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「THE CHESS STORY 1947-1975」

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CD 1 : 1947-1950
 1:THE FIVE BLAZERS / Chicago Boogie
 2:JUMP JACKSON & HIS ORCHESTRA / Hey Pretty Mama
 3:TOM ARCHIA / Ice Man's Blues
 4:CLARENCE SAMUELS / Boogie Woogie Blues
 5:ANDREW TIBBS / Bilbo Is Dead
 6:SUNNYLAND SLIM / Johnson Machine Gun
 7:MUDDY WATERS / Gypsy Woman
 8:ANDREW TIBBS / I Feel Like Crying
 9:SUNNYLAND SLIM / She Ain't Nowhere
10:MUDDY WATERS / I Feel Like Going Home
11:MUDDY WATERS / I Can't Be Satisfied
12:FORREST SYKES / Tonky Boogie
13:ST.LOUIS JIMMY / Florida Hurricane
14:MUDDY WATERS / You're Gonna Miss Me
15:LEROY FOSTER / Locked Out Boogie
16:MUDDY WATERS / Streamline Woman
17:FOREST CITY JOE / A Woman On Every Street
18:LAURA RUCKER / Crying The Blues
19:DUKE JENKINS' ARISTOCRATS / Baby I'm Sick Of You
20:ROBERT NIGHTHAWK / Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
21:MUDDY WATERS / You're Gonna Need My Help
22:LITTLE JOHNNY JONES / Big Town Playboy
23:MUDDY WATERS / Screamin' And Cryin'
24:THE DOZIER BOYS / All I Need Is YOU
25:ROBERT NIGHTHAWK / Six Three O
26:MUDDY WATERS / Rollin' And Tumblin' (Part 1)

CD2 : 1950-1951
 1:MUDDY WATERS / Rollin' Stone
 2:JIMMY ROGERS / That's Alright
 3:THE DOZIER BOYS / You Got To Get IT
 4:DOC POMUS / Send For The Doctor
 5:MUDDY WATERS / Louisiana Blues
 6:JIMMY ROGERS / Goin' Away Baby
 7:SHOESHINE JOHNNY (JOHNNY SHINES) / So Glad Found You
 8:MEMPHIS SLIM / Mother Earth
 9:MUDDY WATERS / Long Distance Call
10:SAX MALLARD / Slow Caboose
11:JIMMY ROGERS / The World's In A Tangle
12:JACKIE BRENSTON / Rocket 88
13:JOHN LEE HOOKER / Leave My Wife Alone
14:MUDDY WATERS / Honey Bee
15:JACKIE BRESTON AND HIS DELTA CATS / My Real Gone Rocket
16:HOWLIN' WOLF / Moanin' At Midnight
17:HARMONICA FRANK / Howlin' Tomcat
18:BILLY LOVE / Juiced (Issued as by JACKIE BRENSTON)
19:HOWLIN' WOLF / How Many More Years
20:MUDDY WATERS / Still A Fool
21:JOHN GODFREY TRIO / Hey Little Girl
22:ROSCO GORDON / Booted
23:MUDDY WATERS / She Moves ME
24:RUFUS THOMAS / No More Doggin' Around
25:FLOYD JONES / Dark Road
26:DR.ISAIAH ROSS / Dr.Ross' Boogie

CD 3 : 1952-1954 (Part One)
 1:HOWLIN' WOLF / Mr.Highway Man
 2:BIG BOY SPIRES / Murmur Low
 3:JOHN LEE HOOKER / Walkin' The Boogie
 4:JOE HILL LOUIS / When I Am Gone (Extended Virsion)
 5:WILLIE NIX / Truckin' Little Woman
 6:JOHN LEE HOOKER / Sugar Mama
 7:LITTLE WALTER & HIS NIGHTCATS / Juke
 8:BLUE SMITTY / Date Bait
 9:JOE WILLIAMS / Every Day I Have The Blues
10:MUDDY WATERS / Standing Around Cryin'
11:LITTLE WALTER / Mean Old World
12:WILLIE MABON / I Don't Know
13:EDDIE BOYD / 24 Hours
14:MEMPHIS MINNIE / Me And My Chauffeur
15:LITTLE WALTER / Sad Hours
16:ELMORE JAMES / She Just Won't Do Right (Dust My Broom)
17:WILLIE MABON / I'm Mad
18:JOHN BRIM / Be Careful What You Do
19:LITTLE WALTER / Off The Wall
20:WASHBOARD SAM / Diggin' My Potatoes
21:THE CORONETS / Nadine
22:MITZI MARS / I'm Glad
23:DANNY OVERBEA / Forty Cups Of Coffee
24:LITTLE WALTER / Tell Me Mama
25:EDDIE BOYD / Third Degree

CD 4 : 1952-1954 (Part Two)
 1:THE BLUE JAYS / White Cliffs Of Dover
 2:LITTLE WALTER / Blues With A Feeling
 3:SUGAR BOY CRAWFORD / Jock-A-Mo
 4:MUDDY WATERS / Mad Love (I Want You To Love Me)
 5:LITTLE WALTER / You're So Fine
 6:JIMMY BINKLEY / Wine, Wine, Wine
 7:JIMMY ROGERS / Chicago Bound
 8:MUDDY WATERS / I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
 9:BIG ED & HIS COMBO (EDDIE BURNS) / Biscuit Baking Woman
10:LEON D.TARVER & THE CHORDONES / I'm A Young Rooster
11:MUDDY WATERS / Just Make Love To Me (I Just...)
12:JIMMY ROGERS / Sloppy Drunk
13:HOWLIN' WOLF / Evil
14:JIMMY WITHERSPOON / When The Lights Go Out
15:LITTLE WALTER / You Better Watch Yourself
16:LARRY LIGGETT / That Man Is Walking
17:MUDDY WATERS / I'm Ready
18:LOWELL FULSON / Reconsider Baby
19:THE MOONGLOWS / Sincerely
20:J.B.LENOIR / Mama Talk To Your Daughter
21:LITTLE WALTER / Last Night
22:OTIS SPANN / It Must Have Been The Devil
23:HOWLIN' WOLF / Fourty Four
24:BUDDY GRIFFIN & HIS ORCHESTRA / I Want To Hung You, Kiss You, Squeeze You
25:JIMMY NELSON / Free And Easy Mind
26:THE MOONGLOWS / Most Of All
27:JIMMY & JOHNNY / If You Don't Somebody Else Will

CD 5 : 1955-1956 (Part One)
 1:THE HAWKETTS / Mardi Gras Mambo
 2:JIMMY LEE & WAYNE WALKER / Love Me
 3:LITTLE WALTER / My Babe
 4:LOWELL FULSON / Check Yourself
 5:BO DIDDLEY / I'm A Man
 6:BO DIDDLEY / Bo Diddley
 7:PERCY MAYFIELD / Are You Out There ?
 8:MUDDY WATERS / Mannish Boy
 9:CHUCK BERRY / Maybellene
10:BO DIDDLEY / Diddley Daddy
11:WILLIE DIXON / Walking The Blues
12:WILLIE MABON / The Seventh Son
13:BO DIDDLEY / Pretty Thing
14:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Don't Start Me Talkin'
15:BOBBY TUGGLE / The $64,000 Question
16:LOWELL FULSON / Trouble, Trouble
17:CHUCK BERRY / Thirty Days
18:THE MOONGLOWS / In My Diary
19:BOBBY CHARLES / See You Later Alligator
20:THE RAYS / Tippity Top
21:MUDDY WATERS / Trouble No More
22:THE FLAMINGOS / I'll Be Home
23:LITTLE WALTER / Who
24:CHUCK BERRY / No Money Down
25:CHARLES "HUNGRY" WILLIAMS / So Glad She's Mine
26:JIMMY ROGERS / You're The One
27:HOWLIN' WOLF / Smokestack Lightnin'

CD 6 : 1955-1956 (Part Two)
 1:THE MOONGLOWS / We Go Together
 2:CHUCK BERRY / Roll Over Beethoven
 3:PAUL GAYTEN / You Better Believe It
 4:THE FLAMINGOS / A Kiss From Your Lips
 5:BOBBY CHARLES / Take It Easy, Greasy
 6:BO DIDDLEY / Who Do You Love
 7:THE MOONGLOWS / See-Saw
 8:CHUCK BERRY / Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
 9:MUDDY WATERS / Don't Go No Father
10:HOWLIN' WOLF / I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)
11:WILLIE DIXON / 29 Ways
12:THE FLAMINGOS / Would I Be Crying (If I Were Lying To You)
13:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Keep It To Yourself
14:CHUCK BERRY / Too Much Monkey Business
15:J.B.LENOIR / Don't Touch My Head
16:FLOYD DIXON / I'm Ashamed Of Myself
17:THE RAVENS / A Simple Prayer
18:BOBBY CISCO / Tall, Dark And Handsome Man 
19:LITTLE WALTER / Boom, Boom (Out Goes The Lights)
20:CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY / Ain't Got No Home
21:JIMMY ROGERS / Walkin' By Myself
22:THE PASTELS / Been So Long
23:MUDDY WATERS / Got My Mojo Workin'
24:CHUCK BERRY / School Day
25:THE MOONGLOWS / Please Send Me Someone To Love
26:DALE HAWKINS / Susie Q
27:MUDDY WATERS / Rock Me
28:THE MOONGLOWS / Blue Velvet

CD 7 : 1957-1959 (Part One)
 1:BO DIDDLEY / Hey Bo Diddley
 2:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes
 3:LEE ANDREWS & THE HEARTS / Long Lonely Nights
 4:BO DIDDLEY / Mona ( I Need You Baby )
 5:BILLY "CURLEY" BARRIX / Cool Off Baby
 6:T.V.SLIM / Flat Foot Sam
 7:THE TUNEWEAVERS / Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
 8:CHUCK BERRY / Rock And Roll Music
 9:BO DIDDLEY / Before You Accuse Me
10:AL KENT / That's Why I Love You So
11:CLIFTON CHENIER / My Soul
12:BILLY MIRANDA / Go Ahead
13:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Ninety Nine
14:THE MONOTONES / Book Of LOVE
15:G.L.CROCKETT / Look Out Mabel
16:HOWLIN' WOLF / Sittin' On Top Of The World
17:JIMMY McCRACKLIN / The Walk
18:EDDIE FONTAINE / Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves On The Trees)
19:THE MOONGLOWS / Ten Commandments Of Love (Full Version)
20:THE KENDALL SISTERS / Yea Yea
21:CHUCK BERRY / Sweet Little Sixteen
22:DALE HAWKINS / Tornado
23:STANLEY MITCHELL & THE TORNADOS / Four O'Clock In The Morning
24:BO DIDDLEY / Say Man
25:JIMMY McCRACKLIN / Everybody Rock (New Orleans Beat)
26:LULA REED / Anything To Say You're Mine
27:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Your Funeral And My Trail
28:HOWLIN' WOLF / Moanin' For My Baby

CD 8 : 1957-1959 (Part Two)
 1:JOHNNY FULLER / You Got Me Whistlin'
 2:EDDIE BO / Oh-Oh
 3:CHUCK BERRY / Carol
 4:DALE HAWKINS / La-Do-Dada
 5:MYLES & DUPONT / Loud Mouth Annie
 6:L.C.COOKE / Do You Remember ?
 7:LOU JOSIE / Vacation's Over
 8:LITTLE WALTER / Key To The Highway
 9:MUDDY WATERS / Close To You
10:CHUCK BERRY / Sweet Little Rock And Roller
11:BO DIDDLEY / I'm Sorry
12:RUSTY YORK / Sugaree
13:THE SONICS / This Broken Heart
14:BO DIDDLEY / Crackin' Up
15:CHUCK BERRY / Almost Grown
16:ROD BERNARD / This Should Go On Forever
17:SUGARPIE DeSANTO / I Want To Know
18:MEL ROBINS / Save It
19:CHUCK BERRY / Back In The U.S.A.
20:THE MIRACLES / Bad Girl
21:SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON / Unseeing Eye
22:HOWLIN' WOLF / Howlin' For My Darlin'
23:THE CALVAES / Anna Macora
24:LITTLE WALTER / Everything's Gonna Be Alright
25:CHUCK BERRY / Let It Rock
26:BO DIDDLEY / Road Runner
27:BOBBY SAXTON / Trying To Make A Living
28:GENE SIMMONS / Goin' Back To Memphis
29:BUDDY GUY / First Time I Met The Blues

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