The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 124
Aladdin 3000 series, 1948
In 1948 Aladdin started with a new 3000 series, that replaced their old numbering from 101-212 that had started in their Philo days back in 1945. 1948 was the year of the recoring strike of the American Federation of Musicians, and it looks like Aladdin hadn't prepared like most other labels that had organized themselves a recording frenzy late in 1947 that yielded so many masters that they could release at full speed. Instead, in '48 Aladdin had significantly less output than the years before and after.
Despite, the label proved once again their supremacy in the Rhythm & Blues field with top notch artists and number one hits.
Playlist
- Illinois Jacquet Quintet - Illinois Blows The Blues (Aladdin 3001)
- Bob Merrill - You Took My Woman (3002)
- Jimmy Baby Face Lewis - Lonesome Road (3003)
- Jimmy Baby Face Lewis - Josephine (3004)
- Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman (3005)
- Coleman Hawkins - Bean-A Re-Bop (3006)
- Crown Prince Waterford - Washboard Blues (3009)
- Illinois Jacket - Goofin' Off (3011)
- Gene Ammons - Blowin' Red's Top (3012)
- Big Joe Turner - Low Down Dog (3013)
- Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie (3014)
- Lightnin' Hopkins - Picture On The Wall (3015)
- The Four Rockets - Loch Lomond (3017)
- Amos Milburn - Bewildered (3018)
- Charles Brown - Get Yourself Another Fool (3020)
- Amos Milburn - Hold Me Baby (3023)
- Jay McShann - Cover Up (3025)
- Saunders King - Little Girl (3027)
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Lester Young - East of the Sun-West of the Moon (Aladdin 3000)
- Lester Young - The Sheik of Araby (3000)
- Coleman Hawkins - The Way You Look Tonight (3006)
- Illinois Jacket - It's Wild (3011)
- Gene Ammons - Concentration (3012)