I have a fair few Little Milton 45s in my collection, and after this year's trip to the Deep South I now have a few more as you will see as we move on through the month.
Most of the 45s I have of his are on Checker, this is the first one I have picked up on the Bobbin label. It's an early one, released around February 1959. Consulting his singles catalog on 45cat it would appear his very first single was released on Sun on Christmas Eve 1953. He would carry on recording and performing pretty much right up until has death in 2005. According to Discogs he had been born James Milton Campbell Jr. but legally dropped the "James" after he discovered he had a half brother of that name.
Bobbin is a cute name for a label I think. Discogs again enlightened me that Milton co-founded it in 1958 with KATZ radio manager Bob Lyons. It was eventually bought by Chess and absorbed into the Checker label where Little Milton would go on to release so many great singles in the sixties.
Both the label and vinyl of this 45 look pretty worn, not surprising really as it had not long celebrated its 65th birthday when I found it in one of the boxes of second hand singles out the back of Shangri-La Records. It plays remarkably well though
The A side is Long Distance Operator which is a fine upbeat number but I'm going to feature the more bluesy B side here because it has just a little more background noise which I think can add a bit of charm to the listening experience, and seems entirely appropriate for a 65 year old record.
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