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King recordings on cassette
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters: 20 Original Greatest Hits Highlights: "Work with Me Annie" -- "Annie Had a Baby" -- "Annie's Aunt Fannie" -- "It's Love Baby" -- "The Hoochie Coochie Coo" -- "The Float" -- "Kansas City" Notes: Includes five songs from The King R&B Box Set; curiously enough, the group's original 1954 Federal ten-inch release, Their Greatest Hits, is valued today between
$10,000-$20,000. (Highland
Music)
Tiny Bradshaw: The Great Composer Highlights: "Heavy Juice" -- "Cat Fruit" -- "Ping Pong" -- "Powder Puff" -- "Soft" -- "Stack of Dollars" -- "Free for All" -- "Off and On" -- "Well Oh Well" -- "South of the Orient" -- "The Train Kept A'Rollin'" Notes: "He wrote and played them all" (cover); re-issue of King album KL5-653.
Original vinyl album valued between $200-$400.
(Highland Music)
Roy Brown: Greatest Hits Highlights: "Good Rockin' Tonight" -- "Long About Midnight" -- "Miss Fanny Brown" -- "Rockin' at Midnight" -- "Boogie at Midnight" -- "Old Age Boogie" Notes: "Original King master recordings - Recorded at King recording studios";
includes all three songs from The King R&B Box Set.
(Highland Music)
Eddie Davis: Modern Jazz Highlights: "Leaping on Lenox" -- "I'll Remember April" -- "Moonlight in Vermont" -- "The Way You Look Tonight" -- "You Go To My Head" -- "Dizzy Atmosphere" -- "Bean-o" -- "Johnny Come Lately" -- "It's the Talk of the Town" -- "Tenderly"
Notes: Re-issue of King album KL5-506.
(Highland Music)
Wynonie Harris: Good Rockin' Blues Highlights: "Good Rockin' Tonight" -- "Rose, Get Your Clothes" -- "Adam Come Get Your Rib" -- "Rot Gut" -- "Quiet Whiskey" -- "Tremblin'" -- "Mr. Dollar" -- "Wynonie's Boogie"
Notes: Includes five songs from
The
King R&B Box Set.
(Gusto)
Ivory Joe Hunter: Ivory Joe Hunter Sings 16 of His Greatest Hits Highlights: "Jealous Heart" -- "Don't Fall in Love with Me" -- "The Code Song" -- "Too Late" -- "I Have No Reason to Complain" -- "No Money, No Luck Blues" -- "I Like It" Notes: Tape jacket features photo of original King album KL5-605 (whose present value is
estimated to be $200-$400); includes both songs from The King R&B
Box Set.
Bull Moose Jackson: I Want a Bowlegged Woman - Greatest Hits Highlights: "I Love You, Yes I Do" -- "Little Girl, Don't Cry" -- "Don't Ask Me Why" -- "I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya" -- "Big Mamas Are Back in Style Again" Notes: "Original King master recordings" - "Recorded at King recording studios"; Mr. Jackson's 1959 release, Bull Moose Jackson (on the Audio Lab label) is valued
today between $400-$800. (Highland
Music)
Little Willie John: 15 Hits Highlights: "A Cottage for Sale" -- "Now You Know" -- "Walk Slow" -- "You're a Sweetheart" -- "The Very First Thought of You" -- "I've Got Spring Fever" -- "Fever" Notes: Tape jacket features photo of original King album cover; includes all four songs
from The King R&B Box Set - "All 15 of His Chart Hits"
(Gusto)
Bubber Johnson: Come Home Highlights: "Keep a Light in the Window for Me" -- "Have Little Faith in Me" -- "Come Home" -- "I Lost Track of Everything" -- "Too Many Hearts" -- "The Whispers" -- "A Crazy Afternoon" -- Muddy Water" -- "My One Desire" -- The Search" Notes: Re-issue of King album KL5-569; Mr. Johnson's original 1957 King release is valued
today between $100-$250. (Highland
Music)
Steve Lawrence: Steve Lawrence Highlights: "Mine and Mine Alone" -- "I Need" -- "My Shawl" -- "Never Leave Me" -- "Tango of Roses (Love Me)" -- "King for a Day" -- "Say It Isn't True" -- Tomorrow" -- "This Night (Madalena)" -- "Poinciana" -- "With Every Breath I Take"
Notes:
Re-issue of King album KL5-593.
(Highland Music)
The Platters: 19 Original Greatest Hits Highlights: "Beer Barrel Boogie" -- "Voo Vee Ah Bee" -- "Oochi Pachi" -- "Humble Bumble Bee" -- "Shake It Up Mambo" -- "Tell the World" -- "Take Me Back" -- "Give Thanks" -- "Hey Now" -- "Don't Tickle" -- "My Name Ain't Annie" -- "Roses of Picardy" Notes: "King collector's item"; Their original debut album on Federal, The Platters, is valued
today between $1,000-$2,500. (Gusto)
Don Reno & Red Smiley: Emotions Highlights: "Emotions" -- "Let's Live for Tonight" -- Your Tears Are Just Interest on the Loan" -- "Chinese Breakdown" -- "Green Mountain Hop" -- "If It Takes Me a Lifetime" Notes: This is a Starday-King re-issue - a tricky issue for us younger scholars (generally speaking) when verifying whether the recording was originally released on King, whose music catalog was sold in 1968 to ... Starday, a Nashville-based label with a
strong country catalog of its own.
(Starday-King)
Billy Ward & the Dominoes: 14 Original Greatest Hits Highlights: "Sixty Minute Man" -- "Can't Do Sixty No More" -- "These Foolish Things" -- "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" -- "Ringing in a Brand New Year" -- "Have Mercy Baby" -- "Rags to Riches" -- "The Bells" -- "Oh Holy Night" Notes: "King collector's item"; The group's original 1955 ten-inch release on Federal,
Billy Ward & His Dominoes, is valued today between $15,000-$25,000.
(Gusto)
Various Artists: Shagger's Delight: Twenty Rhythm and Blues Classics Highlights: Includes such classic Kings cuts as "Pedal Pushing Papa," "Can't Do Sixty No More," "Learning the Blues" & "Give Me You" (The Dominoes); "White Cliffs of Dover" & "Over the Rainbow" (The Checkers); "Night and Day," "I Hear a Rhapsody" & "Flamingo" (Earl Bostic); "Monkey Hips and Rice" & "Think" (The '5' Royales); "Honky Tonk" (Bill Doggett); "Six to Eight," "Whiskey, Women, and Loaded Dice" & "Jungle Juice" (Sticks McGhee); "It Won't Be This Way Always" (The King Pins); <and> "Good Rockin' Tonight" (Wynonie Harris).
Notes: Ripete Records' tiny catalog does
include, incidentally enough, other 'shagger' volumes.
Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Christmas Highlights: "Christmas Tears" & "I Hear Jingle Bells" (Freddy King); "Christmas Tree for Nobody But Me" & "Santa Claus Is Coming" (Hank Balllard with + without his Midnighters); "Christmas in Heaven" (Billy Ward & the Dominoes); "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" (Mabel Scott); "Christmas with No One to Love" (Charles Brown); "Joy to the World" (Bill Doggett); and "Adeste Fidelis" (The King Karollers). Notes: This collection was once purchased at a truckstop in Ukiah, California just down the
street from the Discovery Inn and its sculpted redwood theme park.
(Hollywood/Highland)
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