SINGLES

RCA VICTOR 22/50-0110	BLOW-TOP LYNN AND HIS HOUSE ROCKERS (feat. Melvin Smith on vocals)	School Boy Blues / Reliefin' Blues	1951 US
RCA 22/50-0124	BLOW-TOP LYNN AND HIS HOUSE ROCKERS (feat. Melvin Smith on vocals)	Up On The Hill / They Ain't Gonna Tell It Right	1951 US
RCA 22/50-0139	BLOW-TOP LYNN AND HIS HOUSE ROCKERS (with Freddy Jackson's Orchestra)	Rampaging Mama / Real True Gal	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-4328	BLOW-TOP LYNN AND HIS HOUSE ROCKERS (feat. Melvin Smith on vocals)	Homesick Blues / Come Back My Darlin'	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-4558	MELVIN SMITH	Everybody's Got The Blues / California Baby	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-4735	MELVIN SMITH	Looped / Woman Trainer	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-4907	MELVIN SMITH	Baby I'll Be There / I'm Out Of My Mind	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5037	JOHN GREER & THE RHYTHM ROCKERS (feat. Melvin Smith on vocals)	I'm The Fat Man / Since You Went Away From Me	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5058	MELVIN SMITH	Sarah Kelly (From Plumnelly) / Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear	1952 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5170	JOHN GREER (poss. feat. Melvin Smith on vocals on a-side)	I'll Never Let You Go / You Played On My Piano	1953 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5226	MELVIN SMITH	I Don't Have To Hunt No More / Every Pound	1953 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5406	MELVIN SMITH	It Went Down Easy / Why Do These Things Have To Be	1953 US
RCA VICTOR 20/47-5578	MELVIN SMITH	Letter To My Baby / I Feel Like Goin' Home	1953 US
GROOVE 0010	MELVIN SMITH	No Baby / You Can't Stay Here	1954 US
GRAND 111	FAY SIMMONS & THE NIGHTRIDERS ORCHESTRA	Whim, Wham, Whop / Makin' A Fast Get-A-Way	1954 US
APOLLO 460	THE NITE RIDERS	Women And Cadillacs / Say Hey! (A Tribute To Willie Mayes)	1954 US
APOLLO 466	THE NITE RIDERS	Rags / Doctor Velvet	1954 US
TEEN 114	DOC STARKES & HIS NITE RIDERS	Apple Cider / Way In The Middle Of A Dream	1955 US
TEEN 116	THE NITE RIDERS	I Know You're In There / Starlight And You	1955 US
TEEN 118	THE NITE RIDERS	Got Me A Six Button Benny / Don't Hang Up The Phone	1955 US
TEEN 120	THE NITE RIDERS	Waiting In The Schoolroom / When A Man Cries	1955 US
SOUND 119	DOC STARKS AND THE NIGHTRIDERS	The Vacation Train / Night Ridin'	1955 US
CAPITOL 3236	DOC STARKS AND THE NITE RIDERS	The Vacation Train / Night Ridin'	1955 US
SOUND 128	THE NITE RIDERS	Tell The Truth / Never	1955 US
MGM 12487	THE NITE RIDERS	Sittin' Sippin' Coffee / Tank Town	1957 US
SWAN S-4003	DOC STARKES AND HIS NITE RIDERS (a) / THE NITE RIDERS (b)	Apple Cider / Six Button Benny	1957 US
RONNEX 1094	THE NITE RIDERS	Women And Cadillacs / (reverse by The Five Roayles: Take All Of Me)	1957 BEL
QUALITY K 1715	DOC STARKES & HIS NITE RIDERS	Apple Cider / Six Button Benny	1958 CAN
LINDA 109	DOC STARKES	Love Me Like Crazy / Rockin' To School	1958 US
MODERN SOUND 6908	DOC STARKES & THE NITE RIDERS	Love Me Like Crazy / Rockin' To School	1958 US
QUALITY K 1806	DOC STARKES & THE NITE RIDERS	Love Me Like Crazy / Rockin' To School	1958 CAN
CAMEO 135	MEL SMITH	Open The Doot Richard / Zukie Sue	1958 US
METRO 2023	MELVIN SMITH	A Tree And A Love Will Grow / Oh Promise Me	5/1959 US
SUE 713	THE NITE RIDERS	Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Socks) / I'll Never Change (Note: This release is also available as an identical 2010 UK repro edition)	6/1959 US
SUE 719	THE NITE RIDERS	Lookin' For My Baby / St. Loo (Note: This release is also available as an identical US repro edition)	1959 US
SUE 731	THE NITE RIDERS	Night Ridin' / Talk To Me Baby	1960 US
CHERRY 7886	THE NITE RIDERS	Aleph Beth / Ko-Ko-Nut Breed	1961? US
CHERRY 7887	MEL SMITH	Yes Love / Honker's Dream	1961? US
CHIME CR-101	THE NITE RIDERS PRESENT MELVIN SMITH	Ugly George / Nobody's Fault	1962 US
SMASH 1775	MEL SMITH	Ugly George / Nobody's Fault	1962 US
COURTESY 1001	THE NITE RIDERS	I've Been Thinkin' Pt.1 / I've Been Thinkin' Pt.2	1964 US
COURTESY #	MEL SMITH	Chicken Backs / Love Is Gone	1964 US
ITZY #9	DOC STARKES & THE NITE RIDERS	Apple Cider / Six Button Benny	1965? US
ROCK-A-BYE CH 7887		Yes Love / (reverse by Peter Roberts: The Ho-Ho Laughing Monster)  (reissue)	2010? UK

HARRY CRAFTON : SINGLES

GOTHAM 195	HARRY CRAFTON WITH DOC BAGBY'S ORCHESTRA	Saturday Night Boogie / (reverse by Tiny Tim with Doc Bagby Orchestra [feat. Harry Crafton:gtr]: In The Middle Of The Night)	1949 US
GOTHAM 196	HARRY CRAFTON WITH DOC BAGBY'S ORCHESTRA	Roly-Poly Mama / Don't Want Your Money, Honey	1949 US
GOTHAM 211	HARRY CRAFTON WITH DOC BAGBY'S ORCHESTRA	Bring That Cadillac Back / (reverse by Tiny Tim with Doc Bagby Orchestra [feat. Harry Crafton:gtr]: So Long, Baby)	1950 US
GOTHAM 227	HARRY CRAFTON	I Can't Forget / Get Off, Mama	1950 US
GOTHAM 245	HARRY CRAFTON	Let Me Tell You, Baby / It's Been A Long Time, Baby	1950 US
OSCAR 106	HARRY CRAFTON & THE CRAFTONES (feat. Agnes Riley:vcl on b-side + poss. Doc Starkes:bs, Joe Sewell:ten.sax & Jimmy Johnson:dms)	She's Got A Mule Kick In Her Eyes / Big Fat Hot Dog	1954 US
JARMAN 100	HARRY CRAFTON AND THE SONOTONES	Long Time Baby / ?	195? US

VAN WALLS : SINGLES

ATLANTIC 904	VAN WALLS	Ain't Gonna Scold You / Tee-Nah-Nah	1950 US
DERBY 733	VAN WALLS	Air Mail Boogie / Easter Parade	1950 US
COLUMBIA 30220	VAN WALLS	Chocolate Candy Blues / ?	195? US
ATLANTIC 980	VAN "PIANO MAN" WALLS AND HIS ORCHESTRA	Blue Sender / After Midnight	1952 US
ATLANTIC 988	VANN WALLS & THE ROCKETS	Open The Door / Big Leg Mama	1952 US

MEL SMITH / DOC STARKES & THE NITE RIDERS / VAN WALLS / HARRY CRAFTON : COLLECTIONS

WHISKEY, WOMEN AND... KM-711	VAN WALLS: THEY CALL ME PIANO MAN  (LP) Whiskey Women And... / After Hours Session / Felicia Blues / Prisoner Of Love / Jivin' With G.M. Hooker / They Call Me Piano Man / Lady In Red, Drinking Wine / After Midnight / Unlock My Chains Of Love / Don't Blame Me / Open The Door / Air Mail Boogie / Sharp Little Sister / Feed Me Baby / Idaho Boogie / Pacifying Blues / Easter Parade / Chocolate Candy Blues / Big Leg Mama (a-side 1987 recordings, b-side 1949-52 recordings)	1988 SWE
KRAZY KAT KK 818	HARRY CRAFTON: 1949-1954  (LP) Get Off, Mama / Let Me Tell You Baby / Roly-Poly Mama / I Don't Want Your Money, Honey / Guitar Boogie (prev. unissued alt. take) / Bring That Cadillac Back / It's Been A Long Time Baby (prev. unissued alt. take) / It's Been A Long Time Baby / Rusty Dusty (prev. unissued alt. take) / In The Middle Of The Night / She Got A Mule Kick / Big Fat Hot Dog / So Long Baby / Saturday Night Boogie -- reissue: Collectables COL/COL-CD-5318 --	1988 UK
BEAR FAMILY BCD 15703 BH	MELVIN SMITH: MELVIN SMITH AT HIS BEST  (2-CD) Up On The Hill / School Boy Blues / Reliefin' Blues / They Ain't Gonna Tell It Right / Rampaging Mama / Homesick Blues / Come Back My Darlin' / Real True Gal / Everybody's Got The Blues / I Remember (prev. unissued) / California Baby / Looped / Baby I'll Be There / I'm Out Of My Mind / Woman Trainer / Business Man's Blues (prev. unissued) / Sarah Kelly (From Plumnelly) / Six Times Six (prev. unissued) / Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear / What's To Became Of Me (prev. unissued) / Hot Ziggety Zag (prev. unissued) / Letter To My Baby / I Don't Have To Hunt No More / Every Pound / Miss Brown (prev. unissued) / I Feel Like Goin' Home / It Went Down Easy / Why Do These Things Have To Be / Things You Oughta Know (prev. unissued) / No Baby / You Can't Stay Here / Crazy Baby (prev. unissued)	1994 GER
FAMOUS GROOVE FG 971014	DOC STARKES & HIS NITE RIDERS  (CD) Apple Cider / Got Me A Six Button Benny / Don't Hang Up The Phone / Way In The Middle Of A Dream / Keep It A Secret (prev. unissued) / Say Hey / I Know You're In There / Starlight And You / Women And Cadillacs / Never / Tell The Truth / Rags / Vacation Train / Doctor Velvet / Night Riding / Talk To Me Baby / Looking For My Baby / St. Loo / Night Riding / Pretty Plaid Skirt / I'll Never Change / Waiting In The Classroom / When A Man Cries / Sittin' Sippin' Coffee / Talk Town / Whim Wham Whop (with Faye Simmons) / Making A Fast Get-A-Way (with Faye Simmons) / I've Been Thinking Pt.1 - 2	1997 FRA

MEL SMITH / DOC STARKES & THE NITE RIDERS / VAN WALLS / HARRY CRAFTON : COMPILATIONS

WYNCOTE W/SW-9008	V/A: OLDIES  (LP) Melvin Smith: Open The Door Richard	1964 US
COLLECTOR LP 2302	V/A: SUPER ROCK AND ROLL, PART C  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Love Me Like Crazy	1975 HOL
MOONSHINE BLP 112	V/A: BIG APPLE BOOGIE  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs	198? HOL
KRAZY KAT KK-803	V/A: GOTHAM HOUSE PARTY  (LP) Harry Crafton: Roly Poly Mama (alt. take)	198? HOL
FLAME LP 001	V/A: DESPERATE ROCK'N'ROLL, VOL.1  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Love Me Like Crazy	1987 UK
GREASY R&B 5463	V/A: TALKIN' TRASH - GREASY RHYTHM & BLUES WITH ATTITUDE '54-'63  (LP) The Nite Riders: Ugly George	19??
SATAN SR-2120	V/A: BO DID IT!  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Socks)	19??
HONK IT 68-IOU-1	V/A: LOOKEY DOOKEY  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Lookin' For My Baby	19??
VALMOR 1369	V/A: JOOK BLOCK BUSTERS, VOL.1  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs	19?? US
RELIC/APOLLO 5078	V/A: THE BEST OF APOLLO RECORDS, VOL.2 - THE GOLDEN GROUPS, PT.48  (LP) The Nite Riders: Rags/Keep It A Secret (prev. unissued 1954 recording)	1989 US
RCA 9773-2-R	V/A: ROCK'N'ROLL PARTY, VOL.1 - THE EARLY50'S  (CD) Melvin Smith: Looped/It Went Down Easy	1990 US
ROMULAN UFOX-15	V/A: FROLIC DINER, VOL.2  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Apple Cider	1990
FLAME CD 001	V/A: DESPERATE ROCK'N'ROLL, VOL.1  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Love Me Like Crazy / Mel Smith & the Night Riders: Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Socks)	1992 UK
BEAR FAMILY BCD 15554 CH	BIG JOHN GREER: ROCKIN' WITH BIG JOHN  (3-CD) Big John Greer (possibly with Melvin Smith on vocals): Since You Went Away From Me / I'm The Fat Man / I'll Never Let You Go	1992 GER
EMI SUEBOX 1/EMI-CAPITOL 7243 8 28093 2 6	V/A: THE SUE RECORDS STORY - NEW YORK CITY: THE SOUND OF SOUL  (4-CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Night Riding	1994 US
STOMPIN' ST 112	V/A: STOMPIN', VOL.12  (LP) Melvin Smith: I'm Out Of My Mind	19?? UK
STOMPIN' ST 116	V/A: STOMPIN', VOL.16  (LP) Melvin Smith: California Baby	19?? UK
STOMPIN' ST 125	V/A: STOMPIN', VOL.25  (LP) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Lookin' For My Baby	19?? UK
RELIC 7128	V/A: GOLDEN ERA OF DOO-WOPS - APOLLO RECORDS, PT.2  (LP/CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs / Say Hey! (A Tribute To Willie Mayes) / Rags / Doctor Velvet	199? US
VALMOR 1369 CD	V/A: JOOK BLOCK BUSTERS, VOL.1 - 100% BONA-FIDE RHYTHM AND BLUES  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Women & Cadillacs	199? US
CRYPT CR-CD-TTRB 5463/EFA CD 11529-27	V/A: TALKING TRASH! - LOOKEY DOOKEY  (CD) Melvin Smith (& the Nite Riders): Ugly George / Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Lookin' For My Baby	199?/1999 GER
CCR CCR-100	V/A: DIG THAT CRAZY CHICK  (CD) The Nite Riders: Say Hey!	19??
BLEND 4	V/A: BEST OF BLEND ROCK & ROLL COLLECTION, VOL.4  (CD) The Nite Riders: Six Button Benny	1995 BEL
WESTSIDE WESA 831	V/A: THE GROOVE STORY - R&B FROM THE RADIO CORPORATION, VOL.2  (CD) Melvin Smith: You Can't Stay Here	1998 UK
ROMULAN UFOX-23	V/A: FROLIC DINER, VOL.5  (LP) Doc Starks & the Nightriders: Vacation Train	1999
ROMULAN UFOX-23	V/A: FROLIC DINER, PART 3  (CD) Doc Starks & the Nightriders: Vacation Train	1999
BLAZON ?	V/A: GET HOT - SLEAZY RHYTHM 'N BLUES, VOL.4  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Lookin' For My Baby	200?
HOT DOG 7052	V/A: DELICIOUS DOO-WOP AND TASTY TREATS, VOL.2  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Apple Cider	2000 US
COLLECTOR CLCD 4461	V/A: MORE SLOW BOOGIE ROCKIN'  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Rockin' To School	2000 HOL
COLLECTOR CLCD 7751	V/A: 50 EARLY ROCKIN' TRACKS  (2-CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Love Me Like Crazy	2000 HOL
STOMPIN' ST 304	V/A: STOMPIN' 4  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Love Me Like Crazy	2001 UK
STOMPIN' ST 309	V/A: STOMPIN' 9  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Pretty Plaid Skirt (And Long Black Socks)	2002 UK
STOMPIN' ST 310	V/A: STOMPIN' 10  (CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Lookin' For My Baby	2002 UK
PAST PERFECT 220240-325	V/A: RHYTHM & BLUES GOES ROCK & ROLL, VOL.1  (15-CD) Melvin Smith: California Baby/I'm Out Of My Mind	2002 GER
PAST PERFECT 220256-325	V/A: RHYTHM & BLUES GOES ROCK & ROLL, VOL.2  (15-CD) Doc Starkes & the Niteriders: Lookin' For My Baby / Love Me Like Crazy	2002 GER
ELECTRO-FI 3372	V/A: MIDNIGHT BLUES PARTY, VOL.1  (CD) The Nite Riders: I've Been Thinkin' Pt.1	2002 CAN
DOCUMENTS/MEMBRAN MUSIC LTD. 222622	V/A: RHYTHM'N'BLUES SHOUTERS  (4-CD) Doc Starkes & the Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs / Melvin Smith: California Baby / I'm Out Of My Mind	2005 GER
MEMBRAN MUSIC LTD./DOCUMENTS 223007-321	V/A: RHYTHM & BLUES - ORIGINAL MASTERS   (10-CD) Doc Starkes & the Niteriders: Lookin' For My Baby	2005 GER
CASTLE MUSIC CMETD 1110	V/A: 1954 - THE YEAR THAT ROCKED THE WORLD  (3-CD) The Nite Riders: Women And Cadillacs	2005 UK
BEAR FAMILY BCD 17031	V/A: JUKE JOINT BOOGIE (33 2/3 EDITION, RHYTHM AND BLUES CLASSICS)  (CD) Melvin Smith: It Went Down Easy	2008 GER
ROCKET 1010	V/A: JUMPERS' JIVERS' AND COME ALIVERS  (CD) The Nite Riders: I Know You're In There	200?
OFFICIAL CD 50-001	V/A: RCA VICTOR JUMP 'N' JIVE, VOLUME 1  (CD) Melvin Smith: California Baby	2009 DEN
FANTASTIC VOYAGE FVTD055	V/A: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE BLUES : ATLANTA  (3-CD) Melvin Smith: Everybody's Got The Blues	2010 UK

The Nite Riders were: James "Doc" Starkes:bs/tb, Melvin Smith:vcl/bar.sax, Harry Van Walls:pno, Harry Crafton:gtr/vcl, Joe Sewell:ten.sax & Jimmy Johnson:dms. Before forming this group, all the members had attended several studio sessions and some of them had also done solo recordings. Van Walls had appeared on numerous Atlantic r'n'b-hits since the late 1940s (Ruth Brown, Joe Turner, Sticks McGhee, Joe Morris, Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters, The Clovers etc.), and Harry Crafton had worked with Doc Bagby, The Jive-Tones, The Sonotones and The Craft Tones. Joe Sewell had recorded with Tiny Grimes' and Harry Crafton's Orchestras, and Melvin Smith with Clyde "Blow Top" Lynn & his House Rockers and Big John Greer.