Columbia 14496-D
Columbia 14505-D
Columbia 14512-D
Columbia 14518-D
Columbia 14522-D
Columbia 14596-D
Columbia 14604-D
Columbia 2071-D
Decca 7288
Decca 7290
Decca 7552
unissued
Highway 51 H-103Documentary Arts DA 105Arhoolie CD 408
RPM 326
RPM unissued
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)
77 Records discographyArhoolie Records discography
I Have To Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960 Arhoolie CD 432 (1995) track sequence: - I Have To Paint My Face - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Big Road Blues - K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - I Stand And Wonder - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Texas Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - Night Shirt Blues - K.C. Douglas [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - Mercury Blues - K.C. Douglas/Bruce Bratton [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - Hollandale Blues - Sam Chatmon [previously unreleased] @ Spotify - The Slop - Jasper Love/Columbus Jones [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Stella Ruth - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - God Don't Like Ugly - Sam Chatmon [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Rooster Blues - Wade Walton [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Barbershop Rhythm - Wade Walton / R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st ed.] - Going Back To Texas - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Blues And Trouble - K.C. Douglas/Sidney Maiden [Arhoolie 1005, 2nd. ed.] - Lonely Widower - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Lost Love Blues - R.C. Smith [Arhoolie F 1005, 1st. ed.] - Married Woman Blues - Big Joe Williams [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Love's Honeydripper - Jasper Love [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Desert Blues - Jasper Love [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - One Thin Dime - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie FS101/F 1006] - Butch's Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Forty Four Blues - Butch Cage/Willie Thomas [Arhoolie 1005, 1st. ed.] - Chicago Blues - Sidney Maiden/K.C. Douglas [Arhoolie F 1006, 2nd. ed.]
notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." Arhoolie FS101 (US 1961)notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." = Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California" = Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709" (=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980) 1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!notes by Chris Strachwitz partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"Arhoolie Records discography
notes (on 4-pp. leaflet, December 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 671 - Los Gatos, Calif." = Arhoolie F 1006 (196?)
notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley, California" = Arhoolie F 1006 (197?)
notes (on back cover, 1961) by Chris Strachwitz "Box 9195, Berkeley, CA. 94709" (=) Arhoolie F 1006 (US 1980) 1980 release uses same front and back covers as 197? release, but actually has slightly different content - as printed on the labels!
notes by Chris Strachwitz partly reissued on Arhoolie CD 432 (US 1995) subtitled "Mississippi Blues 1960"
Arhoolie Records discography
Arhoolie unissued
CD track sequence:@ youtube (full album) - So Much Good Feeling - Boogie Woogie Red - A Little Different - Willie Thomas - Kill That Nigger Dead - James "Butch" Cage & Willie Thomas - The Onliest Way - Lil Son Jackson - My Father's Style / So It Rocked On / Move To Kansas City - J.B. Lenoir - When She Come Back / Poor Country Boy - Otis Spann - Ain't No Easy Thing - Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Heart Blues - Mance Lipscomb - A Roughneck - Blind Arvella Gray - West Helena Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Days of 1900 / Newport News Blues - Will Shade - Chock House Days / Come and Get Me - Whistling Alex Moore # - Move Back! For What? - Brother John Sellers - Been Down So Long - J.B. Lenoir - A Place They Call Boots' - James "Stump" Johnson [] - Henry Brown Blues - Henry Brown [] - They Called Us Gandy Dancers / Work Songs / John Henry - Blind Arvella Gray with Blind James Brewer [] - Santa Fe Train - Edwin "Buster" Pickens - Most Reason I Sing - Robert Curtis Smith - Santa Fe Blues - Jasper Love - Somewhere Down The Line - John Lee Hooker - I Hope One Day My Luck Will Change - Robert Curtis Smith - Only Places They Can Go / People Call Me Lucky - Otis Spann - What Have I Committed? - Henry Townsend - 'Tween Midnight And Day - James "Butch" Cage - Walking Basses / Dud Low Joe / The First Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery - They Call Him "Pork Chops" / Forty-Four Blues - Roosevelt Sykes - Blues In The Bottle - Mance Lipscomb - To Have The Blues Within - Edward "Buster" Pickens - Colorado Springs Blues - Edwin "Buster" Pickens [] All tracks recorded between June 26 and August 28, 1960 # rec. July 30, 1960 in Dallas, TX by Chris Strachwitz, 'supervised' by Paul Oliver; Whistling Alex Moore, voc, p or sp
LP and CD have slightly different tracks: [] = not on LP resp. CD !!!
notes (plus 6-pp. insert) by Paul Oliver  Decca LK 4664 insert (1 sheet folded to 6 pp.) Decca LK 4664 (UK 1965)
notes by Paul Oliver = Decca LK 4664 (Germany 1965)
LP resp. CD accompanying Paul Oliver's book by the same title:London (Cassell) (1st UK ed. 1965) xv, 217 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
New York (Horizon Press) (1st US ed. 1965) xix, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
London ("Jazz Book Club") JBC 64 (2nd UK ed. 1967)
Cambridge (University Press) 0 521 59181 3 (revised edition of the original 1965 book with enclosed CD) (2nd US ed. 1997)
Doyosha LLC (1st Jp ed. 2016) ISBN 978-4-907511-25-8 (190 × 129 × 21,8 mm | 336 pages (incl. 48 photos) | weight: 9,5 pound; price: 1.850 JPY equals 14,84 EUR) translated by Yasufumi Higurashi
Arhoolie F 1017
notes (April 1968) by Paul Oliver the post-war blues pwb 4 (UK 1968)
PWB discography
Roots RL-315 (Austria 1968)
= Autogram RL-315 (Germany 2010) "Texas Country Blues Music Vol. 2
inner gatefold with Pete Welding notes
2-disc packagenotes by Pete Welding Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)
= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)
gatefold DLP Poppy PYS-60.003 (US 1969)= RCA Victor 740 069 (France 1969)
= RCA Victor SHP-6124/25 (Jp)
= Tomato TOM-2-7006 (US 1978)
gatefold DLP = Tomato DLP 2696181 (Germany 1989)
2 CD setnotes by Bill Dahl = Tomato CD TOM-3001 (US 2002)
notes by Chris Albertson Historical HLP-32
Historical Records discography
Kent KST-9005 gatefold sleeve (inside)
notes by Bruce BrombergKent KST-9005
= United Superior US-7782
= Musidisc 30AB5605
= P-Vine PCD-3039 (1994)
Highway 51 H-103
Highway 51 Records discography
notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver Scout Sc-6 (Germany 1969)
notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver = CBS S 63912 (UK 1969)
notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver = Optimism/L+R LR CD-2071 (US 198?)
notes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver= Bellaphon/L+R CD 42.071 (Germany 1991)
4 CD setnotes by Horst Lippmann & Paul Oliver (=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLR 726222 (EU 2002) "American Folk Blues Festival 1965/1966/1967/1969"
concert review by Paul Oliver (Jazz Monthly December 1969, pp. 24-25) at WeenieCampbell.com, scanned & OCRed by Alan Balfour
American Folk Blues Festival discographyScout Records discographyL+R Records discographyJuke Boy Bonner discographyEarl Hooker discographyJohn Jackson discographyMagic Sam discographyWhistling Alex Moore discographyMac Thompson discography
Epic ECPJ-23 notes by Robert W.M.Dixon and John Godrich CBS M 52797 (UK 1970) = Epic ECPJ-23 (Jp 1970)
notes by Robert W.M.Dixon and John Godrich CBS M 52797 (UK 1970)
= Epic ECPJ-23 (Jp 1970)
notes by Paul Oliver Arhoolie 1048 (US)
= Arhoolie AR 19004(Europe)
CBS 66232 inner gatefold DLPnotes by Paul Oliver CBS 66232 (UK 1970)= CBS 88630 (NL 1970)notes by Paul Oliver= CBS 66232 (It 1970)"La Storia del BluesVol. Due"other releases at discogs.com4 LP set(=) CBS 66426 (Fr 1972)"Vol. 1 & 2"= CBS LSP 14410 (Germany 1981)
DLPnotes by Paul Oliver CBS 66232 (UK 1970)
= CBS 88630 (NL 1970)
notes by Paul Oliver= CBS 66232 (It 1970)"La Storia del BluesVol. Due"
other releases at discogs.com
4 LP set(=) CBS 66426 (Fr 1972)"Vol. 1 & 2"
= CBS LSP 14410 (Germany 1981)
Kokomo K-1006 (UK 1971)
Kokomo Records discography
MCA-3526 (Jp 1975)
MCA MCA-3539 (Jp 1976)
Trio PA-3125 (Jp)
Trio Records discography
foreword by Francis Smithnotes by Paul Oliver Magpie PY 4415 (UK 1980)
(=) Magpie PYCD 15 (UK 1992)
Magpie Records discography
5 LP box set (80 tracks) Jass Box One (US 1987)
5 cassette set (80 tracks) (=) Jass JCB1-1 - JCB1-5 (US 1988)
2 CD set (50 tracks) (=) Jass JASS CD-11/12 (US 1989)
Stash/Jass Records discography
notes by Michael Hortig Wolf LP 120.910 (Austria 1987?)
Wolf CD 120.629
Rounder 2091
= Rounder CDROUN11559
Rounder Records discography
Documentary Arts DA (cassette)
www.docarts.com
Documentary Arts DA 105(cassette)
notes by Nick Ersdown[= Mike Rowe]Bluetime BT 2016 ("Denmark" 1989)
Wolf WSE 132 (Austria 1989)
RST-BD 2059 (Austria 1989)
= Story of Blues CD 3509-2 (1991)
notes by Michael Hortig Wolf 120.921 (Austria 1992)
not identical with Wolf CD 120.918 with same title !!!
4 disc setnotes by Lawrence Cohn and Pete Welding Columbia Legacy 47911/47912-15 (US 1992)
20 CD box set from 1975MCA Coral 6.30106 (Blues Box Vol. 1)and 1976 MCA Coral 30109= MCA Coral 82.040 (Blues Box Vol. 2) (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014)
from 1975MCA Coral 6.30106 (Blues Box Vol. 1)
and 1976 MCA Coral 30109= MCA Coral 82.040 (Blues Box Vol. 2) (=) Sony Music 88875043322 (US 2014)
Magpie PYCD 15
Magpie PY 4415+ four tracks fromMagpie PY 1815
notes by Paul Oliver Magpie PYCD 15
notes by Bill WestcottDocument DOCD 5178
notes by Chris Smith Ace CDCHD 526 (UK)
notes by Chris Strachwitz and Paul Oliver Arhoolie CD 408 (US 1994)
Arhoolie CD 108
Yazoo CD 2054
5 CD box66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)
Wolf 120.629
Ace CDCHD 813
Ace CDCHD 1057
4 CD setnotes by Neil SlavenJSP JSPCD 7796
I herewith confessthat I do not have the ambition to list each and every CD anthology / compilationcontaining only one (or two ;-) 'Whistling' Alex Moore track(s) !!!
thanks to Alan Balfour and Peter K. Siegel for additional info / scan / MP3