The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 259
Capitol Rhythm & Blues series
Today I play from the beginnings of the Capitol 70000 Rhythm & Blues series, that started in 1949, when Capitol, founded in '42, was quickly growing into a major record label. The series has some great Rhythm & Blues and a few that I wonder what they're doing on a series like this.
The series also has some of the best of T-Bone Walker, recorded for the Black & While label, and aquired by Capitol when B&W closed down. Capitol kept some of them, like his iconic "Stormy Monday" in print troughout the fifties. T-Bone had recorded for Capitol before, in fact he was among the first to sign for the fledgling label, but he never got in their studios again - he signed for Imperial and later for Atlantic.
Playlist
- Big Sis Andrews and Her Huckle-Busters - The Huckle-Buck (Capitol 70000)
- Nellie Lutcher - Ditto from Me to You (70001)
- Blues Taylor - Hackensack Mama (70003)
- Sammy Davis Jr. - I Ain't Got Nobody (70004)
- Julia Lee - Take It or Leave It (70006)
- Blue Lu Barker - Trombone man blues (70007)
- Nellie Lutcher - Kiss Me Sweet (70009)
- Addie Williams - Maybe Someday (70010)
- Betty Hall Jones - You Got To Have What It Takes (70011)
- T-Bone Walker - Vacation Blues (70012)
- T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday (70014)
- Julia Lee - Tonigth's the night (70013)
- Walter Brown - Lyin' Woman Blues (70015)
- Tommy Douglas Band - Goosed (70016)
- Bus Moten - It's so Hard to Laugh of Smile (70017)
- Lee Young - Seeing Double (70019)
- T-Bone Walker - You're My Best Poker Hand (70023)
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Coleman Hawkins - Stuffy
- Joe Lutcher - Joe Joe Jump
- Joe Lutcher - Shuffle Boogie
- Joe Lutcher - Strato-Cruiser
- Zutty Singleton Trio - Barney's Bounce