COTTON HENRY

Cotton Henry's RURAL RHYTHM disc dates from the early sixties, but the recordings sound much earlier."Devil On My Shoulder" was recorded by Johnny Tyler for RURAL RHYTHM three or four years earlier.

TOPEKA HARTTE

I have no idea who Topeka Hartte was, it is obviously a nom de guerre for someone, but who that some one is I do not know. The prime contender must be Smiley Burnette who owned RANCHO RECORDS, however it does not sound like him. Eddie Kirk, who composed both sides of the record is another candidate I suppose? The record was reviewed in BILLBOARD in January 1947, so was probably recorded in late 1946.

DOROTHY & JIMMY GATES

JIMMIE FLETCHER

1953

Second Mercury Session noted in Ruppli & Novitsky MERCURY Discography

7547 "I Told You So"  MERCURY Unissued
7548 "You've Changed A Lot"  MERCURY Unissued

Monarch / Delta Pressing 23844 - 1958

Monarch / Delta Pressing 23845 - 1958

Monarch / Delta Pressing 28482 - 1959

Monarch / Delta Pressing 28483 - 1959

Monarch / Delta Pressing 35048 - 1960

Monarch / Delta Pressing 35048X - 1960

Monarch / Delta Pressing 38103 - 1961

Monarch / Delta Pressing 38103X - 1961

NORMA WEST

SANTA FE OP 131

MELVIN PRICE AND HIS SANTA FE RANGERS

CARL LOTTS "THE WANDERING BLUES BOY"

WHICH ONE CAME FIRST?

I am inclined to suggest that the DELMARTI release was first, simply because it lacks any composer credits and there is no publisher noted. The logic behind this suggestion is that I imagine the record it was reissued by Carl Lotts himself, who included all the relevant details on the label, although why the label was called LOT instead of LOTTS is another question!