Big Maybelle Savoy Years: Album Collection - Original 50S Album CD

Little is really known of Mabel Louise Smith aka Big Maybelle, as with so many pioneers of R&B she was never interviewed in her lifetime and passed away in 1972 just as historians of popular culture were finally getting around to the architects of R&B. Here Jasmine have tried a new approach to her recorded work beginning with two rare live radio broadcasts for Alan Freed along with her original LPs for the Savoy and Cub labels presented together for the first time. Also included is her only Christmas 45 along with all of her legendary performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. There is no doubt that Big Maybelle was a big influence over the upcoming soul generation and Aretha Franklin recorded incredible versions of "Ramblin' Blues" and "Pitiful" and the originals by Big Maybelle are included on this superb set.

1. Ring Dang Dilly 2. Candy 3. All of Me 4. Stay As Sweet As You Are 5. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 6. Say It Isn't So 7. Rock House 8. If I Could Be with You 9. Jim 10. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie 11. I Could Make You Care 12. I Don't Want to Cry 13. Pitiful 14. There, I've Said It Again 15. Candy 16. So Long 17. Ramblin' Blues 18. Blues Early, Early (Parts 1 ; 2) 19. Ring Dang Dilly 20. That's a Pretty Good Love 21. Mean to Me 22. Tell Me Who 23. Silent Night 24. White Christmas 25. Beale Street Blues 26. Careless Love 27. St Louis Blues 28. Memphis Blues 29. Joe Turner Blues 30. Yellow Dog Blues 31. The Basement Blues 32. The Hesitating Blues 33. Ole Miss Blues 34. Friendless Blues 35. Way Down South Where the Blues Began 36. Harlem Blues 37. Let's Roll It (I Ain't Mad at You) 38. Cherry 39. One Hour 40. Baby Please Don't Go 41. The Blues 42. Going Home Baby 43. A Good Man Is Hard to Find 44. I Ain't Got Nobody 45. I Understand 46. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 47. Some of These Days 48. Until the Real Thing Comes Along