Johnny YoungJohn Oliver Young a/k/a "Man" Youngb. January 1, 1918 1917 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippid. April 18, 1974 dead on arrival at Osteopathic Hospital in Chicago, Illinoisburied at Lincoln Cemetery in Urbana, Illinoisdiscography
Ora Nelle 712 [Bernard Isaac Abrahams' (of Maxwell Radio Record Co.) label]
Planet 103/104 (US 1948) [Chester Scales' label?]
= Old Swing-Master 19 (US May 1949) [Egmont Sonderling's label]
J.O.B. unissued
Vee-Jay VJ 215 (US 1956)
Vee-Jay VJ 215 (Disc Jockey Advanced Sample)
Snooky Pryor discographyFloyd Jones discography
USA 768 (US 1963/64)
Otis Spann discography
Testament unreleased
Python PLP-KM 10 (UK 1969)Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (1999)Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (2004)
notes by Peter J. Welding "5851 Blackstone Avenue/Chicago 37, Illinois" "577 Levering Avenue/Los Angeles, Calif./90024" Testament S-01 (US 1964 ff.)BU 62 (May 1969), p. 26
notes by Peter J. Welding = Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1967)
notes by Peter J. Welding (=) Testament TCD-5007 (US 1994)
Testament Records discography
notes by Peter J. Welding "P.O. Box 1813/Chicago, Illinois, 60690" "577 Levering Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024" "Los Angeles, Calif." Testament T-2203 (US 1964 ff.)BU 25 (September 1965), p. 23
= Testament T-2203 (special re-release by OJL)
= Bounty BY 6025 (UK 1966)
= Polydor 545 031 (UK 1966)
(=) Testament TCD-5008 (US 1994)
= P-Vine PCD-5566 (Jp 1999)
Testament Records discographyBig Walter Horton discographyJohn Lee Granderson discographyMaxwell Street Jimmy discographyJohn Wrencher discography
notes by Pete Welding Storyville SLP 180 (Denmark c. 1965)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville 670180 (Germany 196?)
= Teichiku ULS-1815-R (Jp)
notes by Pete Welding = Poljazz PSJ 246 (Poland 1981)
= Storyville 2400291 (Portugal 19??)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville SLP 4035 "Blues Roots Vol. 1"
Storyville Records discography
notes by Pete Welding Storyville SLP 181 (Denmark 1964)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville 670181 (Germany 196?)
= Storyville SLP 842 (Denmark 1979)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville PSLP-842 (Portugal 4/1983)
notes by Pete Welding = Poljazz PSJ 248 (Poland 1983)
notes by Pete Welding = Storyville SLP 4036 (Switzerland 1985) "Blues Roots Vol. 2"
Storyville Records discographyBig Joe Williams discographyBig John Wrencher discographyJohn Lee Granderson discographyBlind Connie Williams discographyLeroy Dallas discographyDoug Quattlebaum discography
notes by Charles Radcliffe post-war blues pwb 1 (UK 1965)
pwb discography
notes by Chris A. Strachwitz Blues Classics BC 8 (US 1965)
Blues Classics discography
notes by Pete Welding "Milestone Records Inc., 22 West 48th Street, New York, N. Y. 10036" Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1966 ff.)
notes by Pete Welding "Milestone Records are distributed by Fantasy Records, 10th and Parker, Berkeley, California 94710" = Milestone MLP-3002 (mono) (US 1972?)
Milestone MSP-93002 (stereo) most likely never happened, 'cause all musical content only existed in mono!
notes by Pete Welding "Made in France by Pathé Marconi" = Milestone 2C 062-94300 M (Fr 1973)
Milestone Records discography
Testament unissued
# Storyville SLP 180
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires discography
notes (1966) by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, P.O. Box 5073, Berkeley 5, Calif. Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1966)
notes by Pete Welding = Fontana 688 809 ZL (UK 1967?)
notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, Box 9195, Berkeley, Ca. 94709 Arhoolie AR 19023 (Fr 1972)
notes by Pete Welding Arhoolie Records, 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530 Arhoolie F 1029 (US 1987)
notes (1966 & 1968) by Pete Welding (=) Arhoolie CD 325 (US 1990) (along with most of Arhoolie F 1037)
= P-Vine PCD-24106 (Jp 2002)
(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp 20??) (along with all of Arhoolie F 1037)
Arhoolie Records discographyFontana Records discographyOtis Spann discography
Arhoolie 45-515 (US 1966)
notes by Mike Leadbitter Decca LK 4748 (UK 1966)
original notes by Mike Leadbitter = Flyright LP 521 (UK 1976)
notes by Mike Leadbitter = Decca TAB 63 (UK 1983) (Rock Echoes series)
Flyright Records discography
notes by Sam Charters Vanguard VRS 9218 (US 1966)
notes by Sam Charters = Fontana TFL 6070 (UK 12/1966)
= Vanguard VMD 79218 (US 1989)
add'l releases @ discogs
3 CD setnotes by Ed Ward(=) Vanguard 3VCD 172/74-2 (1999)
3xLP box set Vanguard VSD-79216/7/8 (180 g; remastered) (UK 2009)
Fontana Records discographyJohnny Shines discography
notes by Pete Welding Testament T-2211 (US 1966) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"
notes by Pete Welding Testament T-2211 (US 19??) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"
notes by Pete Welding = Bounty BY-6037 (UK 1967) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"
notes by Pete Welding = Polydor 545 030 (UK 1969) "Nobody Knows My Troubles"
notes by Pete Welding Testament T-2211 (Special re-release by OJL) (US 198?) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"
notes by Pete Welding (=) Testament TCD 5005 (US 1994) "Otis Spann's Chicago Blues"
Testament Records discographyOtis Spann discographyJohnny Shines discographyWalter Horton discography
Testament T-2213 (US 1967)
= Testament TCD 5020 (US 1995)
notes by Pete Welding Testament T-2215 (US 1968)
= Testament TCD 5010 (US 1994)
= P-Vine PCD-5363 (Jp)
notes (April 1968) by Pete Welding Arhoolie F 1037 (US 1968)
(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp) (all of Arhoolie F 1029 and Arhoolie F 1037)
Arhoolie Records discography
2-disc packagenotes by Pete Welding Arhoolie R2001/2002 (US 1968)
= Stateside SR-9323B (Jp 1972)
Python PLP-KM 10 (UK 1969)
Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (1999)Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (2004)
Python Records discographyOtis Spann discography
Testament T-2218 (US 1969)
= Testament T-2218 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)
notes by Top Topham Blue Horizon BM 4609 (US 1969) "Blues Masters Vol. 9"
notes (January 1970) by Top Topham = Blue Horizon 7-63852 (UK 1970) "Fat Mandolin"
notes by Michael Vernon (=) Blue Horizon / Columbia 88697079152 (UK 2007) "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions"[on the 2007 release half the tracks were remixed a half-step too slow !!!]
notes by Michael Vernon (=) Blue Horizon / Columbia 88697379322 (US 2008) "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions"["Thanks to Gerry Hundt, [...] for being the first person to alert us to a certain 'pitch' problem - now fully rectified."]
notes by Len Kunstadt Spivey 1013
Spivey Records discography
Blue Horizon unissued
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 Pete Welding Testament T-2220 (US 1970)BW 36 (November 1970), p. 14BU 79 (January 1971), p. 27
= Testament T-2220 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 198?)
= Testament TCD-5006 (US 1994)
= P-Vine PCD-5580 (Jp)
Testament Records discographyJohn Lee Granderson discographyCarl Martin discographyBig John Wrencher discographyJohnny Young discography
DLP Vanguard VSD-1/2 (US 1970)
(=) Vanguard VMS-73125 (US 1986) "The Best Of The Chicago Blues Vol. 1"
DLPBlue Horizon SPR 45/46
2 LP setnotes by Mike Leadbitter CBS 66278 (UK 1971)
DLP accompanying the book by the same title: Mike Leadbitter (ed.): Nothing But The Blues.- London / New York (Hanover Books / Oak Publications) 1971
[that album obviously had pressing problems which caused its withdrawal soon after release]
notes by Al Smith Blues on Blues BOB 10005
Blues on Blues discography
DLPnotes by Leroy J. Pierson Boogie Disease BD 101/2 [Leroy Pierson's first (one record) label, 500 copies only]
Newport Folk Festival discographyMississippi John Hurt discographyReverend Gary Davis discographyReverend Robert Wilkins discographySkip James discographySleepy John Estes discographyYank Rachell discographyHammie Nixon discographyRobert Pete Williams discographyJesse Fuller discographyJohn P. Hammond discographyDave Van Ronk discography, Vanguard 3VCD 193/95-2] @ youtube Otis Rush - I't's A Mean Old World
Vanguard VCD 25/26: Homesick James - Set A Date (2:44) John Lee Hooker - Dusty Road (3:05) Muddy Waters - Nineteen Years Old (4:55) Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues (2:40) Mance Lipscomb - Blues In G (3:33) Mississippi John Hurt - Moanin' The Blues (3:15) Johnny Shines - Dynaflow Blues (2:35) Sonny Terry - Mountain Blues (3:04) Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - It's All Right, Baby (2:30) Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key To The Highway (3:38) Otis Spann - Burning Fire (3:15) Lightning Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues (5:36) Big Bill Broonzy - Louise, Louise Blues (2:55) Johnny Young - Tighten Up On It (3:06) James Cotton - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:23) Jimmy Rushing - How Long, How Long Blues (4:45) Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:10) J.B. Hutto - Please Help (2:52) Fred McDowell - Fred's Rambling Blues (2:05) Robert Pete Williams - On My Way From Texas (3:43) Otis Rush - It's A Mean Old World (2:22)
gatefold DLPnotes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1972)
gatefold DLPnotes Leroy J. Pierson = Vanguard VSD 25/26 (Fr 1972)
DLP, no gatefold, but 2-page leaflet notes Leroy J. Pierson Vanguard VSD 25/26 (US 1986)
notes Leroy J. Pierson (=) Vanguard VCD 25/26 (US 1988)
lots of further editions at www.discogs.com
gatefold DLPnotes (German & English) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos Atlantic 60036 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1973) "The 10th American Folk Blues Festival - 'Blues Giants - Rock Creators'"
gatefold DLPnotes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos = L+R 42.018 (Germany 1980) "American Folk Blues Festival '72"= L+R LRC-2018 (cassette) (Germany 1980)
= Edigsa/L+R 12A0272 (Sp 1981)
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Optimism/L+R LR CD-2018 (US 1991?)
notes (English only) by Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (=) Bellaphon/L+R CDLS 42018 (Germany 1998?)
American Folk Blues Festival discographyL+R Records discographyBukka White discographyBig Joe Williams discographyRobert Pete Williams discographyRoosevelt Sykes discographyJimmy Rogers discographyWhispering Smith discographyLightnin' Slim discographyJimmy Dawkins discography
Rounder 2005 (US 1973)
= Dargil 2005 (Portugal 1979)
notes (in German) by Anonymous = Pläne PL 88128 (Germany 1979)
= Chicago Sound Recordings SCR 2005 [Bob Riedy's label]www.chicagosoundrecords.com
Rounder Records discographyJohn Littlejohn discographyJimmy Rogers discography
notes by Al Smith Bluesway BLS 6075 (US 1974)
St. George STG-1001 track sequence: Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711] Othum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711] Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - Little Store Blues (tk 1) Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 712] Boll Weevil - Christmas Time Blues Johnny Temple - Olds 98 Blues Sleepy John Estes - Stone Blind Johnny Williams & Johnny Young - Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712] Boll Weevil - Thinkin' Blues Johnny Young - Money Taking Woman (tk 2) [Barrelhouse BH-004] Othum Brown & Little Walter - Ora Nelle Blues (tk 2) Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - Little Store Blues (tk 1) Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 2) Sleepy John Estes - Harlem Bound rec. 1947/48 in Bernard and Red Abrams' Maxwell Street record shop for the Ora Nelle label all tracks (except where noted) previously unissued artwork / design by George Paulus
notes by George Paulus Barrelhouse BH-004 (US 1974)
= St. George STG-1001 (1983) "Chicago Boogie! 1947"improved sound
notes by Kiyoshi Nagata and George Paulus = P-Vine PCD-1888 (Jp 1993)
= P-Vine PLP-6714 (Jp 1998)
Barrelhouse Records discographySt. George Records discography
notes by Pete Welding Testament T-2226 (US 1975)
notes by Pete Welding = Testament T-2226 (Special Re-Release by OJL) (US 19??)
= Testament TCD 5003 (US 1994)
= P-Vine PCD-5564 (Jp)
Testament Records discographyBig John Wrencher discographyJohn Lee Granderson discography
accompanying flyer
gatefold DLP notes by Manfred Miller (English translation by Christa M. Gowing) Storyville 6.28470 (Germany 1979)to read liner notes click on pictures of covers: G = German / E = English text has been black/white reversed to improve readability
= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044 (Yugoslavia 1981)
Teichiku ULS-1913-JY (Jp 1979)
J.B. Lenoir discographySnooky Pryor discographyFloyd Jones discography
notes by Leroy Pierson Nighthawk 107 (US 1980)
Nighthawk Records discography
notes by Bez Turner Charly CRB 1042 (UK 1982)
notes by Mike Rowe Red Lightnin' RL 0055 (UK 1985)
= P-Vine PCD-5332 (Jp 1998) "Muddy Waters, Junior Wells & Buddy Guy ..."
Red Lightnin' Records discography
notes by Klaus KilianFlyright FLYCD 20
= Paula PCD-11 (1991 US)
Flyright Records discographySnooky Pryor discography
(Testament 2216announced, but not issued)
Testament TCD 5021 (US 1995)
= P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp)
Delta DCD-1874 (US 1995)
Arhoolie CD 590 (US 1996)
= Ace CDCHD 590 (UK 1996)
Arhoolie CD 102 (UK 1996)
Arhoolie CD 108 (US 1997)
notes by Dick Shurman Testament TCD 6001 (US 1997)
notes (September 1997) by Frank Scott Testament TCD 6006 (US 1997)
Testament Records discographyCarl Martin discographyJohn Lee Henley discographyJohn Lee Granderson discography
notes by Frank Scott Testament TCD 6004 (US 1997)
Testament Records discographyYank Rachell discographyJohn Lee Henley discographyCarl Martin discographyBig John Wrencher discographyLittle Walter discography
notes (March 1998) by Frank Scott Testament TCD 5031 (US 1998)
Testament Records discographyJohn Lee Granderson discographyCarl Martin discography
notes by Frank Scott Testament TCD 6011 (US 1998)
= P-Vine PCD-5575 (Jp)
Testament Records discographyBig John Wrencher discographyCarl Martin discographyLittle Walter discographyLittle Walter discography
Arhoolie/Ace CD 527 (UK 1999)
2 CD setnotes by Scott Barretta, Björn Helander, Peps Persson, Sven Zetterberg & Louise Hoffsten Jefferson Records SBACD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)
Indigo IGOCD 2095 (UK 1999)
2 CD setwith 62-pp. booklet P-Vine PCD-5527/28 (Jp 1999)
3 CD setnotes by Colin Talcroft with Allan Murphy (=) Rooster CD ROO2641 (US 2000)
3 CD set (=) Catfish KAT3D1 (UK 2000)
Catfish Records (UK) discography
5 CD box66-pp. booklet by Chris Strachwitz, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt & Elijah Wald Arhoolie CD 491 (US 2000)
Westside WESA 869 (UK 2001)
Snooky Pryor discography
3-CD Setnotes by Ed Ward Vanguard 3VCD 208-10 (Germany 2002)= Vanguard CD 79715 (US 2003)
2 CD setnotes writer's name not given, most likely Leif Gäverth Jefferson Records SBACD 12658/9 (Sweden 2004)
notes by Paul Oliver Arhoolie CD 510 (US 2005)
on front cover: Sleepy John Estes' hands cropped from a 1962 photo by Georges Adins
Rockin Blues LP_RB 19922
112-pp. booklet notes by Bill Dahl Bear Family BCD 17231 (Germany 2014)
5 CD set Wienerworld WNRCD5100 (US/EU 2017)
thanks to Jean-Pierre Urbain, Joe Louis, Alan Balfour, Scott Dirks, Mark Sinclair Harris, Benoît Billot, Charlie Musselwhite, Tom Morris, Kari Kempas, Jan Sjöström, Drew Hines and Don Deering for additional info / scans
Johnny Young & Big John Wrencher, Chicago, 1966source: Booklet accompanying Jefferson Records SABCD 12653/4 (Sweden 1999)"I Blueskvarter, Chicago, 1964, Volume One", no pagination; photographer: Clas Ahlstrand
"Huston Phillip"'s drum, Johnny Young, Big John Wrencher & Carey Bellat the corner of 14th and Newberry St., Chicago, ILsource: Back cover of Testament T-2203 (re-release by OJL 19??) "Modern Chicago Blues"photographer: Peter J. Welding
Johnny Young 30/10/1972 at Salle Pleyel Paris(American Folk Blues Festival '72)
Johnny Young entry by Tony Russellin Tony Russell & Chris Smith with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell & Joe Faulkner: The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings.- London/New York/Toronto (Penguin Books), 2006, p. 734