HOWLIN' WOLF MOANIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT

CHESS RECORDS 1959                                 LP 1434

credits:

 Howlin' Wolf – vocals, harmonica
    Willie Johnson – guitar
    Willie Steele – drums
    Ike Turner – piano on "How Many More Years"
    Hubert Sumlin – guitar
    Hosea Lee Kennard – piano
    Willie Dixon – bass, producer
    Earl Phillips – drums
    Jody Williams – guitar
    Otis Spann – piano
    Lee Cooper – guitar on "No Place to Go"
    Fred Below – drums on "All Night Boogie"
    S. P. Leary – drums on "I'm leaving You"
    Adolph "Billy" Dockins – tenor saxophone on "Moanin' for My Baby"
    Otis "Smokey" Smothers – guitar on "I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)"
    Sam Phillips – producer on "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years"
    Leonard Chess – producer
    Phil Chess – producer

All songs written by Chester Burnett, except when noted.

Althouh the original 1959 LP, and the U.K. Chess 1965 issue
credited all compositions to 'C.Burnett'. [ Howlin' Wolf ]

Recorded    May 14 or August 1951 at Memphis Recording
Service in Memphis, Tennessee – March 1959 in Chicago, Illinois

tracklisting:

A1     Moanin' At Midnight     2:43
A2     How Many More Years     2:58
A3     Smokestack Lightnin'     2:32
A4     Baby, How Long     2:18
A5     No Place To Go     2:31
A6     All Night Boogie     2:16
B1     Evil     3:01
B2     I'm Leavin' You     2:29
B3     Moanin' For My Baby     2:17
B4     I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)     2:47
B5     Forty-Four     3:02
B6     Somebody In My Home     2:59

 

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