New Orleans Artists

Discography

1956

Alberta Hall - (Specialty 562 1956) Oh! How I Need Your Love
Big Boy Myles - (Specialty 590 1956) Hickory Dickory Dock / Just To Hold My Hand
Bobby Mitchell - (Imperial 5392 1956) Going 'Round in Circles
Gospel inspired classic!!!
Champion Jack Dupree - (Groove 0171 1956) When I Got Married / Lonely Road Blues
Champion Jack Dupree - (King 4906 1956) Overhead Blues
Charles Williams - (Checker 831 1956) So Glad She's Mine
Chris Kenner - (Specialty 571 1956) I Yi Yi Gomen A Sai / Woe Ho Ho
Chris Kenner - (Specialty 578 1956) Rock 'n Roll Dance / Country Boy Rock
Chris Kenner - (Specialty 582 1956) I'm Glad
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - (Argo 5259 1956) Troubles Troubles Troubles / Ain't Got No Home
Dave Bartholomew - (Imperial 5373 1956) Shrimp and Gumbo
Dave Bartholomew - (Imperial 5390 1956) Turn Your Lamp Down Low
Eddie Bo - (Apollo 486 1956) Baby I'm Wise
Eddie Bo - (Apollo 504 1956) Hey Bo
Edgar Blanchard - (Specialty 586 1956) Steppin' High
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5386 1956) My Blue Heaven / I'm In Love Again
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5396 1956) Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino - (Imperial 5417 1956) Blue Monday
Huey Smith - (Ace 521 1956) Everybody's Whalin' / Little Liza Jane
Jimmy Beasley - (Modern 996 1956) Don't Feel Sorry for Me / Little Coquette
Joe Clay - (Vik 0211 1956) Duck Tail / Sixteen Chicks
Joe Google Eyes August - (Duke 156 1956) Oh Ho Doodle Lu / Lead Us On
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - (RPM 471 1956) She Moves Me
Lee Allen - (Aladdin 3334 1956) Rockin' At Cosimo's
Session saxophonist for Cosimo's Studio
Little Richard - (Specialty 572 1956) Long Tall Sally / Slippin' and Slidin'
Little Richard - (Specialty 579 1956) Rip It Up / Reddy Teddy
Little Richard - (Specialty 591 1956) The Girl Can't Help It / All Around the World
Lloyd Price - (Specialty 571 1956) I Yi Yi Gomen A Sai / Woe Ho Ho
Lloyd Price - (Speciality 578 1956) Country Boy Rock / Rock 'n Roll Dance
Milson Luce - (Argo 5260 1956) I Got You / Don't Break Your Promise to Me
with Johnny Wallace Sextet on the Argo label - a subsidiary of Chess developed for jazz recordings. Issued in 1956 on 78-rpm format.
Don't Break Your Promise... Written by Milson Luce; recorded by Dale Hawkins in 1959 on Checker 940
Myrtle Jones - (Courier COU-507 1955) I'm Goin' Home
Paul Gayten - (Checker 836 1956) You Better Believe It
Roy Montrel - (Specialty 583 1956) Oooh Wow
Ruth Durand - (Post 2012 1956) I'm Wise
Shirley & Lee - (Aladdin 3325 1956) Let the Good Times Roll
Considered the gold standard for R&B in New Orleans!!!
Shirley & Lee - (Aladdin 3338 1956) I Feel Good / Now That It's Over
Tony Allen - (Specialty 570 1956) Check Yourself Baby
The Dukes - (Imperial 5415 1956) Wini Brown / Cotton Picking Hands
The Dukes - (Imperial 5401 1956) Teardrop Eyes
Werly Fairburn - (Savoy 1503 1956) I'm A Fool About Your Love / All The Time

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