Big soul
Master
62-2798
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 8 1962
Vee-Jay LP 1058
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, gtr; Unknown, org; Unknown, tp; Unknown, saxes;Unknown, gtr; Unknown, bs; Unknown, dms; Mary Wilson and the Andantes, vcl group
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Joy Records JOYS 147, Vee‑Jay LP 1058, Vee‑Jay VJS 2‑1004, Vinyl Lovers 6785420
CD
Charly CD 170, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Documents 600258, Soul Jam Records 600881, Vee‑Jay VJD 81058
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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