Mambo chillun
Alternate title
Mambo children
Master
55-338
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, October 19 1955
Vee-Jay 164
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Jimmy Reed, hca; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 164
45 rpm
Vee-Jay 164
LP
Charly LP 1029, DJM DJD 28026, Instant INS 5009, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly VBCD 301, Craft Recordings CR00015, Instant CD INS 5009, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Saga 532 122-3, Soul Jam Records 600804, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music SIMPTNCD026, 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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