Give me your phone number

Alternate title
It's a crime and a shame

Master
B 8047 

Location/Date
United Sound Systems
Detroit, MI, August 1950

Original release
Modern 20-767

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr

Produced by
Bernard "Bernie" Besman

78 rpm
Modern 20‑767

LP
Third Man Records TMR‑512, United Artists LP 127

CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Body & Soul 3067872, Capitol 8 33912 2, JSP Records JSPCD7703, Proper Records PROPERBOX 111, Southern Routes SR‑2505

Bernard ”Bernie” Besman was the producer of Hooker’s singles for Modern and Sensation from 1948-1952 at United Sound Systems Studios on 5840 2nd Boulevard in Detroit, with studio owner James Siracuse’s son Joe Siracuse as engineer. From late 1952 (when Besman moved to California) Joe Bihari from Modern and Joe Siracuse took care of the productions.


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