Stop talking
Master
56-480
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, June 7 1956
DJM DJD 28026
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; Otis Finch, ts; Unknown, pno; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Charly LP 1029, DJM DJD 28026
CD
Charly CD BM 19, Charly CR RED 6, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Union Square Music METRTN014, 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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