Singin' the Blues

Infobox Album
Name = Singin' the Blues
Type = studio
Artist = B. B. King


Released = 1956
Recorded =
Genre = Blues
Length =
Label = Crown
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3ifwxqygldke~T0 link]
Last album =
This album = "Singin' the Blues"
(1956)
Next album = "The Blues"
(1958)
Misc = Extra album cover 2 | Upper caption = Singin' the Blues | Type = Album |
| Lower caption = Japanese re-release by P-Vine

"Singin' the Blues" is the 1956 compilation album of legendary blues performer B. B. King on the Bihari brothers' Crown label. [cite book
last = Danchin
first = Sebastian
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coauthors =
title = Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B.B. King
publisher = Univ. Press of Mississippi
date = 1998
location =
pages = 57
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=A_MX7evt8M4C&pg=PA57&dq=%22Singing%27+the+Blues%22+%22BB+King%22+bihari&lr=&sig=scSZK4tUOfCNXFxxfpTuxFyReNk
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id =
isbn = 1578060176] Among its tracks, the album gathered together five charting singles. "Bad Luck" was the highest charting single, reaching #3 on Billboard's "Black Singles" chart. [allmusic |id=10:3ifwxqygldke~T3|label=Singin' the Blues (Crown) Billboard] . Other charting singles include "Every Day I Have the Blues" (#8), "Ten Long Years" (#9), "Crying Won't Help You" (#15) 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" [allmusic|id=10:jnfyxqu5ldte|label=Singin' the Blues/The Blues] and with bonus tracks by Japanese label P-Vine Records and U.K. label Ace Records (UK).allmusic|id=10:kjfwxqtsld0e|label=Singin' the Blues (P-Vine)] allmusic|id=10:azfixqwsldhe|label=Singin' the Blues (Ace)] On "Please Love Me", King combines T-Bone Walker's hard-picking, distorted guitar style with his own mournful singing. [cite book
last = Brackett
first = Nathan
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
publisher = Simon and Schuster
date = 2004
location =
pages = 452
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA452&dq=Singin%27+the+Blues+King&sig=3JF9FeN8M6zPLH1hn6U8YMAFoQM
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isbn = 0743201698]

Track listing

"Except where otherwise noted, all songs by B. B. King and Jules Taub." [Track list order from [http://bp2.blogger.com/__JYEjdyJ7pI/RriD3Q8P92I/AAAAAAAABOU/qP5Kaq6Or1o/s1600-h/bb2.jpgalbum back cover] ; times and additional composer information from allmusic|id=10:azfixqwsldhe~T0|label=Singin' the Blues (Ace)]

ide one

#"Please Love Me" – 2:51
#"You Upset Me Baby" – 3:04
#"Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) – 2:49
#"Bad Luck" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 2:54
#"3 O'Clock Blues" (Lowell Fulson) – 3:03
#"Blind Love" – 3:06

ide two

#"Woke Up This Morning" – 2:59
#"You Know I Love You" – 3:06
#"Sweet Little Angel" (Lucille Bogan, ? Smith) – 3:00
#"Ten Long Years" – 2:49
#"Did You Ever Love a Woman" (D. Moore) – 2:34
#"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."

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

Personnel

Performance

*Red Callender – bass [Personnel for the original and re-release are combined.]
*Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis – sax (tenor)
*Jewell L. Grant – sax (alto)
*Billy Hadnot – bass
*Ralph Hamilton – bass
*Lorenzo Holden – sax (tenor)
*B. B. King – guitar, vocals
*Willard McDaniel – piano
*Jack McVea – sax (tenor)
*Bumps Myers – sax (tenor)
*Jake "Vernon" Porter – trumpet
*Jesse Price – drums
*Jesse Sailes – drums
*Maurice Simon – sax (tenor)
*Floyd Turnham – sax (alto), sax (baritone)
*Charles Waller – sax (tenor)

Production

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

References