Wheel and deal
Master
55-337
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, October 19 1955
Top Rank RES 136
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Jimmy Reed, hca; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Top Rank RES 136
LP
Charly CRB 1029, DJM DJD 28026
CD
Charly CD BM 19, Charly CR RED 6, Editions Atlas WIS CD 602, Recall SMDCD 187, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay NVD2‑713
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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