K.C. DOUGLAS/ Complete Recordings

  

K.C. DOUGLAS: COMPLETE RECORDINGS

           

K.C. Douglas (né à Sharon, Ms le 21 novembre 1913) a été un des très rares bluesmen du Mississippi à avoir émigré en Californie durant la guerre et à y avoir maintenu le style du Delta dont il était un représentant fidèle. K.C. a en effet bien connu et accompagné Tommy Johnson et a modelé autant son répertoire qu'une partie de son jeu de guitare sur lui. En Californie, Douglas fait équipe avec l'harmoniciste Sidney Maiden et enregistre en 1948 pour Bob Geddins Mercury boogie, un petit succès local qui deviendra un énorme tube à la fois dans le Rock (Steve Miller) que dans la Country Music (la superbe version qu'en a donnée Alan Jackson en 1992). Hélas, K.C. ne profitera que très peu de ce qui aurait pu lui valoir une vraie aisance financière. Malheureusement aussi, ce seul 78t ne sera suivi que par un seul single.

            Cependant, tout en travaillant dans la fonction publique locale, K. C. Douglas continue à jouer son brin de Country blues partout où il le peut. En 1954 ou 1952 (?), la chanteuse folk Barbara Dane remarque K.C. Douglas et le fait se produire dans les bars étudiants de Berkeley et dans son propre club, un des tout premiers bluesmen noirs à entrer dans ce circuit étudiant. C'est grâce à Barbara que Douglas enregistre son premier album qui ne sortira que sur un label australien (Cook!) et qui est ainsi devenu extrêmement rare.

            A la fin des années 50, K.C. devient un des favoris du public (essentiellement jeune, étudiant et blanc) du folk blues revival californien. C'est tout naturellement qu'il enregistre en 1960 pour le producteur Chris Strachwitz une longue séance qui paraîtra sur deux albums Bluesville: K.C.'s blues et Big road blues.

            A la fin des années 1960, K.C. s'associe avec l'excellent harmoniciste Richard Riggins (qui enregistrera sous le nom de Harmonica Slim: rien à voir avec Travis Blaylock que nous avons présenté dans ce blog). Un grandissime 45t en 1967 capture le duo au sommet de leur art.

            Une fois à la retraite, K.C. se consacre totalement à sa musique, monte un petit groupe (qui comprend l'excellent guitariste slide Ron Thompson) et se produit sur toutes les scènes blues de la Côte Ouest, notamment au San Francisco Blues Festival où sa présence, son dynamisme, son Delta blues authentique enthousiasment l'auditoire. Après deux 45t pour le petit label Blues Connoisseur, Chris Strachwitz enregistre fin 1973-début 1974 ce bel orchestre (Country blues) pour son label Arhoolie, éditant un des meilleurs disques de blues terrien de la décennie, avec des solos percutants de Thompson comme de Riggins et des compositions aussi mémorables que le vibrant My mind's going back in 1929.

            Même s'il était très casanier, K.C. avait accepté de venir jouer au Japon et en Europe mais il décède d'une crise cardiaque à son domicile de Berkeley le 18 octobre 1975.

            Cette compilation regroupe tous les enregistrements effectués par K.C. Douglas, une oeuvre majeure.

                                                                       Gérard HERZHAFT

            K.C. Douglas (born in Sharon, Ms. on November 21, 1913) learned the blues through his association with the great Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson whose very style and repertoire he would always carry on. But unlike most Mississippian fellows who left for Saint Louis or Chicago, K.C. went for work to California, living in the Bay Area, one of the very few bluesmen to play the Delta style in this area during the 1940's. With the harmonica player Sidney Maiden, he waxed his own composition, Mercury boogie that won a little local success but was to become a smash hit years later for rock star Steve Miller and in 1992 a number 1 Country Hit for the driving version of this title by Alan Jackson. General Motors even used it as a commercial theme! Unfortunately, K.C. didn't benefit of that unexpected successes and had to work as a civil servant all his life while constantly playing his down home Mississippi blues wherever people wanted to hear it.

            In 1955, the activist and folk singer Barbara Dane took him under her wing. K.C. thus was one of the very first black bluesman able to play for the burgeoning California folk blues revival of the day. Thanks to Barbara, he even recorded as early as 1954 (or 1952) a whole album that was only issued on an Australian label!

            In 1961, Chris Strachwitz recorded with Douglas a mammoth session that ultimately was issued on two distinct albums (K.C.'s blues and Big Road blues) on the Bluesville label. In the late 60's, K.C. Douglas joined forces with the excellent harp player Richard Riggins (who recorded under the moniker Harmonica Slim: no relation with the other Harmonica Slim - Travis Blaylock - that we have featured on a previous post on this blog) and recorded some excellent 45s, notably Little Green house/ Things I'd do for you.

            After retiring from his daily job, K.C. became at last a full time musician, assembling a small band with Riggins and the very talented slide guitarist Ron Thompson. Everywhere he appeared K.C. took the audiences by storm with a strong stage presence and a down home authenticity the young blues fans were striving for at that time. After two notable 45 for the small local Blues Connoisseur label, K.C. and his band recorded in late 1973/ early 74 a whole album (Country blues) that stands as one of the best down home recording of that period.

            K.C. was quite reluctant to travel but was finally persuaded to do so and had to play his blues in Japan and Europe when he died of a sudden heart attack in his Berkeley home on October 18, 1975.

            This comp gathers all K.C. Douglas' recordings, a major country blues artist.

            Thanks for any feedback!

                                                                       Gérard HERZHAFT

K.C. DOUGLAS

THE COMPLETE SESSIONS

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Sidney Maiden, hca. Oakland, Ca. July 1948

01. Mercury boogie

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Mercy Dee Walton, pno; bs; dms. Oakland, Ca. may 1954

02. Lonely blues

03. K.C. boogie

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g. Oakland, Ca. c. 1954 (or 1952 according to certain sources)

04. Canned heat

05. Catfish

06. Big road blues

07. Kansas City

08. I got the key to the highway

09. Kassie Jones

10. Mercury blues

11. Blues

12. I met the blues this morning

13. I have my woman

14. Had I money

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Sidney Maiden, hca; Bruce Bratton, bs. Berkeley, Ca. April & May 1960

15. Big road blues

16. Night shirt blues #1

17. Night shirt blues #2

18. Mercury blues

19. Blues and trouble

20. Make your coffee

21. Canned heat

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g. Stockton, Ca. 5-12 February 1961

22. Big road blues

23. Howling blues

24. Move to Kansas City

25. Buck dance

26. Tore your playhouse down

27. Bottle up and go

28. Whiskey headed woman

29. Catfish blues

30. K.C. blues

31. Canned heat

32. Key to the highway

33. Broken heart

34. Hen house blues

35. Wake up working woman

36. Rootin' ground hog

37. Meanest woman

38. Born in the country

39. Love me all night long

40. Tell me

41. No more crying

42. K.C.'s doctor blues

43. You got a good thing now

44. Watch dog blues

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Clarence Van Hook, t-sax; George Hurst, pno; bs; Jimmy Raney, dms. Berkeley, Ca. 19 August 1963

45. I'm gonna build me a web

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Richard Riggins (Harmonica Slim), hca; Lionel Hewitt, pno; bs; dms. Berkeley, Ca. 1967

46. The things I'd do for you

47. The little green house

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Bob Smith, bs; Jim Marshall, dms. San Francisco, Ca. 8 January 1972

48. Having a lot of trouble

49. Woke up with the blues

K.C. Douglas, vcl; Richard Riggins, hca; Bob Smith, bs; Jim Marshall, dms. Orinda, Ca. July 1972

50. Mercury boogie

51. You hear me howling

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Richard Riggins, hca. Berkeley, Ca. December 1973

52. Your crying won't make me stay

53. Country girl

54. Black cat bone

55. Good looking women

56. Fanny Lou

K.C. Douglas, vcl/g; Richard Riggins, hca; Ron Thompson, g; Jim Marshall, dms. Oakland, Ca. March 1974

57. Mercury blues

58. My mind's going back to 1929

59. Catfish blues

60. High water rising

61. Woke up this morning

62. Somebody done stole my gal

63. Fanny Lou

64. I don't want no woman to love me

65. Married woman blues

66. Black cat bone

67. Good looking women

68. Richard's ride

69. Hear me howling

L.C. WILLIAMS/ Complete Recordings

L.C. WILLIAMS/Complete Recordings

           L.C. (apparemment son vrai et seul prénom) Williams a été un de ces chanteurs et musiciens qui gravitaient autour de Lightnin' Hopkins à Houston et sur lequel le bluesman régnait un peu à la façon des maîtres féodaux. Ces "vassaux" obtiennent le droit de jouer avec lui, de l'accompagner sur les scènes locales, de gagner quelques dollars en échange d'une véritable allégeance à leur "maître", une sorte de servitude digne de certains gangs mafieux. C'est ainsi que Luke "Long Gone" Miles qui effectuera aussi de très bons enregistrements est chargé d'ouvrir à Lightnin' un passage vers les toilettes du bar à travers la nombreuse clientèle, le très original harmoniciste Billy Bizor sert de valet à Hopkins, s'occupe du pressing de ses vêtements...

           L.C. Williams qui émarge de la même manière à ce cercle de serviteurs du bluesman de Houston effectuera, en partie grâce à Lightnin', une carrière discographique assez conséquente.

           Né à Crockett au Texas le 12 mars 1930, L.C. a gagné Houston vers 1945, chantant et 

L.C. Williams. photo: Chris Strachwitz

dansant les claquettes un peu partout dans la région. C'est dans un de ces dancings qu'il rencontre Lightnin' Hopkins qui le prend avec lui et lui permet d'enregistrer sous le nom de Lightnin' Jr trois blues très profonds et immanquablement texans pour le producteur Bill Quinn avec Hopkins au piano et à la guitare. Ces morceaux rencontrent un certain succès et Williams retrouve le chemin des studios de façon conséquente les années suivantes. Comme son mentor, Williams saute allégrement de label en label, tente un peu (et avec bonheur) tous les styles alors en vogue dans le blues texan: downhome avec ou à la Hopkins, urbain et très swinguants avec différents orchestres de R&B texans comme ceux du saxophoniste Conrad Johnson ou du pianiste Lonnie Lyons. Parmi ses accompagnateurs, on trouve généralement la crème des bluesmen de Houston dont le guitariste Goree Carter.

           En 1951, après une très belle séance avec Lightnin', L.C. Williams part tenter sa chance en Californie. C'est un échec complet. Il finit en prison pour quelques mois et revient à Houston, vivotant autour du clan Hopkins. C'est là qu'il sera "retrouvé" et interviewé par Mack Mc Cormick et Chris Strachwitz. Très peu loquace, L.C., pressé de dire à quoi correspondait ses initiales, répond "Love Crazy"!

           Il semble qu'il devait enregistrer un album pour Arhoolie qui aurait certainement pu lui ouvrir les portes du Blues Revival qui commençait alors à prendre son essor quand il décède le 18 octobre 1960 à Houston.

           Il laisse une œuvre finalement assez variée, alternant de grands moments du Country blues texan avec des séances plus entraînantes mais certainement aussi plus convenues où il est accompagné d'excellents orchestres de Rhythm & Blues. Grâce à plusieurs généreux collectionneurs (et en particulier notre ami Pierre Monnery), nous sommes désormais en mesure de proposer l'intégrale de l'œuvre de L.C. Williams, certainement non négligeable.

                                                                 Gérard HERZHAFT

           L. C. (apparently his real first name!) Williams was one of those blues singer/ musicians who were trying to make a living or a career on Lightnin' Hopkins's orbit. Lightnin' used them every time he needed them and ruled this coterie like a feudal Lord, every one having a special role serving the "master". Among those numerous vassals, L. C. Williams was certainly the one who succeeded the most to make a name for himself.

           Born at Crockett, Texas, on March, 12th 1930, L.C. went to Houston around 1945 and soon tried to make a living singing and tap dancing on the streets. His growing reputation earned him to play in night clubs where Hopkins, appreciating his talents, brought him to the famous record producer Bill Quinn who had hired Hopkins as a semi-talent scout. L.C. recorded several very downhome blues backed by Lightnin', either playing the guitar or the piano. Moreover, the records were issued under the name Lightnin' Jr that assured them good sales. During a couple of years, Williams visited quite often the Houston studios, recording his brand of Texas blues in different settings, from the deep Country blues of his beginnings to the current fashionable swinging R&B, backed by the cream of the Houston session men, from pianists Lonnie Lyons and Elmore Nixon to saxophonists like Conrad Johnson through stellar guitarist Goree Carter.

           In 1951, after another wonderful deep session with Hopkins, L.C. - persuaded he could thus make much more money with his music under the Hollywood sun - went to Los Angeles to try his luck. This was unfortunately a complete failure, L.C. even going in jail for awhile. He finally went back to Houston, struggling for a living on several menial jobs, staying close to Hopkins in a desperate hope to record again, that never materialized. He was around Lightnin' when researchers Mack Mc Cormick and Chris Strachwitz met him and interviewed him. Not very talkative about himself, L.C. only said that his initials meant "Love Crazy"!

           It seems there were some plans to record L.C. for the Arhoolie label that certainly would have opened him some doors but he died brutally in Houston on October, 18th, 1960.

           Thanks to several generous friends and collectors and particularly Pierre Monnery, we are now able and for the first time to give the really complete recordings made by this excellent Texas bluesman.

                                                      Gérard HERZHAFT

L.C. WILLIAMS/ Complete Recordings

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lightnin’ Hopkins, pno. Houston, Tx. juillet 1947

01. Trying trying

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lightnin’ Hopkins, g. Houston, Tx. juillet 1947

02. You’ll never miss the water

03. I wonder

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lightnin’ Hopkins, g. Houston, Tx. janvier 1948

04. Hole in the wall

05. Boogie all the time

06. Strike blues

07. You can take it with you baby

L.C. Williams, vcl; Leroy Carter, pno. Houston, Tx. juin 1948

08. Black woman

L.C. Williams, vcl; Elmore Nixon, pno. Houston, Tx. juin 1948

09. I won’t be here long

L.C. Williams, vcl; Nelson Mills, tpt; Conrad Johnson, a-sax; Sam Williams, t-sax; Lonnie Lyons, pno; Louis Pitts, bs; Allison Tucker, dms. Houston, Tx. décembre 1948

10. I don't want your baby

11. Why don't you come back

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lonnie Lyons, pno; Goree Carter, g; Sam Williams, t-sax; Conrad Johnson, a-sax; Louis Pitts, bs; Allison Tucker, dms. Houston, Tx. février 1949

12. That's alright

13. Rich women blues

14. I want my baby back

15. I know that chick

16. Shout baby shout

17. Jelly roll

18. Louisiana boogie

19. Ethel Mae

20. Gonna change my love

21. My darkest hours

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lightnin’ Hopkins, g; Elmore Nixon, pno. Houston, Tx. décembre 1949

22. All through my dreams

23. Mean and evil blues

L.C. Williams, vcl; Lightnin’ Hopkins, g. Houston, Tx. janvier 1951

24. The Lazy J

25. Baby child

26. Fannie Mae

27. So sorry

L.C. Williams, vcl; Willie Johnson, pno; Frank Minn, tpt; Ed Wiley, t-sax; Henry Hayes, a-sax; Goree Carter, g; Don Cooks, bs; Ben Turner, dms. Houston, Tx. 29 novembre 1951

28. I don’t want no woman

29. Louise

30. I don’t like to travel

I posted an article about L.C. Williams some years ago on this blog but this one is the definitive one with english text added

SMOKY BABE/ Complete Recordings

SMOKY BABE/ Complete Recordings

           

Born Robert Brown on July, 31st 1927 in Itta Bena (Ms), Smoky Babe has been one of the very best discovery from the Blues Revival era. A sharecropper helping his family at an early age and during years around Itta Bena, Smoky Babe has taken the guitar and the blues under the strong influence of Robert Petway and Tommy McClennan, seeing them performing and listening to their records. He developed the same rhythmic guitar style, full of a furious energy, the similar passionate singing and, if one adds a great ability to compose autobiographic blues and to make every standard his own, you sure have with him a major bluesman!

            During the late 1940's and maybe at his mother's death, Smoky Babe leaves the miserable sharecropping to work in a factory in Alabama, then in New Orleans where he works as a longshoreman while playing sometimes in local clubs. Around 1953, he marries and the couple settles in Baton Rouge, buying a little farm and finding a good job as a car mechanic in a garage. He anyway plays here and there, mostly at friends' parties. It's like that and only by chance that Harry Oster discovers him in February 1960 during a party at Robert Pete Williams' house (his neighbor) where there are other Robert Pete's neighbors, Lazy Lester, Clyde Causey or William and Sally Dotson! Oster is stunned by Smoky's talents and then records him substantially during the following days. Those wonderful records when issued on several albums and anthologies stir interest in the then small coterie of blues buffs in the USA and Europe. But Smoky, quite suspicious, would turn down any offer to appear at colleges or festivals during the early 1960's, liking better to catch his steady work at his garage and his farm than trying his chance on a musical career.

            He is reported to have died in Scottlandville around May 1973.

            We have gathered here all his known recordings in chronological order. That still leaves at least 20 unissued tracks that are probably by now at the Smithsonian and that we certainly would be eager to be able to listen to!

                                                                       Gérard HERZHAFT

SMOKY BABE

Complete Recordings

 = unissued

Smoky Babe (Robert Brown), vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 6 february 1960

01. Shake, shake Mattie

Biscuit bakin’ mama

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 10 february 1960

02. Long way from home

03. I’m goin’ back to Mississippi

04. I'm goin' away

Baby don’t you want to go?

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcl. Scotlandville, La. 25 february 1960

Dell on the mountain

05. Rabbit blues n°1

06. Rabbit blues n°2

07. Ghost blues

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; William Dotson, vcls. Scotlandville, 25 february 1960

08. Two wings

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La, 27 february 1960

09. Bad luck and trouble

10. Now your man done gone

11. I’m broke and I’m hungry

12. Bad whiskey

13. Going back home

14. Goin' home blues

15. Melvanie blues

16. Ocean blues

17. Boogie woogie rag

Low down woman

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Lazy Lester, hca. Scotlandville, La. 27 february 1960

18. Mississippi River

19. Too many women n°1

20. Too many women n°2

21. My baby she told me

22. My baby put me down

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Clyde Causey, hca. Scotlandville, La. 27 february 1960

23. Ain’t got no rabbit dog

24. Black gal

25. Locomotive blues

Smoky Babe, g. Scotlandville, La. 6 march 1960

26. Boogy

27. Boogie gal

28. If I had listened what my mama say

29. I'm goin' home on the morning train

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcls; Hilary Blunt, g. Scotlandville, La. 14 april 1960

30. Your dice won’t pass

31. Black ghost

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 3 november 1960

32. Talkin' baby

33. Backyard boogie

Leavin’ blues

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 6 january 1961

No special rider

Mean mistreatin’ woman

Smoky Babe, vcl/g; Sally Dotson, vcls on *; Lazy Lester, hca. Scotlandville, La. 10 february 1961

34. Chicago bound

35. Somethin’ wrong with my machine*

Down by the waterfall

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 10 march 1961

Hard times blues

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 27 march 1961

36. Insect blues

37. Boss man blues

38. Way back in the country blues

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 1 april 1961

39. I went down 61 Highway

40. Hottest brand goin’

41. Regular blues

42. Arkansas blues

43. What's wrong with you

44. Working on Mr Walter's farm

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Scotlandville, La. 14 june 1961

45. Cold, cold snow

46. Diggin' my potatoes

47. I'm wild about you black gal

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Vance, Ms, 10 august 1961

Cotton field blues

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Vance, Ms, 11 august 1961

48. Terraplane blues

Friends, goodbye

Car trouble blues

Back home again

Smoky Babe, vcl/g. Annie Brown, vcls on *; Clyde Causey, hca; Hilary Blunt, g. Vance, Ms. 12 august 1961

Won’t be back til fall

Bad bad whiskey

Shoot him along

Ain’t it hard to be a nigger*

Ship-y-show

Segregation blues

Mr. Bug & Mr. Bug

KING SOLOMON/ Complete Recordings

KING SOLOMON/ Complete Recordings

              

Several bluesmen have used the "King Solomon" moniker, mainly ace pre-war guitarist King Solomon Hill, the pianist and sometimes singer Ellis Walters Jr (1919-63) who recorded under the name King Solomon or Soloman (sic) as well as a session man behind many West Coast bluesmen as Solomon Ellis. Soul star Solomon Burke also recorded as King Solomon as well as jazz tenor saxophonist Clifford Solomon! And there is now a young good bluesman playing and recording under the name King Solomon Hicks!

               But the only "real" King Solomon (his real name) is this blues singer that we are featuring here. Born King Sylvester Lee Melicious Solomon on 12th October 1934 (or 1940? but this year sometimes given seems to be improbable even impossible) at Tallulah, La, he began to sing in his mother's church before creating his own Gospel a-capella quartet.

               When King Solomon comes to Chicago in 1949 to work as a busboy in a restaurant, he listens more and more the blues in the Windy City's clubs, befriending with Sunnyland Slim. Soon one finds him singing the blues at Theresa's or at Du Sable Lounge. But, tired of the hard Chicago's winters, Solomon settles in Los Angeles in 1954, meeting Charles Brown, Lowell Fulson and Maxwell Davis who encourages him to form his own band. During the late 50's, King Solomon and his Soul Brothers Band play regularly in the L.A. area, Charles Wright holding the lead guitar. In 1961, his first autobiographic record Non Support blues Parts I & II hits the West Coast before being taken over by the Checker label, and then climbing to n°39 on Billboard.

               Solomon then tours the Western States for awhile with big stars like B.B. King, Little Milton, Etta James and even opens for Sammy Davis Jr during a couple of weeks in Davis' cabaret in Las Vegas.

               King Solomon records regularly during the 1960's for a large variety of labels, some important like Kent but generally for small independent ones like Don-J, Magnum or his own Mader-D. With a somewhat poor distribution, those records sell quite confidentially with the exception of the small local hit You are nothing but a teenager.

              

During the 1970's, Solomon seeks commercial success in turning his music towards the Rock/ Psychedelic audience, his guitarist Joe Kincaid playing constantly the wah-wah guitar and with heavy bass and drums. This is the music featured on the only album recorded as such by Solomon Energy Crisis, probably during the mid-70's (1977 is the date generally admitted).

               Outside a small article on Blues Unlimited, King Solomon was mainly unknown outside his L.A. area until the excellent Dutch Diving Duck label issued a compilation of some of his best tracks during the mid-80's!

               Today, one doesn't know if King Solomon is still living or if so where he lives. Anyway, his recorded work is much worthy. We have tried to gather the complete recordings by this King Solomon but there still are 5 numbers that have been impossible to find. Thanks by advance to anyone who would have them and would be willing to share!

               Thanks to Diving Duck label, Mr Mightygroove and the excellent Groovy Gumbo blog for their help.

                                                                                       

Gérard HERZHAFT

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1961

01. Non support blues I & II

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1962

02. I got to move

03. Uncle John's swinging farm

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1963

04. Louisiana groove

05. I'm in love with you

06. My dream

I'm in your corner baby

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1964

07. Separation n°1

08. I want to know

09. Yodeling this morning

10. Scratch my back

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1965

11. Big things

12. You ain't nothing but a teenager

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1966

13. Mr bad luck

14. S.K. blues

15. New figure

16. Let me be your eagle baby I & II

17. Almost midnight

18. Please Mr President

King Solomon, vcl; Charles Wright, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1967

19. Separation n°2

20. Little dab will do it

21. Where is my shoe

22. What you got

Skidrow

Brainwashed woman

When a man loves a woman

I don't play that way

King Solomon, vcl; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1968

23. Just a little faith

24. Sittin' here thinkin'

King Solomon, vcl; Joe Kincaid, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. 1969

25. The natural look

26. No woman's no stranger

27. The miracle worker

28. The Moon Walk

29. Love bug

30. Something's wrong with me

King Solomon, vcl; Joe Kincaid, g; band. Los Angeles, Ca. c. 1977

31. I got a sweet tooth for your love

32. If I were a strong man

33. Energy crisis

34. Political rag

35. Ain´t it funky ya´ll I & II

36. Sexy baby

37. Get up soul brother

38. Don´t play this song

39. A little dab will do ya