tracks

Hard Living Alone
Please Don't Go
Old Memories
Hole In The Wall
Time Brings About A Change
Me Quieras
Call Operator 210
Ooh-Eee Ooh-Eee
Chicken Crowing
Carlos
Nose Trouble
Reap What You Sow
Judgement Day
Instrumental Shuffle
Ooh-Eee Ooh Eee (Alternate Take)
Hey Bartender
Never Can Tell When A Woman Changes Her Mind
Oh Baby
What Is Life Without A Home?
Rita
I'll Always Love You
Oooh Little Girl

notes

Recorded unknown location, early 1953 (track 7), Universal Recorders, Hollywood, June 17, 1953 (tracks 1 to 6, 8, 15), Master Recorders, Hollywood, October 6, 1953 (tracks 9 to 14), New York City, November 10, 1954 (track 16), unknown location, ca. 1956 (tracks 17, 18), and unknown location, May 17, 1957 (tracks 19 to 22).

Tracks 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 to 15, 20, 21 are previously unissued.
Track 7 is a previously unissued demo.
Tracks 10, 13 to 15, 18, 21 marked as "Bonus tracks" (i.e., not on LP version).

credits

Design – Thomas E. Williams
Producer – Ahmet Ertegun (tracks: 16), Art Rupe (tracks: 1 to 15), Jerry Wexler (tracks: 16), John Dolphin (tracks: 17, 18), Leona Rupe (tracks: 19 to 22)
Reissue Producer, Liner Notes – Billy Vera
Remastered By – Kirk Felton
Transferred By – Gordon Skene
Vocals, Piano – Floyd Dixon
Written-By – Dixon, (tracks: 3, 5 to 7, 12, 13, 16 to 22)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Specialty Records Inc.
Copyright (c) – Specialty Records Inc.
Remastered At – Fantasy Studios

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