Harmonica Frank Floyd 78 rpm / 45 rpm / LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	1951	HARMONICA FRANK - Swamp Root (U-80) - Going Away Walkin' (U-81) # rec. July 15, 1951 in Memphis, TN; Harmonica Frank, voc, g, # hca	Chess 1475
2	1951	HARMONICA FRANK - Swamp Root (U-80) - Step It Up And Go (U-82) # rec. July 15, 1951 in Memphis, TN; Harmonica Frank, voc, g, # hca	Chess 1475
3	1952	HARMONICA FRANK - Howlin' Tomcat (1505A) # - She's Done Moved (1504B) rec. prob. November 1951 in Memphis, TN; Harmonica Frank, voc, g, # hca	Chess 1494
		- Howlin' Tomcat (alt tk) # - Christmas Time Again * rec. prob. November 1951 in Memphis, TN; Harmonica Frank, voc, g, hca; * unknown instrumentation	Sun/(Chess) unissued # Puritan 3003 (1973)
4	1954	HARMONICA FRANK - Rockin' Chair Daddy (U-125) # - The Great Medical Menagerist (U-124) rec. prob. November 1951 in Memphis, TN; Harmonica Frank, voc, g, # hca	Sun 205
5	1958	F&L F-100 FRANK FLOYD With Musical Accom. - Rock A Little Baby (F-304) # LARRY KENNON With Musical Accom. - Monkey Love (F-303) * Mimosa 205 HARMONICA FRANK & HIS BAND - Rock A Little Baby # LARRY KENNON WITH HARMONICA FRANK - Monkey Love * rec. poss. February 13, 1958 in Memphis, TN; Frank Floyd, g, # voc; Larry Kennon, * voc; b; dr	F&L F-100 [Frank & Larry] = Mimosa 205 (197?)
6	196?	Blues Classics Volume 3 Lonnie Coleman - Old Rock Island Blues Robert Lockwood - Little Boy Blue Wright Holmes - Alley Blues The Delta Boys - You Shouldn't Say That - Black Gal Swing Barbeque Bob - Ease It To Me Blues Walter Roland - 45 Pistol Blues - Every Morning Blues Willie McTell - Kill It Kid Kid Stormy Weather - Short Haired Blues Casey Bill -WPA Blues Harmonica Frank - Tom Cat Blues [Chess 1494] Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues Black Boy Shine - Sugarland Blues Son Bond - 80 Highway Willie McTell - Broke Down Engine	Blues Classics BC 7 Blues Classics discography
7	196?	Memphis And The Delta - 1950s Houston Boines - Relation Blues Luther Huff - Bull Dog Blues Junior Brooks - She's A Little Girl Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Walking [Chess 1475] Forest City Joe - Memory Of Sonny Boy Roosevelt Sykes - West Helena Blues Joe Hill Louis - I Feel Like A Million Sunnyland Slim - Going Back To Memphis Boyd Gilmore - Rambling On My Mind Drifting Slim - Good Morning Blues Willie Love - Seventy Four Blues James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues Baby Face Turner - Gonna Let You Go Elmore James - Please Find My Baby	notes by Paul Oliver Blues Classics BC 15 Blues Classics discography
8	1966	Memphis ....On Down the post-war blues volume 2 Jimmy & Walter (Walter Horton & Jimmy De Berry) - Easy Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae - When I Am Gone Willie Love & His Three Aces - Nelson Street Blues - V-8 Ford Levi Seabury & His Band - Motherless Child Blues Charley Booker - Moonrise Blues - Charley's Boogie Woogie Harmonica Frank - She's Done Moved [Chess 1494] Junior Brooks Lone Town Blues Drifting Slim - My Little Machine - Down South Blues Luther Huff - Dirty Disposition - 1951 Blues Boyd Gilmore - Take A Little Walk With Me - All In My Dreams	notes by Mike Rowe The Post War Blues pwb 2 PWB discography
9	1971	Harmonica Frank - Swamp Root [Chess 1494] - Step It Up And Go [Chess 1494] - Great Medical Menagerist [Sun 215] - Rockin' Chair Daddy [Sun 215]	45 rpm EP D&L
10	1973	Genesis Vol. 2 The Beginnings of Rock: From Memphis to Chicago Album 1 (6499 432) Sonny Boy Williamson - Work With Me - Don't Start Me To Talking - All My Love In Vain - Good Evening Everybody - You Killing Me (On My Feet) - Let Me Explain - I Know What Love Is All About Sonny Boy Williamson - I Wonder Why - Your Imagination Elmore James - Country Boogie - My Best Friend - I See My Baby - She Just Won't Do Right - Muddy Shoes Album 2 (6499 433) Ethel Mae - Down The Line - Handsome Lover - Sugar Papa Robert Nighthawk - Good News - Six Three O - Prison Bound Forrest City Joe - Mean Mistreatin' Woman Forrest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues Howlin' Wolf - I'm Not Joking - Moanin' At Midnight - How Many More Years - All Night Long - No Place To Go Album 3 (6499 434) Jackie Brenston - Rocket "88" Doctor Ross - Country Clown - Doctor Ross Boogie Willie Nix - Truckin' Little Woman - Just One Mistake Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Open Your Book - Tears In My Eyes (C-1023 [alt.]) Woodrow Adams - Pretty Baby Blues - She's Done Come And Gone Joe Hill Louis - Dorothy Mae - When I Am Gone Harmonica Frank - Swamp Root [Chess 1475] - Howlin' Tomcat [Chess 1494] - She Done Moved [Chess 1494] Album 4 (6499 435) Sonny Boy Williamson - Keep It To Yourself - Please Forgive (Keep It To Yourself) - The Key To Your Love Howlin' Wolf - Baby How Long - Evil Is Goin' On - Forty Four - Who Will Be Next Howlin' Wolf - I Have A Little Girl - Come To Me Baby - Don't Mess With My Baby - Smokestack Lightning - You Can't Be Beat - So Glad - Break Of Day compiled by Mike Leadbitter & Neil Slaven	4 LP box set Chess 6641 125 (UK Phonogram)
11	1973	Memphis Blues At Sunshine / Memphis Blues At Sunrise Joe Hill Louis - Gotta Let You Go - Glamour Girl - Boogie In The Park Billy "The Kid" Emerson - We Gonna Rock Tonight (prev. unissued) - Chop Chop (prev. unissued) [Drop Top] - Shake It (prev. unissued) Walter Horton - Little Walter's Instrumental (prev. unissued) Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years (alt tk) Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man (alt tk) - Crazy About My Baby (Crazy About You Baby) Walter 'Tang' Smith - Every Monday Morning (prev. unissued) Raymond Hill - Hold Me Baby (prev. unissued) - Did You Ever Loved A Woman (Have You Ever Loved A Woman) (prev. unissued) Johnny London - Flat Tire (instr) - Drivin' Slow (instr) Harmonica Frank - She Don't [sic] Moved [Chess 1494] "(in agreement with Collector Records)" label has "Memphis Blues At Sunrise", cover says "Memphis Blues At Sunshine"; on back cover sides A and B reversed	Redita RLP 105 (NL) [first series] BU 107,23
12	1973/74	The Great Original Recordings of Harmonica Frank 1951 - 58 - Swamp Root [Chess 1475] - Step It Up and Go [Chess 1475] - Rock A Little Baby [F&L 100] - Howlin' Tomcat [Chess 1494] - Goin' Away Walkin' [Chess 1475] - The Great Medical Menagerist [Sun 205] - She Done Moved [Chess 1494] - Monkey Love [F&L 100] - Howlin' Tomcat (alt tk) [previously unissued] - Rockin' Chair Daddy [Sun 205] prod. by Dave Samuelson	notes (April 1973) by Steve LaVere Puritan 3003
13	1974	The Sun Story 1952 - 1968 Feelin Good Rufus Thomas Jimmy DeBerry & Walter Horton Little Junior Parker's Blue Flames Joe Hill Louis Billy The Kid Emerson The Prisonaires The Five Tinos Frank Frost Hillbilly Fever Harmonica Frank Floyd - The Great Medical Menagerist [Sun 205] Carl Perkins Warren Smith The Miller Sisters Eddie Bond Dane Stinit The Memphis Beat Billy Lee Riley Warren Smith Ray Smith Charlie Rich Dickey Lee Carl Mann Barbarba Pittman Roy Orbison Sun In The 60s Bill Pinkney Sonny Burgess & Billy Lee Riley Frank Frost Dane Stinit The Climates The Jesters	DLP Sun 6499 916 / 917 = Sun 6641 180 (UK)
14	1975	Harmonica Frank Floyd: Blues That Made The Roosters Dance - New Fangled Café - Jack & Jill Blues - Lucille Blues # - Shampoo (The Whorehouse Special) - Sweet Farm Girl - Ditchin' Man Blues - Beer Drinkin' Daddy - What Key? - Memphis To New Orleans - Packin' That Stuff - Shanghai Rooster Breakdown # - Sittin' On Top Of The World [] - Snortin' The Blues [] - Tribute To Jimmy Rogers [sic] - Ring Tail Tom Cat Rag - Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' rec. June 28, 1975 at Glass Finger Studios in Chicago, IL by George Paulus; Harmonica Frank Floyd, voc, g, # hca; or [] voc, hca art and design by George Paulus	notes by George Paulus Barrelhouse BH-005 Barrelhouse discography
15	1976	Harmonica Frank Floyd - Kansas City Blues - Step It Up And Go - Fox Chase [] - Moonshiner's Daughter - You Don't Know My Mind - Anniversary Blue Yodel - Memphis To New Orleans # - Rockin' Chair Daddy # - Ring Tailed Tom - Married Man's Blues [] - Sleepy Eyed John - What Are You Squawkin About? - Peckerwood Song - Sittin' On Top Of The World [] rec. various dates 1972, 1973, 1974 at Adelphi Studios, Silver Spring, MD; Harmonica Frank Floyd, voc, g, # hca; or [] voc, hca; prod. by Steve LaVere and Gene Rosenthal illustration by Bangham	Adelphi AD 1023 Adelphi discography
16	1977	The Best Of Sun Rockabilly Vol. 1 - Put Your Cat Clothes On - Carl Perkins - Rockin' Chair Daddy - Harmonica Frank [Sun 205] - Slow Down - Jack Earls - Domino - Roy Orbison - Come On Little Mama - Ray Harris - Ten Cats Down - Miller Sisters - Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith - We Wanna Boogie - Johnny Burgess - Rock With Me Baby - Billy Riley - Milkshake Mademoiselle - Jerry Lee Lewis - Romp And Stomp - Slim Rhodes - Drinking Wine - Gene Simmons - Rockin' With My Baby - Malcolm Yelvington - Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson - Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache - Warren Smith - Uranium Rock - Warren Smith	Charly CR 30123 (UK)
17	1980	The Sun Box Harmonica Frank - Rockin' Chair Daddy [Sun 205] Dr. Ross - The Boogie Disease	3 LP set Charly SUNBOX 100
18	1986	Memphis: Beale Street Breakdown Chess Blues Archives Vol. 3 Doctor Ross - Doctor Ross Boogie - Country Clown Walter Horton - Walter's Boogie - West Winds Are Blowing Willie Nix - Truckin Little Woman - Just One Mistake Harmonica Frank - Swamp Root [Chess 1475] Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Walkin' [Chess 1475] - Howlin' Tomcat [Chess 1494] - She Done Moved [Chess 1494] Joe Hill Louis - When I'm Gone - Dorothy Mae LJ Thomas - Baby Take A Chance With Me - Sam's Drag	P-Vine PLP 6073 (Jp)
19	1986	Step It Up And Go Memphis Rockabilly Ramon Maupin - Rocking Rufus - What's The Use Harmonica Frank - Rock A Little Baby (F&L F-100) - Memphis To New Orleans - Step It Up And Go [alt. vers.] - Rockin' Chair Daddy [alt. vers.] - Monkey Love (F&L F-100) Marcus Van Story - Get With It Red Hadley - Rockin' With Red Malcolm Yelvington - Goodbye Marie [vers. 3] - Way Down Blues Smokey Joe - Start All Over Again - Perfect Girl Harold Dorman - I'll Come Running	Redita LP 130 (NL)
20	19??	Stompin' The Country Blues Volume 22 Freddy King - That's What You Think Dennis McMillion - Going Back Home Harmonica Frank - Rock A Little Baby Jesse Belvin - Goin' Away Baby Tommy McClennan - I Love My Baby Albert & Charles - Weird Clifford King - Chicken Shack Boogie J&J Deuce - Sweet Woman Blues Clifford King - Want To Jump With You Baby Jesse Pipkin - Work With It Clear Waters - Hillbilly Blues Emright - One Of These Days Morris Pejoe - Tired Of Crying Over You Country Paul - Sidewalk Boogie Richard Bros - Drunk Drivers Coming Elmon Mickle - Jackson Blues	Stompin' ST 122
21	1994	Memphis Blues Caravan, Vol. 1 Sam Chatmon - Forgive Me Too Big Sam Clark - I Fell in Love With This Woman Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues Earl Bell - Travelin' Blues Sleepy John Estes / Hammie Nixon - President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long - Yellow Yam Blues Bukka White - Bed Springs Blues Furry Lewis - Mary Tell-Blues/Mother Story Harmonica Frank - Goin' Away Happy Houston Stackhouse - Crying Won't Help You Joe Willie Wilkins & His King Biscuit Boys - Me And The Devil Blues	Memphis Archives CD 7008
22	1997	Harmonica Frank: The Great Medical Menagerist - Mosquito Bar Britches - Blue Yodel #6 - Swamproot - Tour De Floyd - Great Medical Menagerist - Sweet Temptation - Howlin' Tomcat - Shampoo - Blue Yodel #7 - Steppin' To Convington - Movement Like An Elgin - Knothole Blues rec. July 1972; previously unreleased recordings; prod. by Gene Rosenthal	Adelphi/Genes GCD 9905 = Edsel EDCD 384 (UK) Adelphi discography
23	199?	Savage Kick Vol. 1 Peppermint Harris - Angel Child Frankie Lee Sims - She Likes To Boogie Real Low Lightnin' Hopkins - Movin' Out Boogie Lord Luther - Thinkin' Man's Girl Screamin' Joe Neal - She's My Baby Big John Greer - Come Back Uncle John Cardinals - Choo Choo Calvin Boze - Safronia B. Harmonica Frank - Rock-A-Little Baby Icky Renrut - The Rooster Mojo Watson - Look-A-There Bunker Hill - Little Red Riding Hood Clear Waters - Hillbilly Blues Big Three Trio - After Awhile Al Garris - That's All Thrills - I Ain't Got The Money Jimmy McCracklin - Savoys Jump Bo Dudley - Shotgun Rider The Four Gators - Wine-O-Wine Billy Miranda - Go Ahead	Savage Kick SK-501 (UK) Savage Kick CD SK-501 (UK)
24	2002	Harmonica Frank: The Missing Link - Rocking Chair Daddy - Swamp Root - Married Man's Blues - Moonshiner's Daughter - Shoop-A-Boop-A-Doodler - What Are You Squawking About - Howlin' Tomcat - Deep Elum Blues - Sitting On Top Of The World - Step It Up And Go - From Memphis To New Orleans - The Great Medical Menagerist - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo - Without My Teeth - Sweet Farm Girl - You Don't Know My Mind rec. live at Bartlett High School in Memphis on May 10, 1979, at Farmington Elementary School in Memphis on May 11, 1979 and at BR Toad Studio in Memphis May 1979; recording engineered and mixed by David Less and Jim Dickinson	notes by Nick Tosches Merless Records / Memphis Int. CD 201
25	2009	Harmonica Frank Floyd: Rock A Little Baby You Say A White Man Can't Know The Blues? - Rock A Little Baby - Rockin' Chair Daddy - Swamp Root - Step It Up & Go - Howlin' Tomcat - The Great Medical Menagerlst - She Done Moved - Goin' Away Walkin' - Shampoo - Mosquito Bar Britches - Blue Yodel #6 - Movement Like An Elgin - Knothole Blues - Tour De Floyd - Blue Yodel #1 - Moonshiner's Daughter - Shoop-A-Boop-A-Doodler - What Are You Squawkin' About - Deep Elem Blues - Sittin' On Top Of The World - From Memphis To New Orleans - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Sweet Farm Girl - You Don't Know My Mind Sun, Chess and F&L sides	Cactus HFCD 1
26	2010	Harmonica Frank: Mouthin' Blood Blues Original Early Recordings - Swamp Root - Goin' Away Walkin' - Step It Up & Go - She's Done Moved - Howlin' Tomcat - Rockin' Chair Daddy - The Great Medical Menangerist - Rock A Little Baby - Monkey Love (vocal by Larry Kennon)	10 inch LP Hog Maw 905
... for more CD compilations containing single Harmonica Frank tracks (which I'm at the moment too lazy to "illustrate") please visit Pete Hoppula's comprehensive Harmonica Frank Floyd discography at
Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Norman Darwen: Harmonica Frank Floyd.- Pickin' The Blues Nr. 16 (July 1983), pp. 10-13
- Sheldon Harris: Blues Who's Who - A Bibliographical Dictionary of Blues Singers.- pp. 179-180
- Pete Hoppula website
- http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/comps/r/red1166.htm
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

source of left column picture: Back cover of Adelphi AD 1023; photographer: G. L. Moore
source of photo at the top of left column: Pickin' The Blues Nr. 16 (July 1983), p. 13

thanks to Flemming Nielsen and Steve Franz for additional info / scans

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