Baby What's Wrong

Ed Forsyth

Baby What's Wrong

(Jimmy Reed, Conrad Publ. BMI)

Jewel 741

produced by Dale Hawkins

Ed Forsyth discography

63 Chess 1859
Making Up / You Don't Mind Hurting Me

64 Chess 1907
Got A Lot Longer To Go / How Old Do You Have To Be

64 Jewel 734
Got A Lot Longer To Go / How Old Do You Have To Be

65 Jewel 741
Come On Everybody / Baby What's Wrong


Further listening : original by bluesman Jimmy Reed (Vee Jay Records, 1962) HERE

Don't You Know?

Andy Wilson And The Leesures

Don't You Know?
 (A. Wilson, Robadon Music BMI)

Destiny 506, 1961

Recorded, like most of the other Destiny releases, at Audio Recording Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.   

Andy Wilson was a Canadian act who was recorded there when he played engagements in Lorain.  

Terry Gordon's Rockin' Country Style has a Andy Wilson discography, which includes a record on Backbeat Records.  But that doesn't sounds at all like the same singer.   You can hear "Too Much Of Not Enough" here (YouTube)

Destiny Records discography

Walkie Talkie Baby

 

The Levee Songsters

featuring Joe Gowder

with Larry Lucie Orchestra

 

Walkie Talkie Baby

   Written-by Joe Gowder

Bettsam BMI

 

Karen Records 1004

1959

This is a re-issue of Rego 1004 issued in 1956 as by the Teen-Tones (=the Mello-Harps on Tin Pan Alley),   The group story is told by Marv Goldberg HERE

Karen Records was owned by veteran music man Sam Wigler,  who managed (or worked with) several pubberies (Ford, Jewel, Encore, Pollsam, Mellin Music..).  The Rego label was also perhaps his own.   Last release on the obscure Rego label was possibly #306 (Cal Starr backed by the Anita Kerr Singers : Yes, I'm Robbin' the Craddle)

Karen Records (1959-1960)

 

1004 — The Levee Songsters
1005 — The Dungaree Darlings With Al Sears Orch
1006 — Marcella Kern 

1007
1008 — King Coleman
1009 — The Nocturnes  
1010 — Dick Thomas (Miami address) 

Sweet 16 / Roll Over Beethoven / Johnny B. Goode (medley)

Darrell Shepherd

Zerpha Blue

Sweet 16 / Roll Over Beethoven / Johnny B. Goode (medley) 

Producer Marshall Miller

 

Varsity 2004

mid-70s

Parkersburg W.V. seventies band.  Darrell Shepherd was the vocalist. He died in 2002. 

The band had a previous record on the same label (listed HERE).   The label has the same lettering as the Varsity label of Nashville, Tenn., which was owned by Ben McCloud.  Coincidence?

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

Dick Warren

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

Big 4 Hits 232


1958

A hit for Hank Williams in 1950.

Clarence Williams,   a New Orleans jazz and blues pianist, publisher, composer, agent, record producer, and vocalist copyrighted the song, but he didn't wrote it.   "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" is actually an old jazz novelty which was already played in the 1900s by Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden, a New Orleans black cornetist (1877-1931).
For more info about the story of the song, see Larry Birnbaum, "Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll".


Dick Warren had several songs released by the Cincinnati's Rite Records subsidiaries Gateway and Big 4 Hits between 1954 and 1958.  [source : 45rpmrecords.com]

• My Friend  '54
• Rock Around The Clock '55
• The House Of Blue Lights '55
• A Rose And A Baby Ruth '56
• Party Doll '57
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry  '57
• Jo Ann '57
• Billy '58

There's A Big Wheel

From a collection of backs found HERE

The back of everything isn't necessarily of lesser interest.  Unfortunately, the flip of the Guaranteed Records single number 212 by Penney Parker posted HERE isn't that good, in my opinion,   despite a favorable review by Billboard Magazine :   "A nice swingin', upbeat rhythm number. The drum is heavily accented in Salvation Army style and the gal belts out the message.   " 

Salvation Army means charity, so here it is, for you Anonymous, as requested.

There's A Big Wheel

Hey! Bo Diddley

James Wood

 Hey! Bo Diddley

E. McDaniel, ARC Music Corp. BMI

Kid Glove Records 446

Roland James, engineer

A Billy Stephens Production

 

James Wood bio notice

From the booklet of That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 14 Bear Family CD, 1997

Of Billy Stephens, not much is known, but at least we have his picture
(from the picture sleeve of one of his record not listed in RCS)

Short Fat Fannie

Chuck Lovett

with Herbie Layne's Orchestra

Short Fat Fannie

Gateway Parade of Hits 1220

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1957

Rather good cover of Larry Williams, New Orleans burglar and pimp turned artist.  I can't find any other recordings by Chuck Lovett  (a pseudonym?)

Tired of slippin' and slidin' with a long tall Sally
Peekin' and a hidin', duckin' back in the alley
Don't wanna rip it up, don't wanna dance with Annie
I've got a brand new lover name is Short Fat Fannie

One day while I was visit'n at HeartBreak Hotel
That's where I met Fannie and she sure looked swell
I told her that I loved her I'd never leave
She put her arms around me, gave me fever

She's my tutti fruiti, I love the child so
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
Whenever I'm around her I'm on my p's and q's
She might step on my blue suede shoes

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
'Cause I was dancin' with MaryLou
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue

Short Fat Fannie she's my hearts desire
Short Fat Fannie sets my soul on fire
On Monday we were married on Blueberry Hill
Now we're so happy and I love her still

...

She's my tutti fruiti and I love the child so
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
Whenever I'm around her I'm on my p's and q's
She might step on my blue suede shoes

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
'Cause I was dancin' with MaryLou
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue

Short Fat Fannie is my hearts desire
Got the kind of lovin' sets my soul on fire
Short Fat Fannie well I love her so
I'll never let Short Fat Fannie go

Heartache Weather

Penney Parker

 
Heartache Weather

Hillard-DeLugg
Shapiro Bernstein and Co ASCAP

Guaranteed 212

1960

Penney Parker was born Jacqueline Francine Kerner on December 23, 1941 in New York City.  By the age of eighteen she was singing in a New York club.   She came to Hollywood in 1959, given a month-long vacation there by her parents as a high school graduation present.   Spotted by an agent, she found herself playing a role on Dobie Gillis.   Later that year, she was cast as Danny Thomas' daughter Terry on The Danny Thomas Show, putting on hold her plans to attend college.
In 1960, she was signed to Guaranteed Records by Joe Carlton who intended a big promotional push for Penney, similar to the campaign he made on behalf of Anita Bryant on Carlton Records, his main label. [See Billboard July 4, 1960]

 "Hushabye Little Guitars" a song especially written for her by Paul Evans  was announced as her first release, but wasn't not issued and instead Paul Evans released it himself on the following Guaranteed single (#213).