1963

SHAME SHAME SHAME * JIMMY REED * STATESIDE 205 * UK

Issued in the USA on Vee-Jay 509 in March 1963  with a different B side Shame, Shame, Shame was first released in GB on Stateside 205 on the 11th July 1963, then reissued as a year later on 28th August with catalogue number SS 330 (see below).

This one was a big hit with the Modernists in the summer of 1963.

 Jimmy Reed  had only five of his Vee-Jay singles released in Britain, none in the 1950s, while from the very first issue on the Vee-Jay label in 1953 he had some 39 releases until the label ceased in 1965. 

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME * JIMMY REED * STATESIDE 330 * UK


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