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.