Dial Records was owned by Buddy Killen. The records in the Dial Record Series were issued in the
Atlantic 8000 series with standard Atlantic labels, although the Dial singles had the distinctive Dial label.
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DIAL ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
SD-8100/8200 Series, issued with standard Atlantic labels and distributed by Atlantic:
SD-8106 - Hold on To What You've Got - Joe Tex [1965] (2-65, #124) You Got What It
Takes/Tell Me Right Now/One Monkey Don't Stop No Show/Hold What You've Got/I'm Not Going to
Work Today/Are We Ready//You Better Get It/Heep See Few Know/Fresh Out of Tears/You Can
Stay/There is a Girl/Together We Stand
SD-8124 - The Love You Save - Joe Tex [1966] (5-66, #108) The Love You Save (May
Be Your Own)/Live For Yourself/Build Your Love (On a Solid Foundation)I Don't Trust Myself Around
You/Funny Bone/A Sweet Woman Like You//I'm a Man/You Better Believe It, Baby/Close the Door/If
Sugar Was as Sweet as You/Heartbreak Hotel/Don't Let Your Left Hand Know (What Your Right Hand is
Doing)
SD-8133 - I've Got To Do a Little Better - Joe Tex [1966] Papa Was, Too/What Me and
My Baby Ain't Got/A Woman sees a Hard Time (When Her Man is Gone)/Watch the One (That Brings
the Bad News)/Taking Care of a Woman (Is a Full Time Job)/Lying's Just a Habit John//I've Got to Do a
Little Bit Better/The Truest Woman in the World/I Believe I'm Gonna Make It/Got You on My Mind/Half a
Mind/S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)
SD-8144 - Best of Joe Tex - Joe Tex [1967] (9-67, #168) Hold What You've Got/You Got
What It Takes/A Woman (Can Change a Man)/I Want to (Do Everything For You)/I Believe I'm Gonna
Make It/I've Got to Do a Little Bit Better//S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)/Papa Was Too/Show Me/A
Sweet Woman Like You/The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)/You Better Git It
SD-8156 - Live and Lively - Joe Tex [1968] (2-68, #84) Show Me/Do Right Woman-Do
Right Man/Get Out of My Life, Woman/Wooden Spoon/That's Life//Love is a Hurtin' Thing/Don't Give
Up/A Woman's Hands/You're Gonna Thank Me, Woman/Papa Was, Too/Skinny Legs and All
SD-8187 - Soul Country - Joe Tex [1968] (7-68, #154) I'll Never Do You Wrong/Ode to
Billie Joe/The Dark End of the Street/Funny How Time Slips Away/Engine, Engine Number Nine//Skip a
Rope/Green Green Grass of Home/Set Me Free/By the Time I Get to Phoenix/Honey
SD-8231 - Buying a Book - Joe Tex [1969] (7-69, #190) We Can't Sit Down Now/Sure is
Good/That's the Way/Anything You Wanna Know/It Ain't Sanitary//The Only Way/Grandma Mary/Get
Your Lies Together/The Same Things You Did To Get Me/Buying a Book
SD-8254 - Joe Tex With Strings and Things - Joe Tex [1970] Everything Happens on
Time/The Same Old Soup/I Love You and I Thank You/A Little Friendly Advice/Take My Baby a Little
Love//You're Right, Ray Charles/She Might Need Me/Daddy's Got a Bad Back/My Wife My
Woman/(When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again) I Can't See You No More
SD-8292 - From the Roots Came the Rapper - Joe Tex [1972] Lovin' Man/The Only Way
I Know How to Love You/I Can Do It Better/Chained in the Mind/I'll Never Fall in Love Again//Oh Me Oh
My (I'm a Fool For You Baby)There's No Business Like Love/The Baby is Mine/Something's In Life Are
Worth Dying For/Hate Yourself in the Morning
6000 Series:
The Dial Records 6000 series was distributed by Mercury Records. The Dial promotional label is white
with black printing. "Dial" in script above the center hole, above the Dial logo is a sundial.
DL-6001 - Joe Tex - Joe Tex [1971]
DL-6002 - I Gotcha - Joe Tex [1971] (4-72, #17) I Gotcha/Give The Baby Anything The
Baby Wants/Takin' A Chance/Baby Let Me Steal You/It Ain't Gonna Work Baby/God Of Love//You Said
A Bad Word/Bad Feet/The Woman Cares/Love Me Right Girl/For My Woman/You're In Too Deep
DL-6003 -
DL-6004 - Joe Tex Spills the Beans - Joe Tex [1972] All The Heaven A Man Really
Needs/You're Sure Gonna Get It/Woman Stealer/Rain Go Away/Let's Go Somewhere and Talk/A
Mother's Prayer//Cat's Got Her Tongue/Living in the Last Days/I Come to You/King Thaddeus/Trying to
Win Your Love/Papa's Dream
DL-6005 - The Allman Joys - Allman Joys (Featuring Duane and Gregg Allman) [1973]
(11-73, #171) An early incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band. Gotta Get Away/Oh John/Street
Singer/You'll Learn Someday/Old Man River/Bell Bottom Britches//Spoonful/Stalling For Time/Doctor
Fone Bone/Changing Of The Guard/The Forest For The Trees/Northern Boundary
6100 series:
The Dial 6100 series was distributed by TK Records.
6100 - He Who Is Without Funk Cast The First Stone - Joe Tex [1978] Loose
Caboose/How Do You Spell Relief/If You Don't Want The Man (Don't Take The Money)/Finger Popped
Myself Into The Poor House//Who Gave Birth To The Funk/Hold What You've Got/He Who Is Without
Funk (Cast The First Stone)/Music Ain't Got No Color
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