I left my baby
Master
61-1718
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 4 1961
Charly LP 1081
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Jimmy Reed, hca; Lefty Bates, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Charly LP 1081
CD
Charly CR RED 6
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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