Intro
The Curtis Knight tracks are the most complicated part of the pre-fame years Hendrix recordings, but 2nd place goes to the Lonnie Youngblood recordings. First it must be noted that all of this material was regarded solely as Lonnie Youngblood recordings for thirty years. In fact only 4 tracks released as 2 singles by Fairmount were originally released with Youngblood as the featured artist, the rest were issued on 45s by The Icemen, Billy LaMont, Lenny Howard, George Scott and Jimmy Norman. These do have Lonnie Youngblood playing on them, but only as a session musician like Hendrix.

So how did these tracks all end up known as Lonnie Youngblood recordings?

In an interview published in Univibes issue #24 Younblood said when asked how the tapes got released, that Fairmount only had a distribution deal and didn't own the tapes. He continues that the tapes (not specifying which tapes) were left at the studio and that Johnny Brantley and Joe Robinson later got the tapes and sold them.

FIRST ISSUE ON MAPLE RECORDS

Youngblood seems to refer to what happened after the first lp compilation of these tracks, "Two great experiences together" was released. The lp was compiled from tracks originally issued by The Icemen, Billy LaMont, Lenny Howard, George C. Scott and Jimmy Norman., but all songs included were takes with vocals by Lonnie Youngblood, or instrumental mixes of songs originally sung by one of the other artists. So if Brantley and Robinson stole the tapes, why did they compile an lp that didn't credit anybody else except Youngblood and Hendrix for the music included?

A more likely explanation would be that the collection was aimed to (in addition to make lots of money off Hendrix of course) boost Youngblood's career, and was compiled with his blessing and input as many of the songs were padded out with new sax overdubs to fill out the void left by the wiped vocals. It could well be that after this lp things got sour between Brantley and Youngblood as some later Brantley productions didn't display Youngblood's name very visibly and as time passed there wasn't much of a mention of him left at all.

Also it's possible that the first compilation was done to "test the waters", to see if anybody would notice the recycling, as Brantley did later release versions with original vocalists spread out over several lps. But mostly the original single versions never appeared again, the only exception being The Icemen tracks "(My girl) She's a fox" & "(I wonder) What it takes".

Johnny Brantley seems to have recycled a lot of the recordings that he made in the sixties, tracks by Billy LaMont, Jimmy Norman, The Icemen, Sam Williams and Herman Hitson were all reworked and released on lps credited to Jimi Hendrix. He produced early sessions by the Ohio Players in 67/68, these too were later re-released as "First impressions" (TRIP 8029) in october 1972, Trip being the label that also released numerous Hendrix albums compiled by Brantley. More on those recyclings, once again, in the "Fakes" -section.

And finally, he also produced a version of the Hendrix / Morrison Scene Club '68 jam (which he originally didn't record or produce), released on Nutmeg as "High, live and dirty". On that release all songs (except Bleeding heart) credited Brantley as composer, and the amount of Morrisons swearing was multiplied via overdubs, to boost the "X-rated" content as advertized on the album cover.