The Black & White label

In today's show I spotlight an important label for West Coast Rhythm & Blues, the Black & White label. The label brought us T-Bone Walker, Helen Humes and Jack McVea with some of their best tracks. The name was chosen to express the owners' desire to make it a racially integrated label.

Black & White may be best known for its Los Angeles artists, but it was founded in New York and sold later, and the new owners brought it West. I'll end my show with a selection from the New York series, be it, that already then, some recordings were done in Hollywood.

Transcript

Playlist

1. Sammy Franklin and his Atomics - The Honeydripper (Black & White 101)
2. Alton Redd - You're a No Good Woman (103)
3. St. Louis Jimmy - New Going Down Slow (106)
4. Helen Humes - Married Man Blues (109)
5. T-bone Walker - I'm Gonna Find My Baby (110)
6. T-Bone Walker - Don't Leave Me Baby (111)
7. Helen Humes - Drive Me Daddy (112)
8. Maggie Hathaway and her Bluesmen - Too Late To Be Good Blues (113)
9. Helen Humes - I Don't Know His Name (114)
10. T-Bone Walker - Low Down Dirty Shame (115)
11. Rabon Tarrant & Jack McVea's Allstars - Blues With A Feeling (119)
12. Maggie Hathaway & Her Bluesmen - Nobody Business What I Do (124)
13. Etta Jones - Long Long Journey (10)
14. Barney Bigard - Sweet Marijuana Brown (13)
15. Spirits Of Rhythm (voc. George Vann) - Last Call Blues (22)
16. Spirits Of Rhythm - Scattin' The Blues (23)

Outtro:

• Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

• Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
• Cliff Jackson - Quiet Please (Black & White 3)
• Cliff Jackson - Squeeze Me (3)
• Erroll Garner - White Rose Bounce (15)
• George Wettling - China Boy (27)