Highway QC's

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Album Info

Release Date: 1959

Label: Vee Jay Records

Original pressing with maroon labels.

Includes the first recordings by future soul star Johnnie Taylor.

Recording details:
Chicago, 22 May 1955 (tracks A1, A2, B6) - Sonny Mitchell, Lee Richardson, Johnnie Taylor, Credell Copeland, Charles Richardson, unknown organ;

Chicago, 6 March 1956 (tracks A4, A5, B4) - group as last, plus Spencer Taylor, Sonny Mitchell also on guitar, unknown piano, bass & drums

Chicago, 3 October 1957 (tracks B2, B3) - Ray Crume, Chris Flowers, Spencer Taylor, James Davis, Arthur Crume (baritone & guitar), James Walker, Al Duncan

Chicago, 12 February 1959 (tracks A2, B5) - as last with Buddy Smith replacing Al Duncan on drums

Chicago, 20 May 1959 (tracks A3, B1) - as last except Walter Perkins on drums and Maceo Woods on organ.

Recording details from "Gospel Records 1943-1969, A Black Music Discography, Volume One, A to K" by Cedric J. Hayes & Robert Laughton (Record Information Services, London, 1993; ISBN 0 907872 28 X).

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