John Lee Hooker – Chart Records – I Ain’t Got Nobody
John Lee Hooker – Misbelieving Baby – Chart Records
John Lee Hooker – Wobbling Baby – Chart Records
Top 10 Rockin’ Records
10. Willie Baker – Goin’ Back Home Today Label: Rockin’ Records Style: Blues Genre: Blues Year: 1953 9. Little Sam Davis – She’s So Good To Me Label: Rockin’ Records Style: Blues Genre: Blues Year: 1953 8. John Lee Booker (BKA John Lee Hooker) – Blue Monday Label: Rockin’ master, […]
Top 10 Chart Records
The year was 1955, and Henry Stone was in Cincinnati smashing his fists down on the desk in front of Syd Nathan, whose coke bottle glasses were trapping steam from his two coal burning pupils. Their fury at any copper penny rolling out from under his clutches shone greed. The DeLuxe label that Stone and […]
John Lee Hooker aka John Lee Booker Recorded for DeLuxe Records – Billboard (1954)
The great John Lee Hooker enjoyed recording for Henry Stone’s DeLuxe label as John Lee Booker for immediate cash considerations. Thus were born the 78rpm classics, “Real, Real Gone,” and “My Baby Don’t Love Me.” Check out the reviews of these cuts in Billboard, back then known as “The Amusement Industry’s Leading Newsweekly.”
Henry Stone’s Tone Distributors Starts TV Show, Expands Studio – BILLBOARD 1969
Tone Distributors in Billboard Magazine, 1969 – Click here for PDF
Hooked on the Blues
Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Don Holinger & More!