100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes from... The R&B Years 1953

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1Big Dipper
Joe Liggins2:31
2Please Hurry Home
recording of:
Please Hurry Home
writer:
B.B. King and Jules Taub
B.B. King2:39
3You’re a Fool
Willie Mabon2:25
4Tears Keep Tumbling Down
Ruth Brown2:52
5Drunk
Jimmy Liggins2:32
6Every Night in the Week
producer:
Bill Beasley
bass:
Clifford McCray (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
guitar:
Guitar Red (Chicago blues/soul performer and songwriter Paul Johnson) (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
membranophone:
Charles Connor (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
piano:
Skippy Brooks (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
tenor saxophone:
Nat Perrilliat (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
trumpet:
Milton Battiste (trumpeter) (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
vocals:
Christine Kittrell (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
arranger:
Ted Jarrett
recording of:
Every Night of the Week (from 1953-06 until 1953-08)
lyricist and composer:
Ted Jarrett
Christine Kittrell2:35
7Rose Mary
producer:
Dave Bartholomew
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
EMI Records USA (formerly EMI USA, renamed since early 1990s) (in 1991)
recorded at:
J&M/Cosimo Recording Studios (New Orleans, circa 1945-1955) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
recording of:
Rose Mary (on 1953-06-01)
lyricist and composer:
Antoine Dominique Domino (Fats Domino) and Dave Bartholomew
Fats Domino52:10
8Daddy Rollin’ Stone
Otis Blackwell2:41
9TV Is the Thing This Year
recording of:
TV Is the Thing This Year
writer:
Phil Medley and Bill Sanford (replacement vocals for The Four Vagabonds)
Dinah Washington2:25
10No Blow, No Show
Bobby “Blue” Bland3:00
11Snatchin’ It Back
Margie Day2:40
12Money Honey
producer:
Ahmet Ertegun (US American Songwriter, producer) and Jerry Wexler
guitar:
Walter Adams (guitarist for The Drifters) (on 1953-08-09)
baritone vocals:
Gerhart Thrasher (on 1953-08-09)
bass vocals:
Willie Ferbie (on 1953-08-09)
lead vocals:
Clyde McPhatter (on 1953-08-09)
tenor vocals:
Bill Pinkney (on 1953-08-09) and Andrew Thrasher (on 1953-08-09)
recorded at:
Atlantic Recording Studio (234 West 56th St., New York, 1947-1956) in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1953-08-09)
part of:
Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 252)
recording of:
Money Honey (on 1953-08-09)
lyricist and composer:
Jesse Stone
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, First Digital Music, Walden Music, Inc., Walden, Inc., WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) and ZFC Music
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters42:58
13I Want You to Be My Baby
recording of:
I Want You to Be My Baby
lyricist and composer:
Jon Hendricks (until 1953-05-28)
Louis Jordan2:59
14Come Back
Memphis Slim2:37
15Take Me Back
Linda Hayes2:28
16I Had a Notion
Joe Morris & Al Savage2:45
17Banana Split
Kid King3:06
18My Country Man
Big Maybelle2:31
19Hole in the Wall
Floyd Dixon2:51
20Move Me, Baby
Jimmy Witherspoon2:32
21Perfect Woman
The Four Blazes2:41
22Baby Doll
Marvin & Johnny2:23
23Route 90
Clarence ‘Bon Ton’ Garlow2:41
24Gate Walks the Board
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown2:30
25I’ll Be True
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (in 1953)
trumpet:
Joe Morris (US jazz trumpeter) (in 1953)
vocals:
Faye Adams (in 1953)
recording of:
I'll Be True (in 1953)
lyricist and composer:
William McLemore (guitarist active ca. 1940)
Faye Adams2:51