I'm leaving
Alternate title
I'm leaving baby
Master
63-3310
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, 1963
Vee-Jay 538
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, pno; Unknown, gtr; Unknown, bs; Unknown, dms;
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 538
LP
Buddah Records BDS 7506, Joy Records JOYS 152, Stateside SL 10074, Vee-Jay DS 7007, Vee-Jay LP 1066
CD
Charly CD 170, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Soul Jam Records 806181, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee-Jay Records VJD 81066
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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