WHEN YOUR BABY PACKS UP AND GOES - B.B. KING (1949) on Bullet 78RPM BB's first record rare original
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Scarce and hard to find,
Scarce and hard to find, When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes is the flip side to B.B.'s Miss Martha King, his very first record.
Riley Benjamin King was just 23 years old in 1949 when he recorded When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes, a song he had written while he was still very much an unknown and modestly-skilled musician. The song became the B-side of his 78 RPM debut single. The milestone was quite the personal achievement for someone who, at the time, was challenged with a stuttering speech impediment when he spoke.
King had been invited to work brief 15-minute segments at a Memphis radio station after having written and performed a product jingle on-demand while first visiting the station in 1948. He would later become a regular afternoon disc-jockey at the station. It was there, at AM 730 WDIA, that King was branded with the now-familiar moniker, B.B. King. It was also at WDIA that B.B. King recorded four songs for Bullet, a Nashville-based record label. (Bullet was a fairly short-lived label that was founded in 1946 by Jim Bulleit and C.V. Hitchcock. The label had only one national pop hit in 1947 but failed to sustain momentum or revenue. By February 1949, Jim Bulleit had sold his company share. The label would be out of business in 1952.)
Without an artist contract, the label released all four of the songs B.B. had recorded at WDIA.
Promotional ads for B.B. King's debut 78 record appeared in three Billboard magazines during July to introduce the release, with Bullet hopeful the ads would yield national radio-play attention and bolster the label's tenuous finances through resulting sales.
In one of the three Billboard issues, King's debut record was featured in the magazine's listing for Advance Rhythm & Blues Releases but, in the same issue's supplementary Namm Convention Section, both record sides rated quite poorly; barely achieving a 53 out-of-100 score for Miss Martha King and a similarly low 64 out-of-100 for this cut, the flip side title, 'When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes'. Of Miss Martha King, Billboard's review credited the song's low-down heavy beat as saving the blues-shouting ballad from dying and added, 'Tram and tenor (sax) solos are nowhere'. Not the endorsement Bullet needed to help launch the song. Ultimately, the record only earned local success for King and sales simply didn't materialize. Neither record side charted.
Even though the songs failed to gain success on the charts for BB King, the record release gave him the opportunity to tour and perform in small theatres and venues. Because of low sales, available copies of the record have become scarce. Today, copies of B.B. King's debut release in any condition are sought after by collectors and fans, demanding an increasingly strong value, especially given the legendary success that B.B. King became.
King's first successful record came two years later and only after his move from Bullet to Modern Records' subsidiary label, RPM. It was there that King scored a major hit with his rendition of Lowell Fulson’s “Three O’Clock Blues.” The song spent five weeks at #1 and earned King the attention and respect he had been working toward, launching his career.
King's career spanned more than half a century. His many accolades include being inducted into both the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and being rated number 6 by Rolling Stone Magazine in their 2011 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He was known as, and often tagged with the title, 'The King Of The Blues'.
B.B. King toured up until late 2014 when his last sting of shows were cancelled because of health reasons. He died in May, 2015, at the age of 89.
Vocals and guitar - B.B. King
Bass – Tuff Green
Drums – Phineas Newborn Sr.
2nd Guitar – Calvin Newborn
Piano – Phineas Newborn Jr.
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Branch
Trombone – Unknown Artist
Lyrics
How do you feel,
When your Baby packs up to go?
Well, how do you feel,
When your Baby packs up to go?
And says, Daddy,
I don't want you no more.
Well I feel so bad,
Hung My head in shame.
Yes, I felt so bad,
I hung my head in shame.
Couldn't stand t' hear nobody,
Call my baby's name.
Well bye, Baby,
Be on your merry way.
Yes, bye-bye, Baby,
Be on your merry way.
Brown-skin baby,
I'm gonna (count the days).
Goodbye, Baby,
Love to see you smile.
Goodbye, Baby,
I love to see you smile.
Let me be around you,
every once in a while.
Riley Benjamin King was just 23 years old in 1949 when he recorded When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes, a song he had written while he was still very much an unknown and modestly-skilled musician. The song became the B-side of his 78 RPM debut single. The milestone was quite the personal achievement for someone who, at the time, was challenged with a stuttering speech impediment when he spoke.
King had been invited to work brief 15-minute segments at a Memphis radio station after having written and performed a product jingle on-demand while first visiting the station in 1948. He would later become a regular afternoon disc-jockey at the station. It was there, at AM 730 WDIA, that King was branded with the now-familiar moniker, B.B. King. It was also at WDIA that B.B. King recorded four songs for Bullet, a Nashville-based record label. (Bullet was a fairly short-lived label that was founded in 1946 by Jim Bulleit and C.V. Hitchcock. The label had only one national pop hit in 1947 but failed to sustain momentum or revenue. By February 1949, Jim Bulleit had sold his company share. The label would be out of business in 1952.)
Without an artist contract, the label released all four of the songs B.B. had recorded at WDIA.
Promotional ads for B.B. King's debut 78 record appeared in three Billboard magazines during July to introduce the release, with Bullet hopeful the ads would yield national radio-play attention and bolster the label's tenuous finances through resulting sales.
In one of the three Billboard issues, King's debut record was featured in the magazine's listing for Advance Rhythm & Blues Releases but, in the same issue's supplementary Namm Convention Section, both record sides rated quite poorly; barely achieving a 53 out-of-100 score for Miss Martha King and a similarly low 64 out-of-100 for this cut, the flip side title, 'When Your Baby Packs Up and Goes'. Of Miss Martha King, Billboard's review credited the song's low-down heavy beat as saving the blues-shouting ballad from dying and added, 'Tram and tenor (sax) solos are nowhere'. Not the endorsement Bullet needed to help launch the song. Ultimately, the record only earned local success for King and sales simply didn't materialize. Neither record side charted.
Even though the songs failed to gain success on the charts for BB King, the record release gave him the opportunity to tour and perform in small theatres and venues. Because of low sales, available copies of the record have become scarce. Today, copies of B.B. King's debut release in any condition are sought after by collectors and fans, demanding an increasingly strong value, especially given the legendary success that B.B. King became.
King's first successful record came two years later and only after his move from Bullet to Modern Records' subsidiary label, RPM. It was there that King scored a major hit with his rendition of Lowell Fulson’s “Three O’Clock Blues.” The song spent five weeks at #1 and earned King the attention and respect he had been working toward, launching his career.
King's career spanned more than half a century. His many accolades include being inducted into both the Blues Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and being rated number 6 by Rolling Stone Magazine in their 2011 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He was known as, and often tagged with the title, 'The King Of The Blues'.
B.B. King toured up until late 2014 when his last sting of shows were cancelled because of health reasons. He died in May, 2015, at the age of 89.
Vocals and guitar - B.B. King
Bass – Tuff Green
Drums – Phineas Newborn Sr.
2nd Guitar – Calvin Newborn
Piano – Phineas Newborn Jr.
Tenor Saxophone – Ben Branch
Trombone – Unknown Artist
Lyrics
How do you feel,
When your Baby packs up to go?
Well, how do you feel,
When your Baby packs up to go?
And says, Daddy,
I don't want you no more.
Well I feel so bad,
Hung My head in shame.
Yes, I felt so bad,
I hung my head in shame.
Couldn't stand t' hear nobody,
Call my baby's name.
Well bye, Baby,
Be on your merry way.
Yes, bye-bye, Baby,
Be on your merry way.
Brown-skin baby,
I'm gonna (count the days).
Goodbye, Baby,
Love to see you smile.
Goodbye, Baby,
I love to see you smile.
Let me be around you,
every once in a while.
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