Bobby Johnson
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1927 - 1951
Roles Represented in DAHR: guitar, banjo
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Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | BVE-38115 | 10-in. | 2/25/1927 | Paradise wobble | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten ; Monette Moore | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-38116 | 10-in. | 2/25/1927 | Birmingham black bottom | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten ; Monette Moore | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-38117 | 10-in. | 2/25/1927 | Don't you leave me here | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten ; Monette Moore | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-47530 | 10-in. | 9/19/1928 | Gettin' away from me | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-47531 | 10-in. | 9/19/1928 | The boy in the boat | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-47532 | 10-in. | 9/19/1928 | Walk that thing | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-51298 | 10-in. | 5/8/1929 | Harlem drag | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-51299 | 10-in. | 5/8/1929 | Hot bones and rice | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | BVE-53600 | 10-in. | 5/8/1929 | Mo'lasses | Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo | |
| Victor | MS-031431 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Tea for two | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, guitar | |
| Victor | MS-031432 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Crazy rhythm | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, guitar | |
| Victor | MS-031433 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1939 | Blue skies | Chick Webb Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, guitar | |
| Columbia | W152577 | 10-in. | 11/24/1933 | Do your duty | Buck and his Band ; Bessie Smith | Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo, guitar | |
| Columbia | W152578 | 10-in. | 11/24/1933 | Gimme a pigfoot | Buck and his Band ; Bessie Smith | Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo, guitar | |
| Columbia | W152579 | 10-in. | 11/24/1933 | Take me for a buggy ride | Buck and his Band ; Bessie Smith | Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, banjo, guitar | |
| Columbia | W152580 | 10-in. | 11/24/1933 | I'm down in the dumps | Buck and his Band ; Bessie Smith | Female vocal solo ("blues singer"), with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, guitar | |
| Decca | 62213 | 10-in. | 5/24/1937 | All or nothing at all | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62214 | 10-in. | 5/24/1937 | If you ever should leave | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62215 | 10-in. | 5/24/1937 | Everyone's wrong but me | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62216 | 10-in. | 5/24/1937 | Deep in the heart of South | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62725 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | Just a simple melody | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62726 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | I got a guy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62728 | 10-in. | 10/27/1937 | Holiday in Harlem | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62738 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Rock it for me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62739 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Squeeze me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62740 | 10-in. | 11/1/1937 | Harlem conga | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62743 | 10-in. | 11/2/1937 | Hallelujah! | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62744 | 10-in. | 11/2/1937 | I want to be happy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62886 | 12-in. | 12/17/1937 | I want to be happy-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62887 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | The dipsy doodle-1 | Chick Webb Orchestra ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62888 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | If dreams come true | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62889 | 12-in. | 12/17/1937 | Hallelujah! | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62890 | 10-in. | 12/17/1937 | Midnite in a madhouse (Midnite in Harlem) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62896 | 10-in. | 12/21/1937 | Bei mir bist du schoen | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 62897 | 10-in. | 12/21/1937 | It's my turn now | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63225 | 10-in. | 1/25/1938 | It's wonderful | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63226 | 10-in. | 1/25/1938 | I was doing all right | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63693 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | A-tisket, a-tasket | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63694 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | Heart of mine | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63695 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | I'm just a jitterbug | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63696 | 10-in. | 5/2/1938 | Azure | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63703 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | That time it's real | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63704 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | What do you know about love? | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63705 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | You can't be mine (and someone else's too) | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63706 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | We can't go on this way | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63707 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | Spinnin' the Webb | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63708 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | Liza (All the clouds 'll roll away) | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63709 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | Saving myself for you | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63710 | 10-in. | 5/3/1938 | If you only knew | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63934 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Pack up your sins and go to the devil | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63935 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | MacPherson is rehearsin' to swing | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63936 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Everybody step | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 63937 | 10-in. | 6/9/1938 | Ella | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64459 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | Wacky dust | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64460 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | Gotta pebble in my shoe | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64461 | 10-in. | 8/17/1938 | I can't stop loving you | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64462 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | Strictly from Dixie | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64463 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | Woe is me | Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64464 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | Who ya hunchin'? | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64465 | 10-in. | 8/18/1938 | I let a tear fall in the river | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64573 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | F.D.R Jones | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64574 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | I love each move you make | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64575 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | It's foxy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 64576 | 10-in. | 10/6/1938 | I found my yellow basket | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 65039 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | Undecided | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 65040 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | T'ain't what you do | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 65041 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | In the groove at the Grove | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 65042 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | One side of me | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 65043 | 10-in. | 2/17/1939 | My heart belongs to Daddy | Chick Webb Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | ||
| Decca | 76827 | 9/11/1950 | so long, goodbye blues | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 76828 | 9/11/1950 | Skippin' and hoppin' | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 76829 | 9/11/1950 | Down beat | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 76830 | 9/11/1950 | Tennessee waltz | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 80262 | 12/6/1950 | After hours-1 | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 80263 | 12/6/1950 | No regrets | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 80264 | 12/6/1950 | Tuxedo junction-2 | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 80265 | 12/6/1950 | Bear mash blues-3 | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, trumpet | |||
| Decca | 80409 | 1/18/1951 | Love never comes around | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
| Decca | 80410 | 1/18/1951 | Nona-1 | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
| Decca | 80411 | 1/18/1951 | Please don't put me down | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar | |||
| Decca | 80412 | 1/18/1951 | Station break | Erskine Hawkins Orchestra | instrumentalist, guitar |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Johnson, Bobby," accessed May 13, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/204993.
Johnson, Bobby. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved May 13, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/204993.
"Johnson, Bobby." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 13 May 2024.
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