Harmonica
Frank   Floyd
b. October 11, 1908 in Toccopola, Mississippi
d. August 7, 1984 in Blanchester, Ohio
discography		H A R M O N I C A   F R A N K; from front cover of Adelphi AD 1023 
source: front cover of Adelphi AD 1023    

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All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.

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Harmonica Frank Floyd 78 rpm / 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
#year
of release		titlelabel # / notes
11951Harmonica Frank

- Swamp Root
- Going Away Walkin'		10 inch 78 rpm



Chess 1475
21951Harmonica Frank

- Swamp Root
- Step It Up And Go		10 inch 78 rpm



Chess 1475
31952Harmonica Frank

- Howlin' Tomcat
- She's Done Moved		10 inch 78 rpm




7 inch 45 rpm

Chess 1494
41954Harmonica Frank

- Rockin' Chair Daddy
- The Great Medical Menagerist		10 inch 78 rpm




7 inch 45 rpm

Sun 205
51958Frank Floyd With Musical Accom. /
Larry Kennon With Musical Accom.

- Rock A Little Baby
- Monkey Love		7 inch 45 rpm



F&L F-100
6197?Harmonica Frank & His Band /
Larry Kennon with Harmonica Frank

- Rock A Little Baby
- Monkey Love		7 inch 45 rpm

Mimosa 205
7196?Blues Classics Volume 3

Lonnie Coleman
- Old Rock Island Blues
Robert Lockwood
- Little Boy Blue
Wright Holmes
- Alley Blues
The Delta Boys
- You Shouldn't Say That
- Black Gal Swing
Barbeque Bob
- Ease It To Me Blues
Walter Roland
- 45 Pistol Blues
- Every Morning Blues
Willie McTell
- Kill It Kid

Kid Stormy Weather
- Short Haired Blues
Casey Bill
-WPA Blues
Harmonika Frank
- Tom Cat Blues
Memphis Minnie
- Bumble Bee Blues
Black Boy Shine
- Sugarland Blues
Son Bond
- 80 Highway
Willie McTell
- Broke Down Engine
Blues Classics BC 7

Blues Classics
discography

8196?Memphis And The Delta - 1950s

Houston Boines
- Relation Blues
Luther Huff
- Bull Dog Blues
Junior Brooks
- She's A Little Girl
Harmonica Frank
- Goin' Away Walking
Forest City Joe
- Memory Of Sonny Boy
Roosevelt Sykes
- West Helena Blues
Joe Hill Louis
- I Feel Like A Million

Sunnyland Slim
- Going Back To Memphis
Boyd Gilmore
- Rambling On My Mind
Drifting Slim
- Good Morning Blues
Willie Love
- Seventy Four Blues
James Cotton
- Cotton Crop Blues
Baby Face Turner
- Gonna Let You Go
Elmore James
- Please Find My Baby
Blues Classics BC 15

Blues Classics
discography

91966Memphis ....On Down
the post-war blues volume 2

Jimmy & Walter (Walter Horton & Jimmy De Berry)
- Easy
Joe Hill Louis
- Dorothy Mae
- When I Am Gone
Willie Love & His Three Aces
- Nelson Street Blues
- V-8 Ford
Levi Seabury & His Band
- Motherless Child Blues
Charley Booker
- Moonrise Blues
- Charley's Boogie Woogie

Harmonica Frank
- She's Done Moved
Junior Brooks
Lone Town Blues
Drifting Slim
- My Little Machine
- Down South Blues
Luther Huff
- Dirty Disposition
- 1951 Blues
Boyd Gilmore
- Take A Little Walk With Me
- All In My Dreams		notes by Mike Rowe



The Post War Blues pwb 2

PWB discography

9a1971Harmonica Frank

- Swamp Root
- Step It Up And Go

- Great Medical Menagerist
- Rockin' Chair Daddy		45 rpm EP

D&L
9b1973Genesis Vol. 2
The Beginnings of Rock: From Memphis to Chicago

Album 1 (6499 432)
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Work With Me
- Don't Start Me To Talking
- All My Love In Vain
- Good Evening Everybody
- You Killing Me (On My Feet)
- Let Me Explain
- I Know What Love Is All About

Sonny Boy Williamson
- I Wonder Why
- Your Imagination
Elmore James
- Country Boogie
- My Best Friend
- I See My Baby
- She Just Won't Do Right
- Muddy Shoes

Album 2 (6499 433)
Ethel Mae
- Down The Line
- Handsome Lover
- Sugar Papa
Robert Nighthawk
- Good News
- Six Three O
- Prison Bound
Forrest City Joe
- Mean Mistreatin' Woman

Forrest City Joe
- Lonesome Day Blues
Howlin' Wolf
- I'm Not Joking
- Moanin' At Midnight
- How Many More Years
- All Night Long
- No Place To Go

Album 3 (6499 434)
Jackie Brenston
- Rocket "88"
Doctor Ross
- Country Clown
- Doctor Ross Boogie
Willie Nix
- Truckin' Little Woman
- Just One Mistake
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- Open Your Book
- Tears In My Eyes (C-1023 [alt.])

Woodrow Adams
- Pretty Baby Blues
- She's Done Come And Gone
Joe Hill Louis
- Dorothy Mae
- When I Am Gone
Harmonica Frank
- Swamp Root
- Howlin' Tomcat
- She Done Moved

Album 4 (6499 435)
Sonny Boy Williamson
- Keep It To Yourself
- Please Forgive (Keep It To Yourself)
- The Key To Your Love
Howlin' Wolf
- Baby How Long
- Evil Is Goin' On
- Forty Four
- Who Will Be Next

Howlin' Wolf
- I Have A Little Girl
- Come To Me Baby
- Don't Mess With My Baby
- Smokestack Lightning
- You Can't Be Beat
- So Glad
- Break Of Day

compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven

4 LP box set



Chess 6641 125
(UK Phonogram)
101973The Great Original Recordings Of Harmonica Frank 1951 - 58

- Swamp Root
- Step It Up and Go
- Rock A Little Baby
- Howlin' Tomcat
- Goin' Away Walkin'

- The Great Medical Menagerist
- She Done Moved
- Monkey Love
- Howlin' Tomcat (alt. take)
- Rockin' Chair Daddy		notes by Steve LaVere



Puritan 3003
10a1974The Sun Story 1952 - 1968

Feelin Good
Rufus Thomas
Jimmy DeBerry & Walter Horton
Little Junior Parker's Blue Flames
Joe Hill Louis
Billy The Kid Emerson
The Prisonaires
The Five Tinos
Frank Frost
Hillbilly Fever
Harmonica Frank Floyd
- The Great Medical Menagerist
Carl Perkins
Warren Smith
The Miller Sisters
Eddie Bond
Dane Stinit

The Memphis Beat
Billy Lee Riley
Warren Smith
Ray Smith
Charlie Rich
Dickey Lee
Carl Mann
Barbarba Pittman
Roy Orbison
Sun In The 60s
Bill Pinkney
Sonny Burgess & Billy Lee Riley
Frank Frost
Dane Stinit
The Climates
The Jesters
 		DLP

Sun 6499 916 / 917

= Sun 6641 180 (UK)

111975Harmonica Frank Floyd:
Blues That Made The Roosters Dance

- New Fangled Café
- Jack & Jill Blues
- Lucille Blues
- Shampoo (The Whorehouse Special)
- Sweet Farm Girl
- Ditchin' Man Blues
- Beer Drinkin' Daddy
- What Key?

- Memphis To New Orleans
- Packin' That Stuff
- Shanghai Rooster Breakdown
- Sittin' On Top Of The World
- Snortin' The Blues
- Tribute To Jimmy Rogers
- Ring Tail Tom Cat Rag
- Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
 		click to enlarge !

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Barrelhouse BH-005

Barrelhouse
discography

121976Harmonica Frank Floyd

- Kansas City Blues
- Step It Up And Go
- Fox Chase
- Moonshiner's Daughter
- You Don't Know My Mind
- Anniversary Blue Yodel
- Memphis To New Orleans

- Rockin' Chair Daddy
- Ring Tailed Tom
- Married Man's Blues
- Sleepy Eyed John
- What Are You Squawkin About?
- Peckerwood Song
- Sittin' On Top Of The World

rec. at Adelphi Studios 1972, 1973, 1974; prod. by Steve LaVere and Gene Rosenthal; illustration by Bangham




Adelphi AD 1023

Adelphi discography

12a1977The Best Of Sun Rockabilly Vol. 1

- Put Your Cat Clothes On - Carl Perkins
- Rockin' Chair Daddy - Harmonica Frank
- Slow Down - Jack Earls
- Domino - Roy Orbison
- Come On Little Mama - Ray Harris
- Ten Cats Down - Miller Sisters
- Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith
- We Wanna Boogie - Johnny Burgess

- Rock With Me Baby - Billy Riley
- Milkshake Mademoiselle - Jerry Lee Lewis
- Romp And Stomp - Slim Rhodes
- Drinking Wine - Gene Simmons
- Rockin' With My Baby - Malcolm Yelvington
- Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson
- Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache - Warren Smith
- Uranium Rock - Warren Smith
Charly CR 30123 (UK)
131980The Sun Box

Harmonica Frank
- Rockin' Chair Daddy (Sun 205)
Dr. Ross
- The Boogie Disease
3 LP set

Charly SUNBOX 100
141986Memphis: Beale Street Breakdown
Chess Blues Archives Vol. 3

Doctor Ross
- Doctor Ross Boogie
- Country Clown
Walter Horton
- Walter's Boogie
- West Winds Are Blowing
Willie Nix
- Truckin Little Woman
- Just One Mistake
Harmonica Frank
- Swamp Root

Harmonica Frank
- Goin' Away Walkin'
- Howlin' Tomcat
- She Done Moved
Joe Hill Louis
- When I'm Gone
- Dorothy Mae
LJ Thomas
- Baby Take A Chance With Me
- Sam's Drag
P-Vine PLP 6073 (Jp)
151986Step It Up And Go
Memphis Rockabilly

Ramon Maupin
- Rocking Rufus
- What's The Use
Harmonica Frank
- Rock A Little Baby (F&L F-100)
- Memphis To New Orleans
- Step It Up And Go [alt. vers.]
- Rockin' Chair Daddy [alt. vers.]
- Monkey Love (F&L F-100)

Marcus Van Story
- Get With It
Red Hadley
- Rockin' With Red
Malcolm Yelvington
- Goodbye Marie [vers. 3]
- Way Down Blues
Smokey Joe
- Start All Over Again
- Perfect Girl
Harold Dorman
- I'll Come Running
Redita LP 130 (NL)
15a19??Stompin' The Country Blues
Volume 22

Freddy King
- That's What You Think
Dennis McMillion
- Going Back Home
Harmonica Frank
- Rock A Little Baby
Jesse Belvin
- Goin' Away Baby
Tommy McClennan
- I Love My Baby
Albert & Charles
- Weird
Clifford King
- Chicken Shack Boogie
J&J Deuce
- Sweet Woman Blues

Clifford King
- Want To Jump With You Baby
Jesse Pipkin
- Work With It
Clear Waters
- Hillbilly Blues
Emright
- One Of These Days
Morris Pejoe
- Tired Of Crying Over You
Country Paul
- Sidewalk Boogie
Richard Bros
- Drunk Drivers Coming
Elmon Mickle
- Jackson Blues
Stompin' ST 122
161994Memphis Blues Caravan, Vol. 1

Sam Chatmon
- Forgive Me Too
Big Sam Clark
- I Fell in Love With This Woman
Sonny Boy Nelson
- Pony Blues
Earl Bell
- Travelin' Blues
Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon
- President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long
- Yellow Yam Blues
Bukka White
- Bed Springs Blues
Furry Lewis
- Mary Tell-Blues/Mother Story
Harmonica Frank
- Goin' Away Happy
Houston Stackhouse
- Crying Won't Help You
Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys
- Me And The Devil Blues		click to enlarge !
Memphis Archives
CD 7008
171997Harmonica Frank:
The Great Medical Menagerist

- Mosquito Bar Britches
- Blue Yodel #6
- Swamproot
- Tour De Floyd
- Great Medical Menagerist
- Sweet Temptation
- Howlin' Tomcat
- Shampoo
- Blue Yodel #7
- Steppin' To Convington
- Movement Like An Elgin
- Knothole Blues

rec. July 1972; previously unreleased recordings; prod. by Gene Rosenthal


Adelphi/Genes GCD 9905

= Edsel EDCD 384 (UK)

Adelphi discography

182002Harmonica Frank: The Missing Link

- Rocking Chair Daddy
- Swamp Root
- Married Man's Blues
- Moonshiner's Daughter
- Shoop-A-Boop-A-Doodler
- What Are You Squawking About
- Howlin' Tomcat
- Deep Elum Blues
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Step It Up And Go
- From Memphis To New Orleans
- The Great Medical Menagerist
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo
- Without My Teeth
- Sweet Farm Girl
- You Don't Know My Mind

rec. live at: Bartlett High School in Memphis on May 10, 1979, Farmington Elementary School in Memphis on May 11, 1979 and at BR Toad Studio in Memphis May 1979; recording engineered and mixed by David Less and Jim Dickinson

notes by Nick Tosches

Merless Records /
Memphis Int. CD 201
192009Harmonica Frank Floyd: Rock A Little Baby
You Say A White Man Can't Know The Blues?

- Rock A Little Baby
- Rockin' Chair Daddy
- Swamp Root
- Step It Up & Go
- Howlin' Tomcat
- The Great Medical Menagerlst
- She Done Moved
- Goin' Away Walkin'
- Shampoo
- Mosquito Bar Britches
- Blue Yodel #6
- Movement Like An Elgin
- Knothole Blues
- Tour De Floyd
- Blue Yodel #1
- Moonshiner's Daughter
- Shoop-A-Boop-A-Doodler
- What Are You Squawkin' About
- Deep Elem Blues
- Sittin' On Top Of The World
- From Memphis To New Orleans
- It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
- Sweet Farm Girl
- You Don't Know My Mind

Sun, Chess and F&L sides


Cactus HFCD 1
202010Harmonica Frank: Mouthin' Blood Blues
Original Early Recordings

- Swamp Root
- Goin' Away Walkin'
- Step It Up & Go
- She's Done Moved
- Howlin' Tomcat

- Rockin' Chair Daddy
- The Great Medical Menangerist
- Rock A Little Baby
- Monkey Love (vocal by Larry Kennon)

10 inch LP

Hogmaw 905


Additional information appreciated !!!

See also Pete Hoppula's discography

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- p.
- Pete Hoppula website
- http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/comps/r/red1166.htm
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Back cover of Adelphi AD 1023; photographer: G. L. Moore

 

Harmonica Frank Floyd at www.youtube.com

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