The Starfires first record
Record listed at RCS (no location, no evaluation, not comped)
Location found : Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
The Starfires, later known as The Star Fires on Laurie Records in 1966, were a garage rock band from Wilkes-Barre, PA. The group was originally formed by junior high school friends Richard Grumbravich (drummer) and Rodger Griffith (bassist). Next to come on board were Bob Gardner (saxophone); Howard Dymond (piano); Freddie Kirkendall (guitar); and Charlie McCuen (vocalist). In their college years Eddie “Day” Pashinski joined as vocalist and John Hall replaced Kirkendall (later Richard Rodieger replaced Hall).
The Starfires gained notoriety in the area during the sixties. They backed up national acts like Frankie Valli, Chubby Checker, and Freddy Cannon.
Vocalist Eddie "Day" Pashinski was elected in 2006 as a Pennsylvania State Representative in the United States Congress. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Day_Pashinski
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Long Gone Daddies
32 tracks+booklet
For tracklist, date and labels see Rockin' Country Style
Hot rock'n'roll and rockabilly including previously unissued material from the Modern label, one of the leading independant labels of the 1950s,
Sabine Paturel on cover
Alice Ball - The Party Last Night.mp3
Amy Beth - My Baby Thinks He's Elvis.mp3
Barbara Dane - I'm On My Way.mp3
Betty Jean Morris - Shack Daddy.mp3
Elaine Mitchem - Wine, Women, & Song .mp3
Irral Berger -Take My Hand.mp3
Margie Hampton - Big Black Eye.mp3
Patti Deutsch - Ode To The Great Society.mp3
Sabine Paturel - Les Bêtises.mp3
Sayaka Alessandra - Be Bop A Lula.mp3
Suzi Jane Hokom - Need All The Help I Can Get.mp3
Yvonne - Teenage Blues.mp3
Dave Larry
My Confession to You
(Dave Larry, Barkip Music Pub.)
B'n KC 102-B
1963
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Cash Box, March 30, 1963
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The tiny B'n KC (meaning?) from California had only one other release (101 Dave Cullen : Bye Bye Blackbird).
Thanks to Klepsie at 45cat, who found the following clippings in Cash Box, we know that Dave Larry was a pseudo for Dave Yates.
"Dave Yates mgr. of AMCO’s one-stop has a new release on the B’nKC label, “Only A Dream” b/w “My Confession to You”. Both the lyrics and music were also written by Dave whose professional name is Dave Larry." (Cash Box, "California Clippings", 23 March 1963)
"Dave Larry paid a visit to the California Music Co., promoting his release on the B’nKC label, “Only A Dream” b/w “My Confession to You." (Cash Box, "California Clippings", 18 May 1963)
In 1956, Dave Yates joined Badger Sales which was "doing great business with pool tables, selling many for home use in blue, gold and green felt)".
Cash Box reported in June 1958, that "Dave Yates, former Badger employee is now recording on the Morocco label with a group called Buddy and The Fads."
AMCO Music & Vending, Inc. and Dave Yates appear in this Cash Box column several times in 1962, 63 and 64. 21 March 1964 issue reported their move to an "enlarged and newly decorated" HQ on Pico Boulevard.
Manager of AMCO one-stop for several years, David Yates returned to Badger Sales in 1965.
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Note: In late 1962, AMCO Music and Vending Company, Inc. was established in Los Angeles as a subsidiary of an Illinois corporation known as AMCO Industries. This was the Southern California and Arizona distributor for Seeburg Vending equipment. Also a branch office of Amco Music and Vending was established in Phoenix, Arizona, and in conjunction with this firm, Capitol Vending Company, another independant company was establised to handle replacement of vending machines in locations as opposed to AMCO Music and Vending's main function which was to distribute equipment to operators.
In the early sixties, Phoenix and Los Angeles were the preferred destinations for many organized crime figures who were having trouble breathing in Chicago and were seeking cleaner air.
