The Vee‐Jay Years

~ Release by John Lee Hooker (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1I Can’t Quit You Now Blues
2:51
2Stop Baby, Don’t Hold Me
1:44
3Tupelo
5:17
4Bus Station Blues
3:39
5Freight Train to My Friend
3:25
6Boom, Boom, Boom
producer:
Calvin Carter
bass:
James Jamerson
drums (drum set):
Benny Benjamin (US drummer) (in 1961)
guitar:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
piano:
Joe Hunter (of the Motown "Funk Brothers" studio ensemble)
tenor saxophone:
Hank Crosby
vocals:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
MCA Records, Inc. (do not use as a release label! a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.) (in 1967)
recorded at:
Universal Recording Corporation, Studio B in Chicago, Illinois, United States (on 1961-10-26)
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 2009), Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 218) and Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 463)
recording of:
Boom Boom (on 1961-10-26)
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
publisher:
Conrad Publishing Co. Inc. and Tristan Music Ltd.
3.32:30
7Talk That Talk Baby
1:25
8Sometime Baby You Make Me Feel So Bad
3:27
9You’ve Got to Walk Yourself
4:52
10Let’s Make It
2:23
11The Mighty Fire
4:45
12Big Legs, Tight Skirt
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (in 1964)
guitar:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist) (in 1964)
instruments:
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist – Do not add releases here, if possible.) (in 1964)
vocals:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist) (in 1964)
recording of:
Big Legs, Tight Skirt (in 1964)
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
32:18
13Flowers on the Hour
2:40
14It Serves Me Right to Suffer
recording of:
It Serves Me Right to Suffer
lyricist and composer:
John Lee Hooker (US blues singer, songwriter & guitarist)
publisher:
Conrad Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label)
3:33
15It Ain’t No Big Thing Baby
4:13
16She Left Me One Wednesday
3:43
17You Can Run
3:05
18New Sally Mae
3:37
19Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
2:40
20She’s Long, She’s Tall
2:30
21You’re Mellow
4:08