The Compositions of Eli "Lucky" Thompson
Aliyah
Angel Eyes
Another Whirl
Back Home From Yesterday
Back To The World
Beautiful Tuesday (6)
Birth of Sunday, The
Bittersweet, The (1)
Blue Monday
Bluest Blues, The (1)
Bo-Bi My Boy (2)
Boppin' the Blues
Bunny
But Not For Tonight (5)
Caressable
Centre Ville
Check Out Time
Come Let's Dance
Commercial Eyes
Coolin' With Collins
Could I Meet You Later?
Dancing Sunbeam
Deep Passion
Deserted Flower
Distant Sound, A
Down the Stretch
Easy Going
Ever So Easy
Evil Eva
Fillet Of Soul
Fine and Lucky
Fire Bug, The
Fly With The Wind
From Day Till Dawn
Frosty Summer
Glamour Game
Good Luck
Green Man, The
Hang Over Heaven
Home Come'n
Home Free
I Came From Sunday
I Forgot To Remember
I Guess I'll Heat That Coffee Pot (1)
I'll Wait Forever
I Remember When (Love and Respect (6))
Is the Long Road the Right Road? (Our Shared Blessings (6))
I Want A Summertime Santa Claus (1)
I Wouldn't Do It For Love Nor Money
It's Christmas Time, Be Happy
It's Fantasy (Scratching the Surface (6))
It's Thursday
Kinfolk's Corner
Lady Gail
Lady's Vanity, A (10)
Last Night I Met An Angel (Warm Inside (6))
Lazy Day
Lincoln Heights (3)
Little Boy Blow
Little Tenderfoot
Lord, Lord Am I Ever Gonna Know
Lucky's Workshop Blues
Lucky T
Mambo In Blues
Mid-Nite Oil
Minor Blues
Minor Delight, A
Minuet In Blues
Mister Man
Mr. Care Free
Mumba Neua
Munsoon (Monsoon)
My Heart Speaks
Mysterioso Mr. X
N R 1
N R 2
Never So Easy
New Day
Night Hawk, The
No Good Man Blues (7)
No Frost and Free
No More
Nobody Knows
Nothin' But The Soul
Nothin' From Nothin'
Notorious Love
Oh No, Please Don't Go (1)
Old Reliable
On Easy Street
On Tippy Top
Once There Was
Once Upon A Time
One Cool Night (Takin' Care 'O Business, Takin' Care 'N Business) (4)
One For The Boys And Us
One Last Goodbye
OP Meets LT
Open Haus
Paradise Valley
Parisian Knight (The Parisian Knights)
Passin' Time
Passionately Yours
Plain But The Simple Truth, The
Please Don't Leave Me Baby
Pretty Is As Pretty Does (1)
Prey-Loot
Quick As A Flash
Rainbow Inn
Reminiscent
Right Or Wrong (1)
Ring A Ding Doo
Rockin' Chair Blues (1)
Safari
Sauvabelin
Scene Is Clean, The
Seeing Is Believing
Shuffle That Ruff (Scuffle That Ruff)
Shy One, The
Sky High (Say That To Say This (6))
Slam's Mishap
Slow Dough
Slow Drag
Smooth Sailing
Sorry Woman Blues
Soul Carnival
Soul City
Soul Food
Soul-lite
Soul Lullaby
Soul's Nite Out
Spanish Rails
Spanyola
Spot Session
Stay In There (9)
Still Waters
Street Scene
Summertime Santa Claus
Sun Out
Sunkissed Rose, A
Take Care Beware
Takin' Care 'O Business (Takin' Care 'N Business, One Cool Night) (4)
Tea Time
Test Pilots (8)
Then Soul Walked In
Thin Ice
Tight Squeeze
To A Mornin' Sunrise
To Be Or Not To Be (1)
To You Dear One (To Your Dear One)
Tom-Kattin'
Translation
Trav'lin' (1)
Tutti Frutti Honeymoon (1)
T'was Yesterdays (It Was Yesterdays)
Two Steps Out (Two Stops Out, Choose Your Own (6))
Velvet Rain
Vout Rhythm (Voot Rhythm)
While You Are Gone
Why Not (7)
Why Weep?
Will You Or Won't You
World Awakes, The
Yard Bird's Pet
Yesterday's Child
You Move, You Lose
You Never Miss The Water Till The Well Runs Dry
(1) With J. Leslie McFarland
(2) With Oscar Pettiford
(3) With Jo Jones
(4) With Emmet Berry
(5) With Gerard Pochonet
(6) This title was arbitrarily assigned by producers Mark Gardner and Alan Bates when the recordings that make up the CD Candid 79035 were discovered (without titles). The equivalence with Thompson's title, recorded only from radio broadcasts, was apparently not known when the CD was issued but finally discovered in 2006 by saxophonist Chris Byars when he auditioned one of the radio broadcasts. So far, the original Thompson title for Beautiful Tuesday has not been found.
(7) With Thelma Love (Thelma Lowe)
(8) With Stuff Smith
(9) With boxer Archie Moore
(10) "A Lady's Vanity" may be another Thompson composition that has not been recorded, an earlier title for "Deep Passion," or Thompson's title for his improvisations on "Body and Soul."
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