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