Jimmy McCracklin Vs. Larry Darnell

BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE FOR 11/8/26 ERWIN HELFER INTERVIEW + TESTAMENT LABEL
This week on BBS a pair of features guaranteed to keep listeners riveted to their speakers. During Hour #3 we’ll revisit a conversation with Chicago Blues pianist Erwin Helfer, who as a high school student traveled to Chicago’s southside and tutored under one of the famed Chicago House Rent pianists, Crippled Clarence Lofton. Then during Hour #4 we profile one of the great Blues revival labels, the Testament label, owned and operated by Pete Welding. The Testament catalog includes dozens of country blues artists but we’ll focus on his recordings of Chicago’s Postwar Bluesmen, made during the 1960s, ten years after their classic 1950s sides. Otis Spann, Johnny Young, Eddie Taylor, Floyd Jones, Robert Nighthawk and many others recorded for the Testament label and we’ll spin them all for you. The Testament Label – only on BBS!
HOUR #1
BROWN BOY	SPARROWS+AL SEARS
125^TH STREET NEW YORK	SPARROWS+AL SEARS
SHAKE HANDS	SPARROWS+AL SEARS
TAN SKIN LAD	SPARROWS+AL SEARS
SHE’S MINE SHE’S YOURS	JIMMY RUSHING
HI-HO SYLVESTER	JIMMY RUSHING
GO GET SOME MORE YOU FOOL	JIMMY RUSHING
SOMEBODY’S SPOILING THESE WOMEN	JIMMY RUSHING
JUMPIN’ ON SUGARHILL	HELEN HUMES
FLIPPITY FLOP FLOP	HELEN HUMES
MAD ABOUT YOU	HELEN HUMES
TODAY I SING THE BLUES	HELEN HUMES
FRETTIN’ FOR SOME PETTIN’	JESSE PRICE
JUST ANOTHER DAY WASTED AWAY	JESSE PRICE
THAT’S THE WAY SHE FEELS	JESSE PRICE
ONE O’CLOCK JUMP	DELTA RHYTHM BOYS
BYE BYE ALIBI BABY	DELTA RHYTHM BOYS
COW COW BLUES	MEADE LUX LEWIS
WHISTLING BLUES	MEADE LUX LEWIS
MY WAY’S CLOUDY	MARION ANDERSON
THE SPOT	BUDDY TATE
HOUR #2
GUITARMAMBO	MICKEY BAKER
LITTLE BY LITTLE	NAPPY BROWN
LAND THAT I LOVE	MEADE LUX LEWIS
CRYING GOOD MORNING	GRANT JONES
LET’S GET HIGH	GRANT JONES
I LOVE YOU JUST THE SAME	VARETTA DILLARD
SOUTHERN COMFORT	EDDIE CHAMBLEE
THOU SWELL	JACKIE DAVISWHOOPIE
WHOOPIE	EDDIE MILLER
YOU HAD TOO MUCH	CLARA SMITH+LONNIE JOHNSON
WHAT MAKES YOU ACT LIKE THAT	CLARA SMITH+LONNIE JOHNSON
TWO-FISTED DOUBLE JOINTED MAN	CLARA SMITH
GUITAR RAG	SYLVESTER WEAVER
I’M BUSY & YOU CAN’T COME IN	SYLVESTER WEAVER
Okeh DEMONSTRATION RECORD	ROBIN TROWER
FOUR & TWENTY ELDERS	BIRMINGHAM JUBILEE SINGERS
DANIEL PRAYED THREE TIMES A DAY	REV E.D. CAMPBELL
HONEY IN THE ROCK	FIVE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
HOUR #3
ERWIN HELFER INTERVIEW
HOUR #4
MY BABY WALKED OUT IN 1954	JOHNNY YOUNG
EVERYBODY’S FISHIN’	BIG WALTER HORTON
BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE	ROBERT NIGHTHAWK
WHAT’S ON YOUR WORRIED MIND	OTIS SPANN
GOING TO DETROIT	BIG JOHN WRENCHER
TRAIN FARE HOME	EDDIE TAYLOR
PLAYHOUSE BLUES	FLOYD JONES
BIG ROAD BLUES	HOUSTON STACKHOUSE
HOOHOO SNAKE DOCTOR	JOHNNY SHINES
MISTAKE IN LIFE	J.B. HUTTO
SWEET PATOOTIE	ERWIN HELFER+JIMMY WALKER
JESUS IS ON THE MAINLINE	MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL
WE ALL GOT TO GO	BILLY BOY ARNOLD
YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU	BIG JOHN WRENCHER
WHERE THE SOUTHERN CROSS THE DOG	COOT VINSON
SWEET LITTLE WOMAN	ROBERT NIGHTHAWK
PRISON BOUND BLUES	JOHNNNY YOUNG
TROUBLE IS ALL I SEE	JOHNNY SHINES
HOUR #5
THE BELLS OF SAN RAQUEL	MILLS BROS
BECAUSE OF RAIN	GENE AMMONS
WHY CAN’T I	SARAH VAUGHAN
YOU ARE TOO BEAUTIFUL	JOHNNY HARTMAN
BLUES ALL DAY LONG	GROOVE HOLMES
RAINING DOWN IN SUNSHINE LANE	SAVANNAH CHURCHILL
IS IT TOO LATE	SAVANNAH CHURCHILL
I’M SATISFIED	OTIS RUSH
MY BABY PLEASES ME	LITTLE MILTON
ROCKIN’ & ROLLIN’	LIL SON JACKSON
I AIN’T GOT NOBODY	JOHN LEE HOOKER
YOU GOT TO REAP WHAT YOU SOW	EDDIE BOYD
DRINDER MAN BLUES	MEMPHIS SLIM
FALLIN’ RAIN	WILLIE LOVE
ARDELLA	DAVID PETE McKINLEY
WEST HELENA ARKANSAS	GEORE HARMONICA SMITH
ALBATROSS	FLEETWOOD MAC
WESTERN UNION MAN	SONNY BOY WLLIAMSON I
NO MORE LOVERS	BIG BOY CRUDDUP
ME & MY CHAUFFEUR	MEMPHIS MINNIE
BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE	LEROY CARR
ALBATROSS	FLEETWOOD MAC