ABC of the Blues CD17 (2010)

CD 17 – Alberta Hunter & Ivory Joe Hunter

17-01 Alberta Hunter – Down Hearted Blues
17-02 Alberta Hunter – Why Did You Pick Me Up When I Was Down
17-03 Alberta Hunter – Don’t Pan Me
17-04 Alberta Hunter – Jazzin’ Baby Blues
17-05 Alberta Hunter – You Can’t Have It All
17-06 Alberta Hunter – You Shall Reap Just What You Sow
17-07 Alberta Hunter – Taint Nobody’s Business
17-08 Alberta Hunter – If You Want to Keep your Daddy			play
17-09 Alberta Hunter – Chirping the Blues
17-10 Alberta Hunter – Some Day Sweetheart
17-11 Ivory Joe Hunter – Heaven Came Down to Earth
17-12 Ivory Joe Hunter – It May Sound Silly
17-13 Ivory Joe Hunter – I Need You
17-14 Ivory Joe Hunter – You Mean Everything to Me
17-15 Ivory Joe Hunter – Shooty Booty
17-16 Ivory Joe Hunter – Yes, I Want You
17-17 Ivory Joe Hunter – I Just Want to Love You				play
17-18 Ivory Joe Hunter – I’ll Never Leave You, Baby
17-19 Ivory Joe Hunter – All About the Blues
17-20 Ivory Joe Hunter – She’s Gone

Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 - October 17, 1984), was a celebrated African-American jazz singer, songwriter and nurse.

Born in Memphis, she left home while still in her early teens and settled in Chicago. There, she peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job. Her persistence paid off, and Alberta began a climb through some of the city’s lowest dives to a headlining job at its most elegant night spot, the Dreamland Café. Her career flourished as both singer and writer (her songs include the memorable double-entendre number “(My Man is Such a) Handy Man” in the 1920s and 1930s, and she appeared in clubs and on stage in musicals in both New York and London. She was active as a volunteer during World War II.

Following the War, her career lost momentum. By the early 1950s, the death of her mother and career frustrations caused Hunter to abandon the music industry. She prudently reduced her age, “invented” a high school diploma, and enrolled in nursing school, embarking on what was apparently a highly fulfilling career in health care.

She was working at New York’s Goldwater Memorial Hospital in 1961 when record producer Chris Albertson asked her to break an 11-year absence from the recording studio. The result was her participation (four songs) on a Prestige Bluesville album entitled “Songs We Taught Your Mother.

Ivory Joe Hunter (10 October 1914 – 8 November 1974) was an African American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist, best known for his hit recording, “Since I Met You, Baby” (1956). Billed as The Baron of the Boogie, he was also known as The Happiest Man Alive. He is sometimes confused with Motown producer-songwriter Ivy Joe Hunter.

Born in Kirbyville, Texas, he was christened Ivory Joe as an infant. Developing an early interest in music from his father, Dave Hunter, who played guitar, and his gospel-singing mother, he was a talented pianist by the age of 13. As a teenager, Hunter made his first recording for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress in 1933.

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