I The Dentist

 

Brook Arnold - I The Dentist

 
From Columbine Records NST 20 (The Now Sounds Of Today)

 

Ay Ya Ya Ya........

 

Neita And The Drifters

 

Introducing Neita and The Drifters

Joe Sixpack, San Francisco Bay Area DJ, has nicely, as usual,  reviewed this album here :

An archetypal custom-label indie album by an informal country'n'oldies band out of Lawrence, Kansas, featuring a middle-aged gal named Neita Bahnmaier on piano, organ and vocals, along with several local lads, several of whom also sing lead on a track or two: Harvey Boyd on drums, David Cloud (lead guitar), Lynn McKenzie (bass), Leo McMullen (harmonica), Mickey Penny (lead guitar) and Bill Smith (rhythm guitar).

 Born [Neita M. Atchinson] in 1929, Mrs. Bahnmaier and her husband Joe lived on the outskirts of town, in rural Lecompton, although it isn't hard to imagine that the younger bandmembers were in some local rock bands, and possibly were enrolled at Kansas University... (I'm speculating: for the life of me, I couldn't find biographical info about most of these folks, other than Mr. McKenzie, who lived in Oskaloosa and passed away in 2003...) Anyway, this is an amateurish album that's easy to be charmed by, with some easy-to-play oldies such as "All Shook Up," "Johnny B. Goode," "Kansas City" (of course!) and also a decent amount of country stuff, tunes like "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Paper Roses" and "Snow Bird" (with Mrs. Bahnmaier singing lead.) My personal favorite is their unlikely cover of Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour," which could be dismissed as too whitebread and too rock'n'roll, but which I hear as an unexpectedly groovy, guitar-heavy power-pop confection... And in case anyone's keeping track, they also cover "Proud Mary," in this version, a duet between Neita and picker Mickey Penny. I'm not sure if these folks did much in the way of live public performances -- I did find some show listings a decade later, circa 1986-86 -- but this is a pretty cute little album.

Johnny B. Good

 

Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast

 

" Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me"(cover)

Among the 31 short love poems read by Jane Mansfield, I have selected from her album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me"  (MGM Records, 1964) the one by Robert Herrick : Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast


HAVE ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white ?
Or else a cherry, double grac'd,
Within a lily centre plac'd ?
Or ever mark'd the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream ?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl and orient too ?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast.

Almost forgotten in the 18th century, and in the 19th century alternately applauded for his poetry’s lyricism and condemned for its “obscenities,” Robert Herrick is, in the latter half of the 20th century, finally becoming recognized as one of the most accomplished nondramatic poets of his age.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-herrick

Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast

No one really knows for certain what prompted Jayne or MGM Records to make this album in the first place. No one, to this day, knows what to make of it.  She certainly wanted to be taken seriously. But no one did:  how could that have been possible :

The photography on the cover is one of the worst Jayne picture I have ever seen, Earl Wilson, the author of the liner notes contributed juvenile breast jokes, and finally few people admitted to have listened to it.

One of the few reviewers to admit he had lstened to it, Nick Jones of the Indianapolis News, wrote : If the idea is a gag - then P.T. Barnum has a new rival, [...] but if she's taking herself seriously, well, it's downright embarassing.

 

A better cover

Jailhouse Rock

Jimmy Zicari on Ted Mack Amateur Show (August 16, 1958)

James "Zack" Zicari, Port Richey, FL/Rochester passed peacefully Tuesday December 10, 2013 at age 67.  James was a United States Army Veteran who served his country during the Vietnam War.

These Boots Are Made For Walking

 

These Boots Are Made For Walking 

 

The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits says “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” was a huge hit for Nancy Sinatra. The tune topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1966, becoming Sinatra’s first and only solo No. 1 single in the United States.  So much played on radio and TV and at so many places in 1966, but also in expected places like Waco, Texas in 1993 as a part of the FBI playlist trying to disturb David Koresh and his disciples [1] or even in the eighties at the Roxy, a raunchy peep show theater at the edge of Eighth Avenue in New York City or at many of S/M venues. [note 2]

note 1 : David Thibodeau was a follower of David Koresh who survived the Waco siege. In his 1999 book Waco: A Survivor’s Story, Thibodeau discussed how the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives treated the Branch Davidians.

“The cacophony of speeding trains and hovering helicopters alternates with amplified recordings of Christmas carols, Islamic prayer calls, Buddhist chants, and repeated renderings of whiny Alice Cooper and Nancy Sinatra’s pounding, clunky lyric, ‘These Boots Were Made for Walkin’,” he said.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/alice-cooper-nancy-sinatra-songs-got-played-waco-siege.html/

note 2 : according to the Williams fields notes, quoted by Terry Williams,a professor in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. in his book The Soft City (Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City). (NB: how come these academics have always a good alibi?)

"I offer my notes on the peep-show industry from the 1980s to reveal how these
particular venues have changed since then.    Something that has emerged is how
the main action in these spaces engages some kind of physical, sensual stimulation, one derived from some aspect of the scene itself: the smell of leather, semen, perfumes, cigarette smoke, powders, body odor. Other sources of stimulation include body motion and touch, taste, and sound. The music is often raunchy, ribald, and risqué. A song heard at many of the S/M venues I encountered was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”.

 

I Like It Like That

 

For a good overview of Dora Hall musical career, see The World's Worst Records.  Not all her records are bad, as Darryl Bullock readily admits : 

The difference between Dora and other similar artists is that Dora could actually sing. When she sings kid-friendly songs such as Tony the Pony she’s actually quite charming. Her failings, if you will, become most apparent when she tries to sing pop songs; her vaudeville-trained voice just isn’t right for contemporary music and it’s here she starts to sound ridiculous.

For a Dora Hall enthusiast's point of view, it is better to go to hallofdora blogspot :

Dora created a body of work that is diverse, entertaining, and sometimes questionable [...] The work of Dora Hall is flawed, but it's very entertaining.  The fact that she was shooting to become a pop star when she was well past the average age for such pursuits is questionable, but it's made all the more fascinating because her husband (the founder of the Solo Cup company) freely gave her the financial backing to make her dreams come true.  Her singing abilities have been widely criticized and dismissed, and yet she's often backed by amazing session musicians.  For many people, the draw of Dora Hall is that her song choices and abilities are often just plain bad.  If they can get beyond that, however, they'll find a body of work that is charming, enthusiastic, and entertaining in ways that they might never have expected.

Another opinion is expressed by the Left and to the back blog :

There appear to be two popular views on Hall's output. The first is that the woman was dire, couldn't sing or perform very well, and wasted her life pursuing a ridiculous fantasy. The second is that actually some of her output is pretty good with superb production values and some of the best session musicians available (The Wrecking Crew were known to be involved with some Dora Hall sessions). 

In this 1966 cover of  "I Like It Like That" (Chris Kenner, 1961) Dora Hall, in my opinion, sounds good and absolutely charming.

 download link

 

 

Don'a Wan'a

 

Wanda Jackson

Don'a Wan'a
(Boudleaux Bryant, Acuff-Rose BMI)

Capitol F3863
1957

The song that Wanda doesn't want you to listen ! According to her autobiography "Every Night Is Saturday Night" :

When I got into recording rock and roll, I never abandoned country. I thought of them as different branches of the same tree, and Capitol really latched onto the practice of releasing one of my rockabilly songs on one side of a single and a country song on the other. I give Ken a lot of credit in being open minded to let me try different things. Because of that I was usually willing to try things that he brought to me, even if I was a bit skeptical. Sometimes, however, there were some things I was really unsure about.

One of those songs was «Don’a Wan’a,» which honestly, I «don’a wan’a» anyone to ever hear again. There was a small window of time when calypso music was very popular, thanks to the success of Harry Belafonte. He scored some big hits in the ’50s with songs like «Jamaica Farewell» and «Day-O.» And, of course, whenever one artist gets a hit with something unique, everybody else then tries to do the same kind of song. «Don’a Wan’a» was written by Boudleaux Bryant, who was one of the greatest country songwriters of all time. This is probably proof that even the great ones have an off day. I don’t know how Ken Nelson got the song, but he wanted me to record it to try to get in on the Calypso craze. He suggested I adopt an islander accent, but it sounded like I was mocking that kind of music. I didn’t want to do it at all. I said, «Ken, I feel silly, so it’s bound to sound silly.’ I was horrified by the whole thing. Capitol wasn’t great at rushing to get releases out, and by the time they did, the record got no attention. I’m not kidding you, it was almost like the day that song was released was the day calypso died. I don’t know for sure, but I may have been the one who killed it!

Actually, I like that song. Wanda sounds to me a little bit Japanese . . .

Somethin' Else

 

It's hard to do it better than Eddie Cochran. Quite a few have tried. Some have managed to do good, but not all. 

On above picture is Scott Kernaghan from a video recorded, it seems to me, in a church. Perhaps he’s a pastor ? I’ve not included his Cochran cover in my playlist, but his video is here. As Pierre de Coubertin said: the most important thing is to participate.

18 covers, the original and a tutorial are included in this file. All taken from this YT playlist

10 City Run - Somethin' Else                                                                             
April Mae & The June Bugs - Somethin' Else                                                           
Done Again - Somethin' Else
Eddie Cochran - Somethin' Else                                                                           
Gavin Stanley - Somethin' Else                                                                           
Hector & Mediators - Something Else (french?)                                                                  
Jez Quayle - How to Play 'Somethin' Else' (tutorial)                                                     
Joe Eddie -Somethin' Else                                                                                
Johnny Hallyday - Elle est terrible (french)                                                                     
Kathi McDonald - Somethin' Else - 1974                                                                   
Kazu, Iishi & Chuck - Somethin' Else                                                                     
Keith Richards - Something Else - Live '93 Boston                                                        
Little Richard & Tanya Tucker (1994) (live)                                                                   
PJ. Proby - Somethin' Else                                                                               
Rummagin' Ray - Something Else                                                                           
Sex Pistols - Something Else                                                                             
Sylvie Vartan - Elle est terrible (french)                                                                       
The Head Cat - Somethin' Else (Bass Cover With Vocal)                                                    
The King - Something Else                                                                                
Trophies - Somethin' Else                                                                                
 

Nine Pound Hammer

 

Carroll Arnold

Nine Pound Hammer (re-up)
(Merle Travis)

Munited Records
A Music-United Production
1965

Most probably a Nashville recording, perhaps related to Canary Records in the same town.  Carroll Arnold recorded several singles in the early seventies for the American Radio Artist label.

No further info, alas.....

Some Sad Day

 

Ronnie Patton

Some Sad Day
(Louise Shields & Wayne Vitatoe, Tiki Music BMI)

Moon Lover
(Ronnie Patton, Nubia Music BMI)

Coaster Records #248
1964

Ronnie Patton ((Ronald Wayne Patton, b. 10 Dec 1943 Kerrville , Texas), was a Stephen F. Austin High senior when he was signed to Kool Records on his 18th birthday (You Made Me Cry/You're An Angel, Kool 1017) before trying his luck in Nashville.

Traveling between Nashville, Hollywood, and Austin, gathering wives, divorces, fans and addictions, he left the music business, managed a pizza restaurant in San Antonio. 

He came back to Nashville in the seventies, married Deborah Irene Brown, who as Debbie Luv recorded with Ronnie Patton several singles and one album on their own Jade Records.
He was now Jade Stone.

Subliminal Sounds (of Sweden) re-issued their album "Mosaics Pieces Of Stone" in 2008, adding eleven bonus tracks (live and rehearsals.)

 

Ride Little Renee Ride
(a bonus track from their Subliminal Sounds CD)

That's All Right

 

Sonja and Smoke Band

That's All Right
(Arthur Crudup)


Weller And Water
(Richard Pike, Pikea Music BMI)

Rickin label
Produced by Richard Pike

Recorded at Hendersonville, Fort Worth, Texas

Sonja Jean (Mann) Toten (1953-1988)

Sonja was a licensed nursing home administrator for 7 years, having run the Brookhaven Rest Home. When she started singing professionaly, she left Brookhaven to dedicate all her time to singing.

Going Down To Bloomfield Center

 

Komik-Kazee

Going Down To Bloomfield Center

Going Down To Bloomfield Center (instrumental)

Stardust Records SR-8301
1983


Vocalists (pictured on the sleeve) were Elizabeth Kast, Jack Keller, Thomas Gilpin, Kevin Reid, Sallie Schoneboom, Lisa Siccone, Ken Schwartz

The band :
 Jeff Hays, bass
Bob Marino, guitar
  Jim Thomas, drums
Ken Schwartz, piano
plus
Nantara, synthetiser
Joe Passaro, percussion

This is  the second record engineered and produced by George Louvis for his own Stardust label, located on Valley Road in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.

Komik-Kazee was a group of comedians. Ken Schwartz was the guy who put the group together and wrote this song and did most of the writing for a lot of the skits that they did.

Kevin Reed, one of the members of the group, happened to work at George Louvis dad's restaurant. So Kevin told they were going to be doing a show at Rascals and he invited everybody from the restaurant to come see him.  So they all ran up to Rascals in West Orange to watch them and one of the things they did was this song, Going Down To Bloomfield Center.

George Louvis :

And when the show ended, I talked to Ken and I was like, that's a great song, you know, what are you doing with it?  And he didn't have anything to do with it. So we got to talking, we negotiated a deal. I signed him to Stardust and we put the record out. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. They only had one song, so for the B-side, we did an instrumental version, like a dub version

Tree Of Life

 

Phebe Scoggins
Age 13

Tree Of Life
Daddy Was A Ole Time Preacher

H & S Music, BMI
Dobie Record Co.

1975

Reverse of this EP on a Rome, Georgia label is by her parents, Hoyt and Mae Scoggins. Another Phebe 45 on the same label was While I've Got The Chance" b/w The Last Altar Call, also issued with a picture sleeve.

Phebe (detail from the sleeve)

No Particular Place To Go

 

Carrol Bateman & The Untouchables
(Carrol on labels, Carroll on cover)

No Particular Place To Go

From the album "Songs from Last Night"

Smigar Records, 1966

Carroll Bateman, lead singer & guitarist and The Untouchables (Ted LeMire, sax, Tom Vanyo, bass & singer, Richie Pommer, drums).

Carroll Bateman recorded previously (in 1964) as Evans Carroll And The Tempos ("The  Monster", Bangar Records) and, with The Untouchables, had a single on Twin Town (1967)

David Carroll, nee Carroll Bernard Bateman, was born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota in 1938.  Bateman saw Elvis’s 1956 show, and started playing rock ‘n’ roll in 1962 with local bands such as the Wanderers and the Untouchables.  He developed his Elvis Presley stage act in 1970 and had maintained the same band since 1971.  

Elvis Presley stage act filmed in Las Vegas 

 

Nineteen Years

 

Nineteen Years

Acetate supposed cut by one Johnny Gentry in the new Sam Philips studio at Madison Avenue in 1960. Found on "Desperate Rock'N'Roll Volume 20" issued in UK on the Flame label.

There was a Johnny Gentry release on Style Records, a Memphis label operated by Style Wooten. And in 1974 on another label from the same owner there was a song titled Nineteen Years, composed and sung by one A.C. Martin (Camaro 3536)

A real find or a real fake? ? I am a little skeptical about the authenticity of this acetate. Opinion anyone ?

You're Mine, You

 

Bill Marshall
with The Sig Galloway Orchestra

You're Mine, You
(J. Green-E. Heyman, Famous Music Corp. ASCAP)

R-Dell Records 108
1958

Not listed at 45cat, and at Discogs neither. The R-Dell label (ex-Aardell) was founded by Bob Ross in 1955 and established at Selma Avenue in Hollywood.

Big-band trumpeter turned would-be record exec , Bob Ross founded the Harmony Recorders recording studio in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Owned or co-owned numerous record labels: Rosco Records, Aardell, R-Dell, Chartmaker and publishing companies: Teresa Music Co. aka Teresa Music and Teresa, Cadenza Music Co., Bob Ross Music Service, Chartmaker Productions, Inc etc.

"You're Mine, You" was first recorded by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians in 1933. For a list of cover versions, see the useful SecondHandSongs here

Bill Marshall was probably the vocalist with the Raymond Joe Sanns Orchestra featured on four sides issued on the Bel-Tone label in 1945 or 1946. These 4 sides can be heard HERE

Giver Her A Whirl

 

The Ole Stragler
Irvin M. Privett

Giver Her A Whirl

Red Bug Records 100

Jacksonville, Florida

A Norm Vincent Associates Custom Record

Irvin M. Privett (1913-1992), that's all I know. Recorded by Norm Vincent Associates.

Boston-born, Norm Vincent arrived in Jacksonville, Florida in 1956 where he hosted a top-rated radio morning drive show before moving into sales. In 1962, he assumed management of WZOK, before leaving in 1966 to operate the Norm Vincent Recording Studios. 

Norm Vincent passed away in 2014.

Hanky Panky

 

The Walflower Complextion (on cover)
The Wall Flower Complexion (on labels)

Hanky Panky 

From their first album (of two) on Daro International issued in late 1966.

The members of The Walflower Complextion were American teenagers, children of US Government staff, attending high school in Bogotá, Colombia. The record was distributed in Columbia only, though there were rumors that the album was seen in Panamanian record stores.

Their two albums are re-issued on CD by Shadoks Music. Boooklet with photos and detailed info available at Discogs

 

Repressed Hostility Blues

 

Katie Lee, The Grand Dame of Dam Busting, in 1957

 Katie Lee - Repressed Hostility Blues

From her album Katie Lee sings Songs Of Couch and Consultation issued by Commentary Records, a small company formed by Bud Freeman and his colllaborator Leon Pober in Hollywood .

Kathryn Louise Lee (1919–2017) was an American folk singer, actress, writer, photographer and environmental activist.

From the 1950s, Lee often sang about rivers and white water rafting. She was a vocal opponent of Glen Canyon Dam, which closed its gates in 1963, and called for the canyon to be returned to its natural state.
 

Allmusic:

Jazz saxophonist Bud Freeman came up with the idea for Songs of Couch & Consultation, a cult classic comedy album that pokes fun at psychoanalysis and psychiatric jargon. Freeman wrote a dozen songs' worth of lyrics, which Leon Pober set to music and Bob Thompson arranged. Katie Lee, an extraordinarily pretty folk singer who previously recorded an album for Specialty called Spicy Songs for Cool Knights, was brought in to sing and pose for the cheesecake album cover. The songs describe an assortment of neuroses and psychiatric conditions in a variety of musical styles, delivered with a heavy dose of hand-wringing self-scrutiny. There's ragtime, big-band blues, and even cowboy music as Lee coos her way through topics such as schizophrenia, repressed hostility, and maladjustment. "Hush Little Sibling" lampoons parenting manuals and the venerated Dr. Spock, and "The Will to Fail" identifies a drive Nietzsche missed. The irony is that the sophisticated humor targets an educated audience that is also the group most likely to embrace psychiatric jargon and theories. Reprise reissued the album with a less striking cover, so the original Commentary Records pressing is the one to find.

 

Alligator Wine

 

The Dynamic Kapers

Alligator Wine
(Leiber & Stoller, Quintet Music, BMI)

JED International Records
[Jim E. Denny]

1964

 The Kapers on Bragg are probably the same band as the Bragg label was owned by Neil Wilburn who co-produced these JED sides.
 
Very little info about that band on internet. But I found this at nashvillescene.com  : 

Although many local bands at the time were based in, or at least played gigs around, West Nashville, groups popped up all over town. And, according to [Pat] Patrick, the sound changed depending on the area. For instance, south of town, in Franklin and Columbia, bands like the Fairlaines played straight rhythm and blues. Near Charlotte Avenue, Howard Hudgins formed a band with a bluesier, more harmonica-driven sound. Meanwhile, in East Nashville, combos like the Kapers blended the rawness of rock ’n’ roll with the horn-driven verve of R&B. The Fairlaines might play a James Brown song, Patrick explains, but the Kapers “would play a white version of an obscure James Brown song. So you wouldn’t know if it was their original, or if they pulled it off an R&B album and just whitened it up a little.”

Sturdivant, who eventually joined the Kapers after his stint in the Escorts, isn’t so sure that a combo’s sound was strictly defined by its home turf. Since all the bands were basically playing the same material, he explains, each one had to find its own sound. Nevertheless, there’s always been an undeniable split between East and West Nashville—and it isn’t just the Cumberland River.

John Edward Sturdivant. Age 66, of Madison, died Saturday, March 7, 2009 at his home. He was preceded in death by parents, Lathan and Elizabeth Sturdivant. Survived by wife, Sue Wright Sturdivant; sons, John, Jr., and David (Dianne); daughter, Stephanie; brothers, L.A. and Tom; grandchildren, Angeleah Rose, Daniel, Kristen, John Edward, III, Elijah Moon; devoted son-in-law to Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells. Mr. Sturdivant was a retired music industry executive. He began his music career in high school playing baritone saxophone in Top 40 rock bands- The Monarchs, Charlie McCoy and the Escorts, The Kapers, and The Nocturnes. Served as Vice President/ Southeastern Manager of Record World magazine. Also held positions with; Gibson Guitar; Music City News; ASCAP; RUBOCA Records; Tree International. Involvements and board memberships included the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, Nashville Chapter of NARAS and Past National Vice Chairman of NARAS,  [John Sturdivant obituary]

I'm Sticking With You

 

Donnie De & The Star Fires / Donnie Dee & The Starfires / Don DeFilippo from Poughkeepsie, Upstate New York. 

Elusive picture sleeve added today to 45cat

I'm Sticking With You

Broken Guitar

 

Songwriter Max Davies, who set himself a particularly niche recording brief during the lockdown of 2020-2021: to record an entire nine-track instrumental album using nothing but broken guitars.

Arranged into “little sonic landscapes” called “inventions”, Inventions For Broken & Prepared Guitar was composed entirely from guitars that had a range of technical issues, such as warped and cracked bodies and necks, worn-out tuners that slipped out of tune, “impossibly high string action” and out-of-intonation saddles.

From Guitar World, read more here

 nothing but broken guitars.

Benny And Nola – Sacred Hymns

 

This is Nola Bee Hensley from Carlisle, Ohio and Benny Joe Amburgy from Lebanon, Ohio on Jewel Records LPS 675

Side 1 

Now I Have Everything
When Is He Coming Again
Oh, Those Tombs
He Really Cares For You
Come And Dine

Side 2 

I'm So Glad He Found Me
Who'll Pray For Me When Mama's Gone
I Love To Walk With Jesus
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
I'll Meet You In The Morning

The Little Monster

 

Russ (Big Daddy) Blackwell

The Little Monster

G. Norris, R. Blackwell, V. Chiarelli
Brandom Music Co. ASCAP
Arr. & cond. by Cliff Parman
Prod. by Bud Brandom

Vincent Records (VR-117)

Audio above is from Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Vol. 8 Please Don't Go Topless Mother

You've had a long, bad day at work, after being stuck in a traffic jam, you finally get home. Your wife left you a note saying she will be home late because she has a tango class with your best friend. How she always hated to dance ! The dinner is cold, the beer hot. It's time to relax yourself listening to Russ Big Daddy Blackwell telling a little story titled "The Little Monster".

Back in 1937, on a cold, frosty morn,
in a little four room farmhouse, was a baby boy born.
Had his parents known the grief and shame this child would bring to them
they would have traded with a devil for a child to replace him.
But of course, they couldn't know what kind of monster was their child.
As a baby, he was normal, though his eyes were bleak and wild.
And until his 7th birthday, he'd done nothing really wrong.
Then he killed his little sister with a broken pitchfork prong.
And as his sister lay there dying in the awful crimson flood,
he noticed how his hands and arms were stained with drops of blood.
Well, he couldn't face his mother, couldn't tell her what he'd done.
So he crept into the house, got his father's old shotgun.
Now, the gun was always loaded with a heavy powder charge.
It was used to kill the vicious beast that roamed the hills at large.
When the boy's mother happened to step out the kitchen door,
he pressed down upon the trigger and his mother lived no more.
With the echo of the shotgun flash still ringing in his ears,
little killer watched his father find his mother and shed tears.
He crept up behind his father with a razor sharp,
just like Lizzie Borden gave his father 40 whacks.

 

Homer (Scadillac) Taylor

Homer (Scadillac Taylor's second single on Ro-Al-Ta

 

Ro-Al-Ta Record Co.
P.O. Box 85, New York 39, N.Y.

1/2 Homer (Scadillac) Taylor
Fool’s Gold (w. Nick A. Kenny & Charles F. Kenny, Goldmine Music) 4May54
Wonderland Dance (w. & m. Homer H. Taylor, 22 July 1958)

3/4 Homer (Scadillac) Taylor
Boom Boom Boomerang Baby (w. Nick A. Kenny & Charles F. Kenny, Goldmine Music) 4May54
Relax Your Lips; w&m Homer H. Taylor. © Homer H. Taylor; 22jul58;

From Homer (Scadillac) Taylor, I have only two clips from his two singles issued on Ro-Al-Ta probably in 1958. These clips come from sales on ebay. 

1/2 : great sax rocker and..the flip is a great r&b, but kind of a bopper with yodelin' and a great sax, piano, guitar mixed break.. unlisted in my books

3/4 : great rare R&B rocker on thick heavy vinyl pressing,

I'm looking from all his tracks. Perhaps someone is willing to share them.

Homer Taylor (possibly born in 1923) copyrighted some songs in 1957-1959. Among these songs : The Cadillac Mobile Deal  & Those Reinstating Blues. But that's all I can find on this obscure artist.

Nick Kenny is mainly remembered today as the lyricist of the 1931 popular song standard, "Love Letters in the Sand", a 1957 gold record hit for Pat Boone. Kenny's next big success, "Gold Mine in the Sky," inspired the Gene Autry movie, Gold Mine in the Sky (1938) and enabled Kenny and his brother Charles to launch their own music firm, Gold Mine in the Sky Publishing Company. His songs included "Gone Fishin'" and "Scattered Toys" recorded by The Three Suns, which has lyrics somewhat similar to one of his "Patty Poems".

Nick was a syndicated entertainment columnist for The New York Daily Mirror and a poet and songwriter on the side. Bandleaders and singers often performed his songs in hopes of getting a column mention. Many of his songs were mediocre. Woody Allen managed to hit Nick Kenny's column several times.

Edit: 20 June 2024 : added both sides of Ro-Al-Ta 3/4 with thanks to Apesville

Learn To Speak Fluent Broken English

 

 

Does anyone have this record they could share?

Singing-instrumental duo, Laura & Bill Paer, appeared at the Steak Pit in Paramus, N.J in 1962 before recording this album, issued in 1963 or 1964 on their own Adjill Records. Bill Paer moved to Costa Rica in the seventies. Now Dr. William E. Paer Fairmont, he presents himself like this :

I'm a clinical psychologist, television personality, and author of several books. The most recent ones are We're Having Sex Right Now!, The Lollypop Factor and A Much Better Way (available as an audio book and in printed version). I have practiced in San Diego, California and am currently practicing in Costa Rica, Central America where I have been on television for the past 28 years.

I am passionately interested in communicating my findings based on more than 40 years of experience, and discussing with others who have read my books. At this time I'm intensely involved in getting my message out there. I feel it is most needed and unavailable in conventional circles.

Specialties: Psychotherapy, no nonsense psychology, author, guest speaker

Nashville Streaker

 

Deb Hyer
One Man Band

Nashville Streaker

From his eponymous Lemco Records album released in 1976.  

Cecil J. Jones started the Lemco label in 1962 and opened his own recording studio in 1965 at 2518 Southview Drive, Lexington, Kentucky where he recorded many of the premier bluegrass acts throughout the Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana region. Cecil Jones passed away in early December 1981.

Deb Hyer is not listed in The One Man Band Encyclopedia, a Roctober special issue (#34).

Obit : 

Delbert “Deb” Hyer, Jr., 78, of Flemingsburg, left this earth peacefully on Thursday, August 31, 2023.

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio on December 8, 1944, his parents were the late Delbert Sr. and the late Betty Hart Hyer.

Deb grew up in Chillicothe until his family moved to Flemingsburg in 1962. Deb began his career at U.S. Shoe in Flemingsburg in 1962 and retired in 1995. Deb’s musical career began in 1963. Deb started the band “The Debonairs”. A self taught musician who could play any instrument put in front of him, he had a voice and stage presence you could not forget. In 1967, Deb discovered he could play drums, guitar, saxophone, organ, as well as sing at the same time. This is when “The One Man Band” came to life.

Deb enjoyed performing and playing music more than anything. In minutes he could sit and write an entire song. Deb was an inventor and could make and fix anything. He was an artist, and loved to sit at the kitchen table and draw pictures, cartoons, and projects.

Deb is survived by the love of his life, Evelyn Sloas Hyer. They met at the water fountain inside U.S. Shoe in 1964 and it was love at first sight for them both. They had 58 wonderful years together.

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There's A Great Day Coming

 

 Chip Young

A: There's A Great Day Coming
B: Just As You Are
Both wr. Joe South, Joe South Music (BMI)

    Esco 200 CY
Sept. 1959

It seems that the Billboard reviewer sensed insufficient promotion from Esco for this Chip Young record ("could step out with plugs" and "could create interest with exposure").  And he was not wrong, at least regarding a national promotion. 

The Esco label (and its Escophonic sound proudly printed on all the labels) was the offshoot of Esco Artists, a local booking agency located at 112 Nathan Rd.,in Atlanta, recording members of its stable [except Joe South] to ensure a regional promotion. At  Esco, the star was Joe South, a NRC recording artist, who penned almost all the songs recorded by the label, which were all copyrighted by his own publishing company, Joe South Music (BMI). Still under contract with Bill Lowery as a recording artist, Joe South didn't have a record issued by Esco. Did he owned that booking agency ?

Guitarist and producer Chip Young died Dec. 20 2014 at the age of 76 in Nashville, Tenn., a month after undergoing triple bypass surgery at St. Thomas Hospital.

Young, a.k.a. Jerry Marvin Stembridge, was born in Atlanta, Ga., on May 19, 1938, and began his remarkable career in the 1950s, playing with guitarist Jerry Reed and singer-songwriter Joe South. In the '60s and '70s, Young lent his notable thumb-picking talents to Dolly Parton's hit 'Jolene,' Elvis Presley's 'Guitar Man,' Charley Pride's 'Kiss an Angel Good Morning' and many other fan-favorite songs.

He was a regular member of Presley's studio band from 1965 until the King's death in 1977. Young worked with other talented artists as well, including Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kris Kristofferson, Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Willie Nelson, the Oak Ridge Boys and Reba McEntire, among others.

 

 

Chloe Harris

 

Chloee Harris (1964)

Discography 

Frank
105 Lizzie / Grandpa  - 63
107 Love, She’s Wonderful / Saturday Night Slide  - 63

Hickory
45-1253 Little People / Mama, I'll Be Good – 04-64
45-1302 I'm Having A Party / My Daddy Said – 03-65

According to The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper in its issue dated May, 24 1964 Chloee was a sixteen years old sophomore at Cohn High School |Nashville) where she was taking bookkeeping, biology, english and choir. English gives her the most trouble, she said. Her manager Jay Rainwater had big plans for her. But the person with the biggest plans was Chloee. Standing something under five feet tall, she was reaching for what she said she wanted. Reaching Up "I always wanted to sing but everybody said I couldn't, mainly because of my age," she said. "To me I wasn't too young. I wanted to do it." 

I'm pretty sure her first records were done as Chloe Harris at the Nashville Globe recording studios, singing four songs penned by Frank Lyle Buck, amateur songwriter living in Copperstone, New York. Other known singers on the Frank Lyle Buck/Buck label are Sonny Marcel/Sammy Marshall and Mary Kaye, names well-known to the song-poem music collectors and singers who have never recorded elsewhere than in Nashville at that Globe Recording studios. That's why I'm pretty sure that Chloee Harris recorded her first records as Chloe Harris.

Edit (16/6:2024) : added Granpa soundfile, with thanks to Apesville

Complications

  Bubba Jordan


Complications

Showboat 1503
1959

Bubba Jordan had previously recorded with The Red Counts at the Delta Records studios in Jackson, Mississippi. These tracks remained unissued until the publication by Bear Family of the CD "Diddy Wah Diddy ... Ain't A Town, Ain't A City (Rock 'N' Roll And Hot Country From Jackson, Mississippi).

At the time of the Showboat release, the label was still located in Nashville and still owned by Murray Nash and Ray Scrivener, before the latter took it over with him to Santa Claus, Indiana, where he bought the Santa Claus Castle, new headquarter of the label.

In 1962, Bubba Jordan was the vocalist on "Snake Eyed Woman" issued by The Sundowners and in 1963, there was a single on Buccaneer as by Bub Jordan (with The Del Solds on one side).

Fulton Anderson Jordan (1941-2024)

From his obit :
Fulton Anderson Jordan, known to many as "Bubba," passed away peacefully on April 4, 2024, in Jackson, Mississippi, at the age of 83. Born on March 25, 1941, in Jackson, Ms, he was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, and friend.

Fulton, a proud Air Force veteran, served his country with honor. Following his military service, he embarked on a successful career path. Starting at IBM, he later transitioned to Gainey and Associates, where he excelled in insurance sales. Eventually, he established his own agency, Jordan and Associates, serving as a general agent until his retirement in 2009.

His passion for music was evident throughout his life. Fulton was a talented musician and singer, having produced two records. He shared his musical gifts at First Baptist of Jackson, where he worshipped, sang in the choir, and devoted his time to teaching Sunday school to high school boys.

Orchid Records (1960-1962)

 Orchid Records was operated by Thomas J. Pingatore. Located in Bronx, NYC from 1960 to 1962, the label issued only 5 singles. 

For label listing see 45cat

 

 

The Storey Sisters

Ann & Lillian Storey first recorded for Al Browne's Peak Records. Their single was picked up by Cameo (shortening the intro by the way on the "Bad Motorcycle" side.  Jimmy Spruill on guitar.

The sisters were probably from Brooklyn and not from Philadelphia as some sources claims.

Peek-A- Boo Lou

 

 Van Preston

(Preston John Vanicor, 1939-2007)

 

Peek-A- Boo Lou

Goldband unissued from the Ace (UK) CD "Boogie In The Mud: Southern Swamp Guitar"). 

Born into a Cajun family in Lake Charles, Van Preston auditioned around 1959/1960 for J.D. Miller with his self-penned "Mama's Little Girl", but nothing came of it; later he would try out for Eddie Shuler, when once again the song was recorded and issued as the top-side of his first of three Goldband releases. No further information about his career.