Searchin'

 

Karen Fellows

Searchin' (Download)

Another kid atrocity from Arkansas on the Power label. Also available on YT posted by SaxonWax who has this to say :

60's Kiddie Rockabilly Version of The Coaster's Hit "Searchin'"
Bizarre Cover that just needed an upload.
b/w "whats that in your eye" its terrible and im not uploading it.

Too bad, SaxonWax.

As a reminder, I once commited 9 kids compilations, still available and now safely parked in one folder HERE,  Index below.

if it wasnt for the kids index

artist/title/volume#

Anita Veal - Daddy Let Me Go--> vol. 3
Augie Rios -  The Teacher Walked Out of the Room --> vol. 4
Baby J.J.  - Amigo Mio--> vol. 2
Barry Gordon - Rock Around Mother Goose--> vol. 8
Blake Age 6 - Davy Crockett--> vol. 1
Bonita Stevens - All Girl Band--> vol. 7
Brenda & Brian – Good News--> vol. 5
Brenda Lee - Doodlebug Rag--> vol. 8
Brucie Weil -  Little Boy Blues--> vol. 4
Calvin – A Cowboy For Jesus--> vol. 5
Carol Kay (8-Year Old )- A Good Man is Hard to Find--> vol. 8
Carole Coby - Memphis-Calling-New-York-City--> vol. 2
Cathy Sharpe North Pole Rock--> vol. 9
Connie Canuso - Pizza House--> vol. 3
Dandelions - The Children Of Sunshine--> vol. 2
Dawn Van De Pitte - Christmas Isn't Christmas--> vol. 2
Deb Ferrara --Christmas Time--> vol. 1
Drake Grillo 3-year-old - National Anthem --> vol. 3
Drusilla & Susanna– I’ve Found a Hiding Place--> vol. 5
Eugenia Regos  I'm Gonna Write A Letter To Santa Claus--> vol. 3
Ginny Tiu - Inka Dinka Doo--> vol. 9
Howard Marren - The Phantom Rides Again--> vol. 3
Ivy Schulman - Rock Pretty Baby--> vol. 1
Jackie Butler And His Playmates  Paw Ain't Got A Cent--> vol. 7
Jeanie Dell - - Dixie Danny--> vol. 7
Jenny Lynn - Gee! It's Christmas Day--> vol. 1
Jeri Lynn Fraser-  All Shook Up--> vol. 1
Jerry Naill - Barbecue Rock--> vol. 5
Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool--> vol. 8
Joe Ward - Nuttin’ For Christmas--> vol. 2
Jordy - Dur Dur d'Etre Bébé--> vol. 3
Judy Adams - I Slipped And Fell--> vol. 5
Katie Sweet -  I Love To Rock--> vol. 4
Keith Green - A Go-Go Getter--> vol. 6
La-Konya Smithee -Saturday Night Down South--> vol. 5
Lawrence Welk's Little Band Featuring Brian, Cubby, Janet and The Lennon Sisters--> vol. 9
Lena Zavaroni - Ma! He's making eyes at me)--> vol. 5
Lil Margie Crane - Pretty Face, Cute Figure--> vol. 7
Li'l Smokey Miller - Cotton Patch--> vol. 9
Little Adrian  - A Little Love and Understanding--> vol. 2
Little Barbara - Mom, I Want a Dolly Just Like You--> vol. 8
Little Betty Pruett - I Want To Stroll Over Heaven With You--> vol. 8
Little Betty Pruett - Satan Lied To Me--> vol. 7
Little Carolyn Sue - I Hate Men--> vol. 1
Little Cori - Picture Of Mommy Twisting With Santa--> vol. 1
Little Denice Stevenson -  Would It Be Me--> vol. 4
Little Denise Stevenson - Hip Breakin--> vol. 2
Little Gary Ferguson -  A Mother's Love--> vol. 4
Little Jacky Wayne - White Felt Hat--> vol. 2
Little Jeannie - My Little Dog Has Gone To the Moon For Christmas--> vol. 6
Little Jeannie Greer - Who, What, Where, When, How and Why --> vol. 7
Little Judy Adams - I Slipped And Fell --> vol. 7
Little Kristy McIntyre -  I Want Someone Who Needs Me--> vol. 4
Little Leon Payne - History Of Love--> vol. 6
Little Mike and The Heralders Quartet - This World Is Not My Home--> vol. 9
Little Miss Darlene - Daddy-O   --> vol. 6
Little Rita Faye - I Fell Out Of A Christmas Tree--> vol. 4
Little Sammy Swinger - Hot Pastrami w Mashed Potatoes--> vol. 6
Little Suzie - Young Love--> vol. 6
Lucky Peterson - 1,2,3,4--> vol. 6
Marc Copage - Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas--> vol. 3
Marie Sacco - Dollys Are For Kids--> vol. 5
Marie-Adel Black - I Want to Be a Mother --> vol. 7
Marvin Short - Lovesick Blues--> vol. 4
Mathilde (Gersby Rasmussen) - Hulubulu--> vol. 8
Matt & Robyn Rolf - I'm Little But I'm Loud--> vol. 9
Melinda Sloop -  He's Got The Whole World in his Hands--> vol. 4
Michael and Tobias--> vol. 9
Missy Connor -  Cowgirl For Jesus--> vol. 7
Natalie-Casey - Chick-Chick-Chicken--> vol. 1
Patricia Honeycutt -  What a Happy Day--> vol. 5
Phillis & Jeffrey Carlyle - Santa Claus Looks Like My Daddy--> vol. 6
Ranel Bogdanov -  Hit the Road Jack--> vol. 9
Reggie Pitassy - Easter Bunny Bring My Daddy Home--> vol. 6
Reggie Pitassy - I'm Gonna Color My Eggs All Blue--> vol. 8
Richard Hitchner - I Want A Rocket Ship For Christmas,--> vol. 7
Ricky Vera - How Can Santa Come To Puerto Rico--> vol. 8
Ronnie Reno - Lasses--> vol. 6
Ronnie Reno - Somebody Left Another Youngin' At Our House--> vol. 9
Sherry Crane - Winnie The Parakeet--> vol. 7
Shirley Temple - Polly-Wolly-Doodle--> vol. 5
Singing Jones Family - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On--> vol. 2
Stacey Lynn Ries -  Johnny B Goode --> vol. 4
Sunshine Ruby - Too Young To Tango--> vol. 9
Suzi Devereaux -  If It Wasn't For The Kids--> vol. 1
Terry Davidson & The Barracudas - Hurray For Hazel--> vol. 8
The Bantams - Susie Q--> vol. 9
The Buttons - Shimmy Shimmy Watusi--> vol. 2
The Collins Kids -  Beetle Bug Bop--> vol. 4
The Cowboy Church Sunday School featuring Little Miss Enry - A Handful of Sunshine --> vol. 9
The Little Stinkers - I Farted on Santa's Lap--> vol. 5
The Musical Harts of Detroit - Surely I Will Lord--> vol. 8
The Rhodes Kids - Land of 1000 Dances--> vol. 5
The Schulman Kids (Bob, Ilene, Jimmie) - V' Jinja--> vol. 8
The Singing Crowes -  Grumbles Medley--> vol. 6
The Spades - When I Get To Goin'--> vol. 4
Tiny Tim - Back Pocket Money--> vol. 3
Toni Harper - Candy Store Blues --> vol. 6
Troy Hess - Please Don't Go Topless Mother--> vol. 1
Yolanda White - My Brother Wants A Doll For Christmas--> vol. 3
Yvonne Jordan - Long Tall Johnny--> vol. 7

Women of Music Volume 7

 

 

WoF V7

 

Mimi Roman on cover

 

Mini Skirt

 

Papa Cat - Mini Skirt
W. Colston, E&M Publ.

 Erwin Records
2674 Steele Memphis 38127

 DL link

Papa Cat was certainly William Wirth Colston, a retired employee of General Motors Corp. in Memphis, who died in 1975, 68-year old, Like so many M.E. Ellis' Erwin custom records, date is unknown, probably late sixties or early seventies.

I have only a snippet of the flip  (Wonder Pill) that I hesitate to post.

Brain Blood Volume

 

 

Brain Blood Volume

This is from Julie Felix' second album, "Changes", from 1966 (Fontana Records)

 

Julie Ann Felix (1938–2020) was an American-British folk singer and recording artist,  eager to promote the doctrine of trepanation (see below) and recorded some of the propaganda songs which Joey [Joey Mellen, Amanda Feilding's companion] had composed,

On the subject, see Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, a book by John Mitchell from 1984, reprinted HERE

I quote :

Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. At the last two General Elections she stood for Parliament in Chelsea, more than doubling her vote on the second occasion from 49 to 139. It does not sound much, but the cause for which she stands is unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and her voters demand that trepanning operations be made freely available on the National Health. Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull.

The founder of the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes. In 1962 he made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most significant in modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he realized, are related to the volume of blood in the brain. According to his theory of evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain benefits to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head to be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness. Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while others, particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning, became emphasized in compensation. One can redress the balance by a number of methods, such as standing on one's head, jumping from a hot bath into a cold one, or the use of drugs; but the wider consciousness thus obtained is only temporary. Bart Hughes shared the common goal of mystics and poets in all ages: he wanted to achieve permanently the higher level of vision, which he associated with an increased volume of blood in the capillaries of the brain.

(...)

Bart Huges's ideas had their best reception among artists and bohemians. Among those impressed was Heathcote Williams, who published a dialogue between Joey and Bart in the literary Transatlantic Review and made a trepanation scene the climax of his award-winning play, AC-DC. An important convert was Julie Felix, a world-famous (in London) American singer in the style of Joan Baez. She was eager to promote the doctrine of trepanation and recorded some of the propaganda songs which Joey [Joey Mellen,Amanda Feilding's companion] had composed, including Brainbloodvolume, The Great Brain Robbery and Sugarlack.read more....

read more.....

and also see Lost Footage: Amanda Feilding Self Trepanning

Make A Record, Man

 

 The Markeys
featuring George Morton

Make A Record, Man 

Morton, M.Monaco, J. Monaco
Norma Music Co, Inc. BMI

1958

In 1957 George Morton formed a vocal group with friends Marty Monaco, Tony Giannattasio, Victor Eusepi and Sal DiTroia.  Marty Monaco's mother had a basic recording studio in her basement in nearby Levvitown, where the guys wrote, rehearsed and taped demos of their songs. The owner of a local record store took a liking to the young quintet and helped arrange for them to audition for RCA.

The group made their recording debut with "Hot Rod", released on RCA in the summer of 1958. Later that year, RCA released their second 45, "Make A Record, Man"

Information above and photo are from "Sophisticated Boom Boom! - The Shadow Morton Story", a
compilation and notes by Mick Patrick issued by Ace Records (UK) in 2013.

 

 

 

Women of Music Volume 6

 

 

 

Women of Music Volume 6
on cover : Belita

 

Faded Levi Jacket

Major Hicks and The Mountain Cats
 

 

Faded Levi Jacket

(I.W. Hicks, Renda Music, BMI) 

SUN VALLEY
2207 S. 15th St., Phoenix, Arizona

1961

Major Hicks had four releases on Sun Valley in 1961. Tribute To A Great Man is a tribute to the late J. F. Kennedy

 

13 Faded Levi Jacket / Honky Tonk Of Sorrow
14 My Lips Will Smile / Brick Layin’ Man
15 By Your House Last Night / Little Spark Of Love
16 Tribute To A Great Man / Help This Child    

Ishmael W Hicks (1916–1989) was born in Hawaii. He is listed at the same address (2207 S. 15 th. Phoenix) in 1958 in the Directory of Arizona Contractors.  He died in 1989. His grave is in theMiller-Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington,  That's all about I can find on this artist from whom I would like to hear more....

Once the home of Major Hicks and His Sun Valley label, the place is now a vacant lot

Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart)

 

Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart)

Rocky Hollman

Althea Records 001
Produced by Bridges Records
date unknown but probably from 1961 or 1962, when the Bridges label was active

Undocumented artist. who neverthless released at least 14 singles on various labels, mostly Texas labels, between 1959 and 1980 after a start in California. Born William Henry Holeman in Oklahoma in 1935. After a stint in Korea with the US Air Force, he probably started a career in music upon his return in the USA, in country & western music precisely, if we judge by the photography below found at Find A Grave :

At some point in the late fifties, Rocky was vocalist with Mort Wise and the Wisemen, a rock ‘n‘ roll sextet formed around 1956-1957. They were gigs around Hollywood and Las Vegas before the recording of Wild Boy a song penned by Eden Ahbez and issued on Charles Mish's tiny label named Sierra located at Sierra Bonita, Hollywood. Rocky left the Wisemen in 1960 to pursue his career, recording two more singles in California, for Flip ad for Althea, before moving to Texas.

They were records in the sixties and the seventies for various Texas labels such as Kool, Capri, B&G, Rampart Street, POW MIA, Injun and Juke Box. Also, two singles were issued on Memphis labels (Pixie and Casino) in the seventies. Billy Holeman died in 1996.

discography

59 - Sierra 1502 - Wild Boy / Broken Love (Rocky Holman - Mort Wise And The Wisemen)
61 - Flip 355 - Love Me All The Way / My Precious Love (Rocky Hollman And The Romancers)
xx - Althea 001 - Knock At The Door (Of Your Heart) / "Tammy" Tell Your Daddy (Rocky Hollman)

(from there, all records are as by Billy Holeman)

62 - Kool 1020 Lana Jean / Knockin' At The  Door
64 – Capri 503 – Billy Holeman – The Other Side Of Me / Where Broken Hearts Live
66 – Capri 519 – Billy Holeman – Flip Flop & Fly/Running
68 - B&G 001 - I Can't Stand The Hurt (No More) / One Lonely Heart
70 - Pixie 002 - The First Thing I Tried / Louisiana (Lover) Man
71 - Rampart Street 0336 - Louisiana Lover Man / One Last Time
73 - POW MIA - Prisoner Of War (Welcome Back Home) / They Want To Know
75 - Casino 112 - Here I Am / Sweet On My Mind
75 - Injun 586 -  Sentimental Journey / I'm A Kicker And A Guitar Picker
75 - B&G 101 - Sentimental Journey / I'm A Kicker And A Guitar Picker
80 - Juke Box 135 - Peace Of Mind / Special

You can hear 12 of these songs at YT in a playlist I created in my channel HERE or download them in the audio format at the link below :

Rocky Holman

 

Rocky in 1959

The Lazy Song

 

Let us celebrate with dignity and respect The International Workers' Day with Bruno Mars

 
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

 

"The Lazy Song"

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything, uh

I'm gonna kick my feet up, then stare at the fan
Turn the TV on, throw my hand in my pants
Nobody's gon' tell me I can't, nah
I'll be lounging on the couch, just chillin' in my Snuggie
Click to MTV, so they can teach me how to dougie
'Cause in my castle, I'm the freaking man

Oh-oh, yes, I said it (Ooh-ooh)
I said it, I said it, 'cause I can (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh

Tomorrow, I'll wake up, do some P90X
Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice sex
And she's gonna scream out, "This is great!" (Oh my God, this is great)
Yeah, I might mess around and get my college degree
I bet my old man will be so proud of me
But sorry, pops, you'll just have to wait

Oh-oh, yes I said it (Ooh-ooh)
I said it, I said it, 'cause I can (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

Today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything

No, I ain't gonna comb my hair (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
'Cause I ain't going anywhere (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
I'll just strut in my birthday suit (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
And let everything hang loose (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, today, I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today, I swear, I'm not doing anything
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo, ooh
Nothing at all
 

★

Stay in bed to celebrate May 1st by reading The Right To Be Lazy at  https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ , a translation of Le Droit à la Paresse  written by Karl Marx's son-in-law Jules Lafargue and published in 1883.

 

These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 Crispin Glover

These Boots Are Made for Walkin

 

Best remembered as George McFly for his role in Back To The Future, Crispin Hellion Glover is a little less remembered for his The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be album released in 1989.

 

According to The Crispin Glover Handbook :

 In 1989, during a hiatus from films, Glover released an album called The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be through Restless Records, produced by Barnes & Barnes (of "Fish Heads" fame). The album features original songs like "Clowny Clown Clown", odd versions of Lee Hazlewood's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin" and Charles Manson's "I'll Never Say Never to Always" (sung in falsetto), and readings from his art books Rat Catching and Oak Mot (see Books section below). Sample pages from these books are featured in the album's liner notes. The back cover of the album is a collage of figures relating to each track on the album, with an inscription: "All words and lyrics point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things all have in common." He included a telephone number on the back of the Crispin Glover in September 2008. album, encouraging listeners to phone when they had figured out the element that all pieces had in common. He has said the telephone number was a pre-internet way of letting people know about the books. As for the "Nine things in common" Glover has said "It is really just the theme of the album." Glover later commented that he was surprised how many people realized what it was. He recorded a version of the Michael Jackson song "Ben" to coincide with the release of the 2003 film Willard; the song had been written for the sequel to the original 1971 version of this film. In the music video for the song, he sings to a rat named Ben. A number of songs using Glover's name as the title have been recorded by various artists, including shoegaze/gothic rock band Scarling., Chicago outsider musician Wesley Willis and a New Jersey-based band called Children In Adult Jails. In the early 2000s, a Kansas City band named itself Onward Crispin Glover.

Full album available HERE

Well, Come On

 
Well, Come On

Steve Kingsmill & The Stereos

This record doesn't appear in any of Steve King's discographies. Yet, it was his first 45 before Steve Kingmsill shortened his name.

Further records were issued on Cha Cha, Mercury, Limelight & Sonovox between 1962 and 1966, before switching to a broadcast career.

Page Music (the distributor= and C. U. B. R. (the publisher?) are obscure as the Chicago Alvin label which had only 3 releases in 1961. 

Steve King page at Wikipedia

Ella Mae Morse

Ella Mae Morse (1924-1999)

 

Some Like It Fat

 

 Gras-Double Productions
Presents

Some Like It Fat

 

Part 1

Ann Jones : Big Fat Gal Like Me - Artie Malvin : Short  Fat  Fanny - Barbara Lee Mac : Big Fat Mama - Barrence Whitfield & The Savages : Big Fat Mama - Barry Winston : Short Fat Fanny - Beulah Bryant And Her Thin Men : Fat Mama Blues - Big Dee Irwin : Happy Being Fat - Bill Darnel & The Smith Brothers : Too Fat To Be Santa Claus - Bill Mack  : Fat  Woman - Bobby Freeman : Big Fat Woman - Buddy Sharpe & The Shakers : Fat Mama - Canned Heat : Big Fat - Carl & Michigan : Gal You Fat  - Carl Boling & His Four Aces : Big Fat Gal Of Mine - Charlie Kellogg : Big Fat Stella  - Chubby Newsome : Little Fat Woman With The Coconut Head - Chuck Higgins : Big Fat Mama

Part 2

Chuck Lovett : Short Fat Fannie - Dana Gillepsie  : Big Fat Mamas Are Back In Style Again - Dana Gillepsie : Fat Sam From Birmingham - Dave Gardner : Fat Charlie - Dennis Walks : Short  Fat  Fanny - Dick Stratton : Fat Gal Boogie - Dinah Washington : Fat Daddy - Donnie And The Outcasts : Big Fat Alaskan - Dorothy Freyberger : Big Fat Gal - Eugene : Hubert The Fat Elf - F. Lee Hayslip : Short Fat Fanny - Four Vagabonds : Big Fat Mama - Frankie Avalon : Short  Fat  Fanny - Frankie Lymon : Short  Fat  Fanny - Freddie Caddell : Gotta Big Fat Mama - Gay Crosse & His Good Humor Six : Fat Sam From Birmingham - Gene Phillips & His Rhythm Aces : Big Fat Mama

Part 3

Glenn Barber : Fat Albert - Hal Howard And The Pearl River Boys : Fat Gals Skinny Gals - Harold Burrage : You Eat Too Much - Hasil Adkins : Big Fat Mama - Herbert Woolfolk & The Rocketts : Big Fat Mama - James Crawford  : Fat Eddie - Jeff Brooks  : Fat Louie - Jim Wilson : Big Fat Mama - Johnny Bond And His Red River Valley Boys : Fat  Gal  - June Dyer : Short Fat Fanny - King Perry : Big Fat Mama - Kuumba : I'm Fat That's That - Larry Williams : Short Fat Fannie - Lee Pickett  : Fatty Patty_ - Lester 'Pete' Bivins : Big Fat Gal - Little Gulliver   Short Fat Fanny - Little Richard : Short Fat Fanny

Part 4

Lucky Millinder Orch. (Vcl Trevor Bacon) : Big Fat Mama - Mats Ödman : Short Fat Fanny - Merle Travis : Fat Gal - Mickey Murray : Fat Gal  - Myron Lee  And The Caddies : Fat Man - Otis Redding : Fat Gal - Paul (Georgia Boy) Kimble : That Big Fat Mama - Peppermint Harris : Fat Girl Boogie - Pinetop Perkins : Big Fat Mama - Ray Gerdsen & ·the Yellow Jackets  : Fattie Hattie - Ricky Coyne : Short  Fat  Fanny - Ronnie & Roy : Big Fat Sally - Ronnie Molleen : Fat Mama - Ronnie Self : Short Fat Fanny - Roy Young : Big Fat Mama - Sonny Hall : Big Fat Baby  - Stomp Gordon : Fat Mama Blues

Part 5

Sunshine Ruby : Too Fat For The Chimney - The Beatles : Short Fat Fanny - The Chieftones : Big Fat Woman - The Dovells : Short Fat Fanny - The Embermen : Fat Girl - The Flashers : Big Fat Mama - The Ladmo Trio : Obese Man - The Lincolnaires :  Short Fat Fanny - The Neons : Fat Girls - The Ox Tones : Fatty Patty - The Rock-A-Bouts : She's A Fat Girl - The Royal Dukes : Fat Man Twist  - The Sevilles : Fat Sally - The Spades : Fattie Patty - The Spidels : Fat Lady  - Tommy Boyer With Carl & Bill : Big Fat Papa - Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack : Short Fat Fanny
 

The Nashville Rage

 

 Allene Yokum


The Nashville Rage
1969

Iris Allene Yokum, 75, of Orange, Texas, passed away on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas.

She was a native of Stuttgart, Arkansas; born on December 16, 1932 to parents Ted and Sadie Craig. She had lived in Orange since 1954. She retired from Little Cypress-Mauriceville I.S.D. after 18 years employment in the transportation department. She was member of Colony Baptist Church and she was very active in the Lioness Club producing country music concert, playing her guitar and helping raise money for handicapped children. She enjoyed going fishing and she was a great seamstress. Iris loved and adored her grandchildren and spending as much time with them as possible.

Kay-Bar Dane
KBD-017 My World Is Alright Again / Oh Yes I Walked – 6-

Orange
No. 111 A Job At Joe's / Down On The Corner - 68
No. 112 The Lovingest Girl / I'm Not Coming Home - 68
No. 113 The Nashville Rage / Fire Department - 69
No. 114 My Love Song / The Kind That Gets The Ring - 70
No. 115(1) Soul Sister / Beer Drinkin' Daddy – 74
No. 115(2) A Little Bit Better / Beer Drinkin' Daddy – 74

Kilroy Was Here

 

Kilroy Is Here

Five tracks from 1946-1947

Kilroy Was Here - Tin Ear Tanner [Cliffie Stone]And His Back Room Boys (Bel-Tone) 1946
Kilroy Was Here - Ted Fio Rito And His Orchestra (4 Star) 1946
                              Vocal by Adriana (Snow White) Caselotti and Pinto Colvig                
Kilroy Was Here - Sammy Madden And His Orchestra (Stars Presents)  1946       
Kilroy Was Here - Paul Page With The Masqueraders (Enterprise) 1946           
Kilroy Was Here - King Perry & His Orchestra (Excelsior) 1947     

 

        

The most famous and ubiquitous of the graffiti was Kilroy. His leering eyes, big paper clip of a nose, and impish boast KILLROY WAS HERE materialized during World War II and he lived on for many years.

It has been conjectured that Kilroy was really a sore-footed infantry sergeant who got tired of hearing the Air Force brag of its prowess with the impossible.  He was especially p.o.'d about the Air Transport Command. When the A.T.C. hastened to some farflung, hazardous part of the globe to set up a new base, they found the bold announcement that Kilroy had got there first.

That hypothesis, found in Graffiti, a book by Robert Reisner, and reproduced above is one of the most attractive to me and probably close to reality, in the spirit at least. 

For further reading, Wikipedia has a good article on the subject. And there is a website entirely dedicated to Kilroy here. 

Bikini With No Top On The Top

 

 Mamie Van Doren and June Wilkinson
with Billy Strange and the Senators

Bikini With No Top On The Top

So What Else Is New?

1964

Mamie was joined on this record by June "The Bosom" Wilkinson and a third, uncredited glamour girl [Rachel Romen?] from Mamie and June's then-current potboiler, The Candidate.. Mamie claims the producer talked them info doffing their bullet bras and recording topless, which explains why the band sounds so sloppy and distracted.

Guitarist Billy Strange led the session, using Hal Blaine on drums, Steve Kreisman (Douglas) on sax, Ray Pohlman on bass, Al DeLory on organ, guitarists Bill Pitman and Al Casey, and Leon Russell as pianist.  

Celluloid Void

 

Fake bands and fake singers from movies, cartoon and TV series.  Includes Marty McFly backed by Marvin Berry and The Starlighters, Casssandra Wong and Crucial Taunt, Ferris Bueller, Cherry Bomb feat. Beverly Switzler (actually Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty's mother) and more.

Celluloid Void

Choo Choo Train

 

Choo Choo Train

The Heart Beats

All girl combo from Lubbock, Texas.  For info see The Heart Beats: an Extremely Unofficial Fan Page

All their recordings (including three unissued) are available HERE

 

Little Bones

 

What I Say

Ya Ya

Produced by Ike and Tina Turner, this is Little Bones, who is, as you have already guessed,  Ike Turner himself in disguise on his own Prann label in 1963. Little Bones also released the last 45 on Prann as Little Bones (The World's Greatest Singing Cricket) : I Know/Goin' To The River, Prann 5006).

 

An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, Ike Turner is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (1931-2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout [Wikipedia] And also, if I may add, a philosopher.

Ike has summarized his view on the world in his book Taking Back My Name :

Everything is based on a hole. You got a hole in the head of your penis, where you pee from. The penis and the vagina, another hole, get together and out comes the baby.

The baby comes out of a hole into a whole - the whole world. You see out of a hole, hear out of a hole, smell out of hole, breathe out of a hole, eat out of a hole, pee out of a hole, shit out of a hole.

 If you get too much money, you gonna be in a hole - because you can't go nowhere. If you don't get enough money, you definitely going to be in a hole. And when you die, where you going? Right back in a hole.

So the best thing to do is to stop trying to stay out of the hole. Get in the hole and find out what's happening with the hole and then you know how to handle the hole.  

Your Cheatin' Heart

 

Joey Bishop
Your Cheatin' Heart

ABC (1968)

From Joey Bishop Sings Country Western, album issued by ABC Records in 1968. The full album is available HERE

The album is featured in the book The Worst Rock-and-Roll Records of All Time (A Fan’s Guide to the Stuff You Love to Hate) by Jimmy Guterman and Owen O’Donnell (1991).  I quote :

Highest chart position: did not chart outside of Las Vegas

At this point we’d like to recommend Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off, a wonderful compilation album Rhino Records put out in 1988. It includes popular songs of the sixties («Proud Mary,» «Like a Rolling Stone,» etc.) as attempted over the years by actors-who-wanted-to-sing like Eddie Albert, Sebastian Cabot, Joel Grev, Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Jack Webb, and Mae West. The record is a splendid horror, a joy for those who revel in bad pop, and an (unheeded) warning to future television stars to not get above their raising. Philip-Michael Thomas, don’t you pay attention to anything?

One of the most bizarre of such attempts—and one of the few colossallv bad ones of the sixties not included in Golden Throats—was deadpan comedian Joey Bishop’s attempt to become a country music star. Bishop was a minor member of Frank Sinatra's infamous Rat Pack and was also known as a second-rate Borscht Belt comic and failed late- night TV talk show host. ABC Television featured him in one of their periodic attempts to unseat Johnny Carson. They should have known from the start that "The Joey Bishop Show was doomed to failure: on the first show, guest Ronald Reagan showed up late and another guest, Debbie Reynolds, injured announcer Regis Philbin while showing how to help someone who is on fire. The only thing in flames that night in April 1967 was Bishop’s television career. Not only were his jokes deadpan, but so was his audience.

Probably still under contract to ABC, Bishop moved to their records division. Figuring that his buddies Frank, Sammy, and Dino had the pop-schlock field cornered, he decided to take on country schlock. As Ernie Freeman writes on the back cover ofJoey Bishop Sings Country Western, Joey «approached this album with the same intensity and search for perfection that he brings to his comedy Alas, this is true. And since apologist Freeman is credited as the producer, arranger, and conductor of the record—and as such probably had points on it—it was in his interest to perpetuate the lie that this was a genuine country record. 

Although Bishop predates Kinky Friedman as the original Texas Jewboy, there is nothing outrageous about this album, nothing to indicate that someone known for his alleged sense of humor is the featured artist. Bishop is simply ill-suited for vocalizing. His voice isn’t merely soft; once it touches a word, it evaporates. His off-key singing has zero presence; it sounds like he had so much trouble reading the words on the cue cards that he never got a chance to figure out what the songs meant. And with the responsibility of singing some of the greatest country songs ever (most of them written by or associated with Hank Williams), you can’t get by putting them across in a narcotized fashion. Freeman’s ridiculously overblown arrangements (he makes Billy Sherrill seem like Swamp Dogg) don’t cloak Bishop’s ineptitude. Instead, because there are massive holes in the mix for Bishop’s voice, they just augment the nonsinger’s nontalent. 

It’s hard to tell these ten songs apart, but there is no moment more bizarre than the one at the end of "Your Cheatin’ Heart’ when Bishop drops his high-register whisper and speaks, «Nobody likes a cheatin’ chick,» trying to take a Sinatra-style ad lib. Not only does this mean- spirited comment (he all but spits the words; it’s the only alive moment on the whole album) come out of nowhere—it has no relation to the song—but it exemplifies how Bishop’s smarmy, Vegas/Hollvwood attitude has no relation to the honesty of Hank-stvle country. Joey Bishop Sings Country Western is a record about Bishop’s ego. I’m such a star, he thinks, I can get away with anything. I’m more important than these stupid hillbilly songs. Forget that I can't sing—I’m Joey Bishop!

 

Women Of Music Volume 5

 

Another volume of female singers including at least one real killer record.  According to Wikipedia, on June 29, 1966, in the excitement and celebration of the event of the release of Velva Darnell first recording, her father, age 59, had a massive heart attack and died while listening to the record.

The Janis Martin cover My Boy Elvis by Sharon Rayton has been the first track of a compilation called British Rock 'n' Beat Volume 4 A Tribute To Diana Dors. I can't find anything about that artist and the original release could be taken out of a 45 issued in UK, but I don't know the original label (South Africa ?).

That's Bette Kirby on the cover above.

 Women Of Music Volume 5

Tiger Man

 

Bob Vido (self-portrait)
detail from his LP cover

Tiger Man

This is from his mid-seventies album "One Man Band Bob Vido" 

Robert Zaprian Tchomoneff Vidoloff, aka Bob Vido, a mysterious outsider artist and musician.

On August 4th, 1995, an 80-year old man died in his tiny, old-style Hollywood bungalow. The same place he'd been living for nearly 50 years. He had no children and he was not married. He left a checking account with a few hundred dollars, a couple small parcels of land in the desert, a rusted 1971 Toyota with 4 flat tires, and a $45 dentist bill (for a restored post and crown). He was born in 1915.

Some bio found here

Charlie & Charles and The Guitar Rockers

 

Water Dog

Chicken Thief

Listed at Rockin' Country Style. No clips, no date, no location, not compiled. This 45 continues to resist my research.

No copyright found. Dorrough Publications, publisher of both songs, is still a mystery and can't be found anywhere or on another record. Only few clues :

The sawtooth lines, part ot the label design, appears to have been used (exclusively?) by Co-Service Printing Company from Newark, N.J. and these lines are found on East Coast labels (Upstate New York and New York City, from the most part).

Masters numbers W 157/W 158 seem to belong to a list named K series / W series listed here at 45cat, That would indicate a 1963 pressing.

Hevrin name is uncommon. Most people with this name (of Irish descent) in the USA are from New Hampshire and Connecticut.

The only other band named "Guitar Rockers" was the Ricky Coyne band, from Boston, Massachusetts, but I don't think there is any relation.

 

Crossword

 

Too late for submit your answer and win a free 1-year subscription to Yesterday's Memories. But have fun anyway. Crossword concocted by Ron Weinger.

Get Thee Behind Me Satan

 

Arnold Silva

 Get Thee Behind Me Satan 

The religious Sunshine Records was rather prolific with most of the releases featuring Bud Chambers and his wife Darlene. This Arnold Silva (only?) record is probably from the seventies.

Bud Chambers at Gloryland Jubilee

https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/801931-Sunshine-Records-24

 

Women of Music Volume 4

 

Shirley Serban on cover
and some labels too...

A lumber truck hitted Frances Cannon in 1979, an event which was not without consequences : she soon began to levitate objects spontaneously over hundreds of miles. And this was not the least of the wonders accomplished by Frances. For example, she predicted Marie Osmond's remarriage on The David Letterman Show.  Star’s Ghost is from from Frances Cannon and The Extraterrestrials « The Singing Psychic » issued by Crystal Ball Productions, out of Dallas, Texas.
More on her prodigies at https://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-singing-psychic.html

Also from Texas (Ft. Worth) came Pam Norton who issued at least three singles on the Stargo label operated by Charles E.  DeFrance (1929-2019). Charles started investing in real estate when he was in his early 20s and worked for Bell Helicopter in 1963 and retired in 2002. He enjoyed recording music in his spare time.

Spare time, Shirley Serban had quite a few. While bored during covid pandemic lockdowns, one middle-aged New Zealander school principal took to creating parodies of popular songs and sharing them to her YouTube account. Shirley Serban wanted to use some comedic relief to spice things up during an otherwise dark and desolate time around the world.

Around the world, that's where the Duncan Sisters (Los Angeles-born Vivian and Rosetta)  took their show Topsy and Eva when it closed in New York, playing England, France, Germany, and much of South America. In 1923, the Duncan Sisters had created that show a musical adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. On December 11, 1959, while driving home from a nightclub engagement at Mangam's Chateau in Lyons, on the outskirts of Chicago, Rosetta Duncan's car struck a bridge; she died three days later.

From California were Westphal Records (in Fontana, Jeannie Emerson), Far-Dell (in Riverside, Jolene) and Toppa (in Covina, Nancy Kaye). 

And Ohio was the home of Perry (Linda Burnette), Arizona was the home of LHI, (Linda Owens), from Louisiana came Margaret Lewis, while Shirley Faye hailed from Georgia and Tena Quick from Arkansas.
 

Women of Music Volume 4 

 

Astronote Blues

 

Big John

Astronote Blues

Astrol Records PB-764 (Capitol Records custom pressing)
1963

Tiny Memphis label. They are only two other records on Astrol Records, all from 1963 : Calvin Newborn and Johnny Scott (later owner of the Portra label). Who was Big John, I don't know. 

But the guitarist on his record is certainly Calvin Newborn, a member of the Newborn jazz dynasty. He played on BB King's vinyl debut "BB's Boogie" on the Bullet label. That's Calvin on guitar with father Finas (or Phineas) Newborn Sr. on drums and brother Phineas Jr. on piano. The family band held down the floor at Memphis' Flamingo Room every weekend (where young Calvin often beat Pee Wee Crayton in legendary after-hours "Battles of the Blues") and even hit the road as Ike Turner's band with "Rocket 88"  

Ike Turner taught Calvin how to drive - in return, Calvin taught Ike his first guitar licks. Calvin also taught Elvis Presley how to gyrate, using his own "Calvin's Boogie" as inspiration for hip-shaking.

In A Little Second Hand Store

Lee Monti Tutones
Vocal Duet Elaine Rodgers-Danny Parker

In A Little Second Hand Store

Sharp Records -39
1951

Jimmy Martin, a Chicago operator covering a five-State record distribution (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota & Wisconsin), started  his own label, Sharp Records in May 1949. Because certain called-for material were not available on the 20 labels which Martin stocked for his territory, he started to cut his own units on numbers which he feels are needed to meet current demands. (Billboard, April 30 & May 14, 1949)

On Lee Monti and his Tutones, see https://www.jazzdocumentation.ch/monti/monti.html

Elaine Rodgers

 

 

Elaine Rodgers (also known as Rogers) died in 2012.

Elaine Rodgers Jackson, Chicago radio and television performer for over 50 years, died peacefully March 4 of natural causes. She was 85. Ms. Rodgers began her career in 1930 as a dancer at age 4 performing at the Chicago World's Fair. In her teens, she danced and sang overseas with the U.S.O. during the last years of WWII. She and her devoted husband, Maury Jackson, formed half of the popular vocal quartet "The Meadowlarks." Her solo vocal career delighted thousands of people for decades in Chicago and the U.S. through recordings, major commercials, live shows and nightclub dates, as well as numerous WBBM and WGN radio and television performances. After retiring, Ms. Rodgers Jackson, longtime Lombard resident, happily worked for many years at both the Helen M. Plum and Addison Libraries. Additionally, she was an accomplished painter, sculptor and writer. Her charm, wit, humor and talents touched the hearts of everyone that knew her. She is survived by her four children.

Women Of Music - Volume 3

 

Cover : Peggy Forman (aka Peggy Scott)

Louise Taylor - Set Me Free (MCM 4-0349)
Ann Clark - He'll Never Cheat No More - Pantage
Betty Gorden-Joan Kent - My Truck Drivin' Man (Jitney 001)
Brenda Luker - Run Hun - Hun Run (Na-R-Co 107)
Claire Hogan - (Doop-Do-Do-Oop) A Doodlin' Song (Mira 111)
Helyne Stewart - Why Don't You Do Right (Contemporary 378)
Karen Sadaro - Skateboard A Go-Go (Tammy Lynn 911)
Lila Lou - We-re Gettin’ Paw A Brand New Still For Christmas (MBS 101)
Peggy Scott And The Volunteers - Bailin' Man (Jin 236)
Raylene & The Blue Angels - Shakin' All Over (Cuca 6633)
Shirley Faye - Hard Working Woman (Mark IV UR 328)
Wanda Dean With The Five Jay's - Ring Around The Rosie (Mark IV 328)

Women Of Music - Volume 3

Starving Bear Family Records, the leading company in the re-issue music field, is a division of  "L'Ours Famélique", a french eco-responsable association very active in the field of environment and specially dedicated to the protection of the polar bear.

Starving Bear Family Records only reissue artists who promise never to wear animal fur coats.  Easier promise to keep for the tanned people from California than for the Minnesota pale faces, can we remark without irony.

The members of this respected association meet every Saturday at La Tour d’Argent around a frugal meal. On their menu next week : renne sauvage de Laponie rôti à l'huile de sapin, navet jaune de Sodankyla, sauce Grand Veneur.

 

Why Can't I Have You Tonite

 

Tommy And The Delnotes

Why Can't I Have You Tonite
(Pat Tedder, Viola Music BMI)

Charter Records 101
3105 Louise Drive, Nashville

1961

Obscure release on this one-off Nashville release. Tommy And The Delnotes are unknown. But, thanks to an article published by The Tennessean newspaper in 1969, some interesting info about Pat Tedder, the composer, has be found.

According to the article, Tedder has written songs since 1938. Some of his songs have been recorded by such country music greats as Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce and the late Patsy Cline. Once, while "on a bender" several years ago, Tedder sold for $12 a song he had written. It later became a hit tune all over the country and has since been recorded by numerous artists. If Pat Tedder has written many songs, most were sold. like that, for cheap.

Quoting the article :

"Pat Tedder is a saint. He works all day at the charity store, and then spends his nights at home, working on old appliances he salvages and sells for the store."  Added to Tedder's burdens is the fact that his wife is confined to Central State Hospital [ed. a mental hospital] and he has been caring for their three children, ages 3, 6 and 11. But this own personal problems are the least of his worries.

Instead, he talks of what is needed to make the St. Vincent DePaul Center into a more effective means for helping those in need. "We would like to build a dormitory, costing about $4,000, so the guys we keep would have a good place to sleep," Tedder explains. "But we'll need some outside help to do that we already owe for a truck we use to pick.

To try to help make ends meet, Tedder has joined with singer Billy Wallace to publish several records. Their most recent single was issued last week. Tedder wrote the lyrics and Wallace sang the song.

One side of the record features the song, "Don't Throw Stones At Me." It is about alcoholics, and makes the point that many people in high society have problems similar to the so-called hopeless derelict but their failures are not quite so obvious and they don't suffer as much as the man who society has rejected. The other side of the record features "Forbidden." It tells of those people, down and out, who are trying to make a comeback but who are hindered by others who don't want to give the unfortunate another chance.

The record in which Pat Tedder placed his hopes was issued on the Twin Rose label, issued as by Billy Wallace and Sue Wilburn and The Roses. It was the very last single issued by Billy Wallace.

Billy Wallace's son, Phil, wrote the liner notes of Billy Wallace sings his hit, album issued by the German Cattle Records, 

Quoting Phil [in bold, my edit]:

Bill Carlisle ,Jimmy Dickens, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce and others recorded his compositions, some of which were award winners. Fact of the matter is Billy's songs have been used and recorded by just about the big name stars in country music today

I can't help to wonder  what if these successful Billy Wallace's compositions were actually bought to poor Pat Tedder ?

 

 Billy Wallace discography