TWO YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

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THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: LITTLE WALTER

TITLE: “BOSS BLUES HARMONICA:CHICAGO GOLDEN YEARS 1”

TRACK LISTING: SEE BELOW

A1 Written-By – * 2:52 A2 Written-By – 2:37 A3 Written-By – 2:49 A4 Written-By – 3:23 A5 Written-By – 3:08 A6 Written-By – 2:59 B1 Written-By – 2:47 B2 Written-By – 2:57 B3 Written-By – 3:01 B4 Written-By – 3:23 B5 Written-By – 3:08 B6 Written-By – 2:40 C1 Written-By – 2:35 C2 Written-By – 2:43 C3 Written-By – 2:52 C4 Written-By – 3:00 C5 Written-By – 2:20 C6 Written-By – 3:02 D1 Written-By – 2:48 D2 Written-By – 2:45 D3 Written-By – * 2:34 D4 Written-By – 2:45 D5 Written-By – 2:46 D6 Written-By – * 2:43 Companies, etc. Printed By – Made By – Distributed By – Credits Art Direction – Bass – (tracks: A1, B5, C1 to C4, D1, D4) Compiled By, Liner Notes – Coordinator [Album Co-ordination] – Design [Cover Design] – Drums – (tracks: A6, B1, B2), (tracks: A1, A3, A5, B3 to B6, C2 to C4, C6, D1, D3 to D6), (tracks: C1) Guitar – * (tracks: A1, A3, A5, B3 to B6, C2 to C4, D3, D6), (tracks: C1), (tracks: A6, B1, B2), (tracks: D4), (tracks: A3, A5, B3, B4, B6, D3), (tracks: D1, C1, C6, D5), (tracks: A6, B1, B2, D6), * (tracks: A1, B5, C2 to C4, C6, D1, D4 to D6) Harmonica, Vocals – Illustration – Producer – , Supervised By [Production Supervision] – Notes A French pressing of the reissue of the 2-LP 1972 Chess compilation Boss Blues Harmonica by Little Walter.

Back cover reads: Distribution VOGUE P.I.P. 93430 - Villetaneuse -- Grave et Presse En France.

Almost identical cover art to , but this version has a small Chess logo on the upper right corner and the "Chicago Golden Years" logo on the upper left corner.

LABEL: CHESS RECORDS (FRANCE)

CAT.#: 427001

YEAR: 1980

RECORD CONDITION: ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY AND PLAY GRADED. THIS I AM GRADING EX/NM- VISUALLY NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE BLACK VINYL. NO SMUDGES,FINGERPRINTS, LINES, SCRATCHES, ETC. NICE CLEAN LABELS ON BOTH SIDES. BOTH SIDES PLAY SUPER CLEAN, NO BACKGROUND AUDIO ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES OR BETWEEN TRACKS..... BOTH RECORDS PLAY SUPER CLEAN! THERE IS SOME VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THIS GATEFOLD JACKET IS IN EX/NM CONDITION. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES, NO RIPS, OR TEARS OR WRITING. NO SEAM SPLITS.

MORE INFO: THIS LP IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. FRENCH IMPORT. INCLUDES ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVES. LINER NOTES IN ENGLISH.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), known as Little Walter, was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, whose revolutionary approach to the harmonica and impact on succeeding generations earned comparisons for him to such seminal artists as , and . His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. He was inducted into in 2008 in the category Sideman, the only artist to be inducted specifically as a harmonica player.

Success[]

Jacobs made his first released recordings in 1947 for Bernard Abrams' tiny Ora-Nelle label, which operated out of the back room of Abrams' Maxwell Radio and Records store in the heart of the 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 (John Lee Williamson). Little Walter joined 's band in 1948, and by 1950 he was playing acoustic (unamplified) harmonica on Waters's recordings for . 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 (reissued on CD by 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 . 

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 on May 12, 1952. The first completed take of the first song attempted at his debut session became his first hit, spending eight weeks in the number-one position on the . The song was "", 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' 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 "" in 1955), a level of commercial success never achieved by Waters or by his fellow Chess blues artists 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 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 , a group that was already working steadily in Chicago backing . The Aces—the brothers David and Louis Myers on guitars and 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 and and drummer . Among others who worked in Little Walter's recording and touring bands in the 1950s were the guitarists and , and drummer George Hunter. Little Walter also occasionally included saxophone players in his touring bands during this period, among them the young , and 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 , , , , the Coronets, , Floyd Jones, , and . He also played on recordings for other labels, backing , , and . 

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 in 1964 has been refuted by ). The 1967 European tour, as part of the , resulted in the only known film footage of Little Walter performing. Footage of Little Walter backing and 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", "", 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 released a studio album, , featuring Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and Muddy Waters.

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