Monday, July 30, 2012

I'm In Love With You


Jerry Moore

I'm In Love With You

Piedmont Recording Service
Box 170 Lexington, N.C.

Early sixties Elvisey uptempo

Piedmont Recording Service is a name found on custom records of the area (generally pressed by Rite Records of Cincinnati) including LPs of local schools and churches recordings.

I don't think that this Jerry Moore is the Jerry Moore on the Den Ric label listed in RCS.


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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Money


"Money (That's What I Want)" is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records. The song was written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, and became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise. It went on to be covered by many artists including The Beatles. [Wikipedia]

I'm not naming now the artist who covered the song offered here today. You have to guess who is the singer.

Is this a young Chris Cerf who wrote later the theme tune from the US children's programme Sesame Street and songs from the purple singing dinosaur Barney, songs used more recently by interrogators in Irak on "uncooperative prisoners" exposed for prolonged periods [a.k.a. tortured P.O.W.s] ?

Is this The Unbelievable Chuck Gregg,
a tone deaf homosexual "professional babysitter" from Ohio, recorded by Sonny Flaharty for Shad O'Shea's Counterpart Records ?

Is this one of the earliest record by Georgian singer Wayne Cochran (of Last Kiss fame) who recorded the song while still member of the Rockin Capris on Confederate Records ?




Hear any one of the files above, but download just one. Three links but one and same file, so I will be able to count the votes (number of DLs).

I'll publish the result next week. (if still alive, Inch Allah!)



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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Delinquent Baby


Cheryl Johnson

Delinquent Baby

The Bug Singers 273



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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Put Your Hand in the Hand



Duayne Allen Williams

Put Your Hand in the Hand


A "cover" of the song composed by Gene MacLellan and first recorded in 1970 by Canadian singer Anne Murray, a best-seller by Canadian band Ocean in 1971.

Regarding the performance of Duayne Allen Williams, I am speechless. Be warned, it's a VERY bad record...

Gene MacLellan died by suicide in 1995. I'm just hoping that this record has nothing to do with his tragic fate.


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Monday, July 23, 2012

My Goose Is Cooked


Joel Grey
With Jack Marshall's Orchestra

My Goose Is Cooked
Lee Wainer-Parke Levy
Criterion Music Corp. ASCAP

As featured in the CBS TV series December Bride

Capitol Records

1957




Real Name: Joel David Katz

The son of Mickey Katz, Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932 Cleveland, Ohio) is an award winning American stage and screen actor and photographer. He has received numerous nominations for his stage, film and television performances, but perhaps is best known for his role as the Emcee in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander And Ebb musical Cabaret for which he won both the Tony Award & the Academy Award.

More about Joel Grey HERE




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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Syncopated Rock


The Cat
Buddy Lucas & Orch.

Syncopated Rock
(Larado & Arroya, Gold Medal BMI)

Arroya Records


Real obscure East-Coast rock and roller with Buddy Lucas on sax. From around the mid-fifties.



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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Never Never


Ted Ross

Never Never

Ditto Records

1959


Ross won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of The Cowardly Lion in The Wiz.

Theodore “Ted” Ross was from Zanesville, Ohio, but his mother, Elizabeth Russell, a nightclub singer in the 1920s and 1930s, moved the family to Dayton when young Ross was seven. He loved the clubs on West Fifth Street--Dayton’s answer to Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. While in junior high, Ross, who was big for his age, would dress up and strut into the Owl Club and The Palace Theater's Midnight Rambles to see great acts such as Duke Ellington.

His nightclub exploits as a teenager weren't very popular at home. He quit Roosevelt High in 1950 and enlisted in the Air Force. Two years later at 18, Theodore Ross Roberts entered an amateur night contest at the Top Hat bar on Germantown Street. Home on furlough, he sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," won $5 that night and found his calling. After leaving the military, Ross worked his way from Great Falls, Montana, to a strip bar in Los Angeles as a singer and emcee.
From his obit found HERE



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Friday, July 6, 2012

Come Back and Love Me


Judy Tolbert
(11 Years Old)

Come Back and Love Me
(wr. Jerry Reed)

Stars Records

1957


This is the flip of "I’m Wise to You Now " available on, at least, three compilations, and indeed on YouTube.

Judy Tolbert's second single for one of the many labels owned by Bill Lowery out of Atlanta, Georgia. According to Rockin' Country Style the age reference on the label of Stars 543 is inaccurate, Judy was born in 1943 in Gadsden, Ala. Claudette Tolbert wrote "I'm Wise" and may have been Judy's mother ?



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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Cat & Mouse


Jim Mackelberg

Cat & Mouse

Vanco Records

1971 or later

Vanco Records was a subsidiary of the Ripcord Studio, Vancouver, Washington, owned by Gene Breeden, which was established in 1967.

On the Ripcord studio, there is an article by Ken Fitzgerald published by Billboard in 1977.

The artist was a resident of Albany, Oregon (his address is written on label). His "Baby Sittin' Blues" has been re-issued by Cees Klop.




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Mama Guitar







Andy Griffith died Tuesday (July 3) at age 86. R.I.P. Andy.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Three Minus One


Tommy Lampkin

Three Minus One

Ebb Records

1957


It seems that Tommy Lampkin only got two chances to make a record, once for Imperial in 1955, then again two years later for Ebb.

I don't know anything about this guy."Three Minus One," is backed with the blues ballad "The Weather's Stormy.", which has been compiled on CD.


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