BEEF BALL BABY!
VA - Beef Ball Baby! The New Orleans R&B Sessions [2018]
It’s often a mystery why some titles from a recording session get released while others, equally good and sometimes better, remain lost and forgotten until a company unearths them to the delight of collectors always hungry for fresh sounds. At least eight of the 24 tracks on this compilation, all from the late 40s, are previously unreleased, lifted from original acetates recorded in New Orleans for DeLuxe Records. DeLuxe – founded by the Braun brothers in 1944 – was first located in Linden, New Jersey, until 1949 when the company moved to Cincinnatti, Ohio. Much of the recording was done in New Orleans simply because the brothers considered that town to have the best-suited musicians and recording facilities for R&B.
Eddie Gorman is one of the lesser-known acts on DeLuxe. He recorded with the Paul Gayten trio in January 1949, a one-off session that didn’t lead to a successful career. His unreleased items featured here are mostly uptempo and risqué, such as Beef Ball Baby, but one or two hit the moody lows of urban misery, exemplified by the ponderous Answer To Chubby’s Bedroom Blues. It refers to Chubby Newsome, known as the Hip Shakin’ Mama, which was the title of her biggest hit. An acetate of this song is presumed lost, but her handful of similar releases for DeLuxe, mostly uptempo songs, are typically critical assessments of her various lovers. Bedroom Blues and New Orleans Lover Man tell the story. (www.recordcollector.com)
Beef Ball Baby (an ode to a plus-size wife) Chubby Newsom who sure could belt 'em out! Other great tunes from Smiling Lewis (better known as Smiley) and the great Dave Bartholomew (with Earl Palmer on drums) fill out this mostly fine-sounding set from King Records' New Orleans subsidiary. Tunes were recorded from 1947-49, and mastered from original acetates, rather than battered 78's. Stupendously rare or unissued New Orleans R&B and blues in incomparable sound quality. (Amazon)
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VA - Beef Ball Baby! The New Orleans R&B Sessions [2018]
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Track list
01 Eddie Gorman Answer to Chubby's Bedroom Blu 2:54
02 Eddie Gorman Beef Ball Baby 2:38
03 Paul Gayten & His Band, vocal Eddie Gorman Don't Worry 'bout Nothin' 2:44
04 Eddie Gorman Hey Now 2:22
05 Eddie Gorman Telephone Blues 2:29
06 Eddie Gorman Worrying About My Love 3:08
07 Eddie Gorman You Don't Move Me No More 2:34
08 Smiling Lewis Swimming Blues 2:49
09 Smiling Lewis Turn on Your Volume, Baby 2:40
10 Smiling Lewis Here Comes Smiley 2:53
11 Smiling Lewis Love is Like a Gamble 2:51
12 Cousin Joe & His Sextette Phoney Woman Blues 2:38
13 Cousin Joe & His Sextette Little Woman Blues 2:21
14 Cousin Joe & His Sextette It's Dangerous to Be a Husband 2:52
15 Jewel King Give Me a Cue Baby 2:41
16 Jewel King Go Now 2:46
17 Jewel King Passion Blues 2:50
18 Dave Bartholomew & His Sextett She's Got Great Big Eyes 2:58
19 Dave Bartholomew & His Sextett Dave's Boogie Woogie 2:54
20 Chubby ''Hip Shakin'' Newsome Chubby's Confession 2:31
21 Chubby ''Hip Shakin'' Newsome Back Bitin' Woman 2:09
22 Chubby ''Hip Shakin'' Newsome Bedroom Blues 2:49
23 Chubby ''Hip Shakin'' Newsome Close to Train Time 2:51
24 Chubby ''Hip Shakin'' Newsome New Orleans Lover Man 2:52
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Thank you ! Looks great....
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Stupendously rare or unissued New Orleans R&B and blues in incomparable sound quality.
ReplyDeleteDespite being based in Linden, New Jersey, DeLuxe recorded all across the USA in the company’s formative period in an attempt to score hits. DeLuxe was the first indie to tap into what was going on in the Crescent City in the years immediately following WWII. The label’s biggest find during that time was Roy Brown, the subject of two CDs in our “King & DeLuxe Acetates” series. In “Beef Ball Baby!” you can hear the surviving acetates of some of the other highly talented people DeLuxe recorded in New Orleans in the acetate era.
Long before Fats Domino took the city’s music to the masses, “Beef Ball Baby!” shows that the New Orleans R&B revolution was already under way. In this package we bring you Chubby “Hip Shakin’” Newsom and her husband-to-be Eddie Gorman, future hit-maker Jewel King and three all-time legends of New Orleans music: Cousin Joe, Smiling (Smiley) Lewis and Dave Bartholomew. In the case of Lewis and Bartholomew, the tracks mark their studio debuts as named artists. Their historical significance is just as significant as their musical value
For years a rumour circulated that the early DeLuxe acetate masters had perished in a warehouse fire. When Alec Palao and I painstakingly packed the surviving King acetates to be shipped to Ace, around a decade ago, we were delighted to find at least 80% of them were not only intact but, for the most part, in pristine condition. Just how clean most of them are can be judged from the sound of this CD – particularly in the four “Smiling” Lewis tracks, which sparkle with such clarity that listeners could almost have been in the room with him when he cut them at what was his first session. The quality of the shellac on which DeLuxe 78s were pressed being as poor as it was, we guarantee you will never have heard any of these tracks, eight of which are previously unissued, sound as good as they do here.
Tony Rounce
Nice review, puw.
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Nooooooo .......... That's from the guy who put it together, from the Ace Records label :)
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VA - Beef Ball Baby! The New Orleans R&B Sessions [2018]
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