Leon Eason- 45 rpms in the BN 1700 45 series

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

BN 45-1745 Leon Eason - I'm In The Mood For Love c/w Lazy River

Leon Eason (tp, vo) Dottie Dudley (org) John Simmons (b) Ronnie Cole (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 17, 1959tk.1 I'm In The Mood For Love tk.31 Lazy River

BN 45-1746 Leon Eason - Song Of The Islands c/w Because Of You (not released)

Leon Eason (tp, vo) Dottie Dudley (org) John Simmons (b) Ronnie Cole (d): same session Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 17, 1959tk.8 Because Of You tk.13 Song Of The Islands

BN 45-1747 Leon Eason - That's My Home c/w I'm Just A Gigolo (not released)

Leon Eason (tp, vo) Dottie Dudley (org) John Simmons (b) Ronnie Cole (d): same session Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, May 17, 1959tk.14 That's My Home tk.18 I'm Just A Gigolo

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER HEARD OF THESE?!?!

[epistrophy007]

Never heard of those...seems rare.

The link to Eason's Allmusicentry;

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jbfexqt0ldje~T1

j.

[brownie]

Never heard - but have heard of - those Leon Eason BN sides.

For a long time had hoped that Mosaic (or Toshiba Japan) would reissue them, along with the other BN sessions that never got proper releases (the Jimmy Shirley, Clyde Bernhardt, John Collins dates).

I'm still waiting

[brownie]

The link to Eason's Allmusicentry;

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jbfexqt0ldje~T1

j.

Eugene Charbourne has some facts wrong:

The Blue Note recording took place during the period when this label was owned by Capitol Records, and was looking for chart single success.

The Leon Eason session was held in 1959 when Blue Note was still gloriously independent!