Squeeze me baby

Location/Date
3530 Hastings Street
Detroit, MI, 1951

Original release
Krazy Kat KK 816

Lineup
Eddie Burns, vcl/hca; John Lee Hooker, gtr; Unknown, gtr; Unknown, dms

Produced by
Joe Von Battle

LP
Krazy Kat KK 816

CD
Flyright FLY CD 23

Comments
Title sold to Gotham by Joe Van Battle on July 25 1951.

Many of the early Joe Von Battle productions in Detroit were done in Battle’s Record Shop at 3530 Hastings Street. Battle was responsible for re-selling several of the very first Elmer Barbee pseudonym recordings to different record companies. Barbee had quit as Hooker’s manager by 1951. Battle, though, was some kind of ”agent” for Hooker up until the 1960s.


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