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Series 8: Sound recordings (continued)
Subseries 1: Artists, bands, and interviews (continued)
Sonny Boy Williamson, undated (continued)
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:28:34) : analog ; 7 in.
Dubs from commercial recordings.
Time Content
Start "Don't Lose Your Eye"
00:03:15 "Like Wolf"
00:06:13 "This is My Department"
00:08:58 "Have You Ever Been in Love"
00:11:55 "She Got Next to Me"
00:14:34 "Sweet Disposition"
00:17:34 "I Over Go Wrong"
00:20:21 "I Hold Up My hand (That Explains Everything)"
00:23:18 "Peach Tree"
00:25:58 "This Old Life"
00:28:34 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR582 Sonny Boy Williamson, #1, Side 1, undated
Rack number: RXH 5443
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:19:50) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR583 Sonny Boy Williamson, #2, undated
Rack number: RXH 5444
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:07:26) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR584 Sonny Boy Williamson, Side 2
Rack number: RXH 5445
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Collector's original ID number: 39.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR451 Bob Wills #1, undated
Rack number: RXH 4691
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:34:00) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Time Content
Start "Lila Lou" by Bob Wills
00:02:45 "Just A Wearied Mind" by Bob Wills
00:05:40 "Just A Little Maiden's Prayer" by Bob Wills
00:08:33 "Twin Guitar" by Bob Wills
00:11:22 "Twin Guitar" by Bob Wills [clicks throughout]
00:14:12 "Blue Bonnet Lane" by Bob Wills
00:16:48 An unidentified piece played by the band.
00:19:21 An unidentified piece played by the band.
00:21:56 "Little Liza Jane" by Bob Wills
00:24:36 "My Little Cherokee Maid" by Bob Wills
00:27:38 "Ride On" by Bob Wills (yodel insert at the end)
00:30:35 "San Antonio Rose" by Bob Wills
00:34:00 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR752 Bob Wills #1, undated
Rack number: RAA 59290
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (01:09:46) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 10 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program has distortion and hiss from the source tape. The source tape also had print-through.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR452 Bob Wills #2, undated
Rack number: RXH 4692
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:32:14) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Time Content
Start "Got A Letter From My Kid Today" by Bob Wills
00:02:38 "It's All Your Fault" by Bob Wills
00:05:27 "Goodnight, Little Sweetheart, Goodnight" by Bob Wills
00:08:06 "Dusty Skies" by Bob Wills
00:11:01 "Hang Your Head In Shame" by Bob Wills
00:13:36 "Hang Your Head In Shame" by Bob Wills
00:16:16 "Hang Your Head In Shame" by Bob Wills
00:18:48 "Hang Your Head In Shame" by Bob Wills
00:21:26 "Smoke On The Water" by Bob Wills
00:24:12 "Texas Playboy Rag" (instrumental piece)
00:27:01 "Texas Playboy Rag" (instrumental piece)
00:29:39 "Bluer Than Blue" by Bob Wills [incomplete; ends abruptly]
00:32:14 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR753 Bob Wills #2, undated
Rack number: RAA 59291
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 10 in.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR453 Bob Wills #3, undated
Rack number: RXH 4693
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:31:53) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Time Content
Start "Bluer Than Blue"
00:02:47 "Roly Poly"
00:05:25 "You Should Have Thought Of That Before"
00:08:02 "I Can't Go On"
00:10:46 "I'm Wasting My Time On You"
00:13:20 "Easy Rocking Chair"
00:15:56 "I'm Just a plain Old Country Boy"
00:18:48 "Silver Dew On the Blue Grass"
00:21:20 "I'm So Glad I Met You"
00:23:57 "New Spanish Two-Step"
00:26:29 "Sugar Moon"
00:29:01 "Brain Cloudy Blues"
00:31:53 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR454 Bob Wills #4, undated
Rack number: RXH 4694
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:15:37) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Vendor's digitization note: The program is distorted at times.
Time Content
Start "Brain Cloudy Blues"
00:02:58 "I Got A Cinder In My Eye"
00:05:23 "Virginia"
00:07:54 "Fat Boy Rag"
00:10:46 "The Kind of Love I Can't Forget"
00:13:27 "Drum Test" (An instrumental piece)
00:15:37 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR085 Al Wilson interview, January 29, 1968
Rack number: RXH 3223
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (polyester; Side 1: 01:05:10; Side 2: 00:29:00) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.
Side 1
Time Content
Start PW and AW talk about the forming of AW's band, Canned Heat, in November of 1965. AW talks about the turnover of band personnel. He commends the band's management.
00:03:16 AW attributes Canned Heat's early success to the absence of the word "blues" in the band's name. He talks about being part of another band, for a short period, before Canned Heat came together again in early 1967. He talks about some of the band members and their interest in specific forms of music.
00:07:00 AW says that the makeup of Canned Heat now is 100% committed to the blues. PW and AW talk about the appearance of the band and the music itself. AW talks about the coffee house and college circuit market. AW discusses various blues bands and where they stand in the market. He says he's concerned that the popular interest in the blues will not last more than a year or two.
00:11:10 PW asks if AW considered the blues as something distinct from the larger body of rock, folk rock and experimental rock. AW answers and explains his answer. He says that there is a blues buying public.
00:12:58 They talk about Canned Heat's audience and other performers with a similar audience.
00:15:30 PW asks what Canned Heat set out to do when the band was formed. AW answers in detail and at length.
00:21:00 PW asks about changes as the band has been working over the last year and a half. AW responds.
00:22:10 PW asks about translating older style blues to Canned Heat's repertoire. AW responds.
00:25:20 They talk about the liner notes PW wrote for Caned Heat's first album. They talk about the modal approach to playing the blues and the harmonic approach. They talk about the 12-bar blues structure.
00:32:04 PW asks how large a repertoire the band has now. AW responds and explains how songs are dropped and added.
00:34:40 They talk about adapting old-style blues to electric instruments. They talk about taking "licks" from old recordings.
00:36:30 PW asks where most of the band's material comes from. AW replies and gives examples.
00:38:28 PW asks about the kinds of places the band has been working in the last few months. AW responds: clubs, psychedelic spaces, and one-night concerts. He explains. They discuss the audiences at these venues.
00:43:25 They talk about how long the listening public will be interested in the blues. They discuss if there will be an audience for black blues singers (and bands). They discuss black blues players and white blues players. They discuss old blues players and young blues players. They talk about singing the blues.
00:54:40 dead air
00:55:06 AW continues taking about blues singers and recordings. He says Canned Heat added brass for its recordings.
00:58:19 PW asks about other working groups that AW finds interesting. AW replies and discusses several performers and bands.
01:05:10 End
Side 2
Time Content
Start AW abut Taj Mahal, the tuning(s) he uses, and his style of playing the blues.
00:01:47 PW asks if AW has encountered any interesting bands while he has been on the road. AW responds and gives examples.
00:06:08 PW asks if Canned Heat has played in New York. AW answers. He says they had a better reaction at Club 47 in Boston, than they did in New York.
00:07:00 PW asks about the problems playing amplified blues versus acoustic blues. AW responds. He talks about sounds available to amplified music. They talk at length about writing new material.
00:13:17 PW asks how much of the band's repertoire is original material. AW answers. He discusses the language of song lyrics. They discuss the transition from speech to song.
00:21:50 AW talks about using new instruments and new sounds. He specifically mentions the Fender Bass. He talks about rhythm sections and the blues.
00:29:00 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR685 George Wilson and Arthur Baker, undated
Rack number: RXH 5562
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Dubs of commercial recordings.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR114 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #1, July 8, 1970
Rack number: RXH 3663
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:31:50) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, quarter track, stereo ; 7 in.
First set.
Time Content
Start Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:05:07 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:16:35 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:23:23 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:31:50 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR637 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #1, July 1970
Rack number: RXH 5514
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:39:20) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 7 in.
Archivist's note: First set, on either July 8 or 9. Copy of an earlier or the original recording. Near the end of the recording Jack Wilson introduces the band (Ike Isaacs, bass; Donald Bailey, drums and percussion), and says the performance is being recorded live for Blue Note Records.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR115 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #2, July 8, 1970
Rack number: RXH 3663
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:45:20) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Second set.
Time Content
Start Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:07:35 Jack Wilson (JW) introduces the band: Ike Isaacs, bass; Donald Bailey, drums; himself, piano. He acknowledges several people in attendance. He says the engineers are trying to correct a sound problem with the electric piano. He introduces the next song.
00:11:43 Ramblin'
00:23:29 JW talks, then: Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:30:59 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:38:32 JW talks. He introduces the next song. Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:44:50 JW introduces the band. He says they are going to take a break.
00:45:20 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR116 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #3, July 1970
Rack number: RXH 3665
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:29:15) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Third set. Possibly a dub copy.
Time Content
Start Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:00:47 dead air
00:01:06 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:08:38 Jack Wilson (JW) talk about Dinah Washington. He introduces the next song, "If It's the Last Thing I Do"
00:17:01 Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:26:58 Unidentified - jazz piano performance. JW introduces the band.
00:29:14 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR117 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #4, July 9, 1970
Rack number: RXH 3666
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:29:25) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Possibly a dub copy.
Time Content
Start Getting ready
00:00:58 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:15:31 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:24:54 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:28:55 Jack Wilson thanks the band and the audience.
00:29:25 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR118 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #5, July 1970
Rack number: RXH 3667
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:36:36) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Possibly a dub copy.
Time Content
Start unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:07:44 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:18:49 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:25:47 Jack Wilson introduces the next song which was written for his wife; unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:33:53 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:36:36 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR119 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #6, July 1970
Rack number: RXH 3668
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:37:35) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Possibly a dub copy.
Time Content
Start unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:10:52 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:19:20 Jack Wilson recognizes several people. Unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:26:08 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:37:34 Jack Wilson introduces the band.
00:37:35 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR120 Jack Wilson - Live at Memory Lane #7, July 1970
Rack number: RXH 3669
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester, 00:41:00) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Possibly a dub copy.
Time Content
Start unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:06:30 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:17:14 Jack Wilson says that the next tune "Angle City" was written by Teddy Edwards. There are several starts to get the correct tempo.
00:26:24 Background talking. Jack Wilson introduces the next tune, "Crazy about You Baby."
00:32:20 unidentified - jazz piano performance, or maybe just noodling.
00:36:10 Noodling and talking in the background.
00:37:15 unidentified - jazz piano performance
00:40:14 Jack Wilson thanks everyone.
00:41:00 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR121 Teddy Wilson, Jerry Fuller, Don DeMicheal, Joe Johnson, Tony Bellson, #1, August 1971
Rack number: RXH 3670
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:45:22) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Recorded live at The In-Place.
Time Content
Start Jerry Fuller says "welcome to The In Place." He introduces the band: Tony Bellson, drums; (?) guitar; Joe Johnson, string bass; Don De Michael, vibes; Jerry Fuller, clarinet; and Teddy Wilson, piano.
00:00:56 unidentified jazz performance
00:06:42 unidentified jazz performance
00:12:24 unidentified jazz performance
00:19:01 "The Man I Love," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "I Got Rhythm" - Teddy Wilson medley on piano
00:26:15 unidentified jazz performance
00:32:52 unidentified jazz performance
00:39:19 "After You're Gone"
00:45:22 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR122 Teddy Wilson, Jerry Fuller, Don DeMicheal, Joe Johnson, Tony Bellson, #2, August 1971
Rack number: RXH 3671
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:45:40) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Recorded live at The In-Place.
Time Content
Start "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)"
00:06:19 unidentified jazz performance
00:12:04 "On the sunny Side of the Street"
00:19:22 unidentified jazz performance; at the end of this song, Jerry Fuller introduces the band
00:25:49 "You Make Me Happy"
00:32:05 unidentified jazz performance
00:37:37 unidentified jazz performance
00:45:40 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR123 Teddy Wilson, Jerry Fuller, Don DeMicheal, Joe Johnson, Tony Bellson, Ianucci #3, August 1971
Rack number: RXH 3672
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:34:31) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo ; 7 in.
Probably recorded live at The In-Place.
Time Content
Start unidentified jazz performance
00:05:24 "Avalon"
00:11:28 unidentified jazz performance
00:16:26 "I Got Rhythm"
00:22:26 "Ain't Misbehaving"
00:26:51 unidentified jazz performance
00:34:31 End
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