No one told me

Master
62-2804 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 8 1962

Original release
Vee-Jay LP 1058

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, pno; Unknown, org;  Unknown, bs; Unknown, dms; Unknown, clapping

Produced by
Calvin Carter

LP
Everest Records FS 347, Joy Records JOYS 147, Vee‑Jay LP 1058, Vee‑Jay VJS 2‑1004, Vinyl Lovers 6785420

CD
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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