- Rumba Blues 1953-1957, The Mambo Years · 2010
- Atomic Baby · 2008
- Safari Records Rarities · 2021
- Safari Records Rarities · 2021
- Safari Records Rarities · 2021
- Ace's Wild! The Complete Solo Sides and Sessions · 2012
- West Coast Blues Nuggets · 2011
- Get Hot – Female Sleazy Rhythm 'N Blues, Vol. 3 · 2010
- Risque Blues - Drill Daddy Drill · 2009
- Vocalists of the 50ies · 2009
- Toast of the Coast: 1950s R&B from Dolphin's of Hollywood Vol. 2 · 2009
- Atomic Baby · 2008
- Atomic Baby · 2008
Compilations
- 2014
About Linda Hayes
Sister of Platters singer Tony Williams, Linda Hayes had a fairly lengthy career of her own as an R&B singer in the 1950s, recording singles between 1952 and 1959 on the Recorded in Hollywood, King, and Antler labels. Her biggest success by far was the 1953 number two R&B hit "Yes I Know," an "answer" record to Willie Mabon's R&B chart-topper "I Don't Know." "Take Me Back" briefly slipped into the R&B Top Ten in early 1954, but otherwise she had little commercial success, and boasted relatively little to distinguish her from other R&B belters in the era when the music was in the early throes of a transition to rock & roll. Hayes sings on a few of the very early (pre-hit) Platters singles, the group also backing her on a couple of her mid-'50s solo discs and Tony Williams singing with her on "Oochi Pachi." Most of her key singles were collected on Atomic Baby: Hollywood R&B from the Platters First 'Dish', released by Shout! in 2009. ~ Richie Unterberger
- HOMETOWN
- Linden, NJ, United States
- BORN
- 10 December 1923
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul