Baby Lee
Master
56-444
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 27 1956
Vee-Jay 205
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 205
45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 205
EP
Stateside SE 1023
LP
Bellaphon BLS5523, Bellevue Publishing 02090‑VB, Charly CRB 1029, Diggers Factory MOR‑909, Discophon S.C. 2.043, DJM DJD 28026, Joy Records JOY 101, Not Now Music NOT3LP258, Pan Am Records 9152254, Saga Records 089 116‑2, Top Rank International 33.002, Tradition LP 2089, Trip TLX‑9504, Trip TOP 16‑46, Universal 678 199‑5, Up Front UPF 104, Vee‑Jay LP 1007, Wax Love WLV82053, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Big3 Records BT3229, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CPCD 8242‑2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Documents 600258, Fruit Tree FT821, Hip‑O Records B0008590‑02, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Recall SMDCD 187, Saga Records 532 122‑3, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10646, Soul Jam Records 600804, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay NVD2‑713, Vee‑Jay VJD 81007
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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