Vinyl Album - LaVern Baker - LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith - Atlantic

Vinyl Album

Artist:	LaVern Baker
Title:	LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith
Label:	Atlantic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	1281
Date:	Apr 1958
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	LaVern Baker	Gimme A Pigfoot	Wesley Wilson	Rate
A2	LaVern Baker	Baby Doll	Bessie Smith	Rate
A3	LaVern Baker	On Revival Day	Andy Razaf	Rate
A4	LaVern Baker	Money Blues	Dave Leader, G. M. Coleman, Harry Eller	Rate
A5	LaVern Baker	I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle	Perry Bradford	Rate
A6	LaVern Baker	Back Water Blues	Bessie Smith	Rate
B1	LaVern Baker	Empty Bed Blues	J. C. Johnson	Rate
B2	LaVern Baker	There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight	Theodore Metz, Joe Hayden	Rate
B3	LaVern Baker	Nobody Knows You When You When You're Down And Out	Jimmy Cox	Rate
B4	LaVern Baker	After You've Gone	Henry Creamer, Turner Layton	Rate
B5	LaVern Baker	Young Woman's Blues	Bessie Smith	Rate
B6	LaVern Baker	Preaching The Blues	Bessie Smith	Rate

Notes

Supervision: Nesuhi Ertegun.
Recording engineer: Tom Dowd.

Cover design: Marvin Israel.
Liner notes by Charles Edward Smith.

Uncredited arrangers: Phil Moore, Nat Pierce and Ernie Wilkins.
LaVern Baker is accompanied by Professor Alex Bradford & His Singers.
Originally released only in mono.

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Recording dates:
1958 - January 27, New York City: A1, A2, A3, B3.
--------- January 28, New York City: A4, A5, B1, B2.
--------- January 29, New York City: A6, B4, B5, B6.

JET January 9, 1958, p. 64: "Lavern Baker's new Atlantic LP of Bessie Smith's best blues classics, which took 10 days to record, is being touted as a sure-fire best-seller" (!).
BB January 13, 1958, p. 78: "Lavern Baker will soon be cutting a 'Bessie Smith' album for Atlantic Records".

BB April 14, 1958, p. 26 (reviews of new jazz albums).

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CD re-issue Collectables CD COL #6415 (2000).

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