|
This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
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.Stefan Wirz www.wirz.de |
Johnny Young 78 rpm / 45 rpm / LPs / CDs
| # | year
of release | title | label # / notes |
|---|
10 inch 78 rpm |
| 1 | 1947 | Johnny Young and His Mandolin
Johnny Young and His Mandolin – Vocal: Johnny William [sic]
- Worried Man Blues (A) *
Johnny Young and His Mandolin
- Money Taking Woman (B) #
rec. 1947 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, mand, # voc; Johnny Williams, * voc, # sp | 
Ora Nelle 712
[Bernard Isaac Abrahams'
(of Maxwell Radio Record
Co.) label] |
| | |
- Money Taking Woman (tk 2)
rec. 1947 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Johnny Williams, sp | Ora Nelle unissued Barrelhouse BH 04 (1974) |
| 2 | 1948 | MAN YOUNG
- My Baby Walked Out On Me (PL 103) @ Spotify
- Let Me Ride Your Mule (PL 104) @ Spotify
rec. c. December 1948 in Chicago, IL by Chester Scales; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Snooky Pryor, hca; Johnny Williams, g |
Planet 103/104
[Chester Scales' label?]
= Old Swing-Master 19
(May 1949) [Egmont
Sonderling's label]
|
| | |
- Blues And Trouble
- One More Time
rec. 19?? in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; ??? | J.O.B unissued |
| 3 | 1956 | Snooky Pryor
- Someone To Love Me (56-500)
- Judgment Day (56-502) @ youtube
rec. July 17, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Snooky Pryor, voc, hca; Johnny Young, Floyd Jones, g; Earl Phillips, dr
 Snooky Pryor discography | 
Vee-Jay Vj 215 |
| | |
- A Date With My Baby (56-499)
- Someone To Love Me (alt tk) #
- You Tried To Ruin Me Baby (56-501) #
- Judgement Day (alt tk) #
rec. July 17, 1956 in Chicago, IL; Snooky Pryor, voc, hca; Johnny Young, Floyd Jones, g; Earl Phillips, dr |
Vee-Jay unissued# Charly CRB 1042 |
45 rpm / LP / CD compilations |
| 4 | 1963/64 | JOHNNIE YOUNG
- All I Want For Breakfast
- Humpty Dumpty @ Spotify
| 
USA 768 |
| 5 | 196? | Southside Chicago
Big Walter Horton
- We're Gonna Have A Good Time
- Shakey Boogie
- I'd Be The Same Way If I Could
Sunnyland Slim
- Country Shack
- You Know It's You Babe
Johnny Young with The Chicago Blues Band
- I Believe You Need A Shot # \\
- Want My Baby (Step By, Baby) # //
- Why Did You Break My Heart # //
- Better Cut That Out # \\
Eddie Boyd
- Look On Yonder Wall
Willie Mabon
- Goin' Back To New Orleans
St. Louis Jimmy
- The Woman I'm Loving
from Olle Helander's 1964 radio broadcasts
# rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, // mand, \\ g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr | 
Python PLP-KM 10Python discography Jefferson Records
SBACD 12653/4 (1999)
Jefferson Records
SBACD 12658/9 (2004) |
| 6 | 1964 | Can't Keep From Crying
Topical Blues on the Death of President Kennedy
Big Joe Williams
- A Man Amongst Men
James & Fannie Brewer
- I Want To Know Why
John Lee Granderson
- A Man For The Nation
Otis Spann
- Sad Day In Texas
Mary Ross
- President Kennedy Gave His Life
Bill Jackson
- The 22nd Day Of November
James Brewer
- Why Did He Have To Go?
Johnny Young
- I Tried Not To Cry
Avery Brady
- Poor Kennedy
Fannie Brewer
- When We Got The Message
Jimmy Brown
- He Was Loved By All The People
CD bonus tracks:
Jimmy Brown
- Tribute To J.F.K.
Avery Brady
- Poor Kennedy no. 2
rec. in Chicago. IL in the weeks immediately following JFK's death on November 22, 1963 | 
Testament S-01
= Bounty BY 6035 (UK 1966)
(=) Testament CD (1994)
 Testament discography
= P-Vine PCD-5587 (Jp 2000)
|
| 7 | 1964 | Modern Chicago Blues
Johnny Young
- My Baby Walked Out In 1954 @ youtube
Wilbert Jenkins
- Married Woman Blues
Johnny Young
- You Make Me Feel So Good
Maxwell St. Jimmy
- Crying Won't Make Me Stay
Big Walter Horton
- Everybody's Fishing
Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman @ Spotify
Robert Nighthawk
- Blues Before Sunrise § @ youtube
Johnny Young
- Back To Chicago
John Lee Granderson
- Bumble Bee #
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- I've Got My Eyes on You #
Johnny Young
- Bad Blood
John Wrencher
- I'm Going To Detroit []
Maxwell St. Jimmy
- Hanging Around My Door
Johnny Young
- Tired Of You Smiling
Wilbert Jenkins
- Crawling King Snake
Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
Big Walter Horton
- Hard-Hearted Woman
Johnny Young
- I Don't Feel Good
Maxwell Street Jimmy
- Long Haired Doney #
John Lee Granderson
- That's All Right #
William Mack
- Hideaway #
# CD bonus tracks
§ rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand
[] rec. 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; Johnny Young, mand; John Lee Granderson, g | 
Testament T-2203
= Polydor 545031 (UK)
= Testament TCD 5008
(1994)
Testament discography 
= P-Vine PCD-5566 (Jp)
|
| 8 | 196? | Mississippi Blues
Blues Scene USA Vol. 4
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
Roosevelt Charles
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Sugar Mama
Avery Brady
- I Don't Want You No More
Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- I Can Seen My Baby In My Dreams
Jimmy Brewer
- Big Road Blues
Arthur Weston, Big Joe Williams, George Robertson
- Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams, Coot Venson
- Long Road Blues
Johnny Young
- Pony Blues [Testament unissued]
Big Joe Williams, Ruby McCoy
- Rising Sun Blues
Johnny Young & Big Boy Spires [sic]
- 21 Below Zero [Testament unissued]
Jimmy Brown, Big Joe Williams, Willie Lee Harris
- Goin' Back Home
Big John Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller
- Down Here By Myself
rec. October 9, 1965 in Chicago by Pete Welding; Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires, voc, g; Johnny Young, g | notes by Pete Welding
Storyville SLP 180
= Storyville 670180
= Teichiku ULS-1815-R (Jp)
= Storyville SLP 4035
"Blues Roots Vol. 1"
Storyville discography |
| 9 | 1964 | Blues All Around My Bed
Blues Scene USA Vol. 3
Carl Hodges
- Blues All Around My Bed
Big Joe Williams
- Hellhound On My Trail
John Lee Granderson
- Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
Johnny Young
- Green Door Blues []
James Robinson
- Standing In My Backk Door Crying
W.B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson
- Sometimes I Rate
Connie Williams
- One Thin Dime
Leroy 'Country' Dallas
- Sweet Man Blues
Doug Quattlebaum
- Good Woman Blues
Bill Jackson
- Trouble In Mind
Avery Brady
- Gonna Let You Down
Arthur Weston & Big Joe Williams & George Robertson
- Roll Me Over Slow
[] rec. 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g | notes by Pete Welding
Storyville SLP 181
= Storyville 670181 (D)
= Storyville SLP 842notes by Pete Welding
= Storyville SLP 4036 (1981)
"Blues Roots Vol. 2" Storyville discography |
| 10 | 1965 | Chicago
the post-war blues volume 1
Johnny Shines
- Brutal Hearted Woman
- Evening Sun
Willie Nix & His Combo
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Yourself
"Little" Willie Foster
- Falling Rain Blues
- Four Day Jump
J B. Hutto & His Hawks
- Pet Cream Man
- Lovin' You
Othum Brown
- Ora-Nelle Blues
Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her
Johnny William(s)
- Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712]
Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman [Ora Nelle 712]
John Lee
- Knocking On Lula Mae's Door
- Rythm Rockin' Boogie [sic]
Junior Wells & His Eagle Rockers
- Hodo Man [sic]
- Junior's Wail | notes by Charles Radcliffe
post-war blues pwb 1pwb discography |
| 11 | 1965 | Chicago Blues - The Early 1950s
Homesick James
- Homesick
Baby Face Leroy
- Boll Weevil
- Rollin' & Tumblin' - pt. 1
Little Walter
- Muskadine
J. B. Hutto
- Dim Lights
- Things Are So Slow
Eddie Boyd
- Five Long Years
Baby Face Leroy
- Rollin' & Tumblin' - pt. 2
Junior Wells
- Hoodoo Man
Little Willie Foster
- Falling Rain Blues
Snooky & Moody
- Stockyard Blues
Johnny Young
- Money Taking Woman [Ora Nelle 712]
Floyd Jones
- Dark Road
Big Walter
- Hard Hearted Woman
Robert Nighthawk
- Kansas City Blues
John Brim
- Tough Times
| 
Blues Classics BC 8
Blues Classics discography
|
| 12 | 1965 | Ramblin' On My Mind
Classic Train and Travel Blues
Johnny Young with Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Walker
- Hear That Whistle Blow
Carl Hodges
- Standing At The Greyhound Station
Leroy 'Country' Dallas
- She Caught The M&O
Jimmy Brewer
- Pea Vine Whistle
Honeyboy Edwards
- Highway 61
Big Joe Williams
- Ramblin' On My Mind #
Blind Connie Williams
- Key To The Highway
Dr. Isaiah Ross
- Hobo Blues
John Lee Grandison
- My Home Ain't Here
Bill Jackson
- Freight Train Blues
Elijah Brown
- Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay
W. B. 'Piano Bill' Bryson
- Mean Old Train
# rec. July 29 or September 26, 1964 in Chicago by Norman Dayron; Big Joe Williams, voc, g; prod. by Pete Welding
| notes by Pete Welding
Milestone MLP-3002Milestone discography |
| | |
- Twenty-One Below Zero #
- Evening Sun
- What Did It
- What About You
- Stormy Night Blues
- 51 Highway Blues
- Right Away
- Water Coast Blues
rec. October 9, 1965 in Chicago by Pete Welding; Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires, voc, g; Johnny Young, g | Testament unissued # Storyville SLP 180 |
| 13 | 1966 | Johnny Young And His Chicago Blues Band
Arhoolie F 1029 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman @ youtube
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking @ youtube
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Crosscut Saw
- Slam Hammer (instr) @ youtube
rec. November 11 [22 on back cover], 1965 at Sound Studios in Chicago, IL by Pete Welding; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Otis Spann, p; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Larey, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz
cover photo by Pete Welding
Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman @ youtube
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking @ youtube
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Cross-Cut Saw
- Slam Hammer @ youtube
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart @ youtube
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me @ youtube
- On The Road Again
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues
- Drinking Straight Whiskey @ youtube
additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504:
- Sleeping With The Devil
- Fumbling Around
| 
Arhoolie F 1029Arhoolie discography 
= Fontana 688 809 ZL
Fontana discography notes by Pete Welding
(=) Arhoolie CD 325 (1990)
(along with most of
Arhoolie F 1037) 
= P-Vine PCD-24106
(Jp 2002)
(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp)
(along with all of
Arhoolie F 1037)
|
| 14 | 1966 | Johnny Young
- Slam Hammer (instr) @ youtube
- Wild, Wild Woman @ youtube
rec. November 11, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Otis Spann, p; James Cotton, hca; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S.P. Larey, dr | 
Arhoolie 45-515 |
| 15 | 1966 | Blues Southside Chicago
Shakey Horton
- Can't Help Myself
Johnny Young
- One More Time #
Sunnyland Slim
- Everytime I Get To Drinking
Poor Bob
- I Won't Be Happy
Eddie Boyd
- Where You Belong
Robert Nighthawk
- Merry Christmas []
Homesick James
- Crutch And Cane
Johnny Young
- Little Girl * @ youtube
Poor Bob
- The Sun Is Rising
Homesick James
- Got To Move
Sunnyland Slim
- I Got To Get To My Baby
Ronda Mitchell & Mrs. Lovell
- J.F. Kennedy's Reservation
Robert Nighthawk
- Lula Mae []
Eddie Boyd
- Losing Hand
rec. in Chicago, IL by Willie Dixon
cover photo of Robert Nighthawk by Frank Scott | notes by Mike Leadbitter
Decca LK 4748 (UK 1966)= Decca TAB 4748
(UK 197?) original notes
by Mike Leadbitter
= Flyright LP 521 (UK 1978) Flyright discography |
| 16 | 1966 | Chicago / The Blues / Today ! Vol. 3
Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band
- One More Time
- Kid Man Blues @ youtube
- My Black Mare
- Stealin' Back @ youtube
- I Got Mine In Time
- Tighten Up on It @ youtube
Johnny Shines Blues Band
- Dynaflo Blues
- Black Spider Blues
- Layin' Down My Shoes And Clothes
- If I Get Lucky
Big Walter Horton's Blues Harp Band with Memphis Charlie
- Rockin' My Boogie #
Johnny Shines Blues Band
- Mr. Bo Weevil
- Hey, Hey
prod. by Samuel Charters
side A (Johnny Young's South Side Blues Band) rec. December 1965 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, # g, [] mand; # Walter Horton, hca; Hayes Ware, b; Elga Edmonds, dr
side B (Johnny Shines Blues Band) rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Shines, voc, g with Walter Horton, hca; # Charlie Musselwhite, hca; Floyd Jones, b, Frank Kirkland, dr | notes by Samuel Charters
Vanguard VRS 9218
= Fontana TFL 6070 (1966)
= Vanguard CD 79218
(1989) 3 CD set
notes by Ed Ward
(=) Vanguard 3VCD 172/74-2
(1999) |
| 17 | 1966 | Otis Spann's Chicago Blues: Nobody Knows My Troubles
- Get Your Hands Out Of My Pocket #
- Nobody Knows My Troubles
- Sarah Street #
- Worried Life Blues
- You Can't Hide
- Jack-Knife (instr) # []
- What's On Your Worried Mind?
- Vicksburg Blues §
- Who's Out There? #
- Spann's Boogie Woogie
- See See Rider
- Lovin' You # []
- One-Room Country Shack
- Mr. Jelly-Roll Baker
CD bonus track:
- G.B. Blues
rec. 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p; § Robert Whitehead, dr
# rec. November 22, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Otis Spann, voc, p, [] org; James Cotten, hca; Johnny Young, g; Jimmy Lee Morris, b; S. P. Leary, dr | notes by Pete Welding
Testament T-2211
= Testament TCD 5005
(1994)
|
| 18 | 1968 | Johnny Young & Big Walter: Chicago Blues
Arhoolie F 1037 track sequence:
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me
- On The Road Again
- Drinking Straight Whiskey @ youtube
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues @ youtube
- Sleeping With The Devil #
- Fumbling Around #
# not reissued on Arhoolie CD 325
rec. November 27, 1967 at Stereosonic Studios in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Walter Horton, hca; Lafayette Leake, p; Jimmy Dawkins, lead g; Ernest Gatewood, b; Lester Dorsie, dr; prod. by Chris Strachwitz and Willie Dixon
cover photo by Chris Strachwitz
Arhoolie CD 325 / P-Vine PCD-2504 track sequence:
- Wild, Wild Woman
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business
- I'm Having A Ball @ youtube
- My Trainfare Out Of Town @ youtube
- I'm Doing All Right
- Stealin'
- Keep On Drinking @ youtube
- Hot Dog!
- Come Early In The Morning
- Moaning And Groaning
- Cross-Cut Saw
- Slam Hammer
- Strange Girl
- Ring Around My Heart @ youtube
- Sometimes I Cry
- Don't You Lie To Me
- On The Road Again
- Walter's Boogie
- Stockyard Blues
- Drinking Straight Whiskey @ youtube
additional tracks on P-Vine PCD-2504:
- Sleeping With The Devil
- Fumbling Around
| notes (April 1968)
by Pete Welding
Arhoolie F 1037notes by Pete Welding
(=) Arhoolie CD 325 (1990)
(along with all of
Arhoolie F 1029) Arhoolie discography
(=) P-Vine PCD-2504 (Jp)
(all of Arhoolie F 1029
and Arhoolie F 1037)
|
| 19 | 1968 | The Roots Of America's Music
LP 1:
Fred McDowell
- Shake 'Em On Down
Mance Lipscomb
- Sugar Babe
Black Ace
- New Triflin' Woman
Alex Moore
- July Boogie
Big Joe Williams
- Greystone Blues
Lil Son Jackson
- Roberta
John Jackson
- Going Down In Georgia On A Horn
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly
- No More Hard Times
Lowell Fulson
- River Blues
Mercy Dee
- Walked Down So Many Turnrows
Juke Boy Bonner
- Going Back To The Country
Lightning Hopkins
- Tom Moore Blues
Big Mama Thornton
- Unlucky Girl
Clifton Chenier
- Louisiana Blues
Larry Williams
- I Know You Hear Me Calling
Johnny Young
- Wild Wild Woman @ youtube
LP 2:
Bukka White
- Jesus Died On The Cross To Save The World
Jesse Fuller
- Amazing Grace
Rev. Overstreet
- I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord
Robert Shaw
- The Ma Grinder
Kid Thomas
- Eh La Bas
Joe Turner
- Old Piney Brown's Gone
Luna
- Nisaba In The Grass
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
- Run Mountain
Del McCoury
- Dreams
The Hodges Brothers
- Carroll County Blues
Luderin Darbone
- Crowley Waltz
Nathan Abshire
- Cajun Two Step
Alice Stuart
- Once I Had A Sweetheart
Crabgrass
- Charles Giteau
James Campbell
- Baby Please Don't Go
compilation of tracks previously on Arhoolie LPs; no previously unissued tracks | 2-disc package
Arhoolie R2001/2002Arhoolie discography = Stateside/Toshiba
SR-9323B (Jp 1972) |
| 20 | 196? | J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
Masters of Modern Blues Volume 2
- Dust My Broom
- Mistake In Life
- Goin' Down Slow
- Lulubelle's Here
- She's So Sweet
- My Kind Of Woman
- Pet Cream Man
- Blues Stay Away From Me
- The Girl I Love
- Sloppy Drunk
CD bonus tracks:
- Wild Wild Woman
- Bluebird
J. B. Hutto & The Hawks with Johnny Young, Big Walter Horton, Lee Jackson, Fred Below | 
Testament T-2213
= Testament TCD 5020
(1995)
Testament discography |
| 21 | 19?? | Robert Nighthawk / Houston Stackhouse
Masters of Modern Blues Volume 4
Robert Nighthawk
- Black Angel Blues []
- Maggie Campbell []
- Crowing Rooster Blues []
- I'm Getting Tired []
- Bricks In My Pillow []
- Merry Christmas Baby []
Robert Nighthawk
- Crying Won't Help You []
- Kansas City Blues
- Kidman Blues #
- Bricks In My Pillow (alt tk) [] #
Houston Stackhouse with Robert Nighthawk
- Big Road Blues
- Cool Water Blues
- Big Fat Mama Blues
- Take A Little Walk With Me
- Bye Bye Blues #
- Mean Old World #
- The Wrong Man #
- Kansas City Blues #
# CD bonus tracks
[] rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand | notes by Pete Welding
Testament T-2215
= Testament TCD 5010
(1994)
Testament discography 
= P-Vine PCD-5363 (Jp)
|
| 22 | 196? | Goin' To Chicago
LP tracks:
Sam Lay Blues Band
- Tell Me, Mama
- Walking By Myself
- I Can't Be Satisfied
Billy Boy Arnold Band
- I Left My Happy Home
- Billy Boy's Jump
- Crying And Pleading
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild, Wild Woman
- Bluebird
Floyd Jones - Eddie Taylor Band
- Playhouse Blues
- I Feel So Bad
- Sweet Talkin' Woman
CD tracks:
Billy Boy Arnold Band
- Left My Happy Home
- Billy Boy's Jump
- Cryin' and Pleadin'
- Left My Happy Home (alt. take)
- Baby Jane
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Baby Left Me A Mule to Ride
- Hello Baby
- I Love Only You
- Evalina
- Come See Me Early in the Morning (take 1)
- Why Is Everybody Down On Me
- Come See Me Early in the Morning (take 2)
- Somebody Help Me With These Blues | 
Testament T-2218
(=) Testament TCD 5018
(1995)
|
| 23 | 1969 | Johnny Young: Blues Masters Vol. 9 / Fat Mandolin
Blue Horizon BM 4609 / Blue Horizon 7-63852 track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning
- Heard My Doorbell Ring
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- Lula Mae
- Jackson Bound
- Walking Slow
- Deal The Cards
- Lend Me Your Love
- Lorraine
- Prison Bound
- Little Girl
- Mean Black Snake
Sony/Blue Horizon CD track sequence:
- Moaning And Groaning
- Heard My Doorbell Ring
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- Lula Mae
- Jackson Bound [tk 1: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 2: master version/remix]
- Walking Slow [master version/remix]
- Deal The Cards [tk 1: previously unreleased]
- Deal The Cards [tk 2: false start/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix]
- Lend Me Your Love [tks 1, 2 & 3: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 4: master version/remix]
- Lorraine
- Prison Bound [tks 1 & 2: false starts/previously unreleased plus tk 3: master version/remix]
- Little Girl
- Mean Black Snake [master version/remix]
- Stealin' [previously unreleased]
- Go Ahead On (With That Funky Broadway Sound) [tk 1: false start plus tk 2/previously unreleased]
- Johnny’s Mess Around [previously unreleased]
rec. April 6, 1969 at the O.D.O Studios in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, g, mand; Paul Osher, hca; Otis Spann, p; Sammy Lawhorn, g, b; S.P. Leary, dr. prod. by Bart Friedman and Otis Spann
sleeve design of Blue Horizon 7-63852 ("Fat Mandolin") by Terence Ibbott | notes by Top Topham
Blue Horizon BM 4609 (US
1969 "Blues Masters Vol. 9")notes by Top Topham
Blue Horizon 7-63852
(UK 1970 "Fat Mandolin") notes by Michael Vernon
(=) Sony/BMG 88697079152
(UK 2007 / US 2008)
"The Complete
Blue Horizon Sessions"
[on the UK release half the
tracks were remixed a half-
step too slow !!!] |
| | |
- Returning Home (SBH 10640)
- Look What You Done Done (SBH 10641)
- Don't You Do It (SBH 10642)
- Mr. Dough (SBH 10643)
- I'm Mad (SBH 10644)
- Don't You Let Me Down (SBH 10645)
- Spivey, Spann and spivious (SBH 10646)
- I'm Crazy (SBH 10647)
- Hand Cöapping (SBH 10648)
- Tired And Sick (SBH 10649)
- Last Song (SBH 10650)
rec. May 5, 1969; Victoria Spivey, voc; Paul Oscher, hca, Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, G; Sammy Lawhorne, b; S.P. Leary, dr | Blue Horizon unissued |
| 24 | 1969 | The Everlasting Blues vs. Otis Spann
with Otis Spann, Johnny Young, Luther Johnson, Peter Malick, SP Leary
- I'm A Bad Boy * §
- You're Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone *
- Let Me Ride Your Mule #
- Number 12 And 10 Train #
- You Know You Don't Love Me Baby
- Why Don't You Leave Me Alone *
- Where Is My Wife? * []
- Going Back Home * §
# rec. April 1969 in New York City; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Otis Spann, p; S.P. Leary, dr
* rec. April 1969 in New York City; Otis Spann, voc, p; [] Victoria Spivey, voc; Peter Malick, § Luther Johnson, g; Johnny Young, mand; S.P. Leary, dr
| 
Spivey 1013Spivey discography |
| 25 | 1969 | Blues Roots
- Frisco Lines - Fred McDowell
- Fare You Well Baby Blues - Joe Callicott
- Long Haired Doney - R. L. Burnside
- Mean Stepfather - Big Joe Williams
- Bald Eagle Train - Bukka White & Washboard Willie
- Don't Drive Me Away - R.C. Smith
- Long Tall Girl - Mance Lipscomb
- Red River Blues - Lil' Son Jackson
- I Am The Black Ace - Black Ace
- Whistling Alex Moore Blues - Alex Moore
- Texas Blues - Lowell & Martin Fulson
- The Ma Grinder - Robert Shaw
- Take a Walk - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Bear Cat Blues - John Jackson
- Snowing and Raining Blues - Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly
- Got A Date At Half Past Eight - Jesse Fuller
- You Got Another Man - Lightnin' Hopkins and Barbara Dane
- Struggle Here In Houston - Juke Boy Bonner
- Listen At That Bull - G. Coleman
- Trouble Blues - Big Joe Turner
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Sugar Daddy - Mercy Dee Walton
- I'm Feeling Alright - Big Mama Thorton
- Sometimes I Cry - Johnny Young
- Black Snake Blues - Clifton Chenier
- Two Bugs - Earl Hooker
 
"The selections from this album have been comprised from the catalog of Arhoolie Records ... Except where otherwise indicated, all selections produced and recorded by Chris Strachwitz" | two record set
Poppy PYS-60.003
= RCA / Victor SHP-6124/25Poppy discography 
= Tomato DLP 2696181 (1989)
reissued as Tomato CD
TOM 3001
|
| 26 | 1970 | Have A Good Time - Chicago Blues
Chicago Anthology
Homesick James
- Little And Low
- Look On Yonder's Wall
- My Home Ain't Here
Walter Horton
- I Need My Baby Blues
- Have A Good Time
Prez Kenneth
- I Am The Man Downstairs
- Messin' With Mabe
Smokey Smothers
- I'm Lookin' For You
"Poor" Bob Woodfork
- I Wanna School You Pretty Baby
- Ain't Got A Lousy Dime
L.C. McKinley
- So Strange
- Mind Your Business
Snooky Pryor
- I'm Going Away #
- Rest A Little While #
# rec. by Rev. H. H. Harrington for his Atomic-H label | 
Sunnyland KS-101 (UK)Sunnyland discography |
| 27 | 1970 | The Chicago String Band
LP track sequence:
- The Sun Is Sinking Low
- Trouble On Your Hands
- Weeping And Moaning
- You Know I Do []
- Hoodoo Blues
- You Got Good Business
- I Got To Find That Woman
- Clean Cut Mama
- Railroad Blues
- Don't Sic Your Dog On Me []
- John Henry
- Memphis, Tenn., 1939 Blues
CD track sequence:
- The Sun Is Sinking Low
- Trouble On Your Hands
- Weeping And Moaning
- You Know I Do []
- Hoodoo Blues
- You Got Good Business
- Take It Easy Baby #
- I Got To Find That Woman
- Clean Cut Mama
- Railroad Blues
- Don't Sic Your Dog On Me []
- John Henry
- Memphis, Tenn., 1939 Blues
- Bye Bye Pete § #
# CD bonus tracks
rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, Ill.; Big John Wrencher, hca, [] voc; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Carl Martin, voc, vl, mand; Johnny Young, voc, mand; § Bill Foster, g | notes by Pete Welding
Testament T-2220
= Testament TCD 5006
(1994)
Testament discography 
= P-Vine PCD-5580 (Jp)
|
| 28 | 1970 | How Blue Can We Get?
Fleetwood Mac
- Watch Out
Jellybread
- Don't Pay Them No Mind
Top Topham
- Mini-Minor-Mo
Duster Bennett
- What A Dream
Bacon Fat
- Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights)
Chicken Shack
- Evelyn
Christine Perfect
- And That's Saying A Lot
Bacon Fat
- Small's On 53rd
Fleetwood Mac
- I'm Worried
Chicken Shack
- The Way It Is
Jellybread
- No Brag, Just Facts (parts 1 and 2)
Fleetwood Mac
- Rambling Pony
Elmore James
- Hand In Hand
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- That's Alright
Magic Sam
- All Your Love
Larry Johnson
- Catfish Blues
Otis Spann
- My Love Depends On You
Furry Lewis
- Casey Jones
Champion Jack Dupree
- Grandma (You're A Bit Too Slow)
George Smith
- No Time For Jive
Johnny Young
- Deal The Cards
Roosevelt Holts
- Little Bitty Woman
Bukka White
- Bed Spring Blues
Mississippi Joe Callicott
- On My Last Go Round
Otis Rush
- Jump Sister Bessie | DLP
Blue Horizon SPR 45/46
|
| 29 | 1971 | Nothing But The Blues
The record companion to Hanover Publications' book "Nothing But The Blues" compiled by the Editors of Blues Unlimited
J.B. Lenoir
- I Don't Care What Nobody Say
Juke Boy Bonner
- Runnin' Shoes
Doctor Ross
- Goin' Down Slow
Model 'T' Slim
- Woman's The Glory Of Man
Little Mack Simmons
- Come Back
Johnny Shines
- Pipeline Blues
Boozoo Chavis
- Forty One Days
Hop Wilson
- That Wouldn't Satisfy
Big Walter
- My Tears
Lonesome Sundown
- I Stood By
Arthur Gunter
- Don't Leave Me Now
Rockin' Sydney
- Keep On Pushin'
B. B. King
- Eysight To The Blind
Otis Rush
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
Buddy Guy
- Sit And Cry (The Blues)
John Brim
- Lifetime Baby
Elmore James
- Goin' For Good
Magic Sam
- All Night Long
Lightnin' Slim
- Greyhound Blues
Slim Harpo
- Loving You (The Way I Do)
Otis Spann
- Can't Do Me No Good
Sunnyland Slim
- Midnight Jump
Johnny Young
- Moaning And Groaning
George Smith
- Telephone Blues | 2 LP set
notes by Mike Leadbitter
CBS 66278 (UK) |
| 30 | 1971 | JOHNNY YOUNG plays and sings the blues
with his gut-bucket mandolin
- Trompin' At The Ballroom
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Bad Blood
- Little Girl, Little Girl
- I'm Goin', I'm Goin'
- Mandolin Boogie
- No. 12 Is At The Station
- Mary Lou
- My Baby Walked Out
- Why Did You Break My Heart
- Nobody's Business
rec. 1971 at Stu Black's Sound Studio in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Chicago Blues Band: Little Mack Simmons, Jerry Portnoy, hca; Bob Riedy, p; Louis Myers, g; Dave Myers, b; Fred Below, dr; prod. by Al Smith
[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
|
| 31 | 1972 | Take A Little Walk With Me
The Blues in Chicago 1948-1957
J.B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Willie Nix
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
Eddie Taylor
- Big Town Playboy
Little Willie Foster
- Little Girl
John Lee Henley
- Knockin' On Lula Mae's Door
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
John Brim
- Gary Stomp [Parrot 799]
Lazy Bill Lucas
- She Got Me Walkin'
Willie Nix
- Nervous Wreck
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
Grace Brim
- Going Down The Line [Random 202]
Johnny Young
- My Baby Walked Out
Little Walter
- Blue Baby
Jimmy Rogers
- Ludella No. 2
Baby Face Leroy
- Take A Little Walk With Me
Grace Brim
- Mean Man Blues [Fortune 801]
Robert Nighthawk
- Feel So Bad
Homesick James
- The Woman I Love
Lazy Bill Lucas
- I Had A Dream
Willie Nix
- No More Love
Floyd Jones
- Floyd's Blues
John Lee Henley
- Rhythm Rockin' Boogie
Memphis Minnie
- World Of Trouble
Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
Floyd Jones
- Big World
John Brim
- Drinking Woman [J.O.B. 1011]
Memphis Minnie
- Kissing In The Dark
Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
Junior Wells
- Tomorrow Night
Little Willie Foster
- Crying The Blues
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House
compiled, annotated and produced by Leroy Pierson | DLP
notes by Leroy J. Pierson
Boogie Disease BD 101/2
[Leroy Pierson's first (one
record) label, 500 copies only] |
| 32 | 1972 | The Great Blues Men
Homesick James
- Set A Date
John Lee Hooker
- Dusty Road
Sleepy John Estes
- Corinna #
Muddy Waters
- Nineteen Years Old
Jesse Fuller
- San Francisco Bay Blues
Mance Lipscomb
- Blues In G
Rev. Gary Davis
- If I Had My Way #
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Key To The Highway
Otis Spann
- Burning Fire
Lightnin' Hopkins
- Cotton Field Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- Louise, Louise Blues
Johnny Young
- Tighten Up On It @ youtube
James Cotton
- Ain't Nobody's Business
Mississippi John Hurt
- Moanin' The Blues
Junior Wells
- Stormy Mnday Blues #
Johnny Shines
- Dynaflow Blues
Son House (+ Al Wilson)
- Empire State Blues #
Sonny Terry
- Mountain Blues
Joe Turner & Pete Johnson
- It's All Right, Baby
Jimmy Rushing
- How Long, How Long Blues
Skip James
- Cypress Grove Blues
J. B. Hutto
- Please Help
Fred McDowell
- Fred's Ramblin' Blues
Ida Cox
- Four Day Creep #
Robert Pete Williams
- On My Way From Texas
Otis Rush
- I't's A Mean Old World
# not on CD | DLP
Vanguard VSD 25/26Vanguard / King GW-203/4
(Jp 1972) (=) Vanguard CD 25/26 (1988) |
| 33 | 1973 | American Folk Blues Festival '72
Bukka White
- I'm Gettin' Ready
- World Boogie *
- Aberdeen Blues
Big Joe Williams
- My Baby Is Gone
- My Boots & Shoes
- Louise *
Robert Pete Williams
- Look Here Woman
Roosevelt Sykes
- Driving Wheel *
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Boot That Thing *
Memphis Slim
- Baby Please Come Home *
- Lonesome Traveller
- Boogin' And Bluesin'
Johnny Young, W.D. Kent, Billy Davenport
- Instrumental Boogie # @ Spotify
Big Mama Thornton
- Tell Me Baby
- Ball In (!) Chain
T-Bone Walker
- Shake It Baby
- Goin' Back To Church
Jimmy Rogers & Whispering Smith
- Chicago Bound *
- Tricky Woman
Lightnin' Slim & Whispering Smith
- Winter Time Blues
Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band
- Don't Ever Leave Me
- Got My Mojo Workin'
* not on CD
rec. March 16, 1972 at Hilpert Theatre, Lünen, Germany, and October 26, 1972 at Circus-Krone-Bau, München, Germany
# Johnny Young, mand; W.D. (Willie) Kent, b; Billy Davenport, dr
American Folk Blues Festival discography | DLP notes by
Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
Atlantic 60036 (1973)
The 10th American Folk
Blues Festival Blues
Giants - Rock CreatorsDLP
= L+R 42.018 
(=) L+R CDLS-2018
L+R discography |
| 34 | 1973 | The Bob Riedy Chicago Blues Band
Lake Michigan Ain't No River
Chicago Ain't No Hilly Town
- My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
- House Rock
- Walking By Myself
- Slick Chick
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- Keep On Looking # //
- Have You Ever //
- Dust My Broom # []
- Reconsider Baby # []
- I Don't Know Why # []
- Chicken Shack
- Mandolin Boogie *
- Why Did You Break My Heart *
- Johnnie's Jump *
- Pig Ear Rag
rec. 1972 at Sound Studios in Chicago, Ill.
# Bob Riedy, p; Chris Mason, ts; John Littlejohn, g; [] voc; Bob Falvey, b; Richard "Hubcap" Robinson, dr, // voc
* Bob Riedy, p; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Chris Mason, sax; Frank Capek, g; Jim Wydra, b; Sam Lay, dr | 
Rounder 2005
= Pläne PL 88128
(Germany 1979)
= Chicago Sound Recordings
SCR 2005 [Bob Riedy's label]
|
| 35 | 1974 | Johnny Young: I Can't Keep My Foot From Jumping
- Stop Breaking Down
- I Gotta Find My Baby
- Deal The Cards
- My Trainfare Out Of Town
- I Know She's Kinda Slick
- Tried Not To Cry
- Keep On Drinking
- Kid Mama Blues
- Lend Me Your Love
- Sweet Mama
- No. 12 Is At The Station
- I Can't Keep My Foot From Jumping
rec. 1973 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; p; Louis Myers, g; Richard Evans, b; Bill Warren, dr; prod. by Al Smith | notes by Al Smith
Bluesway BLS 6075 |
| 36 | 1974 | Chicago Blues
Barrelhouse BH-004 track sequence
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]
- I Just Keep Loving Her (tk 2)
Othum Brown & Little Walter
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 711]
- Ora Nelle Blues (tk 2)
Johnny Young
- Money Takin Woman (tk 1) [Ora Nelle 712]
- Money Takin Woman (tk 2) [previously unissued]
Johnny Williams & Johnny Young
- Worried Man Blues [Ora Nelle 712]
Jimmy Rogers & Little Walter
- Little Store Blues (tk 1)
- Little Store Blues (tk 2)
Boll Weevil
- Christmas Time Blues
- Thinkin' Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- Harlem Bound
- Stone Blind
Johnny Temple
- Olds "98" Blues
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 Takin 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 Takin 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 | notes by George Paulus
Barrelhouse BH-004Barrelhouse discography 
= St. George STG-1001 (1983)
"Chicago Boogie 1947"
improved sound
St. George discography 
= P-Vine PLP-6714
(Jp 1998)
= P-Vine PCD-1888
(Jp 2003)
|
| 37 | 1975 | Johnny Young & His Friends
LP track sequence:
- Prison Bound
- Sugar Farm Blues []
- All My Money Gone @ youtube
- My Home Ain't Here
- Did You Get That Letter?
- I'm Leaving Baby
- I Got It
- Meet Me In The Bottom $
- You Made Me Feel So Good
- Blues And Trouble
- Kid Man Blues []
- Humpty Dumpty
- Forty-Four Blues
- Whoop It Up
CD track sequence:
- Prison Bound
- Sugar Farm Blues []
- All My Money Gone
- My Home Ain't Here
- Blues For Big Time [] #
- Did You Get That Letter?
- I'm Leaving Baby
- I Got It
- Bumble Bee [] #
- Meet Me In The Bottom $
- You Made Me Feel So Good
- Want My Lovin' #
- Blues And Trouble
- Kid Man Blues []
- Humpty Dumpty
- Instrumental [] #
- Forty-Four Blues
- Whoop It Up
# CD bonus tracks
[] rec. 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; John Lee Granderson, g
$ rec. 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Big John Wrencher, hca; Robert Nighthawk, g | notes by Pete Welding
Testament T-2226
= Testament TCD 5003
(1994)
Testament discography 
= P-Vine PCD-5564 (Jp)
|
| 38 | 1979 | Blues Roots: Give Me The Blues
Smoky Babe
- Boogy
Avery Brady
- I Don't Want You No More
Doug Quattlebaum
- Good Woman Blues
Huddie Ledbetter
- Frankie And Albert, parts 1 + 2
[Jimmy Brewer
- Big Road Blues
Even though shown on the cover as well as on the label track listing and even though there's a picture and a short bio of Jim Brewer in the liner notes - this Jim Brewer track is actually / erraneously? not included; instead there's the following Arthur Weston track !!!]
Arthur Weston
- Someday Baby
Big Joe Williams
- Long Road Blues
Big Bill Broonzy
- You Better Mind
Clarence Edwards
- Mean Old Frisco
Bert Logan, Russ Logan, Big Joe Williams
- Four O'Clock In The Morning
Big Joe Henry Miller, Jimmy Lee Miller
- Down Here By Myself
Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires
- 21 Below Zero [Testament unissued]
Johnny Young
- Green Door Blues
Arthur Weston
- Roll Me Over Slow
Champion Jack Dupree
- Back Door Special
Roosevelt Sykes
- Southern Style Piano
Henry Brown
- Low Down Drag
Memphis Slim
- Funky Blues
Jimmy Yancey
- Yancey Special
Sunnyland Slim
- Sunnyland's Boogie
Speckled Red
- Cow Cow Blues
Otis Spann
- The Skies Are Blue
Memphis Slim
- A Letter Home
Otis Spann
- Boots And Shoes
Memphis Slim
- Rebecca Blues
Willie Mabon
- I'm The Fixer
Champion Jack Dupree
- I Just Want To Be Free
| DLP
 
 
 
Storyville 6.28470
= PGP RTB 2LP 3220044to read liner notes
click on pictures of covers
G = German / E = English
text has been black/white
reversed to improve readability Storyville discography |
| 39 | 1979 | Vivian & Jimmy's Blues Showcase
Willie Cobbs
- You Don't Love Me [Vee Jay 411]
- You're So Hard To Please [Vee Jay 411]
- Lonely Boy [Pure Gold 302, remastered by Vee Jay]
Christine Kittrell
- Sittin' & Drinkin' [Vee Jay 399]
- I'm A Woman [Vee Jay 444]
- It's Nobody's Fault [Vee Jay 444]
J. B. Lenoir
- Do What I Say [Vee Jay 352]
J. B. Lenoir
- Oh Baby [Vee Jay 352]
Snooky Pryor
- Someone To Love Me [Vee Jay 215] #
- You Tried To Ruin Me [Vee Jay unissued] #
- Judgment Day [Vee Jay 215] # @ youtube
Floyd Jones
- Schooldays (On My Mind) [Vee Jay 111]
- Ain't Times Hard [Vee Jay 111]
- Any Old Lonesome Day [Vee Jay 126]
# with Johnny Young, g | 
Teichiku ULS-1913-JY (Jp) |
| 40 | 1980 | Chicago Slickers Vol. 2 1948-55
Little Walter
- Blue Baby
Man Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- My Baby Walked Out
Robert Nighthawk
- My Sweet Lovin' Woman
Grace Brim
- Goin Down The Line
Johnny Shines
- Living In The White House
Willie Nix
- No More Love
- Nervous Wreck
Willie Nix
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Yourself
Floyd Jones
- Skinny Woman
John Brim
- Drinking Woman
Lazy Bill
- I Had A Dream
J. B. Hutto
- Combination Boogie
Floyd Jones
- Any Old Lonesome Day
- Floyd's Blue
| notes by Leroy Pierson
Nighthawk 107Nighthawk discography |
| 41 | 1983 | Combination Blues
Chicago Bluesmasters Vol. 1
J.B. Hutto & His Hawks
- Combination Boogie
- Now She's Gone
- Pet Cream Man
- Lovin' You
- Price Of Love
- Things Are So Slow
- Dim Lights
Snooky Pryor
- Judgement Day (alt tk) [Vee-Jay unissued] #
- Someone To Love Me (alt tk) [Vee-Jay unissued] #
- You Tried To Ruin Me Baby [Vee-Jay unissued] #
Willie Nix And His Combo
- Nervous Wreck
- No More Love
- Just Can't Stay
- All By Myself
# with Johnny Young, g | 
Charly CRB 1042 |
| 42 | 1985 | 19 Tracks From The Film Chicago Blues
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- We're Ready
- First Time I Met The Blues
- Country Girl
- Hoodoo Man
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- We're Ready
- In My Younger Days
Johnny Young
- Driving Wheel #
- Walking Groundhog #
Muddy Waters
- She's 19 Years Old
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- I Got My Mojo Working
Mighty Joe Young
- Why You Want To Hurt Me
Koko Taylor
- Wang Dang Doodle
J.B. Hutto
- Speak My Mind
- Come On Back Home
Johnny Lewis
- Your Gonna Miss Me
- Uncle Sam
- Hobo Blues
- I Hear You Knocking
# rec. c. April 1970 live in Chicago,5 IL by Harley Cokliss for the film "Chicago Blues"; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Lefty Dizz (Walter Williams, g; b; dr | notes by Mike Rowe
Red Lightnin' RL 0055
Red Lightnin' discography
= P-Vine PCD-5332 (Jp 1998)
"Muddy Waters, Junior
Wells & Buddy Guy ..."
|
| 43 | 1990 | Snooky Pryor
- Fine Boogie
- I'm Getting Tired
- Rough Treatment (two takes)
- Why Should I Worry?
- Going Back On The Road
- Real Fine Boogie
- Hold Me In Your Arms
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man
- Boogie Twist
- Keep What You Got
- Stockyard Blues
- Boogie
- Telephone Blues
- Let Me Ride Your Mule #
- My Baby Walked Out On Me #
- Harp Instrumental
- Stop The Train Conductor
- Walking Boogie
- My Head Is Turning Grey
# Johnny "Man" Young, voc, mand
Snooky Pryor discography | notes by Klaus Kilian
Flyright FLYCD 20Flyright discography 
= Paula PCD-11 (1991 US)
|
| 44 | 1995 | Bottleneck Blues
Napoleon Strickland
- Key To The Bushes
Big Joe Williams
- Talking About Bottleneck
- Traveling Blues
Robert Night Hawk
- Crying Won't Help You (alt. tk.) §
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Six White Horses
Mott Willis
- Knife Instrumental
Robert Lee Granderson
- Flora Blues
J.B. Hutto & The Hawks
- Wild Wild Woman
Blind Connie Williams
- St. Louis Blues
David Honeyboy Edwards
- Worryin' Woman Blues
Robert Johnson
- I'm Coming, Lord, Please Don't Drive Me Away
Chicago Blues Band
- Verna Lee Blues []
Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Wouldn't Mind Dying
John Littlejohn
- Dust My Broom
Blind Connie Williams
- Trouble In Mind
Big Joe Williams
- How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done
Mott Willis
- M & O Blues
Johnny Shines
- Crucial Moment
Jack Owens
- Train Time
Robert Johnson
- I Don't Know When Death Is Gonna Call Me
Herb Quinn
- Casey, You Can't Ride This Train
Napoleon Strickland
- Skake 'Em Down
§ rec. October 14, 1964 in Chicago, Ill.; Robert Nighthawk, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Johnny Young, mand
[] rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, Ill.; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Big John Wrencher, hca; Carl Martin, voc, vl, mand; Johnny Young, voc, mand | (Testament 2216
announced, but not issued)
Testament TCD 5021
Testament discography = P-Vine PCD-5576 (Jp) |
| 45 | 1995 | Johnny Young: Back To Chicago
- Little Girl [Decca LK 4748]
- One More Time [Decca LK 4748]
- Humpty Dumpty [Testament T-2226]
- I Got It [Testament T-2226]
- Whoop It Up [Testament T-2226]
- All My Money Gone [Testament T-2226]
- Prison Bound [Testament T-2226]
- Bad Blood [Testament T-2226]
- Let Me Ride Your Mule [Testament T-2226]
- Meet Me In The Bottom [Testament T-2226]
- Money Taking Woman [Testament T-2203]
- I Got To Find That Woman [Testament T-2220]
- You Got Your [sic - actually Good] Business [Testament T-2220]
- I'm Leaving Baby [Testament T-2226]
- My Baby Walked Out In 1954 [Testament T-2203]
- You Make Me Feel So Good [Testament T-2203]
- Back To Chicago [Testament T-2203]
- Tired Of You Smiling [Testament T-2203]
- Moaning And Groaning [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Heard My Doorbell Ring [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- My Trainfare Out Of Town [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Lula Mae [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Jackson Bound [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
- Walking Slow [Blue Horizon BH 7-63852]
| 
Delta DCD-1874 (US) |
| 46 | 1996 | Let's Have A Blues Ball!
The Music if the Juke Joints
- I'm Having A Ball - Johnny Young
- Dream - John Littlejohn
- Swing It On Home - Big Mama Thornton
- Anna Lee - Earl Hooker
- Going Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- It's Hard - Clifton Chenier
- Come On Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Nine Below Zero - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Gambling Blues - Juke Boy Bonner
- Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- I'm In The Big City - Juke Boy Bonner
- Meet You At The Chicken Shack - Ligtnin Hopkins
- Rag Around Your Head - John Delafose
- The Blues (Won't Let Me Take My Rest) - Henry Gray
- Shake You Moneymaker - John Littlejohn
- If Trouble Was Money - Charlie Musslewhite
- Wild, Wild Woman - Johnny Young
- Gimme A Penny - Big Mama Thornton
- On The Road Again - Johnny Young
- Mojo In My Hand - L.C. Robinson
| 
Arhoolie CD 590 (US)= Ace CDCHD 590 (UK) |
| 47 | 1996 | 15 Urban Blues Classics
- Pontiac Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Big Mama's Bumble Bee - Big Mama Thornton
- Cincinnati Stomp - Big Joe Duskin
- Anna Lee - Earl Hooker
- Up & Down The Avenue - Charlie Musselwhite
- Been Around The World - John Littlejohn
- Wine-O-Baby Boogie - Joe Turner/Pete Johnson
- I Know That's Right - Katie Webster
- Raven, The - Omar Sharriff
- You Think I'm Your Good Thing - Bee Houston
- Going Back To The Country - Juke Boy Bonner
- Ups & Downs - L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson
- Atlanta Bounce - Piano Red
- Wild, Wild, Woman - Johnny Young
- Gibson Creek Shuffle - The Charles Ford Band
| 
Arhoolie CD 102 |
| 48 | 1997 | 15 Piano Blues & Boogie Classics
- Dollar Bill Boogie - Big Joe Duskin
- Have You Ever Been Out In The Country - Mercy Dee
- Whistling Alex Moore's Blue - Whistling Alex Moore
- Moaning And Groaning - Johnny Young/Otis Spann
- Katie's Boogie Woogie - Katie Webster
- Cruel Hearted Woman - Thunder Smith
- Ma Grinder, The - Robert Shaw
- Why Did You Go Last Night - Clifton Chenier/Elmore Nixon
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - L.C. "Good Rockin" Robinson/Pinetop Perkins
- San Francisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town - Omar Sharriff
- Rocket Boogie "88" - Pete Johnson
- Sugar Hill - Bukka White
- You Ain't Got A Chance - Piano Red
- Cold Chills - Henry Gray
- On The Spot Boogie - Charlie Musselwhite/Lafayette Leake
| 
Arhoolie CD 108 |
| 49 | 1997 | Otis Spann: Live The Life
- Been A Long, Long Time
- Look Under My Bed
- Tribute To Martin Luther King
- Sarah Street
- Worried Life Blues
- Kansas City
- Tin Pan Alley
- 5 Long Years
- Live The Life I Love
- I Wanna Go Home
- Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had
- High Rising
- Everything Gonna Be Alright
- What's On Your Worried Mind?
- Mean Old Train Young
- My Baby Left Me {}
{} rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Charles 'Harmonica Slim' Willis, voc, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr | 
Testament TCD 6001 |
| 50 | 1997 | Carl Martin: Crow Jane Blues
- Crow Jane Blues
- Corrina, Corrina *
- Trouble On Your Hand No. 2 []
- State Street Pimp No. 2 *
- Gravedigger Blues *
- Worried All The Time #
- Liza Jane
- Good Morning Judge
- John Henry *
- West Virginia Blues #
- Trouble On Your Hand No. 1 []
- Everyday I Have The Blues *
- Frankie & Johnny *
- State Street Pimp No. 1 *
- Railroad Blues
- You Can't Beat The Syndicate (interview by Pete Welding)
rec. May 31, 1966 in Chicago, Ill.; Carl Martin, voc, fiddle, g, mand; Johnny Young, * g, [] mand
# rec. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, Ill.; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand
Carl Martin discography | notes by Frank Scott
Testament TCD 6006Testament discography |
| 51 | 1998 | John Lee Granderson: Hard Luck John
- Minglewood Blues
- Hard Luck John
- Flora Blues
- Please Come Back To Me #
- Death Valley Blues
- Texas Blues
- Rock Me All Night Long
- Cold Dark Evening #
- County Farm Blues
- Decoration Day
- Aching Pain Blues
- This Is Your Last Chance
- That's Doggin' Me
- Watch Out, Girl *
- Got To Bend You Over, Baby
- One Kind Favor
# rec. April 4, 1964 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Jimmy Walker, p; Johnny Young, mand
* rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; John Lee Granderson, voc, g; Carl Martin, vn; Johnny Young, mand
John Lee Granderson discography | notes by Frank Scott
Testament TCD 5031 |
| 52 | 1998 | Mandolin Blues
Yank Rachell
- Dig My Buddy, Joe
- Smokey Joe
- Rainy Day Blues #
- My Baby's Gonna Jump And Shout #
Carl Martin
- Every Day I Have The Blues
- Grave Digger Blues
Will Hatcher
- Garbage Man Blues
- Crawdad
- Waiting Just For You
Ted Bogan
- Mary, Run To The Window §
Johnny Young
- Highway 61
- Jumpin' On Eight (instr)
- Stealin'
- Mandolin Rock (instr)
- I Tried To Get You Off My Mind
- Bumble Bee []
- Crawling King Snake
Yank Rachell tracks rec. February 12, 1967 in Chicago; Yank Rachell, voc, mand, g; Taj Mahal, g, # hca; Sleppy John Estes, g
Johnny Young tracks rec. 1963-1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p
[] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p
§ rec. December 20, 1965 in Chicago, IL; Ted Bogan, voc, g; John Lee Henley, hca; Johnny Young, mand | notes by Frank Scott
Testament TCD 6004Testament discography |
| 53 | 1998 | Down Home Harp
- Blue Mood - Big Walter Horton
- We All Got To Go - Billy Boy Arnold
- Billy Boy's Jump - Billy Boy Arnold
- Borrow Love And Go - James 'Bat' Robinson
- You Know I Love You - Big John Wrencher #
- Thinkin' About Your Apples - Coot Venson
- Sweet Woman Blues - George Robertson
- Canadian Sunset (instr) - Harmonica Slim Willis Quartet {}
- Last Night Blues - Andrew Cauthen
- Blue As I Can Be - Willie Lee Harris
- Fox Chase - Snake Hippin' - Careless Love - John Lee Henley
- Sweet Little Woman - Robert Nighthawk With Little Walter
- Slow Train Through Arkansas - Elmon 'Driftin' Slim' Mickle
- T-Model And The Train - Elmon 'Driftin' Slim' Mickle
- Morning Rock - Coot Venson
- Blues For Illinois - Dr. Ross
- Mattie Mae - Billy Boy Arnold
- Where The Southern Crosses The Dog - Coot Venson
- Goin' Down To The Station - Andrew Cauthen
- Walter's Boogie - Big Walter Horton
- John Henry - James 'Bat' Robinson
- Baby, You Don't Have To Go - Johnny Young with Little Walter []
# rec. June 18, 1966 in Chicago, IL; Big John Wrencher, voc, hca; John Lee Granderson, g; Carl Martin, voc, mand; Johnny Young, mand
[] rec. May 9, 1964 live at the University of Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, mand, g; Little Walter, hca; Jimmy Walker, p
{} rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Charles 'Harmonica Slim' Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Johnny Young, g; Robert Whitehead, dr | 
Testament TCD 6011Testament discography = P-Vine PCD-5575 (Jp) |
| 54 | 1999 | Shake 'Em On Down
The Real Country Blues
- Shake 'Em On Down - Fred McDowell
- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Big Joe Williams
- Alabama Blues - Bukka White
- Need More Blues - Sleepy Joe Estes
- Judge Boushay Blues - Furry Lewis
- Pardon Denied Again - Robert Pete Williams
- Rabbit Blues - Smoky Babe
- Take Me Out Of The Bottom - Big Joe Williams
- Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell
- Poor Black Mattie - R.L. Burnside
- Come Home To Me Baby - Joe Callicott
- Smokestack Lightning - Clarence Edwards
- Write Me A Few Lines - Fred McDowell
- Mississippi River - Smoky Babe
- Just Tippin' It - Robert Pete Williams
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride - Big Joe Williams
- Canned Heat - Houston Stackhouse
- Three O'Clock In The Morning - Johnny Woods
- 'Bout A Spoonful - Nathan Beauregard
- You Call Yourself A Cadillac - Robert Nighthawk
- Keep Your Nose Out Of My Business - Johnny Young & Otis Spann
- Oh Baby - Napeleon Strickland | 
Arhoolie/Ace CD 527 (UK) |
| 55 | 1999 | I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume One
CD One:
Willie Mabon
- Michelle
- I'm Hungry
- I Don't Know
- New Orleans Blues
- I'm The Fixer
James Brewer
- I Know A Woman, She Lives Up The Hill #
- Big Road Blues
- Blues In The Morning, Blues Every Turn Around
- Poor Kelly Blues
- I Don't No Woman, She Got Hair Like Drops Of Rain
Eddie Boyd (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Five Long Years
- Early Grave
- The Big Question
- Look Over Younder Wall
Yank Rachell (+ John Lee Granderson, Mike Bloomfield)
- Going To Pack Up My Things And
- Every Night And Day, I Hear My Baby Call My Name
- My Baby Rocks Me
- My Baby's Gone, Soon I'll Be Gone Myself
CD Two:
Johnny Young (+ Slim Willis, Otis Spann, Robert Whitehead)
- Why Did You Break My Heart # \\
- Better Cut It Out # //
- My Baby Walked Out And Left Me # //
- Step By, Baby (Want My Baby) # \\
- Monkey-Face Woman #
Sunnyland Slim (+ Mike Bloomfield)
- Brownskin Woman
- It's You Baby
- One Room Country Shack
- Sunnyland's Jump
- Rock Me
Big Walter Horton (+ Robert Nighthawk)
- Let's Have A Good Time
- Mean Mistreater
- I'm In The Mood
- Louise, Louise
- You Don't Mistreat Me
- Trouble In Mind
Interviews
Willie Mabon
James Brewer
Eddie Boyd
Yank Rachell
# rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, // g, \\ mand; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr
Johnny Young
- Johnny's Boogie # [unissued] | 2 CD set
Jefferson Records
SBACD 12653/4 |
| 56 | 1999 | Chicago Blues Hard Times
- I Just Keep Loving Her - Little Walter
- Telephone Blues - Snooky Pryor / Moody Jones
- Snooky & Moody's Boogie - Moody Jones / Snooky Pryor
- My Baby Walked Out On Me - Johnny Young
- Keep What You Got - Floyd Jones
- Ore Nellie Blues: (That's Alright) - Othum Brown
- Stockyard Blues - Floyd Jones
- Blues Baby - Little Walter
- I Want My Baby - Little Walter
- Roll Tumble And Slip: (I Cried) - Sunnyland Slim
- Train Time: (Four O' Clock Blues) - Sunnyland Slim
- Johnson Machine Gun - Sunnyland Slim
- Fly Right Little Girl - Sunnyland Slim
- Gypsy Woman - Muddy Waters
- Little Anna Mae - Muddy Waters
- I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Waters
- Hard Times - Floyd Jones
- Let Me Ride Your Mule - Johnny Young
- School Days - Floyd Jones
- Money Takin' Woman - Johnny Young [Ora Nelle 712]
- Worried Man Blues - Johnny Williams [Ora Nelle 712]
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Indigo IGOCD 2095 |
| 57 | 1999 | And This Is Maxwell Street
CD One
- The Sun Is Shining- Johnny Young #
- Can't Hold Out Much Longer - Big John Wrencher
- Juke Medley - Carey Bell
- That's All Right - Robert Night Hawk
- Red Top/Ornithology - Little Arthur King
- Maxwell Street Jam - Carey Bell
- Lucille - Big John Wrencher
- Corinna, Corinna - Arvella Gray
- Power To Live Right - Carrie Robinson
- Cheating And Lying Blues - Robert Night Hawk
- Honky Tonk - Robert Night Hawk
- Dust My Broom - Robert Night Hawk
- Peter Gunn Jam - Robert Night Hawk
- I Need Love So Bad - Robert Night Hawk
- All I Want For My Breakfast - Johnny Young #
- Take It Easy, Baby - Robert Night Hawk
- Long Gone John - Unknown Harpist
CD Two
- Mama, Talk To Your Daughter - Big Mojo Elem
- I'm Ready - Carey Bell
- Carey'n On - Carey Bell
- When The Saints Go Marching In - James Brewer Group
- Back Off Jam - Robert Night Hawk
- John Henry - Arvella Gray
- Anna Lee/Sweet Black Angel - Robert Night Hawk
- Love You Tonight - Big John Wrencher
- The Time Have Come - Robert Night Hawk
- Cruisin' In A Cadillac - Carey Bell
- Honey Hush - Robert Night Hawk
- I'll Fly Away - James Brewer Gospel Group
- I Shall Overcome - Fannie Brewer
CD Three [P-Vine & Catfish versions only]
Michael Bloomfield interviews Robert Night Hawk
- Musical Introduction
- Reel 2
- Reel 3
- Reel 4
- Reel 1
Street recordings made for 1964 documentary film 'And This Is Free'; compiled by Ian Talcroft
# rec. September 20, 1964 live on Maxwell Street in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Robert Nighthawk, Mike Bloomfield, g; dr | 2 CD set
notes by Colin Talcroft
P-Vine PCD-5527/28 (Jp)
= Rooster CD ROO2641
(US 2000)
= Catfish CD (UK 10/2000) |
| 58 | 2000 | The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box Set
Johnny Young
- Sometimes I Cry
"106 songs by 96 artists clocks in at over 6 hours" | 5 CD box set
Arhoolie CD 491www.arhoolie.com |
| 59 | 2001 | Snooky Pryor and Friends: Pitch A Boogie Woogie If It Takes Me All Night Long
Seminal Post-War Chicago Blues
Floyd Jones
- Keep What You Got
- Stockyard Blues
Moody Jones
- Rough Treatment
- Rough Treatment (alt tk)
- Why Should I Worry
Snooky Pryor
- Big Guns (Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man) (undubbed version)
- Boogie Twist
- Boogy Fool
- Can't We Get This Straight
- Cryin' Shame
- Eighty Nine Ten
- Fine Boogie
- (Real) Fine Boogie
- Going Back On The Road
- Harp Instrumental
- Hold Me In Your Arms
- I Can't Feel Good No More
- I Can't Feel Good No More (alt tk)
- I'm Getting Tired
- Raisin' Sand
- Stop The Train Conductor (tk 1)
- Stop The Train Conductor (tk 2)
- Uncle Sam Don't Take My Man
- Walking Boogie
Snooky & Moody
- Snooky & Moody's Boogie
- Telephone Blues
Johnny Young
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- My Baby Walked Out
Snooky Pryor discography | 
Westside WESA 869 |
| 60 | 2004 | I Blueskvarter Chicago 1964, Volume Three
CD One
Snooks Eaglin
- Yours Truly
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
- My Babe
- Let Me Go Home, Whiskey
- Careless Love
- Rock Island Line
- CC Rider
- I`m Looking For A Woman
- Hello Dolly
- Lonesome Road
Babe Stovall
- Good Morning Blues
- Candy Man
- Fo' Day Blues
- Gonna Move To Kansas City
Johnny Moment
- Keep Our Business To Yourself
- You Got To Mind How To Treat Someone Else
Will Shade
- I Got The Blues So Bad
- I Can't Stand It
Furry Lewis
- Baby, I Know You Don't Love Me
Earl Bell
- Travellin' Man
- Terraplane Blues
Moose Williams
- Mother Keep Your Light Burning High In The Window
CD Two
Willie Mabon
- Somebody's Got To Pay
Big Walter Horton
- West Side Blues
- Tin Pan Alley
- This Is It
Sunnyland Slim
- Prison Bound
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Hot Potatoes
- One Room Country Shack
Little Brother Montgomery
- Vicksburg Blues
Johnny Young
- You Got Bad Blood, I Think You Need A Shot #
Washboard Sam
- Mama Don't Allow
Big Joe Williams
- Rootin' Groundhog
- Southern Blues
- King's Highway Blues
Champion Jack Dupree
- Improvisations and Interview
- Drive 'em Down Special
- Improvisations and Interview
- I Feel Like A Millionaire
- Improvisations and Interview
- Barrelhouse Woman
- Improvisations and Interview
# rec. May 19 or 23, 1964 in Chicago, IL; Johnny Young, voc, g; Slim Willis, hca; Otis Spann, p; Robert Whitehead, dr | 2 CD set
Jefferson Records
SBACD 12658/9 |
| 61 | 20?? | Johnny Young: I Got It
- Humpty Dumpty
- I Got It
- Whoop It Up
- All My Money Gone
- Prison Bound
- Bad Blood
- Let Me Ride Your Mule
- Meet Me In The Bottom
- Money Taking Woman
- I Got To Find That Woman (instr)
- You Got Your Business
- I'm Leaving, Baby
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Rockin Blues LP_RB 19922 |
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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Karel Bogaert: Blues Lexicon.- Antwerpen (Standaard) 1972, pp. 418-419
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006, pp. 43, 94, 177, 234-235, 249, 273, 356, 421, 452, 500-501, 503, 595, 603, 608-609
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007, pp. 1087-1088
- Robert Ford & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1971 - 2000 [the later years].- Vancouver 2011, pp. 379, 504, 513
- Tony Russell: The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.- New York (Schirmer Books) 1997
- http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/oldswing.html
- http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/planetmarvel.html
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources
source of left column picture: Front cover of Blue Horizon 7-63852
thanks to Jean-Pierre Urbain, Joe Louis and Alan Balfour for additional info / scans
The Chicago String Band: Carl Martin, John Wrencher, Johnny Young, John Lee Granderson
source: front cover of Testament T-2220; photographer: Pete Welding
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