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A History of the Blues – Little Walter – My Babe

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Little Walter

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A History of the Blues – Little Walter – My Babe

“My Babe” is a Chicago blues song and a blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a number one R&B single and it was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers.

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Dixon based “My Babe” on the traditional gospel song “This Train (Is Bound For Glory)”, recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe as “This Train”. He reworked the arrangement and lyrics from the sacred (the procession of saints into Heaven) into the secular (a story about a woman that won’t stand for her man to cheat): “My baby, she don’t stand no cheating, my babe, she don’t stand none of that midnight creeping.”

Lyrics

My baby don’t stand no cheatin’, my babe
Oh, yeah, she don’t stand no cheatin’, my babe
Oh, yeah she don’t stand no cheatin’
She don’t stand none of that midnight creepin’
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My babe, I know she love me, my babe
Oh, yes, I know she love me, my babe
Oh, yes, I know she love me
She don’t do nothin’ but kiss and hug me
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don’t stand no cheatin’, my babe
Oh, no, she don’t stand no cheatin’, my babe
Oh, no, she don’t stand no cheatin’
Everything she do she do so pleasin’
My babe, true little baby, my babe

My baby don’t stand no foolin’, my babe
Oh, yeah, she don’t stand no foolin’, my babe
Oh, yeah, she don’t stand no foolin’
When she’s hot there ain’t no coolin’
My babe, true little baby, my babe (She’s my baby)

She’s my baby (True little baby)
She’s my baby (True little baby)
She’s my baby (True little baby)
She’s my baby (True little baby)
She’s my baby

Songwriters: Willie Dixon / H. Burrage

Little Walter

Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American blues musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica had a strong impact on succeeding generations, earning him comparisons to such seminal artists as Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners’ expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, the first and, to date, only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.

Jacobs made his first released recordings in 1947 for Bernard Abrams’s tiny Ora-Nelle label, which operated out of the back room of Abrams’s Maxwell Radio and Records store in the heart of the Maxwell Street district in Chicago. These and several other of his early recordings, like many blues harp recordings of the era, owed a strong stylistic debt to the pioneering blues harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson).

Little Walter joined Muddy Waters‘s band in 1948, and by 1950 he was playing acoustic (unamplified) harmonica on Waters’s recordings for Chess Records. The first appearance on record of Little Walter’s amplified harmonica was on Waters’s “Country Boy” (Chess 1952), recorded on July 11, 1951. For years after his departure from Waters’s band in 1952, Chess continued to hire him to play on Waters’s recording sessions, and as a result his harmonica is featured on most of Waters’s classic recordings from the 1950s.

As a guitarist, Little Walter recorded three songs for the small Parkway label with Waters and Baby Face Leroy Foster (reissued on CD by Delmark Records as “The Blues World of Little Walter” in 1993) and on a session for Chess backing pianist Eddie Ware. His guitar playing was also featured occasionally on early Chess sessions with Waters and Jimmy Rogers.

In January 1952, talent scout Ike Turner tried to get Jacobs to record for Modern Records while in Helena, but Jacobs was on his way to Mississippi. They played together in Clarksdale.

Jacobs had put his career as a bandleader on hold when he joined Waters’s band, but he stepped out front again when he recorded as a bandleader for Chess’s subsidiary label Checker Records on May 12, 1952. The first completed take of the first song attempted at his debut session became his first number one hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard R&B chart.

The song was “Juke“, and it is still the only harmonica instrumental ever to be a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B chart. The original title of the track file was “Your Cat Will Play”, but was renamed at Leonard Chess’s suggestion. (Three other harmonica instrumentals by Little Walter also reached the Billboard R&B top 10: “Off the Wall” reached number eight, “Roller Coaster” reached number six, and “Sad Hours” reached number two while “Juke” was still on the charts.) “Juke” was the biggest hit to date for any artist on Chess and its affiliated labels and one of the biggest national R&B hits of 1952, securing Walter’s position on the Chess artist roster for the next decade.

Jacobs had fourteen top-ten hits on the Billboard R&B charts between 1952 and 1958, including two number-one hits (the second being “My Babe“^[11] in 1955), a level of commercial success never achieved by Waters or by his fellow Chess blues artists Howlin’ Wolf and Sonny Boy Williamson II.

Following the pattern of “Juke”, most of Little Walter’s singles released in the 1950s featured a vocal performance on one side and a harmonica instrumental on the other. Many of Walter’s vocal numbers were written by him or Chess A&R man Willie Dixon or adapted from earlier blues themes. In general, his sound was more modern and up-tempo than the popular Chicago blues of the day, with a jazzier conception and rhythmically less rigid approach than that of other contemporary blues harmonica players.

Jacobs left Waters’s band in 1952 and recruited his own backing band, the Aces, a group that was already working steadily in Chicago backing Junior Wells. The Aces—the brothers David and Louis Myers on guitars and Fred Below on drums—were credited as the Jukes on most of the Little Walter records on which they played.

By 1955 the members of the Aces had each separately left Little Walter to pursue other opportunities and were initially replaced by the guitarists Robert “Junior” Lockwood and Luther Tucker and drummer Odie Payne. Among others who worked in Little Walter’s recording and touring bands in the 1950s were the guitarists Jimmie Lee Robinson and Freddie Robinson, and drummer George Hunter.

Little Walter also occasionally included saxophone players in his touring bands during this period, among them the young Albert Ayler, and Ray Charles on one early tour. By the late 1950s, Little Walter no longer employed a regular full-time band, instead hiring various players as needed from the large pool of blues musicians in Chicago.

Jacobs often played the harmonica on records by others in the Chess stable of artists, including Jimmy Rogers, John Brim, Rocky Fuller, Memphis Minnie, the Coronets, Johnny Shines, Floyd Jones, Bo Diddley, and Shel Silverstein. He also played on recordings for other labels, backing Otis Rush, Johnny “Man” Young, and Robert Nighthawk.

Jacobs suffered from alcoholism and had a notoriously short temper, which in late 1950s led to violent altercations, minor scrapes with the law, and increasingly irresponsible behavior. This led to a decline in his fame and fortunes, beginning in the late 1950s. Nonetheless he toured Europe twice, in 1964 and 1967 (the long-circulated story that he toured the United Kingdom with the Rolling Stones in 1964 has been refuted by Keith Richards).

The 1967 European tour, as part of the American Folk Blues Festival, resulted in the only known film footage of Little Walter performing. Footage of Little Walter backing Hound Dog Taylor and Koko Taylor was shown on a television program in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 11, 1967 was released on DVD in 2004. Further video of another recently discovered TV appearance in Germany during this same tour, showing Jacobs performing his songs “My Babe”, “Mean Old World“, and others, was released on DVD in Europe in January 2009; it is the only known footage of him singing.

Other TV appearances in the UK (in 1964) and the Netherlands (in 1967) have been documented, but no footage of these has yet been uncovered. Jacobs recorded and toured infrequently in the 1960s, playing mainly in and around Chicago.

In 1967 Chess released a studio album, Super Blues, featuring Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and Muddy Waters.

Legacy

The music journalist Bill Dahl described Little Walter as “king of all post-war blues harpists”, who “took the humble mouth organ in dazzling amplified directions that were unimaginable prior to his ascendancy.” His legacy has been enormous: he is widely credited by blues historians as the artist primarily responsible for establishing the standard vocabulary for modern blues and blues rock harmonica players.

Biographer Tony Glover notes Little Walter directly influenced Junior Wells, James Cotton, George “Harmonica” Smith, and Carey Bell. He includes Jerry Portnoy, Rick Estrin of Little Charlie & the Nightcats, Kim Wilson, Rod Piazza, and William Clarke among those who later studied his technique and helped popularize it with younger players.

Little Walter’s daughter, Marion Diaz Reacco, has established the Little Walter Foundation in Chicago, to preserve the legacy and genius of Little Walter. The foundation aims to create programs for the creative arts, including music, animation and video.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Little Walter among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

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1001 Jazz Licks A Complete Jazz Vocabulary For The Improvising Musician (Jack Shneidman)		1001 Jazz Licks A Complete Jazz Vocabulary For The Improvising Musician (Jack Shneidman)
101 Cançoes Que Tocaram O Brasil Nelson Motta (Book) (Brazilian Portuguese)
101 Frank Sinatra Hits For Buskers		101 Frank Sinatra Hits For Buskers
101 Mississippi Delta Blues Fingerpicking Licks Guitar and TAB by Larry McCabe		Larry McCabe – 101 Mississippi Delta Blues Fingerpicking Licks
101 Must-Know Blues Licks (Guitar Educational) (Wolf Marshall) PDF + MP3 audio tracks Play Along with Tablature		101 Must-Know Blues Licks (Guitar Educational) (Wolf Marshall)
1015 Songs – The Original Musicians’s (Musicals)		1015 Songs – The Original, Musicians’s (Musicals)
106 Songs Everybody Plays		106 Songs Everybody Plays
11 Short Classical Piano Pieces		11 Short Classical Piano Pieces
116 Arrangements Of Baroque, Classical & Ballet Pieces For Piano Solo		116 Arrangements Of Baroque, Classical & Ballet Pieces For Piano Solo
129 Easy Pieces For Piano Solo, also for beginners		129 easy pieces for piano solo
12th Street RAG – Liberace Collection Book of 5 compositions
12th Street Rag by Euday Bowman (Piano Solo sheet music, Noten, partition, partitura, spartito).mscz
150 Best Songs For Acoustic Guitar
150 More Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever (Songbook) Piano Vocal Guitar		150 More Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever (Songbook) Piano Vocal Guitar
150 Of The Best Jazz Standards Ever		150 Of The Best Jazz Standards Ever
150 Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever 3rd Edition		150 Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever 3rd Edit1 and 150 Of The Most Beautiful Songs Ever 3rd Edit2
16 Pop and Movies Hits Keyboard Piano Book (Mike Emerson)		16 Pop and Movies Hits Keyboard Piano Book (Mike Emerson)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue The Musical By Leonard Bernstein And Alan Jay Lerner Vocal Selections
17 Moments of Spring – Mgnovenia (Mikael Tariverdiev)
1812 Overture Op. 49 Thaikovsky (arr. piano solo)
1950s Jazz (Fake Book lead sheet music)		1950s Jazz (Fake Book lead sheet music)
20 Century Fox Theme Transcription By Deusde Coppen
20 Modern BEBOP Licks – by Noah Kellman All Keys with left hands chords		20 Modern BEBOP Licks – by Noah Kellman All Keys with left hands chords
200 Jazz Standards Tunes (chords progressions for C Instruments) Bob Taylor		200 Jazz Standards Tunes (chords progressions for C Instruments) Bob Taylor
200 Of The Best Songs From Jazz Of The ’50s	jazz of the 50s
2014 Top Hits Of 2014 Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar		2014 Top Hits Of 2014 Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar
2016 Top Hits Of 2016 Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar		2016 Top Hits Of 2016 Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar
2018 Greatest Pop Movie Hits Songbook For Piano		2018 Greatest Pop Movie Hits Songbook For Piano
2019 GREATEST POP MOVIE HITS SONGBOOK FOR PIANO PART 2 Piano sheet music (Jim Presley)		2019 GREATEST POP MOVIE HITS SONGBOOK FOR PIANO PART 2 Piano sheet music (Jim Presley)
2020 Greatest Pop Piano Sheet Music Book Songbooks For Piano		2020 Greatest Pop Piano Sheet Music Book Songbooks For Piano
20th Century Classics Volume 1		20th Century Classics Volume 1
20th Century Jazz Guitar by Richie Zellon (with Tablature)		20th Century Jazz Guitar by Richie Zellon
20th Century Masters Of Fingerstyle Guitar by John Stropes		20th Century Masters Of Fingerstyle Guitar by John Stropes
20th Century Piano Music – Book (1990) David Burge		20th Century Piano Music Book (1990) David Burge
24 Etudes Op.35 – Fernando Sor (1778 – 1839) (Musescore File).mscz
24_Preludes_Op.34 Shostakovich.mscz
25 Short Classical Guitar Pieces (with Tablature)		25 Short Classical Guitar Pieces
262 Classic Piano Rags Various Composers		262 Classic Piano Rags Various Composers
273 Easy And Intermediate Piano Pieces		273 Easy And Intermediate Piano Pieces contents
28 Modern Jazz Trumpet Solos Book 2		28 Modern Jazz Trumpet Solos Book 2
3.10 to Yuma (Marco Beltrami)
30 Best Rock Guitar Songs Ever (Guitar TABs)		30 Best Rock Guitar Songs Ever (Guitar TABs)
300 Sacred Songs Melody Lyrics Chords Fake Book Melody Lyrics Chords		300 Sacred Songs Melody Lyrics Chords Fake Book Melody Lyrics Chords_compressed
36 Christmas Carols Songs		36 christmas carols songs
38 Special Guitar Anthology Guitar Recorded Vers. with Tablature		38 special guitar anthology
39 Progressive Solos For Classical Guitar (with Tablature)		39 Progressive Solos For Classical Guitar
39 Progressive Solos For Classical Guitar Book 2 (with Tablature)		39 Progressive Solos For Classical Guitar Book 2 sheet music pdf
40 Easy Guitar Pieces (Painted with the Sound)
49 Most Popular Jazz Songs		49 Most Popular Jazz Songs
5 Christmas Songs Sheet Music Trumpet in B & Piano accompaniment (Viktor Dick)	5 Christmas Songs Sheet Music Trumpet in B & Piano accompaniement (Viktor Dick)
50 Broadway Shows 50 Broadway Songs		50 Broadway Shows 50 Broadway Songs
50 Classical Guitar Solos In Tablature (Howard Wallach) with Tablature		50 Classical Guitar Solos In Tablature (Howard Wallach)
50 Essential Bebop Heads Arranged For Guitar Tablature (best lines Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and more)		50 Essential Bebop Heads Arranged For Guitar Tablature (best lines Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and more)
50 Jazz Standards Every Jazz Musician Needs To Know with MP3 audio tracks to Play Along		50 Jazz Standards Every Jazz Musician Needs To Know – C version
50 Most Popular Classical Melodies (Easy Piano)		50 Most Popular Classical Melodies
50 Of The Most Beautiful Piano Love Songs Solos Ever.		50 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIANO LOVE SONGS SOLOS EVER
50 Piano Arrangements Of Hymns And Gospel Songs (Fred Bock’s Best)		50 Piano Arrangements Of Hymns sheet music
50 Piano Classics – Easy		50 piano classics
50 Riffs For Blues Guitar – Martin Shellard with MP3 audio to Play Along with Tablature		50 riffs for blues guitar
500 Piano Intros For The Great Standards – Steinway		500 piano intros
55 Country Classics (Voice, piano, Guitar)		55 Country Classics (Voice, piano, Guitar)
557 Jazz Standards (Sheet Music – in C for all instruments) swing to bop (lead sheet)		Standards (Sheet Music – Piano)
60 Progressive Solos For Classical Guitar By Mark Phillips (with Tablature)
67 Fun Songs arranged by Jon Schmidt (Piano)
70’s Hits (Easy Piano Solos) – Hans-Gunter Heumann [Piano, Vocal, Chords]
750.000 anni fa.l’Amore (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso)
75th Anniversary A Tribute In Music From The 20s Through The 90s Various Artists Warner Bros		75th Anniversary A Tribute In Music From The 20s Through The 90s Various Artists Warner Bros
78 Quarterly No 1 and 2 (1967) Book magazine
8 ½ Theme (Nino Rota)
8 Femmes (Krishna Levy)
8 Jazz scales you need to know.mscz
80 Most Requested LDS Songs (Mormon music)		80 Most Requested LDS Songs (Mormon music)
88 Piano Classics For Beginners – David Dutkanicz		88 Piano Classics For Beginners – David Dutkanicz
88 The Giants Of Jazz Piano by Robert L. Foerschuk (Book) foreword by Keith Jarrett
9 easy guitar pieces – Sveinn Eythorsson
97 Oeuvres pour Guitare de Jean Francois DELCAMP		97 Oeuvres pour Guitare de Jean Francois DELCAMP
99 Easy Piano Pieces		99 Easy Piano Pieces
A Beautiful Mind – A Kalidoscope of Mathematics
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A Beautiful Mind – Kalidoscope
A Child Is Born – Oscar Peterson (Musescore File).mscz
A Chordal Concept For Jazz Guitar by Peter O’Mara		A Chordal Concept For Jazz Guitar by Peter O’Mara
A Ciascuno il Suo (Luis Bacalov)
A Clare Benediction – John Rutter – Piano Solo Arr. (Musescore File).mscz
A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)	A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)
A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) (Musescore File).mscz
A Comparative Study Of The 24 Preludes Of A. Scriabin And Sergei Rachmaninoff (book)
A Complete Course of Instruction For The Piano-Forte (Dr Karl Merz) (1885)		Instruction…
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A Dance of Dragons – Blood of the Dragon (Game of Thrones) Piano solo arr.
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians Vol. 4 (A.D. 1450-1880) Edited in 1889