Women Of Music Volume 8

 

Woman Of Music Volume 8 

Please Don't Laugh

 

 

 

Carrie Smith & The Midnight Ramblers
Please Don't Laugh

 Here is a nice unlisted bopper from Texas on the Jamaka label. 

Not listed in discogs  (36 singles and one LP listed on Jamaka)
Not listed in 45cat (19 singles on Jamaka)

The number of good records that remain to be discovered, especially from the Lone Star State, is astonishing, 

The Jamaka songs were usually published by Cherie Music, but curiously enough not that one  : Sturdevantunes is a publisher unfrequently seen (Sturbevantunes on the label is certainly a typo, composers are Carrie L. Smith and Jo Cyrer.

Carrie Smith composed at least two songs, but they were probably some more : 
one was recorded by Orville Couch some 10 years before this one : Five Cent Candy (on Starday) 
and the other by Johnny Dollar which remained unissued : Car Coat Baby.

 

Dixie's Land

 Gloria Parker in 1959

 

Dixie's Land

From the Gloria Parker's LP (issued as by Glory Kennedy and her 3 Electric Guitars) on Pathé Records titled Teenage Guitars Go Civil War. Probably from 1961.

Dixie's Land makes me think a lot of Train To Satanville by Gin Gillette  (Musikon, 1961).

Gloria Parker (née Rosenthal; 1921-2022) was an American musician and bandleader who had a radio show during the big band era. The Gloria Parker Show was broadcast nightly from 1950 to 1957, coast to coast on WABC. She played the marimba, organ, and singing glasses (glass harp). .....(wikipedia)

About Gloria and her fiancé, Barney Young, there is a good chapter in Revisiting Tin Pan Alley by Elizabeth York, "Barney and Gloria", published by the Music Library Association, Volume 73, Number 3, March 2017, pp. 473-501. See abstract here.