Billy Adams (1937)

Billy Wayne Adams, *09-06-1937 near Corrinth, MS, +03-12-1984

2nd version

by Praguefrank with help of 706unionavenue.nl

SESSIONS

ca late 1961 poss. Memphis, TN – Billy Adams
001 HB-2571 HAD THE BLUES (TWIST) Home Of The Blues 239 /BCD 17116
002 HB-2572 LOOKING FOR MY BABY  Home Of The Blues 239/BCD 17116
ca Spring 1962 poss. Memphis, TN – Billy Adams
003 HB-2578 BIG M –instr.- Home Of The Blues 242 Apt 25702/BCD 17116
004 HB-2579 MY HAPPINESS –instr, Home Of The Blues 239 Apt 25702/BCD 17116
28 December 1963 Sam Phillips Recording Studio, 639 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN - Billy Adams (Billy Adams [vcl/drums], Lee Adkins [gt], Jesse Carter [bass], Bill Yates [piano/organ], Russ Carlton [sax])
005 U 499-1 BETTY AND DUPREE  SUN 389/BCD 15805 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take-2:] unissued
006 U 500-1 GOT MY MOJO WORKIN' SUN 389/BCD 15805 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take-2:] unissued
007 I’M LIKE POISON IVY Charly SUNBOX 106 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane
008 RAINING IN MY HEART BCD 17116 Ruby Jane
009 take-2 BIG M  BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take 1:] unissued
010 JUST PLAIN HURT BCD 17116
011 TILL YOUR MEMORY GOES AWAY  BCD 17116
012 THE SAME THING BCD 17116 Ruby Jane
013 JUST LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER  BCD 17116 Ruby Jane
014 take-1 LOVE ME, LOVE ME, CHERRY  BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take-2] BCD 17116
BEAR FAMILY BCD 15805 THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 5 (GER, 1998)
6 April 1964 Sam Phillips Recording Studio, 639 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN - Billy Adams, *with Jesse Carter  (Billy Adams [vcl/drums], Lee Adkins [gt], Jesse Carter [duet vcl*/bass], Gene Parker [drums], Bill Yates [piano], Russ Carlton [sax])
015 U 503-1 TROUBLE IN MIND* SUN 391/BCD 15805 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take-2:] BCD 17116
016 U 504 LOOKIN' FOR MARY ANN  SUN 391/BCD 15808 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane
017 RECONSIDER BABY unissued
Split session with Billy Yates
21 September 1964 Sam Phillips Recording Studio, 639 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN - Billy Adams  (Billy Adams [vcl/drums], Lee Adkins [gt], Jesse Carter [bass], Al Jackson [drums], Vance Yates [organ], Russ Carlton [sax])
018 U 350-1  RECONSIDER BABY SUN 394/BCD 15805 BCD 17116  Ruby Jane [take-2:] BCD 17116
019 U 351-1 RUBY JANE SUN 394/BCD 15805 BCD 17116  Ruby Jane [take-2:] BCD 17116
Split session with Billy Yates
5 December 1965 [demo session] Sam Phillips Recording Studio, 639 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN - Billy Adams (Billy Adams [vcl/drums], Dane Stinit [gt], Donald Duck Dunn [bass], Bill Yates [piano])
01901 EMPIRE unissued
Split sessions with Dane Stinit
11 January 1966 Sam Phillips Recording Studio, 639 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN - Billy Adams  (Billy Adams [vcl/drums], Lee Adkins [gt], Donald Duck Dunn [bass], Al Jackson [drums], Russ Carlton [sax])
020 U 364-1 OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD SUN 401 /BCD 15805 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take 2:]  unissued
021 U 365-1 ROCK ME BABY SUN 401/BCD 15805 BCD 17116 Ruby Jane [take-2:] unissued
Split session with Billy Yates
btw 1963-1966 poss. Memphis, TN – Billy Adams
024 FEE BEE –instr. -BCD 17116
025 MEMPHIS TWIST  BCD 17116  [alt.:] BCD 17116
026 SEND ME SOME LOVIN‘  -instr.-  BCD 17116
027 I’M LIKE POISON IVY BCD 17116
028 BILLY’S JAZZ  -instr.- BCD 17116
029 TELL ME DO YOU LOVE ME  Ruby Jane
030 SWEETIE PIE Ruby Jane
Ca 1969 Sonic Recording Studio, 1692 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN – Billy Adams (Billy Adams [drums], Lee Adkins [gt], Jesse Carter [bass], Jamie Isonhood [piano], ? [horns], ? [bck vcl]. Producer: Kenneth Herman)
031 005A ADAM AND EVE (IN THE GARDEN) –instr.- Pixie 005/BCD 17116
032 005B DUDLEY (DO THE RIGHT KING) -instr.- Pixie 005/BCD 17116

ALBUMS

Bear Family [GER] BCD 17116 Rock Me Baby/The Sun Years Plus: Had the Blues (Twist); Looking for My Baby (Mary Ann); Big M; My Happiness; Betty and Dupree; Got My Mojo Working; Trouble In Mind; Looking For Mary Ann; Reconsider Baby; Ruby Jane; Open the Door Richard; Rock Me Baby; Adam and Eve (In the Garden); Dudley (The Do Right King); Fee Bee; Memphis Twist; Send Me Some Lovin'; I'm Like Poison Ivy; Raining in My Heart; Love Me, Love Me, Cherry; Just Look Over Your Shoulder; Same Thing; Just Plain Hurt; Til Your Memory Goes Away; Ruby Jane; Trouble in Mind; Reconsider Baby;Love Me, Love Me, Cherry; Big M; Memphis Twist; Billy's Jazz - 14-06-13

Sun ? Sun Records Originals: Ruby Jane: Ruby Jane;  Got My Mojo Working; Raining In My Heart; Poison Ivy; Rock Me Baby;  Big M; Reconsider Baby;  Love Me Cherry; Tell Me Do You Love Me;  Trouble in Mind; Just Look Over Your Shoulder;  Lookin' for My Mary Ann;  Sweetie Pie; Open the Door Richard;  Betty and Dupree ; The Same Thing – 25-08-23

SINGLES

Home Of The Blues (1961-62)

239 Had The Blues (Twist) / Looking For My Baby – 01-62

242 Big M  [instr.] / My Happiness  [instr.] – 05-62 (reissued on Apt 25072 in October 1962)

Sun (1963-65)

SUN 389 Got My Mojo Workin' / Betty And Dupree – 01-01-63

SUN 391 Lookin' For Mary Ann / Trouble In Mind – 06-04-64

SUN 394 Ruby Jane / Reconsider Baby – 21-09-64

SUN 401 Open The Door Richard / Rock Me Baby – 01-02-66

Pixie (ca 1969)

005 Adam And Eve (In The Garden) / Dudley (Do The Right King) – ca 69

Al Brumley

*1933, +28-10-2003

2nd version

By Praguefrank, Michel Ruppli
SESSIONS
1950s unknown – Al Brumley and Brumley Brothers
B01 THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORY ACME 1225

B02 THERE IS A FOUNTAIN  ACME 1225

13 September 1960 [no 9657] Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, CA – Al Brumley tracks (Billy Strange [gt/conductor] + more unknown musicians) [overdub session 9657-A on September 22: Al Brumley [vcl]]
001 34457 SOMEONE’S GONNA GET HURT Capitol 4510
002 34458 MY AFFECTION TO YOU 4510
003 34459-11 I DON‘T THRILL YOU ANYMORE 4573
004 34460-24 NOT MINE 4573
15 August 1961 [no 10249] Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, CA – Al Brumley

005 36356 WELCOME HOME AGAIN 4705
006 36357 IT'S NOT A LOT,BUT IT'S ALL I'VE GOT  4705
007 36358 STRANGER IN MY ARMS unissued
008 36359 UNWANTED FREEDOM unissued
3-4 October 1963 [SESAC transcriptions] Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN – Al Brumley (Al Brumley [vcl], Harold Bradley [gt], Ray Edenton [gt], Jerry Reed Hubbard [gt], Tom Brumley [steel], Joseph Zinkan [bass], Buddy Harman [drums], Charlie McCoy [harmonica], William Pursell [piano], Anita Kerr Singers:  Anita Kerr, Dottie Dillard, Louis Nunley, Gil Wright [vocal chorus)

00801 LEAVIN' THIS OLD TOWN SESAC A-1701/2
00802 I'LL JUST WAIT AROUND SESAC A-1701/2
00803 PICTURE ON THE WALL SESAC A-1701/2
00804 LITTLE SCRAPS OF PAPER SESAC A-1701/2
00805 I STILL BEG OF YOU SESAC A-1701/2A
00806 HEARTACHE AND TWO EMPTY ARMS SESAC A-1701/2
00807 PRETTY WOMEN SESAC A-1701/2
00808 BURNING BRIDGES SESAC A-1701/2
00809 TAKE AN OLD COLD TATER SESAC A-1701/2
00810 CALL OF THE WHIRLPOOL SESAC A-1701/2
00811 ABRAHAM LINCOLN SESAC A-1701/2
00812 I'LL FLY AWAY SESAC A-1701/2
1965 unknown – Al Brumley
009 A HEARTACHE AND TWO EMPTY ARMS Topic 8004
010 I'LL JUST WAIT AROUND Topic 8004
1965 unknown – Al Brumley
011 TURN YOUR RADIO ON Am. Artists 1020
012 I CANNOT FIND THE WAY ALONE Am. Artists 1020
013 I'LL FLY AWAY Am. Artists 1020
014 JESUS, HOLD MY HAND Am. Artists 1020
015 IF EVERYBODY HAD A HEARTFUL OF LOVE Am. Artists 1020
016 IF WE NEVER MEET AGAIN/I'LL MEET YOU IN THE MORNING Am. Artists 1020
017 I DREAMED I MET MY MOTHER AND DADDY Am. Artists 1020
018 OLD VILLAGE CHURCH ON THE HILL Am. Artists 1020
019 HOW I'D LIKE TO BE Am. Artists 1020
020 FLOWER IN THE WILDWOOD Am. Artists 1020
021 I'D LIKE TO GO BACK Am. Artists 1020
022 WILL MY MANSION SEEM JUST LIKE THE OLD HOME Am. Artists 1020
1966 Hollywood, CA – Al Brumley (Producer: Larry Scott)
023 IT'S STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN Mosrite 110
024 TRAGIC ROMANCE Mosrite 110
025 WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A FOOL Mosrite 250
026 JUST TALKING Mosrite 250

Fall 1968 unknown – Al Brumley

027 I'M GOIN' CRAZY Starview 1002

028 MY LONELY LITTLE WORLD  Starview 1002

For later recordings see albums list

ALBUMS
SESAC A-1701/2 Al Brumley Showcase: Leavin' This Old Town; I'll Just Wait Around; Picture On The Wall; Little Scraps Of Paper; I Still Beg Of You; Heartache And Two Empty Arms; Pretty Women; Burning Bridges; Take An Old Cold Tater; Call Of The Whirlpool; Abraham Lincoln; I'll Fly Away - 63 (MX: PR4M-4137/8, reissued on And More Bears AMB-90029)
American Artists 1020 Al Brumley Sings Albert E. Brumley: Turn Your Radio On; I Cannot Find The Way Alone; I'll Fly Away; Jesus, Hold My Hand; If Everybody Had A Heartful Of Love; If We Never Meet Again/I'll Meet You In The Morning; I Dreamed I Met My Mother And Daddy; Old Village Church On The Hill;How I'd Like To Be; Flower In The Wildwood; I'd Like To Go Back; Will My Mansion Seem Just Like The Old Home – 65
Memory Valley MV 1986 Albert E. Brumley's Sentimental Favorites: There's A Little Pine Log Cabin; Did You Ever Go Sailing; Rank Strangers (To Me); Old Village Church On The Hill; I'd Like To Go Back; I Dreamed I Met My Mother And Daddy; Flower In The Wildwood; Cabin In The Valley (Of The Pines); Nobody Answered Me; Dreaming Of A Little Cabin; Her Mansion Is Higher Than Mine; It's Twilight Time Again - 86

Memory Valley ? Albert E. Brumley's Legendary Gospel Favorites: I'll Fly Away;  This World Is Not My Home;  If We Never Meet Again;  Turn Your Radio On;  I'll Meet You In The Morning;  Jesus, Hold My Hand;  I'd Rather Be An Old Time Christian;  Camping In Canaan's Land;  He Set Me Free;  I've Found A Hiding Place;  I'm Bound For That City;  It's An Unfriendly World - 86
Madacy/Relentness 1107 Two Old Friends: There's A Road Down The Road; Victory In Jesus; Old Drover's Prayer; If You See A Change In Me; I Dreamed I Met Mother And Daddy; I'll Fly Away; Old Rugged Shoes; Marching Over Jordan; Someday He'll Whisper My Name; Everybody Knows; I'll Meet You In The Morning - 01-05-01 w.Merle Haggard

Copper Creek CCCD-0220 I’ll Fly Away: I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out; Rank Strangers; The Sweetest Song I Know; Jacob, Daniel and Elijah; My Closest Kin; When They Sing in the Garden for Me; I'll Fly Away; Jesus of Nazareth; Banjo Boy; Green Valley Farms; I'd Rather Live by the Side of the Road; How I'd Like to Be – 28-10-03

Mansion Ent. MHS 5415 Al Brumley, Jr. Sings 36 Gospel Classics: Turn Your Radio On (feat: Merle Haggard); I'd Rather Be An Old Time Christian (feat: Glen Campbell); The Love Of The Lord (feat: Lee Greenwood); The Prettiest Flowers Will Be Blooming (feat: Florida Boys); If We Never Meet Again (feat: Tommy Overstreet); Flowers In The Wildwood (feat: Mel Tillis); It's Really Surprising (feat: Crystal Gayle); Led By The Master's Hand; When I Looked Up And He Looked Down (feat: Chuck Wagon Gang); I'll Fly Away (feat: Merle Haggard); It's Twilight Time Again (feat: The Sons of the Pioneers); Did You Ever Go Sailin' (feat: Daniel O'Donnell); I'm Bound For That City (feat: Larry Gatlin); Camping In Canaan's Land (feat: Hank Thompson); Nobody Answered Me (feat: Johnny Russell); The Old Village Church On The Hill (feat: Bill Anderson); The Blood That Stained The Old Rugged Cross (feat: Chester Smith); That Old Time Preacher Man (feat: Leroy Van Dyke); Jesus Hold My Hand (feat: George Jones); Rank Strangers To Me (feat: Porter Wagoner); I've Found The Hiding Place (feat: The Lewis Family); I'll Meet You In The Morning (feat: Larry Gatlin); He Set Me Free (feat: The Jordanaires); Surely I Will Lord (feat: Jeannie Seely); It's An Unfriendly World (feat: Cal Smith); I Cannot Find The Way Alone (feat: Mel Tillis Singers); Her Mansion Is Higher Than Mine (feat: Johnny Russell); I'm As Poor As A Beggar (feat: T. Graham Brown); You Will Get Your Reward Someday (feat: Roy Clark); It's Bound To Be The Lord ( feat: Tracy Nelson); Gospel Songs And Old Time Recipes (feat: Tommy Overstreet); There's A Little PIne Log Cabin (feat: The Inspirations); I Just Steal Away And Pray (feat: Daniel O'Donnell); I'll Put On A Crown (feat: Jeff Easter / Sheri Easter); This World Is Not My Home (feat: Merle Haggard); If Everybody Had A Heart Full Of Love (feat: Tommy Overstreet) - 08 (double, recorded 1998 and later, Al Brunley voice overdubbed on original recordings of various artists)

Garpax ? I’ll Fly Away: I'll Fly Away; Turn Your Radio On; I'll Meet You In the Morning; There's A Road Down the Road; This World Is Not My Home;  He Set Me Free; (Amazing Grace) The Sweetest Song I Know; Near You; If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven; Turn To Him; Camping In Canaan's Land; I Dreamed I Met Mother and Daddy; I'll Fly Away - Bilingual Version (feat. Tony Melendez); I'll Fly Away - All Spanish Version – 10

DeJaVu ? Al Brumley, Jr. Sings Country Classics: From a Jack to a King; The War; Tragic Romance; We Live in Two Different Worlds; Take an Old Cold Tater; You're the Reason; Burning Bridges; Let's Cry Together; Little Scraps of Paper; Abraham Lincoln – 16-07-12 (reissued in 2018 as Songy I’ve Recorded Through The Years)

Albert Brumley ? How Great thou Art:Gospel Songs and Old Time Recipes; He Pointed Me Toward Home; How Great Thou Art; If Everybody Had a Heart Full of Love; Great Speckled Bird; Surely I Will Lord; That Old Time Preacher Man; Turn to Him; I Can't Help What Others Do; He Made Me Somebody Again – 15-06-18

Aeb ? Al Brumley, Jr with Big Band Oldies from Branson, Mo: When You and I Were Young Maggie; Sugar Moon; Dandelion Yellow and Huckleberry Blue; Fly Me to the Moon; Sail Along Silvery Moon; Everywhere You Go; When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver; Near You; Hawaiian Wedding Song; Man in the Moon, Girl on a Star; Because of You; My Blue Heaven – 24-06-18
Albert E. Brumley ? Heartfelt Hymns: Blessed Assurance; In the Garden; Amazing Grace; The Old Rugged Cross; Holy, Holy, Holy; Leaning on the Everlasting Arms; Rock of Ages; When They Ring Those Golden Bells; Have Thine Own Way; Battle Hymn of the Republic - 30-01-19



SINGLES
ACME (1950s)

1225 The World's Greatest Story / There Is A Fountain  - 5-  w. Brumley Brothers

Capitol (1961-62)
4510 Someone’s Gonna Get Hurt / My Affection With You – 02-61
4573 I Don't Thrill You Anymore / Not Mine – 05-61
4705 Welcome Home Again / It’s Not A Lot – 03-62
Topic (1965)
8004 A Heartache And Two Empty Arms / I'll Just Wait Around - 65

Mosrite (1966)
110 It's Starting All Over Again / Tragic Romance - 66
250 Walkin' In The Footsteps Of A Fool / Just Talking – 66

Starview (1968)

S-1002 I'm Goin' Crazy / My Lonely Little World - 68