Mama

 

Unidentified male singer

Mama

 Could it be one of these acetates made in a coin-operated recording booth so popular in the 50s ?

Nothing is greater than a mother's love

 

  

 

Cobra Records

 

Cobra Records was founded in August 1956 by Elias P. Toscano (1924-1967) and Howard Bedno (1919-2006) was an independent record label that operated in Chicago from 1956 to 1959 and launched the careers of Chicago blues artists Otis Rush, Magic Sam and Buddy Guy, a new generation who pioneered the West Side Sound.

The most comprehensive Cobra/Artistic reissue package to date (it does not include alternate takes, but it throws in both sides of 8 Abcos for good measure) appeared in Japan in 2008: The Complete Cobra Singles, 4 CDs on P-Vine Special PCD 18528/31

 Disc 1

01 - Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby [Cobra 5000]
02 - Otis Rush - Sit Down Baby [Cobra 5000]
03 - The Clouds - Rock And Roll Boogie [Cobra 5001]
04 - The Clouds - I Do [Cobra 5001]
05 - Shakey Horton - Have A Good Time [Cobra 5002]
06 - Shakey Horton - Need My Baby [Cobra 5002]
07 - The Calvaes - Mambo Fiesta [Cobra 5003]
08 - The Calvaes - Fine Girl [Cobra 5003]
09 - Harold Burrage - One More Dance [Cobra 5004]
10 - Harold Burrage - You Eat Too Much [Cobra 5004]
11 - Otis Rush - Violent Love [Cobra 5005]
12 - Otis Rush - My Love Will Never Die [Cobra 5005]
13 - Sunnyland Slim - It's You Baby [Cobra 5006]
14 - Sunnyland Slim - Highway 61 [Cobra 5006]
15 - Lee Jackson - Fishin' In My Pond [Cobra 5007]
16 - Lee Jackson - I'll Just Keep Walkin' [Cobra 5007]
17 - Gloria Irving - I Need A Man [Cobra 5008]
18 - Gloria Irving - For You And Only You [Cobra 5008]
19 - Duke Jenkins - Something Else [Cobra 5009]
20 - Duke Jenkins - The Duke Walks [Cobra 5009]
21 - Otis Rush - Groaning The Blues [Cobra 5010]
22 - Otis Rush - If You Were Mine [Cobra 5010]

Disc 2

01 - Little Willie Foster - Crying The Blues [Cobra 5011]
02 - Little Willie Foster - Little Girl [Cobra 5011]
03 - Harold Burrage - Messed Up [Cobra 5012]
04 - Harold Burrage - I Don't Care Who Knows [Cobra 5012]
05 - Magic Sam - All Your Love [Cobra 5013]
06 - Magic Sam - Love Me With A Feeling [Cobra 5013]
07 - The Calvaes - Born With Rhythm [Cobra 5014]
08 - The Calvaes - Lonely Lonely Village [Cobra 5014]
09 - Otis Rush - Love That Woman [Cobra 5015]
10 - Otis Rush - Jump Sister Bessie [Cobra 5015]
11 - Clarence Jolly - Changing Love [Cobra 5016]
12 - Clarence Jolly - Don't Leave Me [Cobra 5016]
13 - Guitar Shorty - You Don't Treat Me Right [Cobra 5017]
14 - Guitar Shorty - Irma Lee [Cobra 5017]
15 - Harold Burrage - Stop, For The Red Light [Cobra 5018]
16 - Harold Burrage - Satisfied [Cobra 5018]
17 - Betty Everett - My Life Depends On You [Cobra 5019]
18 - Betty Everett - My Love [Cobra 5019]
19 - Duke Jenkins - Where Can My Loved One Be [Cobra 5020]
20 - Duke Jenkins - Shake It [Cobra 5020]
21 - Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright [Cobra 5021]
22 - Magic Sam - Look Whatcha Done [Cobra 5021]
23 - Harold Burrage - She Knocks Me Out [Cobra 5022]
24 - Harold Burrage - A Heart (Filled With Pain) [Cobra 5022]

Disc 3

01 - Otis Rush - Three Times A Fool [Cobra 5023]
02 - Otis Rush - She's A Good-'Un [Cobra 5023]
03 - Betty Everett - Ain't Gonna Cry [Cobra 5024]
04 - Betty Everett - Killer Diller [Cobra 5024]
05 - Magic Sam - All Night Long [Cobra 5025]
06 - Magic Sam - All My Whole Life [Cobra 5025]
07 - Harold Burrage - I Cry For You [Cobra 5026]
08 - Harold Burrage - Betty Jean [Cobra 5026]
09 - Otis Rush - It Takes Time [Cobra 5027]
10 - Otis Rush - Checking On My Baby [Cobra 5027]
11 - Jimmy Kelly & The Rock-A-Beats - Little Chickie [Cobra 5028]
12 - Jimmy Kelly & The Rock-A-Beats - Bonnie [Cobra 5028]
13 - Magic Sam - Easy Baby [Cobra 5029]
14 - Magic Sam - 21 Days In Jail [Cobra 5029]
15 - Otis Rush - Double Trouble [Cobra 5030]
16 - Otis Rush - Keep On Loving Me, Baby [Cobra 5030]
17 - Betty Everett - I'll Weep No More [Cobra 5031]
18 - Betty Everett - Tell Me, Darling [Cobra 5031]
19 - Otis Rush - All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Cobra 5032]
20 - Otis Rush - My Baby's A Good 'Un [Cobra 5032]
21 - Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm - Walking Down The Aisle [Cobra 5033]
22 - Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm - Box Top [Cobra 5033]
23 - Evangelist "Baby" Ballinger - So Glad [Artistic 100]
24 - Evangelist "Baby" Ballinger - Let It Be [Artistic 100]

Disc 4

01 - Charles Clark - Row Your Boat [Artistic 1500]
02 - Charles Clark - Hidden Charms [Artistic 1500]
03 - Buddy Guy - Sit And Cry (The Blues) [Artistic 1501]
04 - Buddy Guy - Try To Quit You Baby [Artistic 1501]
05 - Shakey Jake - Roll Your Money Maker [Artistic 1502]
06 - Shakey Jake - Call Me If You Need Me [Artistic 1502]
07 - Buddy Guy - You Sure Can't Do [Artistic 1503]
08 - Buddy Guy - This Is The End [Artistic 1503]
09 - Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm (voc. Tommy Hodge) - (I Know) You Don't Love Me [Artistic 1504]
10 - Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm (voc. Tommy Hodge) - Down & Out [Artistic 1504]
11 - Arbee Stidham - I'll Always Remember You [Abco 100]
12 - Arbee Stidham - Meet Me Half Way [Abco 100]
13 - Herby Joe - Smoke Stack Lightning [Abco 101]
14 - Herby Joe - Dreamed (Last Night) [Abco 101]
15 - Zono Sago's Modern Sounds - Short Order [Abco 102]
16 - Zono Sago's Modern Sounds - Jivin' At Random [Abco 102]
17 - Freddie Hall & His Aces - Can't This Be Mine [Abco 103]
18 - Freddie Hall & His Aces - Playin' Hard To Get [Abco 103]
19 - Louie Meyers & The Aces - Just Whaling [Abco 104]
20 - Louie Meyers & The Aces - Bluesy [Abco 104]
21 - The Rip-Chords - I Love You The Most [Abco 105]
22 - The Rip-Chords - (Let's Do The) Razzle Dazzle [Abco 105]
23 - Morris Pejoe - Screaming And Crying [Abco 106]
24 - Morris Pejoe - Maybe Blues [Abco 106]
25 - Arbee Stidham - When I Find My Baby [Abco 107]
26 - Arbee Stidham - Please Let It Be Me [Abco 107]

 

note : this was posted previously at Groovy Grooves, my other blog created due to temporary technical difficulties with Dead Wax.  Groovy Grooves, sooner or later, will be deleted.

Japaneese Rhumba

Wayne (Bob) Roberts


Japaneese Rhumba

Rhythm & Range 45-102 B
"Reavis Studio" in the deadwax |Nashville studio]

1956
Nashville, Tennessee

Record listed in Rockin' Country Style (no location)

Kicks Magazine #7 published a review of this record (see above). And we learn a little more about it. 

This was a posthumous release :

"According to the accompanying promo sheet, Wayne Roberts was an aspiring crooner and when he met with an untimely death Mama Roberts had a band pop the bop onto some of his old tapes and ished & promoted the disc herself : "As his mother since his unfortunate accident I have taken it on myself to try to make to him what he always wanted to be"

Nothing is greater than a mother's love.

Note: the only other known record on Rhythm & Range (#101) was by Little Hank singing two Roy Hall compositions. See https://oldwax.blogspot.com/2022/09/hank-rhythm-kings-rhythm-range-45-101.html

"Japanese Rumba" is an example of a GI song, a type of song composed for American soldiers stationed in postwar Japan. G. I. songs were broadcast on the Far East Network and issued on souvenir records that the soldiers could take home. "Japanese Rumba" was written by Jerry F. Miller, an arranger for an air force dance band, when he was stationed in Nagoya, Japan. First performed in 1949, the song was later issued on the 1951 souvenir EP World Famous Japanese Hit Melodies in an arrangement by the Japanese Itsuro Raymond Hattori and sung by Japanese American soldiers Nobuo Nishimoto and George Shimabukuro.

The song, which features lyrics in Japanese—or, more accurately, "bamboo English," a pidgin form of Japanese used by non-Japanese speaking soldiers to communicate with the locals—pokes fun at the linguistic struggles of Americans in Japan. The first verse roughly translates to "Where go, here come / Hey, well, good morning," the second to "What mama-san, hurry up papa-san, yes / Hey, girl, wait a moment, please," and the third to "What, well, nice makeup, yes / What do, eh good afternoon."

US covers were done in 1955 by Jayne & Audrey Meadows on RCA and the Twin Tunes on Sound.