"'Round About Midnight" by the Thelonious Monk Quintet
Thelonious Monk worked to convince his record label Riverside to sign Johnny Griffin but lost out to the sentinels of modern jazz, Blue Note Records (Monk's own first label.) One of the pioneers of bebop, Thelonious Monk started recording as a bandleader in 1947 and releasing several singles that Blue Note Records eventually compiled into his 1951 debut album Genius of Modern Music.
Here is the discography surrounding Thelonious Monk's debut album:
Evonce (1948 single with his Sextet and Trio)
In Walked Bud (1948 single with his Quintet and Quartet)
'Round About Midnight (1948 single with his Quintet and Trio)
Thelonious (1948 single with his Sextet)
Who Knows (1948 single with his Quintet)
Humph (1949 single with his Sextet and Quartet)
Ruby My Dear (1949 single with his Trio and Quartet)
April in Paris (1950 single with his Trio)
Genius of Modern Music
Genius of Modern Music, Volume 1 (1956 expanded album re-release)
Alongside several dozen singles, Parrot Records managed to release only one LP (that would be Ahmad Jamal Plays) before folding. They sold their master tapes to the Chess label which then re-released Jamal's record as the more portentous Chamber Music of the New Jazz. Parrot recorded a couple more albums by other rookie bandleaders but never managed to release them: tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin was one of those rookies. He eventually saw his debut leading on wax with Blue Note's Introducing Johnny Griffin in 1957.
Here is the discography surrounding Johnny Griffin's debut album:
Erroll Garner brings us away from the Boston jazz scene to the Pittsburgh jazz incubator. Where Garner attended George Westinghouse High School so, eventually, did fellow pianist Ahmad Jamal. Ahmad Jamal started his recording career as one of "Three Strings" setting singles for OKeh Records. He then, still as one of a trio, released his debut album Ahmad Jamal Plays in 1955 on Parrot Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Ahmad Jamal's debut album:
A Gal in Calico (1952 single as Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings)
Perfidia (1952 single as Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings)
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (1952 single as Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings)
Will You Still Be Mine (1953 single as Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings)
Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings (1953 EP as Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings)
Seleritus (1954 single)
Excerpts from the Blues (1955 single)
Ahmad Jamal Plays
Chamber Music of the New Jazz (1956 album re-release)
"I Get a Kick Out of You" by Ahmad Jamal
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" by Ahmad Jamal's Three Strings
Jaki Byard's debut featured the song "Garnerin' a Bit," his own homage to jazz pianist Erroll Garner. Erroll Garner cut his first recordings at the apartment of Danish jazz promoter Timme Rosenkrantz. The Chronological Classics: Erroll Garner 1944 collects this first batch of recordings.
Here is the discography surrounding Erroll Garner's debut recordings:
It's still a Boston affair as we highlight Worcester native Jaki Byard who played piano in Charlie Mariano's Jazz Group and with Herb Pomeroy. After over a decade of playing around Boston, he moved to New York City. There, he played with and arranged for some of the most advanced jazz groups of the era and got the chance to lead his own sessions. His first LP Here's Jaki, which highlights his versatility and an approachable experimentation, released in 1961 on the New Jazz division of Prestige Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Jaki Byard's debut album:
Here's Jaki
"Bess You Is My Woman/It Ain't Necessarily So" by Jaki Byard
To find success in jazz, Herb Pomeroy never had to go far from his hometown of Gloucester. After giving up on studying dentistry at Harvard, he studied music at Schillinger House (future: Berklee,) played a short stint with Charlie Parker and set his horn to wax for the first time playing with fellow Schillinger schtudent Charlie Mariano (not in that order.) The album was also Mariano's first: Charlie Mariano with His Jazz Group released in 1950 on Imperial Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Charlie Mariano's debut album:
When it came time to record their album, Ill Wind caught the attention of Tom Wilson who had a lot of experience with the genres they were mixing (folk, jazz, rock) but lacked the strong hand they were looking to guide them through their studio inexperience.
Tom Wilson jumped into music production and publishing right out of college when he turned a loan into Transition Records, a record label dedicated to recording the players of the most "advanced jazz" of the day. (So in the mid-50s, that'd be bebop, hard bop and the beginnings of free jazz.) TRLP-1 went to Herb Pomeroy's Jazz in a Stable released in 1955.
Here is the discography surrounding Herb Pomeroy's debut album:
Ken Frankel was a veteran musician by the time he decided to attend MIT as a biophysics graduate student. He played rock and roll in high school then folk music with the likes of Jerry Garcia in Hart Valley Drifters. At MIT, he returned to rock music forming a band with fellow graduate student Carey Mann.
Over the course of the band's early life, they settled on a name and a style that echoed the mix of folk, jazz, garage rock and psychedelia brewed in San Francisco. Like the Bay bands, Ill Wind were skilled musicians and brought a different kind of psychedelia with their unique and dreamy amplifications. But their version of the San Francisco Sound lacked grit or much complexity, smoothed down to be shapeless and inoffensive and, as a result, forgettable. They released their only album Flashes in 1968 on ABC Records before departures led to Ill Wind's eventual abatement.
"...all sorts of people were in and out of there all the time, because they had heard about it, like the local beats—that term was still used—a bunch of kids from a pad called the Chateau, a wild-haired kid named Jerry Garcia and the Cadaverous Cowboy, Page Browning." — excerpt from Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Despite attracting a number of curious cats while at Perry Lane, Ken Kesey and his early entourage turned away a number of seekers that didn't mesh including the likes of Jerry Garcia. Jerry and his future band would, ironically, go on to become the electric sound of the Acid Tests, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco and the hippie movement but before The Beatles touched down in America, Jerry Garcia was a banjo-playing folkie.
In the early sixties, Jerry Garcia was ever-present on the Bay Area's radio stations playing live folk music—seemingly, every time with new accompaniment and a new band name. From the start, Jerry is personable with his bandmates and the audience with a knack for bringing everyone in the room together. He is also largely irreverent towards the folk music he plays. He respects the songs but warmly mocks the history and songwriters from which he learned them and, in doing so, pleasantly mocks himself. Folk is nothing to take too seriously because, to Jerry Garcia at least, they are more of a vehicle for his pursuit of chops. Jerry never recorded an album with these early folk groups but many transcriptions of his radio performances do survive. The album Folk Time consisting of a 1962 performance with the Hart Valley Drifters is our anchoring tour stop today. It is warm, off-the-cuff, mistake-riddled and filled with some mighty fine playing... an experience that Jerry Garcia would eventually master.
Note: Again, 1962 is not the year the album was released but the year the session was recorded.
Here is the Hart Valley Drifters discography:
Folk Time
Before the Dead (compilation album by Jerry Garcia and friends)
"Salt Creek" by Black Mountain Boys
"Deep Elem Blues" by Jerry Garcia and Sara Garcia
"Legend of the Johnson Boys" by Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers
"One Way Ticket (A Classic)" by Ken Kesey & The Merry Pranksters
"At last Kesey returns with the last to be rescued, Mary Microgram, looking like a countryside after a long and fierce war, and Kesey says let's haul ass out of here." -- excerpt from Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Before Denise Kaufman was an Ace of Cup, she was Merry Prankster Mary Microgram read above having survived a Beatles concert. The Merry Pranksters were not a musical group but were rather a mix of post-Beat and proto-hippie disciples, followers, hangers-on of author Ken Kesey, a best-selling author who had turned his back on the literary world to spread the gospel of the casual use of mind-expanding drugs (mostly LSD) and, more generally, a greater freedom. After a criss-cross of the United States by The Merry Pranksters in the DayGlo painted school bus Furthur, the Pranksters put on happenings known as Acid Tests where communal drug-taking was supplemented with light shows, live music, film projections and any other component of a multimedia event.
The Merry Pranksters were self-sufficient amateurs. They were their own mechanics, sound engineers, event organizers, publicists, publishers, printers, artists, navigators, musicians, circus performers, drug-takers, trip guides, nurses, fugitives, cinematographers, zealots, drivers, recruiters and doom spellers. Their amateurism was the point (Kesey referred to himself as the "non-navigator") and their naivete had a regional influence on art, music, film, sexual mores, drug taking and concert-going of the late-sixties and a national influence on the greater story of 60s America. Kesey released The Acid Test in 1966 on the single-use Sound City label. The (non-)record chronicles The Sound City Acid Test and the kind of atmospheric sound collages, feedback, "music", monologues and raps that would characterize a Prankster event as the collective pursued the ultimate LSD experience.
Here is Ken Kesey (and The Merry Pranksters's) discography:
Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Ace of Cups were both managed by Ambrose Hollingsworth with Ron Polte taking over after a car crash turned Hollingsworth paraplegic. The five-woman band played amongst the giants of the San Francisco acid scene but never got to expand their reputation outside of it. The record labels and their manager could never swing the Cups a worthwhile record deal and touring outside of the Bay area was a non-starter for young women with filial obligations.
So, the Ace of Cups never released an album or even a single (in their first incarnation, anyway) and all the testament of their sixties sound can be found in the compilation album It's Bad for You But Buy It! released by Big Beat Records (with 1968 being the year the last recording on the record was set.) The album is a grab bag of potential never refined. At their best, they find a mix of genres (R&B girl groups, gospel, acid rock,...) that suit their skills and voices, but the surviving evidence on the albums has them repeating winning formulas too often and not quite finding other signs of sleeping hits or dizzying jams. With the compilation album alone not enough to make their case for lost gems, the Ace of Cups's sixties reputations remains with those who witnessed them... like Jimi Hendrix who touted their guitarist (Mary Ellen Simpson) as "hell, really great."
Noted: Included in the discography is a recording by future-Cup Denise Kaufman with her high school band.
Here is the discography surrounding Ace of Cups's debut compilation album:
Boy, What'll You Do Then (1966 single by Denise and Co.)
Girls in the Garage (compilation song by Denise and Co.)
"It's Been Too Long" by Quicksilver Messenger Service
When Jefferson Airplane was in need of a drummer, they recruited Skip Spence, a guitarist from the early lineup of Quicksilver Messenger Service, a band that rehearsed at Marty Balin's Matrix Club. (Another source says Spence was actually a member of the garage rock band The Other Side when called over to Airplane, but we'll stick with Quicksilver.)
Quicksilver Messenger Service formed haphazardly around misfits and jailbirds (for marijuana possession) into a psychedelic jam blues band. Their brand of blues excelled when their extended jams sought to push the genre into a more psychedelic or hard blues direction, though they could just as easily lack in cleverness or inspiration within the same song. Quicksilver's worst quality was that they lost all sense of the blues whenever either David Friedman or Gary Duncan started to sing, and their pop song craft was too weak to stand on its own in a jam session setting.
But I'm not being fair to the band because their debut LP Quicksilver Messenger Service (released in 1968 on Capitol Records) is actually very good. The record does away with Quicksilver's reliance on the Blues in their live sets and focuses on a more contemporary pop sound anchored in the dueling guitars of John Cipollina and Gary Duncan, and it's a wonder what actually hitting your harmonies can do to help a song along.
But the album doesn't capture what Quicksilver's sound was trying to achieve in the live setting, a "new sound" sourced from jazz, folk and blues that, at this early stage of the band's lifespan, was only just an insoluble mix of blues and psychedelic pop with both components stronger apart than stirred together.
Also included on this tour stop is the garage rock band in which Gary Duncan and Greg Elmore started their recording career: The Brogues.
Here is the discography surrounding Quicksilver Messenger Service's debut album:
But Now I Find (1965 single by The Brogues)
Don't Shoot Me Down (1965 single by The Brogues)
Live in San Jose - September 1966 (live album)
Live at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 9th September 1966 (live album)
Live at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 28th October 1966 (live album)
Fillmore Auditorium - November 5, 1966 (live album)
Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, 4th February 1967 - Early Show (live album)
Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, 4th February 1967 - Late Show (live album)
Fillmore Auditorium - February 5, 1967 Live (live album)
Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, 6th February 1967 (live album)
Live at the Winterland Ballroom - New Year's Eve 1967 (live album)
Live at The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, San Francisco, 4th April 1968 (live album)
Live at the Fillmore, June 7, 1968 (live album)
Revolution (1968 soundtrack album)
Dino's Song (1968 single)
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Stand by Me (1968 single)
Smokin' Sound (1968 live album)
The Hush Records Story (compilation album featuring The Brogues)
Unreleased Quicksilver Messenger Service: Lost Gold and Silver (compilation album)
"Dino's Song (Live at the Monterey Pop Festival)" by Quicksilver Messenger Service
"Acapulco Gold and Silver (Live at The Fillmore)" by Quicksilver Messenger Service
Jorma Kaukonen's nickname "Blind Thomas Jefferson Airplane" (which sounds more like a short-lived inside joke) was given to him by a friend after one of his influences Blind Lemon Jefferson. Jorma proposed the shortened Jefferson Airplane as a silly idea for a band name which then seriously became the band's name.
When the band released their debut album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off (in 1966 on the RCA Victor label), they were a tight musical group with folk-inspired harmonies and a killer bass player in Jack Casady. The band's songwriting wasn't yet a match for their musical talent and the album came too early in LP history to highlight their exciting, extended jam sessions.
Included in this entry is Marty Balin's first folk group, The Town Criers.
Here is the discography surrounding Jefferson Airplane's debut album:
Live in San Francisco (1964 live recording by The Town Criers)
It's No Secret (1966 single)
Come Up the Years (1966 single)
Bringing Me Down (1966 single)
Jefferson Airplane Take Off
Signe's Farewell (1966 live album)
"It's No Secret" by Jefferson Airplane
"And I Like It (alternate version)" by Jefferson Airplane
A formative event in the life of Lightnin' Hopkins was his fateful meeting, at the age of eight, with Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church function in 1920. Blind Lemon Jefferson carved out the definition of Texas Blues with his improvisational, fast-paced guitar picking. His first compilation album, The Folk Blues of Blind Lemon Jefferson, came out in 1955 on London Records long after he passed away (in 1929.)
Here is the discography surrounding Blind Lemon Jefferson's "debut" album:
Booster Blues (1926 single)
Long Lonesome Blues (1926 single)
Long Lonesome Blues (1926 single)
Black Horse Blues (1926 single)
Jack O Diamond Blues (1926 single)
All I Want Is That Pure Religion (1926 single as Deacon L. J. Bates)
Old Rounders Blues (1926 single)
That Black Snake Moan (1926 single)
Wartime Blues (1927 single)
Bad Luck Blues (1927 single)
Rabbit Foot Blues (1927 single)
Black Snake Moan (1927 single)
Match Box Blues (1927 single)
Rising High Water Blues (1927 single)
Hot Dogs (1927 single)
Black Snake Dream Blues (1927 single)
Rambler Blues (1927 single)
Chinch Bug Blues (1927 single)
Gone Dead on You Blues (1927 single)
Where Shall I Be (1928 single as Deacon L. J. Bates)
Sunshine Special (1928 single)
'Lectric Chair Blues (1928 single)
Lemon's Worried Blues (1928 single)
Balky Mule Blues (1928 single)
Lemon's Cannon Ball Moan (1928 single)
Piney Woods Money Mama (1928 single)
Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues (1928 single)
Lockstep Blues (1928 single)
How Long How Long (1928 single)
Christmas Eve Blues (1928 single)
D B Blues (1929 single)
Competition Bed Blues (1929 single)
Eagle Eyed Mama (1929 single)
That Black Snake Moan No. 2 (1929 single)
Oil Well Blues (1929 single)
Peach Orchard Mama (1929 single)
Bakershop Blues (1929 single)
Bed Springs Blues (1929 single)
Pneumonia Blues (1929 single)
Hometown Skiffle (1930 single by The Paramount All Stars)
Southern Woman Blues (1930 single)
Cat Man Blues (1930 single)
The Cheaters Spell (1930 single)
Bootin' Me 'Bout (1930 single)
The Folk Blues of Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues and Other Folk Songs by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1955 compilation album)
Blind Lemon Jefferson Sings the Blues (1957 compilation album)
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 1 (compilation album)
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 2 (compilation album)
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 3 (compilation album)
Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 4 (compilation album)
"That Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Corinna Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Shuckin' Sugar Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Easy Rider Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Hot Dogs" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"D B Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart" by Deacon L. J. Bates
Smokey Hogg was reputed to be the cousin of fellow Blues musician Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins though there seems to be no proof of it.
Lightnin' Hopkins and his guitar cut some of the alchemical records where you hear the undefinable transition from blues to rock. He released his debut album Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues (actually a compilation album of his Aladdin Records stuff) in 1958.
Also included: the small output of his early partner Wilson "Thunder" Smith.
Here is the discography surrounding Lightnin' Hopkins's debut album:
Freddie Mae Blues (1946 single by Wilson Smith)
Can't Do Like You Used To (1947 single by Thunder Smith)
Can't Do Like You Used To (1947 single by Lightnin' Hopkins and Thunder Smith)
L. A. Blues (1947 single by Thunder Smith)
Katie Mae Blues (1947 single)
I Feel So Bad (1947 single)
Short Haired Woman (1947 single)
Short-Haired Woman (1947 single)
Fast-Mail Rambler (1947 single)
Down Now Baby (1947 single)
Cruel-Hearted Woman (1947 single by Thunder Smith)
Santa Fe Blues (1947 single by Thunder Smith)
Picture on the Wall (1948 single)
Nightmare Blues (1948 single)
You're Not Going to Worry My Life Anymore (1948 single)
Thunder's Unfinished Boogie (1948 single by Thunder Smith)
New Worried Life Blues (1948 single by Thunder Smith)
Low Down Dirty Ways (1948 single by Thunder Smith)
Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues
The Chronological Classics: Lightnin' Hopkins 1946-1948 (compilation album)
The Chronological Classics: Lightnin' Hopkins 1948 (compilation album)
The Complete Aladdin Recordings (compilation album)
"Katie Mae Blues" by Lightnin' Hopkins
"You Are Not Going to Worry My Life Anymore" by Lightnin' Hopkins
"L. A. Blues" by Thunder Smith
"Fast-Mail Rambler" by Lightnin' Hopkins
"Let Me Play with Your Poodle" by Lightnin' Hopkins
In his youth, Black Ace toured and played with fellow Texas blues guitarist Smokey Hogg. Unlike Turner, Hogg met musical success after World War II where he saw consistent recording output up until his death in 1960. His debut record Smokey Hogg Sings the Blues came out posthumously in 1961 on Crown Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Smokey Hogg's debut album:
Kind Hearted Blues (1937 single as Andrew Hogg)
To Many Drivers (1947 single)
Unemployment Blues (1947 single)
Hard Times (1947 single as Smoky Hogg)
Anytime Is the Right Time (1948 single)
Long Tall Mama (1948 single)
Jivin' Little Woman (1948 single)
Golden Diamond Blues (1948 single)
Be My So and So (1948 single)
My Christmas Baby (1948 single)
I'm Gonna Find Your Trick (1949 single)
Little School Girl (1949 single)
Nobody Treats Me Right (1949 single)
Evil Mind Blues (1949 single)
I Want My Baby for Christmas (1949 single)
Low Down Woman Blues (1949 single)
He Knows How Much We Can Bear (1949 single as Andrew Hogg)
Restless Bed Blues (1949 single)
You Better Watch That Jive (1950 single)
Everybody Gotta Racket (1950 single)
You Gotta Go (1950 single as Smoky Hogg)
Baby, Baby (1950 single as Smoky Hogg)
Worried Blues (1950 single)
The Way You Treat Me (1950 single)
Classification Blues (1950 single)
Let's Get Together and Drink Some Gin (1950 single)
One of Oscar Woods's acolytes was the young BK Turner, or Black Ace, who like Woods (The Lone Wolf) earned his nickname from his most famous song. Black Ace recorded even fewer records than Woods but had the benefit of being rediscovered in the early sixties when he recorded his only album BK Turner and His Steel Guitar for Arhoolie Records.
Here is the discography for Black Ace:
Black Ace (1937 single)
You Gonna Need My Help Some Day (1937 single)
Christmas Time Blues (Beggin' Santa Claus) (1937 single)
BK Turner and His Steel Guitar
I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand (compilation album)
Early in his music career, Jimmie Davis played Blues tunes and often collaborated with or was accompanied by black musicians. One such collaborator was guitarist Oscar Woods — sometimes known as Buddy Woods. His recording career was inconsistent with only a handful of session work, a few singles and nary an album. Document Records put out compilation album of his work Oscar "Buddy" Woods: The Lone Wolf 1930-1938.
Note: As usual, the compilation album is marked in the title, not by year of release, but by year of the last recording on said album.
Here is the discography for Oscar Woods:
Fence Breakin' Blues (1930 single by Shreveport Home Wreckers)
Flying Crow Blues (1932 single by Eddie and Oscar)
Lone Wolf Blues (1936 single as Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf))
Evil Hearted Woman Blues (1936 single as Oscar Woods (The Lone Wolf))
Swingology (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
Muscat Hill Blues (1937 single as Buddy Woods with The Wampus Cats)
I Can't Dance (Got Ants in My Pants) (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
You're Standing on the Outside Now (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
My Baby's Ways (1937 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
Baton Rouge Rag (1937 unissued single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
Jam Session Blues (1937 single as Buddy Woods)
Doing the Dooga (1938 single by Kitty Gray and Her Wampus Cats)
Low Life Blues (1938 single as Buddy Woods)
Oscar "Buddy" Woods: The Lone Wolf 1930-1938
Jerry's Saloon Blues (1940 Library of Congress Recordings)
"Jam Session Blues" by Buddy Woods
"Fence Breakin' Blues" by Shreveport Home Wreckers
Leon Chappelear and the Shelton Brothers broke up after only a couple of years due to creative differences. The Sheltons ended up performing with Jimmie Davis for a time in his backing band. Jimmie Davis started recording in 1928 and released his "debut album" Souvenir Album in 1947 on Decca Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Jimmie Davis's debut album:
Ramona (1928 single)
You'd Rather Forget Than Forgive (1928 single)
The Barroom Message (1929 single)
Out of Town Blues (1930 single)
Doggone That Train (1930 single)
My Louisiana Girl (1930 single)
Settling Down for Life (1930 single)
Arabella Blues (1931 single)
In Arkansas (1931 single)
Penitentiary Blues (1931 single)
I'll Be Happy Today (1931 single)
There's Evil in Ye Children, Gather 'round (1931 single)
She Left a Runnin' Like a Sewing Machine (1931 single)
Midnight Blues (1931 single)
Get on Board, Aunt Susan (1931 single)
Down at the Old Country Church (1932 single)
My Arkansas Sweetheart (1932 single)
Red Nightgown Blues (1932 single)
I'll Get Mine Bye and Bye (1932 single)
1982 Blues (Davis' Last Day Blues) (1932 single)
High Behind Blues (1932 single)
Cowboy's Home Sweet Home (1932 single)
You Can't Tell About the Women Nowadays (1932 single)
Home in Caroline (1932 single)
Tom Cat and Pussy Blues (1933 single)
Gambler's Return (1933 single)
Yo Yo Mama (1933 single)
The Keyhole in the Door (1933 single)
When It's Round-Up Time in Heaven (1933 single)
Would You (1934 single)
Beautiful Texas (1934 single)
You've Been Tom Cattin' Around (1934 single)
There Ain't Gonna Be No Afterwhile (1934 single)
Triflin' Mama Blues (1934 single)
It's Been Years (Since I've Seen My Mother) (1934 single)
Good Time Papa Blues (1934 single)
Jellyroll Blues (1935 single)
When It's Round-Up Time in Heaven (1935 single)
Moonlight and Skies (No. 2) (1935 single)
Are You Tired of Me Darling? (1935 single with Buddy Jones)
The Answer to Nobody's Darling But Mine (1936 single)
Bed Bug Blues (1936 single)
In My Cabin Tonight (1936 single)
'Twill Be Sweet When We Meet (1936 single with Buddy Jones)
My Blue Bonnet Girl (1936 single)
Come on Over to My House (Ain't Nobody Home But Me) (1936 single)
Don't Say Goodbye If You Love Me (1936 single)
The Greatest Mistake of My Life (1937 single)
That's Why I'm Nobody's Darling (1937 single)
High Geared Daddy (1937 single)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1937 single)
Pi-Rootin' Around (1937 single)
Honky Tonk Blues (1937 single)
Just Forgive and Forget (1937 single)
Jimmie's Travelin' Blues (1937 single)
Sweet Lorene (1937 single)
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine (1937 single)
There's a Gold Mine in the Sky (1938 single)
By the Grave of Nobody's Darling (My Darling's Promise) (1938 single)
Shackles and Chains (1938 single)
Goodbye Old Booze (1938 single)
Call Me Back Pal O' Mine (1938 single)
Just a Girl That Men Forget (1938 single)
There's a Ranch in the Rockies (1938 single)
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (1938 single)
It Makes No Difference Now (1938 single)
You Tell Me Your Dream I'll Tell You Mine (1938 single)
I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland (1939 single)
What Good Will It Do (1939 single)
Memories (1939 single)
I've Tried So Hard to Forget You (1939 single)
Down at the End of Memory Lane (1939 single)
In My Heart You'll Always Be Mine (1939 single)
The Last Letter (1939 single)
Leanin' on the Old Top Rail (1939 single)
Two More Years (And I'll Be Free) (1939 single)
Why Do You Treat Me Like the Dirt Under Your Feet (1939 single)
Why Should I Care (1939 single)
What Else Can I Do (1940 single)
Your Promise Was Broken (1940 single)
You Are My Sunshine (1940 single)
Baby Your Mother (Like She Babied You) (1940 single)
There's a Chill on the Hill Tonight (1940 single)
Why Should I Be to Blame (1940 single)
I Feel the Same as You (1940 single)
I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In (1940 single)
You're My Darling (1940 single)
On the Sunny Side of the Rockies (1940 single)
I'm Sorry Now (1941 single)
Too Late (1941 single)
I'll Be True to the One I Love (1941 single)
The Prisoner's Song (1941 single)
I Hung My Head and Cried (1941 single)
Pay Me No Mind (1941 single)
Won't You Forgive Me? (1941 single)
Sweetheart of the Valley (1941 single)
Tears on My Pillow (1942 single)
You'll Be Sorry (1942 single)
The End of the World (1942 single)
Live and Let Live (1942 single)
Don't You Cry Over Me (1942 single)
Plant Some Flowers by My Grave (1942 single)
A Sinner's Prayer (1942 single)
Walkin' My Way Blues (1943 single)
Is It Too Late Now (1944 single)
There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder (1944 single)
No Good for Nothin' (1944 single)
Grievin' My Heart Out for You (1945 single)
Wave to Me, My Lady (1946 single)
Bang Bang (1946 single)
I Just Dropped In to Say Goodbye (1947 single)
I'm Only in the Way (1947 single)
Souvenir Album
Golden Curls (1948 single)
Rockin' Blues (compilation album)
Barnyard Stomp (compilation album)
The Jimmie Davis Collection 1929-47 (compilation album)
"You Won't Be Satisfied That Way" by Jimmie Davis
"Out of Town Blues" by Jimmie Davis
"My Louisiana Girl" by Jimmie Davis
"The Davis Limited" by Jimmie Davis
"Nobody's Darlin' But Mine" by Jimmie Davis
"'Twill Be Sweet When We Meet" by Jimmie Davis and Buddy Jones
Bob and Joe Shelton joined up with Leon Chappelear in 1929 to form their first band, the Lone Star Cowboys. Creative differences split the friends and the Lone Star Cowboys became Leon's. Another group without an album to its name, the blog stops at the compilation Recorded 1932-1937 released by the British Archive of Country Music.
Note: As usual, the year associated with the album is not the year of release but the year the latest released recording on the compilation.
Here is the discography for Leon's Lone Star Cowboys:
Little Joe the Wrangler (1932 single by Leon Chappelear (The Lone Star Cowboy))
Trifling Mama Blues (1933 single by Leon Chappelear)
Deep Elm Blues (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)
Will There Be Cowboys in Heaven (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)
Tumble Down Shack in My Dreams (1934 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)
Dillinger's Warning (1934 single)
Mistreated Blues (1935 single)
Sweet Sue (1935 single)
Four or Five Times (1935 single)
Bugle Call Rag (1935 single)
Crawdad Song (1935 single as the Lone Star Cowboys)
Dinah (1936 single)
White River Stomp (1936 single)
Just Forget (1936 single)
No Mama Blues (1936 single)
31st Street Blues (1936 single)
I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again (1936 single)
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1936 single)
My Gal Sal (1936 single)
Trouble in Mind (1937 single)
Who Walks In When I Walk Out (1937 single)
Angry (1937 single)
Wild Cat Mama (The Answer to Do Right Papa) (1937 single)
Travelin' Blues (1937 single)
Mistreated Blues (1937 single)
I'm Serving Days (1937 single)
New Do Right Daddy (1938 single)
You're a Million Miles from Nowhere (1938 single)
My Mother's Rosary (Ten Baby Fingers and Ten Baby Toes) (1938 single)
Goin' Up to Dallas (1938 single)
Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia (1938 single)
Recorded 1932-1937
Toodle-Oo Sweet Mama (1939 single)
Ben Wheeler Stomp (1941 single)
Original Recordings, 1932-1937 (compilation album)
"'Neath the Maple in the Lane" by Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)
Although the Shelton Brothers started as a soft-spoken country duo, shifting tastes necessitated a shift to a fuller country swing sound. The change from one to the other was gradual and meant taking on additional band members. Their backing band became known as The Sunshine Boys (a name Bob and Joe Shelton once used for themselves). Shelton Brothers never released an album of their own so we're once again stopping at a compilation album: Down on the Farm from the Cattle Compact label.
Note: The year 1941 was when the latest song on the record was released and not the year the compilation album came out.
Here is the discography for the Shelton Brothers:
Beautiful Louisiana (1935 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Stay in the Wagon Yard (1935 single by Joe Shelton)
Deep Elem Blues (1935 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Just Because (1935 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
A Message from Home Sweet Home (1935 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Sal Let Me Chew Your Rosin Some (1935 single by Joe Shelton and Curley Fox)
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes (1935 single by Joe Shelton and Curley Fox)
Nothin' (1935 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Answer to Just Because (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
New John Henry Blues (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Match Box Blues (1936 single by Joe Shelton)
'Leven Miles from Leavenworth (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'm Sitting on Top of the World (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Deep Elem Blues No. 2 (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
The Black Sheep (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Lover's Farewell (1936 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
New Trouble in Mind Blues (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
The Story of Seven Roses (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Just Because No. 3 (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
She Was Happy Till She Met You (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Goodness Gracious Gracie (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Cinda Lou (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Deep Elem Blues No. 3 (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Answer to Blue Eyes (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Uncle Eph's Got the Coon (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
That Golden Love (My Mother Gave to Me) (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'm Gonna Fix Your Wagon (1937 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Blue Kimono Blues (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I Told Them All About You (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
By the Stump of the Old Pine Tree (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
When You Think a Lot About Somebody (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
As Long as I Have You (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Down on the Farm (They All Ask for You) (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'm Gonna Let the Bumble Bee Be (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You're Standing on the Outside Now (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
The Old Mill's Tumbling Down (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You Can't Put That Monkey on My Back (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Wednesday Night Waltz (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
On the Owl-Hoot Trail (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Knot Hole Blues (1938 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
My Girl Friend Doesn't Like Me Anymore (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'm Savin' Saturday Night for You (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You Can't Put That Monkey on My Back, No. 2 (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I Just Don't Care Anymore (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
That's No Way to Treat the Man You Love (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You Can't Do That to Me (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
She's My Gal (Right or Wrong) (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
That's Why I'm Jealous of You (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
(Aye Aye) On Mexico's Beautiful Shore (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Hallelujah I'm Gonna Be Free Again (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You Can't Fool a Fool All the Time (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
My Grandfather's Clock (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Lay Your Hand in Mine (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
No Matter What They Say (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I Have My Bed (1939 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
If You Don't Like My Peaches (Leave My Tree Alone) (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Don't Leave Me All Alone (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Ain't No Use to Worry Anymore (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
You Can't Get Me Back When I'm Gone (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Coo See Coo (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'll Be Seein' You in Dallas, Alice (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Tell Me with Your Blue Eyes (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
It's Hard to Love and Not Be Loved (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
What's the Matter with Deep Elem (1940 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Ida Red (1941 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Who's Gonna Cut My Baby's Kindling (1941 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Love Me Easy (Or Leave Me Alone) (1941 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I Just Can't Go (1941 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Down on the Farm
I'll Never Get Drunk Anymore (1942 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I'm Driftin' and Shiftin' My Gears (1942 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
I Just Dropped In to Say Goodbye (1943 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Beautiful Brown Eyes (1943 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
Johnson's Old Grey Mule (1947 single)
Deep Elm Boogie Woogie Blues (1947 single)
These Shoes Are Killing Me (1948 single)
Oh Monah (1948 single)
When They Baptized Sister Lucy Lee (1949 single)
Cheatin' on Your Baby (1954 single)
MacDonald's Streamlined Farm (1954 single)
Because (Just Because) (1961 single as the Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe))
The Shelton Brothers/The Carlisle Brothers (compilation album)
Just Because (compilation album)
Those Dusty Roads (compilation album)
Rompin' & Stompin' Around (compilation album)
A Hillbilly and Western Swing Legend (compilation album)
Volume 2 Beautiful Louisiana (compilation album)
Volume 3 (compilation album)
"Just Because" by Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)
"Ida Red" by Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)
"Hang Out the Front Door Key" by Shelton Brothers (Bob and Joe)
