tracks

Partnership Blues
I'm All Fed Up
No Jody For Me
Let Your Tears Fall, Baby
Mischievous Boogie
Every Time I Think Of You
Hound Dog
Night Mare
Cotton Picking Blues
They Call Me Big Mama
I Ain't No Fool Either
The Big Change
I've Searched The Whole World Over
I Smell A Rat
Stop A Hoppin' On Me
Story Of My Blues
Walking Blues
Rock A Bye Baby
The Fish
Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
Tarzan And The Dignified Monkey
How Come
Just Like A Dog (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
My Man Called Me
You Did Me Wrong
Big Mama's Blues
Don't Talk Back
Big Mama's Coming Home

credits

Arranged By – Bill Harvey (tracks: 6, 9)
Arranged By, Backing Vocals, Conductor – Johnny Otis (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23)
Backing Band – The Johnny Otis Band, (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), The Hi-Tones (9) (tracks: 27, 28)
Backing Vocals – "Baby" Lloyd Stallworth (tracks: 27, 28), Bill Hollings (tracks: 27, 28), Bobby Bennett (2) (tracks: 27, 28), Elroy Peace (tracks: 15, 21), Johnny Terry (tracks: 27, 28)
Backing Vocals, Music Director – Joe Scott, (tracks: 1, 5)
Backing Vocals, Piano – Bobby Byrd (tracks: 27, 28)
Baritone Saxophone – Al "Brisco" Clark, (tracks: 27, 28), Fred Ford (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23)
Bass – Albert Winston (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), Bernard Odum (tracks: 27, 28)
Bass, Drums, Guitar – Roy Gaines (tracks: 19, 20, 22)
Conductor – Bill Harvey (tracks: 6, 9, 19, 20)
Drums – Leard Bell (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), Nat Kendrick (tracks: 27, 28)
Guitar – Bobby Roach (tracks: 27, 28), Johnny Chandler (2) (tracks: 25), Pete Lewis (6) (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23)
Lead Vocals, Harmonica – Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton,
Orchestra – Bill Harvey's Orchestra (tracks: 6, 3, 9, 19, 20), Burt Hendricks And His Orchestra (tracks: 15, 21), The Joe Scott Orchestra, (tracks: 1, 2, 5), Kansas City Bill's Orchestra, (tracks: 7, 8, 10)
Piano – Devona Williams (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23)
Saxophone – Bill Harvey (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 20, 22)
Tenor Saxophone – J.C. Davis (tracks: 27, 28), James Von Streeter (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), St. Clark Pinckney, (tracks: 27, 28)
Trombone – George Washington (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), Pluma Davis (tracks: 19, 20)
Trumpet – Don Johnson (2) (tracks: 8, 11 to 14, 17, 18, 23), Joe Scott, (tracks: 2, 19, 20), Rosco Patrick

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