from liner notes:"Columbia Records proudly presents what is perhaps the most genuine folk music of our times...seven Negro laments of the chain gang sung by Joshua White and his Carolinians"
Josh White discography
set of four 78 rpm recordsColumbia album C-22
Columbia 35559 (C22-1/-2)
Columbia 35560 (C22-3/-4)
Columbia 35561 (C22-5/-6)
Columbia 35562 (C22-7/-8)
Columbia 36202
Columbia 36237
set of three 78 rpm 1101-A/B
1102-A/B
1103-A/BAlmanac Records 102(a Keynote production)
(=) Bear Family BCD 15720JL (Germany 1996)
set of three 78 rpm records Keynote album 106(= 301 + 302 + 303) Keynote 301Keynote 302 Keynote 303
(=) Bear Family BCD 15720 JL (Germany 1996)
Harmony 1006
Harmony 1013
notes by Nina Merrick& Kenneth S. Goldstein = Elektra EKL 102
= Ducrete-Thomson310 V 018 (Fr)
notes by Nina Merrick& Kenneth S. Goldstein Bounty 6001 (UK 1966)
notes by Nina Merrick& Kenneth S. Goldstein= Sonet/Grand Prix GP-9909(Sw 1966)
(=) CD (2002)along with "Ballads and Blues"
10 inch LPLivingston 1085 (US)
= Period SPL 1115 (US)
= London H-APB 1038 (UK)
12 inch LP (=) Period SPL 1209 (1958)along with (on side 2)"Big Bill Broonzy sings"(from Period SPL 1114)
"... Sam Gary Sings, the only solo recording of Josh (White)'s longtime friend and musical partner. Issued on London's Esquire Records and in the States on the short-lived Transition label, it purports to feature one Dean Laurence on guitar, and to have been recorded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but Laurence plays on only two cuts, and the dates would seem to place Josh and Gary in England. Wherever the record was made, most of it features Josh, tastefully framing Gary's vocals and adding vocal responses on 'Scandalize My Name,' a rewrite of 'Scandalous and a Shame', the song with which Josh had made his recording debute at age fourteen. Josh often backed Gary at parties and gave him solo spots on stage, but this was the only time Gary stepped out of his sideman role on disc." (Elijah Wald: Josh White - Society Blues.- p. 244)
Transition trlp F-1 booklet
notes by Dean Laurence[Dean Gitter] Esquire 32-017 mono (UK)= Esquire 52-017 stereo
Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)
Transition Recordsfounded by Tom Wilson
previously on Esquire 32-017 mono / Esquire 52-017 stereo (UK 1956) = Transition trlp F-1 (US 1957)
notes by Dean Laurence Esquire EP 129 (UK 1956)
notes by Dean Lawrence Esquire EP 159
notes by Dean Lawrence [Dean Gitter] Esquire EP 189 (UK 1957)
Transition trlp F-3
7 inch 45 rpm EPnotes by Werner Burghardt Telefunken UX 4932 (Germany 196?)
inner gatefold
DLPnotes by Jac Holzman inner sleeve Elektra EKS 75008 (stereo)
notes by Dave Moore Best of Blues BoB-11
(=) Best of Blues B.o.B 7 CD(1994)
B.O.B. discography
notes by Dave MooreDocument DOCD 5405
Smithsonian Folkways 40081liner notes
liner notes
3 CD boxRhino R2 74264
2 CD setRhino handmade RHM2 7879limited edition of 2500 Copies
HMV BLUE201CD
10 CD setincl. 200 page bookBear Family BCD 15720 JL (Germany 1996)
4 CD setincl. 3 CD set48-pp. booklet with notes by Jerry Gordon, Axel Küstner & Brett BonnerProper Box 42
Source of left column picture: Front cover of Esquire 32-017
Thanks to Stephen Banker for identifying Dean Lawrence as Dean Gitter & my three question marks as Tom Wilson and to Linda Bush Campbell (Sam Gary's niece) for providing information about date and location of his birth and death, to Dave Moore and Cary Ginell for additional info
Holzman & Daws 1998 throughout their pages devoted to the Josh White recordings (pp. 24-27) erroneously give the name of White's companion as "Sam Hall", thus combining the names of bassist Al Hall with White's friend and bass vocalist Sam Gary!