Artist	Song
Lee Andrews	Teardrops
from Vintage (2005)
Bo Diddley	Crackin' Up
from Bo Diddley: The Chess Box (Box Set) (1990)
Danny Overbea	Forty Cups of Coffee
from Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 6 (2008)
Elmore James	Whose Muddy Shoes
from Chess Blues (1993)
Robert Nighthawk	Sweet Black Angel
from Chess Blues (1993)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Nine Below Zero
from Sonny Boy Williamson II: His Best (1997)
Otis Spann	I'm Leaving You
from Chess Blues (1993)
The Tune Weavers	Happy, Happy Birthday Baby
from Big Hits & Highlights of 1957, Vol. 7 (2008)
Etta James	Don't Cry Baby
from The Essential Etta James (1993)
Chuck Berry	Carol
from The Definitive Collection (2006)
Little Walter	You're so Fine
from The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection: Little Walter - His Best (1997)
Rosco Gordon	Booted
from Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 4 (2008)
Tony Clarke	The Entertainer
from Chess Chartbusters, Vol. 6 (2008)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	One Way Out
from The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues: Sonny Boy Williamson (2002)
Eddie Boyd	Third Degree
from The Chess Box: Willie Dixon (1988)
Baby Face Leroy	My Head Can't Rest Anymore
from Chess Blues (1993)
The Knight Brothers	Temptation 'Bout to Get Me
from Chess Soul: A Decade of Chicago's Finest (1997)
Memphis Minnie	Conjur Man
from Chess Blues (1993)
Little Johnny Jones	Big Town Playboy
from Chess Blues Classics 1947 - 1956 (1997)
Jimmy Witherspoon	When the Lights Go Out
from The Chess Box: Willie Dixon (1988)
J.B. Lenoir	Eisenhower Blues
from Chess Blues Classics 1947 - 1956 (1997)
Billy Stewart	Billy's Blues, Pt. 2
from One More Time: The Chess Years (1989)
Ramsey Lewis Trio	Hang on Sloopy
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ramsey Lewis (2002)
Chuck Berry	My Ding-A-Ling
from Chuck Berry: The Anthology (2000)
Muddy Waters	All Aboard
from Fathers and Sons (Expanded) (2001)

Comment:

In our Deep Cuts, we've got some doo-wop, some gonna-whup, and one whopper of a hit. Not until Marilyn Monroe breathily sighed best wishes to President Kennedy did anyone even come [i]close[/i] to out-sexying Tune Weavers lead singer Margo Sylvia in the birthday greetings department. In the doo-wop mini-drama of "Happy Happy Birthday Baby," Sylvia's sultry vocal slides around a sentimental serenade to her ex. making it [i]real[/i]clear just what sort of a present she's offering. Speaking of exes, Rosco Gordon plans to inflict some old-school-style R&B pain in "Booted," threatening, "I'm gonna load my pistol, gonna sharpen my knife/I'm gonna get that man who got my wife." And Chuck Berry, in perhaps the cruelest blow ever dealt to a living rocker, managed to top the charts only [i]once[/i] in his career. Was it with "Johnny B. Goode"? "Maybelline"? Nope, it's the sassy sing-along about his "cute little toy" — "My Ding-A-Ling."

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