Lu Watters Catalog

1941 (age 30)

Willie Bunk Johnson, Lu Watters - Bunk & Lu   Good Time Jazz L-12024   1957

Lu Watters, 1st cornet, leader; Bob Scobey, 2nd cornet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Ellis Horne, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Russ Bennett, Clancy Hayes, banjo; Dick Lammi, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

San Francisco, CA, December 19, 1941

MLB-106	Muskrat Ramble
MLB-107	At A Georgia Camp Meeting
MLB-108	Original Jelly Roll Blues
MLB-109	Maple Leaf Rag
MLB-110	Irish Black Bottom
MLB-112	Smoky Mokes
MLB-113	Memphis Blues

Wally Rose, piano; Clancy Hayes, banjo; Bill Dart, drums.

MLB-111

Black And White Rag

** also released on Vogue (E) LAG 12121 in 1958; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12024-2 in 1990.

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings   Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2   1993

same session.

San Francisco, CA, December 19, 1941

Black And White Rag (alternate)

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, cornet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Ellis Horne, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Russ Bennett, Clancy Hayes, banjo; Squire Girsback, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

San Francisco, CA, March 29, 1942

MLB-129	High Society (alternate)
MLB-125	Daddy Do (alternate)
MLB-131	Muskrat Ramble (alternate)
MLB-123	London Cafe Blues (alternate)
MLB-122	Fidgety Feet (alternate)
MLB-124	Sunset Cafe Stomp (alternate)

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, trumpet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, bass; Bill Dart, drums.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 29, 1946

WCR-46

You Can't Shush Katie (The Gabbiest Girl In Town)

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, February, 1947

Maple Leaf Rag

** same as Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 1 - The San Francisco Style: Dawn Club Favorites, Good Time Jazz L-12001 in 1954 + Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 2 - The San Francisco Style: Watters' Originals & Ragtime, L-12002 in 1954 + Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 3 - The San Francisco Style: Stomps, Etc. & The Blues, L-12003 in 1954 + Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band 1942 Series, L-12007 in 1955 + Lu Watters And His Yerba Buena Jazz Band - "Live From The Dawn Club", Fairmont F-101 in 1973 + 30 bonus tracks.

1942

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band 1942 Series   Good Time Jazz L-12007   1955

Wally Rose, piano; Russ Bennett, Clancy Hayes, banjo; Bill Dart, drums.

San Francisco, CA, March 22, 1942

MLB-117	Hot House Rag
MLB-118	Temptation Rag

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, cornet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Ellis Horne, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Russ Bennett, Clancy Hayes, banjo; Squire Girsback, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

San Francisco, CA, March 29, 1942

MLB-120	Come Back, Sweet Papa
MLB-121	Terrible Blues
MLB-122	Fidgety Feet
MLB-123	London Cafe Blues
MLB-124	Sunset Cafe Stomp
MLB-125	Daddy Do
MLB-126	Milenberg Joys
MLB-127	Riverside Blues
MLB-128	Cake Walking Babies
MLB-129	High Society
MLB-130	Tiger Rag
MLB-131	Muskrat Ramble

** also released on Vogue (E) LAG 12123; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12007-2 in 1995.
** part of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings, Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2 in 1993.

Lu Watters - Maple Leaf Rag / Black And White Rag   Jazz Man 1 (alt.)   1942

Wally Rose, piano; Russ Bennett, Clancy Hayes, banjo; Bill Dart, drums.

San Francisco, CA, March 22, 1942

MLB-119

Black And White Rag (remake)

** also released on Jazz Man (E) 1.

1946

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 3 - The San Francisco Style: Stomps, Etc. & The Blues   Good Time Jazz L-12003   1954

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, trumpet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, bass; Bill Dart, drums.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 15, 1946

WCR-13A

Working Man Blues

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 22, 1946

WCR-22A

Chattanooga Stomp

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 6, 1946

WCR-67A	South
WCR-69A	Friendless Blues

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 13, 1946

WCR-105A

1919 Rag

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 20, 1946

WCR-114A	Sunset Cafe Stomp
WCR-124A	Panama

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 1946

WCR-144A	Triangle Jazz Blues
WCR-149A	Copenhagen
WCR-152A	Bienville Blues (aka Storyville Blues)
WCR-156A	Richard M. Jones Blues (aka All Night Blues)
WCR-158A	Weary Blues

** also released on Vogue (E) LAG 12035; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12003-2 in 1995.
** part of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings, Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2 in 1993.

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 2 - The San Francisco Style: Watters' Originals & Ragtime   Good Time Jazz L-12002   1954

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 22, 1946

WCR-20A	Big Bear Stomp
WCR-27A	Antigua Blues
WCR-36A	Sunburst Rag
WCR-40A	Trombone Rag

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 29, 1946

WCR-47A	Creole Belles
WCR-62A	Down Home Rag

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 13, 1946

WCR-103A

That's A Plenty

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 20, 1946

WCR-116A

Sage Hen Strut

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 1946

WCR-143A	Climax Rag
WCR-151A	Emperor Norton's Hunch
WCR-154A	Annie Street Rock

Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, bass; Bill Dart, drums.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, September, 1946

WC7 1/2

Harlem Rag

** also released on Vogue (E) LAG 12030; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12002-2 in 1995.
** part of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings, Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2 in 1993.

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band Vol. 1 - The San Francisco Style: Dawn Club Favorites   Good Time Jazz L-12001   1954

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, trumpet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, bass; Bill Dart, drums.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 22, 1946

WCR-38A

Canal Street Blues

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, April 29, 1946

WCR-56A

Pineapple Rag

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 6, 1946

WCR-75A	I'm Goin' Huntin'
WCR-77	Minstrels Of Annie Street
WCR-80	Ory's Creole Trombone

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 13, 1946

WCR-100A

New Orleans Joys (as New Orleans Blues)

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 20, 1946

WCR-127A

Jazzin' Babies Blues

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, May 27, 1946

WCR-142A	Pastime Rag No. 5
WCR-159A	I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
WCR-162A	Ostrich Walk

same personnel.

Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, February, 1947

	The Easy Winners
	Original Rags

** also released on Vogue (E) LAG 12025; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12001-2 in 1995.
** part of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings, Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2 in 1993.

Lu Watters And His Yerba Buena Jazz Band - "Live From The Dawn Club"   Fairmont F-101   1973

same personnel.

ABC radio broadcast, Dawn Club, San Francisco, CA, fall 1946

	That's A Plenty
	Original Jelly Roll Blues
	Muskrat Ramble
	Canal Street Blues
	Yerba Buena Strut
	Oriental Strut
	Struttin' With Some Barbecue
	Antigua Blues
	Emperor Norton's Hunch
	Ory's Creole Trombone
	Weary Blues
	Down Home Rag
	Big Bear Stomp
	Trombone Rag
	Annie Street Rock
	Get It Right

** also released on Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - On The Air, Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12057-2 in 1995.
** part of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - The Complete Good Time Jazz Recordings, Good Time Jazz 4GTJCD-4409-2 in 1993.

1947

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, Bob Helm's Riverside Roustabouts - San Francisco Style   Riverside RLP 12-213   1956

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, trumpet; Turk Murphy, trombone, vocal #3; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

WOR radio broadcast, This Is Jazz, San Francisco, CA, August 16, 1947

1. SF8	Cake Walking Babies From Home
2. SF9	Antigua Blues
3. SF10	Beale Street Blues
4. SF11	Chattanooga Stomp
5. SF12	Jazzin' Babies Blues
6. SF13	Snake Rag

Louis Armstrong, Lu Watters - Louie-Lu   Fairmont F-108   1974

Bob Scobey, Lu Watters, trumpet; Turk Murphy, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Harry Mordecai, banjo; Dick Lammi, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

WOR radio broadcast, This Is Jazz, San Francisco, CA, August 16, 1947

SF14	Pineapple Rag

1949

Santo Pecora And His Dixieland Jazz Band, Lu Watters And His Yerba Buena Jass Band - Dixieland Jamboree   Verve MGV-1008   1957

Lu Watters, trumpet; Don Noakes, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Pat Patton, banjo; Clancy Hayes, banjo, vocal; Dick Lammi, bass, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, December 7, 1949

DH1	Doin' The Hambone
DH3	Bees Knees
DH4	Aunt Hagar's Blues

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 31, 1950

DH6	High Society
DH7	Down Home Rag

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, early 1950

	Maple Leaf Rag
	Ostrich Walk
	Chanticleer

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, February 7, 1950

DH10	Muskrat Ramble

Lu Watters - Doin' The Hambone / Oh, By Jingo   Down Home 1

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, December 7, 1949

DH2	Oh, By Jingo

1950

Lu Watters - Waiting For The Robert E. Lee / Doin' The Hambone   Mercury 11025x45

Lu Watters, trumpet; Don Noakes, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Pat Patton, banjo; Clancy Hayes, banjo, vocal; Dick Lammi, bass, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 15, 1950

329-3	Waiting For The Robert E. Lee
332-2	Doin' The Hambone

** originally released on Mercury 11025.

Lu Watters And His Yerba Buena Jass Band   Down Home MGD-5   1956

same session.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 15, 1950

330-2	Sage Hen Strut
331-1	Skid-Da-De-Dat
333-1	Antigua Blues
336-1	When The Saints Go Marching In
337	Emperor Norton's Hunch
340	Copenhagen

Lu Watters, trumpet; Warren Smith, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Pat Patton, banjo; Clancy Hayes, banjo, vocal; Dick Lammi, bass, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, 1950

420	Doctor Jazz
421	Irish Black Bottom
422	Beale Street Blues
423	Shake That Thing
424	Tin Roof Blues
425	Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me
426	Royal Garden Blues
427	Sweet Georgia Brown

** also released on Verve MGV-1005 in 1957.

Lu Watters - Ace In The Hole / Weary Blues   Mercury 11026x45

Lu Watters, trumpet; Don Noakes, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Pat Patton, banjo; Clancy Hayes, banjo, vocal; Dick Lammi, bass, tuba; Bill Dart, drums.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 15, 1950

334-3	Ace In The Hole
338	Weary Blues

** originally released on Mercury 11026.

Lu Watters - Broken Promises / St. Louis Blues   Mercury 11057x45

same session.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 15, 1950

335-2	Broken Promises
339	St. Louis Blues

** originally released on Mercury 11057.

Clancy Hayes Sings Lu Watters And His Jass Band   Down Home MGD-3   1956

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, January 31, 1950

DH5	Roll, Jordan, Roll
DH8	(I Wish I Was In) Peoria

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, early 1950

St. James Infirmary

same personnel.

Hambone Kelly's, El Cerrito, CA, February 7, 1950

DH9	Frankie And Johnny
DH11	Alcoholic Blues
DH12	My Little Bimbo

** also released on Verve MGV-1003 in 1957.

1963 (age 52)

Lu Watters Jazz Band - Blues Over Bodega   Fantasy LP 5016   1964

Lu Watters, trumpet; Bob Mielke, trombone; Bob Helm, clarinet; Wally Rose, piano; Monte Ballou, banjo; Bob Short, tuba, bass; Thad Vandon as Thad Vandan, drums; Barbara Dane, vocal.

Coast Recorders, San Francisco, CA, 1963

	San Andreas Fault
	See See Rider
	The Villain
	Some Of These Days
	Blues Over Bodega
	Willie The Weeper
	Pork & Beans
	San Francisco Bay
	Emperor Norton's Hunch

** also released on Fantasy LP 85016 in 1964; Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12066-2 in 2000.

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