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Although this collection has "Don't Answer the Door," "Paying the Cost to Be the Boss," and a nice live recut of "Sweet Sixteen" to highly recommend it, this 1968 LP is hardly King's best, and the "electric" part of the title makes it sound like there's an acoustic B.B. King album lurking around somewhere that everyone somehow missed in the last 50-plus decades. To be sure, these are rock-solid performances all recorded between 1965 to 1968, just as King's music was getting slicker and more urban. But this was one of the albums that helped introduce B.B. to a more modern audience (it's gone on to sell over a million copies), heading straight to the timeline of "The Thrill Is Gone" and putting him on the map worldwide.
© Cub Koda /TiVo
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B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Janet Despenza, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer - James F. Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Freeman, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Jethro, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Lauchie, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
B.B. King, MainArtist - Quincy Jones, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Maya Angelou, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1968 Geffen Records
B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer - Carl Adams, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Freeman, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Jethro, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Lauchie, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Lawrence Burdine, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Hubert, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Slater, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
B.B. King, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Board, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Pate, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Pluma Davis, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Boozier, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - John Browning, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Hobart Dotson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Lou Zito, Producer - Sonny Freeman, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Jethro, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Lauchie, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Lawrence Burdine, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Barney Hubert, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 UMG Recordings, Inc.
B.B. King, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
B.B. King, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1969 Geffen Records
B.B. King, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer - Ronald Boudreaux, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
AHMET ERTEGUN, ComposerLyricist - B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer - Ahmet Nugetre, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1969 Geffen Records
B.B. King, MainArtist - Quincy Jones, Conductor, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Maya Angelou, Author - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1968 Geffen Records
Jimmy Johnson, ComposerLyricist - B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Ferdinand Washington, ComposerLyricist - B.B. King, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
B.B. King, MainArtist - Quincy Jones, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1968 Geffen Records
Walt Breeland, ComposerLyricist - Paul Buskirk, ComposerLyricist - Walter Breeland, ComposerLyricist - Willie Nelson, ComposerLyricist - B.B. King, MainArtist - Johnny Pate, Producer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Although this collection has "Don't Answer the Door," "Paying the Cost to Be the Boss," and a nice live recut of "Sweet Sixteen" to highly recommend it, this 1968 LP is hardly King's best, and the "electric" part of the title makes it sound like there's an acoustic B.B. King album lurking around somewhere that everyone somehow missed in the last 50-plus decades. To be sure, these are rock-solid performances all recorded between 1965 to 1968, just as King's music was getting slicker and more urban. But this was one of the albums that helped introduce B.B. to a more modern audience (it's gone on to sell over a million copies), heading straight to the timeline of "The Thrill Is Gone" and putting him on the map worldwide.
© Cub Koda /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:25
- Main artists: B.B. King
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen*
- Genre: Blues
© 1998 Geffen Records This Compilation ℗ 1998 Geffen Records
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