Baby Lee
Master
56-444
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 27 1956
Vee-Jay 205
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 205
45 rpm
Vee-Jay 205
EP
Stateside SE 1023
LP
Charly LP 1029, DJM DJD 28026, Joy Records JOY 101, Top Rank International 33.002, Tradition LP 2089, Up Front UPF 104, Vee-Jay LP 1007, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Fruit Tree FT821, Hip-O Records B0008590-02, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Saga 532 122-3, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10646, Soul Jam Records 600804, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee-Jay NVD2-713
Most of Hooker’s recordings for Vee-Jay were done in Bill Putnam’s newly built studio, Universal Recording Corporation, on 46 E. Walton Street in Chicago, with his ”#2-man”, Bernie Clapper, engineering (in studio 2). Hooker’s Vee-Jay ”contacts” were Jimmy Bracken, Ewart Abner and especially Calvin Carter, who also was the foremost producer. When Putnam in 1957 started his United Recording at Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Clapper took the lead in Chicago.
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