Rhythm & Blues Jezebels

Rhythm & Blues Jezebels

Wild and sassy sounds from the archives of 40s and 50s rhythm & blues featuring some of the female dynamos of the genre coming your way on a Friday morning here on Deeper Roots. We’ll be featuring some great performances from the catalog of Jubilee Records (those Jubilee Jezebels) and a host of peers including some early scorchers from Little Sylvia (Robinson), Big Maybelle, Viola Watkins, Fay Simmons, and Ruth Brown. For the first three or four decades of the recorded blues and jazz, women played a major part in black music’s popularity and there was a resurgent ‘boom’ post-war that played a bigger part than we imagined in that tidal wave of wild rhythm beat that would become rock and soul. These are some classic tracks that don’t always get the attention they deserve…but they will here on Deeper Roots on a Friday morning on KOWS.

No.
1Artist Title Album Buy
2Sister Rosetta Tharpe Strange Things Happen Every Day Good News (Vol 3) Get Away Jordan Amazon
3Miss Rhapsody (Viola Wells) Sweet Man Blues Women Amazon
4Mabel Scott Catch Em Young Treat Em Rough Tell Em Nothing Blues Women Amazon
5The Enchanters Boogie Woogie Daddy Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
6Enchanters Housewife Blues Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53 Amazon
7Jeanne Gayle Bim Bam Baby Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
8Little Sylvia Drive Daddy Drive Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
9Little Sylvia Everything I Need But You Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
10Little Sylvia Ain't Gonna Do It Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
11Viola Watkins It Must Be Love Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
12Viola Watkins Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Gals – 1939-57 Amazon
13Viola Watkins Really Real Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
14Varetta Dillard Mercy, Mr Percy Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
15Mabel Scott Mr Fine Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
16LaVern Baker Voodoo Voodoo Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
17Edna McGriff Oh Little Daddy Stompin' 34 Amazon
18Edna McGriff I'll Surrender Anytime Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
19Edna McGriff & The Tomcats Mambo Baby Rumba Gone Mambo Amazon
20Big Maybelle One Monkey Don't Stop No Show The Complete OKeh Sessions 1952-'55 Amazon
21Big Maybelle Ring Dang Dilly The Very Best Of Big Maybelle Amazon
22Big Maybelle Hair Dressin' Women ABC Of The Blues Vol 29 Amazon
23Ruth Brown Smooth Operator Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
24Fay Simmons You Hit Me Baby Like An Atomic Bomb Atomic Platters Amazon
25Fay Simmons Ella Weaver Dapper Dan Amazon
26Fay Simmons Hangin' Around Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
27Patti Jerome No Mama, No Papa Stompin' 22 – Crazed Rhythm 'N' Blues Pounders! Amazon
28Linda Hopkins Rock And Roll Blues Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
29Carol Fran Knock Knock Rhythm 'n' Bluesin' By The Bayou – Mad Dogs, Sweet Daddies & Pretty Babies Amazon
30Carol Fran I'm Gonna Try Cat Scratchin' Amazon
31Carole Fran You Can't Stop Me Jubilee Jezebels Amazon
32Marie Knight Grasshopper Baby Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
33Dolly Cooper Ay La Bah Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
34Dolly Cooper Tell Me, Tell Me Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
35Ella Mae Morse How Can You Leave A Man Like This? Voodoo Voodoo: Feisty Fifties Females Amazon
36Annisteen Allen Fujiyama Mama From The Ghetto Amazon