Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop

 

From "Honkers and Shouters", book by Arnold Shaw [edited]:

That fateful day in November 1959, Alan Freed dismissed by WABC for refusing to sign an affidavit that he had never receiving payola, announced during the playing of "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko bop" that he was going off the air.

It was a fateful day, not only for Freed, but for R&B. By then the airwaves were full of young sounds, black as well as white. But the payola scandal temporarily had greater impact on black "indie" stations as well as black artists.

Surprisingly (or not), there were not so many covers of this Little Anthony & The Imperials hit. Here are several versions from various countries. It seems that the song was originally recorded by The El Capris in 1956 (Bullseye Records), but the lyrics are different and the music quite not the same.

Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop

Chicago Line - Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko bop.mp3                              
Dick Kerr and The Sing-Along Teen-Agers-Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop.mp3   
Jane Swärd - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop (Swede) .mp3                                
Los Yetis - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop (Columbia).mp3                                 
Maya Casabianca -- Chéri chéri je reviens (France).mp3                  
The Idolls - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop.mp3                                
The Latin Quarters - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop.mp3                        
The Rosalyns - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop.mp3                              
The Wild Ones - Shimmey Shimmey Ko Ko Pop.mp3                           
Rock Ready and the Raves -  Jimmy Jimmy Coco Nut (Germany) .mp3                   
The Reasons -Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop (Thailand).mp3                     

The Women Make A Fool Of Me

 

 

The Women Make A Fool Of Me
Live recording, Cal's Corral, 1961
(Los Angeles)
[from Honky Tonk Rockabillies, volume one, Cotton Town Jubilee CD)

Ernest Dale Tubb (1914–1984), the Texas Troubadour, was  one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music

"The Women Make A Fool Of Me" is a song Ernest Tubb previously recorded for Decca as "Jimmie Rodgers' Last Yodel (The Women Make A Fool Of Me)" in 1956.

Since her creation, the woman has been the subject of many studies and observations. Among the finest authors there was Alexandre Vialatte who once published the following text in his "Antiquité Du Grand Chosier":

The woman dates back to the highest antiquity. Phorcypeutus the Enumerator already quotes her in his works. Viscount Amable de Vieuval mentions her with vivacity and Casanova relates her only with the greatest affection. She knew how to provoke the lyricism of Hermogenes the Guttural and of Chyme the Surrounding. Horace praises her and Petrarch exalts her, Doctor Gaucher studies her. This is the effect of her great importance, because she plays a key role in the succession of generations and the very unfolding of history.

Without the woman, the child would be without a mother, the father without a daughter, the brother-in-law without a sister-in-law, the uncle without a niece, the husband without a widow. She is, so to speak, the mother of the human race. Remove it, the opera loses its charm, the screen its most beautiful busts. Without it, at the Grand Café there would be no cashier, even at aperitif time, between two pots of sanseviera, of average value. The man would live as an orphan.

With the woman […] everything comes alive, everything is passionate, life takes back its rights. She marries, she divorces, she gives birth, she deceives the baker with the pharmacist; she overthrows the ministries, she throws her children out of the window, she knits pale blue layettes on the Italy-Nation line. Wrapped in a mink coat, she carries at the head of the political processions a sign of one square meter, which proclaims: “We want bread”. She types the man's mail, she takes it to sign, he signs, she kisses him, she marries him; from time to time she vitrioles him. The man assists helplessly, with empty eyes, at all these demonstrations. She fights him over the office and the factory, she stole his pants. From conquest to conquest, she came to have the right to work ninety hours a week.

1st. Lt. Don Knepp - The Complete Recordings

1st. Lt. Don Knepp - The Complete Recordings (6 tracks)

 

"Bad Breath Carl," "Cuba, Cuba, Cuba is My Home," and "Hello, Leeward Tower," are records made by Ist Lt Don Knepp, a versatile officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. The three, along with "DEFEX Blues" and "Big Iron," were cut on 45 r.p.m. records and went on sale, with the profits going into a college scholarship fund for deserving seniors graduating from Gitmo's W. T. Sampson High School. The lieutenant is a Sunday school teacher,

Below, article from The Gitmo Review, US Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, October 24, 1964

Shine Heavenly Light

 

    Margaret Vizinau

Shine Heavenly Light
I'll Search Heaven For You

Reid's Religious Gems RRG-113

Reid's label was owned by Melvin Reid, who ran a record store on Sacramento Street in Berkeley beginning in 1945. The store also sponsored a weekly gospel radio show on KWBR (now KDIA) which featured Melvin's uncle Paul.

From the moment she was born, Margaret Vizinau faced obstacles. Despite them all-including being born blind after her pregnant mother contracted German measles-Margaret grew up to be a woman of great faith who dedicated her life to the Lord. Her family migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1940s to escape the rampant discrimination in the South, and in 1950, Margaret entered an interracial marriage with a nonbeliever. But after six years and the birth of two sons, Dexter and Hank, the marriage ended in a painful divorce. Margaret supported her boys by playing the piano and singing for local churches, but she faced countless challenges as a blind, African American single parent.  

Tino & The Revlons - By Request At The Sway-Zee

 

Tino & The Revlons - By Request At The Sway-Zee

01   Louie Louie   
02   Wooly Booly   
03   This Could Be The Last Time   
04   Honky Tonk Angels   
05   Little GTO   
06   House Of The Rising Sun   
07   Ask Me   
08   Because   
09   Rumble   
10   I Can't Get No Satisfaction   
11   One Time Break Time

Tino & The Revlons had their roots in Michigan, playing on the Northeast club circuit. They amassed a following in and about Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY. They were local lounge stars.

Ray De Martino (Tino), real name Raymond Joseph de Martino, was murdered in Jamaica in January 1983. Some local thugs were mugging his wife, Tino stepped in to defend her but was then stabbed to death.

Tino (w or w/o The Revlons) had singles on Mark, May, Pip, Dearborn, Palino & Etc..(Etc… is the name of the label) and two albums (one on Dearborn, another on Vibra-Sound).

Hoot Gibson, drummer for the Revlons :

This was at the time the most popular club band in Detroit at the time there were lines around the building for hours to get in and rightfully so, their energy in the rooms they played was amazing they were playing everyones cover music and some originals 6 nights a week. This album was put out with the intention to sell only at the club (Sway Lounge) due to the feverish request of the patrons, it was not supposed to have any air play. There were only 500 copies made and it sold out in three days. Funny thing everyone who bought it loved the album .

The group was asked to be the first white recording group by the executives at Motown but they did not sign with them due to other contract commitments, instead another group the Sunliners signed recorded and became the group Rare Earth