Teddy Rich and the Rockets

TEDDY RICH And The ROCKETS
Vocal By:  Kenny Hodge

SO-197 — Calypso Joe

Bert Gardner  -  Music Exp. Ent.

SO-198  — Put A Nickel In The Juke Box

(Rock 'n' Roll Rhapsody)
    Bert Gardner - Music Exp. Ent

Teenage 500
March 57

TEDDY RICH And The ROCKETS
Vocal By:  Kenny Hodge

 
SO-219 — Gotta Rock, Gotta Roll

Whitey Trapnell  Music Exp. Ent. 

SO-2xx — Cuban Holiday

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Teenage 501

1957

 

  Teddy Rich and his band, in the sixties, entertained various supper venues in and around Lebanon, Pennsylvania, often sharing the bill with Johnny Barker and His Seven Redcoats.   But further info on this band is not available online.

Music Exploitation Enterprises was owned by Bert Gardner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company published various music instrument courses (Fender bass jazz,  Dixieland tenor banjo... ) in the early sixties.  The Teenage label was perhaps a subsidiary of his company.

Bert Gardner had a long association with songwriter Whitey Trapnell   :  earlier, in 1952, they co-wrote the libretto and the musical score of a western musical comedy, titled "Tops and Bottoms" .

Bert Gardner was perhaps the Broadway vaudeville actor (1887-1967)