Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Great Red Rat


The Pery Mates
The Great Red Rat

Ca-Jo 210
1961


I haven't be able to find much info about this record or the artist(s).  The singer and songwriter full name is John G. Croff who later recorded an album in the Edgewood Studios (Washington, D.C.) in 1966 on the same Ca-Jo label : "A Fallen Star / Ballad of America The Revolution" (Ca-Jo 211)

On that album he was backed by Al's Dynamics, probably the same band who had a single on Ideal Records in Pittsburgh, Penn.






3 comments:

  1. Lanor 103 (1962) had the Perry Mates - Hang your head a doo-wop ballad maybe same artist? writer C.Perry - L. Perry

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  2. I will never cease to be amazed by the awful things that have made it onto vinyl (even polystyrene). Someone somewhere thought this would be a hit and put up the money for it.

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