Spider Webb
W.Webb, Tuneville Music, BMI
Scottie 1326
1960
The last issue on this NRC subsidiary. The Scottie label was started in 1959 and lasted just one year, releasing two dozens of singles from #1301 to 1326. #1317 and 1322 are still to be found.
Publisher of the song, Tuneville Music, was owned by Bill Justis,
who has been signed by NRC chief Bill Lowery as a.& r. chief for the
label a few months before (Billboard, Februrary 15, 1960). And if Spider Webb had a release of Scottie, that was probably thru Bill Justis.
Several "Spider Webb" distinguished themselves in the music field :
- Gary "Spider" Webb, drummer, member of The Hollywood Argyles, who recorded The Cave on Bamboo ('61
- Bobby "Spider" Webb, a bluesman, native of San Francisco
- Spider Webb (r.n. Kenneth Rice), drummer, a Detroit native
- Spider Webb (r.n. Willbern M. Welten) steel guitarist of Sparta, IL
- Spider Webb signed by 'Teen Records, subsid of Teen Magazine in 1961
- Spider Webb (and The Insects) on Lugar ( Maggie / Big Noise From Winnetka)
- Spider Webb, LP "Life Of The Party" on Astari Records in 1982 ("treated Vocals, Fuzz Guitar Blasting, Weird Songs,Kinda Lo-Fi Sounding")
- Spider Webb, Chicago disc-jockey (fifties)
- and probably some more........
Our Spider Webb, whose first name initial letter was W., according to the songwriting credit printed on the label, is almost certainly Woodrow C. Webb, aka Jimmy Webb, whose song "No Traffic Out of Abilene" was recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1972.
He is also almost certainly Jim "Spider" Webb, country singer on the Memphis Select-O-Hits label. (late sixties).
Jim "Spider" Webb
From the Select-O-Hits 001 picture sleeve of
"Biggest Coward Of The West" b/w “When You Snooze You Lose"
...then he is probably also the same singer who recorded "Jimmy Six" on Zone Records (Memphis, TN) as by Jimmy Webb.
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