Frisco blues
Alternate titles
Frisco, San Francisco
Master
62-2799
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 8 1962
Vee-Jay 493
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, tp; Hank Cosby, ts; Unknown, saxes; Joe Edward Hunter, pno; Unknown, gtr; Unknown, bs; Unknown, dms; Mary Wilson and the Andantes, vcl group
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Stateside SS 203, Trip TR‑169, Vee‑Jay 493
LP
Chameleon D1‑74794, Concord VJR‑37597‑01, Everest Records FS 347, Joy Records JOYS 147, Red Bank Records RBR002, Trip TLX‑9504, Trip TOP 16‑46, Up Front UPF 104, Vee‑Jay LP 1058, Vee‑Jay VJR00005, Vee‑Jay VJS 2‑1004, Vinyl Lovers 6785420
CD
Chameleon D2‑74794, Charly CD 170, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Documents 600258, Rhino CD R2 70572, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Soul Jam Records 600881, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Vee‑Jay VJD 81058, 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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