Ten fave unreleased tracks chosen from my yearly Favorites lists
Today………from 1953
HOUSTON BOINES – CARRY MY BUSINESS ON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcoUqSdnxUQ
Super midtempo blues from Houston Boines at his one and only session for
Sun Records
in Memphis that took place 23 December 1953. The session backup lineup doesn’t often
come much star studded than this : - Houston Boines (vcl/hca) Little
Milton (gtr)
Jesse Knight (bs) Ike Turner (pno) C.W Tate (ten sax) Clarence Taylor
(alto sax)
Lonnie Hayes (dms)
Never issued at the time this track lay in the Sun vaults until 1976
when it first
appeared on the second ever LP put out on the then brand new Charly label---“Sam’s
Blues : The Roots Of Rock Vol. 2”
THE FIVE KEYS – ROCKING AND CRYING BLUES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ZLsm206t4
One of the greatest groups of all here from their Aladdin period with
one of my
very favorites by them. It is always a source of regret that the
terrific “Rocking
And Crying Blues” from 1953 went unreleased.
‘Twas not until 1982 that the track was recovered from the vaults and
finally released
on the album “It’s A Groove” on Charly CRB 1040
This one ended up #10 most successful entry in the Unreleased battle in
2014
THE DU DROPPERS – BAMBALAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbbaWECTVWc
In late 1953 The Du Droppers (J.C Ginyard – (lead tenor);Harvey Ray
(baritone tenor);
Willie Ray (baritone tenor) & Bob Kornegay (bass) were riding pretty
high after a
couple of good selling records (“Can’t Do Sixty No More” and “I Wanna Know”) and were
able to boast a recording contract with one of the biggest of the major companies…RCA.
On October 7 that year the group recorded one of my favorites by them---“Bambalam”
(often spelt in different ways but “Bambalam” is how it reads when it finally was
released) which sadly was passed over for release (despite a second take
being recorded
in December)
It finally surfaced in 1988 on an UK LP of their stuff appropriately
titled “Bambalam!!”
on Detour label
THE FIVE THRILLS – ROCKIN’ AT MIDNIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnm9YySJjlM
Hailing from Chicago The Five Thrills were Gilbert Warren (lead ten)
Oscar Robinson
(baritone) Fred Washington (baritone) Obie Washington (2nd tenor) Levi
Jenkins (bass/pno)
Recording for deejay Al Benson’s Parrot label the boys led off in 1953
with one of my
favorite records of the year “Feel So Good”. Sadly the almost-as-good “Rockin’ At Midnight”
was shelved and consigned to the vaults until rescued in 1990 by the
good folk at Relic
Records in Hackensack NJ and finally released on their album “Rockin’ At Midnight At
The Parrot Club”
LITTLE JUNIOR’S BLUE FLAMES – FEELIN’ BAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3yzuI7pIUA
Since the boys’ great stinging “Feelin’ Good” is one of my VERY favorite
numbers of
1953 it should come as no surprise that this “by the numbers” almost
exact carbon copy
mirror image “Feelin’ Bad” is also way up there for me
The Sun files are a little hazy on the recording details on this
one---from a September or
October session (that also produced his “Mystery Train” classic) it
seems probably with
the same backing crew as on his first Sun session Herman Parker (vcl)
Floyd Murphy (gtr)
Kenneth Banks (bs) William Johnson (pno) James Wheeler (sax) John Bowers
(dms)
Went unreleased until 1977 when included on the Charly LP “The Legendary
Sun
Performers” containing the Sun output of both Junior Parker and Billy “Red” Love
SMILEY LEWIS – LYING WOMAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgdWvoPtfZI
Recorded at session July 27 1953 in New Orleans with Smiley Lewis
(vcls,gtr) Joe Harris
(alto sax) Clarence Hall (ten sax) Frank Fields (bs) Edward Frank (pno)
Earl Palmer (dms)
Dave Bartholomew (tpt)
“Lying Woman” is one of my Smiley favorites with the great man in best vocal form and
with the accompaniment of some terrific sax work here plus Frank Fields
in top form
As with so many of these other classics mentioned here “Lying Woman”
fell by the
wayside going unissued until 1985 when it was at last included for
release on the
Imperial (France) LP collection “Ooh La La”
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR – BALL THE WALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kobJl7rGzkM
This insistent Longhair workout was recorded in New Orleans in November
1953
along with both versions of “Tipitina”,”In The Night” and “Who’s Been
Fooling You”
Top musicians on the session were Roy Byrd (vcl/pno) Lee Allen (ten sax)
Red Tyler (bar
sax) Edgar Blanchard (bs) Earl Palmer (dms)
Along with the other tracks listed above “Ball The Wall” made its debut
on wax on the
superb Atlantic LP “New Orleans Piano” in 1972.
“Ball The Wall” ended up the highest placed 1953 entry in the 2014 Unreleased Battle
coming in at #3 most successful candidate
LITTLE MILTON – I LOVE MY BABY
An all day session on December 22 1953 produced five Little Milton
numbers NONE of
which saw release at the time. Session personnel are listed as Little
Milton (vcl/gtr)
Jesse Knight (bs) Ike Turner (pno) C.W Tate (ten sax) Lawrence Taylor
(alto sax) Lonnie
Haynes (dms)
Among tracks recorded but not released was the fine “I Love My Baby”
which finally
appeared on the Charly compilation set “Sam’s Blues : The Roots Of Rock Vol. 2” in 1976
THE MOONGLOWS – FINE FINE GIRL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIurEZ9RuM
Another of my favorite groups and from my favorite period of their
activity too—their
early year or so on Art Sheridan’s Chance label in Chicago---where on September 7 1953
they recorded “Just A Lonely Christmas”,”Whistle My Love”,”Baby Please”,”Hey Santa
Claus”,”My Love” and the song under consideration here “Fine Fine Girl”
(with a Harvey
Fuqua lead)
Sady the song was passed over for release and did not see light of day
until 1964 when
it was included in the Constellation label collection “Collectors
Showcase Vol. 2 : The
Moonglows” a really terrific album release that collected up all their
early Chance sides
in one place
Unca Marvy tells the Moonglows on record story best here
https://www.uncamarvy.com/Moonglows/moonglows.html
IKE TURNER – I’M GONNA FORGET ABOUT YOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Cr4bh0rLM
Highly catchy rocker from Ike & his fledgling “Kings Of Rhythm” recorded for Sun
(but this may have been recorded at a session held in St Louis,Mo) in
1953 group members
unknown but Bonnie Turner is there on piano. Like everything else here
it was passed over
for release and left to gather dust.
That is…until 1976 when Charly Records rescued the track and included it
on their LP
“Delta Rhythm Kings:The Roots Of Rock Vol. 3”
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