The first Duke label was yellow and purple. Bottom 2/3 of label is yellow, top 1/3 is purple with
"DUKE"
above center hole in yellow on purple. Printing is purple. Second label is similar to the first except there
is
a purple band around the perimeter of the yellow lower two thirds. Third label is orange blending to
yellow
around the center hole, printing in black, DUKE above the center hole in white. Forth label was green,
with DUKE in yellow above the center hole, top hat to the left of the Duke logo and white gloves to the
right. Distributed by ABC/Dunhill Records at bottom.
Duke issued several stereo albums, but
the earliest of these was rechanneled. The original issue of The Best of Bobby Bland [Duke
DLPS-84] featured some true stereo, but the reissue on ABC [DLPX-84] is all mono. Albums known to
have been issued in stereo have the "DLPS-" prefix; the "DLP-" prefix indicates the LP was originally
mono only.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an
information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no
association with Duke Records, which we believe is currently owned by Universal Music Group. Should
you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this discography (which are all out of print), we suggest
you
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DUKE ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
10 Inch LPs:
LP-70 - Johnny Ace Memorial Album - Johnny Ace [3/55] Original label is yellow and
purple (First Label). Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-71. Pledging My Love/Never Let Me
Go/Saving
My Love For You/Please Forgive Me//The Clock/Cross My Heart/Angel/My Song
12 Inch LPs:
DLP-71 - Memorial Album for Johnny Ace - Johnny Ace [7/57] Original cover was
orange
with a black vertical band on the left side, there is a picture of Johnny Ace. Original label was the purple
and yellow with purple band (Second Label). Pledging My Love/Don't You Know/Never Let Me Go/So
Lonely/I'm Crazy Baby/My Song//Saving My Love For You/The Clock/How Can You Be So Mean/Still
Love
You So/Cross My Heart/Anymore
DLP-71 - Johnny Ace Memorial Album - Johnny Ace [1961] Cover is light red, with an
Ace
playing card. Picture of Johnny Ace in a heart on the playing card. Original label was orange. Pledging
My
Love/Don't You Know/Never Let Me Go/So Lonely/I'm Crazy Baby/My Song //Saving My Love For
You/The Clock/How Can You Be So Mean/Still Love You So/Cross My Heart/Anymore
DLP-72 - Blues Consolidated - Bobby Bland and Junior Parker [5/58] Original label was
the purple and yellow with purple band (Second Label). Reissued with orange label. Reissued in 1974
as
ABC/Duke DLPX-72 as The Barefoot Rock and You Got Me. Next Time You See Me - Little
Junior
Parker/Mother-in-Law Blues - Little Junior Parker/Barefoot Rock - Little Junior Parker/That's Alright -
Little
Junior Parker/Wondering - Little Junior Parker/Sitting and Thinking - Little Junior Parker //It's My Life,
Baby
- Bobby "Blue" Bland/I Smell Trouble - Bobby "Blue" Bland/Farther Up the Road - Bobby "Blue"
Bland/Sometime Tomorrow - Bobby "Blue" Bland/You Got Me (Where You Want Me) - Bobby "Blue"
Bland/Loan a helping Hand - Bobby "Blue"
Bland
DLP-73 - Like 'Er Red Hot - Various Artists [1960] Original label was the purple and
yellow with purple band (Second Label). Reissued with orange label. Reissued with green label.
Reissued
in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-73. So Tough - Original Casuals/Just Before Dawn - Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown/Hound Dog - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton/Hold Me Tenderly Bobby "Blue" Bland/Tell Me
Why -
Rob Roys/Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace //Farther Up the Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland/Slop Time -
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown/Next Time You See Me - Little Junior Parker/Just to Hold My Hand - Paul
Perryman/Dance With Me - El Toros/If I - Ernie Harris
DLPS-74 - Two Steps From The Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1961] Original label was
the purple and yellow with purple band (Second Label). Reissued with orange label. There are red wax
copies with the orange label. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-74. Two Steps From the Blues
(E)/Cry Cry Cry (E)/I'm Not Ashamed (E)/Don't Cry No More (E)/Lead Me On (E)/I Pity the Fool (E)//I've
Got to Forget You (E)/Little Boy Blue (E)/St. James Infirmary (E)/I'll Take Care of You (E)/I Don't Want
No
Woman (E)/I've Been Wrong So Long (E)
DLPS-75 - Here's The Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1962] Stereo content not known.
Original label was the purple and yellow with purple band (Second Label). Reissued with orange label.
Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-75. 36-22-36/You're the One (That I Adore)/Turn on Your Love
Light/Who Will the Next Fool Be/You're Worth It All/Blues in the Night //Your Friends/Ain't that Loving
You/Jelly Jelly Jelly/Twistin' Up the Road/Stormy Monday Blues
DLP-76 - Driving Wheel - Junior Parker [1962] Original label was orange. Reissued in
1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-76. Driving Wheel/I Need Love So Bad/Foxy Devil/Someone Broke This Heart
of Mine/How Long Can This Go On/Yonders Wall//Annie Get Your Yo-Yo/Tin Pan Alley/Someone
Somewhere/Seven Days/The Tables Have Turned/Sweet Talking Woman
DLPS-77 - Call On Me - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1963] Stereo content not known. Original
label was orange. Reissued in 1974 with green label as ABC/Duke DLPX-77. Call on Me/The Feeling is
Gone/Honky Tonk/Cry, Lover, Cry/Wishing Well/Share Your Love with Me //That's the Way Love Is/Care
for Me/No Sweeter Girl/Bobby's Blues/Ain't It a Good Thing/Queen for a Day
DLPS-78 - Ain't Nothing You Can Do - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1964] Stereo content not
known. Original label was orange. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-78. Ain't Nothing You Can
Do/If I
Hadn't Called You Back/Today/Steal Away/After It's Too Late/ I'm Gonna Cry //Loneliness Hurts/When
You Put Me Down/If You Could Read My Mind/Reconsider/Black Night/Blind Man
DLPS-79 - Soul Of The Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1966] Stereo content not known.
Original label was orange. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-79. I Can't Stop/Back in the Same Old
Bag/Deep in My Soul/Reach Right Out/Ain't Nobody's Business //Fever/Too Late For Tears/Let's Get
Together/Soul Stretch/Dear Bobby (The Note)/Playgirl
DLP-80
DLP-81
DLPS-82 - Blues That Gave America Soul - Various Artists [1966] Reissued in 1974 as
ABC/Duke DLPX-82.
DLPS-83 - Best Of Junior Parker - Junior Parker [1967] Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke
DLPX-83. Next Time You See Me/Mother-in-Law Blues/Peaches/Sweet Home Chicago/That's
Alright/Five
Long Years //Driving Wheel/Stand by Me/Yonders Wall/Annie Get Your Yo-Yo/Things I Use to
Do/Goodbye Little Girl
DLPS-84 - Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1967] Stereo content not
known for original pressing, but some tracks were stereo. 1974 reissue on ABC [DLPX-84] is all mono.
Original label was orange. Poverty/I Smell Trouble/Some-Day/I'll Take Care of You/I Pity the Fool/Cry
Cry
Cry //Turn on Your Love Light/Call on Me/Ain't Nothing You Can Do/If You Could Read My Mind/Farther
Up the Road/Stormy Monday
DLP-85
DLPS-86 - Best Of Bobby "Blue" Bland Volume 2 - Bobby "Blue" Bland [3/68] Stereo
content not known. Original label was orange. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-86. 36-22-36/I
Can't
Put You Down/I Lost Sight of the World/It's My Life Baby/I Don't Believe //Two Steps From the
Blues/You've Got Bad Intentions/Queen for a Day/I Learned My Lesson/Blind Man
DLP-87
DLPS-88 - Touch Of The Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1967] Stereo content not known.
Original label was orange. Reissued in 1974 as ABC/Duke DLPX-88. Touch of the Blues/Set Me
Free/That Did It/Road of Broken Hearted Men/Sweet Loving//Driftin' Blues/Sweet Lips of Joy/Sad
Feeling/Shoes/One Horse Town
DLPS-89 - Spotlighting The Man - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1967] Reissued in 1974 as
ABC/Duke DLPX-89. Chains Of Love/Georgia/Since I Fell For You/Who Can I Turn To/Wouldn’t You
Rather Have Me//Rockin’ In The Same Old Boat/I’m On My Way/Ask Me ‘Bout Nothing But The
Blues/You Ought To Be Ashamed/Gotta Get To Know You
DLPX-90 - If Loving You Is Wrong - Bobby "Blue" Bland
DLPX-91 - Duke-Peacock Remembers Joe Hinton - Joe Hinton
DLPX-92 - Introspective Of The Early Years - Bobby Bland [1970] (2-LP set) Disc
1: I Smell Trouble/I Just Got To Forget You/I’ve Been Wrong So Long/Two Steps From The
Blues/You’re The One/Who Will The Next Fool Be//You’re Worth It All/Blues In The Night/Sometime
Tomorrow/Share Your Love With Me/Road Of Broken Hearted Men/Someday; Disc 2: Touch Of
The Blues/That Did It/One Horse Town/Chains Of Love/Since I Fell For You/Who Can I Turn To//If I
Hadn’t Called You Back/Loneliness Hurts/Black Night/Blind Man/Save Your Love For Me/Ask Me
‘Bout
Nothing
RELATED ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
ABC
ABCX-784 - 14 Golden Recordings From the Historic Vaults of Duke/Peacock Records -
Various Artists [1973] All tracks mono. Ain't Nothing You Can do - Bobby Bland/So Tough -
Casuals/Pledging my Love - Johnny Ace/Hound Dog - Willie Mae Thornton/Next Time You See Me -
Junior Parker/Dance with Me - El Torros/Just Before Dawn - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown//Ace of
Spades
- O.V. Wright/Tell Me Why - Rob Roys/Annie Get Your Yo-Yo - Junior Parker/Further Up the Road -
Bobby
Bland/Treat Her Right - Roy Head/Never Let Me Go - Johnny Ace/Funny - Joe Hinton
ABCX-789 - 14 Golden Recordings From the Historic Vaults of Duke/Peacock Records Volume 2
-
Various Artists [1973] All tracks mono. Jelly, Jelly, Jelly - Bobby Bland/Anymore - Johnny
Ace/Jivin' Woman - Junior Parker/Sockin' I-2-3-4 - John Roberts/Today Will Be Yesterday, Tomorrow -
Lamp Sisters/Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Ernie Kdoe/Driving Wheel - Paulette Parker //St.
James
Infirmary - Bobby Bland/You Gonna Make Me Cry - O.V. Wright/Stuff - Jeanette Williams/A Good man Is
Hard to Find - Willie Mae Thornton/Love and Peace of Mind - Insights
AC-30010 - The ABC Collection - Junior Parker [1976] Sometimes/I'm Holding
On/Stranded/Dangerous Woman/You're On My Mind/I'll Forget About You/In the Dark/It's a Pity //Last
Night/Strange Things Happening/Jivin' Woman/Cryin' For My Baby/These Kind of Blues, Part 1 and
2/Man
or Mouse/Get Away Blues
FAIRWAY
BBB-1400 - Bobby (Blue) Bland's Greatest Hits - Bobby "Blue" Bland [1970s?] Farther
Up
The Road (M)/Little Boy Blue (M)/I'm Not Ashamed (M)/I'll Take Care Of You (M)/Lead Me On (M)/Cry
Cry
Cry (M)/I Pity The Fool (M)/Turn On Your Love Light (S)//Ain't That Lovin' You (S)/Yeild Not To
Temptation
(S)/Stormy Monday Blues (S)/That's The Way Love Is (M)/Call On Me (M)/I'm Too Far Gone (E)/Chains
Of Love (S)/Don't Cry No More (M)
ROUNDER
2031 - Angels in Houston: The Legendary Duke Blues Recordings - Various Artists
[1982]
Good Time Charlie, Part 1 - Bobby Bland/Yield Not to Temptation - Bobby Bland /Teach Me How to Love
You - Bobby Bland /Ain't Doing Too Bad, Part 1 - Bobby Bland/Blue Monday - James Davis /Your Turn
To
Cry - James Davis /Bad Dream - James Davis //Texas Flood - Larry Davis/I Tried - Larry Davis /Angels
in
Houston - Larry Davis /Crazy, Crazy Loving - Fenton Robinson/As the Years Go Passing By - Fenton
Robinson /Tennessee Woman - Fenton Robinson/You've Got to Pass This Way Again - Fenton
Robinson
ACE (UK)
CHD 161 - Gatemouth Brown: The Duke Peacock Story Volume 1 - Gatemouth Brown [1986] Boogie
Rambler/Justice Blues/Atomic Energy/Two O'clock in the Morning/Mary is Fine/Didn't Reach My Goal/I
Live the Life/My Time is Expensive //She Walks Right In/I've Been Mistreated/Win With Me Baby/Just
Got
Lucky/Mercy on Me/Too Late Baby/Taking My Chances/It Can Never Be That Way
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