New York City Blues Yesterday Vol. 6

01. Titanic
02. Suggie duggie boogie baby
03. Once upon a time

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
Paul Wiliams – alto saxophone
+ band
New York City, 1 august 1956

04. You got what it takes
05. Blues get off my shoulder

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
Paul Wiliams – baritone saxophone
Oscar Dennis – tenor saxophone
Earl Williams – piano
Gene Redd – vibraphone
Skeeter Best – guitar
Ted Sturges – bass guitar
Harry Lewis – drums
Chicago, Ill. 3 september 1957

06. Foolish love
07. Stop by my house

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
Paul Wiliams – baritone saxophone, horns
Skeeter Best – guitar
+ band
Chicago, Ill. 1959

08. Steal your heart away
09. Watch your step

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
Buddy Sanchez – trumpet
Maurice Robertson – alto saxophone
Bill Clark – tenor saxophone, bass
TNT Tribble – drums
Washington DC, 1961

10. It's too late darling
11. Get it right

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
+ band
Washington DC, october  1963

12. Do the monkey
13. Gimme a little loving

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
+ band
Washington DC, december  1963

14. Don't drive me away
15. Keep away from my heart

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
+ band
New York City, 1964

16. I won't believe it till I see it

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
+ band
New York City, 1966

17. It's hard but it's fair

Bobby Parker – vocals, guitar
+ band
London, GB. 15 december 1968

18. Camp meeting

Pinocchio James – vocals
Ray Felder – tenor saxophone
Herman Smith - piano
Boots Nelson - guitar
Edwyn Conley – bass
Dutch Baker – drums
New York City, 23 october 1951

19. Your mouth got a hole in it

Pinocchio James – vocals
Todd Rhodes – piano
Charlie Hooks – trumpet
Hallie Dismukes – alto saxophone
Louie Stephens – tenor saxophone
Robert Fort – baritone saxophone
Joe Williams – bass
George DeHart - drums
Cincinnati, Oh. 20 june 1953

20. New Orleans woman
21. Rock'n'roll Rockin' chair

Pinocchio James – vocals
+ Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
Stuttgart, Germany, 5 january 1958

22. Kidney stew

Pinocchio James – vocals
+ Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
New York City, 13 april 1959

23. Weak and broken hearted
24. Mama don't love me no more

Pinocchio James – vocals
Ram Ramirez – organ
Kenny Burrell – guitar
Milt Hinton – bass
Osie Johnson – drums
New York City, 1959

25. Everybody loves my baby
26. Hamp's Twist

Pinocchio James – vocals
Lionel Hampton – vibraphone
New York City, 1962

27. Sneaking around
28. I'm still in love with you

Pinocchio James – vocals
Lionel Hampton – vibraphone
+ band
New York City, 1964

29. Can't help myself

Kenny Ballard – vocals, guitar
Moses Penham - vocals, guitar
+ band
New York City, 26 october 1956

30. I want to love you
31. I'm all alone

Kenny Ballard – vocals, guitar
Moses Penham - vocals, guitar
+ band
New York City, 19 february 1957

32. So long I'm gone
33. Yes I will

Kenny & Moe – vocals, guitars
+ band
New York City, 29 may 1957

Robert Lee "Bobby" Parker, born in Lafayette, La; 31 August 1937 has started his musical career as a guitar player as soon as the early 50's, first in the Los Angeles area with several R&B groups (Otis Williams & Charms) then in New York City with the band of saxophonist Paul Williams with whom he will record his first tracks in 1956. With his very special, brilliant and forceful guitar playing, Bobby Parker is much on demand during the following years, touring with great R&B acts of the day and recording regularly (a superb Blues get off my shoulder in 1958) and having a modest R&B hit in 1961 with Watch your step whose inevitable guitar riff will be recorded by Spencer Davis Group, Jefferson Airplane, Adam Faith or Santana! The riff will also be used and reused by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin without a lot of recognition and rewarding for Parker. Despite a short tour of England (and a last single for the Blue Horizon label), the following decades are lean years for Parker who, relocating in Washington DC, would play only in local venues. At last, "rediscovered" in 1992, Parker has then recorded two excellent blues albums for the Black Top label (Bent out of shape et Shine me up). He dies on 31 October 2013 in Washington.

Cornelius 'Pinocchio" James (born in Atlanta, Ga. 20 April 1916) is a blues shouter who has mostly recorded with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra with whom he was the lead singer (cf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_s3tDCyS0) between 1957-65. A student at the Cosmopolitan School Music of Cincinnati, James begins to record with the pianist Todd Rhodes' band in 1951 before joining Hampton and to tour relentlessly worldwide. The musical career of Pinocchio seems to have stopped after he left Hampton and one doesn't know what he did the following decades. According to Blues/ a regional Experience, Cornelius James died on 22 November 1995 in Atlanta.

The very dynamic duo Kenny & Moe is composed by two singers/ guitarists Kenny Ballard and Moses Penham. They recorded ten tracks in 1956-57 that, while evidently rooted in the East Coast blues style, are also quite close to the Rock'n'Roll of the era. Despite my researches, I've not been able to gather much about Kenny & Moe and I'm not even sure than - despite it is said here and there - the Kenny Ballard of Kenny & Moe is the same than the Soul singer of the same name who recorded a handful of 45s during the 1960's. --- Gérard Herzhaft, jukegh.blogspot.com

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