Singin' the Blues

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For the popular 1950s song, see Singing the Blues.
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Singin' the Blues is the 1956 debut album by blues performer B.B. King on the Bihari brothers' Crown label.[3] Among its tracks, the album gathered together five charting singles. "You Upset Me, Baby" was the highest charting single, reaching #1 on Billboard's "Black Singles" chart.[4] Other charting singles include "Every Day I Have the Blues" (#8), "Ten Long Years" (#9), "Crying Won't Help You" (#15), "Bad Luck" (#3) and "Sweet Little Angel" (#6). The album was originally released on the Crown subsidiary of Modern Records and has been reissued several times, as part of a two-album combined CD alongside King's second release The Blues[5] and with bonus tracks by Japanese label P-Vine Records and U.K. label Ace Records (UK).[6][7] On "Please Love Me", King combines T-Bone Walker's hard-picking, distorted guitar style with his own mournful singing.[8]

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs by B.B. King and Jules Taub.[9]

Side one

  1. "Please Love Me" – 2:51
  2. "You Upset Me Baby" – 3:04
  3. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Pinetop Sparks) – 2:49
  4. "Bad Luck" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 2:54
  5. "3 O'Clock Blues" (Lowell Fulson) – 3:03
  6. "Blind Love" – 3:06

Side two

  1. "Woke Up This Morning" – 2:59
  2. "You Know I Love You" – 3:06
  3. "Sweet Little Angel" (Lucille Bogan, ? Smith) – 3:00
  4. "Ten Long Years" – 2:49
  5. "Did You Ever Love a Woman" (Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore) – 2:34
  6. "Crying Won't Help You" (Hudson Whittaker) – 3:00

CD re-release bonus tracks

Bonus tracks on both the re-releases by P-Vine and Ace. Except where otherwise noted, all songs by King and Taub.

  1. "Whole Lotta Meat" (King) – 2:32
  2. "I'm Cracking Up Over You" – 3:23
  3. "I Stay in the Mood" (Joe Josea, King) – 2:55
  4. "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer 'Million Years Blues'" (John Williamson) – 2:58
  5. "Jump with You Baby" – 2:14
  6. "Lonely and Blue" (John Costa Jr., John Erby) – 2:58
  7. "Dark is the Night, Pt. 'the Blues Has Got Me'" (Maxwell Davis, King, Taub) – 2:41
  8. "Ruby Lee" – 3:01

Personnel

Performance

Production

  • Roger Armstrong – tape archivist
  • Jon Broven – compilation, annotation
  • Brian Burrows – package design
  • Duncan Cowell – mastering, mixing, restoration
  • Cy Schneider – liner notes

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Danchin, Sebastian (1998). Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B.B. King. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 57. ISBN 1-57806-017-6. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ Singin' the Blues (Crown) Billboard at AllMusic
  5. ^ Singin' the Blues/The Blues at AllMusic
  6. ^ Singin' the Blues (P-Vine) at AllMusic
  7. ^ Singin' the Blues (Ace) at AllMusic
  8. ^ Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 452. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  9. ^ Track list order from album back cover; times and additional composer information from Singin' the Blues (Ace) at AllMusic
  10. ^ Personnel for the original and re-release are combined.
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