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Earl Gaines with Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers (members Earl Gaines (vocals), Louis Brooks (tenor saxophone), Ali Brown (upright bass), Lovell Phillips (piano) and Andy Davis (drums))

Excello 2056 - It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day) / Chicken Shuffle - 1955 
Excello 2063 - Can't Keep From Cryin' / Baby, Baby, What's Wrong - 1955

Earl Gaines (born Earl Gaines on 19-August-1935 in Mt. Nebo near Decatur, Alabama. Moved to Nashville in 1951 - recorded solo both as Earl Gains or Earl Gaines) 

Excello 2072 - Long Time Ago / It's Drivin' Me Mad - 1955

Earl Gaines with Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers (members Earl Gaines, ...............)

Excello 2088 - Please Understand / I Don't Need You Now - 1956

Earl Gaines and Freddy Robinson 

Athens 706 - White Rose (Theme) / White Rose (Commercial) - 1957

Earl Gaines

Champion 1001 - Now Do You Hear / Best Of Luck Baby - 1958 (with Jimmy Beck and his Orchestra (members Johnny Jones (guitar), Larry Taylor (guitar), Big Mac (bass), Jimmy Beck (tenor saxophone), Red McMillan (tenor saxophone), Ira Wilson (tenor saxophone), Melvin Jackson (trumpet), Wilson Jenkins (piano) and Little Willie Mitchell (drums)) 
Champion 1004 - Love You So / Sittin' Here Drinkin' - 1960 (with Jimmy Beck and his Orchestra)
Champion 1017 - Three Times Seven / Hold Back My Tears - 1960 (with Jimmy Beck and his Orchestra) 
Poncello 712 - Let Me Down Easy / Show Me Something - 1961   
Excello 2217 - It's Love Baby / Please Love Me - 1962

Earl Gaines with Lucille Johns   

Spar - You Are My Sunshine - (track can be found on a German Blue Label Cd released in 2007 "The Poncello Records Story - Tennessee R&B" SPV 95822)

Earl Gains

H B R 481 - It's Worth Anything / The Best Of Luck To You* - 1966 *also recorded in 1964 by Sam Baker on Athens 213. 
H B R 510 - I Have Loved And I Have Lived / Don't Take My Kindness For A Weakness - 1966 

Earl Gaines

Hollywood 1117 - Fruit From Another Man's Tree / My Woman - 1967 (recorded in Nashville 5-May-1967)
Hollywood 1120 - Have Faith (In Me) / The Things I Used To Do - 1967 (recorded in Nashville 5-May-1967 / 20-July-1967)

A Friend (Earl Gaines)

Hollywood 1123 - We're Gonna Miss You Otis / Macon - 1968

Earl Gaines  

Hollywood 1128 - Our Friend Is Gone / He Went To The Mountain - 1968
Hollywood 1128 - Our Friend Is Gone (Part 1) / Our Friend Is Gone (Part 2) - 1968
Hollywood 1131 - Tell Me Tonight / Three Wishes For A Fool - 1968 (recorded in Nashville 20-July-1967 / 5-May-1967)
Deluxe 102 - The Door Is Still Open / My Pillow Stays Wet - 1968
Deluxe 111 - Good, Good Lovin' / The Meaning Of A Sad Song (Medley) - 1969
Deluxe 117 - Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go) / It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day) - 1969
Deluxe 125 - You Belong To Me / From Warm To Cool To Cold - 1970
Deluxe 131 - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go (Thrill On The Hill) / What In The World Can I Call My Own - 1970
Seventy-Seven 103 - Yearning And Burning / Loving Her Was Easier* - 1972 *Also recorded in 1971 by Kris Kristofferson on Monument 8525.
Seventy-Seven 110 - That's How Strong My Love Is / Keep Your Mind On Me - 1972
King 6408 - Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go) / My Pillow Stays Wet* - 1973 *Also recorded in 1964 by James Duncan And The Duncan Trio on King 5887. 
Seventy-Seven 128 - You're The One / Turn On Your Love Light - 1973
Seventy-Seven 131 - Hymn Number Five* / If You Want What I Got - 1973 *also recorded in 1966 by Mighty Hannibal on Shurfine 021.
Seventy-Seven 135 - I Can't Face It / Soul Children - 1973
Ace 3010 - Drowning On Dry Land / Nine-Pound Steel*  - 1975 *also recorded in 1967 by Joe Simon on Sound Stage 7  2589.  
Ace - Don't Take My Kindness For Weakness - (this unreleased rehearsal recording was released in the U. K. on a 2000 Westside Cd "Curiosities - The Ace (MS.) 70's Singles & Sessions" WESCD 208)