The Best of Little Walter

The Best of Little Walter
Greatest hits album by
Little Walter
Released1958
RecordedMay 12, 1952 – January 25, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois[1][2]
GenreChicago blues
Length35:44
LabelChecker LP 1428[3]
ProducerLeonard Chess, Phil Chess, Willie Dixon
Little Walter chronology
The Best of Little Walter
(1958) 		Hate to See You Go
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
Record Mirror[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[7]

The Best of Little Walter is the first LP record by American blues performer Little Walter.[5] First released in 1958, the compilation album contains ten Little Walter songs that appeared in the Top 10 of the Billboard R&B chart from 1952 to 1955,[8] plus two B-sides. The album was first released by Checker Records as LP-1428, which was the first LP record released by Checker, and then released on Chess Records with the same catalog number.[3]

The album has been reissued numerous times, although it has been largely superseded by the twenty-song collection Little Walter His Best: Chess 50th Anniversary Collection.

  1. ^ George R. White; Robert L. Campbell; Tom Kelly. "The Chess Label Part I (1950–1952)". Robert Campbell. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
  2. ^ George R. White; Robert L. Campbell; Tom Kelly. "The Chess Label Part II (1953–1955)". Robert Campbell. Clemson, South Carolina: Clemson University. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Past Hall of Fame Inductees Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine. Blues Foundation. Go under 1991 Hall of Fame Inductees and click on The Best of Little Walter--Little Walter (Checker, 1958) to view the album review.
  4. ^ AllMusic
  5. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. pp. 273–274.
  6. ^ Jopling, Norman (10 October 1964). "Little Walter: The Best Of Little Watler" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 187. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  7. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 354–355.
  8. ^ Whiburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B Singles 1942-1988. Record Research. p. 613. ISBN 0-89820-068-7.