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Pine Top Smith
Clarence Smith, b/k/a "Pine Top" Smith or "Pinetop" Smith
b. June 11, 1904 in Troy, Alabama
d. March 15, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois

buried at Restvale Cemetery, Chicago in an unmarked grave
discography

P I N E   T O P   S M I T H; Brunswick 03600

#year
of release
title / label / notes

10 inch 78 rpm
Since this ain't no museum, my aim is not to depict actually existing specimen of 78 rpm records,
but to show the labels as pristine as workmanlike possible

even if this - in some cases - takes a whole lot of my time to photoshop process the initial data
   

- Pine Top Blues (C-2623-B) #
- Pine Top Trouble (C-2624-B)

rec. December 4, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith & His Hokum Jug Boys: Pine Top Smith, voc, p; poss. Herman Brown, kazoo; # poss Carl Reid, jug

Vocalion unissued

   

- I Got More Sense Than That (C-2625-B)
- Now I Ain't Got Nothing At All (C-2626-B)

rec. December 4, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, p

Vocalion unissued

   

- Pine Top's Sober Now (C-2644-B)

rec. December 7, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, p; Rosetta Settles, sp

Vocalion unissued

   

- Big Boy They Can't Do That (C-2646-B)
- Jump Steady (C-2647-B)

rec. December 10, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, p

Vocalion unissued

   

- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (C-2654-B)

rec. December 12, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, Alberta Reynolds,voc duet; Pine Top Smith, p

Vocalion unissued

11929"Pine Top" Smith

- Pine Top Blues (C-2725-A) #   @ youtube
or
- Pine Top Blues (C-2725-B) *   @ youtube (2:50)

- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-A) #   @ youtube (5:30)
or
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-B) *   @ youtube (8:50)

rec. December 29, 1928 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, p


# * Vocalion 1245
# * = UHCA 113

# = Supertone S2217
# = Brunswick 80008 (US)
# = Brunswick 03600 (UK)

21929"Pinetop" Smith

- Big Boy They Can't Do That (C-2798- ) #   @ youtube (17:53)
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (C-2801- )   @ youtube (33:55)

rec. January 15, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, p; # poss. Mayo Williams, sp


Vocalion 1256

31929"Pine Top" Smith

- I'm Sober Now (C-2797-C) *   @ youtube (14:46)
- I Got More Sense Than That (C-2796-B) #   @ youtube (12:00)

rec. January 14, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, # voc, * sp, p; # * poss. Mayo Williams, sp; * unknown, 2nd sp


Vocalion 1266

# Brunswick 80009 (US)
# Brunswick 04426 (UK)

41929"Pine Top" Smith

- Jump Steady Blues (C-2799-A) #   @ youtube (21:25)
- Now I Ain't Got Nothin' At All (C-2800- )   @ youtube (31:10)

rec. January 15, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, voc, # sp, p; # poss. Mayo Williams, sp


Vocalion 1298

# UHCA 65

   

- Jump Steady Blues (C-2799-B) #   @ youtube (27:55)
rec. January 15, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, sp, p; poss. Mayo Williams, sp

Vocalion unissued

Brunswick 80009 (US)
Brunswick 04426 (UK)

   

- Driving Wheel Blues (C-3115-B)

rec. March 13, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Pine Top Smith, p

Vocalion unissued

511/1936"PINE TOP" SMITH

- Pine Top Blues (C-2725-A)
or
- Pine Top Blues (C-2725-B)

- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-A)
or
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-B)


UHCA 113 ("The United Hot Clubs of America" - Milt Gabler's label)

69/1939"PINETOP" SMITH / "MONTANA" TAYLOR

"Pinetop" Smith
- Jump Steady Blues (C-2799-A) [Vocalion 1298]
"Montana" Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp (C-3357-A) [Vocalion 1419] #


# rec. April 23, 1929 in Chicago, IL; Montana Taylor, p solo


UHCA 65/66 ("The United Hot Clubs of America" - Milt Gabler's label)

71943Pine Top Smith: Boogie Woogie Piano

Brunswick 80008 (US) / Brunswick 03600 (UK):
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-B) [Vocalion 1245]
- Pinetop's Blues (C-2725-A) [Vocalion 1245]

Brunswick 80009 (US) / Brunswick 04426 (UK):
- Jump Steady Blues (C-2799-B) [Vocalion unissued]
- I'm Sober Now (C-2797-C) [Vocalion 1266]

set of two 10 inch 78 rpm

Brunswick Album Nr. B-1002 (US 1943)


Brunswick 80008

= Brunswick 03600 (UK)


Brunswick 80009

= Brunswick 04426 (UK)

8194?"PINE TOP" SMITH

- Pinetop's Blues (C-2725-A) [Vocalion 1245]
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (C-2726-B) [Vocalion 1245]

Brunswick 80008 (US)


Brunswick 03600 (UK)

9194?PINETOP SMITH

- I'm Sober Now [Vocalion 1266]
- Jump Steady Blues (C-2799-B) [Vocalion unissued]

Brunswick 80009 (US)


= Brunswick 04426 (UK)

9a194?PINETOP SMITH

- Jump Steady Blues
- I'm Sober Now

Brunswick 80009 (US)


Brunswick 80009 (Ca)


EP / LP / CD compilations
101950Pine Top Smith / Jelly Roll Morton

Pine Top Smith
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- Pinetop's Blues (tk B)
- Jump Steady Blues
- I'm Sober Now

Jelly Roll Morton
- King Porter Stomp
- The Pearls
- Sweetheart O' Mine [on label: Frog I More Rag]
- Fat Meat and Greens


10 inch LP

Brunswick BL 58003 (UK 1950)

111955Piano Jazz Vol. 1 - Barrel House And Boogie Woogie

Brunswick BL 54014 / Vogue Coral LVA 9069:
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- The Dirty Dozen, No. 1 - Speckled Red [Brunswick 7116]
- The Dirty Dozen, No. 2 - Speckled Red [Brunswick 7151]
- Wilkins Street Stomp - Speckled Red [Brunswick 7116]
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson


- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- Pinetop's Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith
- I'm Sober Now - Pine Top Smith
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- State Street Jive - Cow Cow Davenport


Swaggie S1326 (1981):
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith
- I'm Sober Now - Pine Top Smith
- Now I Ain't Got Nothin' At All - Pine Top Smith
- I've Got More Sense Than That - Pine Top Smith
- Big Boy They Can't Do That - Pine Top Smith
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Pine Top Smith

- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red
- The Dirty Dozen - No. 2 - Speckled Red
- Wilkins Street Stomp - Speckled Red
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- State Street Jive - Cow Cow Davenport


notes by Peter Gammond

= Brunswick BL-54014 (UK 1955)

notes by Nat Shapiro

Vogue Coral LVA 9069 (UK 1957)


(=) Swaggie S1326 (Australia 1981) "Piano Jazz: Boogie Woogie Pianists   1928-1930"

121956Leonard Feather presents
The Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records   Vol. 1

- Aunt Hagar's Blues - Joe "King" Oliver
- Tin Roof Blues - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
- Wild Man Blues - Johnny Dodds
- That's No Bargain - Red Nichols
- My Monday Date - Jimmie Noone
- King Porter Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton


- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Smith
- You've Got To Be Modernistic - James P. Johnson
- Prince of Wails - Elmer Schoebel's Friars Society Orchestra
- Muskrat - Benny Goodman
- Farewell Blues - Venuti-Lang All Star Orchestra
- East St. Louis Toddle-O

Decca DXF/DXS-140 "Encyclopedia Of Jazz On Records" - 4 LP set
Decca DL-8383
- Aunt Hagar's Blues - Joe "King" Oliver
- Tin Roof Blues - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
- Wild Man Blues - Johnny Dodds
- That's No Bargain - Red Nichols
- My Monday Date - Jimmie Noone
- King Porter Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton


- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Pinetop Smith
- You've Got To Be Modernistic - James P. Johnson
- Prince of Wails - Elmer Schoebel's Friars Society Orchestra
- Muskrat - Benny Goodman
- Farewell Blues - Venuti-Lang All Star Orchestra
- East St. Louis Toddle-O

Decca DL-8384
- Chinatown, My Chinatown - Glen Gray
- St. Louis Blues - Dorsey Brothers
- Walkin' and Swingin' - Andy Kirk
- Sing Me a Swing Song - Chick Whebb and Ella Fitzgerald
- Blackstick - Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle
- That's All - Sister Rosetta Tharpe

- Down South Camp Meetin' - Fletcher Henderson
- From A Flat To C - John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys
- South Rampart Street Parade - Bob Crosby
- Moonlight Bay - Glenn Miller
- Roseland Shuffle - Count Basie
- Swanee River - Jimmie Lunceford

Decca DL-8385
- I Get A Kick Out Of You - Artie Shaw Orchestra
- Gambler's Blues - Stan Kenton Orchestra
- Honeysuckle Rose - Nat Cole Trio
- How Deep Is The Ocean - Coleman Hawkins Orchestra
- Sepian Bounce - Jay McShann
- The Gasser - Roy Eldridge Orchestra

- Wee Baby Blues - Art Tatum Band with Joe Turner
- Lover Man - Billie Holiday
- Somebody Loves Me - Eddie Condon Orchestra
- How High The Moon - Eddie Heywood Orchestra
- Flying Home - Lionel Hampton Orchestra
- Perdido - Woody Herman Orchestra

Decca DL-8386
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Charlie Ventura Septet
- When The Saints Go Marching In - Louis Armstrong All Stars
- Good Bait - Red Norvo Trio
- In A Mist - Jimmy McPartland
- Swootie Patootie - Trent Scott
- Takin' My Time - Benny Green Orchestra
- Now Is The Time - Terry Gibbs Sextet
- Frankie Machine - Elmer Bernstein Orchestra
- Cool Cat On A Hot Tin-Roff - Ralph Burns Orchestra
- Mulliganesque - John Graas
- One O'Clock Jump - Les Brown Orchestra



Decca DL 8399

= Brunswick LAT 8166


= Universal UJ-641 "Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records Vol. 1 - Jazz of the Twenties"

2 LP set
(=) MCA 2-4061 (UK) "Encyclopedia of jazz on Record: The Twenties/Thirties" (UK 1974)

4 LP set

Decca DXF/DXS 140

131956Pine Top Smith: Authentic Boogie Woogie Piano

- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- Pinetop Blues

- Jump Steady Blues
- I'm Sober Now

EP

Coral 94 066 EPC (Germany 1956)

141957Die Entwicklung des Jazz I
- Vom Spiritual zum Modern Jazz

Pine Top Smith
- [Pine Top's] Boogie Woogie



Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft LPEM 19.305 (Germany 1957)


= Brunswick 87.014 (Germany 1964?) "History of Jazz   Vol. 1"

151965Pine Top Smith: Father of Boogie Woogie

- Pine Top Blues (tk A) [actually tk B!]
- Pine Top Blues (tk B)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
- Jump Steady Blues (tk B)
- Now I Ain't Got Nothin' At All

EP

Swaggie JCS 33728 (Australia 1965)

161965Blues, Boogie & Barrelhouse

Albert Ammons
- Nagasaki
- Boogie Woogie Stomp
- Early Mornin' Blues
- Mile-Or-Mo Bird Rag
Pete Johnson
- Death Ray Boogie
- Basement Boogie

Meade Lux Lewis
- Honky Tonk Train Blues
- Yancey Special

Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top Blues
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
- I'm Sober Now
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out


Brunswick DZ 117 028 (NL 1965)

171971Rare, Hot & Fine   Vol. 1

Kid Ory
- Ory's Creole Trombone
Freddie Keppard
- Old Man Blues (tk 2)
Louis Armstrong
- Drop That Sack (tk 2)
Jelly Roll Morton
- Midnight Mama
King Oliver
- Southern Stomp (tk 1)
Johnny Dodds
- Wild Man Blue

Jimmie Noone
- Body And Soul

Pine Top Smith
- Pinetop's Blues
Clarence Williams
- Santa Claus Blues
New Orleans Rhythmkings
- Sobbin Blues
Bix Beiderbeke
- I Need Some Pettin'
Benny Goodman
- After Awhile



Ariston ARI 12016 (It 1971)

181971Kings of New Orleans   Vol. 2

Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
- I'm Sober Now
- Jump Steady Blues



Ariston ARI 12019 (It)
ARI 12005 (Vol. 1) depicted !

191974Piano In Style 1926-1930

"Jelly Roll" Morton
- The Pearls (2:46)
- Sweetheart O'Mine (2:52)
- Fat Meat And Greens (2:55)
- King Porter Stomp (2:50)
James P. Johnson
- Crying For The Carolines (2:58)
- What Is This Thing Called Love ? (3:05)
- You've Got To Be Modernistic (3:11)
- Jingles (3:24)


"Pinetop" Smith
- Pinetop's Blues - tk 1 (2:52)
- Pinetop's Blues - tk 2 (2:43)
- Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie - tk 1 (3:20)
- Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie - tk 2 (3:09)
- I'm Sober Now - (3:09)
- Jump Steady Blues - tk 1 (3:17)
- Jump Steady Blues - tk 2 (3:18)
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:44)

notes by Dominique Brigau

MCA 510.109 (Fr 1974)

201974Boogie Woogie Pianos

Pine Top Smith
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- Pinetop's Blues
- I'm Sober Now
- Jump Steady Blues
Speckled Red
- The Dirty Dozen No. 1
- Wilkins Street Stomp
- The Dirty Dozen No. 2
Romeo Nelson
- Head Rag Hop

Meade "Lux" Lewis
- Honky Tonk Train Blues
- Mr. Freddie Blues
- Celeste Blues
- Yancey Special
Montana Taylor
- Detroit Rocks
- Indiana Avenue Stomp
Cow Cow Davenport
- Cow Cow Blues
- State Street Jive


notes by Shouichi Yoi

MCA-3083 (Jp 1974)


= MCA VIM 4638 (Jp 1981)

Speckled Red discography
Romeo Nelson discography
Montana Taylor discography

211974?Let's Boogie Woogie

Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top Blues
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk 1)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk 2)
- I'm Sober Now
- Jump Steady Blues (tk 1)
- Jump Steady Blues (tk 2)
- Now I Ain't Got Nothin' At All
Scrapper Blackwell
- Texas Stomp

Meade Lux Lewis
- Honky Tonk Train Blues
- Yancey Special
- Celeste Blues
- I'm In The Mood For Love
- Mr. Freddie Blues
Honey Hill
- Boogie Woogie
Pete Johnson
- Blues On The Down Beat
- Kaycee On My Mind



Jazz Piano JP 5006 (Dk 1974?)

21a1975Blues, Boogie And Beat

LP 1: Country Blues
- Don't Ease Me In - Henry Thomas
- Need More Blues - Sleepy John Estes
- Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
- Cold Winter Day - Blind Willie McTell
- Chickasaw Train Blues - Memphis Minnie
- Shack Bully Stomp - Peetie Wheatstraw
- Bad Things On My Mind - Lightnin' Hopkins

Gospel
- The Storm Is Passing Over - Blind Joe Taggart
- Chariot's Coming Down - Rev. J.C.Burnett
- Didn't It Rain - Norfork Jubilee Singers
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord - Selah Jubilee Singers
- God's Gonna Separate - Mahalia Jackson
- I Feel My Time Ain't Long - Blue Jay Singers
- Motherless Children Had Hard Times - Dixie Hummingbirds



LP 2: Boogie Woogie
- Pinetop's Boogie - Pinetop Smith
- Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons
- Death Ray Boogie - Pete Johnson
- Boogie Woogie Cocktail - Andy Kirk
- Hamp's Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton
- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
- I'm Wild About You, Baby - Lightnin' Hopkins

R & B to Rock
- Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton
- Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
- Treat Your Daddy Well - T-Bone Walker
- Talkin' All Out My Head - Little Esther
- The Ladder Of Love - The Flamingos
- Shake, Rattle And Roll - Joe Turner
- Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley


compiled by Toyo Nakamura

gatefold DLP
notes by Toyo Nakamura

 
MCA-3521/22 (Jp 1975)

gatefold DLP
notes by Toyo Nakamura

= MCA VIM-4636/37 (Jp 1981)

21b1976Blues In The Twenties

Bo Weavil Jackson - You Can't Keep No Brown
Furry Lewis - Sweet Papa Moan
Henry Thomas - Cottonfield Blues
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - It's Tight Like That
Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind
Leroy Carr - How Long How Long Blues - no. 2

Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You'r Down And Out

Henry Spaulding - Cairo Blues
Henry Brown - Stomp 'Em Down To The Bricks
Gus Cannon & Hosea Woods - Last Chance Blues
Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 1
Jim Jackson - Jim Jackson's Jamboree - part 2
Garfield Akers - Dough Roller Blues
"Funny Paper" Smith - Howlin' Wolf Blues no. 1


notes by Toyo Nakamura
 
MCA MCA-3525 (Jp 1976)

221977Cuttin' The Boogie - Piano Blues and Boogie Woogie 1926-1941

- Chicago Stomp - Jimmy Blythe
- Mr. Freddie Blues - Jimmy Blythe
- Suitcase Blues - Hersal Thomas

- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
- Jump Steady Blues - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
- Honky Tonk Train - Meade "Lux" Lewis
- Yancey Special - Meade "Lux" Lewis
- Mr. Freddie Blues - Meade "Lux" Lewis

- Boogie Woogie Stomp - Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings
- Bass Goin' Crazy - Albert Ammons
- The Mellow Blues - Jimmy Yancey
- Tell 'em About Me - Jimmy Yancey
- Climbin' And Screamin' - Pete Johnson
- Blues On The Downbeat - Pete Johnson
- Kaycee On My Mind - Pete Johnson
- Cuttin' The Boogie - Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson


compiled by Martin Williams

notes by Martin Williams

New World NW 259 (US 1977)

231977Vocalion 1928-1930
'shake your wicked knees' (The Piano Blues Vol. 3)

Cow Cow Davenport
- Back In The Alley
Bert M. Mays
- Michigan River Blues
Joe Dean
- I'm So Glad I'm Twenty-One Years Old Today
Lee Green
- Memphis Fives
Jim Clarke
- Fat Fanny Stomp
Cow Cow Davenport
- Cow Cow Blues
Romeo Nelson
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing
Dan Stewart
- New Orleans Blues

Lil Johnson
- House Rent Scuffle
Montana Taylor
- Detroit Rocks
Tampa Red
- Black Hearted Blues

Pinetop Smith
- Jump Steady Blues
Joe Dean
- Mexico Bound Blues
Romeo Nelson
- Head Rag Hop
Cow Cow Davenport
- Texas Shout
Montana Taylor & The Jazoo Boys
- Whoop And Holler Stomp


foreword by Francis Smith
notes by Bob Hall and Richard Noblett

Magpie PY 4403 (UK 1977)

= Magpie PYCD 03

Magpie Records discography

24197?Hard Times

- We Sure Got Hard Times - Barbecue Bob
- Warehouse Man Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
- Racketter's Blues - Lonnie Johnson
- When The Soldiers Get Their Bonus - Red Nelson
- Silicosis Is Killin' Me - Pinewood Tom
- Samuel - Bert Williams
- Sadie's Servant Room Blues - Hattie Burleson
- Starvation Blues - Charlie Jordan

- Section Gang Blues - "Texas" Alexander
- Broadway St. Woman Blues - Alice Moore

- Big Boy, They Can't Do That - "Pine Top" Smith
- Give Me A 32-20 - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
- Unemployment Blues [alt. tk.] - Smokey Hogg
- Sales Tax Boogie - Piano Red
- Black Evil Blues - Alice Moore


selections by Dick Spottswood

notes by Archie Green
click to read notes !
Rounder 4007 (US 197?)

Rounder Records discography

2519??Boogie Woogie   Greatest Hits

Pine Top Smith - Pinetops Boogie Woogie
Cripple Clarence Lofton - Had A Dream
Joe Sullivan - Boogie Woogie Maxixe
Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train
Art Hodes - Ross Tavern Boogie
Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
Red Nelson - Streamlined Train

Honey Hill - Boogie Woogie
Pete Johnson - Shuffle Boogie
Art Hodes - South Side Shuffle
Albert Ammons - Mecca Flat Blues
Bob Zurke - Gin Mill Blues
Albert Ammons - Woo Woo
Freddie Slack - Down The Road A Piece



Boogie Woogie BW-1000 (19??)

261983The Boogie Woogie Masters
Original Masterpieces Vol. 1

Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
Charles 'Cow Cow' Davenport - State Street Jive

Clarence 'Pine Top' Smith - Pine Top's Blues
Clarence 'Pine Top' Smith - Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
Clarence 'Pine Top' Smith - Jump Steady Blues
Arthur 'Montana' Taylor - Detroit Rocks
Rufus 'Speckled Red' Perryman - The Dirty Dozen
Rufus 'Speckled Red' Perryman - The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo

Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Yancey Special
Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Celeste Blues
Albert Ammons And His Rhythm Kings - Boogie Woogie Stomp
Mary Lou Williams - Mr. Freddie Blues
William 'Count' Basie - Boogie Woogie
Pete Johnson - Basement Boogie
Pete Johnson - Death Ray Boogie



Affinity AFS 1005 (UK 1983)

271984Barrelhouse Years 1928-1933
'some piano player, I'll tell you that' (The Piano Blues Vol. 20)

Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (-B)
- Pine Top Blues (-B)
Pinetop & Lindberg
- Down On The Levee
- Louisiana Bound
- East Chicago Blues
Speckled Red
- The Right String
- The Dirty Dozen - no. 2
'Boodle It' Wiggins
- Evil Woman Blues

Turner Parrish
- Fives
Lonnie Clark
- Broke Down Engine
Davenport
- Slum Gullion Stomp
'Montana' Taylor
- Indiana Avenue Stomp
'Jabo' Williams
- Fat Mama Blues
Henry Brown
- Blind Boy Blues
Bert M. Mays
- You Can't Come In
Davenport & Smith
- Alabama Strut


mastered by John R.T. Davies

foreword by Francis Smith
notes by Bob Hall

Magpie PY 4420 (UK 1984)

Magpie Records discography

281984The Pioneers of Boogie Woogie
Original Masterpieces Vol. 1

Pine Top Smith - Pinetop's Blues
Pine Top Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Pine Top Smith - Jump Steady Blues
Cow Cow Davenport - Cow Cow Blues
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2
Henry Brown - Deep Morgan
Cripple Clarence Lofton - In The Morning
Speckled Red - Jim Jackson's Jamboree

Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Special
Jimmy Yancey - White Sox Stomp
Jimmy Yancey - The Fives
Jimmy Yancey - South Side Stuff
Romeo Nelson - Head Rag Hop
Montana Taylor - Indiana Avenue Stomp
Charles Avery - Dearborn Street Breakdown



Joker SM 4081 (It 1984)

6 LP set
(=) Joker SM 9416 (It) (boxed set of Joker SM 4081 to SM 4086)

291985Clarence Pine Top Smith / Romeo Nelson
Complete Recordings 1928 - 1930


Clarence Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Blues (tk 1)
- Pine Top's Blues (tk 2)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk 1)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk 2)
- I Got More Sense Than That
- I'm Sober Now
- Big Boy They Can't Do That
- Jump Steady Blues (tk 1)

- Jump Steady Blues (tk 2)
- Now I Ain't Got Nothing At All
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Romeo Nelson
- Head Rag Hop
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing
- Dyin' Rider Blues
- The Midnight Special


notes by Martin van Olderen

Oldie Blues OL 2831 (NL 1985)

Oldie Blues discography

301986Chicago
Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo   Vol. 2

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Sidewalk Blues
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - Someday, Sweetheart
Carroll Dickerson's Savoyagers - Savoyagers' Stomp
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra - Singin' The Blues
McKenzie & Condon's Chicagoans - Nobody's Sweetheart
The Mound City Blue Blowers - What I Do Care What Somebody Said
McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Milenberg Joys
Reuben "River" Reeves & His River Boys - Yellow Fire

J.C. Cobb & His Grains Of Corn - Shake That Jelly-Roll
Eddie South & His Orchestra - My! Oh, My!
Benny Goodman - That's A Plenty
The Chicago Footwarmers - Get'em Again Blues
State Street Ramblers - Stomp Your Stuff
Ma Rainey - Hear Me Talking To You

Pine Top Smith - Jump Steady Blues
Dixieland Jug Blowers - Memphis Shake


BBC REB 589 (UK 1986)

= BBC CD 589
= BBC ZCF 589 (cassette)

311989Boogie Woogie Masterpieces

Cow Cow Davenport - State Street Jive
Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Montana Taylor - Detroit Rocks
Charles Avery - Dearborn St. Breakdown
Romeo Nelson - Head Rag Hop
Wesley Wallace - No. 29
Meade Lux Lewis - Honky Tonk Train Blues
Count Basie Quintet - Boogie Woogie

Count Basie - Boogie Woogie
Albert Ammons - Shout For Joy
Pete Johnson - Roll 'em Pete
Jimmy Yancey - Yancey Stomp
Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown
Joe Hunter - Nasty Neighbourhood
Albert Ammons - Boogie Woogie
Pete Johnson - Dive Bomber


notes by Kurt Mohr

Official 3031 (Denmark 1989)

(=) Official CD 83031

321990Vocalion 1928-1930
The Piano Blues series

- Back In The Alley - Cow Cow Davenport
- Michigan River Blues - Bert M. Mays
- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Memphis Fives - Lee Green
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing - Romeo Nelson
- New Orleans Blues - Dan Stewart

- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- You Can't Come In - Bert M. Mays
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- Slum Gullion Stomp - Cow Cow Davenport
- Pine Top Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Black Hearted Blues - Tampa Red
- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Mexico Bound Blues - Joe Dean
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Texas Shout - Cow Cow Davenport
- Whoop And Holler Stomp - Montana Taylor & The Jazoo Boys


Magpie PY 4403


Magpie PYCD 03 (UK 1990)

331992Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse Piano Vol. 1   1928-1932

Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top Blues (tk A)
- Pine Top Blues (tk B)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk A)
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (tk B)
- I Got More Sense Than That
- I'm Sober Now
- Big Boy They Can't Do That
- Jump Steady Blues (tk A)
- Jump Steady Blues (tk B)
- Ain't Got Nothin' At All
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Charles Avery
- Dearborn Street Breakdown
Freddie 'Redd' Nicholson
- Tee Roller's Rub
- Dirty No Gooder
- You Gonna Miss Me Blues
- I Ain't Sleepy
- Freddie's Got The Blues
'Jabo' Williams
- Ko Ko Mo Blues - part 1
- Ko Mo Blues - part 2
- House Lady Blues
- Jab Blues
- My Woman Blues
- Polock Blues
- Pratt City Blues
- Fat Mama Blues



Document DOCD 5102 (Austria 1992)

341996The Roots Of Rap
Classic Recordings from the 1920s and 30s

Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down
Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues
Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues
Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon - Jive Man Blues
Henry Thomas - Jonah In The Wilderness
Willie Walker - South Carolina Rag
Memphis Jug Band - Whitewash Station
Red Henderson - Automobile Ride Through Alabama
Speckled Red - The Dirty Dozen No. 2
Butterbeans & Susie - 'Tain't None O' Your Business
Beale Street Sheiks - It's A Good Thing
Jimmie Davis - She's A Hum Dum Dinger
Leroy Carr - Papa's On The House Top
Rev. Edward W. Clayborn - Let That Liar Alone
Frank Hutchinson - Back In My Home Town
T.C.I. Section Crew - Track Linin
Blind Willie McTell - Atlanta Strut
Lonnie Glosson - Arkansas Hard Luck Blues
Kansas City Kitty & Georgia Tom - How Can You Have The Blues?
Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Pickin' Off Peanuts

Pine Top Smith - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Dixieland Jug Blowers - When I Stopped Running I Was At Home
Memphis Minnie - Frankie Jean


prod. by Don Kent & Richard Nevins; remastered (directly from original 78s) by Richard Nevins

notes by Don Kent

Yazoo CD 2018 (US 1996)

Yazoo Records discography

351998Shake Your Wicked Knees - Rent Parties And Good Times
Classic Piano Rags, Blues & Stomps 1928-43

- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Pine Top Smith
- Pine Top's Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Back In The Alley - Cow Cow Davenport
- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Pitchin' Boogie - Will Ezell
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade Lux Lewis
- Dearborn Street Breakdown - Charles Avery
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow Davenport
- Hip Shakin' Strut - Hokum Boys & Jane Lucas
- House Rent Scuffle - Lil Johnson #
- Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing - Romeo Nelson

- Jump Steady Blues - Pine Top Smith
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor
- Whoop And Holler Stomp - Montana Taylor #

- I'm Sober Now - Pine Top Smith
- Indiana Avenue Stomp - Montana Taylor
- Stomp 'em Down To The Bricks - Henry Brown
- Hokum Stomp - Hokum Boys & Jane Lucas
- Jimmy's Rocks - Jimmy Yancey
- Mooch Piddle - Cow Cow Davenport #
- Tight Whoopee - Mozelle Alderson


prod. by Francis Wilford-Smith
remastered by Richard Nevins, # John R. T. Davies

notes by Bob Hall

Yazoo CD 2035 (US 1998)

Yazoo Records discography

362001Piano Blues - The Essential

disc 1:
- Head Rag Hop - Romeo Nelson
- Trenches - Turner Parrish
- Ain't It A Shame - Leroy Carr
- Big Mama - Walter Roland
- 44 Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
- Flying Crow Blues - Black Ivory King
- I Don't Know - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Rocks In My Pillow - Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton)
- Oh You Devil You - Oliver Brown
- Fat Fanny Stomp - Jim Clarke
- Playing The Dozen - Will Ezell
- Lonesome Day Blues - Jesse James
- Black Gal Makes Thunder - Rudy Foster
- All Night Long - Louise Johnson
- Whoopie - Eddie Miller

- Pine Tops Boogie - Pine Top Smith
- If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road - Skip James
- The Dirty Dozen - Speckled Red


disc 2:
- I'm So Glad I'm 21 Years Old Today - Joe Dean
- Honky Tonk Train Blues - Meade 'Lux' Lewis
- Think You Need A Shot - Walter Davis
- Cow Cow Blues - Cow Cow (Charles) Davenport
- Keep A-knocking An You Can't Get In - James 'Boodle It' Wiggins
- No. 29 - Wesley Wallace
- 31 Blues - Bob Call
- Vicksburg Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
- Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard - Joe Pullum
- Joe Louis Strut - Memphis Minnie
- Dearborn Street Breakdown - Charles Avery
- Lonesome Man Blues - Sylvester Palmer
- East Chicago Blues - Sparks Brothers
- Pratt City Blues - 'Jabo' Williams
- Shack Bully Stomp - 'Jabo' Williams
- Soon This Morning - Charlie Spand
- 5 O'Clock Blues - Jimmy Yancey
- Detroit Rocks - Montana Taylor


compiled by Paul Swinton

double CD
notes by Gary Atkinson

Document CBL-200004 (UK 2001)



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Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943.- Oxford (Clarendon), 4th ed. 1997, pp. 834, 903
- http://www.discogs.com/artist/613401-Clarence-Pinetop-Smith
- http://www.folklorediscography.org/BL-58003.htm
- http://www.rainerjazz.com/RecArchive/UHCA/UHCA_113.htm
- John Tefteller and Blues Images Collection - used with permission
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to David J. Costa, Paul Vernon and Edith de Ronde for additional info / scans

 

 

 

 

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