Kay Brown

 

Dolores Kay Brown was born on July 2, 1933 in Peoria, Illinois to Luther and Viola Brown. As a child, she discovered her passion for the performing arts when she enrolled in gymnastics. Her teacher recommended that she study music after hearing her sing. She moved to Hollywood as a teenager, and began singing for various radio shows. She landed a walk-on role in Driftwood (1947) as Bobby Soxer. The film was a modest success, and it allowed Kay to begin building her resume. In 1950, the 16_year-old high school songstress was inked to a Mercury recording pact by Harry Geller, artist-repertoire chief. Geller inked a pact with George Jay, Miss Brown's manager.

She issued 9 singles on Mercury in 1950 and  1951. In 1952, she joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra for a very short time (6 months). She said "I was not advancing her career by singing with the band.". Stan Kenton didn't like her voice and she was featured on only one side of his Capitol recordings (Lonesome Train). After three singles on Crown Records and one on Sunset Records, her career cooled, she signed with Decca Records (1956) and MGM/Metro Records (1958). Other than the occasional gig, she wasn’t offered anything further. After two additional -and failed- marriages, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where she met Brent Lyon Wood. They fell in love and married on March 10, 1972. They made their home in nearby Lund, Nevada. She was active at her local church, and her hobbies included knitting and gardening.

 

 tracklist

1 - A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz- Mercury 5427
2 - Teasin' - Mercury 5427
3 - Thanks For The Buggy Ride - Mercury 5430
4 - Cotton Candy And A Toy Balloon - Mercury 5430
5 - Can't We Talk It Over - Mercury 5479
6 - Friendly Star - Mercury 5479
7 - Oh Babe - Mercury 5538
8 - Baby Me - Mercury 5538
9 - Little Rock Getaway - Mercury 5600
10 - My Love And My Mule - Mercury 5600
11 - Bird N' Butterflies - Mercury 5696
12 - Flash In The Pan - Mercury 5696
13 - Cheatin' On Me - Mercury 5710
14 - A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Mercury 5710
15 - And So I Waited Around - Mercury 5819
16 - Homing Pigeon - Mercury 5819
17 - Roses All The Way - Mercury 5863
18 - Wow - Mercury 5863
19 - Lonesome Train - Capitol 2250
20 - Oop-Shoop- Crown 127
21 - Love Me - Crown 127
22 - Song And Dance - Crown 148
23 - The Teen-Age Hop – Decca 29932
 

Kay Brown

 

Bala Bala

 

Bala Bala

The Pattie Sisters were also known as Pattie Bersaudara. They were Nina Pattie and her younger sister Silvy Pattie. The sisters were born in Yogyakarta, Java, but their family was from Ambon. They started singing together about 1961. The duo remained popular into the 1970s. They recorded songs in the Ambonese dialect as well as standard Indonesian, Dutch and English. Nina died in 2006.

See Discogs

 

G.L. Crockett meets Big Walter Price

 

Rockin' With The Blues

 

Apachee on XR-3

 

Running Bear

Indian Dawn

Apachee was Michael S. Schwartz who was playing guitar et writing songs as a hobby. Some of his songs were recorded : "Closer To Your Heart" (J.T. Carter on Decca in 1965), "What Was She Doing" (Tracie Robbins on Decca, 1965) and "Make The Most Of This World" (Bo Donaldson And The Heywoods on ABC, 1975). the latest written when he was a law school student in the late 1960s. Schwartz became the youngest man ever to be elected mayor of Golf Manor, a one-square-mile city In central Hamilton County. A Republican, he had been elected to council in November, 1973, four years after his graduation from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. The same year he became mayor, in 1975, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, a local rock group, recorded Schwartz' song for the flip side of their recording, "Our Last Song Together." The record made it to No. 95 on national record charts. Back in those song-writing days, Schwartz said he "never thought about politics. It just wasn't my city, he said. "I guess It was the fact that I was the lone Republican."

Michael Schwartz, age 63, passed away Dec. 7, 2007.

 

Michael Schwartz

Double Clutchin' Woman

 

Yvonne Webber / The Melody Kings
Double Clutchin' Woman
wr Luther Robinson
Royal Star Pub. co. (BMI)
Produced by Ray Jones at Sound Quest Recording Studio
TSC Records #526

1979

Tomorrow's Songwriters Club (TSC) was organized in 1973 by Mary L. Starr, a resident of the Oasis trailer park in Des Plaines, Illinois, "in hopes that she might be instrumental in helping writers in their chosen field. A songwriter is a dreamer that was born with a creative mind which they must learn to cultivate and help these dreams to come true".

TSC's star performer and driving force was Ray R. Jones, a legit country singer, leading his own family band, The Melody Kings (Wayne Mills, bass guitar, Marty Jones, rhythm guitar, Carlton Day, steel guitar, David Jones, drums).

Yvonne Webber (picture above is from her high school days in Owensboro, Kentucky taken in 1971) was a regular at the "Windy Hollow Show" in the same Kentucky town. She previously had another recorded song also backed by Ray Jones and The Melody Kings and issued in 1977 on the Ray Jones' TSC album titled "Getting Into The Country" .

 

Some links:

TSC discography

All about double clutchin'