Honeybee
Blues With A Beat..(Carroll Reeves)
Publisher : Lake Erie Music BMI
A-A Double Records 45-101
King custom press, presumably from 1955. Not listed at the Dan DeClark's Ohio River Valley discography
No info about the artists, but probably from Cleveland (Ohio) where Lake Erie Music, the publisher, was based, owned by Kenny Bass.
Wendy Powers
J. Dell, Bel-Air Music BMI
Keen Records
1958
Wendy Powers was Maria Jovan, also known as Maria Dell, Maria Del Vecchio.
Maria Jovan. As Jovan Dell, she recorded one single for Bally Records in 1957. Wife of Nick Jovan (Nicholas James Jovan), a publicity man for a Chicago movie house and songwriter turned publisher and disk producer. Nick Jovan got his first taste of the business as writer of "City of Angels," a moderate hit on Bally. Owned two publishing companies : Bel-Aire Music and Bon Bon Music.
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J. R. Williams
George Wallace The Man
Funky
Boll Weevil Records BW-101
1975
A veteran of many Nashville bands, Jimmy R. Williams played the percussion for Mel Tillis and the Statesiders, tenure with Tex Ritter and The Boll Weevils, not only J.R. writes his own material and arrangements, but surprises audiences everywhere with this versatility on many instruments . . .
Usually backed by The Boll Weevils, The band included Cary Cabe on lead guitar, Bill Farrar (bass), Roy
Peterman (steel guitar), Timmy Snyder (drums), and J. R. Williams on
banjo, fiddle, saxophone and guitar(!)
Boll Weevil was J.R. Williams' own label based in Tennessee (Nashville and Hendersonville)
https://www.45cat.com/label/bollweevil
https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/836626-Boll-Weevil-Records
Isabel Baker
I Like God's Style
Romco LP HF-101
1965
Sixteen-year old Isabel Baker made this album thanks to the support of her parents, who were evangelists based in Garden Grove, Calif. Album recorded at the studios of High Fidelity Recording, Kansas City.
Uncle Rude
Shvengitz Records
wr. Kenny Fine, Orange Bear Music
produced by Walt Kahn
1972
Uncle Rude is Kenny Fine.
Ken remembers growing up surrounded by artists in his family. Most were entertainers in some way, always trying to find that balance between art and business. He was primarily a piano player, who then studied at the Philadelphia Musical Academy in the early 1970s. He recalled finding a Moog IIIc in the school's Music department, where students were using it to record compositions. And as an undergrad he had access. Ken was already fascinated with, as he put it, "the crazy electronic stuff". He became influenced by many electronic artists and their music of the day, including Isao Tomita's Snowflakes are Dancing.
Upon graduation from music school in roughly 1973, he ended up working at an electronics company called Components in Minneapolis, and that's when he started to go out and visit synthesizer factories like Moog and EML. He visited the Moog factory in Buffalo, and it was around this time that he realized he really wanted to sell synthesizers. He began speaking with others in the synthesizer industry like ARP owner Alan R. Perlman (Ken recalls having an ARP synthesizer back then) and this solidified his resolve to get into the business. And after only a year in Minneapolis, he moved back to PA to get to work on that plan.
Vibronic
Finding himself back in PA, he soon found his 23-year-old-self with a new bank loan and a new business partner - Marc Paterka. They had met at the electronic store in Minneapolis, and at the time Marc was a church organist who had been playing in a lot of big cathedrals at the time.
Opening that store in their first location was a busy but fun time. Ken recalls the "high" he felt when buying all those amazing synthesizers for the store. The direct access to a wide variety of rather rare keyboards got him started doing Moog rentals sessions for studios like Sigma Sound, who were always looking for the latest sounds for their R&B artists. And soon the store expanded to offer Moog service and modifications.
On Kenny Fine & Vibronic Music Service see:
https://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/2012/09/vibronic-music-service-what-combination.html
https://retrosynthads.blogspot.com/2012/09/vibronic-music-systems-synthesizers-ad_10.html
