"I knew Joe Robinson, owner of Sugarhill very well in the 90s and spent quite a lot of time with him and Sylvia working out of the studios in New Jersey making copy tapes for UK releases. Chess of course was long gone to MCA, but there were still a lot of tapes there as well as photos from Chess. Joe told me that all of those albums you are discussing [Blues Ball and Blue Night] and those on Le Roi Du Blues were produced by the guys who had already been producing reissues for Sugarhill and the tapes were provided to them because he could not afford to pay them what he owed them for work already done." (Bob Fisher @ facebook)
Howlin' Wolf discography
Blues Ball 2001BU 134,26
= Blues Ball 2001 (repro, US 2015)
notes by Anonymous Blues Ball 2002BU 134,26
notes by Anonymous Blues Ball 2003BU 137/138,39
notes by Willie Dixon[facsimile taken from ChessCHD/CHC-9272 "Real FolkBlues"] Blues Ball 2004 (blue photo & lettering)
= Blues Ball 2004 (red photo & lettering)
The Complete Chess Studio Recordings disc 1: - First Time I Met the Blues [1960 Single version] - Slop Around - I Got My Eyes On You - Broken Hearted Blues - Let Me Love You Baby [Single version] - I Got A Strange Feeling - Gully Hully - Ten Years Ago - Watch Yourself - Stone Crazy - Skippin' - I Found A True Love - Hard But It's Fair - Baby (Baby, Baby, Baby) - When My Left Eye Jumps - That's It - The The Treasure Untold - American Bandstand - No Lie - $100 Bill - My Love Is Real (Lacy Gibson, voc) - Buddy's Boogie disc 2: - Worried Mind (a/k/a Stick Around) - Moanin' - I Dig Your Wig [unedited] - My Time After Awhile [Single version] - Night Flight - Crazy Love (Crazy Music) [Single version] - Every Girl I See - Too Many Ways - Leave My Girl Alone - Got To Use Your Head - Keep It To Myself (a/k/a Keep It to Yourself) - My Mother - She Suits Me To A Tee - Mother-In-Law Blues - Buddy's Groove (Single version) - Going To School - I Cry And Sing The Blues (Single version) - Goin' Home - I Suffer With The Blues - Lip Lap Louie - My Time After Awhile (alternate voc & mix) - Too Many Ways (alternate with background voc) - Keep It To Myself (alternate with organ overdub) - I Didn't Know My Mother Had A Son Like Me (She Suits Me To A Tee)
Blues Ball 2005BU 137/138,37
2 CD setnotes by Don Snowden (=) MCA/Chess MCD 09337 (US 1992) "The Complete Chess Studio Recordings"
= CD (Jp 2008)
thanks to Alan Balfour and Wilson Fabian Ruales Villalva for additional info / scans