B.B. King: Unreleased Recordings

The following unreleased recordings are known to exist. The recordings for Peacock and Chess records probably reflect B.B.'s intermittent dissatisfaction with the Bihari Brothers' policies which led him to explore his options with other blues-oriented record companies.

Unreleased masters held by Modern Music:

Don't Go, Pretty Baby

All of Me

Yesterday

How Long

She's Yours, She's Mine

Why Must You Accuse Me

So Much Trouble

Prove Your Love to Me

Don't Let It Shock You

Evil Child

My Love Will Never Die

Don't Care Anymore

Long Gone Baby

Changing My Ways

Your Good Lovin' Man

Love My Baby

My Baby's An Angel

Ain't Gonna Keep on Being Your Fool

Loving You in Vain

My Baby's Dynamite

My Baby Ask Me Not to Leave

What Have I Done

Worrin' Crazy

How Much You Hurt Me

Young Dreamers

Sunny Road

Running Wild

Blues at Sunrise

Somebody Has Changed the Lock on My Door

Dust My Broom

Don't Look Now

My Heart Belongs to You

And Like That

Nothing But a Fool

Give Me a Chance

You've Got My Hands Tied

Love Me Baby

Heartaches and Pain

Sometime Baby

Looking the World Over

Trouble in Mind

Lonely Lovers Plea

Baby Please Don't Go

Do the Boogie

Tell Me, Baby

Going Home

Long About Sundown

Mercy, Mercy Baby

Green and Lucky (Blue and Lonesome)

Drifting Blues

Why Not

Hey Little Girl

Don't Look Now

Long Nights (The Feeling They Call the Blues)

Making Me Blue

A Woman Don't Care

Love, Oh Love

I'm in Love With a Woman

You Won't Listen (Action Speaks Louder Than Words)

Whole Lotta Meat

Looking the World Over

I've Got the Blues

Explain

Cheatin' on Me

I Need You

You've Been So Mean

Love Me or Leave Me (Strange Things Happen)

Hard Way to Go

I Want to Write a Letter

Along About Sundown

Action Speaks Louder Than Words

How You Hurt Me

In the Middle of an Island

I've Got to Love

Walking I Do Is Wrong

Unreleased recordings made for Peacock Records in 1953:

Remember Me

What a Difference

I Don't Believe It

I Can't Put You Down

I Did Everything I Could

I've Learned My Lesson

Come on Baby Take a Swing at Me

Unreleased recordings made for Chess Records in 1958:

Don't Keep Me Waiting

Recession Blues

Tickle Britches

Don't Break Your Promise

Notes:

In The Middle of an Island can how be heard on the CD Version of B.B. King My Sweet Little Angel (VIRGIN 39103, 1992) which contains several other "previously unissued" singles. This tune is a cover of a Tennessee Earnie Ford tune that was recorded in the same session as "Please Accept My Love",  which became a #9 R& B hit in 1958.

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