The recordings listed below are grouped by record label and listed sequentially by their release numbers. In most cases, the sequential release numbers correspond to chronological order. Shown below is the year of the release (approximate), the record label along with the release number, and the song titles (both sides).
1949
Bullet 309: Miss Martha King / When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes
Bullet 315: Got the Blues / Take a Swing with Me
1950/51
RPM 304: Mistreated Woman / B.B. Boogie
RPM 311: The Other Might Blues / Walkin' and Cryin'
RPM 317: I Am / Worry, Worry
RPM 318: My Baby's Gone / Don't You Want a Man Like Me
RPM 323: B.B. Blues / She's Dynamite
RPM 330: She's a Mean Woman / Hard-Working Woman
RPM 339: Three O'clock Blues / That Ain't the Way to Do It
1952
RPM 348: Fine-Looking Woman / She Don't Love Me No More
RPM 355: Shake It Up and Go / My Own Fault, Darling
RPM 360: Someday, Somewhere / Gotta Find My Baby
RPM 363: You Didn't Want Me / You Know I Love You
RPM 374: Story From My Heart and Soul / Boogie Woogie Woman
1953
RPM 380: Woke Up This Morning / Don't Have to Cry
RPM 386: Please Love Me / Highway Bound
RPM 391: Neighborhood Affair / Please Hurry Home
RPM 395: Why Did You Leave Me / Blind Love
RPM 403: Praying to the Lord / Please Help Me
1954
RPM 408: Love You Baby / The Woman I Love
RPM 411: Everything I Do Is Wrong / Don't You Want a Man Like Me
RPM 412: When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / Bye! Bye! Baby
RPM 416: You Upset Me Baby / Whole Lot of Love
1955
RPM 421: Sneaking Around / Everyday I Have the Blues
RPM 425: Lonely and Blue / Jump with You, Baby
RPM 430: Shut Your Mouth / I'm in Love
RPM 435: Talkin' the Blues / Boogie Rock
RPM 437: What Can I Do (Just Sing the Blues) / Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman)
1956
RPM 450: I'm Cracking Up Over You / Ruby Lee
RPM 451: Crying Won't Help You / Sixteen Tons *
RPM 451: Cryin' Won't Help You Baby / Can't We Talk It Over *
* RPM 451 issued in two versions
RPM 457: Did You Ever Love a Woman / Let's Do the Boogie
RPM 459: Dark Is the Night - Part 1 / Dark Is the Night - Part 2
RPM 468: Sweet Little Angel / Bad Luck
RPM 479: On My Word of Honor / Bim Bam Boom
1957
RPM 486: Early in the Morning / You Don't Know
RPM 490: How Do I Love You / You Can't Fool My Heart
RPM 492: I Want to Get Married / Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
RPM 494: (I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby / Be Careful with a Fool
RPM 498: I Wonder / I Need You So Bad
RPM 501: The Key to My Kingdom / My Heart Belongs to You
1958/59
Kent 301: Why Do Everything Happen to Me / You Know I Go for You
Kent 307: Don't Look Now, But You Got the Blues / Days of Old
Kent 315: Please Accept My Love / You've Been An Angel
Kent 319: The Fool / Come By Here
Kent 325: A Lonely Lover's Plea / The Woman I Love
Kent 327: Time to Say Goodbye / Every Day I Have the Blues
Kent 329: Sugar Mama / Mean Old Frisco
1960
Kent 330: Sweet Sixteen - Part 1 / Sweet Sixteen - Part 2
Kent 333: (I've) Got a Right to Love My Baby / My Fault
Kent 336: Please Love Me / Crying Won't Help You
Kent 337: Blind Love / You Upset Me Baby
Kent 338: Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman) / Every Day I Have the Blues
Kent 339: Did You Ever Love a Woman / Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman)
Kent 340: Woke Up This Morning / Sweet Little Angel
Kent 346: Good Man Gone Bad / Partin' Time *
* Kent 346 has also been listed as: Sweet Little Angel / Did You Ever Love a Woman
Kent 350: You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now / Walking Doctor Bill
Kent 351: Things Are Not the Same / Fishin' After Me
Kent 353: Bad Luck Soul / Get Out of Here
Kent 358: Hold That Train / Understand
1961
Kent 360: Someday Baby / Peace of Mind
Kent 362: Bad Case of Love / You're Breaking My Heart
1962
Kent 365: Lonely / My Sometimes Baby
Kent 372: Hully Gully (Twist) / Gonna Miss You Around Here
Kent 373: Mashed Potato Twist / Three O'clock Stomp
Kent 381: Mashing the Popeye / Tell Me Baby
Kent 383: Going Down Slow / When My Heart Beats Like A Hammer
Kent 386: Three O'clock Blues / Your Letter
Kent 387: Christmas Celebration / Easy Listening (Blues) *
* Has also been listed as Kent 412
Kent 388: Down Now / Whole Lot of Love
Kent 389: Trouble in Mind / Long Nights
Kent 390: The Road I Travel / My Reward
Kent 391: The Letter / You Better Know
Kent 392: Precious Lord / Army of the Lord
Kent 393: Rock Me Baby / I Can't Loose
Kent 396: You're Gonna Miss Me / Let Me Love You
Kent 403: Beautician Blues / I Can Hear My Name
Kent 415: The Worst Thing in My Life / Got 'em Bad
Kent 421: Please Love Me / Look at You
1965
Kent 426: Blue Shadows / And Like That
Kent 429: Just a Dream / Why Do Everything Happen to Me
Kent 435: Broken Promise / Have Mercy Baby
1966
Kent 441: Eyesight to the Blind / Just Like a Woman
Kent 445: Five Long Years / Love, Honor and Obey
Kent 447: Ain't Nobody's Business / I Wonder
Kent 450: I Stay in the Mood / Every Day I Have the Blues
1967
Kent 458: Blues Stay Away / It's a Mean World
Kent 462: The Jungle / Long Gone Baby
Kent 467: Growing Old / Bad Breaks
1968
Kent 492: Blues for Me / The Woman I Love
Kent 510: Shoutin' the Blues / The Fool
Modern 1: Please Love Me / Cryin' Won't Help You
Modern 3: Woke Up This Morning / Bad Case of Love
Modern 11: When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / You Upset Me
Modern 19: You Know I Love You / Ten Long Years (I Had a Woman)
1962
ABC 10316: I'm Gonna Sit in Till You Give in / You Ask Me
ABC 10334: My Baby's Coming Home / Blues at Midnight
ABC 10361: Sneakin' Around / Chains of Love
ABC 10367: Tomorrow Night / Mother's Love
ABC 10390: Guess Who / By Myself
ABC 10455: Young Dreams / On My Word of Honor
ABC 10486: Slowly Losing My Mind / How Do I Love You
1963
ABC 10527: How Blue Can You Get / Please Accept My Love
1964/65
ABC 10552: Help the Poor / I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way
ABC 10576: The Hurt / Whole Lot of Lovin'
ABC 10599: Never Trust a Woman / Worryin' Blues
ABC 10616: Please Send Me Someone to Love / Stop Leading Me on
ABC 10634: Every Day I Have the Blues / It's My Own Fault
ABC 10675: Night Owl / Tired of Your Jive
ABC 10710: I Need You / Never Could Be You
ABC 10724: All Over Again / The Things You Put Me Through
ABC 10754: I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water / Goin' to Chicago Blues
ABC 10766: You're Still a Square / Tormented
1966
ABC 10856: Don't Answer the Door - Part 1 / Don't Answer the Door - Part 2
ABC 10889: Waitin' for You / Night Life
BL 61004: I Don't Want You Cuttin' Off Your Hair *
* BL was the designation for "Bluesway", the ABC label devoted to blues music
1968
BL 61015: Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss
BL 61018: Losing Faith in You / I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me
BL 61019: The B.B. Jones / You Put It on Me *
* Has also been issued with "Stop Putting the Hurt on Me" on the B side
BL 61022: Get Myself Somebody / Don't Waste My Time
BL 61026: I Want You So Bad / Get Off My Back, Woman
1969
BL 61029: Why I Sing the Blues / Friends
1970
BL 61032: The Thrill Is Gone / You're Mean
BL 61035: So Exited / Confessin' the Blues
ABC 11268: Ask Me No Questions / Go Underground
ABC 11280: Chains and Things / King's Special
1971
ABC 11290: Nobody Loves Me But My Mother / Ask Me No Questions
ABC 11302: Help the Poor / Lucille's Granny
ABC 11310: Ghetto Woman / Seven Minutes
ABC 11313: Sweet Sixteen / (I Believe) I've Been Blue Too Long
ABC 11321: I Got Some Help I Don't Need / Lucille's Granny
ABC 11339: Summer in the City / Shouldn't Have Left Me
ABC 11433: Who Are You / On to Me
ABC 12029: Philadelphia / Up at 5 A.M.
ABC 12053: My Song / Friends
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