May Hawks

Lily May Gibson, *16-06-1921 Cookersville, TN, +02-11-2010

By Praguefrank, Mario Manciotti, Thieu Van De Vorst, Murray Kirch

SESSIONS

1953 Detroit, MI – May Hawks

001 JEALOUS LOVE Fortune 173 /OHCD 4042

002 YEAR AFTER YEAR Fortune 173/ OHCD 4042

003 WASTED YEARS Fortune 178/ OHCD 4042

1953 Detroit, MI – May Hawks and Chuck Hatchfield

004 MEET ME DOWN IN NASHVILLE  (AT THE OP'RY TONIGHT) Fortune 178/ OHCD 4042 CLCD 2862

005 BABY YOU'RE A BYGONE NOW Fortune 182/ OHCD 4042

COLLECTOR CLCD 2862 DETROIT IN THE 50'S VOL.2 (NED, 1998)

1954 Detroit, MI – May Hawks and Lester Thomas

006 STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT  Fortune 182/ OHCD 4042

1954 poss. Detroit, MI – May Hawks

007 E4-LB-6184 PASTIME GIRL X  4X-0084/ OHCD 4042 HBR CD 071

008 E4-LB-6185 DON'T LET THEM SEE MY FACE X  4X-0084 / OHCD 4042 HBR CD 071

HILLBILLY RESEARCHER HBR 071 HILLBILLIES WITH X APPEAL MASTER (UK, 2004)

1950s? Detroit, MI – May Hawks

009 I AIN'T NO SPRING CHICKEN Horizon 706 / OHCD 4042

010 NO TEARS LITTLE DARLING Horizon 706/ OHCD 4042

1957 Detroit, MI – May Hawks

011 HARD TO GET  OHCD 4042

012 JEALOUSY VS. BOSSY OHCD 4042

1957 poss. Detroit, MI – May Hawks and Lester Thomas

013 TALK A LITTLE LOUDER Starday 45-684 / OHCD 4042 BACM CD D 395

014 FOREVER AND A DAY Starday 45-684  / OHCD 4042

BACM CD D 395 CUSTOM MADE HILLBILLY VOL.3 (2012)

1957 Detroit, MI – May Hawks and Les Thomas

015 SOFT LIPS AND POISON KISSES Coin 103 / OHCD 4042

016 JEALOUSY VS. BOSSY Coin 103/ OHCD 4042

Unknown info – May Hawks

017 CARD FROM MY BOUQUET OHCD 4042

ALBUMS

Old Homestead OHCD-4042 A Memory or Two/1950s Recordings From Detroit's Golden Age Of Hillbilly Music: [Lonnie Barron:]  I Better Go; A Memory or Two; You're Not the First Girl; Sentimental Me, Sentimental She;  Go On, It's Okay;   Don't Doubt My Love; Teenage Queen;  Please Blue Heart ; [May Hawks:] Jealous Love ; Year After Year; Wasted Years; Meet Me Down in Nashville;  Straighten Up and Fly Right; Baby, You're a Bygone Now; No Tears Little Darlin';  I Ain't No Spring Chicken; Talk a Little Louder; Forever and a Day; Pastime Girl;  Don't Let Them See My Face; Jealousy vs. Bossy; Soft Lips and Poison Kisses;  The Card From My Bouquet; Hard to Get; Jealousy vs. Bossy – 03
HMC 2013D10 Hillbilly Favorites, vol. 9:  Hard To Get;   Meet Me Down In Nashville (At The Op'ry Tonight);   Talk A Little Louder /W.Lester Thomas;  Forever And A Day;  Jealousy Vs. Bossy;  Baby You're A Bygone Now /W.Lester Thomas;  I Ain't No Spring Chicken;  Straighten Up And Fly Right /W.Lester Thomas;   Soft Lips And Poison Kisses;  Jealousy Vs. Bossy;  Pastime Girl;  Don't Let Them See My Face –  (homemade compilation)

SINGLES

Fortune

173 Jealous Love / Year After Year – 07-53 (rev. July 11)

178 Meet Me Down In Nashville  (At The Op'ry Tonight) (w. Chuck Hatchfield) / Wasted Years - 53

182 Straighten Up And Fly Right (w. Lester Thomas) /  Baby You're A Bygone Now (w. Chuck Hatchfield) - 54 

X  (1955)

4X-0084 Don't Let Them See My Face /  Pastime Girl - 55

Starday (Custom)

45-684  Talk A Little Louder / Forever And A Day - 12-57 w. Lester Thomas

Horizon

706 I Ain't No Spring Chicken / No Tears Little Darling

Coin (1957)

103 Soft Lips And Poison Kisses / Jealousy Vs. Bossy - 57