Artist: Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1924
Reissued on Document cd Earliest Negro Vocal Groups Vol. 3.
Covers:
Wood's Famous Blind Jubilee Singers [as This Train Is Bound For Glory]
Biddleville Quintette [idem]
Vaughn Happy Two [as This Train]
Bryant's Jubilee Quartet [idem]
Garland Jubilee Singers [as This Train Don't Carry No Gamblers]
Dick Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers [as This Train]
Lulu Belle & Scotty [idem]
Sister Rosetta Tharpe [idem]
Roosevelt Sykes [melody for Sugar Babe Blues]
Rev. Ballinger [as This Train for Chess on the same day as Little Walter's My Babe (January 25); both Odie Payne and Willie Dixon played on this session]
Little Walter [as My Babe, crediting Willie Dixon; first n°1 R&B for a Willie Dixon song, the second one for Little Walter (following Juke)]
Gaylords [idem]
Nat Adderley [as Jackleg]
Narvel Felts [as My Babe]
Ric Cartey [idem]
Dale Hawkins [idem]
Gene Vincent [as My Baby Don't 'Low]
Howlin' Wolf [as Little Baby, crediting Willie Dixon, with Hubert Sumlin, Willie on bass and Sam Lay on drums]
Bo Diddley [as My Babe]
Dick Rivers & Les Chats Sauvages [as Oh oui]
Sonny Boy Williamson & The Animals [on lp Newcastle December 1963]
Mitty Collier [as My Babe]
Golden Gate Quartet [as Some Train]
Johnny Hallyday [as Va-t'en]
Everly Brothers [als My Babe]
Motions [idem]
Blues Project [as Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying, credited to Al Kooper but clearly adapted from My Babe]
Ten Years After [as Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying]
Bintangs [as My Babe]
Elvis Presley [idem]
Brenda Patterson [as Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying]
Napoleon Strickland Fife & Drum Band [fife & drum version as My Babe; then there's Jessie Mae Hemphill, granddaughter of Sid Hemphill, and her album She-Wolf where she cut a song she learned from her grandfather: My Lord Do Just What He Say, all in the fife & drum style of her North Mississippi region; Napoleon Strickland and Otha Turner, fife & drum role-models, cut their version after Little Walter's hit as My Babe; Sid Hemphill didn't record My Lord Do Just What He Say, we have to rely on his grandchild]
Lightnin' Slim [idem]
Rod Piazza [with Hollywood Fats]
Jessie Mae Hemphill [on She-Wolf; see note under Napoleon Strickland's version]
Blues Band [as Little Baby (Howlin' Wolf)]
Keith Richards [bonustrack Talk Is Cheap]
Long Tall Texans [as My Babe]
Rolling Stones [as Little Baby on Stripped]
Terry Evans [as My Babe]
Mose Allison [as My Brain]
George Thorogood [as My Babe]
Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues [on a Little Walter tribute]
Albert Cummings [as My Babe]
More My Babe's by Ramsey Lewis, Spencer Davis, Ike & Tina Turner, Nancy Wilson, Fabian, The Contours, Bill Black, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Hawkins, Gene Ammons, Lonnie Mack, The Uniques, John Lee Hooker, Ricky Nelson, Lee Dorsey, Mickey Gilley, Norman Luboff Choir, Steve Miller, Lightnin' Hopkins and Chuck Berry. See also: Lord I Just Can't Help From Crying.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)