Paramount 12717

= Broadway 5089 (as by Blind Joe Donnell)

= Herwin 93008 (as by Blind Tim Russell)

= Herwin 93029 (as by Blind Jeremiah Taylor)

Paramount 12744

= Herwin 93027 (as by Blind Jeremiah Taylor)

= Jazz Collector L129

= Tempo R55

Paramount 12780

Paramount 12822

= Broadway 8151 (as by Carver Boys)

Paramount 13020

Paramount 13094

Banner 32631

= Melotone M12537

Banner 32795
= Melotone M12728
= Oriole 8241
= Perfect 0244
= Romeo 5141

Banner 32437
= Oriole 8139

= Perfect 0208

= Romeo 5139

Banner 32794
= Melotone M12727
= Oriole 8240
= Perfect 0243
= Romeo 5240

Banner 32438
= Oriole 8140

= Perfect 0209

Banner 32527 (US 1932)

= Oriole 8159 (US 1932)

= Perfect 0213 (US 1932)

= Romeo 5159 (US 1932)

Banner 32858
= Melotone M12785
= Oriole 8267

= Perfect 0257

= Romeo 5267

# Conqueror 8244

Banner 32859

= Melotone M12786

= Oriole 8268

= Perfect 0258

= Romeo 5268

Banner 32905
= Melotone M12846
= Oriole 8286
= Perfect 0263
= Romeo 5286

Banner 32918 (US 1933)

= Melotone M12861 (US 1933)

= Oriole 8289 (US 1933)

= Perfect 0264 (US 1933)

= Romeo 5289 (US 1933)

Banner 33095

= Conqueror 8455

Banner 33135

Banner 33046
= Melotone M13008
= Oriole 8332

= Perfect 0277

Banner 33024
= Melotone M12983
= Oriole 8326

= Perfect 0276

= Romeo 5326

Banner 33229
= Melotone M13196
= Oriole 8388
= Perfect 0299

= Romeo 5388

Banner 33268
= Melotone M13235
= Oriole 8303

= Perfect 0303

Banner 33148
= Melotone M13115

= Oriole 8374

= Perfect 0294

= Romeo 5374

= Conqueror 8451

Banner 33361

= Melotone M13328
= Oriole 8440

= Perfect 0316

= Romeo 5440

Banner 33389

= Melotone M13356
= Oriole 8450
= Perfect 0318

= Romeo 5450

Banner 33404

= Melotone M13371
= Oriole 8456
= Perfect 0320
= Romeo 5456

Banner 33460

= Melotone M13427
= Oriole 8479

= Perfect 0330

= Romeo 5479

Banner 33447

= Melotone M13414
= Oriole 8473
= Perfect 0328
= Romeo 5473

Banner 33419
= Melotone M13386
= Oriole 8463
= Perfect 0324
= Romeo 5463

Melotone 5-11-59

= Perfect 5-11-59

Melotone 5-11-60
= Perfect 5-11-60
= Oriole 5-11-60
= Romeo 5-11-60

Melotone 5-12-51

= Perfect 5-12-51

= Romeo 5-12-51

ARC unissued

Oriole 6-05-51

= Perfect 6-05-51

set of three 78 rpm records

Musicraft album N 3 "Night Life in New York"

set of three 78 rpm records
 
Musicraft album N 3 (= 248, 249, 250)

Musicraft 248

Musicraft 249

Musicraft 250

Musicraft 248

rec. March 7, 1940 in New York City; Josh White, voc, g; Sidney Bechet, cl; Wilson Myers, sb

from liner notes:
"Columbia Records proudly presents what is perhaps the most genuine folk music of our times...seven Negro laments of the chain gang sung by Joshua White and his Carolinians"

set of four 78 rpm records

Columbia album C-22 (US 7/1940)

Columbia 35559 (C22-1/-2)

Columbia 35560 (C22-3/-4)

Columbia 35561 (C22-5/-6)

Columbia 35562 (C22-7/-8)

Columbia 36202

Columbia 36237

Library of Congress AFS 06092 - 06095

Library of Congress AFS 06092 - 06095

Library of Congress AFS 06092 - 06095

"[Eric] Bernay released the album in May 1941. Fearing political repercussions, he was reluctant to release it on Keynote, so 'Songs for John Doe' appeared on the 'Almanac' label. On June 22, 1941, Hitler's armies invaded the Soviet Union. With the non-agression pact broken, pacifism was out of the question. Bernay quickly pulled 'Songs for John Doe' and Paul Robeson's Spring Song from distribution and reportedly destroyed the remaining inventory. The songs that launched the Almanac Singers just four months earlier were now hopelessly out of date."

"In summer 1942 the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- believing the Almanac Singers' seditious antiwar messages were still offered for sale -- began searching for the company behind its distribution. After months checking pressing plants around New York City, agents learned that the album was a Keynote production. 'When the FBI finally walked into the office of Keystone Records,' David King Dunaway wrote, 'the manager boldly told them the discs were collector's items: 'Things have changed since those were recorded.'"

set of three 78 rpm


 

1101-A/B

1102-A/B

1103-A/B

Almanac Records 102 (a Keynote production)

(=) Bear Family BCD 15720 JL (Germany 1996)

set of three 78 rpm records
 
Keynote album 106 (= 301 + 302 + 303)

Keynote 301-A/B

Keynote 302-A/B

Keynote 303-A/B

(=) Bear Family BCD 15720 JL (Germany 1996)

All songs original compositions, collaborations between Josh White and the Harlem Renaissance poet Waring Cuney

Josh White and the Protest Blues by Elijah Wald

set of three 78 rpm records
notes by Richard Wright

Keynote album 107 (= 514 + 515 +516)

Keynote 514

Keynote 515

set of three 78 rpm records
 
Keynote album 125 (= 541 + 542 + 543)
Keynote 541

Keynote 542

Keynote 543

tracks on Jasmine CD:
- Who's That Knocking At My Door?
- There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears
- The Way He Loves... Is Just Too Bad
- Am I Blue?
- Moanin' Low
- Can't We Be Friends?
- I'm Doin' What I'm Doin' For Love
- I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)
- Here Am I
- Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love
- When A Woman Loves A Man
- A Ship Without A Sail
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- Body And Soul
- Something To Remember You By
- I'm One Of God's Children (Who Hasn't Got Wings)
- Love For Sale
- You And The Night And The Music
- When You Love Only One
- Baby, Baby
- Hansom' Winsome Johnny / On Top Of Old Smoky
- The House Of The Risin' Sun
- When The Sun Goes Down Down
- Good Morning Blues
- Fare Well Honey / Fare Thee Well

set of three 78 rpm records

Decca 316

Decca 18305

Jasmine JASCD 129 (2005) "The Scandalous Libby Holman - Something To Remember Her By"

- UAW-CIO (The Union Boys, Pete Seeger, g)
- A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Any More (The Union Boys, Tom Glazer, g)

346-3
- Sally Don't You Grieve (Woody Guthrie, voc, g & Cisco Houston, voc)

set of three 78 rpm records

Asch Records A346 (US 1944)

346-1

346-2

Langston Hughes' liner notes ("Josh White Sings Easy")
"You could call Josh White the Minstrel of the Blues, except that he is more than a Minstrel of the Blues. The Blues are Negro music, but, although he is a Negro, Josh is a fine folk-singer of anybody's songs - southern Negro or southern white, plantation work-songs or modern union songs, English or Irish ballads - any songs that come from the heart of the people. (...)"

set of three 78 rpm records

Asch Recordings 348 (US 1944)

different, most likely earlier label design

Asch 348-1

Asch 348-2

- Mule Skinner Blues (work blues) (Ma 12) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger   @ youtube
- 900 Miles (railroad song) (Ma 85) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Baldwin Hawes, Bess Lomax   @ youtube

432-2
- Glory (spiritual) (688) - Sonny Terry, Alek, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston   @ youtube
- Poor Lazarus (bad man ballad) (Ma 56) - Woody Guthrie   @ youtube

- Biggest Thing (nonsense ballad) (Ma 15) - Woody Guthrie   @ youtube

432-4
- Cindy (country dance) (Ma 52) - Pete Seeger and Orchestra   @ youtube
- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet (Tennessee Mountain Song) (Ma 27) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston   @ youtube

set of four 78 rpm records

Mary Lou Williams, Nora Lee King
- Until My Baby Comes Home   @ youtube
Champion Jack Dupree
- Too Evil To Cry   @ youtube

550-3
Sonny Terry
- Lonesome Train   @ youtube
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston
- Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way   @ youtube

set of three 78 rpm records

"I Left A Good Deal In Mobile"
"Williams, bass; Arthur Trappier, drums" in last row

"Left A Good Deal In Mobile"
"bass; Arthur Trappier, drums" in last row

"Left A Good Deal In Mobile"
"Arthur Trappier, drums" in last row

set of two 78 rpm records

Disc Album 661 (US 1945)

Disc 3004 (223/220)

Disc 3005 (222/221)

set of four 78 rpm records
6-pp. booklet with a bio and song texts by Alan Lomax

23651

23652

23653

23654

Decca Album No. A-447 (US 10/1946)

Apollo 157 (US 1947) [Ike and Bess Berman's label, with Hy Siegel & Sam Schneider]

Decca Album No. A-447 (US 10/1946)

10-inch album
notes by Alan Lomax

Decca DL 5082 (US 1949)

10-inch album

Mercury LAB 25014 (US 1949)

= Mercury MLP 7042 (Fr 1949)

10-inch album

= Mercury MG 25014 (US 1950)

10-inch album
or or "Made in England by Oriole Records Ltd."
= Mercury MG 25014 (UK 1954) "Strange Fruit"

10-inch album

= EmArcy 26010 (US 1954) "Strange Fruit"

10-inch LP
notes by Alan Lomax

Decca DL 5247 (US 1950)

10-inch album

Stinson SLP 14 (US 1950) [Herbert Harris' label]


= Stinson SLP 14


= Stinson SLP 14 (US 1963)


= Stinson SLP 14

(+IP tax code = Dec. 1950 - Apr. 1953)

(N tax code = Apr. 1953 - Oct. 1955)

(+IP tax code = Dec. 1950 - Apr. 1953)

(+IP tax code = Dec. 1950 - Apr. 1953)

(+IP tax code = Dec. 1950 - Apr. 1953)
London L.1028 (UK 5/1951)

Super Majestic SBBH 1600 track sequence:
- Call Me Darling
- Like A Natural Man
- The Lass With The Most Delicate Air
- Barbara Allen
- Foggy Foggy Dew
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
- On Top Of Old Smokey

- Apples, Peaches And Cherries
- Take A Girl Like You
- Waltzing Matilda
- Lonesome Road
- Molly Malone
- He Never Said A Mumbling Word
- I Want You And I Need You

10-inch LP

London H-APB 1005 (UK 1951) "A Josh White Program"

10-inch LP

= London LPB 338 (US 1951) "Ballads" // "A Josh White Program"

Columbia D.B. 3108 (UK 1952)

10-inch album

Stinson SLP 15

Stinson SLP 15


= Stinson SLP 15 (US 1952)


= Stinson SLP 15

Decca Album No. A-447 (US 10/1946)
Decca DL 5082 (US 1949)

10-inch LP

Brunswick LA 8562 (UK 1952)

London LL-1341 (US) track sequence:
- Barbara Allen (DR 15948)
- Waltzing Matilda (DR 15945)
- Lonesome Road (DR 15947)
- The Lass With The Delicate Air (DR 15950)
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (DR 15303)
- Molly Malone (DR 15304)

- Foggy, Foggy Dew (DR 15305)
- Take A Gal Like You (DR 15306)
- Call Me Darling (DR 15949)
- He Never Said A Mumbling Word (DR 15951)
- Like A Natural Man (DR 15308)
- Apples, Peaches And Cherries (DR 15311)

Super Majestic SBBH 1600 track sequence:
- Call Me Darling
- Like A Natural Man
- The Lass With The Most Delicate Air
- Barbara Allen
- Foggy Foggy Dew
- I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
- On Top Of Old Smokey

- Apples, Peaches And Cherries
- Take A Girl Like You
- Waltzing Matilda
- Lonesome Road
- Molly Malone
- He Never Said A Mumbling Word
- I Want You And I Need You

10-inch LP

London H-APB 1032 (UK 1954) "Josh White sings Volume 2"

10-inch LP

= London LB-1057 (US 1954) "Josh White sings Volume 2"

LP
 
(=) London LL-1341 (US 1954) "A Josh White Program"

10 inch 33 1/3 rpm gatefold DLP
notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Jac Holzman

Elektra JH-701 (US 1955)

- Casey Jones
- Hard Traveling - Woody Guthrie
- Bile Dem Cabbage Down - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry

- Yellow Gal - Leadbelly
- Lost John - Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry
- The Roving Gambler - Cisco Houston
- Railroad Whistle - Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie

12 inch Stinson SLPX-9:
- Yellow Gal - Leadbelly
- Hard Traveling - Woody Guthrie
- The Roving Gambler - Cisco Houston
- Lost John - Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry
- Casey Jones
- Railroad Whistle - Sonny Terry & Woody Guthrie

- Bile Dem Cabbage Down - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry

- Shenandoah
- Bennington Riffleman
- Cumberland
- Mountain Bear Chase
- Stewball
- Sowing On The Mountain
- Down In The Willow Garden
- T For Texas
- Cripple Creek

10 inch LP
notes by Ken Goldstein

Stinson SLP-9

Period SPL 1209 track list:
Josh White comes a-visitin'
- Bonbons, Chocolate, And Chewing Gum
- You Know Baby
- She's Too Much For Me
- When The Dark Clouds Roll By
- Come Along Charlie
- Bury Me High
- Evil-Hearted Man #
- Go Away From My Window

Big Bill Broonzy sings
- Hey Bud Blues
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Letter To My Baby
- Do Right Blues
- Make My Getaway
- Backwater Blues
- Lowland Blues
- Hollerin' And Cryin' The Blues

rec. 1956 in New York, NY; Josh White, voc, g; Sam Benskin, org; Al Hall, b; Jimmy Crawford, dr; Beverley White, Bill White, Sam Gary, voc grp (except #)

10 inch LP

Livingston 1085 (US)

= Period SPL 1115 (US)

= London H-APB 1038 (UK)

Archive of Folk Music FS-209
= Everest EVFS-209

= JOC 30 FS 109 (Fr)

notes by Nina Merrick & Kenneth S. Goldstein

= Elektra EKL 102

= Ducrete-Thomson 310 V 018 (Fr)

= Vogue MDEKL9342 (Fr 1965)

notes by Nina Merrick & Kenneth S. Goldstein

Bounty 6001 (UK 1966)

"... Sam Gary Sings, the only solo recording of Josh (White)'s longtime friend and musical partner. Issued on London's Esquire Records and in the States on the short-lived Transition label, it purports to feature one Dean Laurence on guitar, and to have been recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but Laurence plays on only two cuts, and the dates would seem to place Josh and Gary in England. Wherever the record was made, most of it features Josh, tastefully framing Gary's vocals and adding vocal responses on 'Scandalize My Name,' a rewrite of 'Scandalous and a Shame', the song with which Josh had made his recording debute at age fourteen. Josh often backed Gary at parties and gave him solo spots on stage, but this was the only time Gary stepped out of his sideman role on disc." (Elijah Wald: Josh White - Society Blues.- p. 244)

notes by Dean Laurence [Dean Gitter]

Esquire 32-017 mono (UK 1956)
= Esquire 52-017 stereo

Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)
Transition Records founded by Tom Wilson

previously on
Esquire 32-017 mono / Esquire 52-017 stereo (UK 1956)
= Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)

notes by Dean Laurence [Dean Gitter]

Esquire EP 129 (UK 1956)

Metronome MEP 1076 (Denmark 1956)

Metronome MEP 1077 (Denmark 1956)

Metronome MEP 1081 (Denmark 1956)

previously on Esquire 32-017 mono / Esquire 52-017 stereo (UK 1956)
= Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)

notes by Dean Lawrence [Dean Gitter]

Esquire EP 159 (UK 1957)

previously on Esquire 32-017 mono / Esquire 52-017 stereo (UK 1956)
= Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)

notes by Dean Lawrence [Dean Gitter]

Esquire EP 189 (UK 1957)

Elektra EKL 114 (US 1957)

single 12 inch edition of the 10 inch DLP EKL 701

Elektra EKL 123 (US 1957)

Elektra EKL 158 (mono)
EKS 7158 (stereo)

Decca Album No. A-447 (US 10/1946)
Decca DL 5082 (US 1949)
Brunswick LA 8562 (UK 1952)

notes by Alan Lomax

Decca DL 8665 (US 1958)

= Decca DL 8665 (rainbow band label)

= Ace Of Hearts AH 65 (UK 1963)

ABC Paramount/Sparton 166

MFP 1139 (UK 1957) "The Josh White Stories - Good Morning Blues

- Hora Heachzut - Oranim Zabar Israeli Troupe
- Mary Had A Baby (Marily Child) - Glenn Yarbrough
- Beryuzoviye Kalyechke - Theodore Bikel
- Swannanoa Tunnel - Erik Darling
- Steel Meringue - The Original Trinidad Steel Band

- Kum Aher du Filozop - Theodore Bikel
- Johnson Boys - The Shanty Boys
- Ankaranin Tasina Bak - Cynthia Gooding
- Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Pete Seeger
- Il Est Petit - Gene and Francesca
- Which Is The Properest Day To Drink - Randolph Singers
- Stay Away From The Girls - Paul Clayton
- Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Lord Foodoo

+ booklet

Elektra SMP-5 (mono) (US 1958)

= Elektra SMP-5 (mono) (US 1960)

7 inch 45 rpm EP
notes by Frank Owen

Jazz Collector JEL 5 (UK 1959)

Bounty BY 6014 (UK 1960)

= Elektra EKL 193 (mono)
= Elektra EKS 7193 (stereo)

Storyville SLP 165 (Denmark)

= Mode Disques MDINT 9139 (Fr )

Elektra EKL 203 (mono) (US 1960)
= Elektra EKS 7203 (stereo)

Elektra EKL 211 (mono)
= Elektra EKS 7211 (stereo)

= PYE Golden Guinea GGL 0160

= Mode Disques MDINT 9126 (Fr)

Storyville SLP 123 (Denmark 1962)

Storyville ST 21007 (Fr 19??)

Storyville SEP 522

Storyville A 45058

Mercury MG 20724 (mono) (US 1963)
= Mercury SR 60724 (stereo)

= Mercury 20039 MCL (UK 1964)

= Mercury 125301 MCL (NL 196?)

Onacrest

Festival FL-7042 (Australia 195?)

3 LP box set

no label

Jelly Roll Anderson
- Free Women Blues
- I.C. Blues
Robert Wilkins
- Alabama Blues
- Long Train Blues
- Nashville Stonewall Blues
- Police Sergeant Blues
Skip James
- 22-20 Blues

Big Boy Cleveland
- Quill Blues
- Goin' To Leave You Blues
Willie Jones (Wllie Baker)
- Sweet Patunia
- Mama, Don't Rush Me Blues
Furry Lewis
- Why Don't You Come Home Blues
- Mean Old Bedbug Blues

Historical ASC-22
= Historical ASC-5829-22

notes by Larry Cohn

= Historical HLP-22

Down With The Game D 206

DLP

Elektra S3 10 (stereo)
= Elektra ESP 9001 (UK 1971)

Flyright LP 104 (UK 1972)

Sonny Terry
- Harmonica Blues

Virgil Childers
- Dago Blues
Buddy Moss
- When I'm Dead And Gone
Pink Anderson
- C.C. And O. Blues
Sonny Jones
- Won't Somebody Pacify My Mind
Bull City Red
- Richmond Blues
Curley Weaver
- Wild Cat Kitten

notes by Bruce Bastin

Flyright LP 107 (UK 1973?)

   
Yazoo 1040 (US 1974)

= Yazoo CD 1040 (US 1991)

Yazoo Records discography

notes by Steve Calt

Yazoo L-1053 (US 1976)

= Yazoo CD 1053 YAZ (US 19??)

= Air Mail Recordings AIRAC-1325 (Jp 2007)

= Yazoo 1053HLP [180g reissue LP]

The Nugrape Twins - I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape
Golden Eagle Gospel Singers - March, Children, March
Golden Eagle Gospel Singers - He's My Rock
Heavenly Gospel Singers - I'm Living Humble
Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Lie Alone
The Nugrape Twins - There's A City Built Of Mansions
Heavenly Gospel Singers - The Beautiful City
Rev. J. M. Gates And Congregation* - Scat To The Cat & Suie The Hog

Rev. J. M. Gates And Congregation - David & Uriah

Nugrape CBR-002 (Australia 1980)

- I'm On My Way Down Home
- Diddle-Da-Diddle
- She Looks So Good
- She's Coming Back Some Cold Rainy Day
- Bye Bye Mama
- Cold Country Blues
- Prowling Woman
- When I'm Dead And Gone

- Jealous Hearted Man
Buddy Moss With The Georgia Browns
- It Must Have Been Her
- Joker Man
- Back To My Used To Be *
- Broke Down Engine No. 2 *
- Some Lonesome Day *

notes by Bruce Bastin

Travelin' Man TM 800

Travelin' Man TMCD 05

- Red River Blues *
- Prowlin' Gambler Blues *
- Tampa Strut []
- Who Stole The Lock []
- When The Hearse Rolls Me []
- Insane Blues []
- Dough Rolling Papa []
- Some Lonesome Day []

- Jinx Man Blues []
- Evil Hearted Woman []
- Worrysome Woman []

reissue of Kokomo K 1003
(pitch errors rectified)

notes by Bruce Bastin

Travelin' Man TM 802

Travelin' Man TMCD 05

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)

Best of Blues B.o.B. 11