| Chicago, IL October 19 1955 (1955-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 55-336 | Unfriendly woman | Vee-Jay 265 |
| 55-337 | Wheel and deal | Top Rank RES 136 |
| 55-338 | Mambo chillun | Vee-Jay 164 |
| 55-339 | Time is marching | Vee-Jay 164 |
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| Chicago, IL March 27 1956 (1956-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 56-443 | I'm so worried baby | Vee-Jay 233 |
| 56-443 Alt. Take | I'm so worried baby | DJM DJD 28026 |
| 56-444 | Baby Lee | Vee-Jay 205 |
| 56-445 | Dimples | Vee-Jay 205 |
| 56-446 | Every night | Vee-Jay 188 |
| 56-447 | The road is so rough | Vee-Jay 233 |
| 56-448 | Trouble blues | Vee-Jay 188 |
|
| Chicago, IL June 7 1956 (1956-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 56-479 | Don't get tired | Unissued |
| 56-480 | Stop talking | DJM DJD 28026 |
| 56-481 | Time and a half | Unissued |
| 56-482 | Lonely blues | Unissued |
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| Chicago, IL March 1 1957 (1957-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 57-633 | Everybody rockin' | Top Rank RES 136 |
| 57-634 | I'm so excited | Vee-Jay 245 |
| 57-635 | I see you when you're weak | Vee-Jay 245 |
| 57-635 Alt. Take | I see you when you're weak | DJM DJD 28026 |
| 57-636 | Crawlin' black spider | Top Rank RES 136 |
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| Chicago, IL June 23 1957 (1957-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 57-717 | Little wheel | Vee-Jay 255 |
| 57-718 | Little fine woman | DJM DJD 28026 |
| 57-719 | Rosie Mae | Vee-Jay 255 |
| 57-720 | You can lead me baby | Vee-Jay 265 |
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| Chicago, IL June 1958 (1958-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Bundle up and go | Charly CR RED 6 |
| Drive me away | Charly LP 1029 |
| House rent boogie | Charly LP 1004 |
| I'm going home | Charly CR RED 6 |
| Lou Della | Instant CD INS 5009 |
| Love me all the time | Charly LP 1029 |
| Mama you got a daughter | DJM DJD 28026 |
| Nightmare | Charly LP 1029 |
| Trying to find a woman | Charly CR RED 6 |
| Wrong doin' woman | Charly LP 1029 |
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| Chicago, IL June 10 1958 (1958-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 58-927 | I love you honey | Vee-Jay 293 |
| 58-928 | You've taken my woman | Vee-Jay 293 |
| 58-929 | Mama you got a daughter | Vee-Jay NVD2-713 |
| 58-930 | I'm gonna love you | Unissued |
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| Chicago, IL January 22 1959 (1959-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 59-1067 | Maudie | Vee-Jay 308 |
| 59-1068 | Tennessee blues | Vee-Jay 319 |
| 59-1069 | I'm in the mood | Vee-Jay 308 |
| 59-1070 | Boogie chillun | Vee-Jay 319 |
| 59-1071 | Hobo blues | Vee-Jay 331 |
| 59-1072 | Crawlin' kingsnake | Vee-Jay 331 |
|
| Detroit, MI April 1959 (1959-2) |
| United Sound Systems, produced by: Bill Grauer |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Behind the plow | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Black snake | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Bundle up and go | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Church bell tone | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Good mornin', lil' school girl | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| How long blues | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| I rowed a little boat | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| I'm prison bound | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Pea vine special | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| She's long, she's tall, she weeps like a
willow tree | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Tupelo blues | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Water boy | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
| Wobblin' baby | Riverside RLP 12-838 |
|
| Detroit, MI April 28 1959 (1959-3) |
| United Sound Systems, produced by: Bill Grauer |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Baby please don't go | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Blues for my baby | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Burning hell | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Graveyard blues | Riverside RLP 008 |
| How can you do it | Riverside RLP 008 |
| I don't want no woman if her hair ain't
longer than mine | Riverside RLP 008 |
| I rolled and turned and cried the whole
night long | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Jackson, Tennessee | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Key to the highway | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Natchez fire | Riverside RLP 008 |
| Smokestack lightnin' | Riverside RLP 008 |
| You live your life and I'll live mine | Riverside RLP 008 |
|
| ca 1960 (1960-1) |
|
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| When I lay my burden down | Craft Recordings CR00015 |
|
| New York, NY February 9 1960 (1960-2) |
| Reeves Sound Studios, produced by: Orrin Keepnews |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Come on and see about me | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| Democrat man | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| Gonna use my rod | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| I believe I'll go back home | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| I need some money | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| I want to talk about you | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| I'm wanderin' | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| No more doggin' | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| One of these days | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| That's my story | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| Wednesday evenin' blues | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
| You're leavin' me baby | Riverside RLP 12-321 |
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| Chicago, IL March 1 1960 (1960-3) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 60-1373 | I wanna walk | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1374 | Canal street blues | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1375 | I'll know tonight | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1376 | I can't believe | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1377 | Goin' to California | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1378 | Whiskey and wimmen | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1379 | Run on | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1380 | Solid sender | Vee-Jay 349 |
| 60-1381 | Sunny land | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1382 | Dusty road | Vee-Jay 366 |
| 60-1383 | I'm a stranger | Vee-Jay LP 1023 |
| 60-1384 | No shoes | Vee-Jay 349 |
|
| Englewood Cliffs, NJ April 29 1960 (1960-4) |
| Van Gelder Studio, produced by: Edmond Edwards |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 2198 | Sally Mae | Charly LP 1029 |
| 2199 | I like to see you walk | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 2200 | Take me as I am | Vee-Jay 397 |
| 2201 | You're looking good tonight | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 2202 | Moanin' blues | Charly LP 1029 |
| 2203 | Wednesday evening blues | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 2204 | You're gonna miss me when I'm gone | Charly LP 1029 |
| 2205 | Dirty ground hog | Charly CPCD 8242-2 |
| 2206 | Untitled | Unissued |
| 2207 | Five long years | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 2208 | My first wife left me | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 2209 | She loves my best friend | Charly CR RED 6 |
| 2210 | Come and ride with me | Unissued |
| 2211 | My heart's in misery | Unissued |
|
| Newport, RI June 25 1960 (1960-5) |
| Recorded live at Newport Folk Festival, Freebody Park |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 60-1622 | The hobo | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 60-1623 | Maudie | Vanguard VRS-9083 |
| 60-1624 | Tupelo | Vee-Jay 366 |
|
| Newport, RI June 26 1960 (1960-6) |
| Recorded live at Newport Folk Festival, Freebody Park, produced by: Paul Oliver |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Somewhere down the line | Decca LK 4664 |
|
| Newport, RI July 3 1960 (1960-7) |
| Recorded live at Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| My own fault | Charly CD DIG 5 |
| Maudie | Charly CD DIG 5 |
| Tupelo | Charly CD DIG 5 |
| I wanna walk | Charly CD DIG 5 |
| I wish you were here | Charly CD DIG 5 |
|
| Detroit, MI Late 1960 (1960-8) |
| Fortune studio, 3942 Third Street, produced by: Jack Brown & Devora Brown |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Crazy about that walk | Fortune 855 |
| Have mercy on poor me | Fortune LP 3012 |
| We're all God's chillun | Fortune 855 |
|
| Newark, NJ 1961 (1961-1) |
| Produced by: Fred Mendelsohn |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Can't you see what you're doin' to me | Muse LP 5205 |
| CC Rider | Muse LP 5205 |
| How long | Muse LP 5205 |
| How many more years | Muse LP 5205 |
| I believe I'll lose my mind | Muse LP 5205 |
| I bought you a brand new home | Muse LP 5205 |
| Mean mistreatin' | Muse LP 5205 |
| My cryin' days are over | Muse LP 5205 |
| Sad and lonesome | Muse LP 5205 |
| Sittin' here thinkin' | Muse LP 5205 |
| Teasin' me | Muse LP 5205 |
| When my wife quit me | Savoy MG 16000 |
|
| Chicago, IL January 4 1961 (1961-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 61-1715 | Want ad blues | Vee-Jay 397 |
| 61-1716 | Will the circle be unbroken | Dynasty LP 7301 |
| 61-1717 | I'm going upstairs | Vee-Jay 379 |
| 61-1718 | I left my baby | Charly LP 1081 |
| 61-1719 | Hard headed woman | Vee-Jay LP 1033 |
| 61-1720 | I'm mad again | Vee-Jay 379 |
|
| Culver City, CA March 9 1961 (1961-3) |
| Produced by: Bernard "Bernie" Besman |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Fire at Natchez | Galaxy LP 201 |
| Left my wife and my baby | Galaxy LP 201 |
| Mad with you baby | Galaxy LP 201 |
| My mother-in-law moved in | Galaxy LP 201 |
| The sweetest girl I know | Galaxy LP 201 |
| Travelin' day and night | Galaxy LP 201 |
| We might as well say we're through | Galaxy LP 201 |
| B 6101 | Ballad to Abraham Lincoln | Galaxy LP 201 |
| B 6102 | Deep down in my heart | Galaxy LP 201 |
| B 6102 | Mojo hand | Galaxy LP 201 |
| B 6102-3 | I lost my job | Galaxy LP 201 |
| F 2211 | Shake it up and go | Galaxy LP 201 |
|
| Miami, FL July 1961 (1961-4) |
| Produced by: Henry Stone |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Baby please don't go | Guest Star LP 1902 |
| Don't turn me from your door | Atco LP 151 |
| Drifting blues | Atco LP 151 |
| Goin' to Louisiana | Stax LP 2013 |
| 0234 | Grinder man | Stax 0053 |
| I just don't know | Stax LP 2013 |
| Meat shakes on her bone | Craft Recordings CR00015 |
| My love comes down for you | Stax LP 2013 |
| 0235 | Slow and easy | Stax 0053 |
| Stand by me baby | Guest Star LP 1902 |
| Talk about your baby | Atco LP 151 |
| Talkin' 'bout my baby | Guest Star LP 1902 |
| Teachin' the blues | Guest Star LP 1902 |
| Two white horses | Guest Star LP 1902 |
| You lost a good man | Atco LP 151 |
|
| Chicago, IL October 26 1961 (1961-5) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 61-2201 | Process | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2202 | Thelma | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2202 Alt. Take | Thelma | Craft Recordings CR00545 |
| 61-2203 | What do you say | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2204 | Boom boom | Vee-Jay 438 |
| 61-2205 | Blues before sunrise | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2206 | Lost a good girl | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2207 | She's mine | Vee-Jay 453 |
| 61-2208 | I got a letter this morning | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2209 | A new leaf | Vee-Jay 453 |
| 61-2210 | Let's make it | Vee-Jay LP 1043 |
| 61-2211 | Drug store woman | Vee-Jay 438 |
|
| Chicago, IL 1962 (1962-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 62-2651 | Old time shimmy | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2652 | Onions | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2653 | You know I love you | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2654 | Send me your pillow | Vee-Jay 575 |
|
| Chicago, IL January 8 1962 (1962-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 62-2798 | Big soul | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2799 | Frisco blues | Vee-Jay 493 |
| 62-2800 | She shot me down | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2801 | Take a look at yourself | Vee-Jay 493 |
| 62-2802 | Good rocking mama | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2803 | I love her | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
| 62-2804 | No one told me | Vee-Jay LP 1058 |
|
| Hamburg, Germany October 18 1962 (1962-3) |
| Recorded live at Hamburg University's Auditorium Maximum, produced by: Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Let's make it baby | Brunswick 009012 |
| Need your love so bad | Excello LP 8029 |
| Shake it baby | Brunswick 009012 |
| The right time | Brunswick 009012 |
|
| San Francisco, CA November 2-10 1962 (1962-4) |
| Recorded live at Sugar Hill, produced by: Sol Weiss, Jim Easton |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Boogie chillun | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| Cruel little baby | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| Driftin' and driftin' | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| I can't hold on | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| I got the key to the highway | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| I love to see you walking | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| I need some money | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| I want to get married | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| I was standing by the wayside | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| I'm gonna keep on walking | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| It's you I love, baby | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| Matchbox | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| Night time is the right time | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| Run on babe | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| T.B. is killing me | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| This world | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| You been dealin' with the devil | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| You don't move me baby | Fantasy LP 24706 |
| You gonna miss me | Galaxy LP 8205 |
| You're nice and kind to me Lou Della | Fantasy LP 24706 |
|
| San Francisco, CA November 8 1962 (1962-5) |
| Recorded live at Sugar Hill, produced by: Sol Weiss, Jim Easton |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Catfish blues | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Come back baby (Let's talk it over) | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| How can you do it | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| I can't hold on | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| I love no one but my baby | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Jelly jelly | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Let's get it | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Sinner's prayer | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Taxi driver | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| The things I used to do | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| What's the matter baby | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| You torture my soul | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
|
| San Francisco, CA November 9 1962 (1962-6) |
| Recorded live at Sugar Hill, produced by: Sol Weiss, Jim Easton |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Bottle up and go | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Crawlin' king snake | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Five long years | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| That's all right | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| Third degree | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| What'd I say | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
| You don't miss your water | Fantasy FCD-7714-2 |
|
| Chicago, IL 1963 (1963-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 63-3105 | I had a friend | Unissued |
| 63-3106 | One way ticket | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3107 | Half a stranger | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3108 | Bottle up and go | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3109 | My grinding mill | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3110 | I want to ramble | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3111 | Sadie Mae | Charly CR RED 6 |
| 63-3112 | This is hip | Charly LP 1004 |
|
| Chicago, IL 1963 (1963-2) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 63-3306 | Poor me | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3307 | I want to shout | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3308 | Love is a burning thing | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3309 | I want to hug you | Vee-Jay LP 1066 |
| 63-3310 | I'm leaving | Vee-Jay 538 |
| 63-3311 | Birmingham blues | Vee-Jay 538 |
| 63-3312 | Don't look back | Vee-Jay 575 |
|
| Newport, RI July 26-27 1963 (1963-3) |
| Recorded live at Newport Jazz Festival, Freebody Park |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 63-3822 | I can't quit you now blues | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3823 | Stop baby, don't hold me that way | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3824 | Tupelo | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3825 | Bus station blues | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3826 | Freight train be my friend | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3827 | Boom boom | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3827 Alt. Take | Boom boom | Vanguard VCD 79703-2 |
| 63-3828 | Talk that talk baby | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3829 | Sometime baby you make me feel so bad | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3831 | You've got to walk yourself | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3832 | Let's make it | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
| 63-3833 | The mighty fire | Vee-Jay LP 1078 |
|
| Chicago, IL 1964 (1964-1) |
| Universal Recording Corporation, produced by: Calvin Carter |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| 64-4427 | Big legs, tight skirt | Vee-Jay 670 |
| 64-4428 | Flowers on the hour | Vee-Jay 708 |
| 64-4429 | It serves me right | Vee-Jay 708 |
| 64-4430 | Ain't no big thing baby | Dynasty LP 7301 |
| 64-4431 | She left me one Wednesday | Charly LP 1029 |
| 64-4432 | You can run baby | Dynasty LP 7301 |
| 64-4433 | New Sally Mae | Dynasty LP 7301 |
| 64-4434 | Your baby ain't sweet like mine | Vee-Jay 670 |
| 64-4435 | She's long, she's tall | Dynasty LP 7301 |
| 64-4436 | You're mellow | Dynasty LP 7301 |
|
| London, England November 1964 (1964-2) |
| IBC Studios |
| Master/Take | Title | Original release |
| Little dreamer | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| It's a crazy mixed up world | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| Bad luck and trouble | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| Don't be messin' with my bread | Planet 114 |
| Waterfront | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| I'm losin' you | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| It's raining here | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| Little girl go back to school | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| Mai Lee | Planet 114 |
| No one pleases me but you | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
| Seven days and seven nights | Verve-Folkways LP 3003 |
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