Roy Head
The Treys
(members Roy Head, Tommy Bolton (born 1941 --- died 2003) and Gerry
Gibson)
The Traits
(members Roy Head (vocals), Clyde Causey (lead guitar), Tommy Bolton
(rhythm guitar), Bill Pennington (bass), Dan
Buie (piano) and Gerry Gibson (drums --- later member of Sly
& The Family Stone))
The Traits
(members Roy Head (vocals), George Frazier (lead guitar),Tommy
Bolton (guitar), Bill Pennington (bass), Dan
Buie (keyboards) and Jerry Gibson (drums))
TNT 164 - One More Time / Don't Be Blue - 1958
TNT 175 - Live It Up / Yes I Do - 1959
The Traits Vocal, Roy Head
(members Roy Head, George Frazier,Tommy
Bolton, Bill Pennington, Dan Buie and
Jerry Gibson)
TNT 177 - My Baby's Fine / Here I Am In Love Again - 1960
The Traits
(members Roy Head, George Frazier,Tommy
Bolton, Bill Pennington, Dan Buie and
Jerry Gibson)
TNT 181 - Summertime Love / Your Turn To Cry - 1960
The Traits Vocal, Roy Head
/ The
Traits (members Roy Head (vocals), George Frazier
(lead guitar),Tommy Bolton (guitar), Bill Pennington (bass), David
McCumber (saxophone), ?
Charron (saxophone), Dan
Buie (keyboards) and Jerry Gibson
(drums))
TNT 185 - Walking All Day / Night Time Blues (Instrumental)* - 1961
*flip by The Traits.
The Traits Vocal, Roy Head (members
Roy Head, Bill Pennington, David McCumber,
? Charron, Dan
Buie, Jerry Gibson,
.............................................)
Renner 221 - Linda Lou / Little Mama - 1962
The Traits Vocal By Roy
Head (members Roy Head, Bill Pennington, David
McCumber, ? Charron,
Dan Buie, Jerry Gibson,
.............................................)
Ascot 2108 - Linda Lou / Little Mama - 1962
The Traits Vocal, Roy Head
(members Roy Head (vocals), Bill Pennington (bass), David
McCumber (saxophone), Danny Gomez
(saxophone), Dan Buie (keyboards and
rhythm guitar), Jerry Gibson (drums),
.............................................)
Renner 229 - Got My Mojo Working / Woe,
Woe - 1962 (promo copies issued in coloured vinyl)
The Traits / Roy - Sarah &
The Traits (members Roy Head,
.......................)
Lori 9551 - Get Back / Never Make Me Blue* -
1963 *same song as "Treat Me Right" on
Scepter 12116.
Roy Head And The Traits
(members Roy Head, David McCumber, Danny
Gomez, Jerry Gibson, .............................................)
1963
Roy Head And The Traits
(members Roy Head, Gerry Gibson, Gene Kurtz, Frank Miller, Johnny
Clark, Tommy May and Ronnie Barton)
Back Beat 543 - Teen-Age Letter* / Pain - 1964 *also
recorded in 1957 by Joe Turner And His Blues Kings on Atlantic 1167
Suave 712 - Teen-Age Letter* / Pain - 196?
Roy Head
(born 1-September-1941 in Three Rivers, Texas)
Dome Rh-1 #1234 - I'll Be Around / Southbound Train To Memphis -
196?
Roy Head And The Traits
(members Roy Head (vocals), Johnny Clark (lead guitar), Frank
Miller (rhythm guitar), Gene Kurtz (bass), Dan
Buie (keyboards), Danny Gomez (tenor saxophone), Tommy May
(tenor saxophone), Jonny Gibson
(trumpet) and Jerry Gibson (drums))
Back Beat 546 - Treat Her Right / So Long, My Love - 1965
Roy Head & The Traits
(members (members Roy Head, George Frazier, Tommy Bolton, Bill
Pennington, David McCumber, ?
Charron, Dan Buie
and Jerry Gibson)
TNT 194 - One More Time / Don't Be Blue - 1965
Roy Head (members
Roy Head, Johnny Clark, Frank Miller, Gene Kurtz, Dan
Buie, Danny Gomez, Tommy May,
Jonny Gibson and Jerry Gibson)
Scepter 12116 - Just A Little Bit* /
Treat Me Right - 1965 *also recorded in 1963 by
Jerry Butler on
Vee-Jay 556 and in 1967 by
Roscoe Robinson on
Wand 1161.
Roy Head
Scepter 12117 - Won't Be
Blue / One More Time - 1965
Scepter 12124 - Get Back / Get
Back (Instrumental) - 1965
Scepter 12138 - One More Time
/ Convicted - 1966
The Traits
(members
........................................................................................................)
Scepter 12169 - Harlem Shuffle* / Strange Lips Start Old Memories -
1966 *Also recorded in 1963 by Bob & Earl on Marc 104 and in 1965 by
Wayne Cochran on Mercury 72507.
Scepter 12169 - Strange Lips Start Old
Memories / Somewhere - 1966
Universal 30494 - Harlem Shuffle / Somewhere - 1966
Roy Head & The Traits
(members Roy Head,
............................................................)
Back Beat 555 - Apple Of My Eye / I Pass The Day - 1966
Back Beat 560 - My Babe / Pain - 1966
Roy Head
Back Beat 563 - Driving Wheel /
Wigglin' And Gigglin' - 1966
Back Beat 571 - Don't Cry No More* / To Make A Big Man Cry - 1966
*also recorded in 1961 by
Bobby Bland on
Duke 336.
The Roy Head Trio
(members Roy Head, David "Hawk"
Koon, Gene Kurtz and Gerry Gibson)
Back Beat 576 - You're (Almost) Tuff /
Tush Hog - 1966
Roy Head
Back Beat 582 - Nobody But Me (Tells My Eagle When To Fly) / A Good
Man Is Hard To Find - 1967
Back Beat - When I Marry Sunshine - (although
unissued on vinyl this track was released in 1995 on a Varese
Sarabande Cd
"Treat Her Right - The Best Of Roy Head" VSD-5618)
Back Beat - Boogie Chillen' - (although
unissued on vinyl this track was
released in 1995 on a Varese
Sarabande Cd
"Treat Her Right - The Best Of Roy Head" VSD-5618)
The Traits
(members
..............................................................................................)
Garrison 3007 - Too Good To Be True / Gotta
Keep My Cool - 1967
Pacemaker 254 - Too Good To Be True / Gotta
Keep Cool - 1967
Roy Head
Mercury 72750 -
Got Down On Saturday (Sunday In The Rain)
/ The Grass Was Green - 1967
Mercury 72799 - Broadway Walk* / Turn Out The Lights - 1968 *also
recorded in 1967 by Bobby Womack on Minit
32030.
Mercury 72848 - Ain't
Goin' Down Right /
Lovin' Man On Your Hands - 1968
The Traits
(members
...........................................................................................)
Universal 30496 - Parchman Farm / Tramp
- 1968 (session: Johnny Winters)
Roy Head
Mercury 72922 - I Miss You Baby / I Want Some Action - 1969
Mercury 72946 - You're Tuff Enough / Doctor
Feelgood - 1969
ABC Dunhill 4240 - I'm Not A Fool Anymore / Mama
Mama - 1970
TMI Zs7 9000 - Puff Of Smoke (Stereo) / Puff Of Smoke (Mono) - 1971
(Promo Issue Only)
TMI 9000 - Puff Of Smoke / Lord Take A Bow - 1971
TMI 9010 - Bit By Bit / Wait Till I Arrive - 1972
TMI 75-0103 - Rock And Roll Mood / You Got The Power - 1972
TMI 75-0106 - Why Don't We Go Somewhere And Love / Smell-A-Woman -
1972
TMI Btbo/Rca Apbo-0111 - Small Town
Girl / Chug All Night - 1973
TMI 75-0113 - Carol / Clyde O'riley -
1973
Mega 1219 - Baby's Not Home / Do What You Can Do - 1974
Shannon 829 - The Most Wanted Woman In Town / Gingers
Breade Man - 1975
Shannon 833 - Help Yourself To Me / To Make A Big Man Cry - 1975
Shannon 838 - I'll Take It / The One That Got Away - 1975
Goldies
45 1492 - Treat Her Right / Apple Of My Eye - 1970's
ABC Dot 17608 - Lady Luck And Mother Nature / Door I
Used To Close - 1976
ABC Dot 17629 - Ain't It Funny (How
Times Haven't Changed) / Bridge For Crawling Back - 1976
ABC Dot 17650 - One Night / Deep Elem
Blues - 1976
ABC Dot 17667 - I Have A Dream, I Have A Dream / Half A Love - 1976
ABC Dot 17669 - Just Because / Angel With A Broken Wing - 1976
ABC Dot 17706 - Julianne / Velvet Strings - 1977
ABC Dot 17722 - Come To Me / Georgia On My Mind - 1977
ABC 12346 - Now You See 'Em, Now You
Don't / Smooth Whiskey - 1978
ABC 12383 - Tonight's The Night / A Lady In My Room - 1978
ABC 12418 - Dixie / Love Survived - 1978
ABC 12462 - Kiss You And Make It Better (Mono) / Kiss You And Make
It Better (Stereo) - 1979 (Possibly Promo Issue Only)
Elektra 46549 - In Our Room / Things I Never Could Have Left Behind
- 1979
Elektra 46582 - The Fire Of Two Old Flames / Under Suspicion - 1980
Elektra 46653 - Long Drop / Gonna Save
It For My Baby - 1980
Elektra 47029 - Drinking Them Long Necks / Baby's Found Another Way
To Love Me - 1980
Elektra 47081 - I've Never Gone To Bed With An Ugly Woman / All
Night Long Is Gone - 1981
Churchill 7778 - After Texas / California Day - 1981
NSD 129 - Play Another Gettin' Drunk And
Take Somebody Home Song / Your Next One And Only - 1982
NSD 146 - The Trouble With Hearts / Naughty Smile - 1982
NSD 156 - Your Mama Don't Dance / Party Time - 1982
Avion 105 - Where Did He Go Right / ? -
1983
Texas Crude 614 - Break Out The Good
Stuff / She Needs Time - 1985
Atlantic America 99529 - There's Something On Your Mind / Everything
A Man Can Do (And I Love You) - 1986
Roy Head / The Crickets
American Pie 9102 - Treat Her Right / Think It Over - ? *flip by The
Crickets.
Roy
Head
Paula 460 - Treat Her Right / I Want To (Do Everything For You) - ?
ABC 028097 - The Door I Used To Close / One
Night - ? (Collectables)
Hugh
Maskela / Roy Head & The Traits
Collectables Col
901277 - Grazing In The Grass / Treat Her Right - ?
Roy Head and the original
Traits (members Roy Head, Bill York, Dan
Buie, Clyde Causey, Bill Pennington,
Gene Kurtz, Don Hutchko and Gerry
Gibson) 2007.