Women of Music Volume 20

 

Heather Williams on cover

tracklist

Abbie Neal & Her Ranch Girls - Newton's Law.mp3     
Babe Wayne - Dance The Whiz Wosh.mp3                
Barbara Compton - Mining Men.mp3                    
Bonnie Bombshell Lee -  My Rock And Roll Man.mp3    
Choo Choo Collins - Baby's Gone.mp3                 
Dusty Springfield - La Bamba.mp3                    
Heather Williams - Celebration.mp3                  
Lady Nell - Loving Daddy.mp3                        
Marva Allen - I'm Thru With You.mp3                 
Mona Kerry - Don't Hang Around My Door.mp3          
Peggy Phillips (& The Patterns)  - Is That So.mp3   
Tanya Day - His Lips Get In The Way.mp3             
 

WoM 20.7z        

Women of Music Volume 11 (re-up)

 

Women of Music

Volume 11
Meg Myles on cover 

 

Beverly White - Cling to Me, Baby                
Bunny Paul - Baby Sitter's Blues                 
Donna Loren - Shakin' All Over                   
Donna Pope - Your Love Is An Everyday Thing      
Eileen Scott - Teen Age Prayer                   
Flavia Couri with the Courettes - Hop The Twig   
Flosia Lee - Part Time Lover                     
Jeanie Lee - Tic-Toc-A-Boogie                    
Jeannie Barnes - Can't Get You Off Of My Mind    
Joan Gardner - Learning To Rock                  
Mae West -  Twist and Shout                      
Meg Myles - Thirteen Men                         
Nancy Ford - Johnny's Yo Yo                      
Nancy Sit -  Hanky Panky                         
Patti Page - Just  Because                       
Susan Cabot - O-Shoo-Bla-D (Teenage Bop)   

 

I'll Never Tell

 

 

 

Cashbox April 15, 1954

 

Mary Jane Johnson starred in the early fifties with Bob Atcher in the Faultless Starch Show, a radio program diffused on NBC.

In 1954, along with Elaine Rodgers, the Meadowlarks and the Villagers, she was on the Bill Bailey's TV Show "Town and Country Sound Parade"
 
In 1955, she was on WLWT-TV Cincinnati, soon succeeded in March by Mimi Roman. She then moved to West Coast to engage in radio-tv activities.

 You have to wait about ten years before seeing again her name on a record when two of her songs were issued on the Kapp Records album "Saturday Night at The Old Barn Dance" issued in 1965, supposed recorded live at WGN-TV in Chicago.

Sloppy Drunk Woman

 

 Norridge Mayhams and his Barbecue Boys

Vocal by Johnnie Tunsill
Vocal blues with orchestra acc.

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1937 

Sloppy Drunk Woman

 

 

Early Norridge Mayhams later better known as Norris Mayhams or Norris The Troubadour, rather well-documented by enthusiasts of song-poems and other eccentricities.

 

Not much is known about the vocalist. Johnnie Tunsill (1904-1982) was a New-York entertainer during the thirties. She was a "colored" singer at the Harlem Opera House in 1931, a member of at least two Broadway musicals in 1938-1938 : "a sepia gal who can strike out some neat warbling" 

 

Nothing more is found about her, unfortunately. 

 

 

Rattlesnake Daddy

 

 

Country/blues tune, a little bit risqué, popular with the novelty acts in the 40's and 50's. 

The 1933 release by Bill Carlisle of "Rattlesnake Daddy" is generallty credited as the very first and original version. 

Two years later bluesman Blind Boy Fuller recorded a similar song by the name of "I'm a Rattlesnakin' Daddy." Though the lyrics and melodies are different in these two songs, they share similar motifs and song structure.  

I think that the song, though previously unrecorded, widely circulated in the Piedmont region in the early 20th century,  That in no way detracts from the merits of Bill Carlisle. 

Surely, there are traces of that song of it in the archives somewhere, buried under a layer of dust... but I didn't find anything.

 

Rattlesnake Daddy

 34 versions from 1933 to the 2010s
The genre vary, the title vary, and so do publisher and composer but its the same theme.