Ressurecting the Home of Memphis Slim by Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms

(Memphis, Tennessee) Last night I met with President Darren J. Fallas and Vice President John Gemmill of the Memphis Blues Society, and Heidi Knockenheur and Donna Donald to discuss some items of interest and we chanced to talk about a project that will be near and dear to many of our readers' hearts. Across the street, directly east of the Memphis Stax Museum is the former residence of that great bluesman, Peter Chatman, popularly known as Memphis Slim. Slim's house has become dilapidated and needs restoring in a big way (photo above by Darren J. Fallas). The nice folks at Memphis Heritage and some other interested parties including the Memphis Music Foundation and the folks at Soulsville, USA are all interested in making an attempt to restore his home.



Memphis Slim was one of the early boogie woogie players back when that piano craze first started in USA in the 1930's.

Memphis Slim took his name from Memphis, where he was born and raised. Memphis Slim got his start playing the blues at the Midway Café, at 357 Beale Street (southeast corner of Fourth and Beale Street's) in Memphis in 1931. After his early career in Memphis, where he emulated barrelhouse piano players like Roosevelt Sykes and Speckled Red, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and recorded for Okeh Records (as Peter Chatman & His Washboard Band) in 1940. The same year he also recorded for Bluebird Records as Memphis Slim. He played piano as Big Bill Broonzy's partner until 1944. Broonzy, also a sophisticated performer, urged him to develop his own style. Big Bill and Charlie Segar are usually credited for writing the blues classic, "Key to the Highway." This polish gave Memphis Slim opportunities not only in the juke joints he had been playing, but also in the "uptown" nightclubs.


After World War II Slim joined Hy-Tone Records, cutting eight tracks that were later picked up by King. Lee Egalnick's Miracle label recorded the pianist in 1947; backed by his jumping band, the House Rockers (its members usually included saxophonists Alex Atkins and Ernest Cotton), Slim recorded his classic "Lend Me Your Love" and "Rockin' the House." The next year brought the landmark "Nobody Loves Me" (better known via subsequent covers by Lowell Fulson, Joe Williams, and B.B. King as "Everyday I Have the Blues") and the heartbroken "Messin' Around (With the Blues)."


The pianist kept on label-hopping, moving from Miracle to Peacock to Premium (where he recorded the first version of the down-tempo blues "Mother Earth") to Chess to Mercury before staying put at Chicago's United Records from 1952 to 1954. This was a particularly fertile period for the pianist; he recruited his first permanent guitarist, Matt Murphy, who performed "The Come Back," "Sassy Mae," and "Memphis Slim U.S.A." He also worked with bassman Willie Dixon.

I got to play with Matt Murphy one night at the Black Diamond on Beale and he was not only a great entertainer but also a wonderful kind man who loves the music and all of us who are trying to keep it alive. He invited me to join him as piano player on his show at the King Biscuit festival in Helena that year and I have always regretted that I could not make it.



In all, he recorded more than 20 albums under his own name, and appeared on many more recordings as a sideman.


Slim left the United States for good in 1962. Slim lived in France most of his days and conditions there were much better for him than in the South during the days of segregation. Before Memphis Slim passed away, my friend Don McMinn brought him back to Memphis to play some gigs and I got a chance to meet him at a gig they were playing on Washington Street in Memphis back in the 1980's.

My old friend Jeff "Stick" Davis who used to play some in my band
http://www.stickdavis.com/thebass.html

My friend Billy Earheart and Memphis Slim
Billy E. taught me about drawbar registration for the Hammond organ
http://www.billyearheart.com/

Slim was playing with Don's band, then called the Memphis Blues Review, and they were comprised of several of the old members of the Amazing Rhythm Aces including Jeff "Stick" Davis on bass and my buddy, Billy Earheart on keyboards. Billy went on later to play on the road with Hank Williams, Jr. and many other famous musicians.

Memphis Slim

The club they were playing, which is no longer extant, was an old nightclub called the El Morocco, which in it's last days was used for square dancing and was available for rent for larger events as it would hold quite a large crowd and had a big dance floor. This night the place was packed and everybody there was excited to see the return of Memphis Slim. Slim put on a tremendous show and played one of my favorite classic blues, "Everyday I have the Blues," which he wrote. Here's a link to a video of him playing this song he called his bread winner:



As a young blues player and a big fan of Memphis Slim, I was thrilled when Don and Billy introduced me to this kind old gentleman and sat me down right next to him at their table during a break in the show. Slim was drinking Grand Marnier and I remember noticing how extremely long his fingers were when I shook his hand. He was very friendly and an extremely amusing and entertaining person on and off the stage. That night I asked him if it would be alright with him if I played his song during my little shows and he was delighted that I had asked and assured me that he would be very pleased to be remembered by his fellow musicians in his home town. He was a truly elegant gentleman and meeting him was a great moment in my life.

Papa Don McMinn

I also got to hear Memphis Slim play with Don McMinn at our old outdoor music festival the Schlitz Festival, on Main Street back in the 80's. It was another incredibly entertaining show with lots of great solos from both Don and Slim and a highly appreciative crowd cheering them on in the Memphis afternoon sun.

Memphis Slim died on February 24, 1988, of renal failure in Paris, France, at the age of 72. He is buried at Galilee Memorial Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee.

Memphis Slim's final resting place, Galilee Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee

In 1989, he was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Brad Webb

After some inquiries today by my friend, Brad Webb of I-55 Productions, we learned a bit more about the house resurrection project. Brad is my old bandmate who played with me in the band with Blind Mississippi Morris and with whom I have recorded a bunch of songs over the years. He is a fine guitarist and a very kindhearted, dedicated and soulful human being. We got this reply back from Dean Deyo, President of the Memphis Music Foundation:

Brad, there is a group that has started to do some work there but it is moving slowly.

I know a team from Memphis Heritage and the U of M spent a whole weekend at this house a few months ago and tried to clean it out and shore it up – there have been several architects and planners involved looking at it.

They have plans for it but it is depending on the economy and so probably still in the future…. Deanie Parker is the Director of Soulsville and is aware of the project – it is called Memphis Music Magnet – and I am working on it as well – we would appreciate any assistance

Dean A. Deyo

Thanks to the American Blues News, I will keep you all posted on our progress and also pass along how we can all offer donations and assistance to this project. Within just a few blocks of the STAX museum there are the homes of probably 15 or 20 famous musicians including Isaac Hayes, Johnny Ace Alexander and Aretha Franklin, just to name a few.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal archives:

(photo by Dave Darnell)

Memphis Slim came from his home in Paris to play in Mississippi for the first time in 40 years in 1986. He performed at the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival at Freedom Village, near Greenville, on September 20, 1986. "The average blues singer has been taught to be ashamed of the blues. It was America's original art and it came from black people. So naturally they wanted to make us ashamed of it - and they did a good job of brainwashing. Now, it's almost too late," the 70-year-old bluesman said during an interview in his Southwind Motor Coach as he waited to go on. "I don't know what the young people are going to do. But if we don't get a new generation to do something about it, I don't know what's going to happen. They're calling blues everything but blues. They're calling it soul and rock-and-roll, but it's still the damn blues. I wish I knew if the young people are going to take it over, but I don't."

This is a video of one of the greatest BLUES bands of all time. Give it a listen:

Discography

Year	Title	Label
1959	Memphis Slim and the Real Boogie-Woogie	Folkways Records
1960	Memphis Slim and the Honky-Tonk Sound	Folkways Records
1960	Travelling with the Blues	Storyville
1960	Blue This Evening	Black Lion
1960	Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon - Vol 1	Folkways Records
1960	Songs of Memphis Slim and "Wee Willie" Dixon	Folkways Records
1961	Tribute To Big Bill Broonzy	Candid
1961	Steady Rollin' Blues: The Blues Of Memphis Slim	OBC
1961	Memphis Slim U.S.A.	Candid
1961	Broken Soul Blues	Beat Goes On
1961	Alone With My Friends	Battle
1961	Chicago Blues: Boogie Woogie and Blues Played and Sung By Memphis Slim	Folkways Records
1961	Blues by Jazz Gillum Singing and Playing His Harmonica: With Arbee Stidham and Memphis Slim	Folkways Records
1961	No Strain	Bluesville
1962	Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim: In Paris	GNP Crescendo
1962	Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon - Vol 2	Folkways Records
1962	Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon at the Village Gate with Pete Seeger	Folkways Records
1963	All Kinds of Blues	Bluesville
1963	Jazz In Paris: Aux Trois Mailletz	Polygram
1964	Clap Your Hands	Maison De Blues
1967	Bluesingly Yours	Maison De Blues
1968	Lord Have Mercy On Me	Maison De Blues
1969	The Bluesman	Maison De Blues
1969	Mother Earth	One Way Records
1970	The Blue Memphis Suite	Maison De Blues
1970	Messin' Around with the Blues: The Very Best Of	King
1971	Boogie Woogie	Maison De Blues
1971	Born With The Blues	Fuel 2000
1971	Blue Memphis	Wounded Bird
1972	South Side Reunion: Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy	Sunny Side
1973	Legacy of the Blues, Vol 7: Memphis Slim	Gnp Crescendo
1973	Memphis Slim	Storyville
1973	Soul Blues	Acrobat Records
1973	Raining the Blues	Fantasy
1973	Memphis Slim - Favorite Blues Singers	Folkways Records
1973	Very Much Alive and in Montreux	Universal International
1975	Going Back To Tennessee	Maison De Blues
1981	Rockin' the Blues	Charly
1981	Memphis Heat: Canned Heat & Memphis Slim	Sunny Side
1981	I'll Just Keep On Singin' the Blues	SLG, LLC
1990	Steppin' Out: Live at Ronnie Scotts	Castle Music UK
1990	Together Again One More Time/Still Not Ready For Eddie	Texas Music Group
1990	Parisian Blues	Polygram
1990	The Real Folk Blues	Mca
1992	Blues Masters Vol 9: Memphis Slim
1993	London Sessions 1960	Sequel Records UK
1994	The Blues Collection Vol 13: Beer Drinkin' Woman	ADD
1994	Lonesome	Legacy International
1994	Live at the Hot Club	BMG International
1995	Boogie After Midnight	Chicago Music Co.
1996	The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1: 1940-1941 (Peter Chatman As Memphis Slim)	EPM Musique
1996	Come Back & Other Classics	Masters Intercontinental
1996	The Bluebird Recordings, 1940-1941	RCA
1997	Dialogue in Boogie: Memphis Slim & Philippe Lejeune	Happy Bird
1998	Lonely Nights	Catfish
1998	Very Best of Memphis Slim: The Blues Is Everywhere	Collectables
1999	Life Is Like That	Charly UK
2000	The Folkways Years, 1959-1973	Smithsonian Folkways
2000	Blues At Midnight	Catfish
2000	Memphis Slim at the Gate of the Horn	Vee-Jay
2001	The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2: 1946-1948	EPM Musique
2001	Essential Masters	Cleopatra
2001	Blue and Lonesome	Arpeggio Blues
2001	Ambassador of the Blues	Indigo UK
2002	The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3: 1948-1950	EPM Musique
2002	I Am The Blues	Prestige Elite
2002	Kansas City	Classic World
2002	Boogie For My Friends	Black & Blue France
2002	The Come Back	Delmark
2002	Blues Legends: Memphis Slim	Lead
2003	Three Women Blues
2003	The Complete Recordings, Vol 4: 1951-1952	EPM Musique
2004	Worried Life Blues
2004	Grinder Man Blues	Snapper UK
2004	The Best of Memphis Slim	Liquid 8
2005	Boogie For 2 Pianos Vol 1: Memphis Slim & Jean-Paul Amouroux
2005	Paris Mississippi Blues	Sunny Side
2005	Double-Barreled Boogie: Memphis Slim & Roosvelt Sykes	Sunny Side
2006	Forty Years of More	Passport Audio
2006	Memphis Suite	Sunny Side
2006	Rockin' This House: Chicago Blues Piano 1946-1953 (CDs A&B)	JSP Records
2006	The Sonet Blues Story	Verve Records
2006	An Introduction to Memphis Slim	Fuel 2000
2007	The Ultimate Jazz Archive 14 1940-41 (1 Of 4)	Carinco AG
2007	Sings the Blues	Wnts
2007	Chicago Blues Masters Vol 1: Muddy Waters And Memphis Slim	Capitol
2007	Cold Blooded Woman	Collectables Records
2008	Greatest Moments	Stardust
2008	Four Walls	Jukebox Entertainment
2008	Born To Boogie	Unlimited Media
2008	Legend of the Blues	Wounded Bird Records
2009	Fip Fil and Fim	101 Distribution

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Bobby Blue Bland 80th Birthday Bash with B.B. King, Bobby Rush, J. Blackfoot, Shirley Brown,Clarence Carter,Benny Latimore by Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms

(Memphis, Tennessee) One of the world's most memorable blues shows was held this week in celebration of the 80th birthday of blues singer Bobby Blue Bland and his old friends and musical guests pulled out all the stops to honor him with songs and accolades. It all took place in Tunica, mississippi, at Sam's Town casino. The line-up was most impressive and the performances and bands played flawlesslythroughout the evening. At the end of the evening we were enthralled by songs from b.B King and Bobby bland and then a couple of songs from the birthday guest by himself. Having seen B.B. and Bobby in 1976 and playing with B.B. in Memphis in 1981 I was a bit concerned to see how the two had held up over this much time and I was genuinely moved by their great performances on this magic night.

The picture above is Junior Parker, Elvis and Bobby Blue Bland in 1957



The night began with rising BLUES star Grant Garland and a top notch band led by bobby Bland's son, Rodd, who is a frequent performer on Beale Street. Rodd was a member of Corey Osborn's band which I saw performing at B.B. King's before Corey's unfortunate demise.

Grant Garland, a rising Blues star, opens the show

Grant with his Mom and Dad, who sat next to me at the concert

Grant Garland clowns with his Dad after his set.

author with great Memphis drummer Harry Peel

My friend Marc Franklin on trumpet, Rodd Bland(Bobby's son) on drums, Grant Garland sings and plays guitar.

Here's a link to Grant's site: http://www.grantgarlandmusic.com/index.html

Wolf Stephenson of Malaco Records makes a few remarks remembering Bobby Bland's contributions to this fine Mississippi record label. Afterwards the legendary Bobby Rush takes the stage and performs a few numbers.

Bobby Rush takes the stage

Bobby Rush honors Bobby Blue Bland

Bobby Rush, 74, used to swap sets with my band at the Club Paradise in Memphis in the early 1980's. It was one of many stops on what is called the Chitlin' Circuit. He is a genuinely kind man, a talented singer, accomplished harmonica player and one of the last of the great old school showmen. Despite a lifetime of hard traveling and an abundance of talent, he has gained notoriety primarily from his humor and his dancing girls in the past years. Simply stated, Bobby Rush entertains.

Bobby did not disappoint, bringing out his big-leg dancing girls

Next on the bill was keyboardist and singer, Benny Latimore, who performed several songs. Benny Latimore still wows the crowd at 71 years old and his work on the Yamaha Motif was very good, at one time he played guitar solos using the synthesizers' guitar voice. Latimore came back on several times during the night, playing keys to back up other artists including B.B. King.

Latimore

Clarence Carter

Clarence Carter, who still sounds great at 74 years old, was born blind and graduated with a music degree from Alabama State College in 1960. His hits include several million sellers. Some of his better known songs include "Slip Away," "Too Weak to Fight," "Snatching It Back," "At The Dark End of the Street," "The Feeling Is Right," "Doing Our Thing" and "Patches." He performed his biggest hit, "Strokin'" to a very appreciative crowd.

"Strokin!"

Clarence Carter

Sold out crowd, Sam's Town, Tunica, MS, Riverplace Entertainment Center

These folks came to hear the BLUES!

My friend Pat Mitchell of the Blues Foundation's Blues Caravan

The Bland Family (Bobby's wife Willie May, his son and daughter, nieces and nephews) receives awards and proclamations from Memphis' WDIA radio, the State of Tennessee, The Congress of the United States, Shelby County, Tennessee, and the State of Mississippi honoring Bobby Blue Bland

Bobby Blue Bland and son, drummer Rodd Bland

Malaco recording artist, Floyd Taylor, son of Johnnie Taylor, takes the stage

Floyd Taylor

J. Blackfoot

Born John Colbert in Memphis in 1947, J. Blackfoot got his name walking barefoot on the hot tarred streets of Memphis as a child. As a teenager he spent time in jail after stealing a car.On his release, he spent six months as lead singer with a new line-up of The Barkays (after original members were killed with Otis Redding in a plane crash). He then became the lead singer of the Soul Children, the Memphis-based group that scored 15 R & B hits between 1968 and 1978.

He launched a solo career as J. Blackfoot with the single 'Taxi,' which climbed into the R & B Top Ten in 1984.

J. Blackfoot came on stage with his voice sounding a tiny bit ragged, but after downing a bottle of water, he really poured it on in honor of his old friend, Bobby Bland. This man had a wicked sweet raspy voice, strong high notes and commands the audience like the old pro that he is. I last saw him at Willie Mitchell's Memorial service in Memphis two weeks ago and as he said, he sang Willie on out of this world. He is a remarkable talent.

J. Blackfoot wows the crowd with his hit, "Taxi."

Latimore backs up Shirley Brown

Shirley sings a soul-stirring "Happy Birthday" to Bobby Blue Bland

Taking the stage without his guitar, Lucille, B.B. King arrived to spend some time reminiscing with the crowd and his longtime friend, Bobby Bland. He met Bland in 1948 when he first came to Memphis from Mississippi and their loose-knit group, known as the Beale Streeters consisted of my late friend, Roscoe Gordon, Johnny Ace Alexander(who died on Christmas Day, 1954), and my mentor, B.B.'s drummer, Earl Forest.

That Dynamic Gentleman of the Blues, B.B. King

I met again this night with Bobby Bland as I was leaving the restroom and he and about 3 of his security team were coming in, pushing Bobby in a wheelchair and urging me outside. He looked up at me, smiled, and said, "How's it going, big man?" I wished him Happy Birthday and let him take care of his business. He is still warm, friendly and always takes a moment for friends and fans. This was one of his best nights in his life and I am deleighted I could be there and share a little of it with you.

Bobby Bland is helped on stage. He asked for a lower chair so he could sit even with his old friend, B.B.King. The two cracked jokes for a long time and teased and kidded one another just as if it were still 1948 and they were all living at the Mitchell Hotel(now called Ernestine & Hazel's) on South Main in Memphis.






The two blues greats sing the classic, "If You're Gonna Walk On My Heart, Take Off Your Shoes" by Frederick Knight and Bettye Crutcher. Both men have recorded this tune.

Bobby Blue Bland 's smooth voice delivers "Stormy Monday" as nobody else can.

Bobby Bland ends the show with his hit, "Members Only."

Note the tremendous discography of this great BLUES singer which I have printed at the end of this article. He is not only prolific and beyond talented, literally caressing a song, but in the words of B.B. King, "Bobby is the most versatile of all the great blues singers. He can literally sing anything, blues, jazz, soul, you name it." Bobby Blue Bland is indubitably the finest BLUES singer it has ever been my pleasure to encounter in the past 51 years and I have heard a lot of them.

Bobby Bland recorded many sides at Duke and Peacock REcords, which originated in Memphis, was sold to Don Robey and later moved to Houston, Texas. In the 1970's he went on to record for Dunhill and MCA Records and then in 1985 he began a long history with Malaco.

My longtime Beale Street friend and fellow lover of the BLUES, Barry Meyers
and his lovely escort from Ireland.

The author and Barry out on the town for the millionth time. What a great friend.

Bobby Blue Bland's Discography

Albums

• Blues Consolidated - 1958 (Duke Records)
• Like Er Red Hot - 1960 (Duke Records)
• Two Steps from the Blues (Duke 1961/MCA 2002)
• Here's the Man! - 1962 (Duke Records)
• Call On Me - 1963 (Duke Records)
• Ain't Nothing You Can Do - 1964 (Duke Records)
• The Soul of The Man" - 1966 (Duke Records)
• Touch of The Blues - 1967 (Duke Records)
• The Best Of - 1967 (Duke Records)
• The Best Of Volume 2 - 1968 (Duke Records)
• Spotlighting The Man - 1969 (Duke Records)
• His California Album - 1973 (Dunhill Records)
• Dreamer - 1974 (Dunhill Records)
• Get On Down - 1975 (ABC Records)
• Together for the First Time(with B.B.King) - 1976 (ABC)
• Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live - 1976 (ABC)
• Reflections In Blue - 1977 (ABC Records)
• Come Fly With Me - 1978 (MCA Records)
• I Feel Good - 1979 (MCA Records)
• Sweet Vibrations - 1980 (MCA 27076) Tribute to Joe Scott
• Here We Go Again - 1982 (MCA 5297)
• Members Only - 1985 (Malaco Records)
• After All - 1986 (Malaco Records)
• Blues You Can Use - 1987 (Malaco Records)
• Midnight Run-1989 (Malaco Records)
• Portrait of the Blues - 1991 (Malaco Records)
• Sad Street-1992 (Malaco Records)
• Years of Tears - 1993 (Malaco Records)
• Live On Beale Street-1995 (Malaco Records)
• Memphis Monday Morning-1998(Malaco Records)

Singles

• "Booted" / "I Love You Til The Day I Die" - 1951 *with Bobby "Blue" Bland Chess Records
• "Crying All Night Long" / "Dry Up Baby" - 1952 (Chess Records)
• "Good Lovin'" / "Drifting From Town To Town" - 1952 (Chess Records)
• "Crying" / "A Letter From A Trench In Korea" - 1952 (Chess Records)
• "Lovin' Blues" / "I.O.U. Blues" - 1952 Duke Records
• "Army Blues" / "No Blow, No Show" - 1953 (Duke Records)
• "Time Out" / "It's My Life Baby" - 1955 (Duke Records)
• "You Or None" / "Woke Up Screaming" - 1955 (Duke Records)
• "I Can't Put You Down" / "You've Got Bad Intentions" - 1956 (Duke Records)
• "I Learned My Lesson" / "Lead Us On" - 1956 (Duke Records)
• "I Learned My Lesson" / "I Don't Believe" - 1956 (Duke Records)
• "Don't Want No Woman" / "I Smell Trouble" - 1957 (Duke Records)
• "Farther Up The Road" / "Sometime Tomorrow" - 1957 (Duke Records) (R&B 1/POP 43)
• "Teach Me" (How To Love You) / "Bobby's Blues" - 1957 (Duke Records)
• "You Got Me Where You Want Me" / "Loan A Helping Hand" – 1958 (Duke Records)
• "Little Boy Blue" / "Last Night" – 1958 (Duke Records) (10/-)
• "You Did Me Wrong" / "I Lost Sight Of The World" - 1959 (Duke Records)
• "I'm Not Ashamed" / "Wishing Well" - 1959 (Duke Records) (13/-)
• "Is It Real" / "Someday" - 1959 (Duke Records) (28/-)
• "I'll Take Care Of You" / "That's Why" - 1959 (Duke Records) (2/89)
• "Lead Me On" / "Hold Me Tenderly" (Duke Records) (9/-)
• "Cry, Cry, Cry" / "I've Been Wrong So Long" - 1960 (Duke Records) (9/71)
• "I Pity The Fool" / "Close To You" - 1961 (Duke Records) (1/46)
• "Don't Cry No More" / "How Does A Cheating Woman Feel" - 1961 (Duke Records) (2/71)
• "Turn On Your Love Light" / "You're The One" (That I Need) - 1961 (Duke Records) (2/28)
• "Ain't That Loving You" / "Jelly, Jelly, Jelly" - 1961 (Duke Records) (9/86)
• "Don't Cry No More" / "Saint James Infirmary" - 1961 (Duke Records)
• "Who Will The Next Fool Be" / "Blue Moon" - 1962 (Duke Records) (12/76)
• "Love You Baby" / "Drifting" - 1962 (Kent)
• "Yield Not To Temptation" / "How Does A Cheating Woman Feel" - 1962 (Duke Records) (10/56)
• "Stormy Monday Blues" / "Your Friends" - 1962 (Duke Records) (5/43)
• "That's The Way Love Is" / "Call On Me" - 1962 (Duke Records) (1/43)
• "Call On Me" / "That's The Way Love Is" - 1962 (Duke Records) flipped over (5/22)
• "Sometimes You Gotta Cry A Little" / "You're Worth It All" - 1963 (Duke Records) (28/56)

another 20 singles that charted.....

• "Shoes" / "A Touch Of The Blues" - 1967 (Duke Records)
• "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City" / "Twenty-Four Hour Blues" - 1974 (ABC Dunhill Records)

RCT

©Robert "Nighthawk" Tooms, 2010