Lou Rawls

vocal, producer, performer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
David Axelrod producer A Beautiful Friendship, A Child With a Toy, A Whole Lotta Sunlight, A Whole Lotta Woman, All God's Children, Autumn Leaves, Baby I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You, Blues for the Weepers, Breaking My Back, Christmas Is, Christmas Will Really Be Christmas, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Don't Explain, Down Here on the Ground, Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), Feelin' Alright, For You My Love, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You, Gentle on My Mind, Goin' to Chicago Blues, Good Time Christmas, Growing Old Gracefully, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Love You, Yes I Do, I Want a Little Girl, I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You), I Want to Hear It From You, I Wonder, I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone, I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water, I'll Take Time, I'm Satisfied, If I Had My Life to Live Over, If It's the Last Thing I Do, In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down), Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, It Was a Very Good Year, It's Monday Every Day, It's You, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me), Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Lifetime, Lifetime Monologue, Little Boy Dear, Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Memory Lane, Merry Christmas, Baby, Nobody but Me, Ol' Man River, Old Folks, Old Man's Memories (Monologue), On a Clear Day, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Righteous Woman (Monologue), Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Season of the Witch, So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry, Soul Serenade, South Side Blues, St. James Infirmary, Stormy Monday, Street Corner Hustler's Blues, That's Your Red Wagon, The Christmas Song, The Girl From Ipanema, The Little Drummer Boy, The Power of Love, The Shadow of Your Smile, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Tobacco Road, Trying as Hard as I Can, Twelfth of Never, Two Tickets West, Wee Baby Blues, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve, What Now My Love, When Someone Comes Along, When a Man Loves a Woman, Whispering Grass, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, World of Trouble, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Good for Me, You're Takin' My Bag, You're the One, You've Made Me So Very Happy, Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
H.B. Barnum arranger, conductor A Beautiful Friendship, A Child With a Toy, A Whole Lotta Sunlight, A Whole Lotta Woman, All God's Children, Autumn Leaves, Baby I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You, Breaking My Back, Christmas Is, Christmas Will Really Be Christmas, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Don't Explain, Down Here on the Ground, Feelin' Alright, Good Time Christmas, Growing Old Gracefully, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Want a Little Girl, I Want to Hear It From You, I'll Take Time, I'm Satisfied, It Was a Very Good Year, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Lifetime, Lifetime Monologue, Little Boy Dear, Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Memory Lane, Merry Christmas, Baby, Ol' Man River, Old Folks, Old Man's Memories (Monologue), On a Clear Day, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Righteous Woman (Monologue), Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry, Soul Serenade, Street of Dreams, The Christmas Song, The Little Drummer Boy, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Twelfth of Never, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve, What Now My Love, When Someone Comes Along, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Good for Me, You're Takin' My Bag, You're the One, You've Made Me So Very Happy
Billy Vera producer (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone, A Lover's Question, All Around the World, All the Way, Any Day Now, Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, But I Do, Chains of Love, Come Fly With Me, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Morning Blues, Good Night My Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Still in Love With You, If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Learnin' the Blues, Moonglows, My Babe, My Kind of Town / Chicago, Nice 'n' Easy, One More Time, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Person to Person, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers, Suffering With the Blues, Summer Wind, Sweet Slumber, That's Life, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Last Night of the World, The Second Time Around, They Can't Take That Away From Me, This Bitter Earth, You're the One
Michael Cuscuna producer (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone, A Lover's Question, All Around the World, Any Day Now, Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, But I Do, Chains of Love, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Morning Blues, Good Night My Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Still in Love With You, If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, Moonglows, My Babe, One More Time, Person to Person, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers, Suffering With the Blues, Sweet Slumber, The Last Night of the World, This Bitter Earth, You're the One
Joe Polito (Engineer) engineer A Whole Lotta Sunlight, All God's Children, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Feelin' Alright, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Want a Little Girl, I'll Take Time, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Righteous Woman (Monologue), Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Twelfth of Never, When Someone Comes Along, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Takin' My Bag, You've Made Me So Very Happy

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
David Axelrod producer A Beautiful Friendship, A Child With a Toy, A Whole Lotta Sunlight, A Whole Lotta Woman, All God's Children, Autumn Leaves, Baby I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You, Blues for the Weepers, Breaking My Back, Christmas Is, Christmas Will Really Be Christmas, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Don't Explain, Down Here on the Ground, Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), Feelin' Alright, For You My Love, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You, Gentle on My Mind, Goin' to Chicago Blues, Good Time Christmas, Growing Old Gracefully, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good), I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Love You, Yes I Do, I Want a Little Girl, I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You), I Want to Hear It From You, I Wonder, I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone, I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water, I'll Take Time, I'm Satisfied, If I Had My Life to Live Over, If It's the Last Thing I Do, In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down), Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, It Was a Very Good Year, It's Monday Every Day, It's You, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me), Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Lifetime, Lifetime Monologue, Little Boy Dear, Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Memory Lane, Merry Christmas, Baby, Nobody but Me, Ol' Man River, Old Folks, Old Man's Memories (Monologue), On a Clear Day, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Righteous Woman (Monologue), Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Season of the Witch, So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry, Soul Serenade, South Side Blues, St. James Infirmary, Stormy Monday, Street Corner Hustler's Blues, That's Your Red Wagon, The Christmas Song, The Girl From Ipanema, The Little Drummer Boy, The Power of Love, The Shadow of Your Smile, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Tobacco Road, Trying as Hard as I Can, Twelfth of Never, Two Tickets West, Wee Baby Blues, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve, What Now My Love, When Someone Comes Along, When a Man Loves a Woman, Whispering Grass, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, World of Trouble, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Good for Me, You're Takin' My Bag, You're the One, You've Made Me So Very Happy, Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
H.B. Barnum arranger, conductor A Beautiful Friendship, A Child With a Toy, A Whole Lotta Sunlight, A Whole Lotta Woman, All God's Children, Autumn Leaves, Baby I Could Be So Good at Lovin' You, Breaking My Back, Christmas Is, Christmas Will Really Be Christmas, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Don't Explain, Down Here on the Ground, Feelin' Alright, Good Time Christmas, Growing Old Gracefully, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Want a Little Girl, I Want to Hear It From You, I'll Take Time, I'm Satisfied, It Was a Very Good Year, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Lifetime, Lifetime Monologue, Little Boy Dear, Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Memory Lane, Merry Christmas, Baby, Ol' Man River, Old Folks, Old Man's Memories (Monologue), On a Clear Day, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Righteous Woman (Monologue), Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, So Hard to Laugh So Easy to Cry, Soul Serenade, Street of Dreams, The Christmas Song, The Little Drummer Boy, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Twelfth of Never, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve, What Now My Love, When Someone Comes Along, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Good for Me, You're Takin' My Bag, You're the One, You've Made Me So Very Happy
Billy Vera producer (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone, A Lover's Question, All Around the World, All the Way, Any Day Now, Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, But I Do, Chains of Love, Come Fly With Me, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Morning Blues, Good Night My Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Still in Love With You, If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Learnin' the Blues, Moonglows, My Babe, My Kind of Town / Chicago, Nice 'n' Easy, One More Time, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Person to Person, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers, Suffering With the Blues, Summer Wind, Sweet Slumber, That's Life, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Last Night of the World, The Second Time Around, They Can't Take That Away From Me, This Bitter Earth, You're the One
Michael Cuscuna producer (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone, A Lover's Question, All Around the World, Any Day Now, Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, But I Do, Chains of Love, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Morning Blues, Good Night My Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Still in Love With You, If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, Moonglows, My Babe, One More Time, Person to Person, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers, Suffering With the Blues, Sweet Slumber, The Last Night of the World, This Bitter Earth, You're the One
Joe Polito (Engineer) engineer A Whole Lotta Sunlight, All God's Children, Dead End Street, Dead End Street (Monologue), Feelin' Alright, How Can That Be, Hurtin', I Just Want to Make Love to You, I Want a Little Girl, I'll Take Time, Its an Uphill Climb to the Bottom, Let's Burn Down the Cornfield, Mama Told Me Not to Come, Righteous Woman (Monologue), Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Twelfth of Never, When Someone Comes Along, Why (Do I Love You So), Will Someone Carry the Ball, Yes, It Hurts (Doesn't It?), Yesterday's Dreams, You're Always on My Mind, You're Takin' My Bag, You've Made Me So Very Happy
Peter Darmi mix, recording A Lover's Question, Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, Chains of Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Just Want to Make Love to You, I'm Still in Love With You, My Babe, Person to Person, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers, Suffering With the Blues, Sweet Slumber
David Frazer mix (I Wonder) Where Our Love Has Gone, All Around the World, Any Day Now, But I Do, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Good Morning Blues, Good Night My Love, If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, It's Supposed to Be Fun, Moonglows, One More Time, The Last Night of the World, This Bitter Earth, You're the One
Steve Backer producer All the Way, Come Fly With Me, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Learnin' the Blues, My Kind of Town / Chicago, Nice 'n' Easy, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Summer Wind, That's Life, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Second Time Around, They Can't Take That Away From Me
Benny Carter arranger, conductor Blues for the Weepers, For You My Love, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You, If I Had My Life to Live Over, If It's the Last Thing I Do, Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, It's Monday Every Day, Nobody But Me, Nobody but Me, The Power of Love, Two Tickets West, Whispering Grass
Michael Lloyd (US guitarist/singer producer) arranger, producer A Song for You, Dead End Street (live), Dead End Street Monologue, Evil, Got to Get You Into My Life, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, His Song Shall Be Sung, I'm a King Bee, Love Is a Hurtin' Thing, Natural Man, Tobacco Road (live)
Onzy Matthews conductor Georgia on My Mind, How Long, How Long Blues, Rockin' Chair, St. James Infirmary, Stormy Weather, Summertime, When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Benny Golson arranger, instrument arranger I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone, I'm Still in Love With You, Just Squeeze Me, Save Your Love for Me, Since I Met You Baby, Sweet Slumber
John R. Faith arranger, producer Let Me Be Good to You, Time Will Take Care of Everything, Tomorrow (From the Musical “Annie”), We Keep Getting Closer to Being Further Apart, What’s the Matter With the World?
Cornell Dupree electric guitar, guitar Chains of Love, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, I'm Still in Love With You, Room With a View, Suffering With the Blues
Hank Crawford instrument arranger, alto saxophone, horn Chains of Love, Hide nor Hair, I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues, Person to Person, Sweet Slumber
David “Fathead” Newman soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone Good Intentions, Oh, What a Nite, Two Years of Torture
Kenneth Gamble producer Let Me Be Good to You, Time Will Take Care of Everything, What’s the Matter With the World?
Leon Huff (Philly soul producer, of Gamble & Huff) producer Let Me Be Good to You, Time Will Take Care of Everything, What’s the Matter With the World?
Junior Wells harmonica Baby, What You Want Me to Do?, I Just Want to Make Love to You
Tom Pomposello slide guitar A Lover's Question, I Just Want to Make Love to You
Dexter Wansel arranger, producer Lover’s Holiday, Tomorrow (From the Musical “Annie”)
Plas Johnson tenor saxophone Since I Met You Baby, Snap Your Fingers
DJ Maestro mix-DJ Blues for the Weepers, Lifetime Monologue
Thom Bell arranger, producer Bark, Bite (Fight All Night), Sweet Tender Nights
Tom Moulton mix See You When I Git There, You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Joe Lovano flute, tenor saxophone A Lover's Question, I'm Still in Love With You
Billy Hulting percussion Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Dennis Belfield bass Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Laurence Juber acoustic guitar Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Dianne Reeves vocal At Last
Lionel Hampton vibraphone Saturday Night Fish Fry
George Benson (jazz guitarist/singer) vocal, electric guitar You Can’t Go Home
Bobby Hutcherson vibraphone She’s no. Lady
Myron Grumbacker piano Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Narada Michael Walden arranger, producer It's Supposed to Be Fun
Buddy Guy guitar My Babe
Pete Anthony conductor You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Hollywood Studio Symphony performing orchestra You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Phoebe Snow vocal A Lover's Question
Houston Person tenor saxophone My Babe
Shawn Amos recording No Images (poem by Waring Cuney)
Stanley Turrentine tenor saxophone At Last
Jeff Colella piano Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Away Team (UK electronic duo, Andy Lovegrove & Ian Davenport) remixer Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (awayTEAM remix)
David Holmes (Electronic dance music DJ and producer from Northern Ireland) mix-DJ For What It's Worth
Joe Williams (US jazz vocalist) vocal Saturday Night Fish Fry
Tommy Oliver arranger Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
awayTEAM remixer Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (awayTEAM remix)

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Ray W. vocal 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do, (They Call It) Stormy Monday, A Little Les of Lou's Blues, Blues Is a Woman, God Bless the Child, I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water, I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town, In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down, Lost and Lookin', See See Rider, Stormy Monday, Stormy Monday (alternate take), Sweet Lover, T'ain't Nobody Biz-nes If I Do, Willow Weep for Me
Kassie Carlson performer This World is Something New to Me
Les McCann vocal Lift Every Voice and Sing / God Bless America