Decca 7000 series (end)
Every now and then I spell out a piece of the Decca 7000 series catalog, a topic of this show that I started nearly two years ago at show number 102. In these shows I played all issues except for the gospels and a few records that I could not lay my hands on. Fortunately, most of the catalog is surprisingly well available, and especially the Document CD series proved to be extremely useful.
Today I reach the end of the 7000 "Race" series so that's a good moment for telling you some history of it. I won't leave the Decca catalog though. Soon, I'll spotlight the 8500 Sepia series that was launched in 1940 for releases that had the potential to cross over to the general audience. Now most didn't, but on this series you can witness the birth of the forties Rhythm & Blues sound.
Playlist
- Sonny Boy Williams - Worried Life Blues (Decca 7888)
- Jewel Paige - I'm Left with a Broken Heart (7891)
- Nora Lee King with Sammy Price - Deep Sea Diver (7891)
- Blind Boy Fuller - Stingy Mama (7892)
- Peetie Wheatstraw - Don't Put Yourself On The Spot (7894)
- Lem Johnson - Candy Blues (7895)
- Lem Johnson - Going Down Slow (7895)
- Sonny Boy Williams - Wee Wee Hours (7898)
- Blind Boy Fuller - Walking and Looking Blues (7899)
- Peetie Wheatstraw - Old Organ Blues (7901)
- Blind Boy Fuller - Put You Back In Jail (7903)
- Oscar Woods - Evil Hearted Woman Blues (7904)
- Peetie Wheatstraw - Southern Girl Blues (7904)
- Curley Weaver - Sometime Mama (7906)
- Curley Weaver - Two Faced Woman (7906)
- Perline Ellison - New That Ain't Right (7910)
- Perline Ellison - Razor Totin Mama (7910)
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams - Scratchin' in the Gravel
- Lil Armstrong & her Dixielanders - Riffin' The Blues
- Louis Jordan - Flat Face
- Mary Lou Williams - Overhand
- Skeets Tolbert & His Gentlemen Of Swing - Jumpin' Jack
- Tiny Parham - Moving Day