Martha Copeland - Good Time Mama (1927)
Bessie Brown - Ain't Much Good In The Best Of Men Nowdays (1926)
Maggie Jones - You Ain't Gonna Feed In My Pasture Now (1926)
Susie Edwards - Oh Yeah (1927)
Bernice Edwards - Long Tall Mama (1928)
Gladys Bently - How Much Can I Stand? (1928)
Mary Dixon - You Can't Sleep In My Bed (1929)
Bertha Idaho - Move It On Over Here (1929)

Rosa Henderson - Can't Be Bothered With No Sheik (1931)
Harlem Hannah - Keep Your Nose Out Of Mama's Business (1933)
Lil Armstrong - Or Leave Me Alone (1936)
Blue Lou Barker - I Don't Dig You Jack (1939)
Rosetta Howard - Come Easy,Go Easy( 1939)
Ida Cox - One Hour Mama (1939)
Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? (1941)
Billie Holiday - Baby Get Lost (1949)

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1300
= Rosetta RC 1300 (cassette)

= Rosetta RRCD 1300 (1991)

Trixie Smith - Freight Train Blues (1938)
Clara Smith - Freight Train Blues (1924)
Bessie Smith - Chicago Bound Blues (1923)
Trixie Smith - Choo Choo Blues (1925)
Trixie Smith - Railroad Blues (1928)
Clara Smith - The L And N Blues (1925)
Bertha Chipie Hill - Panama Limited Blues (1925)
Ada Brown - Panama Limited Blues (1926)

Sippie Wallace - Mail Train Blues (1926)
Martha Copeland - Mr. Brakeman Let Me Ride Your Train (1927)
Bessie Jackson - T,N and O Blues (1933)
Lucille Bogan - I Hate That Train Called The M & O (1934)
Blu Lou Barker - He Caught That B&O (1938)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train (1939)
Nora Lee King - Cannon Ball (1942)

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1301

Billie Holiday - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Ethel Waters - West End Blues
Lillian Glinn - Shreveport Blues
Ivie Anderson - Sad Night In Harlem
Victoria Spivey - Detroit Moan
Rosetta Howard - Delta Bound
Mildred Bailey And Her Oxford Greys - Arkansas Blues

Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues
Blue Lou Barker - New Orleans Blues
Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra - Gulf Coast Blues
Helen Humes - Mound Bayou
Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Charleston Blues
Betty Roché - A Train
Julie Lee - Goin To Chicago
Lil Armstrong & Blossom Seeley - Chicago

Rosetta RR 1302

Georgia White - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But
Gladys Bentley - Worried Blues
Edith Johnson - Nickel's Wort Of Liver Blues
Billie Pierce - Jelly Roll
Arizona Dranes - Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean
Fannie May Goosby - Fortune Teller Blues
Cleo Brown - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Hociel Thomas - Go Down Sunshine

Julia Lee - Snatch It And Grab It
Bernice Edwards - Long Tall Mama
Hazel Scott - Nightmare Blues
Nellie Lutcher - St. Louis Blues
Una Mae Carlisle - Stop Going Through The Motions
Victoria Spivey - I Had It
Hadda Brooks - I Hadn't Any One Til You
Lil Armstrong - Harlem On Saturday Night

Rosetta RR 1303

- Wild Women Don't Have The Blues
- Blues For Rampart Street
- St. Louis Blues
- Fogyism
- Hard Times Blues
- Cherry Pickin' Blues
- Hard Oh Lord
- Lawdy Lawdy Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- Mama Goes Where Papa Goes

Rosetta RR 1304
= Rosetta RC 1304 (cassette)

- You're Driving Me Crazy
- Minnie The Moocher
- Caravan
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- My Heart Belongs To Daddy
- Tell Me How Long
- The More I Know About Love
- High Hat, Trumpet And Rhythm

- Patience And Fortitude
- If You Only Knew
- Porgy
- Around The World
- Lonesome Road
- Solitude
- Some Of These Days

Rosetta RR 1305

Ethel Waters - No Man's Mama
Edith Johnson - Ain't No More To Be Said
Viola McCoy - Git Goin
Hattie McDaniel - I Thought I'd Do It
Issie Ringgold - Be On Your Merry Way
Gussie Williams - Try Me Out & You Will See
Clara Smith - Papa I Don't Need You Now
Ida Cox - I Can't Quit That Man

Julia Lee - You Ain't Got It No More
Susie Edwards - You're No Count Triffin Man
Martha Copeland - Second Hand Daddy
Ora Alexander - Men Sure Are Deceiving
Rosa Henderson - Get It Fixed
Bea Foote - I Want A Long Time Daddy
Billie Holiday - Now Baby Or Never
Ella Johnson - Hittin On Me

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1306
= Rosetta RC 1306 (cassette)

- Jazzin' Babies Blues
- Crazy Blues
- You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now
- Alley Boogie
- When You're Away
- Trouble In Mind
- Late Hour Blues
- Panama Limited

- The Way I'm Feelin'
- Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)
- Someday, Sweetheart
- Tell Me Baby
- Biscuit Roller
- 'Tain't Nobody's Fault But Yours
- No Second Hand Woman
- You Ought To Be Ashamed Of Yourself

Rosetta RR 1307

Ida Cox - I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Break My Heart (1940)
Bertha Idaho - You've Got The Right Eye But You're Peeping At The Wrong Keyhole (1928)
Helen Humes - Do What You Did Last Night (1927)
Sara Martin - Take Your Black Bottom Outside (1927)
Mildred Bailey - Junk Man (1934)
Sweet Peas Spivey - Double Dozens, You Dirty No Gooder 1936)
Lil Johnson - Meat Balls (1937)
Trixie Smith - My Unusual Man (1938)

Susie Edwards - Jelly Roll Queen (1927)
Lucille Bogan - Coffee Grindin' Blues (1928)
Cleo Gibson - I've Got Ford Movements In My Hips (1929)
Martha Copeland - I Ain't You Hen, Mr. Fly Rooster (1928)
Edith Johnson - Good Chib Blues (1929)
Albennie Jones - Pap Tree Top Blues (1947)
Lizzie Miles - Take Your Fingers Off It (1955)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Hums The Blues (1955)

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1308
= Rosetta RC 1308 (cassette)

Lil Armstrong - Original Boogie
Georgia White - Territory Blues
Helen Humes - Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie
Lucille Bogan - Alley Boogie
Hazel Scott - Brown Bee Boogie
Merline Johnson - Want To Woogie Some More
Sweet Georgia Brown - The Low Down Lonely Blues
Gladys Bentley - Before Midnight

Dorothy Donegan - Piano Boogie
Christine Chatman - The Boogie Woogie Girl
Ella Fitzgerald - Cow Cow Boogie
Memphis Minnie - Shout The Boogie
Hadda Brooks - Bully Wully Boogie
Myrtle Jenkins & Bumble Bee Slim - When Somebody Loses
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day
Mary Lou Williams - Boogie Misterioso

Rosetta RR 1309

- Hello Babe
- If You Want To Share Your Love
- I Won't Sell My Love
- Romance In The Dark
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
- Now What Do You Think?
- What's The Matter With Love
- Why Don't You Do Right?

- You're Just Full Of Jive
- I Want A Good Man Bad
- Give Your Mama One Smile
- Let's Be Friends
- My Mellow Man
- I Have A Place To Go
- Outside Of That
- That Old Feeling

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1310 US 1985)
= Rosetta RC 1310 (cassette)

Lil Green discography

June Richmond - Baby Don't Tell Me No Lie
Annisteen Allen - Baby, I'm Doin' It
Mary Dixon - All Around Mama
Etta Jones - The Richest Guy In The Graveyard
Monette Moore - You Don't Live Here No More
Mae West - My Man Friday
Stella Johnson - Don't Come Over
Ella Johnson - Well Do It

Bea Foote - Try And Get It
Bertha Chippie Hill - Charlston Blues
O'Neil Spencer - Sweet Patootie
Victoria Spivey - Sweet Peas
Bandanna Girls - Part Time Papa
Betty Hall Jones - You Got To Have What It Takes
Helen Humes - Living My Live My Way
Big Mama Thornton - Stop Hoppin On Me

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1311 (US 1986)
= Rosetta RC 1311 (cassette)

- Galvanizing (Maurice King)
- Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Pinkard, Casey)
- Central Avenue Boogie (Buck Clayton)
- Bugle Call Rag (Meyers, Pettis, Schoebel)
- She's Crazy With The Heat (Maurice King)
- Jump Children (Sweethearts and King)
- Vi Vigor (Maurice King)
- Lady Be Good (George and Ira Gershwin)

- Gin Mill Special (Erskine Hawkins)
- Honeysuckle Rose (Razaf and Waller)
- That Man Of Mine (Maurice King)
- Diggin' Dykes (Vi Burnside)
- Don't Get It Twisted (Maurice King)
- Tuxedo Junction (Dash, Johnson, Hawkins, Feyne)
- Slightly Frantic (Maurice King)
- One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie)

Rosetta RR 1312
= Rosetta RC 1312 (cassette)

- Wise Woman Blues
- No Voot, No Boot
- My Lovin Papa
- Shoo Shoo Baby
- Blues For A Day
- Arkansas
- No Love, No Nothin

- Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me
- Mellow Mama Blues
- There'll Be A Jubilee
- My Voot Is Really Vout
- Million Dollar Smile
- All Or Nothin
- And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
- Chewin Mama Blues

Rosetta RR 1313
= Rosetta RC 1313 (cassette)

- You Had It Comin To You
- Down In My Soul
- Old Man Harlem
- Stop Myself From Worrying Over You
- Baby, What Else Can I Do?
- Georgia On My Mind
- Frankie & Johnnie
- Push Out

- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- I Just Got A Lletter
- Lonesome Walls
- If You Ever Change Your Mind
- You're Mine
- Jeepers Creepers
- Bread & Gravy
- They Say

Rosetta RR 1314
= Rosetta RC 1314 (cassette)

- Come Up & See Me Sometime
- Slow Down
- Easy Rider
- Memphis Blues
- My Old Flame
- St. Louis Woman
- Out On That Deep Blue Sea
- They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk

- Pardon Me For Loving & Running
- I'm An Occidental Woman In An Oriental Mood For Love
- Put Off Until Tomorrow
- Mademoiselle Fifi
- Frankie & Johnny
- A Guy What Takes His Time
- That's All Brother
- My Daddy Rocks Me

Rosetta RR 1315
= Rosetta RC 1315 (cassette)

Mattie Mae Thomas - Dangerous Blues
Josephine Douglas & Group - Noah Built The Ark
Mattie Mae Thomas - Workhouse Blues
Annabell Abrams & Group - To Be Sho
Beatrice Perry - Levee Camp Blues
Mary James - Rabbitt On A Log
Group - Anybody Here Wants To Buy Some Cabbage?
Hattie Goff - Railroad Man
Hattie Goff - Mr. Dooley Don 'rest Me
Josephine Parker - How'm I Doin It
Josephine Parker - I Gotta Man In New Orleans
Betty Mae Bowman & Group - Last Month Of The Year
Mattie Mae Thomas - Big Mac From Macamere

Eva White - No Mo Freedom
Mattie Mae Thomas - No Mo Freedom
Beatrice Perry, Leana Johnson & Mary Parks - Where Have You Been John Billy?
Elinor Boyer - Gonna Need My Help Some Day
Edna Taylor & Group - Susie Gal
Group - Go Way Devil, Leave Me Alone
Mary James - Make The Devil Leave Me Alone
Elizabeth Moore - Old Apple Tree In The Ground
Lucille Walker - Shake Em On Down
Group - Ricketiest Superintendent
Mattie Mae Thomas & Group - Penitentiary Blues

"Mississippi Department of Archives and History presents JAILHOUSE BLUES - Women's a cappella songs from the Parchman Penitentiary, Library Of Congress field recordings, 1936 and 1939"

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1316
= Rosetta RC 1316 (cassette)

- Two Little Fishes
- Down By The Riverside
- Trouble In Mind
- Jonah
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Rock Daniel
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Up Above My Head

- How Far From God
- Rock Me
- Savior, Don't Pass Me By
- What Have I Done?
- Daniel In The Lion's Den
- Jericho
- Fly Away
- Shout Sister, Shout

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1317
= Rosetta RC 1317 (cassette)

- Donegan Walk
- Just in Time
- Dorothy Rocks
- Put Your Arms Arond Me
- Grieg's Boogie
- Louise
- Tonky Honk
- That Old Black Magic - Boogie in the Nursery
- Limehouse Blues
- Minuet in G [Variations]
- I Want a Little Girl
- Kilroy Was Here
- Lullaby of Birdland
- D.D.T.

notes by Rosetta Reitz

Rosetta RR 1318
= Rosetta RC 1318 (cassette)

= Rosetta RRCD 1318