Sandy Fontaine

 

Ten Gallon Hat
(Elsie Wilks, Wilks Music BMI)

 

What Do I Want
(Gene Dunlap, Wilks Music BMI)

Hitt Records 1119
1964
Baytown, Texas

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Elsie  Wilks,  the boss-lady  of  the  Texas firm,  Hitt  Records,  wrote "Ten Gallon Hat" a song inspired by President Johnson's presenting ten-galllon hats to his visiting celebrities.  The song "just released will be introduced in Baytown at a teen dance at the Firemen's Hall"  (Baytown Sun, August 9, 1964,

Sandy Fontaine, from Houston,  performed the song several times in and around Baytown at least until 1966, this time backed by The Wanderers of Beaumont at the Baytown Jaycees spring festival.

Late release by Hitt Records whose pick activities were in the years 1958-1960.

 

 donwload links   : Ten Gallon   and  What

 

 

 

 

Women Of Music 35

 

 Women Of Music 35

Dani on cover

 

Ceci Julian - Rock Right.mp3
Cora Lynn & The Rhythm Snatchers - Train Kept a Rollin'.mp3
cover - Dani.jpg
Dani - Le Chpoum.mp3
Denita James  - I Have Feelings Too.mp3
Diana Lee - You Upset Me.mp3
Donna And The Tennessee Moonshiners -The Root Of All Evil (Is A Man).mp3
Elizabeth Thorn - Just A Little While.mp3
Inga - The Beat Goes On.mp3
Jai Malano - Matchbox (I'm Gonna Forget About You).mp3
Jenny Grand Duc - Susie-Q.mp3
Liz Phair - Wild-Thing .mp3
Peggy Scott - Bailin' Man.mp3
Sayaka Alessandra - I Gotta Know.mp3 

Steve Schickel on Foremost [RCS no location]

 

 

Steve Schickel

CP-1333 - Don't Lie

Williams-Hart, Windy City Music

CP-1334 - What A Night
Watts-Trace-Bohme

Foremost FM 115

November 11, 1957, Billboard

 

Location : Chicago, Illinois 

Note : this is NOT the Kansas City Foremost label. 

Steve Schickel was record editor for The Chicago Tribune, deejay for three years on WGN, free-lance promotion man, music and coin reporter for The Billboard,  Mercury public-relations director (1960-1962) and WGN newsman from 1962

This Foremost release is his second record, the first being on Mercury Records in 1956, "Leave My Sideburns Be", a take-off of "you know who" backed with "Cry-Baby Boogie".  

 

Two other songs from the same Mercury sessions remained unissued : "Educated Rock And Roll"  and  "What A Night" , the latter finally issued (or re-recorded?) by Foremost Records.

 

 The four tracks are in this folder