Decca releases, spring 1940

Today I continue where I left you some weeks ago with the Decca releases of their 7000 series in 1940. This set has a blues about the disaster in the Natchez club in Mississippi where hundreds of people died in a fire - the tribute record was recorded and released soon after it happened.

I also tell you about the head of the Race music department of Decca, J. Mayo Williams, and how he made Decca the major Rhythm & Blues label for both Chicago and New York, but failed in his own recording businesses, and how the star of Louis Jordan rose in a short time.

Transcript

Playlist

1. Georgia White - Sensation Blues (Decca 7754)
2. George Davis - Radio Brown Blues (7756)
3. Hot Lips Page - Walk It To Me (7757)
4. Bill Gaither - Big Time Town Woman (7760)
5. Ollie Shepard - Jitterbugs Broke It Down (7761)
6. Charlie Pickett - Crazy 'Bout My Black Gal (7762)
7. Gene Gilmore - The Natchez Fire (7763)
8. Jimmie Gordon - Nobody Knows The Trouble I See (7764)
9. Sleepy John Estes - Tell Me How About It (7766)
10. Snub Mosley - Ol' Man River (7768)
11. Roosevelt Sykes - Essie Mae Blues (7769)
12. Blue Lu Barker - I don't dig you Jack (7770)
13. Johnnie Temple - I'm Cuttin' Out (7772)
14. Leonard 'Baby Doo' Caston - I'm Gonna Walk Your Log (7773)
15. Doctor Sausage & His Five Pork Chops - Birthday Party (7776)
16. Louis Jordan - Never Let Your Left Hand Know (7777)

Outtro:

• Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

• Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
• Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams - Scratchin' in the Gravel
• Count Basie - Red wagon
• Mary Lou Williams - Overhand