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Released
  
1956

Singin' the Blues(1956)
  
The Blues(1958)

Release date
  
1956

Genres
  
Blues, Rock and roll

Producer
  
Florette Bihari

Artists
  
B.B. King, Maxwell Davis

Label
  
Crown Records

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Similar
  
BB King albums, Blues albums

Singin' the Blues is the 1956 debut album by blues performer B.B. King on the Bihari brothers' Crown label. Among its tracks, the album gathered together five charting singles. "You Upset Me, Baby" was the highest charting single, reaching #1 on Billboard's "Black Singles" chart. Other charting singles include "Every Day I Have the Blues" (#8), "Ten Long Years" (#9), "Crying Won't Help You" (#15), "Bad Luck" (#3) and "Sweet Little Angel" (#6). The album was originally released on the Crown subsidiary of Modern Records and has been reissued several times, as part of a two-album combined CD alongside King's second release The Blues and with bonus tracks by Japanese label P-Vine Records and U.K. label Ace Records (UK). On "Please Love Me", King combines T-Bone Walker's hard-picking, distorted guitar style with his own mournful singing.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by B.B. King and Jules Taub, unless otherwise noted.

Side one
  1. "Please Love Me" – 2:51
  2. "You Upset Me Baby" – 3:04
  3. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Aaron Sparks, credited to Peter Chatman) – 2:49
  4. "Bad Luck" (Ivory Joe Hunter, credited to King, Taub) – 2:54
  5. "3 O'Clock Blues" (Lowell Fulson, credited to King, Taub) – 3:03
  6. "Blind Love" – 3:06
Side two
  1. "Woke Up This Morning" – 2:59
  2. "You Know I Love You" – 3:06
  3. "Sweet Little Angel" (Traditional, credited to King, Taub) – 3:00
  4. "Ten Long Years" – 2:49
  5. "Did You Ever Love a Woman" (Dwight Moore, credited to King, Taub) – 2:34
  6. "Crying Won't Help You" (Hudson Whittaker, credited to King, Taub) – 3:00

CD re-release bonus tracks

Bonus tracks on both the re-releases by P-Vine and Ace. Except where otherwise noted, all songs by King and Taub.

  1. "Whole Lotta Meat" (King) – 2:32
  2. "I'm Cracking Up Over You" – 3:23
  3. "I Stay in the Mood" (Joe Josea, King) – 2:55
  4. "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer 'Million Years Blues'" (John Williamson) – 2:58
  5. "Jump with You Baby" – 2:14
  6. "Lonely and Blue" (John Costa Jr., John Erby) – 2:58
  7. "Dark Is the Night, Pt. 'the Blues Has Got Me'" (Maxwell Davis, King, Taub) – 2:41
  8. "Ruby Lee" – 3:01

Performance

  • Red Callender – bass
  • Maxwell Davis – tenor saxophone
  • Jewell L. Grant – alto saxophone
  • Billy Hadnot – bass
  • Ralph Hamilton – bass
  • Lorenzo Holden – tenor saxophone
  • B. B. King – guitar, vocals
  • Willard McDaniel – piano
  • Jack McVea – tenor saxophone
  • Bumps Myers – tenor saxophone
  • Jake "Vernon" Porter – trumpet
  • Jesse Price – drums
  • Jesse Sailes – drums
  • Maurice Simon – tenor saxophone
  • Floyd Turnham – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Charles Waller – tenor saxophone

    • Production

  • Roger Armstrong – tape archivist
  • Jon Broven – compilation, annotation
  • Brian Burrows – package design
  • Duncan Cowell – mastering, mixing, restoration
  • Cy Schneider – liner notes

    • Songs

    1Please Love Me2:52
    2You Upset Me Baby3:05
    3Everyday I Have the Blues2:47

    References

    Singin' the Blues Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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