Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Love Potion Number 9

 

From L. to R. : Sharon, Janice, Pat


From their Bison Records LP issued in 1971 and re-issued in 2021 by Beat Rocket. Label is from Buffalo, New York. Recorded in Nashville at Woodland Sound Studio, opened n 1968 at 1011 Woodland Street by audio engineer Glenn Snoddy.

On this track, Janice Plinkze  - lead vocal; Sharon Walker - Cordovox; Janice Plinkze : drums :  
 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Runaway

 

    

      Scott Beard

 
Runaway 

Shannon-Crook, Vicki Music BMI

Illini Records

(Springfield, Illinois)

1974 


         


Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The Jackalope Pride

 


 
The Jackalope Pride

A great record from the never disappointing Septic Hoyle Jackwater (with gitar playin, says the label) on his own Jackalope label.

Thanks to Mark Lee Allen



 

Monday, April 22, 2024

Travelin' with Ray

 


 Ray Smith
Travelin' With Ray
CD Dunhill (Canada, 1993)

tracklist

 

01  - So Young (Sun (Tenn.)  298 ).mp3                               
02  - That's Allright (Judd (Ala.)  1016 ).mp3                       
03  - Little Miss Blue (Judd (Ala.) LP-701 ).mp3                     
04  - One Wonderful Love (Judd (Ala.)  1019 ).mp3                    
05  - After This Night Is Through (Infinity (Calif.) INX-003 ).mp3   
06  - Blond Hair, Blue Eyes (Judd (Ala.)  1021 ).mp3                 
07  - Makes Me Feel Good (Judd (Ala.)  1019 ).mp3                    
08  - Put Your Arms Around Me (Judd (Ala.)  1017 ).mp3               
09  - Rebound (Judd (Ala.) LP-701 ).mp3                              
10  - Turn On The Moonlight (Travelin' With Ray [mono]).mp3          
11  - Rockin' Little Angel (Infinity (Calif.) INX-003 ).mp3          
12  - You Made A Hit (Judd (Ala.)  1016 ).mp3                        
13  - Right Behind You Baby (Sun (Tenn.)  308 ).mp3                  
14  - Break Up (Sun (Tenn.)  298 ).mp3                               
15  - Shake Around (Sun (Tenn.)    ).mp3                             
16  - Rockin' Bandit (Sun (Tenn.)    ).mp3                           
17  - Sail Away (Sun (Tenn.)  319 ).mp3                              
18  - Candy Doll (Sun (Tenn.)  319 ).mp3                             
19  - Willing And Ready (Sun (Tenn.)  375 ).mp3                      
20  - I'll Be Coming Home (Sun (Tenn.)    ).mp3                      
21  - Life Is A Flower (Sun (Tenn.)    ).mp3                         
22  - Little Girl (Sun (Tenn.)    ).mp3                              
23  - Baby Just Because (Judd (Ala.) LP-701 ).mp3                    
24  - Robbin' The Cradle (Vee Jay (Ill.) VJ579 ).mp3                 
25  - Rockin' Robin (Vee Jay (Ill.) VJ579 ).mp3                      
26  - I Guess I Better Move Along (B-C 351).mp3                      
27  - Trav'lin' Salesman (Sun (Tenn.)  372 ).mp3                     
28  - Nice Guy (Rita (Tenn.)).mp3                                    
29  - Johnny The Hummer (Infinity (Calif.) INX-007 ).mp3             
30  - Let Yourself Go (Infinity (Calif.) INX-007 ).mp3               
31  - I'm Snowed (Warner Bros. (Calif.)  5371 ).mp3                  
32  - Turn Over A New Leaf (Warner Bros. (Calif.)  5371 ).mp3        
33  - Did We Have A Party (Tollie (Ill.)  9029).mp3      

Raymond Eugene Smith. (1934-1979)


Stranger in the Manger

 





Stranger in the Manger
(Monahan, Heart Bugle Music, BMI)

Terminators Of Endearment

Subterranean Records
Berkeley, Calif.
1987

See info at Discogs

Just by looking at these artists' names, I'm not usually curious to listen to the record. In this case, I would have been wrong as "Stranger in The Manger"  has a good rockabilly sound.

 

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Run Willie Run

 

 Romeo Sullivan

 
Run Willie Run

 JB Records 1188 (1972)
Mobile, Alabama

The other side, "Don't play the slow songs", of lesser interest, is available on Youtube here



 

Romeo Sullivan [1936-2013] was a musician and music radio announcer for 42 years. He was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 2000 and of the Church of God faith.

Born in Wagarville, Alabama, Romeo Sullivan was a key figure in Country radio in the South Mississippi/Alabama area. His first stage appearance was at the ripe age of 5, when he sang Mule Skinner Blues and won five dollars and a cake. He laughingly says "bet that George Jones never won five dollars AND a cake." He had his own band at the age of 15, playing in places that he admits were really scary. Sullivan's first radio job was at WPBB, Jackson, AL where he begged the station manager to let him work week-ends for free. His first full time job was at WTUF in Mobile, Alabama, where he worked with Jack Cardwell, Boots Barnes, Luke McDaniels and Gene Leachman. In 1967 he landed the job as program director at WVMI in Biloxi, Ms. When Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast he kept the station on the air, providing information and entertainment to the victims of the sorm.1970 found him in Hattiesburg, Ms. at WBKH, where he later became manager, and WKNZ Collins, MS. Sullivan retired in 1997, after almost 45 years as a country disc jockey. Romeo was inducted into the Country Music D J Hall of Fame in 2000.

John Blackburn, owner of JB Records, formed offices in Nashville. That was announced by a&r director Pee Wee Maddux in May 1972. 

 

Friday, April 19, 2024

Bombs On England (Bomben Auf England)

 



Bombs On England (Bomben Auf England)

Unknown artists. Sung presumably by the Herman Goering music corps. Composed during the battle of  Britain. It tells of victory in Poland and France and now flying to bomb England.

From "War Songs Of The Third Reich: Historical German War Songs Of World War II" published on Our Times M-621 by Military Arms Research Service, P.O. Box 26772, San Jose, CA 95159

The full album is available here (Don't thank me!)



 

YT favorites vol 5 - MeMadMusic



YouTube Favorite Channels - Volume 5 : MeMadMusic

Address : https://www.youtube.com/@MeMadMusic
Subscribers :  1,180
Videos :  4,800
Views :  390 000
Active since :  2008

Sampler (16 tracks + labels)

Bily Snel - Queen Of Halloween.mp3                                                     
Dick Shawn - It's Not Easy Being White.mp3                                             
Jerry & the Landslides - Get Off My Roof.mp3                                           
Josephine -They Took You Away (I'm Glad, I'm Glad).mp3                                 
LooBeeDooBeeDoo DeeDee and The Javelin Catchers -  Please Take Your Love To Town.mp3   
Lynn & Mersey Maids Mrs Jones -  Your Song Gives Up To Easy.mp3                        
Mamie Van Doren & June Wilkinson - Bikini With No Top On The Top.mp3                   
Mel Blanc& The Starlighters -  Woody Woodpecker Polka.mp3                              
Merv Griffin - The Screamin' Meemies From Planet X.mp3                                 
Michelle Prehle - A Letter To Elvis.mp3                                                
Patti Carlson - I'm Not Cookin' Anymore.mp3                                            
Susan Christie -  I Love Onions.mp3                                                    
The Apemen - Tarzan.mp3                                                                
The Chesnuts - I'm So Blue.mp3                                                         
The Copycats - Chief Sitting Bull.mp3                                                  
The Incinerators - Disco's In The Garbage.mp3                                          

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

YouTube Favorite Channels - Volume 4 : TheSouthPhilly


 YouTube Favorite Channels - Volume 4 : TheSouthPhilly

address : www.youtube.com/@thesouthphillyrecord4341

"Forgotten records from the Philadelphia area archived from the lifelong and ever-growing collection of South Philly born disc jockey, Jimmy DePre."

Subscribers : 643
Videos : 331
Views : 178 167
Active since : June 2017
 

Sampler (16 tracks + labels)

Bill Martel - Now Or Never (Impala 1959).mp3                          
Billy Lane - Space Ship Blues (Taba 1962).mp3                         
Jimmy Testa - Yeh, Yeh! No, No! (Darrow 1959).mp3                     
Jimmy Wisner Quartet - Down By The Old Mill Stream (Grand 1955).mp3   
Jodie Sands - Love Me Always (Teen 1955).mp3                          
Johnny October - Little Boy Blue (First 1959).mp3                     
Lynn Mason - Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Best 1959).mp3          
Norma Mendoza - If It's Love (Firebird 1962).mp3                      
Royal Demons - Kiss Kiss (PEK 1961).mp3                               
Terri De Rose - Funny (Fahy 1964).mp3                                 
The Brigidi Sisters - I Wanta Be Left Alone (Crosley 1959).mp3        
The Camotions - Motown (La-Ro-Ke 1960s).mp3                           
The Cousins - Ding A Ling (1960).mp3                                  
The Five Lords - Oo-La-La (D&S 1956).mp3                              
The Mechanics - Co-Co Mo-Mo (Jamie 1965).mp3                          
The Top Kicks - Huh_ (Boolya Botten Booten Baby) (Guyden 1954).mp3    

YT favorite : Volume 4

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Jackson

 


"Jackson" was first recorded by The Kingston Trio in 1963. Written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler. Although Jerry Leiber co-wrote this song, his wife Gaby Rogers got the writing credit. For a list of cover versions see Second Hand Songs.

This version is from the album "Sunday Afternoon" by Reid and Bobbi Northrup and the New Arkansas Travelers, issued by Tarot Recordings. Recorded at Vibra-Sound Studio in Schenectady, Upstate New York. Date unknown (circa 1970?)

Joe Sixpack has excellently reviewed that album :
A charmingly rough-edged (yet ambitious) set of regional twang by a husband-wife duo who were active in the Northwestern country music scene. The Northrups were from East Berne, New York (near Schenectady) and performed with various backing bands for many years in the late '60s and early '70s, most notably this group, the New Arkansas Travelers. [...]
As far as I know, this was their only album, but it's a doozy. It opens with a gloriously flawed rendition of "Jackson," where both singers flub their delivery, and seem to forget the lyrics while their hotshot guitarist keeps the hot licks coming. [...] All in all, a fine example of "real people" regional twang, with some lively, committed performances, particularly my Bobbi Northrup, who combined a mousy little voice with a wicked, Wanda Jackson-style snarl. Fun stuff!
Born in 1939, Bobbi Northrup was the daughter of Clarence "Pee Wee" Overbaugh, a popular area musician, who passed away in 1945, at the age of 34. He sang and played tenor banjo with the Arkansas Cowboys band (who were from Schenectady, not Arkansas).

Roberta "Bobbi" Overbaugh Northrup, 76, passed away on August 1, 2015, at her home in Converse, Texas. She lived in Berne and Altamont most of her life, moving to Converse when her husband passed away. Bobbi and Reid opened Heldeberg Appliance in East Berne and later moved the business to Altamont. She was trained as a bookkeeper, and also managed the concessions for the Altamont Fair for a number of years.

Reid Northrup retired and moved to Florida, where he passed away in December, 2000.

 


Monday, April 1, 2024

Little Girl

Bob Dell

ML-23 Stars Come Twisting In (Del Giorno-Levandowski) S212-101
ML-24 little girl (Del Giorno-Levandowski) S212-102

 RD Records, 132 Boston St. Syracuse, N. Y.


This is Robert Del Giorno, then DJ on WOLF radio, in Syracuse as Bob Dell. The backing band (uncredited) is Paul [Levansdowki] and the Velvets.

Disc jockeys recordings have, most of the time, this uninhibited and amateurish quality that I like.


132 Boston St. Syracuse, once the home of
Robert Del Girono (and of RD Records)