I'm going upstairs
Master
61-1717
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 4 1961
Vee-Jay 379
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 379
LP
Charly LP 1014, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2-10007, Joy Records JOYS 133, Vee-Jay DS 7007, Vee-Jay LP 1033, Vee-Jay VJR00005
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 4, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 300, Charly CDRB 10, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2-0007, Hoodoo Records 263499, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Soul Jam Records 600913, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Vee-Jay VJR00003
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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