Sammy Price
Samuel Blythe Price (October 6, 1908 – April 14, 1992) was an American jazz, boogie-woogie and jump blues pianist and bandleader. Price's playing is dark, mellow, and relaxed rather than percussive, and he was a specialist at creating the appropriate mood and swing for blues and rhythm and blues recordings. |
Birth and Death Data: Born October 6, 1908 (Honey Grove), Died April 14, 1992 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1929 - 1956
Roles Represented in DAHR: piano, vocalist, guitar, leader
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Recordings (Results 51-75 of 377 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 65268 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | Low down dirty groundhog | Lether McGraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65269 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | New little girl, little girl-1 | Lee Brown | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65270 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | I can lay it on down-1 | Lee Brown | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65271 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | Down by the M & o | Lee Brown | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65272 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | Jeff Davis highway | Lee Brown | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65273 | 10-in. | 3/24/1939 | Let me be your Bo Weevil | Lee Brown | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65310 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Possum den blues | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65311 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Little low mellow Mama-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65312 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | A working man's blues-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65313 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | One to twelve-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65314 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Let's talk things over-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65315 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Sinking sun blues-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65316 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Easy way blues-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65317 | 10-in. | 3/30/1939 | Machine gun blues-1 | Peetie Wheatstraw | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65420 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | New low down dirty sham | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65421 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | The numbers blues | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65422 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Sweetest thing born | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65423 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Shepard blues (Pig Latin blues) | Ollie Shepard | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65424 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Outdoors blues-1 | Ollie Shepard | instrumentalist, piano, guitar | ||
Decca | 65425 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Sugar woman blues | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65426 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Hell is so low down | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65427 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | My dripping blood blues | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65428 | 10-in. | 4/18/1939 | Blues 'bout my gal | Ollie Shepard and his Kentucky Boys | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65433 | 10-in. | 4/20/1939 | Scat skunk | Blue Lu Barker | instrumentalist, piano | ||
Decca | 65434 | 10-in. | 4/20/1939 | Nix on those lush heads | Blue Lu Barker | instrumentalist, piano |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Price, Sammy," accessed October 5, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/208151.
Price, Sammy. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 5, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/208151.
"Price, Sammy." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 October 2024.
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LCNAR: Price, Sammy - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85098931
Wikidata: Sammy Price - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q725312
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/22328403
MusicBrainz: Sammy Price - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a5eaa73b-62e7-4a6e-9723-2437dcb43ed5
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