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Master
60-1384
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay 349
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 349
45 rpm
Collectables COL 3357, Vee‑Jay 349
LP
Bellaphon BLS5523, Bellevue Publishing 02090‑VB, Buddah Records BDS 4002, Chameleon D1‑74794, Charly CRB 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, Diggers Factory MOR‑909, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2‑10007, Joy Records JOYS 129, Joy Records JOYS 156, Not Now Music NOT3LP258, Pan Am Records 9152308, Power Station Music 3566, Rat Pack Records 783721, Tradition LP 2089, Trip TLX‑9504, Trip TOP 16‑46, Vee‑Jay LP 1023, Vee‑Jay LP 1049, Vee‑Jay VJR00005, Vee‑Jay VJS 2‑1004, Vinyl Passion VP80784 , Wax Love WLV82054, WaxTime 772039
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Big3 Records BT3229, Chameleon D2‑74794, Charly CBMCD016, Charly CD 4, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 284, 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, Digital Deja2 D2CD07, Documents 600258, Editions Atlas WIS CD 602, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2‑0007, Hip‑O Records B0008590‑02, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Rat Pack Records 783721, Recall SMDCD 187, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Shout! Factory 8 26663 11289, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600913, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Suite Beat SBCD2012, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81023, Vee‑Jay VJD 81049, 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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