Goin' to California
Master
60-1377
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay LP 1023
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Charly CRB 1081, Everest Records FS 369, Joy Records JOYS 129, Pan Am Records 9152308, Rat Pack Records 783721, Vee‑Jay DS 7006, Vee‑Jay LP 1023, Vinyl Passion VP80784 , WaxTime 772039
CD
Avid Roots EMSC1208, Big3 Records BT3229, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Documents 600258, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Rat Pack Records 783721, Soul Jam Records 600804, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81023
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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