Clarence Williams' Blue Five

Clarence Williams' Blue Five were a series of recording sessions that featured some of the best Jazz musicians and Blues singers of the early 1920s. Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins and Bubber Miley all were featured as soloists, and Blues singers such as Sippie Wallace, Margaret Johnson, Virginia Liston and Williams' wife, Eva Taylor all contributed vocals. Louis Armstrong was playing in New York with Fletcher Henderson at the time these recordings were made. Clarence Williams obviously understood Louis' greatness more than Henderson and featured him on 21 of these songs.

Title	Recording Date	Recording Location	Company
Achin' Heart Blues (Clarence Williams / Clarence Johnson / Spencer Williams)	8-27-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4966
Baby, I Can't Use You No More (Sippie Wallace)	11-28-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8212-A
Black Snake Blues (Victoria Spivey / Lonnie Johnson)	4-14-1927	New York, New York	Okeh 8465
Cake Walking Babies From Home Vocal Chorus by Eva Taylor (Clarence Williams / Chris Smith / Henry Troy)	1-7-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 40321-A
Cast Away (Clarence Williams / Clarence Todd / Spencer Williams)	3-4-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 40330
Coal Cart Blues (Louis Armstrong / Lil Hardin Armstrong)	10-8-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8245-B
Get It Fixed (Clarence Williams)	12-15-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8267-B
Early In The Morning (Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet)	10-17-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8187-B
Everybody Loves My Baby (But My Baby Don't Love Nobody But Me) Vocal Chorus by Eva Taylor (Jack Palmer / Spencer Williams)	11-6-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8181-A
I'm A Little Blackbird Looking For A Bluebird (From The Musical Review, "Dixie To Broadway") (Grant Clarke / Roy Turk / George W. Meyer / Arthur Johnson)	12-17-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 40260
I've Found A New Baby (Jack Palmer / Spencer Williams)	1-22-1926	New York, New York	Okeh 8286 73957-A
I've Found A New Baby (Jack Palmer / Spencer Williams)	1-22-1926	New York, New York	Okeh 8286 73957-B
I've Got The Yes! We Have No Banana Blues (Lew Brown / James F. Hanley / Robert King)	11-10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4927
Just A Cotton Picker's Blues (Clarence Todd)	12-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8204
Just Wait 'Til You See My Baby Do The Charleston (Clarence Todd / Clarence Williams / Simmons)	10-6-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8272-A
House Rent Blues (DeKoven / Thompson)	11-14-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 8171-A
Kansas City Man Blues (Clarence Williams / Clarence Johnson)	7-30-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4925-A
Livin' High (Maceo Pinkard)	10-6-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8272-B
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (From The Musical Review, "Dixie To Broadway") (Grant Clarke / Roy Turk / George W. Meyer)	12-17-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 40260
Mean Blues (Billy Symthe / Art Gilham)	11-14-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 40006
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues (George W. Thomas)	10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4975-A
Of All The Wrongs You've Done To Me (Leyton / Smith / Davell)	11-6-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8181-B
Oh Daddy! Blues (Oh Daddy! You Won't Have No Mama At All) (William Russell / Ed Herbert)	11-10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4993-B
Old Fashioned Love (From The Musical Comedy "Runnin' Wild") (James P. Johnson / Cecil Mack)	10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4993-A
Old Folks Shuffle (Clarence Williams / Fats Waller)	4-14-1927	New York, New York	Okeh 8465
Papa-De-Da-Da (Clarence Williams / Clarence Todd)	3-4-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8215-A
Picking On My Baby (Jones / Reynolds)	1-7-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 40330
Pile Of Logs And Stone (Called Home) (Maceo Pinkard)	1-22-1926	New York, New York	Okeh 8286
Santa Claus Blues (Charley Straight / Gus Kahn)	10-8-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8245-A
Shake It Down (Charlie Jackson)	12-15-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8267-A
Shreveport Blues (A.F. Potter)	11-10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 40006
Squeeze Me (Clarence Williams / Fats Waller)	10-26-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8254-A
'Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do (Porter Grainger / Everett Robbins)	10-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4966
Temptation Blues (Reed)	12-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8204
Texas Moaner Blues (Clarence Williams / Fae Barnes)	10-17-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8171-B
Wild Cat Blues (Clarence Williams / Thomas Wiley)	7-30-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4925-B
You Can't Shush Katie (White / Creamer / Warren)	10-26-1925	New York, New York	Okeh 8342
You've Got The Right Key, But The Wrong Keyhole (Ed Green)	10-17-1924	New York, New York	Okeh 8173-A

Artist	Instrument
Ed Allen	Cornet
Louis Armstrong	Cornet
Buster Bailey	Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Sidney Bechet	Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Contrabass Sarrusophone
Floyd Casey	Drums
Buddy Christian	Banjo
Coleman Hawkins	Tenor Saxophone
Arville Harris	Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Otto Hardwick	Alto Saxophone
Leroy Harris	Banjo
Charlie Irvis	Trombone
Margaret Johnson	Vocals
Virginia Liston	Vocals
Bubber Miley	Cornet
Don Redman	Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Cyrus St. Clair	Tuba
Eva Taylor	Vocals
Aaron Thompson	Trombone
Clarence Todd	Vocals
Sippie Wallace	Vocals
Clarence Williams	Piano