Johnny Otis - Johnny Otis Presents the Best of R&B by the Original Artists

Title: Johnny Otis Presents the Best of R&B by the Original Artists Artist: Johnny Otis Release Date: 1993 Re-Released On: 9/21/1993 Label: Delta Distribution Duration: 161:36 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 018111592727 Genre: Blues Styles: Early R&B, Piano Blues, Texas Blues, West Coast Blues, Urban Blues, Jump Blues, East Coast Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Energetic, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Humorous, Party/Celebratory, Stylish, Theatrical, Amiable/Good-Natured, Boisterous, Earthy, Joyous, Playful, Rollicking, Sensual Total Copies: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 5

1. Shake, Rattle & Roll
2. Blues After Hours
3. Country Girl
4. Louie, Louie
5. Trouble Blues
6. I Got the Walkin' Blues
7. I've Got a Right to Cry
8. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
9. Person to Person
10. My Mother Thinks I'm Something

1. Willie and the Hand Jive
2. Cleanhead Blues
3. Corrina, Corrina
4. Evening Shadows Coming Down
5. The Honeydripper, Pt. 1
6. Beans and Corn Bread
7. Trackin' Machine
8. Livin' in Misery
9. Beale Street Ain't Beale Street No More
10. Don't Forget to Close the Door

1. Texas Hop
2. Chains of Love
3. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
4. Black Night
5. Sugar
6. Have Love, Will Travel
7. Did You Ever Love a Woman
8. Bad Bad Whiskey
9. Bye Bye Baby
10. Tanya

1. Saturday Night Fish Fry
2. Harlem Nocturne
3. Honey Hush
4. I Ain't Mad at You, Pretty Baby
5. The Honeydripper, Pt. 2
6. Merry Christmas, Baby
7. Kidney Stew Blues
8. Blues in the Ghetto
9. Doin' It
10. One Hour Past Midnight

1. Pink Champagne
2. Driftin' Blues
3. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
4. Barrel House Blues
5. Chicken Shack Boogie
6. Somebody's Got to Go
7. Yama, Yama, Pretty Mama
8. Cherry Red
9. If I Ever Get Lucky
10. Nothin' from Nothin' Blues

Year Type Label Catalog # 1993 CD Delta Distribution 15927

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This five-disc set issued by Laserlight isn't quite what it's implied to be, although no one makes any claims on the set that these are the original performances. Instead, they are the original performers doing different versions of their greatest hits. Otis recorded these at various times (there are no dates given)...Since Joe Turner, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson are no longer alive, their vocals are not recent, but no one can say when they did them. If this set were being marketed as great artists doing new versions of old hits, it would be perfectly acceptable, because there's nothing wrong with the music; but there is something unsettling about what Laserlight has chosen not to say. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alesia Butler Vocals (Background) Amos Milburn Piano, Vocals, ? Big Jim Wynn Sax (Baritone) Big Joe Turner Vocals Bob Mitchell Trumpet Bobby Bloom Engineer Charles Brown Vocals, ?, Organ, Piano Chris Jenkins Engineer Clifford Solomon Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Sax (Baritone) Curt Sletten Horn Delmar Evans Vocals Doug Wintz Horn Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson ?, Vocals, Saxophone Edgar Willis Bass Elvin Wonder Guitar Fred Clark Saxophone Gatemouth Moore Piano, Vocals, ? Irv Cox Sax (Tenor) Jackie Kelso Horn, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone Joe Liggins ?, Piano, Vocals John Cevetello Engineer John Ewing Trombone Johnny Otis Keyboards, Drums, Fender Rhodes, Vibraphone, Vocals, ?, Piano, Engineer, Producer Lisa Sutton Design Little Willie Jackson Sax (Baritone), Sax (Alto) Louis Jordan ?, Vocals, Sax (Alto) Mack Johnson Trumpet Melvin Moore Trumpet Pee Wee Crayton ?, Vocals, Guitar Rene Bloch Sax (Alto) Richard Berry Vocals, Keyboards, ? Roger Hamilton Spotts Music Consultant Shuggie Otis Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Piano, ?, Engineer, Organ, Guitar (Rhythm) Theresa Butler Vocals (Background) Willie Webb Guitar Zaven Jambazian Harmonica