Big Maybelle Okeh Sessions 2xLP 1983 Promo Whole Lotta Shakin Jump Blues
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Big Maybelle Okeh Sessions 2xLP 1983 Promo Whole Lotta Shakin Jump Blues
Big Maybelle, Big Joe Turner & other Blues Shouters & Jump Blues players lead straight to Rock n Roll..Essential
The album The Okeh Sessions, released on the Epic label, won the 1983 W.C. Handy Award for "Vintage or Reissue Album of the Year (U.S.)". In 2011, she was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame.
Columbia's vintage compilation of Maybelle's best Okeh sides. It covers everything from sassy numbers like "Gabbin' Blues" and "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" to ballads like "Ain't No Use" and "You'll Be Sorry" to the original version of the soon-to-be rock & roll classic "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On." Superlative liner notes from Peter Guralnick put her story in perfect perspective and makes this one the collection to beat.
Her version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" was included in the soundtrack for Fallout 4 as part of the Diamond City Radio playlist.
Mabel Louise Smith (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972), known professionally as Big Maybelle, was an American R&B singer. She received Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999.
In 1952, she was signed by Okeh Records, whose record producer Fred Mendelsohngave her the stage name 'Big Maybelle' because of her loud yet well-toned voice. Her first recording for Okeh, "Gabbin' Blues", was a number 3 hit on the Billboard R&B chart, and was followed up by both "Way Back Home" and "My Country Man" in 1953.
In 1955, she recorded the song "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", produced by up-and-coming producer Quincy Jones, a full two years before rockabilly then rock and roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis's version. Lewis credited Smith's version as being the inspiration to make his version much more louder, raunchy and raucous, with a driving beat and a spoken section with a come-on that was considered very risque for the time.
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (sometimes rendered "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On") is a song written by Dave "Curlee" Williams and sometimes also credited to James Faye "Roy" Hall. The song was first recorded by Big Maybelle, though the best-known version is the 1957 rock and roll/rockabilly version by Jerry Lee Lewis.
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