Aladdin, 1950

It's been quite a while ago when I did a special on the Aladdin label. For today I'll get you some releases from the year 1950. Thas year brought the first of a long series of drinking songs of Amos Milburn, a succesful concept for him. Also the one real success of Calvin Boze, whose jump blues were heavily inspired by Louis Jordan.

The label brought the cream of the crop of the musicians that played the roof off the joints on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, the place to be these days. But today you'll also get an absolute veteran of the scene, and an obscure female singer who, much later, tried her luck in Country & Western.

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Playlist

1. Lonnie Johnson - Your Last Time Out (Aladdin 3047)
2. Amos Milburn - Johnson Rag (3049)
3. Big Jay McNeely - Deacon's Blowout (3050)
4. Charles Brown - My Baby's Gone (3051)
5. Lightnin' Hopkins - Changing Weather Blues (3052)
6. Titus Turner - I'm Just a Lucky So and So (3053)
7. Calvin Boze - Safronia B (3055)
8. Lester Young - Just Coolin' (3057)
9. Amos Milburn - Birmingham Bounce (3058)
10. Charles Brown - Repentance Blues (3060)
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rollin' Blues (3063)
12. Calvin Boze - Lizzy Lou (parts 1 & 2) (3065)
13. Charles Brown - Again (3066)
14. La Melle Prince & Maxwell Davis - Get High (3067)
15. Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey (3068)
16. Floyd Dixon - Girl fifteen (3069)
17. Big Joe Turner - Back Breaking Blues (3070)

Outtro:

• Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce

• Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
• Amos Milburn - Pot Luck Boogie (Aladdin 3026)
• Lonnie Johnson - Blues For Lonnie (3029)
• Amos Milburn - Bow Wow (3037)
• Big Jay McNeely - Jay's Frantic (3050)
• Lester Young - Something to remember you by (3057)