Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years

Discography

103 Discography This chapter documents all known published recordings by Wade Mainer and includes all available information about each session. All early titles from 1935 through matrix BS 011823 (2 August 1937) appear on the boxed compact disc set J.E. Mainer[,] The Early Years, JSP Records JSP77118, and a forthcoming set that will contain remaining pre–World War II performances. Sessions by J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers without Wade are omitted here; solo performances by others without Wade are included when they constitute part of a Wade Mainer session. All titles made through 1953 originally appeared as 78 rpm 10” discs. Some 1951 King couplings may have appeared as both 78 and 45 rpm singles. Montgomery Ward issues through M-7480 are credited to Mainer’s Mountaineers. Montgomery Ward also applied the credit to performances by (and credited to) J.E. Mainer on Bluebird, whether or not they included Wade. Composer credits appear on post–World War II records only. Releases indicated in italics are 33 1/3 or 45 rpm pressings or compact discs (CD). All releases after 1953 are in one or another of these formats; 45 rpm discs and CDs are noted; all others are 33 1/3. These labels are cited, some with abbreviations: AL [Audio Lab] (33) Bb [Bluebird] (78) Blue Ridge (78) County (33, CD) Dust-to-Digital (CD) Gusto (CD) IRMA (33) June Appal (CD) King (78, 33, 45) Knob (45) discography 104 MW [Montgomery Ward] (78) OH [Old Homestead] (33, CD) RCA [RCA Victor] (all formats) Revenant (CD) RZ [Regal Zonophone] (78) G series: Australia MR series: England Twin (India, 78) Vi [Victor] (78) Yazoo (CD) J.E. MAINER’S MOUNTAINEERS BS 94328-1 Ship Sailing Now Bb B-6088, MW M-4714, OH OHCD-4013 (CD) BS 94329-1 This World Is Not My Home [Zeke Morris solo] Bb B-6088, MW M-4714 BS 94330-1 Maple On the Hill Bb B-6065, MW M-4969, RCA 20-3241, DJ606, 8416-2 (CD), RZ G22837 BS 94331-1 Take Me In the Lifeboat Bb B-6065, MW M-4969, RZ G22837 Wade Mainer-vocal, banjo; Zeke Morris-tenor vocal, guitar Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta, 6 August 1935 Regal Zonophone G22837 as MELODY MOUNTAINEERS BS 94332-1 Seven and a Half (1) Bb B-6792, MW M-7009, 8416-2 (CD) BS 94333-1 New Curly Headed Baby (2,3) Bb B-6104, MW M-4970 BS 94338-1 Let Her Go, God Bless Her (1,3,4) Bb B-6104, MW M-4970 BS 94339-1 City On the Hill (1,2,3,4) Bb B-6160, MW M-4711, OH 194 (33), OHCD-4013 (CD) 105 discography BS 94340-1 The Longest Train (1,3,4) Bb B-6222, MW M-7005 BS 94341-1 Write a Letter to Mother (2,3,4) Bb B-6194, MW M-4716 BS 94342-1 Lights In the Valley (1,2,3,4) Bb B-6160, MW M-4711, RCA 20-3241, OH 194 (33), OHCD4013 (CD) J.E. Mainer-fiddle, (1)vocal; Wade Mainer-banjo, (2)vocal; Zeke Morris-guitar, (3)vocal; Daddy John Love-guitar, (4)vocal Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta, 6 August 1935 WADE MAINER-ZEKE MORRIS BS 99133-1 Come Back To Your Dobie Shack (1) Bb B-6551, MW M-4719 BS 99134-1 Just As the Sun Went Down [Zeke Morris solo] Bb B-6383, MW M-4718 BS 99135-1 What Would You Give In Exchange Bb B-8073, MW M-7134, OH OHCD-4013 (CD) BS 99136-1 A Leaf From the Sea (1) Bb B-6347, MW M-4713 BS 99137-1 Brown Eyes Bb B-6347, MW M-4713 Wade Mainer-vocal, banjo, (1)harmonica; Zeke Morris-tenor vocal, guitar Charlotte, 14 February 1936 BS 99138-1 Maple On the Hill— Part 2 (Drifting To That Happy Home) Bb B-6293, MW M-4710 BS 99139-1 Going To Georgia (1) Bb B-6423, MW M-4719 BS 99140-1 Nobody’s Darling But Mine Bb B-6423 discography 106 BS 99141-1 Mother Came To Get Her Boy From Jail Bb B-6383, MW M-4718, OH OHCD-4013 (CD) BS 99142-1 Where the Red, Red Roses Grow (1) Bb B-6293, MW M-4718, Twin FT8094 Wade Mainer-vocal, banjo, (1)harmonica; Zeke Morris-tenor vocal, guitar Charlotte, 15 February 1936 J.E. MAINER’S MOUNTAINEERS BS 102600...