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The Roosevelt Sykes Collection 1929-1947
Roosevelt Sykes
The Roosevelt Sykes Collection 1929-1947
Roosevelt Sykes
Roosevelt Sykes was a hugely popular and influential exponent of the rollicking barrel-house style of blues piano playing and composition whose core career spanned the decades spanning WWII. Recording initially under a variety of names, and finding his greatest popularity when he adopted the soubriquet 'The Honeydrippers', he recorded a substantial body of work variously for the Okeh, Decca and RCA Victor labels, which included classics of the genre like "The Honeydrippers", "Night Time Is the Right Time", "44 Blues", "Boot That Thing" and "Driving Wheel Blues". This great value 75-track 3-CD set selects material from across those key decades of his career from his earliest recordings through to the time when he began to be overtaken by the new electric blues in the late '40s. It includes solo recordings along with those as a duo with a drummer, and, in the later years, with a variety of small groups.
FT. BIG BILL BROONZY, SIDNEY BECHET, KOKOMO ARNOLD
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 3 |
Specielt cover | Box set |
Released | June 16, 2014 |
EAN/UPC | 0824046904029 |
Label | ACROBAT ACTRCD9040 |
Genre | Blues |
Dimensions | 124 × 142 × 10 mm · 112 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- 44 Blues (14th June 1929) Okeh 8702
- Boot That Thing (14th June 1929) Okeh 8702
- Henry Ford Blues (14th June 1929) Okeh 8742
- Skeet and Garret (16th Nov. 1929) Okeh 8749
- Roosevelt's Blues (16th Nov. 1929) Okeh 8776
- Lost All I Had Blues (16th Nov. 1929) Okeh 8819
- 32-20 Blues (As Wille Kelly) (12th June 1930) Victor 38619
- 3-6 & 9 (As Dobby Bragg) ( C. Aug. 1930) Paramount 13004
- Kelly's Special (As Wille Kelly) (17th Nov. 1930) Victor 232
- Nasty but It's Clean (As Wille Kelly) (June 10th 1931) Victo
- Highway 61 Blues (22nd Sept. 1932) Decca 7280
- Big Legs Ida Blues (11th Dec. 1933) Sunrise S-3404
- D-b-a Blues (18th Aug. 1934) Decca 7011
- Dirty Mother for You (Don't You Know) (18th Feb. 1936) Decca
- She Left Me Cold in Hand (18th Feb. 1936) Decca 7160
- Cannon Ball (18th Feb. 1936) Decca 7188
- Jet Black Snake (18th Feb. 1936) Decca 7188
- Driving Wheel Blues (18th Feb. 1936) Decca 7252
- Sister Kelly Blues (19th Feb. 1936) Champion 50071
- The Honey Dripper (21st Feb. 1936) Decca 7164
- Night Time is the Right Time (24th Apr. 1937) Decca 7324
- Little and Low (24th Apr. 1937) Decca 7324
- Monte Carlo Blues (24th Apr. 1937) Decca 7352
- Hospital, Heaven or Hell (30th Apr. 1937) Decca 7401
- Drunken Gambler (30th Apr. 1937) Decca 7431
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2. CD
- Love Lease Blues (28th Oct. 1937) Decca 7381
- Hard Lead Pencil (28th Oct. 1937) Decca 7432
- Sad Yas Yas (You Fade Away Like Morning Dew) (29th Oct. 193
- The Road to Ruin (29th Oct. 1937) Decca 7412
- Mistake in Life (31st Mar. 1938) Decca 7438
- Night Time is the Right Time No. 2 (31st Mar. 1938) Decca 7
- She's Long Gone (31st Mar. 1938) Decca 7458
- The Train is Coming (No More Baby Talk) (31st Mar. 1938) De
- Down on My Knees (1st Apr. 1938) Decca 7483
- Have You Seen Ida B. (13th Apr. 1939) Decca 7586
- 44 Blues (13th Apr. 1939) Decca 7586
- Bitter Cup Blues (13th Apr. 1939) Decca 7597
- Journey from the Germs (13th Apr. 1939) Decca 7622
- You Can't Fix It Back (13th Apr. 1939) Decca 7622
- Get Your Bow out (Then You Will Understand) (13th Apr. 1939)
- Yellow Yam Blues (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7747
- Right Now (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7769
- Essie Mae Blues (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7769
- She's Got What It Takes (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7785
- Pistol Shootin' Blues (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7785
- Eight Ball Blues (3rd Apr. 1940) Decca 7809
- 47th Street Jive (27th Feb. 1941) Decca 7833
- Doin' the Sally Long (Flames Od Evaporation) (27th Feb. 1941
- Low As a Toad (27th Feb. 1941) Decca 7843
- Prison Gate Blues (27th Feb. 1941) Decca 7874
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3. CD
- K.m.a. Blues (27th Feb. 1941) Decca 7874
- Just Hanging Around (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6219
- Pay Day Blues (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6219
- 15c a Day (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6387/col. 30040
- Roll on Blues (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6387/col. 30040
- Keep Your Hands off Her (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6455/col. 3003
- Skin and Bone Blues (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6455/col. 30037
- Let the Black Have His Way (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6542/col. 3
- Third Degree Blues (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6542/col. 30035
- Training Camp Blues (30th Apr. 1941) Okeh 6709/col. 30024
- Sugar Babe Blues (16th April 1942) Okeh 6709/col. 30024
- I Wonder (15th Dec 1944) Bluebird 34-0721
- Love Has Something to Say (Prob. 15th Dec. 1944)
- Tender Hearted Woman Blues (I'll Wear the Pants) (1945) B&w
- Don't Push Me Around (July 2 1945) Rca Victor 20-2534
- Date Bait (Oct. 9 1945) Rca Victor 20-2051
- Tonight (18th Feb 1946) Rca Victor 20-2051
- Living in a Different World (18th Feb 1946) Rca Victor 20-33
- Flames of Jive (23rd Aug. 1946) Rca Victor 20-2382
- Bop De Bip (23rd Aug. 1946) Rca Victor 20-2382
- Bobby Sox Blues (Feb.5 1947) Rca Victor 20-2201
- Walkin' and Drinkin' (Oct. 15 1947) Rca Victor 20-0011
- Mama Mama (Oct. 15 1947) Rca Victor 20-3176
- Booze Blues (18th Nov. 1947) Rca Victor 20-2902
- Until the Cows Come Home (Nov. 18 1947) Rca Victor 20-33152
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