Saturday, March 5, 2011

You Yum Yum Yitty Yitty Yea


The Dodd Sisters

You Yum Yum Yitty Yitty Yea

Gold-Tone Records

Unknown girl group. Produced by Red Battie, who, around 1961, was head of Skyla Records National Sales, and Skyla was a West Coast label. That's probably where the Gold-Tone label is coming from.?



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Good-By Blues


Norman Phelps
and His Virginia Rounders

Good-By Blues

You're Just What I Dreamed Of

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

I'm Gone



Jimmy Lester

I'm Gone

Wondering

Canon Records

St. Louis, Missouri


The Jimmy Lester Combo
Jim Lester, top right
Picture credit : http://www.myspace.com/jimlestermusic

Jim Lester retired from playing music professionally in the late 60's when he found himself interested in more bankable hobbies, like law enforcement... As an Arkansas State Trooper, Jim busted a lot of folks, from all walks of life, and was even written about in the book "A Murder in Little Rock."

The Most famous of his busted fugitives were the hillbilly classic rockers, Black Oak Arkansas. He busted them for partying naked on their porch whilst drinking and behaving like asinine rock stars.

Jimmy Lester passed away in November 2003.




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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Hickory Dickory Rock


Danny Lamego And His Jumpin’ Jacks

Andrea Records – address is 1650 Broadway N.Y.C.

Hickory Dickory Rock
(Bernie Baum-F. Kaye) All Star BMI

Chickenfeed
(Milton Kaye-Joseph. Riccitelli) All Star BMI

1956

Second (and last?) release on the Andrea label. First release was the Harptones, pulled away from Old Town Records by Leo Rogers who had just set up Andrea Records (with new partner Sid Arky).

Danny Lamego and the Jumpin' Jacks had also records on Josie and ABC. Danny Lamego, as Danny Peppermint, had records in the early sixties on Carlton (including an album titled "Twist" and the hit "The Peppermint Twist").

In January 1962, Danny Peppermint was nearly killed when he receives an electric shock from a microphone stand at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was rushed to a hospital where he recovers, and didn't died, contrary to the information found in Joel Whitburn's Top Pop singles 1955-1983.




Danny Lamego filmed in 2007
He's alive, but people around don't care.



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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

I Wanna Dance


The Cavaliers

I Wanna Dance
Sam Hawkins-Michaels-Donald Raysor
Wemar Music BMI

Messed Up
Mike Kelly-Sam Hawkins
Wemar Music BMI

Tel Records

A Morty Craft Production



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