The Polaris Records Story

 

The Polaris Records Story

27 tracks+booklet
Bacchus Archives Records, 1991

tracklist

1 - The New Breed - Wasting My Time
2 - The New Breed - It's Love
3 - Richies Renegades - Don't Cry
4 - Richies Renegades - Baby It's Me
5 - Richies Renegades - Come Alive (Pepsi Spot)
6 - The Renegades - Waiting For You
7 - The Renegades - Tell Me What To Say
8 - The Swinging Epics - Run To Him
9 - Billy Bo And His Arrows - Voodoo Rhythm
10 - Billy Bo And His Arrows - Shuffle
11 - Billy Bo And His Arrows - Chatter
12 - The Bugs - Slide
13 - The Bugs - Pretty Girl
14 - The Bugs - Albert Albert
15 - The Bugs - Strangler In The Night
16 - Th The Bugs - Gonna Find Me A Girl
17 - The Attaras - You Got A Lot To Learn
18 - The Attaras - Blue Is The Color
19 - The Attaras - Daniel Boone
20 - The Attaras - Come On
21 - The Fantasmics - Wild One
22 - The Fantasmics - Heaven Or Hell
23 - The Devonaires - Gone Gone Gone
24 - The Devonaires - Mazzola
25 - Leigh Spear - Minnie In Her Mini-Skirt
26 - Richies Renegades - Don't Cry
27 - Richies Renegades - Baby It's Me
 

 

 

Women of Music Volume 16

 

 

 

Women of Music Volume 16
 

Cover : Genya Rayan (of Ginger & the Gingerbreads)

Barbara Evans - Beatnik Daddy.mp3                                      
Charlotte Deak Hardage  - Day After Never (The Day After Never)..mp3   
Cookie Mold (in Sheer Smegma) - I Wanna Be A Man.mp3                      
Damita Jo - Jambalaya.mp3                                     
Dusty Springfield - Can I Get A Witness.mp3                            
Goldie & the Gingerbreads - Skinny Vinnie.mp3                          
Janiva Magness - I Can Tell.mp3                                        
Marion Colby - Just Because.mp3                                        
Pauline Pinkney - Three Mountain Men.mp3                               
Penny Hardman - Oh Darling.mp3                                         
Sylvie Vartan - Elle est terrible.mp3                                  
The Singing Sisters of Syracuse - Chloe.mp3                            
Ursula Reed - Ursula's Blues.mp3     

 Note : previously issued at the Groovy Grooves blog, now with a new cover

Wild & Frantic

 

Wild & Frantic 

Official CD (Denmark, 1995) 

Wild & Frantic, as the title suggests; on Official Records contrary to the name suggests

 

Johnny Bond : Put Me To Bed

 

 

Johnny Bond : Put Me To Bed

 

Cyrus Whitfield "Johnny" Bond (1915-1978) was active in the music industry from 1940 until the late 1970s.

Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma, and grew up on several small farms in Oklahoma. As a youngster, he was influenced musically by records that his parents played. He learned basics of music as a member of his high school's brass band. While in high school he bought a ukulele, but soon he switched to playing the guitar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bond
 

 

Lee Garnett

 

Lee Garnett : his only surviving picture

Lee Garnett was a 1950s rockabilly singer who burned bright and fast, only to vanish into obscurity before the decade was out. Born in 1935 in a small Texas town, Jimmy grew up on a diet of Hank Williams, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and the raw energy of southern juke joints. He taught himself guitar on a beat-up acoustic his father left behind and started playing at local dances while still in high school. By 19, he had formed a three-piece band called The Lonesome Tones and cut a handful of singles for a tiny independent label out of Memphis. His voice was a wild, snarling mix of Elvis’s swagger and Johnny Cash’s melancholy—but with a ragged edge all his own. Tracks like "Cat Scratch Fever"and "Red Hot Mama\" got some regional radio play, but never charted nationally. 

Lee’s big break came in 1957 when Sun Records producer Sam Phillips reportedly listened to one of his demos and said, "That boy's got something, but he's too raw" A session was scheduled, but Jimmy never showed. The truth? He had been arrested the night before for a bar fight that wasn't his fault. The stain of that arrest followed him. Radio stations that once played his records dropped him, and the label dissolved. 

By 1959, Jimmy had quit music entirely. He moved to California, worked odd jobs, and never spoke of his rockabilly days. A few obscure acetates found their way into collectors' hands over the years, and a cult following grew around his lone surviving footage—a grainy, two-minute clip from a local TV show where he shakes his pompadour and howls into the microphone like a man possessed. 

His music lives on as a dusty treasure for rockabilly purists who whisper his name: The Howlin' Cat.

Lee Garnett acetates & oddballs
A Notron Records Special Release

A big thank you to Mark Lee Allen