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June 5 | June 12 | June 19 | June 26 | archives | DJ Marilynn spins every Monday, 9:00 a.m.-Noon

June 5

Artist Song Title Album Label
Irma Thomas I've Been LovingYou Too Long/Pls Pls Pls
I Needed Somebody
Live! Simply the Best Rounder
Koko Taylor Going Back To Iuka Audience With the Queen Alligator
Aretha Franklin Spirit In the Dark (w/Ray Charles) The Queen of Soul Atlantic
Ray Charles Making Whoopie Uh Huh Direct Source
Ike & Tina Turner I Smell Trouble Atlantic Blues Atlantic
BB King Paying the Cost of Being the Boss Living the Blues Time Life
BB King Why I Sing the Blues The Best of BB King MCA
Bobby Blue Bland Dust Got In Daddy's Eyes Turn On Your Lovelight MCA
Bobby Blue Bland Goin' Down Slow Anthology MCA
Jimmy Reed Baby What You Want Me To Do Living the Blues Time Life
Jimmy Red Big Boss Man blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed  
Johnnie Taylor Who's Making Love Stax Soul Singles Stax
Walter Horton Skip It Bare Blues: Instrumental Gems Blind Pig
James Wheeler You Make It Hard Can't Take It Delmark
Shemekia Copeland Ka-Ching Talking with Strangers Alligator
Eric Bibb Tell Riley Natural Light EarthBeat
Roy Carrier Bye Bye Black Girl** Twist & Shout  
The Balfa Brothers J'ai Vu Le Loup, Le Renard et La Bilette Louisiana Spice Rounder
Boozoo Chavis Oh Black Gal Boozoo That's Who Rounder
Buckwheat Zydeco Think It Over One More Time Louisiana Spice Rounder
Clifton Chenier My Dog Jumped A Rabbit Live! At Grant Street Lafayette, LA Arhoolie
Professor Longhair Tipitina Louisiana Spice Rounder
Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias Coconut Milk Louisiana Spice Rounder
Clifton Chenier Whole Lotta Lovin Squeezebox Boogie Just A Memory
Roosevelt Sykes Green Onion Top** Chicago Boogie Delmark
Nathanial Mayer Stick It Or Lick It I Just Want To Be Held Fat Possum
John Lee Hooker Jr. Boom Boom Blues With A Vengeance Kent
Zakiya Hooker Mean Mean World Mean Mean World Silvertone
John Lee Hooer Boogie Chillen Get Back Home Evidence
James Brown Night Train Star Time Polydor
Quincy Jones Blues In the Night Ocean's Eleven  
Tic & Toc Jibba Jab Las Vegas Grind, Part 1  
James Brown Suds Soul Pride Polydor
Schoolhouse Rock Conjunction Junction Grammar Rock  
Joe Thomas Rocatella Frolic Diner, Part 3  
Little Willie John Leave My Kitten Alone All 15 Of His Chart Hits (1853)-1962)  
Sharps & Flats I Knew He Would He Got Out His Big Ten Inch Indigo
Richard Berry Jelly Roll Get Out of the Car Flair
Floyd Dixon Too Much Jelly Roll He Got Out His Big Ten Inch Indigo

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June 12

Artist Song Title Album Label
Big Time Sarah & the BTS Express I Make Love Lay It On 'Em Girls Delmark
Homesick James 12 Year Old Boy Tribute to Elmore James Icehouse
Calvin Owens True B lue True Blue Sawdust Alley
Tab Smith Bouncin' Mama** Top N Bottom Delmark
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells It Hurts Me Too Tribute to Elmore James Icehouse
Ruby McCoy Black Mary* The Sound of the Delta Testament
Elijah Brown Won't Be Trouble Long The Sound of the Delta Testament
Big Joe Williams Your Close Friend The Sound of the Delta Testament
Otis Taylor 500 Roses When Negroes Walked the Earth Shoelace
Big Mama Thornton

I'm Feeling Alright
Sometimes I Have a Heartache
Black Rat
Life Goes On*
Everything Gonna Be Alright
Big Mama's Bumble Bee Blues
Gimme a Penny

Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band Arhoolie
Taj Mahal Betty & Dupree Blues with a Feeling BMG
Albert King The Sky Is Crying Tribute to Elmore James Icehouse
Bobby Blue Bland 36-22-36 Anthology MCA
Bobby Blue Bland The Greatest Turn On Your Lovelight MCA
Bobby Blue Bland That Did It Anthology MCA
Bobby Blue Bland Ain't It A Good Thing Turn On Your Lovelight MCA
Bobby Blue Bland Let the Good Times Roll   MCA
Big Time Sarah Long Tall Daddy Wild About That Thing Delmark
Katherine Davis Wild About That Thing Wild About That Thing Delmark
Karen Carroll Confessin' the Blues Wild About That Thing Delmark
Blu lu Barker Don't You Feel My Leg** Wild About That Thing Delmark
Bonnie Lee Got the Blues 'Bout My Baby Wild About That Thing Delmark
Edith Wilson He May Be Your Man Wild About That Thing Delmark
Grana Louise You've Been a Good Ole Wagon Wild About That Thing Delmark
Dinah Washington Rich Man's Blues Wild About That Thing Delmark
Shirley Johnson Not for the Love of You Wild About That Thing Delmark
Queen Ida & Her Zydeco Band Side 1 Caught In the Act GNP Crescendo
Bline Willie McTell Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues High Rollers: Vintage Gambling Songs Buzzola
Aretha Franklin Trouble In Mind The Queen In Waiting Columbia
BB King The Thrill Is Gone Living the Blues Time Life
Variable Unit Transcending Terror Handbook of the Apocalypse  

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June 19

One hour of John Lee Hooker, 1/2 hour of story telling, one hour of Bobby Blue Bland, and 1/2 hour of hmmm.

Artist Song Title Album Label
John Lee Hooker Chill Out (Things Gonna Change Chill Out Pointblank
John Lee Hooker I'm So Worried Get Back Home Evidence
John Lee Hooker Well Well Jealous Mighty Tiger
John Lee Hooker Hey Hey The Cream Fuel 2000
John Lee Hooker Burnin' Hell The Best of Friends Pointblank
John Lee Hooker Mama, You Got A Daughter City of Angels  
John Lee Hooker My Baby Don't Love Me Atlantic Blues Atlantic
John Lee Hooker Devil's Jump Chasin' the Blues Direct Source
John Lee Hooker Wanderin' Blues This Is the Blues Direct Source
John Lee Hooker One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Walkin' the Boogie
Chess Blues Box Chess
John Lee Hooker I'm A Boogie Man
Too Much Boogie
He Got Out His Big Ten Inch Indigo
John Lee Hooker Boom Boom Living the Blues Time Life
John Lee Hooker I'm Mad Specialty Story Specialty
Ruth Brown H.B.'s Funky Fable A Good Day for the Blues Bullseye
Oscar Brown Jr. But I Was Cool Beat Generation Rhino
Del Cose Uncool How to Speak Hip Mercury
Lou Rawls World of Trouble Legendary  
Babs Gonzales Manhattan Fable Beat Generation Rhino
Sharps and Flats I Knew He Would He Got Out His Big Ten Inch Indigo
Bobby Bland The Greatest Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland Let the Good Times Roll Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Twistin' Up the Road
Ain't It A Good Thing
Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland Yield Not To Temptation
I Smell Trouble
Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Dust Got in Daddy's Eyes Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland Ain't Nothin' You Can Do Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Your Friends Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland That's The Way love Is
That Did It
I Pity the Fool
I'm Not Ashamed
Blues In the Night
Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Queen For A Day Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland Poverty Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Jelly Jelly Jelly Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland You've Got Bad Intentions Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland You're The One That I Adore Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Bobby Bland 36-22-36 Anthology MCA
Bobby Bland Turn On Your Lovelight Turn On Your lovelight MCA
Ruth Brown Ice Water In Your Veins A Good Day for the Blues Bullseye
Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chile Electric Ladyland  
Jimi Hendrix Red House Are You Experienced  
Aretha Franklin Runnin' Out of Fools The Queen In Waiting Columbia
Aretha Franklin Nobody Knows the Way I Feel this Morning Unforgettable Columbia

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June 26

Artist Song Title Album Label
Bobby Bland Do What You Set Out To Do Anthology MCA
Etta James Something's Got A Hold On Me Her Best: Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Chess
Little Esther I'm A Bad Bad Girl Cry-Baby MCA
Laverne Baker Gimme A Pigfoot Atlantic Blues Atlantic
Aretha Franklin It Ain't Necessarily So The Great Aretha Franklin: The First 12 Sides Sony
Big Maybelle I'm Gettin' Along Alright The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-55 Sony
Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues Playin' the Blues Direct Source
Bobby Blue Bland St. James Infirmary Mississippi Blues Putumayo
Ike & Tina Turner It's Gonna Work Out Fine Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live Kent
Queen Latifah Baby Get Lost The Dana Owens Album Interscope Records
James Brown Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues) Messing with the Blues Polygram
Rusty Bryant/
Seldon Powell
Red-Eye Secial Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
BB King Sweet 16
Hummingbird
The Best of BB King MCA
Coleman Hawkins Soul Blues Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Ruth Brown Mambo Baby More Music From Northern Exposure MCA
Ruth Brown Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean R&B Box Rhino
Hal Singer Midnight Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Howling Wolf I Asked Her For Water
Evil
His Best: Chess 50th Anniversary Collection Chess
Willis Jackson This'll Get To Ya Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Little Willie John Leave My Kitten Alone
All Around the World

All 15 Of His Chart Hits 1953-62

King
Houston Person & Babe Clarke Chains of Love Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Lou Rawls I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
A Room With A View
The Legendary Lou Rawls Blue Note
Johnny Griffin & Edwin Williams Wade In the Water Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Sam Cooke Bring It On Home To Me
Twisting the Night Away
The Man and His Music RCA
Houston Person Goodness Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax Prestige
Nina Simone Under The Lowest
Children Go Where I Send You
The Amazing Nina Simone/Nina Simone at Town Hall Collectables
Aretha Franklin & Ray Charles Spirit In the Dark Queen of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings Atlantic
Ben Charest Cabaret Opening Triplets of Belleville Higher Octave

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