Johnny Otis Blues Caravan - The Duke / Peacock Sessions part two: Pleging My Love 1954-1957

JOHNNY OTIS - aka “The Godfather Of R&B” - was one of those men to whom the phrase “A Living Legend” was applied throughout his career. As a singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer and talent scout he went on to become a seminal influence on both R&B and Rock & Roll. This compilation is the second in a two CD mini-series which anthologises virtually everything that he recorded between 1952-57 for Don Robey’s famed Peacock and Duke labels, in Houston, Texas. In addition to Otis’ own releases it features sides on which he and his band backed artists like Lovey Lewis, Johnny Ace (including ‘Pledging My Love’), The Sultans, Junior Ryder, Joe “Mr Google Eyes” August, Marie Adams and Big Mama Thornton, and which Otis, in turn, produced.

    1 Take a Chance with Me
    2 Anymore
    3 So Lonely
    4 You've Been Gone So Long
    5 Pledging My Love
    6 Still Love You So
    7 I Won't Be Your Fool No More
    8 Shake It
    9 How Deep Is the Ocean
    10 Good Thing Baby
    11 I Cried My Heart Out
    12 Baby Don't Put Me Down
    13 Don't Tell Nobody
    14 Every Star I See
    15 Lead Us on
    16 Oh Ho Doodle Lu
    17 I'm Gonna Latch on
    18 The Shape I'm in
    19 Sittin' Here Drinkin'
    20 You Got Me Crying (Down By the River)
    21 Butterball
    22 Sandy's Boogie (Instr)
    23 In Memory (A Tribute to Johnny Ace)
    24 Boom Diddy Wa Wa
    25 Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Tree)
    26 My Man Called Me