Camden NJ - The Four Blues with Arthur Davey

The Four Blues. In this photo, the group is featuring Arthur Davey on clarinet (he also played alto sax). On their DeLuxe 1002 release, one side featured a different clarinet player, Ann Du Pont. In above photo, Slim Gaillard is pointing at the drum. Earl Plummer may have been the lead tenor in this group.

THE FOUR BLUES assembled in Philadelphia in the 1940s. Personnel included James Stokes, Ganzetter Thompson, Joseph Gardner, Earl Plummer, Arthur Davey, and Carroll Jones. They had two releases on the Decca label in 1941-42, cut six sides for DeLuxe in 1945, and three for Apollo in the years 1948 through 1950.

The group recorded both secular and religious music. The religious songs were released under the name The Golden Echo Quartet.

Earl Plummer also sing with Roman Brown's Romaine's. Both Plummer and Arthur Davey also performed with Steve Gibson's Red Caps.

The Four Blues

1945

Label image for DeLuxe 3195-B released in September 1948. It was originally issued on DeLuxe 1004 in October 1945. The Four Blues had two releases on Decca (1941-42), six on DeLuxe (1945), and three on Apollo (1948-50).

The Afro-American

May 12, 1945

Billboard Magazine - September 22, 1945

Billboard Magazine - October 27, 1945

Billboard Magazine - November 24, 1945

Billboard Magazine - January 12, 1946 Ad

New York Amsterdam News
June 1, 1946

Bob Eberly appeared at Chubby's Cafe on Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Collings Road on the first two weekends in January of 1950. Also on the bill at Chubbys on those dates were The Four Blues with Arthur Davey and the house orchestra, and the Frank Virtuoso Band, perhaps better known somewhat later as Frank Virtue and the Virtues. Over the next six weeks the Frank Virtuoso Band shared the stage with Savannah Churchill, June Christy, Art Lund, Bill Darnel, Dick Todd, Billy Hays, Eve Young, Emilie Longacre, Artie Russell's New Yorkers, and the Doles Dickens Quintet.

VIDEO Recordings
1941	Decca 8517	Easy Does It	MP3
1941	Decca 8517	Jitterbug Sadie	MP3
1942	Decca 8637	Bluer Than Bluer Than Blue	MP3
1942	Decca 8637	Honey Chile	MP3
1945	DeLuxe 1000	Bell Bottom Trousers	AUDIO
1945	DeLuxe 1000	I'm Gone	AUDIO
1945	DeLuxe 1001	Baby I Need A Whole Lot of Everything
1945	DeLuxe 1001	Chitlin's and Pig Feet
1945	DeLuxe 1002 Ann Dupont and The Four Blues	Oh Daddy Please Bring That Suitcase In	AUDIO
1945	DeLuxe 1002 Ann Dupont and The Four Blues	The Things You Want The Most of All	AUDIO
1945	DeLuxe 1003 The Golden Echo Quartette	I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
1945	DeLuxe 1004	The Blues Can Jump	VIDEO
1945	DeLuxe 1004	When the Old Gang's Back on the Corner
1945	DeLuxe 1005 The Golden Echo Quartette	Noah and the Ark	VIDEO
1945	DeLuxe 1005 The Golden Echo Quartette	Study War No Mo'	VIDEO
1948	DeLuxe 3195	The Blues Can Jump	VIDEO
1948	DeLuxe 3195	Am I Asking To Much
1948	Apollo 398	It Takes A Long, Tall Brown-skinned Girl	VIDEO
1948	Apollo 398	Honey Chile	MP3
1950	Apollo 1145	Re-Bop-De-Boom	MP3
1950	Apollo 1145	The Vegetable Song	MP3
1950	Apollo 1160	Missing You	MP3
1950	Apollo 1160	As Long As I Live	MP3