Here's a few tracks from an E.P. I've had as long as I care to Remember........the record is as old as me so you will have to excuse the odd crackles & pops.......R&B from the 50's

Edited April 3, 200718 yr by Chunky

Outbloodystanding

Smokestack Lightning has got to be one of the most awe inspiring things ever and almost makes me believe in God.

A truly wonderful thing to behear (which is like 'behold', but leaning towards the hearing side.)

And seeing that tri centre plum London E.P. label with that gold lettering gets me all excited.

Gorgeous Chunky!

Yup. Proper R&B alright.....!

'smokestack lightnin' and 'spoonful' could be the best and most influential r&b records ever made. amazing

I don't have the picture sleeve for my E.P. nor have I ever seen one for that matter.......it would be great if someone could post up a scan of it

THE WOLF....

SAY NO MORE..........TOP MAN AND THEN SOME......

I don't have the picture sleeve for my E.P. nor have I ever seen one for that matter.......it would be great if someone could post up a scan of it

It has a great, moody cover with a drawing of a wolf baying at the moon. I don't have this EP, but I do have two of the others in the same series, the Muddy Waters (with "Manish Boy" and "All Aboard" - I also have an earlier Muddy Waters UK EP on Vogue, with "I Can't Be Satisfied"!)and the Bo Diddley. There are also Little Walter and Chuck Berry EPs in this short 'series' of Chess-derived releases. All have appeared on eBay in the past couple of years, none selling for more than £200.00 - which is a bloody amazing price for things that are so rare, esp. when compared to some of the prices that people pay for two bob northern records...

If I get a chance and this thread hasn't run its course, I'll chuck a few scans of some of my early UK blues 78s up here sometime next week. I have a few nice ones...

TONE

It has a great, moody cover with a drawing of a wolf baying at the moon. I don't have this EP, but I do have two of the others in the same series, the Muddy Waters (with "Manish Boy" and "All Aboard" - I also have an earlier Muddy Waters UK EP on Vogue, with "I Can't Be Satisfied"!)and the Bo Diddley. There are also Little Walter and Chuck Berry EPs in this short 'series' of Chess-derived releases. All have appeared on eBay in the past couple of years, none selling for more than £200.00 - which is a bloody amazing price for things that are so rare, esp. when compared to some of the prices that people pay for two bob northern records...

If I get a chance and this thread hasn't run its course, I'll chuck a few scans of some of my early UK blues 78s up here sometime next week. I have a few nice ones...

TONE

Think I remember reading that the first Chess releases in Europe were on French Vougue? UK first was Willie Dixon - Crazy for My Baby on London ?(prob all fetch a kings ransom now).

Here y'are then................courtesy of Popsike.

Think I remember reading that the first Chess releases in Europe were on French Vougue? UK first was Willie Dixon - Crazy for My Baby on London ?(prob all fetch a kings ransom now).

Right on both counts - a lot of things that came out on French Vogue came out on UK Vogue, too - although a great many didn't. I think these London EPs came out before the Willie 45, though. Or, at the very least, simultaneously...

Besides the Muddy UK Vogue EP, I have "Long Distance Call" on a UK Vogue 78. A work collegue, however, has "Rollin' Stone", lucky bugger...

...Other labels that came out on UK Vogue in the early 50s included King, Dot, United and Modern. In the second half of the 50s UK Vogue's repertoire was almost exclusively drawn from the Aladdin catalogue and, of course, by the 45 era, Duke Peacock was their main line of supply for R & B. It became Vocalion in 1965, when the rights to the trademark reverted exclusively to French Vogue.

Oops, I do seem to have digressed a tad. But hopefully someone will find said digression to be interesting....

Here y'are then................courtesy of Popsike.

that's a beautiful thing!

Right on both counts - a lot of things that came out on French Vogue came out on UK Vogue, too - although a great many didn't. I think these London EPs came out before the Willie 45, though. Or, at the very least, simultaneously...

Besides the Muddy UK Vogue EP, I have "Long Distance Call" on a UK Vogue 78. A work collegue, however, has "Rollin' Stone", lucky bugger...

...Other labels that came out on UK Vogue in the early 50s included King, Dot, United and Modern. In the second half of the 50s UK Vogue's repertoire was almost exclusively drawn from the Aladdin catalogue and, of course, by the 45 era, Duke Peacock was their main line of supply for R & B. It became Vocalion in 1965, when the rights to the trademark reverted exclusively to French Vogue.

Oops, I do seem to have digressed a tad. But hopefully someone will find said digression to be interesting....

Out of interest Tone - what was the first UK release 'R&B ' albumn?

Out of interest Tone - what was the first UK release 'R&B ' albumn?

I would guess that, single artist wise, it would be something like Fats Domino's "Carry On Rockin" or "Here's Little Richard". which appeared here at about the same time as their US releases in 57-58. Of course, there had been album releases by the likes of Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy et al, but god as they are they are straight ahead blues rather than R & B.

I tend to regard the fantastic Vee Jay compilation "The Blues" as the first 'proper' R &B abum release here in the UK - where it came out in 1961-2, on Columbia, with a great sleeve note by Alexis Korner which proclaimed "The Blues is music you can really do the Twist to!!!!"

This wonderful album provided me and a lot of others with our first introduction to Elmore James, via the amazing "Comin' Home". It also boasts killer cuts like Billy Boy Arnold's "I Wish You Would" and Harold Burrage's "Crying For My Baby", Priscilla Bowman's "Hands Off" and tons of other great gear besides. I bought it, secondhand, for 5/- in 1964 - two weeks pocket money, as I was still a kid. I never quite viewed beat groups in the same light thereafter...

This, to me, is the first significant UK release R & B compilation even if it might not have been the first such album, period.

Here y'are then................courtesy of Popsike.

thanks for that .......but.......now I feel worse the cover is fantastic