J.B. Lenoir - Natural Man

Side 1

1 Natural Man

2 Don't Dog Your Woman

3 Let Me Die With The One I Love

4 Carrie Lee

5 Mama, What About Your Daughter

6 If I Give My Love To You

7 Five Years

Side 2

1 Don't Touch My Head

2 I've Been Down So Long

3 What Have I Done

4 Eisenhower Blues

5 Korea Blues

6 Everybody Wants To Know

7 I'm In Korea

1981 Italian reissue of an LP originally released as Chess LP 410 in 1970.

J.B. Lenoir – guitarist, possessor of a distinctive high pitched voice and wearer of a stylish zebra striped tailcoat. He recorded for Chicago labels JOB, Parrot, Chance and Checker, his biggest hit being “Mama Talk To Your Daughter” on Parrot 809 in 1955.

I picked up this LP second hand in the vinyl basement of Missing Records, under The Hielanman’s Umbrella. If you’re not from Glasgow you won’t have a clue what that is. This collection has been on my WMP playlist for a while now. I wasn’t overly impressed at first, but it’s grown on me. It is most definitely worth your while downloading this, oh fellow blues fans.

Download from here:

https://rapidshare.com/files/3917429290/Natural%20Man.rar

Or here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7jxjsfr6qk5grul

Random Mediafire takedown alert! Try this new link instead:

Natural Man Download

Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps. Password = greaseyspoon

Streamed highlights:

Some of the recording dates listed below differ from the information on the back cover of the LP. I have added original release details for each track. Additional information is from the Red Saunders Foundation website and the Bruyninckx Discography.

All tracks recorded in Chicago:

Natural Man – 14th September, 1955, Chess LP410

Don't Dog Your Woman - 14th September, 1955, Chess LP410

Let Me Die With The One I Love -14th September, 1955, Checker 844

Carrie Lee – December 1950, Chess 1463

Mama, What About Your Daughter - 19th December 1956, Checker 874

If I Give My Love To You - 14th September, 1955, Checker 844

Five Years – 19th December 1956, Checker 874

Don't Touch My Head - 19th December 1956, Checker 856

I've Been Down So Long - 19th December 1956, Checker 856

What Have I Done – 4th March 1955, Parrot 814

Eisenhower Blues – March 1954, Parrot 802

Korea Blues – December 1950, Chess 1449

Everybody Wants To Know – 14th September 1955, Chess LP410

I'm In Korea – March 1954, Parrot 802

“Carrie Lee” and “Korea Blues” were purchased by Chess from JOB.

Little Walter - Confessin' The Blues

Side One

1 It Ain't Right

2 Rocker

3 I Got To Find My Baby

4 Lights Out

5 One More Chance With You

6 Crazy Legs

7 Temperature

Side Two

1 I Got To Go

2 Crazy Mixed Up World

3 Quarter To Twelve

4 Confessin' The Blues

5 The Toddle

6 Up The Line

7 Rock Bottom

8 Mean Old Frisco

Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps.

We kick off a short "blues LP" season on Be Bop Wino with this 1982 Italian release of "Confessin' The Blues" by Little Walter. At the moment I don't really have time to write up extensive notes, so you'll just have to take these posts as they are and dig around the web for further information!

This is a good compilation with only one or two tracks which could be classified as "filler." The rest is killer.

Tracks recorded 1953 - 1963. Musicians include: Little Walter Jacobs (vocal, harmonica); Louis Myers, Dave Myers, Robert Lockwood, Luther Tucker, Freddie Robinson, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy (guitar); Otis Spann, Lafayette Leake (piano); Willie Dixon (bass); Fred Below, George Hunter (drums)

Download the LP from here:

http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/BN8kpPxd/file.html


or here:


Confessin' The Blues (Mega)

1. It Ain't Right (1956)

2. Rocker (1954)

3. I Got To Find My Baby (1954)

4. Lights Out (1954)

5. One More Chance With You (1956)

6. Crazy Legs (1953)

7. Temperature (1957)

8. I Got To Go (1955)

9. Crazy Mixed Up World (1958)

10. Quarter To Twelve (1954)

11. Confessin' The Blues (1958)

12. The Toddle (1958)

13. Up The Line (1963)

14. Rock Bottom (1958)

15. Mean Old Frisco (1959)

Joan Spins Again - Volume 3

Side 1

1 Must Be Falling In Love - The Duponts

2 The Angels Sent You To Me - The Carnations

3 Pretty Girl - The V-8's

4 Shouldn't I - The Orients

5 Feelin' Alright This Morning - The Hi-Liters

6 The Wayward Wind - The Centenniels

7 You Can't Stay Here - The Concords

8 Anna Mocora - The Calvaes

9 Love Tears - The Five Embers

Side 2

1 All Of Me - The King Odom Four

2 Baby Don't Go - The Gentlemen

3 'lizabeth - The Thrillers

4 Hello - Little June & The Januarys

5 Mr Blues - The Master Keys

6 Why - The Impalas

7 Gone So Long - The Invictas

8 Sweet Names - The Five Stars

9 Sweet Tooth For My Baby - The Four Buddies

Here ‘tis – another collection of vintage R&B courtesy of Joan K. Volume 3 of Joan Spins Again is a whirlwind tour of a decade of vocal group stylings, ranging from sophisticated early 1950s jazzy records rooted in the sound of The Ravens, to the younger group sounds of the later 50s which were such an important part of the rise of rock and roll. This is a great compilation which I’ve been sitting on for a couple of months, enjoying on the privacy of my own PC. But here it is at last, available for the delectation of R&B fans the wide world over.

I’ve selected some of my personal favourites and put them on the streaming audio widget below, but every track on the collection is a gem. The King Odom Four, The Masterkeys and The Four Buddies are the smoothies here – suave, sophisticated, knowing (and occasionally leering) – their sound really appeals to me. For the younger followers of Be Bop Wino a word of caution: I suspect you have to be at least fifty years old in order to fully appreciate the subtleties of these records. What kind of a kick can rockers possibly get out of an early 1950s reworking of an old standard like “All of  Me” by a seemingly “square” group like The King Odom Four? Just give it a listen and let the sheer hepness of the record take hold of you. The same group also did a cover of “Lover Come Back to Me” which was equally good.

At the opposite end of the rockin’ spectrum we have The Concords, or rather Pearl Reaves and The Concords with “You Can’t Stay Here,” an irresistible pounding treatment of the old blues standard “Step It Up and Go.” This record has featured on several rockin’ R&B comps across the years, perhaps most notably on number 20 of the inestimable “Stompin’” series where it shares disc space with the likes of Riff Ruffin’s “Money For My Honey” and Pigmeat Markham’s “Let’s Have Some Heat.” If you don’t have “Stompin’ 20” then I’m sorry, you just ain’t where it’s at!

Listen to some highlights from Joan Spins Again Volume 3 below:

Download the collection from here:

https://rapidshare.com/files/2597826766/Joan%20Spins%20Again%20-%20Volume%203.rar

Or here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wb3ksx2o8pjlhcv

Zapped by Mediafire? Try this link instead:

Joan Spins Again Volume 3 download

Password = greaseyspoon

1 - The Duponts - Must Be Falling In Love - Winley 212 / SAVOY 1552 (1958)

     (F/b Little Anthony Gourdine)

2 - The Carnations - The Angels Sent You To Me - Savoy 1172 (1955)

3 - The V-8s - Pretty Girl - Most 711 (1959)

4 - The Orients - Shouldn't I - Laurie 3232 (1964)

5 - The Hi-Liters  - Feelin' Alright This Morning - Vee Jay (Unreleased) (1958)  

6 - The Centenniels - The Wayward Wind - Dot 16180 (1961)

7 - The Concords - You Can't Stay Here - Harlem 2332 (1955)

8 - The Calvaes - Anna Morcora - Checker 928 (1959) (F/b Oscar Boyd)

9 - The Five Embers - Love Tears - Gem 227 (1955)

10 - The King Odom Four - All Of Me - Derby (1951)

11 - The Gentlemen - Baby Don't Go - Apollo 470 (1954)

12 - The Thrillers - 'Lizabeth - Herald 432 (1954)

13 - Little June and the Januarys - Hello - Salem 188 (1959)

14 - The Masterkeys - Mr. Blues - Abbey 2017  

15 - The Impalas - Why - Corvet 1017 (1958)

16 - The Invictas - Gone So Long - Jack Bee 1003 (1959)

17 - The Five Stars - Sweet Names - Note (1956) 

18 - The Four Buddies - Sweet Tooth For My Baby - Savoy 866 (1952)

With many thanks to Joan K for all her hard work in putting this collection together.

Backyard Affair / Dreaming Again – Sonny Thompson and Orchestra (Miracle 146)

Scan from very faded label 

Another scan from a very faded label!

Backyard Affair recorded Chicago, June 1949. Dreaming Again recorded Chicago, April 1949.

Personnel on April 1949 session: Floyd Jones (tp); Eddie Chamblee (ts); Dick Davis (ts); Sonny Thompson (p); Leo Blevins (g); Curtis Ferguson (b); Sonny Cole (d)

June 1949 session recorded with similar personnel, although Chamblee and Blevins possibly replaced by unknown. This was Sonny Thompson’s last session for Miracle.

Record released October 1949. Label scans from a very faded 78 disc, hence de facto invisibility.

Listen to "Backyard Affair"

Listen to "Dreaming Again"

With thanks to El Enmascarado, the wrestling muso, for these rips and scans. Here is his commentary on the tracks:

“Dreaming Again makes me think of old-fashioned stripper music. The saxes groan, the trumpet blares the blues, the drums go boomp-a-boomp and the girls do the hoochie-coochie…”

“Backyard Affair makes me think that the cats were longing to go a bit more Bebop. Although the main melody seems to borrow from D Natural Blues by Lucky Millinder (one of my very favorites, and possibly the first R&B 78 I knew as a boy- I'll eventually get around to ripping it), it also has occasional boppish dissonant chords that jump out seemingly at random. Also, in addition to what I would think of as the Meade Lux Lewis Tremolo Lick, Sonny plays what sounds for all the world like a Thelonious Monk lick at @1:43. Pretty interesting. I'm happy with the sound quality I got, but the original label is quite faded, hence the scans.”

Billboard 15th October 1949

Cotton Ball Parts 1 and 2 – Sonny Thompson (King 4729)

Recorded on May 21st, 1954 in Cincinnati. Personnel: Fred Clark (as); David Brooks (ts); Tommy Purkson (bar); Sonny Thompson (p); Clarence Kenner (g); James Royal (b); Robert Boswell (d). Released July, 1954.

Listen to "Cotton Ball (Part 1)"

Listen to "Cotton Ball (Part 2)"

Thanks to El Enmascarado for these rips from the original 78 rpm disc of this two part late night smoocher from Sonny Thompson. You can imagine these cool jazzy sounds coming out of a tavern juke box shortly before closing time. Perhaps the clientele have been listening to Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, The Midnighters, Fats Domino and Ray Charles. But the evening wears on and only a few hardened drinkers remain to hear this moody late night instrumental. That’s it, folks. We’re closing. Ain’t you got homes to go to?

Billboard Magazine reviewed “Cotton Ball” on July 17th, 1954: “Here’s a neat slow-blues instrumental item which is particularly danceable yet retains a retentive melody line. The strongly repetitious bass figure and drum backing spark the various solo efforts for a slick hunk of wax. For the jazz and r.&b. markets."

Sonny Thompson had several hits with slow instrumentals such as “Long Gone”, “Late Freight” and “Mellow Blues.” “Cotton Ball” wasn’t a big seller but as you can hear, it’s a fine atmospheric recording. For an overview of Sonny’s career (plus an LP to download) see this post:

Cat On The Keys

  

You can listen to “Late Freight” ripped from El Enmascarado’s 78 rpm disc at this post:

Late Freight / Sonny's Return

Flying Home Parts 1 and 2 – Tiny Grimes’ Swingtet (Blue Note 524)

Recorded at WOR Studios, NYC on August 14th, 1946. Personnel: Trummy Young (tb); John Hardee (ts); Marlowe Morris (p); Tiny Grimes (g); Jimmy Butts (b); Eddie Nicholson (d)

Listen to "Flying Home Part 1"

Listen to "Flying Home Part 2"

With thanks to El Enmascarado for his rips and scans from this Blue Note 78 rpm disc.

Before guitarist Lloyd “Tiny” Grimes was issuing those great jump blues singles on the Atlantic label and before he had renamed his group “The Rocking Highlanders”, dressing them in kilts and Tam O’Shanters, and yea, well before he was recording even more jump blues and backing the likes of J.B. Summers, Haji Baba and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins on Gotham, our hero was one cool dude on the New York jazz scene.

He was a late starter on the four string guitar, having commenced his musical career on the piano and as a tap dancer. In 1940, not long after taking up the guitar, he joined the already successful jive group The Cats & The Fiddle. From there he joined the illustrious pianist Art Tatum and bass player Slam Stewart to form the Art Tatum Trio. Inevitably his guitar playing improved greatly in such company and in 1944 Tiny formed his own group. While with the trio he had become a fixture on the New York jazz club scene and he was soon picking up recording work with Ike Quebec, Coleman Hawkins and Hot Lips Page.

Tiny’s first session as a leader (for Savoy in September 1944) has gone down in jazz history as Charlie Parker (who had been jamming with Tiny’s band at the Downbeat Club) was on alto sax. To round off the session the group recorded Parker’s “Red Cross”, an instrumental based on the chords of “I Got Rhythm” which is considered an important step in the development of be-bop.

After the Parker session, Tiny was on sessions on various labels with Ike Quebec, Coleman Hawkins, Hot Lips Page, Cozy Cole, Billie Holiday, Earl Bostic, John Hardee and Buck Clayton. In August 1946, Tiny finally got another session as a band leader with jazz label Blue Note. Two singles resulted from the session – the two-parter “Flying Home” and “’C’ Jam Blues” / “Tiny’s Boogie Woogie.”

Tiny Grimes circa 1948 - William Gottlieb collection

Tiny’s move towards R&B started 2 months later when his group backed blues shouter Gatemouth Moore on National, and the trend continued the following year when Tiny’s band backed Walter Brown on a cover of “Open The Door, Richard” on Signature. At the very end of 1947 Tiny’s group started recording for the new Atlantic label, but we shall leave that part of the story for another post!

Listen to “Red Cross” featuring Charlie Parker and “Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning” by Gatemouth Moore with the Tiny Grimes Swingtet -

Listen to "Red Cross"

Listen to "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning"

Red Cross (Savoy 532). Recorded NYC, September 15th, 1944. Personnel: Tiny Grimes (g); Charlie Parker (as); Clyde Hart (p); Jimmy Butts (b); Doc West (d)

Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning (National 4015). Recorded NYC, October 25th, 1946. Personnel: Gatemouth Moore (vcl); Russell Royster (tpt); Herman Flintall (as); John Hardee (ts); Sam Benskin (p); Tiny Grimes (g); Al Raglin (b); Eddie Nicholson (d)

Tiny's tenor sax man - John Hardee c 1947 William Gottlieb collection

Sources:

Dan Kochakian & Dave Penny - Tiny Grimes Discography Part 1, Blues & Rhythm Magazine, No. 228, April 2008

Dan Morgenstern - sleeve notes to “The Changing Face of Harlem: The Savoy Sessions” Savoy Jazz 2LP set, SJL 2208, 1976

Claude Carrière - sleeve notes to “Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions Volume 1” Savoy LP, WL70520, 1984

Dapper Tiny - NYC c 1948 William Gottlieb collection 

Head Hunter / Cool And Easy – Johnny Otis Orchestra (Regent 1028)

“Head Hunter” was recorded in Los Angeles on the 23rd December, 1949. Probable personnel: Lee Graves, Don Johnson (trumpets); George Washington (trombone); Big Jay McNeely, Lorenzo Holden (tenor saxes); Walter Henry (baritone sax); Johnny Otis (vibes); Devonia Williams (piano); Pete Lewis (guitar); Mario Delagarde (bass); Leard Bell (drums)

“Cool And Easy” was recorded in Los Angeles on the 27th February, 1950. Personnel are as above except James Von Streeter replaces Big Jay McNeely on tenor sax and Redd Lyte is added on vocals.

Listen to "Head Hunter"

Listen to "Cool And Easy"

Many thanks to El Enmascarado for this 78 rpm disc which was released in January 1951. Billboard reviewed “Head Hunter” favourably: “Walkin’ and honkin’ medium blues refers to ‘Pinetop’s BW’ for backdrop riffs. Striding tenor sax and heavy bottom, rocking beat set this lung buster up for at least moderate coin collection.”

The B side was reviewed thus: “Redd Lyte warbles a southern style blues chant with a strong ork backdrop. Fine beat helps throughout.”

Billboard, January 1951

Released initially on Herman Lubinsky’s secondary label Regent, rather than his Savoy label, “Head Hunter” failed to chart, possibly because the Otis band was still riding high in the charts with “Rockin’ Blues.” In 1950 the Johnny Otis Orchestra was the nation’s top selling R&B act mainly thanks to a series of hits featuring the vocal pairing of Little Esther and Mel Walker. “Cupid’s Boogie,” “Mistrustin’ Blues,” “Deceivin’ Blues,” and “Wedding Blues” were all big hits for the duo in 1950, along with “Dreamin’ Blues” and “Rockin’ Blues” (both featuring Mel Walker) and the biggest seller for the band, “Double Crossing Blues” (Little Esther and The Robins).

The band failed to maintain the same level of success in 1951, however, mainly due to disagreements with Herman Lubinsky, the notoriously tight-fisted honcho of Savoy and Regent. In late 1950, Ralph Bass, the Savoy A&R man on the West Coast was lured away by Syd Nathan of King Records who set him up with his own subsidiary label, Federal. One of the first signings made by Bass for the new label was Little Esther who began recording for Federal in late January 1951. Backing for her recordings through 1951 and 1952 was provided by a moonlighting Johnny Otis Orchestra which made their last recordings for Savoy in March 1951 and later signed for Mercury towards the end of the year.

Given such a background it was no surprise that the Johnny Otis Orchestra failed to reach the levels of success it had achieved in 1950. There were only three chart entries for the group in 1951: “Rockin’ Blues” (released in late 1950), “Gee Baby” / “Mambo Boogie” and “All Nite Long.”

“Head Hunter” (a tribute to deejay Hunter Hancock) may have failed to chart but as you can hear, it’s a tremendous instrumental featuring great guitar work from Pete Lewis followed by screeching sax by Big Jay McNeely and all underpinned by driving horns and brass. There is some doubt as to the personnel performing on the number. Both Bruyninckx and the jazzdisco.org website list the band as consisting of only one horn player, Big Jay McNeely, plus vibes, piano, guitar, bass and drums. As you can hear on this post, however, it’s pretty obvious that there is more than one sax plus brass present on the track.

Our benefactor, El Enmascarado, says: “There's certainly more than one saxophone playing on Head Hunter- in the opening seconds, the huge saxophone "power chord" couldn't be less than two, and could easily be three. The lower note of the "power chord" is below the range of the tenor, and is a baritone sax.”

For “probable personnel” on the track, I’ve stuck with the complete band which was present at this session according to jazzdisco.org and ignored their suggestion that only Big Jay plus rhythm played on “Head Hunter.” Of course there is always the possibility that it isn’t Big Jay but James Von Streeter or Lorenzo Holden on lead tenor sax here.

Big Jay McNeely

Big Jay had started his recording career with the Johnny Otis Orchestra on Excelsior in 1948 before going solo on Savoy in late 1948 and then Exclusive in the first half of 1949. However in late 1949 and early 1950 Big Jay is credited on sitting in with the Otis band on several sessions, perhaps because regular Otis honker Von Streeter was becoming unreliable due to “lifestyle issues.” Moreover at the time of this session Big Jay was “between” recording commitments as Exclusive was about to go out of business and he was about a month away from signing with Aladdin. So let’s stick with Big Jay. Judge for yourselves!

Redd Lyte

The B-side “Cool And Easy” is another excellent track with fine blues guitar from Pete Lewis and a fine vocal from shouter Redd Lyte. Both Lewis and Lyte had graduated to the Otis band via the talent show at The Barrelhouse Club where Otis had a long standing residency. All in all this is a first class record with two strong sides. Thanks again to El Enmascarado for his rips from shellac (in very good sound quality) and label scans.

We’re not quite finished yet! Here’s a little bonus streaming audio playlist of Big Jay McNeely’s other tribute to Hunter Hancock – “Hoppin’ With Hunter” recorded for Exclusive in April 1949. Also present is a track recorded by James Von Streeter & His Wig Poppers for the small Scoop label in August 1949. The similarity to Big Jay’s style is remarkable. Keep on honkin’ and bluesin’, Be Bop Winos!

Listen to "Hoppin' With Hunter"

Listen to "Landslide"

Blow Mr. Jackson / The Blues - Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers (Exclusive 244)

Recorded in Los Angeles in the second half of 1946. Released in June 1947. Personnel: Joe Darensbourg (clarinet); Little Willie Jackson (alto sax, baritone sax); James Jackson (tenor sax); Joe Liggins (piano, vocal); Frank Pasley (guitar); Red Callender (bass); Peppy Prince (drums)

Thanks to El Enmascarado and his ever growing mountain of shellac, we can enjoy listening to this 78 rpm disc by Joe Liggins.

Listen to "Blow Mr Jackson"

Listen to "The Blues"

“Blow Mr Jackson” was Joe’s big hit of 1947, following in the wake of “The Honeydripper” in 1945 and “I’ve Got A Right To Cry” and “Tanya” in 1946. Exclusive Records was the top selling R&B independent label in 1947 thanks in part to Joe’s record sales but mainly thanks to Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers who had two bigger hits with “New Orleans Blues” and “Merry Christmas Baby.”

Billboard, 16th August 1947

Exclusive was the 5th biggest R&B selling label of 1947, with the top four places being taken by major labels Decca, Capitol, Mercury and RCA Victor. Decca’s domination was largely due to the enormous popularity of Louis Jordan whose “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens” / “Let The Good Times Roll” was the year’s top selling R&B record. Other big sellers for Louis in 1947 were “Boogie Woogie Blue Plate,” “Jack, You’re Dead,” “Texas And Pacific,” “Open The Door, Richard!” and “Early In The Mornin’”. Lionel Hampton and The Mills Brothers were also successful for Decca.

Capitol’s big selling artists were Julia Lee, Nellie Lutcher and Nat “King” Cole. Mercury’s R&B success was mostly due to Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson’s “Old Maid Boogie” / “Kidney Stew Blues” while RCA Victor had the Count Basie version of “Open The Door, Richard!” and “Hawk’s Boogie” by Erskine Hawkins to thank for their position as 4th top selling R&B label.

Major label dominance of R&B sales would come to an end in 1948 when King became the top selling label thanks to big sales for Bull Moose Jackson, Lonnie Johnson and Wynonie Harris.

Thanks once more to El Enmascarado for providing the opportunity to post this snapshot from the rapidly developing R&B scene of the late 1940s.

Still Groove Jumping!

Side One
1. Right Now Baby - Roy Gaines
2. All My Life - Roy Gaines
3. Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale
4. You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale
5. Midnight Hours - Larry Dale
6. Country Boy - Tiny Kennedy
7. Peek-A-Boo - Mr. Bear
8. The Bear Hug - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats

Side Two
1. Drink Up - The Du-Droppers
2. Mr. Bear Comes To Town - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
3. I'm Gonna Keep My Good Eye On You - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
4. Rockin' With Red - Piano Red
5. High Low Jack - Buddy Lucas
6. When I Got Married - Champion Jack Dupree
7. She's Got No Hair - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
8. Jump Man Jump - Piano Red

Finally we get round to posting the follow up LP to “Groove Jumping!” Issued in 1987 on the UK Detour Records label, “Still Groove Jumping!” is a blaster of a compilation of sides originally released on the RCA subsidiary Groove in the mid 1950s.

It’s a mighty mess of clanging blues guitar mostly from Mickey “Guitar” Baker and buzz saw tenor sax solos from King Curtis and Sam “The Man” Taylor. There’s no need for me to go on at length as all bases are covered by the sleeve notes compiled by Bez Turner.

For more information on the short life of Groove Records read the “Groove Jumping” post. Read the “Detour Records” post for more information on this all but forgotten UK re-release label.

Listen to highlights from “Still Groove Jumping!” in the player below:



Peruse these original Groove and Vik EP covers courtesy Joan K:

Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps. Password = greaseyspoon

Download from here:

https://rapidshare.com/files/1377008620/Still_Groove_Jumping_.rar

Or here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?q4sjw88u0myom32

1. Right Now Baby - Roy Gaines
2. All My Life - Roy Gaines
3. Down To The Bottom - Larry Dale
4. You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale
5. Midnight Hours - Larry Dale
6. Country Boy - Tiny Kennedy
7. Peek-A-Boo - Mr. Bear
8. The Bear Hug - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
9. Drink Up - The Du-Droppers
10. Mr. Bear Comes To Town - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
11. I'm Gonna Keep My Good Eye On You - Mr. Bear & His Bearcats
12. Rockin' With Red - Piano Red
13. High Low Jack - Buddy Lucas
14. When I Got Married - Champion Jack Dupree
15. She's Got No Hair - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
16. Jump Man Jump - Piano Red

Jesse Allen - an amendment

Thanks to research carried out by Bob Eagle and further information received from Jesse's daughter Joanne it is now known that Jesse was born on the 25th September 1925 and not in 1930 as was previously thought. My thanks to Bob and Joanne.

Due to work pressures I haven't had time to post recently. The blog will be back soon with more Jump and Jive from shellac and Blues from vinyl. Keep-a-rockin' out there in R&B land.