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The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 188

Decca releases, 1941/42

Every now and then I spell out the catalog of Decca's Race series and today's show leads us into America's involvement in the war - the records I play today, were released between November of 1941 and somewhere in the spring of '42. Soon, the discomforts of war would be part of the subjects of the blues, but most of today's playlist has been recorded before.

Transcript

Playlist

  1. Big Joe Turner - Chewed Up Grass (Decca 7868)
  2. Ruby Smith - Fruit Cakin' Mama (7869)
  3. Nora Lee King - Love Me (7870)
  4. Sweet Georgia Brown - These Low Down Men Blues (7871)
  5. Cabineers - Sweet Lousie (7873)
  6. Roosevelt Sykes - Prison Gate Blues(7874)
  7. Ruby Smith - Thinking Blues (7875)
  8. Blind Boy Fuller - Why Don't My Baby Write To Me (7877)
  9. Blind Boy Fuller - Bulldog Blues (7878)
  10. Peetie Wheatstraw - The Good Lawd's Children (7879)
  11. Sweet Georgia Brown - The Lowdown Lonely Blues (7880)
  12. Blind Boy Fuller - Weeping Willow (7881)
  13. Nora Lee King - Let Me Rock You Home (7883)
  14. Big Joe Turner - Cry Baby Blues (7885)
  15. Peetie Wheatstraw - Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living (7886)
  16. Sonny Boy Williamson - Shake It But Don't Break It (7888)
  17. Big Joe Turner - Sun Risin' Blues (7889)

Outtro:

  • Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
The following music served as background music during the spoken parts:
  • Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
  • Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams - Scratchin' in the Gravel
  • Lil Armstrong & her Dixielanders - Riffin' The Blues
  • Skeets Tolbert & His Gentlemen Of Swing - Jumpin' Jack
  • Tiny Parham - Moving Day