Jr. Walker and the All Stars Discography -
A Jolt From the Blues

The Jr. Walker and the All Stars discography represents a rhythm-and-blues oasis among Motown's airbrushed pop-soul songs. Instead of heading uptown, the band takes listeners down, down as far as Memphis, Tennessee, and back, back into hairier, old-school R&B and jump blues that scorch more than they sparkle.

Junior Walker's high, on-pitch yells blend well with the gritty music. His lack of vocal polish makes his balladeering seem heartfelt.

Junior Walker's truest voice speaks through his sax, whether it screeches boisterously or courts romantically. The band's songs owe much of their emotional soul to him.

As you'd expect, the All Stars are no slouches, either! During each man's time, Tony Washington and James Graves solidly beat the beat out of the drums. Willie Woods's guitar twangs practically sprout rootsiness, and his shadow-vocals thicken the texture. Vic Thomas's organ buzzes with a grander kind of energy.

This Jr. Walker and the All Stars discography presents the Junior Walker albums of Motown and elsewhere until the band's last recording hurrah in the 1980s.

Shotgun (Jan. 14, 1965; a single by DeWalt)

Do the Boomerang (1965; single)

Shake and Fingerpop (1965; a single by DeWalt/Horn/Woods)

Cleo's Mood (1965; a single by DeWalt/Fuqua/Woods)

Shotgun (1965)

1. Shotgun (DeWalt)

2. Cleo's Mood (DeWalt/Fuqua/Woods)

3. Do the Boomerang

4. (I'm a) Road Runner (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

5. Shake and Fingerpop (DeWalt/Horn/Woods)

6. Shoot Your Shot

7. Tune-Up (DeWalt)

8. Hot Cha (Woods)

9. Monkey Jump

10. Tally Ho

11. Cleo's Back (Woods)

12. Ain't That the Truth

(I'm a) Road Runner (Mar. 21, 1966; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) (July 13, 1966; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Road Runner (1966)

Soul Session (1966)

1. Good Rockin' (DeWalt)

2. Hewbie Steps Out

3. Shake Everything

4. Everybody Get Together

5. Mark Anthony (Speaks)

6. Us

7. Moonlight in Vermont (Blackburn/Suessdorf)

8. Decidedly

9. Eight Hour Drag (DeWalt)

10. Brainwasher (DeWalt/Woods)

11. Three Four Three

12. Satan's Blues (DeWalt/Woods)

Live! (Jan. 1967)

1. Introduction (The Velvelettes)

2. Shake and Fingerpop (DeWalt/Horn/Woods)

3. Hot Cha (Woods)

4. (I'm a) Road Runner (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

5. Tune-Up (DeWalt)

6. Ame' Cherie (Soul Darling) (Graves/Horn/Thomas/Woods)

7. How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

8. Moonlight in Vermont (Blackburn/Suessdorf)

9. Cleo's Back (Woods)

10. Shotgun (DeWalt)

11. Finale: Heart Break (Van Dyke)

Pucker Up Buttercup (1967; single)

Shoot Your Shot (1967; single)

Come See About Me (1967; a single by Dozier/Holland/Holland)

Hip City, Pt. 1/Hip City, Pt. 2 (1968; single)

Home Cookin' (1968; single)

What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (April 25, 1969; a single by Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

These Eyes (1969; a single by Bachman/Cummings)

What Does It Take to Win Your Love (1969; retitled Gotta Hold on to This Feeling)

1. What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

2. These Eyes (Bachman/Cummings)

3. Proud Mary (Fogerty)

4. Ame' Cherie (Soul Darling) (Graves/Horn/Thomas/Woods)

5. Clinging to the Thought That She's Coming Back

6. Cleo's Mood (DeWalt/Fuqua/Woods)

7. Hot Cha (Woods)

8. I've Got to Find a Way to Win Maria Back

9. Sweet Soul (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

10. Gotta Hold on to This Feeling (Bristol/Hinton/Sawyer)

11. How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

12. San-Ho-Zay (King/Thompson)

Home Cookin' (1969)

1. Come See About Me (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

2. What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

3. Home Cookin'

4. Sweet Soul (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

5. Hip City, Pt. 1

6. Hip City, Pt. 2

7. Sweet Daddy Deacon

8. Fannie Mae

9. The Things I Do for You (DeWalt/Horn)

10. Baby Ain't You Shame

Gotta Hold on to This Feeling (1970; a single by Bristol/Hinton/Sawyer)

Do You See My Love (for You Growing) (1970; a single by Beavers/Bristol)

A Gasss (1970)

1. Do You See My Love (for You Growing) (Beavers/Bristol)

2. And When I Die

3. I Was Made to Love Her (Cosby/Hardaway/Moy/Wonder)

4. Carry Your Own Load (Beavers/Bristol/Fuqua)

5. Shut Up Don't Interrupt Me

6. Groove and Move

7. Holly Holy (Diamond)

8. Honey Come Back (Webb)

9. Riding High on Love (Bristol/Starr)

10. Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)

11. At a Saturday Matinee

Jr. Walker and the All Stars: Live! (1970)

1. Hip City, Pt. 1

2. Hip City, Pt. 2

3. Sweet Soul (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

4. Home Cookin'

5. Something You Got

6. (I Know) I'm Losing You (Grant/Holland/Whitfield)

7. Come See About Me (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

8. What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

9. Shotgun (DeWalt)/What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

Moody Jr. (1971)

1. Way Back Home (Bristol/Felder/Knight)

2. I Don't Want to Do Wrong (Bristol/Guest/Knight/Knight/Schaffner)

3. Bristol's Way

4. Don't Blame the Children (Bristol/Ghant/McMullen)

5. Me and My Family

6. Groove Thang (Bristol)

7. Still Water Medley (Robinson/Wilson)

8. Never Can Say Goodbye (Davis)

9. Walk in the Night (Bristol/McLeod)

10. Moody Junior (Bristol)

Rainbow Funk (1971)

1. Way Back Home (Bristol/Felder/Knight)

2. Take Me Girl, I'm Ready

3. Feeling Alright

4. Right on Brothers and Sisters

5. Teach Them to Pray

6. Something

7. Psychedelic Shack (Strong/Whitfield)

8. Pieces of a Man (Bristol/Sawyer)

9. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You (Bristol/Fuqua/Moy)

Peace and Understanding is Hard to Find (1973)

Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1973)

Anthology (1974)

1. Shotgun (DeWalt)

2. Do the Boomerang

3. Shake and Fingerpop (DeWalt/Horn/Woods)

4. Cleo's Mood (DeWalt/Fuqua/Woods)

5. (I'm a) Road Runner (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

6. How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

7. Money (That's What I Want) (Bradford/Gordy)

8. Pucker Up Buttercup

9. Shoot Your Shot

10. Come See About Me (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

11. Hip City, Pt. 1

12. Home Cookin'

13. What Does It Take (to Win Your Love) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

14. These Eyes (Bachman/Cummings)

15. Gotta Hold on to This Feeling (Bristol/Hinton/Sawyer)

16. Do You See My Love (for You Growing) (Beavers/Bristol)

17. Holly Holy (Diamond)

18. Don't Blame the Children (Bristol/Ghant/McMullen)

19. Moody Junior (Bristol)

20. Way Back Home (Bristol/Felder/Knight)

21. Walk in the Night (Bristol/McLeod)

22. Groove Thang (Bristol)

23. Gimme That Beat, Pt. 1

24. I Don't Need No Reason

25. Peace and Understanding (is Hard to Find)

Jr. Walker & the All Stars (1974)

1. (I'm a) Road Runner (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

2. Shake and Fingerpop (DeWalt/Horn/Woods)

3. Baby You Know You Ain't Right

4. Pucker Up Buttercup

5. Nothing but Soul

6. How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) (Dozier/Holland/Holland)

7. Any Way You Wanta

8. Cleo's Mood (instrumental) (DeWalt/Fuqua/Woods)

9. Satan's Blues (DeWalt/Woods)

10. Hot Cha (instrumental) (Woods)

11. Monkey Jump

12. Shotgun (DeWalt)

13. Money (That's What I Want) (Bradford/Gordy)

14. Ame' Cherie (Soul Darling) (Graves/Horn/Thomas/Woods)

15. Shoot Your Shot

16. Eight Hour Drag (instrumental) (DeWalt)

17. Cleo's Back (Woods)

18. Sweet Soul (instrumental) (Bristol/Bullock/Fuqua)

Hot Shot (1976)

Sax Appeal (1976)

Whopper Bopper Show Stopper (1976)

1. Whopper Bopper Show Stopper

2. You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Wonder)

3. You're on Fire

4. Leap and Peep

5. Don't Make No Plans

6. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) (Penzabene/Strong/Whitfield)

7. I Want You (Ross/Ware)

8. Love Ain't Enough

9. My Love (McCartney/McCartney)

Motown Special (1977)

Smooth (1978)

Back Street Boogie (1979)

1. Backstreet Boogie

2. Girl I Wanna Marry You

3. Wishing on a Star

4. Hole in the Wall

5. Don't Let Me Go Astray

6. Tiger in My Tank

7. Sax Attack

Anthology (1981)

Greatest Hits (1982)

Blow the House Down (1983)

1. Sexpot

2. Rise and Shine

3. Closer Than Close

4. Ball Baby

5. Too

6. Urgent

7. In and Out

8. Blow the House Down

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