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Master
60-1384
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay 349
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 349
45 rpm
Collectables COL 3357, Vee-Jay 349
LP
Buddah Records BDS 4002, Chameleon D1-74794, Charly LP 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2-10007, Joy Records JOYS 129, Joy Records JOYS 156, Tradition LP 2089, Vee-Jay LP 1023, Vee-Jay LP 1049, Vee-Jay VJR00005
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Chameleon D2-74794, Charly CD 4, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 284, 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, Hip-O Records B0008590-02, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Shout! Factory 8 26663 11289, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600913, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Suite Beat SBCD2012, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, 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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