New Orleans Artists

Information Needed: Year Issued? Catalog Number?

Prior to the mid-1970s, the year of issue or release was usually not printed on the record label. This practice is believed to have been used to preserve the record for air play, so DJs would not remove the older records from the rotation. The records in the list below are from the 1950s, but the exact year of release or catalogue number is not known when shown with a ?

195?

Tabby Thomas - (Feature ???? 195?) Hmn, I Don't Care
Feature = northern Louisiana label

Tommy Ridgley - (???? 1951) Come Home Baby
on many compilations - want info on the 78 rpm record

1940 - 1952: Harlem Hit Parade; Formative Rock and Roll Years

Discography

Missing information -- For those items in green: record label, catalogue number, year issued, email if you know the missing information. The regular discography listing is after this section.

Louis Jordan, a staple of New Orleans music, was born in Arkansas. Louis Jordan formed the Pzazz record label in 1968 in New Orleans to record his own material.

1940

1941

Sidney Bechet - (Victor 27633 1941) Rip Up the Joint
Champion Jack - (OKeh 6597 1941) Big Time Mama
Roy Byrd - (OKeh 6152 1941) Junker's Blues

1942

1943

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - (Decca 23629 1943) What's The Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)

1944

Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - (Decca 8654 1944) Ration Blues

1945

1946

1947

Clarence Samuels - (Aristocrat 1001 1947) Boogie Woogie Blues
Dave Bartholomew - (DeLuxe 1004 1947) She's Got Great Big Eyes
Louis Jordan - (Decca 23841 1947) Open the Door, Richard!
Louis Jordan - (Decca 23741 1947) Let the Good Times Roll
Roy Brown - (De Luxe 1093 1947) Good Rockin' Tonight
Smiling Lewis - (DeLuxe 1099 1947) Here Comes Smiley

1948

Lonnie Johnson - (King 4201 1948) Tomorrow Night

1949

Edgar Blanchard - (Peacock 1514 1949) Creole Gal Blues / She'll Be Mine After Awhile
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5077 1949) Hideaway Blues
James Blazer Boy Locks - (Regal 3239 1949) New Orleans Women Blues
Jewel King with Dave Bartholomew - (Imperial 5055 1949) 3x7=21
Louis Jordan - (Decca 24725 1949) Saturday Night Fish Fry
Pee Wee Hughes - (Savoy 1012 1949) I'm A Country Boy
Roy Brown - (DeLuxe 3154 1949) Long About Midnight
Roy Brown - (DeLuxe 3302 1949) I Feel that Young Man's Rhythm
Roy Byrd - (Mercury Uniss 1949) Byrd's Blues
Roy Byrd - (Mercury 8175 1949) Her Mind Is Gone
Roy Byrd - (Mercury 8184 1949) Hey Now Baby
Roy Byrd - (Atlantic 947 1949) Willie Mae / Hey Little Girl
Smiley Lewis - (Imperial 5067 1949) Low Down / Tee Nah Nah
Tommy Ridgley - (Imperial 5054 1949) Shrewsbury Blues

1950

Archibald - (Colony 105 1950) Crescent City Bounce / Little Miss Muffet
Archibald - (Imperial 5068 1950) Stack A Lee 1 & 2
Archibald - (Imperial 5082 1950) Shake Baby Shake / Ballin' with Archie
Archibald - (Imperial 5101 1950) She's Scattered Everywhere
Billy Wright - (Savoy 810 1950) Hey Little Girl
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5058 1950) The Fat Man / Detroit City Blues
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5085 1950) Hey La Bas
Jewel King - (Imperial 5061 1950) Broke My Mother's Rule / I'll Get It
Jewel King - (Imperial 5076 1950) Keep Your Mouth Shut / Passion
Jewel King - (Imperial 5087 1950) I Love A Fellow / Low Down Feeling
Little Mr Midnight - (Regal 3287 1950) Got A Brand New Baby /Four O'Clock Blues
Roy Byrd aka Professor Longhair - (Mercury 8175 1950) Bald Head
Earlier released on Star Talent label as, "She Ain't Got No Hair"
Roy Byrd aka Professor Longhair - (Mercury 8185 1950 Hadacol Bounce
Paul Gayten - (Regal 3281 1950) Ooh La La
Paul Gayten - (Regal 3312 1950) Yeah Yeah Yeah

1951

Billy Fair - (Derby 749 1951) I'll Be True to You
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5099 1951) Every Night About this Time / Korea Blues
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5114 1951) Tired of Crying / What's the Matter Baby
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5123 1951) Don't You Lie to Me
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5145 1951) Careless Love / Rockin' Chair
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5197 1952) Trust In Me
James Wayne - (Imperial 5166 1951) Agreeable Woman
James Wayne - (Imperial 5160 1951) Two Faced Woman
Professor Longhair - (Atlantic 906 1951) Walk Your Blues Away
Smiley Lewis - (Imperial 5124 1951) My Baby Was Right
Tommy Ridgley - (Imperial 5203 1951) Looped

1952

Big Tom Collins - (King 4483 1952) Heartache Blues
(Champion Jack Dupre p. Brownie McGhee vcl.)
Clarence Samuels - (Freedom 1541 1952) She Walk Pt 1
Classie Ballou - (Nasco 1952) Crazy Mambo
Dave Bartholomew - (King 4523 1952) Lawdy Lawdy Lord
Earl Johnson - (Savoy 1102 1953) Have You Gone Crazy
Earl before the stage name Earl King
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5197 1952) Trust In Me
Lloyd Price - (Specialty 428 1952) Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Written by Lloyd Price; single recorded with Dave Bartholomew's band; and Fats Domino on piano. One of the most influential R&B songs of all time!!!
Lloyd Price - (Speciality 440 1952) Restless Heart / Oooh Oooh Oooh
Paul Gayten - (OKeh 6908 1952) They All Asked for You
Roy Byrd - (Federal 12061 1952) Curly Haired Baby
Shaweez (Big Boy Myles - lead vocal; Sugar Boy Crawford, piano) - (Aladdin 3170 1952) No One to Love Me / Early Sunday Morning
Early, Doo Wop Style later abandoned by Sugar Boy Crawford
Shirley & Lee - (Aladdin 3173 1952) Sweethearts / Baby
Smiley Lewis - (Imperial 5241 1952) Caledonia's Party
The Royal Kings - (Specialty 444 1952) Teachin' and Preachin' / Bouncin' the Boogie
The Shaweez - (Aladdin 3170 1952) Early Sunday Morning

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