CD-2- VA - Fine Gals, Fast Woman and Wailin Daddies: The First of

The Jump Blues recording artists of the 1940s mainly wrote - or at least adapted from older sources - their own material, but at the dawn of the 1950s a new entity emerged; that of the professional R&B songwriter. Many of the first wave of this new phenomenon were African-Americans with a background in performing or A&R work in black music, but over in Los Angeles a couple of white, middle-class, teenage boys had hooked up to write their own, remarkably authentic slant on the R&B music they loved. By the mid 1950s, they had become award-winning writers, producers, publishers and shrewd record company executives, but before that, between 1950 and 1953, they were merely a couple of kids learning the ropes. This double CD traces that early career of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

1. Jimmy Witherspoon - Real Ugly Woman

2. Mabel Scott - Wailin' Daddy

3. Ray Charles - Snow Is Falling

4. Little Esther - Hound Dog

5. Milt Trenier & His Solid Six - Flip Our Wigs

6. Charles Brown - Hard Times

7. Big Mama Thornton -  I Smell A Rat

8. Roy Hawkins - Albania

9. Jimmy Witherspoon - I'll Be Right On Down

10. Little Willie Littlefield - K C Lovin'

11. The DuDroppers - Bambalam

12. Little Willie Littlefield - Lump In My Throat

13. Little Esther & Little Willie - Last Laugh Blues

14. Little Esther & The Robins - Mainliner

15. Big Mama Thornton - Rockabye Baby

16. Jimmy Witherspoon - Oh Mother, Dear Mother

17. Amos Milburn - Flying Home

18. Little Willie Littlefield - Strikin' On You Baby

19. Milt Trenier & His Solid Six - Squeeze Me

20. Big Mama Thornton - I've Searched The World Over

21. Little Esther & Bobby Nunn - You Took My Love Too Fast

22. Jimmy Witherspoon - Last Mile

23. Jimmy Witherspoon - It

24. Little Esther - Hollerin' And Screamin'

25. Linda Hopkins - Is This Goodbye

26. Linda Hopkins - Get Off My Wagon

1. Milt Trenier & His Solid Six - You're Killin' Me

2. Jimmy Witherspoon - Fast Women And Sloe Gin

3. Amos Milburn - Women, Women

4. Little Esther - Flesh, Blood And Bones

5. Big Mama Thornton - Nightmare

6. Mel Walker With Johnny Otis' Orch - Candle's Burnin' Low

7. Bobby Nunn & The Robins - That's What The Good Book Says

8. Roy Hawkins - Gloom And Misery All Around

9. Moose Jackson & His Bearcats - Nosey Joe

10. Little Esther With Bobby Nunn & The Robins - Saturday Night Daddy

11. Jimmy Witherspoon - Corn Whiskey

12. Floyd Dixon - Too Much Jelly Roll

13. Young Jessie - I Smell A Rat

14. Little Willie Littlefield - Blood Is Redder Than Wine

15. Jimmy Witherspoon - One Fine Gal

16. Big John Greer - Drinkin' Fool

17. Mel Walker With Johnny Otis' Orch - Last Mile

18. Beverly Wright With Preston Love's Orch - Kissin' Boogie

19. Linda Hopkins - Three Times Loser

20. Linda Hopkins - Tears Of Joy

21. Little Esther - Street Lights

22. Little Esther & Little Willie - Turn The Lamps Down Low

23. Jimmy Witherspoon - Back Door Blues

24. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

25. Rufus "Hound Dog" Thomas Jr - Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog)

26. Curley Bridges With Frank Motley & His Crew - New Hound Dog