77 RecordsdiscographyThe 77 label was founded and owned by Doug Dobell ( -07/10/1987),who used to run Dobell's Jazz Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross, London
Ramblin' Jack Elliott discography
10 inch LPnotes by Alexis Korner 77 LP/1
later issued on two EPs:Collector JEA 5 and JEA 6
10 inch LP77 LP/2
10 inch LP
Ken Colyer, cornet; Sonny Morris, cornet; John R.T. Davies, trombone; Monty Sunshine, clarinet; Pat Hawes, p; Julian Davies, b; Ben Marshall, bj; Ron Bowden, dr
10 inch LP77 LP/4
10 inch LPnotes by Brian R. Harvey 77 LP/5
# rec. May 1957 at Metro Club, London: The Storyville Jazzmen: Bob Wallis, tr; Ginger Baker, dr; Johnny Mortimer, tbn; Les Woood, clt; Pete Gresham, p; Stu Winsley, b; Hugh Rainey, bj * rec. September 25, 1957 at the Ken Colyer Club, London: The Hugh Rainey All Stars: Bob Wallis, tr; Ginger Baker, dr; [Mr.] Acker Bilk, clt; Marc Duncan, tbn; Bill Reid, b; Hugh Rainey, bj; [] R.T. Davis, as
10 inch LP77 LP/12(limited edition of100 copies)
(=) Lake LACD 257"Vintage Acker Bilk"
10 inch LP77 LP/17
10 inch LP77 LP/18
10 inch LP77 LP/21
7 inch EPnotes Alexis Korner 77 EP/1
7 inch EPnotes Alexis Korner 77 EP/2
7 inch EP 77 EP/4
7 inch EP 77 EP/7
rec. October 31, 1957 by John R.T. Davies at Burnham, Bucks; Steve Benbow, voc, g; other noises by John R. T. Davies
77 EP/15
www.stevebenbow.btinternet.co.uk
77 EP/16
77 78/1, 78/2 and 78/3 77 78/1
77 78/1
77 78/1, 78/2 and 78/3 77 78/2
77 78/2
77 78/1, 78/2 and 78/3 77 78/3
77 78/3
77 78/4
Document Private Issue tracks: - Goin' To Galveston # - Met The Blues At The Corner # - How Many Days Must I Wait (16) § - Beggin' Up And Down The Streets (21) * - Black Snake (22) * - If You Ever Been Mistreated (26) * - Children's Boogie (27) * [] - Dig Me In The Morning (29) & - Back To Arkansas (39) & - Corrine, Corrina (32) [Candid CJM 8026] - Have You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry? (34) & - Hard Headed Children (35) {} [] - Tom Moore's Farm (36) [77 LA 12/3] - Blues For Queen Elizabeth (39) {} - Hello England (41) {} - The Dirty Dozens (43) [Raglan LP 51] - When The Saints Go Marching In (45) // - Long Way From Texas (47) [Heritage HLP 1001] - Look Out, Settegast, Here Me And My Partner Come (47) [Heritage HLP 1001] - Getting Out Of The Bushes Tap Dance (51) [Heritage HLP 1001] - Whiskey, Whiskey (58) [Heritage HLP 1001] - Suicide Blues (60) [Heritage HLP 1001]
17 pp. notes by Mack McCormick 77 LA 12-2 (UK 1960)
notes by Mack McCormick (=) Candid CJM 8026 (US 1962) "Treasury of Field Recording" [Cadence subsidiary label]
[= CJM 8025 / CJS 9025 ???9025 is Otis Spann: Walking The Blues; 9026 is Charles Mingus: Reincarnation Of A Lovebird !!!]
Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins discographyJoel Hopkins discographyBuster Pickens discography
Candid CJM 8026 track sequence: Harry Stephens - The Streets Of Laredo Jimmy Womack - Talking Blues Jimmy Womack - The Jealous Lover Harry Burton and Group - Yellow Gal Andrew Everett - KC Ain't Nothing But A Rag Ed Badeaux - The Waitress And The Sailor Lightnin' Hopkins - Corrine, Corrina # Mrs. Melton - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett John Q Anderson - The Miller Boy R.C. Forest & Gozy Kilpatrick - Crying Won't Make Me Stay Dudley Alexander Washboard Band - Baby Please Don't Go Dennis Gainus - You Gonna Look Like A Monkey Jim Wilkie - Bad Lee Brown Pete Rose - Sand Mountain Blues Linna Belle Hafti - Soldier Will You Marry Me Joel Hopkins - Good Times Here, Better Down The Road * John Lomax Jr. - The Grey Goose Andrew Everett - Hello Central, Give Me 209 Edwin Pickens - Blues In The Bottom || [actually not included, following George Coleman title instead !] George Coleman [= Bongo Joe] - After Hours Improvisation (p instr) Joseph Johnson, R G Williams & Group - Shake It Mister Gater Grover Dickson and Group - Grizzly Bear collected by members of the Houston Folklore Group (Harold Belikoff, Ed Badeaux, Pete Seeger, Chester Bower, John Lomax, Jr., Mack McCormick) and compiled by Mack McCormick
# rec. July 13, 1959 in Houston, TX by Mack McCormick; Lightnin' Hopkins, voc, g * rec. June 12, 1959 in Dickinson, TX by Mack McCormick; Joel Hopkins, voc, g || rec. August 17, 1960 in Houston, TX by Chris Strachwitz, Mack McCormick & Paul Oliver
Lightnin' Hopkins discographyJoel Hopkins discographyBuster Pickens discography
18 pp. booklet notes (March 1960) by Mack McCormick with additions and corrections by Paul Oliver 77 LA 12/3 (UK 1960)
77 Records discographyLightnin' Hopkins discographyMance Lipscomb discography
rec. # Sept. 1959, * March 31 & April 14, 1960 in Indianapolis by Duncan P. Schiedt Scrapper Blackwell, voc, g, p; [] Bud White (= Duncan Schiedt), whistling photography: Duncan Schiedt
notes by Duncan P. Schiedt (scannned by Alan Balfour) 77 Records LA 12-4 (UK 1960)
= 77 Records LA 12-4 (2nd print, UK 196?)
notes by Bill Weiner (=) Document DOCD-5275 (Austria 1994) "Scrapper Blackwell with Brooks Berry (1959-1960)"
Scrapper Blackwell discography
notes by Paul Oliver 77 LA 12/5
original notesby Paul Oliver(=) Southland SCD-043 (US 2010)
Arhoolie CD 408 = Arhoolie LP 1008, one previously unreleased track from same session, eight previously unissued sides that Alex recorded at Radio KLIF in Dallas in 1947, and two cuts made in Germany which appeared on LP 1048
notes by Paul Oliver = 77 LA12/7 (UK 1961) "Whistling Alexander Moore - Blues Piano Vocal and Whistling"
notes by Paul Oliver "Arhoolie Records, Box 5073, Berkeley 5, California" = Arhoolie F 1008 (US 1961/62?) "Alex Moore", on labels: ""Whistling" Alex Moore"
notes by Paul Oliver "Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709" = Arhoolie F 1008 (US 19??) "Alex Moore", on labels: ""Whistling" Alex Moore" or "Alex Moore"
notes by Chris Strachwitz and Paul Oliver (=) Arhoolie CD 408 (US 1994)
Alex Moore discographyArhoolie Records discography
77 LA 12/8
77 LA 12/9
Smoky Babe discography
Dr. Harry Oster discography
notes by Harry Oster Folk-Lyric FL 118
notes by Harry Oster= 77 LA 12-12 (1962)
notes by Harry Oster = Arhoolie R 2019 (1971)"Hot Blues"
(=) Arhoolie CD 440 (1996)
Arhoolie Records discography
Robert Pete Williams discography
Dr. Harry Oster Recordings discography
notes by Harry Oster Louisiana Folklore SocietyLFS A-6
notes by Harry Oster = 77 LA 12/13 (UK)
77 Records discography
notes by Harry Oster& Chris Strachwitz= Arhoolie CD 9036 (2003)
Folk-Lyric FL 125 (US)
notes by Paul Oliver= 77 LA 12/14 (UK 1962)
notes by Bruce Bastin (=) Smithsonian FolkwaysCD SF 40035 (US 1991)
12 inch LPnotes by Bruce Bastin= Mr. Suit SUITABLE1315(EU 2014)
77 LA 12/16
Arhoolie R 2015 - Pardon Denied Again # - This Wild Old Life # - Texas Blues # - Up And Down Blues # - I'm Blue As A Man Can Be # - Louise # - Blue In Me § - I Got The Blues So Bad § - Come Here Baby, Tell Me What Is Wrong With You #
green = track on both LPs # on Arhoolie CD 394 § on Arhoolie CD 395
rec. 1959 & 1960 at Angola State Penitentiary, La. by Harry Oster and Richard Allen; Robert Pete Williams, voc, 6- or 12-str. g
notes by Harry Oster Folk Lyric FL 109 (1959)
notes by Harry Oster = 77 LA 12/17 (UK 1963)
notes by Chris Strachwitz Arhoolie R 2015 (1971)
Arhoolie CD 394
Arhoolie CD 395
[label founder and owner Bob Koester in August 1958 moved his business from a location on the corner of Delmar and Oliver streets in St. Louis to Chicago (http://www.delmark.com/delmark.history.htm)]
notes by Bob Koester "Delmar Records, 439 So. Wabash, Chicago 5, Ill." Delmar DL-602 (mono) (US 1958)
notes by Bob Koester "Delmar" on labels, "Delmark" on the sleeve, "Delmar Records, 439 So. Wabash, Chicago 5, Ill." = Delmark DL-602 (mono) (US 1959)
notes by Bob Koester "Delmark stereo DS-602" on jacket, "DL-602" on spine and labels, "Delmark Records, 4243 North Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois 60618" = Delmark DS/DL-602 (stereo) (US 19??)
notes (slightly amended in 1961) by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, 4243 North Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois 60618" = Delmark DL-602 (stereo) (US 1961)
notes by Bob Koester = 77 LA 12/19 (UK 1963)
notes (1969) by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, Seven West Grand, Chicago, Illinois 60610" = Delmark DL-602 (US 1969)
notes (1969) by Bob Koester "Delmark Records, Seven West Grand, Chicago, Illinois 60610" = Delmark DL-602 (mono) (UK in American sleeve 1969)
notes by Robert G. Koester "Delmark Records, 4121 N. Rockwell, Chicago, IL 60618" = Delmark CD DD-602 (US 1997)
= P-Vine PCD-20294 (Jp 2014)
Delmark Records discographyBig Joe Williams discographyJ.D. Short discography
77 LA 12-20
Redita RLP 133 track sequence: - One Room Country Shack a) - Trembling Blues b) - Prison Bound c) - My Electronical Invention Blues d) - Brownskin Woman a) - La Salle St. Boogie e) - I Keep On Drinkin' d) °° - New Vicksburg Blues f) °° - Farrish St. Jive b) °° - Chinese Man Blues f) °° - Cow Cow Blues f) °° - That's Why I Keep Drinkin' d) - I Got The Blues About My Baby a) - Bob Martin Blues b) - Devil Is A Busy Man a) - No Special Rider f) - Everytime I Get To Drinkin' c) °° Redita RLP 133 bonus tracks rec. July 14, 1960 in Chicago, IL by John Steiner (a, c, d, e) and Paul Oliver (b, f); session arranged and supervised by Paul Oliver a) Sunnyland Slim, voc, p; Corky Robertson, b; Armund 'Jump' Jackson, dr b) Little Brother Montgomery, p c) Sunnyland Slim, voc; Little Brother Montgomery, p; Corky Robertson, b; Armund 'Jump' Jackson, dr d) Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p; Corky Robertson, b; Armund 'Jump' Jackson, dr e) Sunnyland Slim, p; Corky Robertson, b; Armund 'Jump' Jackson, dr f) Little Brother Montgomery, voc, p 77 Records LA 12/21 front cover photo by Paul Oliver Wolf CD bonus tracks: - I Keep On Drinkin' - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Cow Cow Blues - New Vicksburg Blues - Farrish St. Jive - Chinese Man Blues Southland CD bonus tracks: Sunnyland Slim - Depression Blues - Sad And Lonesome - Disc Jockey Special - Vicksburg Blues
Little Br. Montgomery discography
notes by Paul Oliver77 Records LA 12/21 (UK 1960)
notes by Paul Oliver= Int. Polydor 423212 (Germany 1966)
(=) Redita RLP 133 (NL 1989)(+ 5 bonus tracks)
Wolf CD 120.296(Austria 1992)"The La Salle ChicagoBlues Recordings,Vol. 1"
notes by Paul Oliver= Southland SCD-010 (US 1994)(+ 4 bonus tracks)
Southland Records discography
77 LA 12/22
77 LA12/23 track list: - Texas Tony - Shout Baby Shout - Lonesome Blues - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Up And Down The Line * - Bye Bye Baby * - Stop Knockin On My Door * - Move Your Hand * # - Doorbell Blues * - Get Your Morning Exercise *
CD track list: - Texas Tony - Girl Of My Dreams - Do The Boogie Mama (take 3) - Starvation In My Kitchen - I'm Gonna Get Up In The Morning - Lonesome Blues - Shout Baby Shout - Rocky Mountain Blues - Do The Boogie Mama (take 2) - Stop Knocking On My Door - Doorbell Blues - Move Your Hand - Get Your Morning Exercise - When My Baby Comes Back Home - Up And Down The Line - Bye Bye Baby
rec. in private homes in Chicago, IL; Yank Rachell, voc, mand; Hammie Nixon, jug, hca; Sleepy John Estes, g; * Big Joe Williams, 9-str g, # voc; * Mike Bloomfield, g; album production and supervision: Robert G. Koester
notes by Bob Koester = Delmark DL-606 (US mono)
77 LA 12/23
notes by Bob Koester= Delmark DS-606 (stereo)
= Goody GY 10010 (D 198?)"Super Black Blues Vol. 5"
= Delmark CD DD-608 (1995)
77 LA 12/25
77 LA 12/26
Sleepy John Estes discography
Yank Rachell discography
77 LA 12-27 (UK 1964)
notes by Bob Koester = Delmar(k) DE-608 (US)
= Delmark DL-608
= Delmark DS-9608 (stereo)later Delmark DS-608
= Trio PA-3048 (Jp 1974)
= Trio PA-6207 (Jp 1978)
notes by Bob Koester = Goody GY 10008 (D 198?)"Super Black Blues Vol. 3"
= Delmark CD DD-608(1995)
77 LA 12/28
77 LA 12/29
Delmark DS 210 (UK 1964)"Clancy Hayes & the SaltyDogs: Oh By Jingo"
= 77 LA 12/30
77 LA 12/31
77 LEU 12/1
77 LEU 12/2
77 LEU 12/3
77 LEU 12/4
77 LEU 12/5
77 LEU 12/6
77 LEU 12/7
77 LEU 12/8
77 LEU 12/9
77 LEU 12/10
77 LEU 12/11
77 LEU 12/12
77 LEU 12/13
77 LEU 12/14
77 LEU 12/15
77 LEU 12/16
77 LEU 12/17
77 LEU 12/18
77 LEU 12/19
77 LEU 12/20
77 LEU 12/21
77 LEU 12/22
77 LEU 12/23
77 LEU 12/24
77 LEU 12/25
77 LEU 12/26
77 LEU 12/27
(=) Solo Art CD 107 (2000)
77 LEU 12/28
77 LEU 12/29
77 LEU 12/30
77 LEU 12/31
rec. live December 6, 1960 at Café Africana, Zürich, Switzerland; Joe Turner, p
notes by Johnny Simmen77 LEU 12/32
more info
77 LEU 12/35
77 LEU 12/36
77 LEU 12/38
77 LEU 12/39
77 LEU 12/41
77 LEU 12/48
°° re-released on Southland SCD-004
notes by John Bentley 77 LEU 12/50 (UK 1973)
77 SEU 12/34
Folklore F-LEUT/1
Folklore F-LEUT/2
Folklore F-LEUT/3
Folklore F-LEUT/4
notes by Ron Gouldand Margaret BakerFolklore F-LEUT/5
Folklore F-LEUT/6
rec. at Dobell's Jazz Record Shop, London, 14th and 15th January, 1963;* Blind Joe Grunt [= Bob Dylan], backup voc, hca; prod. by Tom Costner
CD including the LP material plus all outtakes, which contain two songs not selected for the original release (#)
notes by Margaret Bakerand Ron Gould Folklore F-LEUT/7more info
2 CD setnotes by Dick Farinaand Tom CostnerSolano CD 1722 (2007)www.farinacd.com
Eric Von Schmidtdiscography
Folklore F-LEUT/8
rec. 1957 & 1961
notes by Long John Baldry Folklore F-LEUT/9
thanks to Alan Balfour, Dave Moore, Roger Wade, Görgen Antonsson, Kurt Hriczucsah, Marcia Stehr, Tony Curnock and Alistair Banfield for additional info / scans
source: Christopher Booker & Candida Lycett Green: "Goodbye LondonAn illustrated Guide To The Threatened Buildings".- London (Fontana) 1973, p. 62scan courtesy Alan Balfour