Hank Crawford - Dig These Blues

[king ubu]

I'm starting to explore Hank Crawfords early Atlantics beyond his albums with Ray Charles and "More Soul" which I've been familiar with for a while... so I got the 32Jazz 2CD set "Memphis, Ray and a Touch of Moody" (quite fitting a title, methinks) as well as three Collectables twofers (one has his "The Soul Clinic" paired with Leo Wright's "Blues Shout", the others are "Dig These Blues/After Hours" and "True Blue/Double Cross").

Checking the Bruyninckx discography, there's something weird about the second session for "Dig These Blues" (New York, December 10, 1964). Bruyninckx says there were three titles recorded (actually four, but an untitled blues remains unissued):

8392 These Tears

8393 Dig These Blues

8394 The Crazy Saloon

8395 untitled blues (unissued)

8392/3/4 were released on Atl LP1436 ("Dig These Blues"), but according to Bruyninckx, only 8393 is on the 32Jazz 2CD set.

At the end of the third session for the album, there's a not stating that:

[..] "Memphis, Ray and a touch of Moody"; this set includes two possibly unissued titles, "Banana Head" and "It's a Sin".

So the two tracks missing from the album (These Tears, The Crazy Saloon) were replaced by Joel Dorn for his 1997 2CD set with two others (Banana Head, It's a Sin)? So far so good, but now the Collectables disc I got (COL-CD-7659 from 2004) also contains those two tracks and omits the original two again!

The original liners that are (partly?) reprinted in the Collectables twofer mention "The Crazy Saloon" ("there is the easy rocking, invitation-to-kicks of...") as well as "These Tears" ("And then there is even a touch of rockabilly, laced with wryness, in...").

The liner notes of the 32Jazz set list "Banana Head" (#15) and "It's a Sin" (#17) as the name of the titles (on disc two), but in the discographical listing two pages earlier, the tunes are called "The Crazy Saloon" and "These Tears".

Anyone knows more about this? Are those just variants of titles? Some funny goof?

[Fer Urbina]

Ubu, can't help with actual info, but you may want to check Ruppli's Atlantic discography, his latest, which was released by Names & Numbers on CD-ROM some months ago.

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[king ubu]

Thanks for the suggestion... but that's a bit pricey - maybe someone who owns it can check?

Or someone can check if the latest/online issue of Lord's discography has any additions?

[Swinging Swede]

Lord mentions nothing about this. What few other sources I have found seem to indicate that the original LP was inconsistent when it came to the titling of these two tracks in liner notes vs label vs credits. See here for example. My main hypothesis would be that these are the same tracks, especially in the case of Atlantic, where almost all unissued tracks perished in the 1979 warehouse fire.

[king ubu]

Lord mentions nothing about this. What few other sources I have found seem to indicate that the original LP was inconsistent when it came to the titling of these two tracks in liner notes vs label vs credits. See here for example. My main hypothesis would be that these are the same tracks, especially in the case of Atlantic, where almost all unissued tracks perished in the 1979 warehouse fire.

Yeah... so Dorn being incosistent on the 32Jazz reissue would be kind of a weird homage to the Atlantic LP? ;-)

But that's my best guess, too!

Anyway it would be weird for Collectables to duplicate the same "newly found" tunes in their reissue... or would they have gotten the same remaster fron 32Jazz?