Hip Happy Hippy

Ray Flowers  & Louise Taylor
Arnold Patton band

  'Hip Happy Hippy"
B. Branscum, Bluevale Mu. BMI

M.C.M. TK-12-034
Ron Darlin, Pro.  M C M Studio
46792 Patnik
Mt. Clemens Mich.

The Wendinger Brothers

Peter and Paul

Introducing the WENDINGER brothers... PETER is 25 and PAUL 23.  Each has his own farm by St. George, Mn., which is a little community between New Ulm and Gibbon, Mn.  They're active in running 400 acres of land and their livestock includes a herd of dairy cows and a beef herd.  Also, they raise and finish their own pigs and have on hand at least 500 hogs at all times.

The new Dodge van was added in May of 1974 and they travel to play mostly in a radius of 150 miles from New Ulm, but occasionally they go to North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin.

The WENDIGERS are especially known for playing at polka events throughout the upper midwest.  In 1974 alone they played at 15 polkas fests including the big one at the Gibbon Ballroom.  Everyone knows them for playing together with their two concertinas.  Both have a Hengel "C" and a Hengel "B flat" concertina.

This 4th album is intended to give listening enjoyment to concertina lovers and also to people who like the full band sound.  The first two albums were concertina solos and the third record was like this one with the concertina plus trumpets.

PETER and PAUL have found many friends in their years of playing and have played professionally since January of 1964.  

Footnote : Recorded at Cherrywood Studios, Cedar Falls, Iowa

Wow! Wow! Wow!/ (Wish You'd Belong To Me)

George Young

Wow! Wow! Wow!/ (Wish You'd Belong To Me)

You Know I Wanna Love You

Chord 45-1301

Chord Music Corp. , N.Y.

Billboard 7 Oct 1957 :

Wow! Wow! Wow! ................73
Rhythm side with a novelty-lyric chanted by group. Some action
possible. (Cherio, BMI)  
You Know I Wanna Love You.........69
Blues chanted by vocal group.  Lead singer gets a good sound,
and instrumentation provides a chaotic effect which may mean
something. (Cherio, BMI)

George Young was born in Detroit in 1936. While attending Cass Tech High School in the early 1950's, Young began to sing and play guitar professionally. At 18 he appeared with Bobby Darin. During his Army years, Young was stationed in Freiburg, Germany, where he became friends and jammed with Elvis Presley, another soldier/musician. Detroit-based entertainer and bandleader,he worked with TV personality Soupy Sales, and also hosted TV music shows on CKLW-TV (Windsor, ON) and WKBD-TV (Detroit).  This Chord release is his first record.  He also recorded for Fortune, Mercury and on his own Pacesetter label.

Jerry Graller (co-writer of both sides) was a long time friend of George Young, and encouraged George to start his own band (George Young and the Youngsters) Jerry became the first keyboard player in the group, which had its first gig at the Wayne Show Bar on Michigan Avenue in Wayne, now Charlie's Too.

(We Love) TV and Radio

METROJEAN

(We Love) TV and Radio

I'll Go On Waiting

TNT Records 600
An Edward Green Production
A.D.T. and Tam Jay Music BMI

Undocumented RnB female vocalist, Metrojean had at least another record on New Sound in 1963 (Mama Let Me Do It My Way / Two Strangers).  You can listen to "Mama" on YT here

A.D.T. Enterprises was incorporated in 1956 in New York City by Warren Troob, an attorney and a good friend of D.J. Alan Freed.  .  TNT, its subsidiary label was perhaps (partly?) operated by Teddy Troob, son of Warren Troob.


TNT Records discography (1963 or later)

A product of A.D.T. Enterprises, Inc.  NYC 10019

101 The Rubbies
Wobble With Me Baby / Zing! Went The Strings

113 Shonnie
(Summer is the) Time For Love / Sunset

520 Ernie Barry And Marie Elena (64)
Name Game (Italian Style) / Sweet Bella Bambina

600 Metrojean
(We Love) TV and Radio / I'll Go On Waiting

Hey Little Girl

Johnny Dane

and the Impala Singers

Hey Little Girl

Vision Records

Late 1958

Perhaps produced by Tommy "Madman" Jones who owned the Josette Publishing company. Or perhaps by Bill Sheppard (owner of the copyright according to the December 1958 registration) ?

Anyway, whoever produced the record, it was certainly a local hit as it was issued at least three times under the Vision logo and leased to Vee Jay Records.

Johnny/Johnnie Dane discography (1957-1959)

Stepheny 03/04 (1957) and 1801 (1958)
Johnny Dane And The Discorders : Why Did You Leave Me? / Shootin' High
     B Side Wr Donald L. De Lucia

Vision V-620/M117 (1958)
Johnny Dane And The Impala Singers :Joany/Hey Little Girl

Vee-Jay 312 (1959)
Johnny Dane.: Joany/Hey Little Girl

Cha Cha 703 (late '59)
Johnnie Dane :  Give Me A Chance (J. Dane, D. De Lucia)   / Prize Of A Fool (N. Kaehn-R. Binnie)

Secretly

Cara Stewart
with Combo

Secretly

Kenneth Roberts, Roy Schroeder

Cedarlane Music, BMI

Top Fifty Records TF-151
1962

Quote from Phil Milstein  :

Although his studio featured one of the classiest, most distinctive and most accomplished signature sounds in all of song-poemdom, the name of Lee Hudson is little-known today because he never had a label to call his own, instead placing the productions of his eponymous, Southern California-based studio with existing labels or for use as private demos. What attention the studio did receive was further diffused by Hudson's emphasis of the name of his lead singer, Cara Stewart, on labels and in ads, keeping his own name that much further in the background.

Not that he could be blamed, for Cara Stewart possessed the finest female voice in the entire song-poem field. Supported by Hudson's light guitar comping and a "5 piece ork" simulated on a Chamberlin, her sultry mezzo-soprano would have leveled cities-full of men, had any of them besides the respective songwriters ever heard her sing.   Stewart's torchy blues-pop style invokes comparisons to Julie London and Marilyn Monroe, only with a better instrument -- at least better vocal instrument -- at her disposal.

Rockin' Rhythm

Bernie Roberts and his Orchestra

Vocal by Blondie

Rockin' Rhythm
B. Roberts-J.Meyer

Pageant Records 710

Juneau, Wisconsin

1962

Photo credit : http://www.polkamart.com/Biographies/TheBernieRobertsStory.aspx

The Bernie Roberts Orchestra began in 1944 and their recording career began in 1949 when they hit it very big with their first recording of the Jolly Musicians Polka.

At the age of 15, Bernie started playing the accordion and soon was playing for house parties, birthday parties, and for anyone who would listen. At 19, he joined a four piece band from Beaver Dam called Shorty and the Rhythm Ramblers. After World War II started, two members of the band were drafted and the band broke up. For two years he played for other bands in the area, getting valuable experience. Then at age 22, Bernie and a bass playing friend, Norbert Neis, decided to start a new band with a new sound. The result was the Bernie Roberts Orchestra.   Two of his brothers and two of his sisters joined the band. In 1949, the band released its first recording with the Pfau Recording Company in Milwaukee; in 1952 with the Decca Recording Company; and two years later, Bernie became a member of the American Society of Composers,

On Oct. 31, 1999, Bernie and the band were elected to the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame. From 1972 to 1999, he was a harness horse trainer, owner and driver, racing at tracks in the Midwest, Colorado and California.   Bernie passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004 in Anaheim, Calif.  

(Source of info : alt.music.polka forum)

Blondie Roberts played first trumpet on all the recordings
of his brother besides being the featured vocalist

Walking After Midnight

Sally Massey And The Rhythm Pals

Walking After Midnight

Don Hecht and Alan Block, 4 Star Sales Co.

Vogue S-8159-AA
1957

"A very late cover of the hit tune by Patsy Cline.  A nice job by Miss Massey, but it arrives much too late"  Billboard 6 May 1957

In January 1957, Cline performed the song on an episode of the CBS television program, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. It garnered a strong response from viewers and was therefore rush-released as a single February 11, 1957. "Walkin' After Midnight" became Cline's first major hit single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard country music chart and No. 12 on its pop chart.

Born in 1922, Sally Massey in her younger days used to sing on local radio stations with her sister Alice .  Sally then played guitar in the Rem Wall Band before recording for her own Sa-Ma label. She had at least two 45s on the Otsego, Michigan Vogue label in 1956 and 1957. There was also a much later single on Sims Records in 1964.

She was once married to Gilbert Jennings, a fiddler and singer.  She died at an unknown date.

Sunny Side Of The Street

Ricky Dee

Sunny Side Of The Street

Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields

Shapiro & Bernstein Music BMI

Trio-Tex Records 104

Div. of G-B Recordings
Line & Phila. Rd., Easton, Penna.
G-B De Case Production
Produced by Bob Seawood

Backed by a cover of "A Thousand Miles Away" (The Heartbeats, 1957).   "Sunny Side" is also a cover.  Composed in 1930, the song was a hit for Frankie Laine in 1950.  (see Wikipedia)

Certainly related to Ricky Dee and The Embers (on Newtown Records). Same producers? Same band?  But the true identity of the vocalist remain unknown.  Curiously enough THE RICKY DEE AND EMBERS was incorporated - a rare fact at the time? - as a company on 12/17/1962 by Richard Wise, 426 Clinton Terrace, Easton, Pa.  Since there is no mention of The Embers here, should we assume that this record was done at an earlier date ?

Let's Have A Party

Susy Rose

Let's Have A Party

Sur-Speed Records

1971?

Susy Rose was seven year-old at the time of her first record (this one).  Her picture above is from the cover of a later album from the mid-seventies.  She also recorded for Rosette, Starr and Rome Records.  Originally from Prospect, Ohio, she is possibly now Sue Michael of  Worthington, Ohio.