One of the great voices in R&B, Big Maybelle was able to cover the full range of emotional songs from joyus uptempo rockers to soulful ballads and sweet pop. This collection presents her classic SAVOY recordings featuring the cream of New York session players as well as some hard to find LIVE performances and the rare CUB LP under the alias "Mamie Webster"........................
Disc: 1
LIVE (Allen Freed R&R Show)
1. Ring Dang Dilly
2. Candy
BIG MAYBELLE SINGS (1957)
3. All of Me
4. Stay As Sweet As You Are
5. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
6. Say It Isn't So
7. Rock House
8. If I Could Be with You
9. Jim
10. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
11. I Could Make You Care
12. I Don't Want to Cry
BLUES CANDY & BIG MAYBELLE (1957)
13. Pitiful
14. There, I've Said It Again
15. Candy
16. So Long
17. Ramblin' Blues
18. Blues Early, Early (Parts 1 & 2)
19. Ring Dang Dilly
20. That's a Pretty Good Love
21. Mean to Me
22. Tell Me Who
CHRISTMAS 45 (1957)
23. Silent Night
24. White Christmas
Disc: 2
THE BLUES- MAMIE WEBSTER SINGS WC HANDY (1958)
1. Beale Street Blues
2. Careless Love
3. St Louis Blues
4. Memphis Blues
5. Joe Turner Blues
6. Yellow Dog Blues
7. The Basement Blues
8. The Hesitating Blues
9. Ole Miss Blues
10. Friendless Blues
11. Way Down South Where the Blues Began
12. Harlem Blues
LIVE FROM "JAZZ ON A SUMMERS DAY" (1959)
13. Let's Roll It (I Ain't Mad at You)
14. Cherry
15. One Hour
16. Baby Please Don't Go
17. The Blues
LAST SAVOY SESSION (1959)
18. Going Home Baby
19. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
20. I Ain't Got Nobody
21. I Understand
22. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
23. Some of These Days
24. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
