LITTLE WALTER 7" 45 "MY BABE" R&B #1 1955 b/w "THUNDERBIRD" Checker #811 NM
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Sep 5, 2015 Sold Date
Aug 26, 2015 Start Date
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Little Walter & His Jukes ? 45  "MY BABE"  - the blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter was   released in 1955 on Checker Records; the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a #1 R&B single and was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers.

It was based on the traditional gospel song "This Train (Is Bound For Glory)", a hit by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, in 1939 . Dixon reworked the arrangement & lyrics from the sacred into the secular story about a woman who won't stand her man cheating: "My baby, she don't stand no cheating, my babe, she don't stand none of that midnight creeping." 

Ray Charles had controversially, pioneered the gospel-song-to-secular-song approach with his reworking of the gospel hymn "It Must Be Jesus" into "I Got a Woman," that hit the Billboard R&B charts on January 22, 1955,  climbing to the #1 position. Within days of Charles's song on the charts, Little Walter entered the studio to record "My Babe" on January 25, 1955. Released while "I've Got A Woman" was still on the charts it eclipsed Charles's record by spending 19 weeks on the Billboard R&B charts beginning on March 12, 1955, including five weeks at #1, making it one of the biggest R&B hits of 1955. The "B" side was the harmonica instrumental  "THUNDERBIRD"

Vinyl looks Near Mint

 

 


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