78 RPM - Smiley Lewis - Bee's Boogie / My Baby Was Right - Imperial - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Smiley Lewis
Label:	Imperial
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	5124
Date:	Apr 1951
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Smiley Lewis	Bee's Boogie	S. Lewis	Rate
B	Smiley Lewis	My Baby Was Right	S. Lewis	Rate

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Smiley Lewis and his Orchestra

Personnel:
Smiley Lewis (vocal, guitar); Dave Bartholomew (trumpet); Joe Harris (alto saxophone); Clarence Hall/Lee Allen (tenor saxophone); possibly Herb Hardisty (tenor saxophone); Waldren "Frog" Joseph (trombone); Isidore "Tuts" Washington (piano); Ernest McLean (guitar); Frank Fields [or Papa John Joseph?] (bass); Earl Palmer (drums).

A mx: IM-274 ("Bee's Boogie"); B mx: IM-276 ("My Baby Was Right").
Recorded New Orleans, LA, ca. April 1951.

Billboard, May 5, 1951, page 34: Imperial ad.

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Comments and Reviews


laviolet 24th Mar 2018		Imperial matrix numbers IM-274 ("Bee's Boogie") and IM-276 ("My Baby Was Right") Can't find label images; assuming writer Smiley Lewis was credited as "O. Lemon" as on contemporaneous releases. [He was, in fact, credited as S. Lewis. Now fixed. Mod.]