This listing of B.B.'s known recordings is not necessarily complete or entirely accurate. Much of the information listed in these pages is the work of Charles Sawyer, from his book; The Arrival of B.B. King (Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1980). Mr. Sawyer compiled his listing of recordings (1949 thru 1980) from two main sources; B.B. King's own personal record collection and the discographic reference work by Mike Leadbetter and Neal Slavin; Blues Records January, 1943 to December, 1966 (London: Hanover Books, Ltd., 1968). The authors of these pages encourage input to these lists, please e-mail us if you have any corrections and/or additions for the lists.
It is interesting to note here that during B.B. King's career he has had only one real songwriting collaborator, an obscure musician named Ferdinand Washington, known to other bluesmen as "Fats." Washington's role as B.B.'s collaborator was confined to composing lyrics. The other names that frequently appear as co-composers of many of B.B.'s early songs, such as "Josea," "Taub" and "Ling," are not collaborators at all. They are cryptonyms used by the record company who registered the copyrights of the material in order to allow the company to keep half of the composer's royalties due to B.B.
It is interesting to note here that during B.B. King's career he has had only one real songwriting collaborator, an obscure musician named Ferdinand Washington, known to other bluesmen as "Fats." Washington's role as B.B.'s collaborator was confined to composing lyrics. The other names that frequently appear as co-composers of many of B.B.'s early songs, such as "Josea," "Taub" and "Ling," are not collaborators at all. They are cryptonyms used by the record company who registered the copyrights of the material in order to allow the company to keep half of the composer's royalties due to B.B.
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