T. V. Slim 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
7 inch 45 rpm |
| 1 | 1955 | Oscar Wills
- Flatfoot Sam Made A Bet (SP6567A)
- Pearly Mae (SP6568B)
rec. 1955/7 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; p; g; dr |
Speed 6567/8
[Oscar Wills' label] |
| 2 | 1955? | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- You Can't Buy A Woman (A) #
- To Prove My Love (B)
rec. 1955/7 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Mighty Joe Young, g; Baby Joe Little, b; Bobby Davis, dr |
Speed 6858= Speed 6865 # = Speed 704 |
| 3 | 195? | TV Slim
- The Fight (A)
- Darling Remember (B)
rec. 1955/7 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Eddie Williams, p; Mighty Joe Young, g; Jimmy White, dr |
Speed 6863 |
| 4 | 1956 | T.V. Slim with Eddie Williams
- The Fight (A)
- Going To California, Ain't Got But 15 Cents (B)
rec. 1955/7 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Eddie Williams, p |
Speed 6864= Speed 834 |
| 5 | 1957 | T.V. Slim and His Heartbreakers
Clif 103
- Flatfoot Sam (3585)
- Darling Remember (3584) #
Checker 870
- Flatfoot Sam (8540)
- Darling Remember (8541) #
rec. 1957 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Eddie Williams, p; Mighty Joe Young, g; Jimmy White, dr; # unknown voc |
Clif 103
= Checker 870
|
| 6 | 1957 |
Oscar Wills with Paul Gayton Orch.
- Flatfoot Sam (8540) #
Paul Gayton And his Band
- Nervous Boogie (8459) *
# rec. 1957 in New Orleans, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Eddie Williams, p; Mighty Joe Young, g; Jimmy White, dr
* rec. c.March 1957 in New Orleans, La.; Paul Gayton, p; Lee Allen, ts; Red Tyler, bs; Edgar Blanchard, g; Roland Cook, b; Charles Williams, dr | 
Argo 5277 |
| 7 | 1959/60 | Oscar "T.V. Slim" Wills and His Heartbreakers
- Don't Reach Cross My Plate (S6934)
- Your Kisses Changed Me (S6935)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 703 |
| 8 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
- My Dolly B
- Down The Line, You Can't Buy My Time
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed ? |
| 9 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- Flat Foot Sam Met Jim Dandy (S101)
- Tired Of Your Cheatin' And Lyin' (S102)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; saxes; p; g; b; dr |
Speed 704 |
| 10 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- Flat Foot Sam Met Jim Dandy (S101) #
- You Can't Buy A Woman (A) *
rec. * 1955/7
# 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; saxes; p; g; b; dr
* rec. 1955/7 in Shreveport, La; Oscar Wills, voc, g; Mighty Joe Young, g; Baby Joe Little, b; Bobby Davis, dr |
Speed 704 |
| 11 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- My Ship Is Sinking (S103)
- My Love Will Never Change (S104) #
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; saxes; p; g; b; dr |
Speed 705# = Speed 711 |
| 12 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- My Ship Is Sinking (S103) #
- My Baby Is Gone (S105)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; # saxes; # p; # g; # b; # dr |
Speed 705/6 |
| 13 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim & His Heartbreakers
- My Baby Is Gone (S105)
- Every Man Needs A Woman (S107) #
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; # p; # g; # b; # dr |
Speed 706= Speed 709 |
| 14 | 1959/60 | Oscar Wills and His Good Rockin' Band
- Dancing Senorita (S109)
- Every Man Needs A Woman (S107)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 710 |
| 15 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
- My Love Will Never Change (S104) #
- Don't Reach Cross My Plate (S106)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; # p; g; b; dr |
Speed 711 |
| 16 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
- My Love Will Never Change (S104) #
- Don't Reach Cross My Plate (S111)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; # p; g; b; dr |
Speed 711 |
| 16a | 1959/60 | T-V Slim and His Bluesmen
- You Can't Buy Love (S116A)
- Love Bounce (S116)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr | 
Speed 711= Pzazz 030 [?] |
| 17 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
- Your Kisses Send Me (S118?)
- Dream Girl (S119)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; saxes; p; g; b; dr |
Speed 714 |
| 18 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
Speed 715
- Gravy Around Your Steak (S120A)
- Mean Man (S122A) #
Timbre 601
- Gravy Around Your Steak (5100)
- Mean Man (5122) #
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr; # Sheila Jane Wills, voc |
Speed 715= Timbre 601 (1966) |
| 19 | 1959/60 | T.V. Slim
- The Big Fight (S114)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 803 |
| 20 | 1959/60 | T V Slim & His Guitar
Speed 807
- Bad Understanding Blues (S113)
- The Big Fight (S114)
Checker 1029
- Bad Understanding Blues (12042)
- The Big Fight (12041)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 807
= Checker 1029
|
| 21 | 1959/60 | T V Slim & His Guitar
- The Big Fight (S114)
- Hen Peck Joe (S115)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 808 |
| 22 | 1959/60 | Oscar Wills and His Good Rockin' Band
- Hold Me Close To Your Heart (S117)
- You Can't Love Me (S118)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Speed 810= USA 739 |
| 23 | 1966 | THE GREAT BLUES OF T. V. SLIM and HIS BLUESMEN
- T. V. Man (5032)
- Flat Foot Sam #2 (5033)
rec. 1966 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, J.D. Nicholson, p; Pete Lewis, g; dr | 
Excell 104
[label spelled "Excel" or
"Excell", on 104 "Excell"] |
| 24 | 1966 | T V Slim & The Soul Brothers
- Can't Be Satisfied (5062)
- Juvenile Delinquent (5063)
rec. 1966 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; dr |
Timbre 510 |
| 25 | 1968 | T V Slim
- Don't Knock The Blues (G149) #
- My Heart's Full Of Pain (G150)
rec. 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; # ts; # p; vl; b; dr, # vb | 
Pzazz 005 |
| 26 | 1969 | T.V. Slim
- Love Bounce (S116)
- You Can't Buy Love (S116A)
rec. 1959/60 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; g; b; dr |
Pzazz 030 |
| 27 | 1969 | TV Slim And His Bluesmen
- I'm A Real Man (5099)
- You Won't Treat Me Right (5098)
rec. 1968 in Los Angeles, Ca; Oscar Wills, voc, g; ts; p; g; b; dr | 
Ideel 581 |
LP / CD compilations |
| 28 | 1964 | The Blues Volume 4
Billy Stewart
- Billy's Blues part 2
Little Walter
- Last Night
Lowell Fulson
- Trouble Trouble
Larry Williams
- My Baby's Got Soul
Eddie Boyd
- Third Degree
Willie Mabon & His Combo
- I Don't Know
Betty James
- I'm A Little Mixed Up
Muddy Waters
- She's 19 Years Old
T.V. Slim
- Flat Foot Sam
Little Walter
- Boom Boom
Memphis Slim & House Rockers
- I Guess I'm A Fool
John Lee Hooker
- Leave My Wife Alone | notes by Joe Segal
Argo 4042 (US)notes by Joe Segal
= Chess CRL 4003
(UK 1964) 
= Chess/MCA CH/CHD-
9220 (1990)
|
| 29 | 1965 | We Sing The Blues
Lightnin Hopkins
- Wonder What Is Wrong With Me
Junior Wells
- Prison Bars All Around Me
Otis Rush
- Cant Quit You Baby
Buster Brown
- Sugar Babe
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Mean Ole Frisco
Magic Sam
- Every Night About This Time
Sammy Myers
- Sleeping In The Ground
Tarheel Slim
- Number Nine Train
Lightnin Slim
- Lightnin Slim Boogie
T.V. Slim
- Hold Me Close To Your Heart [Speed 810, USA 739]
Lightnin Hopkins
- Mojo Hand
B.B. King
- The Letter
Elmore James & Sonny Boy Williamson
- I Believe My Time Ain't Long
Junior Wells
- Come On In This House
Frankie Lee Sims
- Misery Blues
Earl Hooker
- Swear To Tell The Truth
compiled by Guy Stevens | notes by Guy Stevens
Sue ILP 921 (UK) |
| 30 | 1965 | Rhythm And Blues Of Chicago
Bluesscene USA Vol. 1
Elmore James
- Knocking At Your Door
Willie Mabon
- Mean Mistreater
Ricky Allen
- Ouch
T. V. Slim
- You Can't Love Me [Speed 810, USA 739]
A. C. Reed
- Lotta Lovin'
Ricky Allen
- I Don't Got It
Jesse Fortune
- Good Things
T. V. Slim
- Hold Me Close To Your Heart [Speed 810, USA 739]
Willie Mabon
- I'm The Fixer
A. C. Reed
- This Little Voice
Jesse Fortune
- Heavy Heart Beat
Ricky Allen
- Early In The Morning
Willie Mabon
- Fannie Mae
Jesse Fortune
- Too Many Cooks | notes by Paul Oliver
Storyville SLP 176
= Teichiku ULS-1817-R (Jp)
= Storyville SLP 840  Storyville discography
|
| 31 | 1971 | Dark Muddy Bottom
Blues Obscurities Volume 1
Joe Richards
- Lonesome Lover Blues
Roscoe Chenier
- Born For Bad Luck
Danny Boy
- Kokomo Me Baby
T.V. Slim
- My Baby Is Gone
Leo Morris
- Wanta Know How You Feel
Drifting Charles
- Drifting Cloud
Little Milton #
- Little Milton's Boogie
Danny Boy
- Wild Women
Leo Morris
- I Don't Need You
T.V. Slim
- Every Man Needs A Woman
Lightnin' Leon (Billy Lee Riley)
- Dark Muddy Bottom
T.V. Slim
- I'm A Real Man
T.V. Joe (Joe Richards)
- Dreaming
Little Milton #
- Boogie Woogie Woogie Baby
# London HAU 8454 bonus tracks | Blues Obscurities BOV1 
= Blues Obscurities BOE 1
notes by Neil Slaven
(=) London HAU 8454 (1974)
John Broven review
in Blues Unlimited 112, p.23 
= London/King GXF 2001
(Jp 1975)
Blues Obscurities
discography |
| 31a | 1971 | Going To California
- Skin & Bones - Little Son Willis
- I Love You Just The Same - Little Son Willis
- The Fight - Eddie Williams (T.V. Slim)
- Baby Come Back Home - Little Son Willis
- Roll Me Over Slow - Little Son Willis
- Going To California - Eddie Williams (T.V. Slim)
| 
XX MIN 707 (UK)XX discography |
| 32 | 1971 | When Girls Do It
Bobby 'Guitar' Bennett
- When Girls Do It
Junior Wells
- I'm A Stranger
Little Oscar Stricklin
- Suicide Blues
Harmonica Fats
- How Low Is Low
Magic Slim
- Love Me Baby
Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm
- Down And Out
Sam Baker
- Sweet Little Angel
Drifting Charles
- Evil Hearted Woman
- Drifting Cloud
Memphis Slim And His House Rockers
- Blue And Lonesome
Donnie Jacobs
- Street Walkin' Woman
T.V. Slim
- Don't Knock The Blues [Pzazz 005]
- My Heart's Full Of Pain [Pzazz 005]
Buddy Guy
- Hard But It's Fair
Magic Sam
- My Love Is Your Love
Danny Boy
- Wild Woman
- Kokomo Me Baby
Jimmy McCracklin
- Fare Well
- Take A Chance
Mr. Bo
- I Ain't Gonna Suffer
- If Trouble Was Money
Junior Wells
- I'm A Stranger
Clear Waters
- Hilly Billy Blues
- Boogie Woogie Baby
Tender Slim
- Don't Cut Out On Me
- I'm Checkin' Up
Sugar Boy Williams
- Little Girl
- Five Long Years
 
inner gatefold of Red Lightnin' RL 006 | DLP
Red Lightnin' RL 006Red Lightnin'
discography 
= Broadside CD STERN1
(UK 2008)
|
| 33 | 1974 | Chicago Rock
First series (1955-1963):
Wild Child Gibson
- Uncle John
- Sittin' Here Cryin'
Big Daddy Simpson
- Give Me Back My Ring
- Let Your Hair Down Baby
Clear Waters
- Boogie Woogie Baby
- Cool Water
Ray Agee
- Wobble Loo
T.V. Slim
- To Proof My Love [sic] [Speed 6858]
Billy Boy Arnold
- Here's My Picture
- You've Got Me Wrong
- I Wish You Would
Harold Burrage
- Betty Jean
Cleve Jackson
- Hound Dog
- Has A Chicken Got A Leg
Jimmy Reed
- She Don't Want Me No More
- I Don't Go For That
Second series (1959-1970):
"with Jump Jackson and Friends"
Eddie Clearwater
- Ain't That A Shame
- Dancin' Time
- Cool Water
- Baby Please
Little Mack
- Broken Heart
Sy Perry
- I Don't Understand You Woman
Wilbur "Hi-Fi" White
- Don't look now
Little Mack
- Drivin' Wheel
Sy Perry
- I Don't Really Have The Blues
Little Wolf Jr
- Inflation Blues
Eddie Boyd
- I cry
- Vacation From The Blues
Jump Jackson
- Midnight Shuffle
Sunnyland Slim
- Something Is Going Wrong | 
Redita 108 (NL 1974)
[first series]
("A Fan to Fan Production
Manufactured by
Independent Brothers
Transylvanian Road
Rumania") 
Redita 108 (NL 1978)
[second series]
[Redita is Robert Loers'
label] |
| 34 | 1979 | T.V. Slim: Goin' To California
- Flat Foot Sam Met Jim Dandy [Speed 704]
- My Ship Is Sinking [Speed 705]
- Don't Reach Cross My Plate [Speed 711]
- The Fight [Speed 6863]
- Bad Understanding Blues [Speed 807]
- Can't Buy A Woman [Speed 6858]
- My Love Will Never Change [Speed 705]
- Going To California, Ain't Got But 15 Cents [Speed 6864]
- The Big Fight [Speed 803]
- Tired Of Cheatin' And Lyin' [Speed 704]
- Mean Woman Blues
- Henpecked Joe [Speed 808]
- Your Kisses Changed Me [Speed 711]
- Dancing Senorita [Speed 710] | 
P-Vine PLP 710 (Jp) |
| 35 | 198? | Hard Times
Chicago Blues Of The Sixties
Fenton Robinson
- From My Heart
- Say You're Leavin'
Mighty Joe Young
- Hard Times
Detroit Junior
- It's Bad To Make A Woman Mad
- Talk Fast
- The Way I Feel
- Call My Job
Lonnie Brooks
- Figure Head
Andrew Brown
- You Better Stop
Big Moose
- Puppy Howl
- Rambling Woman
- Foot Race
Koko Taylor
- Honky Tonky
T.V. Slim
- You Can't Love Me [Speed 810, USA 739]
Bobby Rush
- I Don't Know
Buster Benton
- Money Is The Name Of The Game | notes by Chris Bentley
Flyright FLY 602Flyright discography |
| 36 | 1984 | TV Slim: Flat Foot Sam
- The Big Fight [Speed 803]
- Bad Understanding [Speed 803]
- TV Man [Excell 104]
- Flat Foot Sam No. 2 [Excell 104]
- Don't Reach Cross My Plate [Speed 711]
- Your Kisses Changed Me [Speed 711]
- My Ship Is Sinking [Speed 705]
- Gravy Around Your Steak [Speed 715]
- Mean Man (Sheila Jane Wills, voc) [Speed 715]
- Can't Be Satisfied [Timbre 510]
- Juvenile Delinquent [Timbre 510]
- I'm A Real Man [Ideel 581]
- You Won't Treat Me Right [Ideel 581]
compiled by Robert Sacré & Philippe Schoofs | notes by Robert Sacré
Moonshine BLP 101 (NL)Moonshine
discography |
| 37 | 1991 | The Way I Feel
Homesick James
- Crossroads
Jesse Fortune
- Heavy Heart Beat
Detroit Junior
- Call My Job
J.B. Lenoir
- I Feel So Good
Jesse Fortune
- Good Things
Homesick James
- My Baby's Sweet
Andrew Brown
- You Better Stop
Harold Burrage
- I Cry For You
Willie Mabon
- Somebody Got To Pay
Jesse Fortune
- Too Many Cooks
T.V. Slim
- You Can't Love Me [Speed 810, USA 739]
Detroit Junior
- The Way I Feel
Willie Mabon
- Some More
Koko Taylor
- Honky Tonk
Willie Mabon
- Mew Orleans Blues
Big Moose
- Rambling Woman
Fenton Robinson
- Say You're Leavin'
Lillian Offitt
- Oh Mama
Mighty Joe Young
- Hard Times
Willie Mabon
- Something For Nothing
- Some Time I Wonder |
Flyright FLYCD 43
= Paula PCD-23 (US)
Flyright discography |
| 38 | 199? | T.V. Slim: Flatfoot Sam
- Flatfoot Sam (#2) [Excell 104]
- Flatfoot Sam Meets Jim Dandy
- Darling Forever
- To Prove My Love
- My Baby Is Gone
- Gravy Round Your Steak
- You Can't Love Me
- Hold Me Close To Your Heart
- Rockin' Little Baby (previously unreleased)
- Tired Of Your Cheatin' And Lyin'
- My Ship Is Sinking
- Snake Dance (previously unreleased)
- T-V Man [Excell 104]
- Flatfoot Sam Is Back
- Don't Reach Across My Plate
- Every Man Needs A Woman
- Can't Be Satisfied
- Juvenile Delinquent
- You Just Won't Reat Me Right
- I'm A Real Man
- You Can't Buy Love
- Love Bounce
- The Fight
- Bad Understanding Blues
- You Can't Buy A Woman
- Going To California
- Henpecked Joe
- Don't Knock The Blues
- Dancing Senorita
- Your Kisses Changed Me
- Flatfoot Sam | 
Official CD 5660 (Denmark) |
| 39 | 1999 | Red River Blues
Shreveport Blues from Ram Records
Sonny Boy "Jeff" Williamson
- Mailman Mailman
- Pretty Lil Thing
- I Gotta Cry
- You Better Sit Down
June 'Bug' Bailey
- Lee Street Blues
Elgie Brown
- Gimmie Gimmie
Banny Price
- Rushin'
Elgie Brown
- You'll Be Back
- Let Me Feel It
T V Slim with Eddie Williams
- The Fight [Speed 6864]
- Goin To Calif [Speed 6864]
T V Slim
- The Fight [Speed 6863]
- Darling Remember [Speed 6863]
T V Slim & His Heartbreakers
- Flat Foot Sam [Clif 103]
- Darling Remember [Clif 103]
Sherman (Blues) Johnson
- Hey Pretty Baby
Little Melvin Underwood
- Something's Wrong Baby
- Little Melvin's Gonna Move
Vincent Williams
- Tryin' To Make A Fool Of Me
- Going Back To Chicago
L C Steel
- Don't Play No Woman For No Fool
Chico Chism & His Jetanairs
- Hot Tamales & Bar-b-que
Chico Chism & Jerry & Garland
- Romp & Stomp
Jesse Thomas
- Watch Out
- My Baby
- Anything You Want
- Guitar Riff
- Everything I Do For You | 
Ace CDCHD 725 |
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