B.B. King: Single Releases

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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