Canary Bird -Aristocrat 1311 - rec July 1949

07) Same Thing - Chess 1895 - rec April 9th 1964

08) Gypsy Women - Aristocrat 1302 - rec September 1947

09) Rollin' & Tumblin' - Aristocrat 412 - rec February 1950

10) 40 Days & 40 Nights - Chess 1620 - rec February 2nd 1956

11) Little Geneva - Aristocrat 1311 - rec July 1949

12) You Can't Lose What You Never Had - Chess 1895 - rec April 9th 1964

01) I Just Want To Make Love To You (Just Make Love To Me) - Chess 1571 - rec April 13th 1954

02) Long Distance Call - Chess 1452 - rec January 23rd 1951

03) Louisiana Blues - Chess 1441 - rec October 23rd 1950

04) Honey Bee - Chess 1468 - rec January 23rd 1951

05) Rollin' Stone - Chess 1426 - rec February 1950

06) I'm Ready - Chess 1579 - rec September 1st 1954

07) (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Chess 1560 - rec January 7th 1954

08) She Moves Me - Chess 1490 - rec July 11th 1951

09) I Want You To Love Me (Mad Love) - Chess 1550 -September 24th 1953

10) Standing Around Crying - Chess 1526 - rec September 17th 1952

11) Still A Fool - Chess 1480 - rec July 11th 1951

12) I Can't Be Satisfied - Aristocrat 1305 - rec April 1948

Original Single Releases (titles as per record label)

Billboard R&B chart entries - highest position plus month & year record entered the charts

Gypsy Woman / Little Anna Mae - Muddy Water with Sunny Land Slim - Aristocrat 1302 - March 1948

I Can't Be Satisfied / I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters with Rhythm Accompaniment - Aristocrat 1305 - June 1948 (B Side was #11 R&B September 1948)

Little Geneva / Canary Bird - Muddy Waters - Aristocrat 1311 - November 1949

Screaming And Crying / Where's My Woman Been - Muddy Waters - Aristocrat 406 - February 1950

Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 1 / Rollin' And Tumblin' Part 2 - Muddy Waters - Aristocrat 412 - April 1950

Rollin' Stone / Walkin' Blues - Muddy Waters - Chess 1426 - June 1950

Louisiana Blues / Evan's Shuffle - Muddy Waters - Chess 1441 - November 1950 (#10 R&B January 1951)

Long Distance Call / Too Young To Know - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1452 - March 1951 (#8 R&B April 1951)

Honey Bee / Appealing Blues - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1468 - July 1951 (#10 R&B July 1951)

My Fault / Still A Fool - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1480 - September 1951 (#9 R&B November 1951)

She Moves Me / Early Morning Blues - Muddy Waters And His Guitar - Chess 1490 - January 1952 (#10 R&B February 1952)

Standing Around Crying / Gone To Main St. - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1526 - November 1952

Mad Love / Blow Wind, Blow - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1550 - October 1953 (#6 R&B November 1953)

I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man / She's So Pretty - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1560 - January 1954 (#3 R&B March 1954)

Just Make Love To Me / Oh! Yeh - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1571 - May 1954 (#4 R&B June 1954)

I'm Ready / I Don't Know Why - Muddy Waters and his Guitar - Chess 1579 - September 1954 (#4 R&B October 1954)

Manish Boy / Young Fashion Ways - Muddy Waters And His Guitar - Chess 1602 - July 1955 (#5 R&B July 1955)

Forty Days & Forty Nights / All Aboard - Muddy Waters And His Guitar - Chess 1620 - April 1956 (#7 R&B May 1956)

Just To Be With You / I Got To Find My Baby - Muddy Waters - Chess 1644 - November 1956

Mean Mistreater / Walking Thru The Park - Muddy Waters - Chess 1718 - February 1959

The Same Thing / You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had - Chess 1895 - May 1964

Recommended Purchases:

 Muddy Waters The Anthology 2CD set MCA / Chess

The above 50 track set is the only Muddy Waters CD I've ever bought. Great sound and most of the big ones are here.

Superb biography by Robert Gordon. Jonathan Cape, 2002 (UK). Most highly recommended.
 

Memphis Slim (Chess LP 1455)

Side 1:

01) I Guess I'm A Fool

02) Rockin' The Pad

03) Havin' Fun

04) Marack

05) Mother Earth

Side 2:

01) Really Got The Blues

02) Tiajuana

03) I'm Crying

04) Reverend Bounce

05) Slim's Blues

06) Blues For My Baby

Memphis Slim (Chess LP 1455) Mega


Memphis Slim (Chess LP 1455) Zippy

From the files of Marv - this Chess LP was released in 1961 when interest in "folk blues" was at its height. "Folk blues" was the means by which many blues artists moved from the R&B market where interest in their style of music was declining, into a new market where their music was bought by a white, often middle class and college based customer base.

An offshoot of the folk music scene, the fans of "folk blues" adopted a purist and intellectualised approach to the blues which demanded "authenticity" and treated the music as a serious art form. If you want to get a handle on this attitude read Studs Terkel's notes to this LP on the back cover. Appearances can be deceptive, for the tracks on this LP date from ten years prior to its release and consist of rhythm and blues sides recorded for the Premium label in Chicago in 1950 and 1951.

In a previous Memphis Slim post I uploaded a collection of sides which had been bought by King from the Chicago label Miracle when that label closed in early 1950. Among the sides was Slim's biggest hit "Messin' Around With The Blues." Slim recorded a session for Peacock in Houston in early 1950 then returned to Chicago to record with Miracle's successor label Premium.

The Premium label was short lived, folding in the summer of 1951. Many of their masters were bought by Chess and a couple of Slim's Premium singles were reissued on that label in January 1952. All of which brings us to this collection which was released in 1961 at a time when Slim had ceased to release material aimed at the R&B market and was instead recording LPs for labels such as Folkways, Verve and Bluesville which were aimed at the folk blues followers. Indeed he had already recorded in Europe where he would make his home and find many new fans.

With this release Chess were definitely aiming at sales among the college crowd as is made obvious by Studs Terkel's sleeve notes. Funnily enough, there's no mention of Slim's band, The House Rockers. VeeJay had already pulled the same stunt in February 1961 by packaging rockin' R&B sides on an LP titled "Memphis Slim At The Gate Of Horn" which was named after a well known folk venue where Slim had made live appearances. Studs Terkel wrote the notes for that one too.

Five years later, in December 1966, Chess released an LP titled "Memphis Slim - The Real Folk Blues" which contained many of the R&B sides already featured on Chess LP 1455. It was 1966 and folk was on the way out and R&B was in as far as the younger music fans were concerned but Slim had already garnered a large worldwide following which would keep his musical career thriving for decades, indeed long enough for your humble blogger to see him in Dundee in the mid 1980s and be pretty much blown away by his performance.

The Story Behind The Tracks

Chicago, March 1950 - Memphis Slim and The House Rockers - Memphis Slim (vocals, piano) with - Alex Atkins (alto sax); Timothy Overton (tenor sax); Alfred Elkins (bass); Leon Hooper (drums); Floyd Hunt (piano on "I Guess I'm A Fool" and "Really Got The Blues"); The Vagabonds (vocal group on "I Guess I'm A Fool" and "Mother Earth"):

Flock Rocker

I Guess I'm a Fool

Really Got The Blues

Slim's Blues

Havin' Fun

Mother Earth

I Guess I'm A Fool / Flock Rocker - Premium 850 - June 1950

Slim's Blues / Havin' Fun - Premium 860 - September 1950, also Chess 860, January 1952

Mother Earth / Really Got The Blues - Premium 867 - January 1951

Cleveland, Ohio, February 1951 - Memphis Slim and His House Rockers: Memphis Slim (vocals, piano) with - Neal Green, Charles Ferguson (tenor saxes); Henry Taylor (bass); Otho Allen (drums); Terry Timmons (duet vocal on "I'm Crying"):

Marack

Reverend Bounce

Tia Juana

Walking Alone aka Blues For My Baby

Rockin' Chair aka Rockin' The Pad

I'm Crying

Tia Juana / I'm Crying - Premium 903 - July 1951

Walking Alone / Rocking The Pad - Chess 1491 - January 1952

"Marack" and "Reverend Bounce" first released on this LP.

Adapted from Discogs.com

The above recording and release information is mainly from The Red Saunders Research Foundation website. Their very informative article on Premium Records is here:

http://campber.people.clemson.edu/premium.html 

Elsewhere On The Blog:

Messin' Around With The Blues 2LP set

Double album of King / Federal material by Memphis Slim, Pete "Guitar" Lewis and Little Willie Littlefield. Memphis Slim sides originate from Miracle and Hy-Tone 1940s recordings.

Rockin' The Blues

Charly collection of VeeJay sides recorded 1958-59. These were Slim's last R&B recordings. Contains all 12 of the tracks released on the "Memphis Slim At The Gate Of Horn" LP, plus 4 tracks released on singles.

There are new download links on both of these posts.

With many thanks to Marv and to the original uploaders of the artwork.

Rockin' Re-Ups From The Last Few Months

Re-up requests from the last few months -

 Swingin' Saxophones Previous Post

Swingin' Saxophones Original Post

New Mega Link To Swingin' Saxophones

Dance The Rock & Roll (Atlantic LP 8013) Original Post

New Mega Link to Dance The Rock & Roll

Look! It's The Moonglows (Chess LP 1430) - Original Post

New Mega Link to Look! It's The Moonglows

Swingin' Saxophones Volume 2 - Original Post

New Mega Link to Swingin' Saxophones Volume 2

King Perry - Original Post

New Mega Link To King Perry

Little Walter Chess Masters - Original Post

New Mega Link To Little Walter Chess Masters

Noble Watts Blast Off - Original Post

New Mega Link To Noble Watts Blast Off

Vocal Group R'n B Volume One - Original Post

New Mega Link To Vocal Group R'nB Volume One

The above were all re-upped in response to requests but not notified in new posts. Twist and shout, check 'em out!

Old King Gold Volume 11 re-up

Side One:
01) Move Me Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon
02) The Big Push - Cal Green
03) It Feels So Good - The Swallows
04) No Regrets - Little Willie John
05) I Know - Lula Reed
06) Rub A Little Boogie - Champion Jack Dupree

Side Two:
01) Let's Rock - Johnny Otis
02) Oh Miss Nellie - The Drivers
03) Nosey Joe - Bull Moose Jackson
04) Don't Leave Me This Way - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
05) Light Up Your Lamp - Willie Mabon
06) Must I Cry Again - Todd Rhodes & Lavern Baker

Old King Gold Volume 11 (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 11 (Zippy)

Mustn't forget this one! The mysterious Volume 11 sent in by an anonymous contributor. Who knows what lies behind this. We're now taking a break from Old King Gold, although we will revisit the series in the near future.

Old King Gold Volume 7 re-up

Side One:
01) That's What You're Doing To Me - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
02) Don't Take It So Hard - Earl King
03) The Greasy Spoon - Hank Marr
04) Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong - Albert King
05) I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Bull Moose Jackson
06) It Won't Be This Way Always - The King Pins

Side 2:
01) Annie Had A Baby - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
02) Dearest - The Swallows
03) Mellow Blues (Part 1) - Sonny Thompson
04) Mellow Blues (Part 2) - Sonny Thompson
05) I'm Tore Up - Billy Gayles
06) Diamonds And Pearls - The Escos

Old King Gold Volume 7 best (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 7 best (Zippy)

At last, the dreaded Volume 7. Dreaded because it is so badly pressed that the lead-in vanishes off the edge of the disc, leading to much cursing by myself as I tried to get the stylus down just right. Mission accomplished, and here is the updated rip. Mo' greasy R&B for those who dig this sort of groove. Keep on keepin' on.

Old King Gold Volume 6 re-up

Side One:
01) The Twist - Hank Ballard
02) The Bells - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
03) Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris
04) Walkin' With Mr. Lee - Johnny Pate
05) Come Home - Bubber Johnson
06) Hold It - Bill Doggett

Side Two:
01) Gumdrop - Otis Williams & The Charms
02) My Friends - The Strangers
03) The Goof - Big Jay McNeely
04) Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
05) Big Boy - Bill Jennings

Old King Gold Volume 6 best (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 6 best (Zippy)

Gettin' towards the end now. Volume 6 re-recorded, re-ripped and re-upped. I've been listening to these one after the other. To paraphrase an early commentor on the blog years ago - it's like listening to a juke box in Cleveland or Toledo. I presume. Comin' at ya from Glasgow!

Old King Gold Volume 4 re-up

Side One:
01) Hideaway - Freddie King
02) Fever - Little Willie John
03) Little Things Mean A Lot - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
04) Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
05) Trying - Todd Rhodes & Laverne Baker
06) September Song - Earl Bostic

Side Two:
01) Chica Boo - Lloyd Glenn
02) Kansas City - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
03) All My Love Belongs To You - Bull Moose Jackson
04) Another Woman's Man - Joe Tex
05) Shout Bamalama - Otis Redding
06) Tenderly - Lynn Hope

Old King Gold Volume 4 best (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 4 best (Zippy)

This is what I believe is the best rip I've done of Volume 4. A heap more budget priced King R&B classics in a thick cardboard sleeve with a cut out mark, and yes, the back cover really is that squint. It's basically a paper sheet glued on to the cover! I'm in bargain basement heaven. Check back to the original post in October / November 2017 for comments on the fact that there may well be an undistorted version of "Shout Bamalama" out there somewhere. I haven't heard it yet, despite having the track on several collections.

More re-ripped Old King Gold coming your way soon, hipsters and flipsters!

Old King Gold Re-Re Launched! Volumes 2 and 3.

Volume 3:
Side One:
01) Have Mercy Baby - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
02) Let Them Talk - Little Willie John
03) Let's Go, Let's Go - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
04) Guess Who - Ivory Joe Hunter
05) This Little Girl Of Mine - The Hurricanes
06) Soft - Tiny Bradshaw

Side Two:
01) Hearts Of Stone - Otis Williams & The Charms
02) I Love You, Yes I Do - Bull Moose Jackson
03) Think - The "5" Royales
04) Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson
05) Over The Rainbow - The Checkers
06) Tonk Game - Hank Marr

Volume 2:
Side One:
01) Honky Tonk (Part 1) - Bill Doggett
02) Honky Tonk (Part 2) - Bill Doggett
03) Talk To Me - Little Willie John
04) Sixty Minute Man - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
05) Down The Aisle - Patti Labelle & The Blue Bells
06) White Cliffs Of Dover - The Checkers

Side Two:
01) Harlem Nocturne - Earl Bostic
02) Beside You - The Swallows
03) Sexy Ways - The Midnighters
04) Dedicated To The One I Love - The "5" Royales
05) Well Oh Well - Tiny Bradshaw
06) It Hurts To Be In Love - Annie Laurie

"Great Googa Mooga," I hear you cry. "Has Be Bop Wino finally lost it? Why does he keep posting this stuff? Again and again." OK what now follows over the next few posts is the final, best possible iteration of my five Old King Gold LPs. The new rips I was going to put up (and already did with Volume 2) were definitely overdriven with far too much volume on the mp3s.

Another issue came to light as I listened to the rips - distortion and crackling on a few tracks where none was audible on the original vinyl. I traced this to my use of the clean up function on my Audio Cleaning Lab software. If I used the clean up function to eliminate clicks and crackling across the whole album in one sweep then on a few tracks very short bursts of distortion could be heard. On the other hand, if I cleaned up each track individually then there was no such problem.

So over the last couple of days I have re-recorded and re-ripped the LPs at a more reasonable and sensible volume and without the distortion problem. You'll still hear the occasional crackling, clicking and popping but that's what you get with beat up vinyl that I've been playing for over 40 years. Here are your new and final links for Volumes 2 and 3 (ripped at 320 kbps, complete artwork):

Old King Gold Volume 2 best (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 2 best (Zippy)

Old King Gold Volume 3 best (Mega)

Old King Gold Volume 3 best (Zippy)

Why go to all this bother with these cheapo knock off LPs? They are the very embodiment of the bargain bin ethos - cardboard sleeve, no inner sleeve, tasteless artwork, generic back cover, no info about the tracks which seem to have been randomly thrown together, and poorly pressed on poor quality vinyl. Well, on the surface they may well appear to be low quality exploitation tat but the music they contain is guaranteed to turn the squarest of squares into the heppest of hep cats. It happened to me.

And that brings me back to the question with which I started this post. The answer is sentiment.

The Grim Reaper stalks the land. We may all be socially isolated but we can keep on rockin'.  More Old King Gold comin' up soon, so hang on in there.

Old King Gold Volume 2 re-ripped and re-upped!

Side One:

01) Honky Tonk (Part 1) - Bill Doggett
02) Honky Tonk (Part 2) - Bill Doggett
03) Talk To Me - Little Willie John
04) Sixty Minute Man - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
05) Down The Aisle - Patti Labelle & The Blue Bells
06) White Cliffs Of Dover - The Checkers

Side Two:
01) Harlem Nocturne - Earl Bostic
02) Beside You - The Swallows
03) Sexy Ways - The Midnighters

04) Dedicated To The One I Love - The "5" Royales

05) Well Oh Well - Tiny Bradshaw

06) It Hurts To Be In Love - Annie Laurie

Old King Gold Volume 2 (new rip) Mega

Old King Gold Volume 2 (new rip) Zippy

Ripped at 320 kbps

I'm killing two birds with one stone here - responding to a request to re-up King compilations and also providing new rips of the Old King Gold series.

Back in October / November 2017 I posted my 5 volumes of Old King Gold but at that time I was battling with the fact that the audio settings on my PC had been knocked for six and my rips were hopelessly muffled. I suspect a Windows update had affected my Realtek Audio Manager and the results were horrendous. In fact yesterday I listened to my 2017 rip of Volume 4 and it was so bad that I couldn't believe I actually posted it.

Since those dark days I have replaced my old belt driven turntable which was nearing the end of its useful life and upgraded my ripping software so here's hoping that downloaders will notice an all round improvement in sound quality on these re-recorded, re-ripped, re-upped big 12 inchers.

If you go back in the blog to October and November 2017 and read the Old King Gold posts you'll find yourself confronted with the thoughts of a blogger on the edge of a nervous breakdown. The comments are worth another look too. It was all very unfortunate as these LPs were my first experience of "real" R&B. I bought them in HMV in Union Street, Glasgow, around 1977 and so began the long journey in search of rhythm and blues heaven. It's always just out of reach, but there's been a lot of fun along the way.

The LPs came in thick cardboard sleeves with no inner sleeves and the discs themselves weren't in what you might call audiophile condition. Add decades of wear and tear and you've got yourself a slightly rough listening experience. But it's worth it, so download and join the start of the trail that led to Be Bop Wino!

Bo Diddley - Chess Masters

Side 1:
01) Bo Diddley
02) Bring It To Jerome
03) Road Runner
04) Who Do You Love
05) Hush Your Mouth
06) Pretty Thing

Side 2:
01) Pills
02) Mona
03) Memphis
04) You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
05) Hey Bo Diddley
06) Hucklebuck

Side 3:
01) Mumblin Guitar
02) She's Alright
03) Diddley Daddy
04) I'm A Man
05) I'm Looking For A Woman
06) Say Man

Side 4:
01) I Can Tell
02) My Babe
03) Cops And Robbers
04) I'm Sorry
05) Before You Accuse Me
06) Dearest Darling

Bo Diddley Chess Masters (Mega)

Bo Diddley Chess Masters (Zippy)

1980s PRT compilation of 24 Bo Diddley tracks which is guaranteed to have you swinging from the lights as self isolation really kicks in. Turn it on and crank it up. Voodoo hoodoo twangin' guitar craziness with wild lyrics. Recorded between 1955 and 1963, although the '63 track "Hucklebuck" isn't actually by Bo. See bottom of post for details.

Included because it's the greatest LP cover ever

A Brief History Of Voodoo Rock'n'Roll Singles:

Musicians with Bo include - Jerome Green (maracas); Jody Williams, Peggy Jones (guitar); Billy Boy Arnold, Lester Davenport, Little Walter (harmonica); Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano); Willie Dixon (bass); Clifton James, Frank Kirkland (drums); The Moonglows (vocal group); plus sundry others.

Bo Diddley / I'm A Man - Checker 814 - April 1955 (#1 R&B)

Diddley Daddy / She's Fine, She's Mine - Checker 819 - June 1955 (#11 R&B)

Pretty Thing / Bring It To Jerome - Checker 827 - November 1955 (#4 R&B)

Diddy Wah Diddy / I Am Looking For A Woman - Checker 832 - February 1956

Who Do You Love? / I'm Bad - Checker 842 - July 1956

Cops And Robbers / Down Home Special - Checker 850 - November 1956

Hey! Bo-Diddley / Mona - Checker 860 - April 1957

Say! (Boss Man) / Before You Accuse Me (Take A look At Yourself) - Checker 878 - October 1957

Hush Your Mouth / Dearest Darling - Checker 896 - June 1958

Oh Yea / I'm Sorry - Checker 914 - January 1959

Say Man / The Clock Strikes Twelve - Checker 931 - August 1959 (#20 pop, #3 R&B)

Say Man, Back Again / She's Alright - Checker 936 - November 1959

Road Runner / My Story - Checker 942 - January 1960 (#75 pop, #20 R&B)

Pills / Call Me - Checker 985 - August 1961

You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover / I Can Tell - Checker 1019 - July 1962 (#48 pop, #21 R&B)

Monkey Diddle / Memphis - Checker 1058 - November 1963

"Mumblin' Guitar" first released on Checker LP 2974 (Have Guitar, Will Travel) in 1960.

"My Babe" first released on Checker LP 2982 (Bo Diddley's A Twister) in 1962

"Hucklebuck" first released on Checker LP 2987 (Surfin' With Bo Diddley) in 1963. This track is actually by Billy Lee Riley and The Megatons.

Issue information from 45worlds.com, Discogs.com, The Cash Box. Chart information from notes to "Bo Diddley - His Best" (The Legendary Chess Masters Series) - MCD 09373. See below:

 Absolutely recommended