woensdag 25 juni 2014

Where Could I Go ? (1940) / Where Could I Go But To The Lord (1946)


"Where Could I Go?" is a song composed by James B Coats, first published in 1940 in the Stamps-Baxter songbook "Golden Key".


In 1944 it was published again in a Stamps-Baxter Songbook "Grateful Praise".





The Harmoneers Quartet were most likely the FIRST group to record the song:

(o) Harmoneers Quartet (1946)
(Charles Key: piano)
Recorded November 27, 1945 in Charlotte, NC
Matrix D5-AB-834-1
Released in 1946 on RCA Victor 20-1816





Listen here:  WHERE COULD I GO%21 - Harmoneers Quartet - J. B. Coates.mp3

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(c) Sister Ernestine B. Washington with Bunk Johnson's Jazz Band (1946)
Recorded January 1, 1946 in New York City.
Released on Disc 6039.


Ernestine Washington Acc. By Bunk Johnson And His New Orleans Band - Where Could I Go But To The Lord? / God's Amazing Grace (Shellac, 10", 78 RPM) | Discogs

Also released on Disc album #712


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Or here: Where Could I Go but to the Lord : Sister Ernestine B. Washington 



(c) Sister Marie Knight and The Sunset Four (1946)
Marie Knight , who had grown up in New Jersey, cut her first records just after WWII on Bob Thiele's New York based Haven label as Sister Marie Knight and The Sunset Four. She went on to have a total of thirteen records released on Haven and Signature, another of Thiele's imprints, as with The Sunset Four, Sister Marie Knight and Marie Knight , before teeming up with Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Released on Haven 502 in 1946  (as "Where Could I Go")


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Re-released in 1948 on Signature 32006  (as "Where Could I Go But To The Lord")





(c) Blackwood Brothers (1948)

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1213285

http://countrydiscography.blogspot.nl/2010/12/blackwood-brothers-part-i.html

"WHERE COULD I GO?" : BLACKWOOD BROS. QUARTET : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive


Listen here: WHERE COULD I GO%3F" - BLACKWOOD BROS. QUARTET.mp3




(c) Red Foley (1949)
(with the Jordanaires)
Recorded on November 8, 1949 in Nashville, TN
Released in 1951 on Decca 14573 as the B-side of "There'll Be Peace In The Valley For Me".


Red Foley - Peace In The Valley / Where Could I Go But To The Lord (Shellac) at Discogs

45cat - Red Foley - Peace In The Valley / Where Could I Go But To The Lord - Decca Faith Series - USA - 9-14573

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(o) All American Quartet (1949) (as "Where Could I Go But To The Lord")
(Lane Shaw, Melvin Redd, C.R. Melton, Alvyn Moore, Elmer Childress)
Released in 1949 on (Sacred Records SS-537):
(Side A Re-released in Compilation “Close Harmony” on CD by Dualtone Records).

Southern Gospel History - All American Quartet

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(c) Sister Lucille Barbee (1952) (as "Where Could I Go")
Recorded in 1952  Nashville, TN
Musicians: Bill Beasley, Alan & Reynold Bubis
Released in June 1953 on REPUBLIC 7034


45cat - Lucille Barbee - Where Could I Go / Just Keep It To Myself - Republic - USA - 7034-45

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(c) Harmonizing Four (1957)
Recorded November 14, 1957
Released on Vee-Jay 854


45cat - The Harmonizing Four - Where Could I Go But To The Lord / Motherless Child - Vee Jay - USA - VJ 854

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(c) Rusty York (1961)

45cat - Rusty York And The Ky. Mt. Boys - If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again / Where Could I Go - Jewel [Ohio] - USA - EP-402

http://www.45rpmrecords.com/OH/pop/jew402a.php

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(c) Jesse Fuller (1963)
Recorded 1963 in Los Angeles
Released on the album "San Francisco Bay Blues".

Illustrated Jesse Fuller discography

Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (1963, Vinyl) | Discogs

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(c) Marty Robbins (1963)
Recorded July 3, 1963, Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN –
Marty Robbins (Marty Robbins [vcl], Grady Martin [gt], Jack Pruett [gt], Bob Moore [bass], Louis Dunn [drums], William Pursell [piano], Hoyt Hawkins [organ]. Producer: Don Law & Frank Jones)
Released in 1984 on the album "Long Long Ago"

http://www.martyrobbins.net/dscalbum.htm

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(c) Fred McDowell (1965)
Recorded Febuary 24, 1964 in Como, MS;
Fred McDowell, voc, g; Annie Mae McDowell, voc

http://www.wirz.de/music/mcdowfrm.htm

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(c) Elvis Presley (1966 and 1968)

Elvis recorded "Where Could I Go But to the Lord" on May 28, 1966, at RCA's Nashville studios.

Vinyl Album - Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art - RCA Victor - USA

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Two years later, he incorporated the song into a gospel medley in his TV special, Elvis.






(c) Emmylou Harris (1987)  (as "Where Could I Go But To The Lord")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Band_(album)

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More versions:
Faron Young 1955
Tommy Collins 1958
Eddie Bond 1962
Stanley Brothers 1964
Connie Smith 1966
Stonewall Jackson 1968
Bonnie Owens 1970
Merle Haggard 1971
George Jones 1972
Country Gentlemen 1978
Barbara Mandrell 1989
Linda Gail Lewis 2003
Glen Campbell 2004
Bill Anderson 2005
Brenda Lee 2007


And more versions:   Southern Gospel History - Where Could I Go

The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - WHERE COULD I GO BUT TO THE LORD

Cover versions of Where Could I Go (But to the Lord) by Roy Acuff | SecondHandSongs

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zaterdag 7 juni 2014

Every Day I Have The Blues (1935) / Nobody Loves Me (1949) / Everyday I Have The Blues (1950)



"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a blues song written by Pinetop Sparks (birthname Aaron Gant) and his brother Milton (birthname Marion Gant). The song was first performed in the taverns of St. Louis by the Sparks brothers and was recorded July 28, 1935 in Chicago, Ill. by Pinetop with Henry Townsend on guitar. It is a twelve-bar blues that features Pinetop's piano and falsetto vocal. The lyrics to the song begin "Every day, every day I have the blues..."
After a reworking of the song by Memphis Slim, it became a blues standard with renditions recorded by numerous artists. Four different versions of "Every Day I Have the Blues" have reached the Top Ten of the Billboard R&B chart and two have received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award (one by the Count Basie Orchestra with Joe Williams and one by B.B. King).

Memphis Slim claimed writing credit (and often got it on subsequent releases), but in fact the tune was written by the Sparks brothers.



(o) Pine Top (1935)  (as "Every Day I Have The Blues")
Pine Top Sparks, vocal and piano; Henry Townsend, guitar
Recorded July 28, 1935 in Chicago, Ill
Released on Bluebird B-6125




Aaron "Pinetop" Sparks died only 3 months after this recording at age 27 of either poisoning or exhaustion.

Listen here to his ORIGINAL version:




In 1947, Peter Chatman, better known as Memphis Slim recorded the song as "Nobody Loves Me". Although he used the Sparks brothers' opening verse, he rewrote the remainder of the lyrics and sang the melody in a normal pitch:
Nobody loves me, nobody seems to care (2×)
Speaking of bad luck people, you know I've had my share...
"Nobody Love Me" was released as the B-side to Memphis Slim's "Angel Child" single (Miracle M-145)" — "Angel Child" became a hit (number six Billboard R&B chart), but "Nobody Loves Me" did not enter the charts.

(c) Memphis Slim and The House Rockers (1949)  (as "Nobody Loves Me")
Recorded October 10, 1947
Released in 1949 on Miracle M-145 and in 1951 on Federal 12007



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When Lowell Fulson with Lloyd Glenn adapted Memphis Slim's arrangement, but used Sparks' earlier title, it became a hit and spent twenty-three weeks in the R&B chart, where it reached number three in 1950.
Fulson's "slow grooving" version, with sax and guitar solos, influenced B.B. King's later rendition of the song

(c) Lowell Fulson (1950) (as "Everyday I Have The Blues")
Earl Brown on alto, Lloyd Glenn on piano, Billy Hadnott on bass and Bob Harvey on drums.
Recorded July 18, 1949 in Los Angeles
Released on Swing Time 196



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Jazz singer Joe Williams had hits with two different recordings of the song. The first version, recorded with the King Kolax Orchestra in 1952, reached number eight in the R&B chart (Checker 762).
In 1955 in New York, he recorded a second and perhaps the most famous version of the song with the Count Basie Orchestra, titled "Every Day" (Clef 89149). It featured a big band arrangement and spent twenty weeks in the R&B chart, where it reached number two.

(c) Joe Williams and King Kolax and his Orchestra (1952)  (as "Every Day I Have The Blues")
Joe Williams (voc); acc. by King Kolax (ldr; tp); Bennie Green (tb); Dick Davis (ts); 
Prentice McCarey (p); Ike Perkins (eg); "Cowboy" Martin (b); Kansas Fields (d);
Recorded c. July 1952  Universal Recording studio in Chicago
Released on Checker 762.
This version hit the #8 spot on the USA R&B charts.



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This celebrated 1952 version by Joe Williams with King Kolax could have been inspired by either Memphis Slim's or Lowell Fulson.



(c) BB "Blues Boy" King (1954)  (as "Every Day I Have The Blues")
Recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, March 2, 1954
Probably Maxwell Davis, Bumps Myers (tenor sax); Charles Crosby (congas); Millard Lee (piano); Floyd Newman (sax); Kenny Sands (trumpet); remainder unknown.
Released on RPM 421.
This version hit the #8 spot on the USA R&B charts



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(c) Count Basie and his Orchestra (1955)  (as "Every Day")
Vocal by Joe Williams.
Recorded in NYC on May 17, 1955.
Released on Clef 89149.
This version hit the #2  spot on the USA R&B charts.



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(c) Patti Page with Jack Rael and His Orchestra (1955)  (as "Every Day")
Recorded June 22, 1955, Mercury Sound Studio in New York City
Released on Mercury 70657



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(c) Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (1958)  (as "Everyday")


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Next up is a YT where L,H &R are joined by the man who made the song famous: Joe Williams.
Joe Williams, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross with Count Basie (piano), 
Freddie Green (guitar), Ed Jones (bass), and Sonny Payne (drums)
Taped at WBKB-TV, Chicago, IL in October 1959 for the syndicated television series "Playboy's Penthouse"

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(c) Lou Rawls (1963)


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(c) Elmore James (1965)
Elmore waxed it February 21, 1963 for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records in New York City on what was to be his last recording session.
Released end 1965 on Enjoy 2027



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(c) Howard Tate (1967) (as "Everyday I Have The Blues")
Recorded March 25, 1967 in New York City.



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(c) Chuck Berry (1967) (as "Medley: Rockin' At The Fillmore / Everyday I Have The Blues")
With the Steve Miller Band.
Live At The Fillmore Auditorium - San Francisco


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Fleetwood Mac recorded a version in 1969 for Fleetwood Mac in Chicago/Blues Jam in Chicago, Vols. 1–2. they closely copied the version of Elmore James

(c) Fleetwood Mac (1969)
Recorded at Chess Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago on January 4, 1969.
Fleetwood Mac, backed by veteran Chicago sax player J.T. Brown, Honeyboy Edwards (guitar) and Willie Dixon on bass.


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(c) James Brown (1969)
Recorded on November 10, 1969 at United Recording Corp, Hollywood CA.
A short version was released on the album "Soul On Top" (King LP-1100) (1970)
The complete version was finally released in 1990.


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(c) Marshall Tucker band (1974)  (as "Everyday (I Have The Blues)"


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(c) Eric Clapton (1994)
"PBS In the Spotlight" - Nothing But the Blues
Recorded at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA on November 8-9, 1994
Directed By Martin Scorsese.

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(c) Tony Bennett (with Stevie Wonder) (2001)


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(c) Randy Crawford and Joe Sample (2008)


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