Half a stranger
Master
63-3107
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, 1963
Vee-Jay LP 1066
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Buddah Records BDS 7506, Joy Records JOYS 152, Stateside SL 10074, Vee‑Jay LP 1066
CD
Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CPCD 8242‑2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Fruit Tree FT821, Recall SMDCD 187, Soul Jam Records 806181, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81066
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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