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)
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