Mel Walker: Ballads In Blue / Turn The Lamps Down Low 1950-1953: Featuring The Johnny Otis Orchestra & Melba Liston & Her Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Ballads In Blue / Turn The Lamps Down Low 1950-1953: Featuring The Johnny Otis Orchestra & Melba Liston & Her Orchestra
Artist: Mel Walker
Label: Jasmine Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 604988324921
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2023-05-19
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

Twenty-seven tracks of early 1950s R&B, recorded in New York, Baltimore and Los Angeles at a time when R&B was rising in popularity. Already featured on an earlier Jasmine release, The Johnny Otis Show - All The Hits And More (JASMCD3141), these tracks delve deeper into Mel Walker's contribution to R&B. All the songs on the CD are written or co-written by JOHNNY OTIS who guided Walker's short-lived career. The CD gathers together WALKER's recordings for the Regent, Savoy and Mercury labels as well as recordings not originally released at the time. A welcome addition for collectors of early R&B. The accompanying booklet includes a detailed history of Mel Walker as well as label scans, press cuttings and other memorabilia.

Tracks:
1.1 Helpless
1.2 My Heart Tells Me
1.3 Lonely Blues
1.4 Strange Woman
1.5 Fool’s Gold
1.6 Feel Like Cryin’ Again
1.7 Heartache Here I Come
1.8 Turn The Lights Down Low
1.9 It Can Never Happen Again
1.10 New Love
1.11 Just Another Flame
1.12 Help Me Blues
1.13 Walk My Blues Away
1.14 Where’s My Baby
1.15 Three Magic Words
1.16 Baby Baby Blues
1.17 Gypsy Blues
1.18 The Candle’s Burnin’ Low
1.19 The Love Bug Boogie
1.20 Brown Skin Butterball
1.21 Unlucky Man
1.22 My Baby
1.23 Another Sad Night
1.24 Feelin’ Mighty Lonesome
1.25 You Passed By
1.26 I Have Decided
1.27 I’d Like To Make You Mine