I'm in the mood

Master
59-1069 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 22 1959

Original release
Vee-Jay 308

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr

Produced by
Calvin Carter

78 rpm
Vee-Jay 308

45 rpm
Vee-Jay 308

LP
Buddah Records BDS 4002Charly LP 1004Delta Blues DELB008LPDJM DJD 28026Everest Records FS 222GNP Crescendo GNPS 2-10007Instant INS 5009Joy Records JOY 101Joy Records JOYS 156Top Rank International 33.002Up Front UPF 104Vee-Jay LP 1007Vee-Jay LP 1049Vee-Jay VJR00005WaxTime 771919

CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103Avid Roots EMSC1208Charly CD 4Charly CD BM 7Charly CD DIG 5Charly CDGR 151Charly CDGR 281Charly CPCD 8242-2Charly CR RED 6Charly SNAJ 705Charly VBCD 301Collectables COL 0108Fruit Tree FT821GNP Crescendo GNPD 2-0007Instant CD INS 5009Jasmine Records JASCD 562Shout! Factory 8 26663 10646Soul Jam Records 600804Soul Jam Records 600913Soul Jam Records 806184Suite Beat SBCD2012Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475Union Square Music METRTN014Vee-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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