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SINGLES
VEE-JAY VJ 155 (78/45rpm) |
JAY MCSHANN'S ORCHESTRA, VOCALIST PRISCILLA BOWMAN |
Hands Off / Another Night
(a-side Billboard/r&b #1)
| 10/1955 US |
VEE-JAY VJ 179 (78/45rpm) |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN AND JAY MCSHANN |
I've Got News For You / My Darkest Night
| 3/1956 US |
VEE-JAY VJ 213 (78/45rpm) |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN AND JAY MCSHAN [sic] |
Don't Need Your Lovin' / Hootie Blues
| 11/1956 US |
FALCON 1004 (78/45rpm) |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN WITH AL SMITH'S ORCHESTRA |
A Spare Man / Yes, I'm Glad
| 1957 US |
ABNER 1004 |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN WITH AL SMITH'S ORCHESTRA |
A Spare Man / Yes, I'm Glad
| 1957 US |
FALCON 1008 |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN |
Sugar Daddy / Don't Come In Here
| 1957 US |
ABNER 1018 |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN |
I Ain't Given Up Nothing / A Rockin' Good Way
| 1958 US |
ABNER 1033 |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN WITH RILEY HAMPTON ORCHESTRA |
Why Must I Cry / Like A Baby
| 1959 US |
OLDIES 45 106 |
PRISCILLA BOWMAN & JAY MCSHANN |
Don't Need Your Lovin' / (reverse by The Monarchs: Pretty Little Girl) (reissue)
| 19?? US |
Note: The session held in Chicago on September 4, 1955 (Vee Jay 155 + b-side of Vee-Jay 213) with Jay McShann & his Orchestra (Jay McShann:pno, Orville Minor:tp, Oscar Dennis:ts, Eugene Griddline:gtr, Oscar Wesley:bs, Al Duncan:dms) gave also birth to unissued versions of "I Don't Need Your Lovin'" and "Don't Treat Me This Way" + instrumentals "Jay's Jam" and "Four Plus" which were issued on Vee-Jay 191 (6/1956). Vee-Jay 179, a-side of Vee-Jay 213 and unissued "Who Needs a Man" were recorded in Chicago on January 31, 1956 with similar back-up group added with Art Mitchell on alto/baritone saxophone.
Falcon/Abner 1004 and Falcon 1008 were recorded on August 13, 1957 at Universal Recording, Chicago. The same line-up (Al Smith:ldr, Lucius Washington:ts, Horace Palm:pno, Lefty Bates: gtr, prob. Quinn Wilson:bs & Al Duncan:dms) without Priscilla Bowman, tenor saxophonist Marcus Johnson and baritone saxophonist McKinley Easton recorded also at the same session an instrumental titled 'Jammin' for Diggy' which was first time issued as by Lucius Washington Quintet on a French compilation 'Jazzville Chicago Vol.2' in 1961 (Top Rank RLP 111).
According to 'Al Smith session discography' by Armin Büttner, Robert Campbell and Robert Pruter (on Red Saunders Research Foundation page), there was probably an Abner 1008 to replace Falcon 1008, but this has not been verified.
Abner 1018 featured The Spaniels (James Hudson, Carl Rainge, Don Porter, James Cochran & Gerald Gregory) on background vocals.
ALBUMS
SOUNDS GREAT SG-5008 |
AN ORIGINAL ROCK & ROLL MAMA (LP)
Everything's Alright (=Yes, I'm Glad) / Tortured / Promises, Promises / Sugar Daddy / I Ain't Giving Up Nothing (=I Ain't Given Up Nothing) / Where Will It End / Spare Man / Hands Off / Why Must I Cry / Rockin' Good Way / If I Had The Power / Don't Come In Here / What I Wouldn't Give / Hootie's Blues
| 1986 US |
COMPILATIONS
VEE-JAY LP-1020 |
V/A: THE BLUES (LP)
Hands Off Him
-- reissues: EMI-Columbia CO 33SX 1417, 1961 UK/Joy LP 185, 1973 UK/Vee Jay 2-LP VJS-2-1007, 1974 US [reissue of LP-1020 & LP-1074]) --
| 1960 US |
VEE-JAY VJ-1074 |
V/A: SOUL MEETING SATURDAY NITE HOOTENANNY STYLE (LP)
Hands Off Him
-- reissue: Vee Jay 2-LP VJS-2-1007, 1974 US [reissue of LP-1020 & LP-1074]) --
| 1963 US |
VEE-JAY INTERNATIONAL VJS-2-1007 |
V/A: THE BLUES (2-LP)
Hands Off Him
(reissue of Vee Jay LP-1020 and LP-1074)
| 1970 US
| CHARLY CRB 1079 |
V/A: ROCK AND ROLL MAMAS (LP)
Hands Off / A Spare Man / Everything's Alright (=Yes I'm Glad) / A Rocking Good Way / Like A Baby / I Ain't Givin' Up Nothing (=I Ain't Given Up Nothing)
| 1984 UK |
CHARLY CRB 1089 |
V/A: VEE JAY BLUES (LP)
Hands Off
| 1985 UK |
VEE-JAY NVD2-708 |
V/A: THE UNAVAILABLE 16 & THE ORIGINAL NITTY GRITTY (CD)
A Rockin' Good Way
| 1993 US |
VEE-JAY NVS2-3-400 |
V/A: THE VEE-JAY STORY - CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF CLASSIC HITS 1953-1993 (3-CD)
Hands Off / A Rockin' Good Way
-- reissue: Rhino Handmade 7706, 2000 US --
| 1993 US |
VEE-JAY NVD2-711 |
V/A: A TASTE OF THE BLUES, VOL.1 (CD)
Hands Off
| 1993 US |
VEE-JAY NVD2-718 |
V/A: A TASTE OF THE BLUES, VOL.2 (CD)
Hootie Blues
| 1993 US |
CHARLY 3 |
V/A: MODERN BLUES ANTHOLOGY - AIN'T TIMES HARD (4-CD)
Hands Off
| 1995 UK |
SUPERSONIC FV 1178 |
V/A: HOT BOPPIN' GIRLS, VOL.10 (LP)
A Spare Man
| 1995 US? |
COLLECTABLES COL-7205 |
V/A: VEE JAY RHYTHM & BLUES - THE EARLY YEARS, PART TWO (CD)
A Spare Man
| 2000 US |
COLLECTABLES COL-7206 |
V/A: VEE JAY RHYTHM & BLUES - THE SOUL ERA, PART ONE (CD)
Promises, Promises
| 2000 US |
COLLECTABLES COL-7270 |
V/A: THE VERY BEST OF BLUES, VOL.2 (CD)
Hands Off
| 2000 US |
COLLECTABLES COL-7270 |
V/A: THE VERY BEST OF VEE-JAY BLUES, VOL.2 (CD)
Hands Off
| 2000 US |
COLLECTABLES 147 |
V/A: THE VERY BEST OF VEE-JAY BLUES (5-CD)
Hands Off
| 2001 US |
P-VINE PCD-5271/4 |
V/A: VEE JAY, THE CHICAGO BLACK MUSIC (4-CD)
Hootie Blues / A Rockin' Good Way
| 2000 JPN |
METRO DOUBLES METRDCD 509 |
V/A: THE STORY OF VEE-JAY - AMERICA'S PREMIER BLACK MUSIC LABEL (2-CD)
Hands Off
| 2002 UK |
BUFFALO BOP BB-CD 55163 |
V/A: TOUGH DOLLS (CD)
A Spare Man
| 2003 GER |
BEAR FAMILY BCD 16710 AS |
V/A: BLOWING THE FUSE, VOL.11 - 29 R&B CLASSICS THAT ROCKED THE JUKEBOX IN 1955 (CD)
Hands Off
| 2005 GER |
POPCORN 6004 |
V/A: ROCK'N'ROLL MAMAS, VOL.2 (CD)
Yes, I'm Glad / A Spare Man
| 2006 US |
EPM MUSIQUE 180003 |
V/A: BEST OF RHYTHM & BLUES - HITS 1954/1955 (2-CD)
Hands Off | 2006 FRA
| SHOUT! FACTORY 631048 |
V/A: VEE-JAY - THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION (4-CD)
Hands Off / A Rockin' Good Way
| 2007 US |
© Compiled by Pete Hoppula
Published sources: Blues Records 1943 To 1970 Volume One (Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven, 1987) | Blues Records 1943-1970 Volume Two (Mike Leadbitter-Leslie Fancourt-Paul Pelletier, 1994) | Billboard Top R&B Singles (Joel Whitburn, 1988) | Blues News 6/1987 | The Blues Discography 1943-1970 (Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath, 2006)
Online sources: www.allmusic.com | www.singlesdb.com | www.recordmaster.com | rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs (Rockin' Country Style) | www.ebay.com | www.gemm.com | www.musicstack.com | www.bsnpubs.com | www.wirz.de/music/lenoir.htm | home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/abnerrec.html (Ewart Abner story) | hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/alsmith2.html | hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/veejay.html
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Revised on December 21, 2007
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