I'm going upstairs
Master
61-1717
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 4 1961
Vee-Jay 379
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 379
LP
Charly CRB 1014, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2‑10007, Joy Records JOYS 133, Not Now Music NOT3LP258, Vee‑Jay DS 7007, Vee‑Jay LP 1033, Vee‑Jay VJR00005, Vinyl Lovers 6785447, Wagram Music 3394126, Wax Love WLV82054
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Big3 Records BT3229, Charly CBMCD016, Charly CD 4, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 300, Charly CDRB 10, Charly CPCD 8242‑2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly QBCD 8, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Documents 600258, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2‑0007, Hoodoo Records 263499, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Recall SMDCD 187, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Soul Jam Records 600913, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Vee‑Jay VJD 81033, 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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