Sugar Pie DeSanto on cover
tracklist
Baby Jean - Dance If You Wanna.mp3
Barbara Lynn - What'd I Say (Live).mp3
Beulah - Rape Of Patty Herst.mp3
Fay Simmons - Rock And Roll Music.mp3
Gracie Dee - Talkin' In My Sleep.mp3
Joan Shaw - Hand-Holdin' Baby.mp3
Judy Wilson - What Did I Do To You.mp3
Julie London - Why Don't You Do Right.mp3
Marie Adams - A Fool N Love.mp3
Skeeter Davis - That'll Be The Day.mp3
Sugar Pie Desanto - Rock Me Baby (Live)-1.mp3
Wailin' and Scalin' (dl)
Hey! Cobella (dl)
both songs published by Gordon & Lefleur Music, Inc. (BMI)
ALJA 1002
1957
Record listed at RCS (location unknown)
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Real name : Peter J. Veneziano, He was born Sept. 8, 1932,
in Clarksburg, W.Va. He served in the U.S. Navy from
1951-1955. A recording artist, disc jockey and radio and television personality
known all over Ohio, he sang and appeared on TV on American Bandstand and won a
TV Emmy award and appeared in several motion pictures filmed in Ohio including, "Welcome
to Collinwood," "Brubaker," "8 Men Out" and
"Rainman."
He had been employed as a school teacher, coach and wrestling official in the
Springfield area for 21 years. He was Wooster High School wrestling coach from
1967-1970. Inducted into the South-West Ohio Wrestling Hall of Fame. Peter Veneziano also ran a wrestling camp for 15 years in Delaware.
Died in 2005 in Ohio.
Above, the only Vinni Vincent picture I was able to find.
It's from Cash Box (October 24, 1959)
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Gordon & Lefleur Music, the publisher, was listed care of Telepix Ltd., 66 West 87th Street, NYC (president : Joseph B. Dunkelman).
Al: Alvin Lefleur and JA: Jack Gordon, hence ALJA Records. Location found.
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N.B. : A note to Google: I couldn't give a flying fuck who Vinnie Vincent is—apparently a popular musician in a band called Kiss.
M & K Records is listed at RCS (location unknown).
Eddie Quinteros:
I think I was 13 or 14 when I joined the musician union at 14. I got busted playing a union house at 14 and after that I had to join, they were very powerful in those days! About 1956 I had another little group - we did a TV stint in San Francisco on KPIX... after I joined the union there was a singer bamed Bobby Freeman, and his manager saw me and wanted to know if I wanted to play guitar with them. He just had his song out "Do you Wanna Dance?" They were going to tour in Hawaii and they needed a guitar player who could read music and I auditioned and got the job at 15.
I was getting a solo spot playing the dances and stuff and eventually we went down to LA and we cut some songs and that was a hit record I had "Come Dance With Me". So the manager went to New York, he knew Bobby Shad, from Time/Brent/Shad Records. They gave me a contract and released the record. On the East Coast it hit really big, top ten; on The West Coast, it was just under the top 40, That station KYA was playing it - in those days the DJs were Tom Donahue and Bob Mitchell.
When that record came out I was touring back there with Alan Freed on the Easter tour. That was a series of one nighters, they filled the bus up with all the performers. You would perform that night, drive all night to next venue - it was grueling. That's kind of I started. I was on Dick Clark's show four times, including the Saturday Night Beechnut show. The bad part I wasn't getting royalties - my father checked into it. I was 17 at the time. What he found out was that Dick Clark sent us a letter saying the payments (for appearing on the show) had been made but the checks were endorsed and cashed by my manager who didn’t have power of attorney. The record company - all of your expenses to promote and record came out of royalties. Studio time, all expenses... We lived quite well, very well, but found there was nothing left.
After that experience I was pretty bummed about it. With nothing for your future but one nighters. I decided to go back to school,
Upon returning home to Dale City in California, Eddie launched his own label, Ed-Dar Records, with his manager. "Come On, Little Girl / Waited For You" were issued on Ed-Dar 102 in September or October 1960.
Soon, the songs had a second issue on M & K Records. While who was M isn't known for sure, but K was Bob Krasnow, who ran the King Records branch office in San Francisco from 1958 to 1964. It doesn't seems obvious, but the M & K release is the same label as MK 101 issued in October 1960. See Winkly and Nutty (two KYA DJ's : Jim Stag and Bob Mitchell).
Location found : San Francisco, Calif
As noted by an anonymous keen follower of my blog the Volume 18 is the only one still missing to complete the series of Women Of Music. Planned a few months ago, I kept putting off its publication mainly because of the mediocrity of the performances—except, perhaps, the one by Riley Reid, despite the risqué lyrics.
So, here it is today, a special release because all the singers have something in common (and it’s not their vocal talent, but rather their on-camera performances). That is why I named this volume Deep Gold Throats.
tracklist
Adeline Lange - T'es qu'un pervers narcissique.mp3
Andrea True Connection - More, More, More.mp3
Clara Morgane - Sexy Girl.mp3
Heather Hunter - So Serious.mp3
Hyapatia Lee - Rub-A-Dub-Dub.mp3
Hyapatia Lee - Telephone Man.mp3
Ilona Staller - Più Su Sempre Più Su.mp3
Jessie Andrews - You Won't Forget Tonight.mp3
Kali Roses - Pretty & Pink.mp3
Marilyn Chambers - Shame On You.mp3
Riley Reid - 8 Ball Shawty.mp3
Traci Lords - Okey Dokey.mp3
Marty Gino - That Feelin' (direct link)
Record listed at Rockin' Country Style (no location). Victor J. Mendolia, president, announced in Cash Box the formation of his R&M Records with their first release by Marty Gino. The label operated out of offices at 1705 Royal Road, East Meadow, Long Island, N.Y.
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Women Of Music volume 30
Linda Hopkins on cover
tracklist
Barbara & The Boys - Hooty Sapperticker.mp3
Betsy Spokes - You Are My Live.mp3
Blinky - Money (That's What I Want).mp3
Debbie Carter - What Goes On In Your Mind.mp3
Delores Banks - Who Do You Think You Are.mp3
Kayla Ray - Be My Baby.mp3
Lara Mitchell - Day After Never (The Day After Never)..mp3
Letha Jones - I Got That Feeling.mp3
Linda Hopkins - Rock And Roll Blues.mp3
Louise Rogers -We're Rockin' To The Blues.mp3
Maggie Morgan - The Sugar Blues.mp3
Samantha Jones - I Deserve It.mp3
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After such a long absence, here is a brand-new CD from Buffalo Bop. It seems they are struggling to find good tracks and have to dig into their back room to find a few songs that can pass for rock and roll.
And, oh, look at that poorly designed cover—rather amateurish, if you ask me.
tracklist
01 - LLOYD JONES - Hurricane Hoop.mp3
02 - SAM CEE - Johnny B. Goode.mp3
03 - LONNIE MACK - Rock N' Roll Music.mp3
04 - TROY ONTEARE - Matchbox.mp3
05 - MCKINLEY MITCHELL - Rock Everybody Rock.mp3
06 - CARL GREENE - Nashville Boogie.mp3
07 - FREDDY FROGS & THE BMT'S
WITH THE RIBITONES - Crazy Little Mama.mp3
08 - HARRY BLANTON - Money Honey.mp3
09 - HERB GALE - Tallahassie Lassie.mp3
10 - JIMMIE HELMS AND THE COUNTRY COUSINS - Git - Cha
11 - JOE PADULO - Chinese Baby.mp3
12 - JOHNNIE PEARCE - Meanest Mama.mp3
13 - LOS TEEN TOPS - Chica Alborotada (Tallahassie Lassie).mp3
14 - MARK CLEARY - Bop Cat Rock.mp3
15 - TERRY FATOR & MAYNARD THOMPKINS - All Shook Up.mp3
16 - MEL MOORE - Can We Survive Without Gas.mp3
17 - MODEST (SHOW STOPPER) CLIFTON - Pretty Little Baby.mp3
18 - NORM SEACHRIST - Big Beat.mp3
19 - ROCK- RAGGE & HIS FOUR COMETS- Jumps, Giggles And Shouts.mp3
20 - SLIM WATTS - Tu-La-Lou
21 - BUD GAY - I'm A Long Gone Daddy.mp3
22 - KENNY PARTON AND THE JONES BOYS - Jump, Wiggle, And Shake.mp3
23 - MARSHALL LYTLE - See You Later Agitator.mp3
24 - PHOENIX - Nadine.mp3
File includes the 12 tracks of their 1957 Golden Crest LP
plus both sides of the Rio 78 issued as by
Armando Almandarez Y Su Conjunto Mexico (tracks #13 & #14)
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Following text is from The Ponderosa Stomp website :
Mando and the Chili Peppers have perhaps inspired more fantasy and fancy than anyone else in the hallowed halls where the Mystic Knights of the Mau-Mau dream up their doings. They've topped the wish list from day one; their shrine is bowed to daily in the Knights' Hall Of Fame; toasts are often seen raised to the glory of their sole long player, 1957's On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll. So the very idea that they're going to be playing the 2005 Ponderosa Stomp is at once unbelievable and at the same time just as it should be. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about, take into account that Mando and the Chili Peppers are no ordinary band. In fact, at times their very existence has seemed almost too good to be true. The aural evidence suggests a group of swamp pop fanatics (who also have a particular affinity for jazz, country and western and Little Richard) raised in a border town barrio recording at Cosimo's studio in New Orleans' quite possibly with a few Crescent City cats sitting in on the session. And where did they disappear to after churning out that one great long player of the ages? Rumors that some of the band moved to Chicago and worked with Eddy Clearwater seemed at once too good to be true and yet…well, but of course!!
Led by one Armando Almendarez, nee Mando, the Chili Peppers originally came to life as San Antonio Alegre before changing their name to the slicker Mando and the Latineers. Texas guitarist Randy Garibay recalled the band's glorious beginnings for an article in the San Antonio Express News: "I'd go to these house parties with my brother and this guy Armando Almendarez and San Antonio Alegre would be playing. They'd do the standard polkas and boleros and then, all of a sudden, with Mando playing accordion, they'd break into 'Lucille' or 'Just Because' by Lloyd Price. It was amazing. That's when I first heard rock 'n' roll."
Inspired by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gatemouth Brown and Clifton Chenier, when Mando began wielding his accordion for San Antonio's Rio Records in the mid-fifties, he blazed through breakneck renditions of Chenier's "Boppin' The Rock" and Chuck Berry's "Maybelline" alongside the usual crudely-recorded conjutos that the label specialized in. When Mando swapped his squeezebox for an electric bass and boyhood pal Jesse "Chucho" Perales traded his bajo sexto for an electric guitar, the Latineers were born.
By 1956 they had their own TV show on San Antonio's KCOR entitled "Rock 'n' Roll"(!!) and were the proud owners of a black Packard limousine which took them to engagements in Vegas and Denver, where Golden Crest Records boss man Clark Galehouse staggered upon one of their red hot stage performances in the middle of a snow storm. If the liner notes to On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll are to be believed, Galehouse, a Long Island plastics manufacturer who dabbled in big band recordings, was only in Denver due to the blizzard that had grounded his plane en route to a music convention in Idaho. Galehouse changed their name to the Chili Peppers and released their first single, a swampy, Fats Domino-esque treatment of the 1939 standard "South Of The Border" backed with the bayou-meets-barrio rocker "Don't Say Goodnight."
The results were magical. The band's insistent, triplet-infused back beat coupled with Mando's lilting, laid-back Tex-Mex vocalizing made "South Of The Border" the absolutely definitive rendition of an already great song, and it became a hit along the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans. They followed it up was the frantic mambo-charged "I Love To Eat Chili in Chile," which sounded like Perez Prado cutting loose with a Crescent City R&B band. It's flip side, a Mando-ized version of George Morgan's country classic "Candy Kisses," pointed the way to the future: When On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll hit the racks (complete with an in genius cover photo of the band parked on the side of the highway strapping a bevy of Fender amps and guitars to the roof of their Packard!), "San Antonio Rose," "I'm Walkin' The Floor Over You" and "There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder" stood proudly alongside originals like "Why Can It Be," "Swingin' Baby" and "This Is True Love." There were also stripped-down, rocked- up pop numbers like "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)," "Beg Your Pardon" and "Harbor Lights," Marvin and Johnny's slow burning Pachuco anthem "Cherry Pie" and, perhaps most tellingly, a crazed, balls-to-the-wall take of Guitar Gable's "Congo Mombo."
On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll was a bold step for Galehouse, as LPs were a rare commodity for rock 'n' roll bands in 1957 (two years later, he'd roll out the red carpet for Tacoma, Washington's similarly rocking Fabulous Wailers, whose stunning debut LP was unleashed in 1959), but the album stands as one of the best ever, genres be damned. Not long after its release, the Chili Peppers drifted into rock 'n' roll's bottomless underground. By the time Ace Records reissued On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll in 1998 the members' whereabouts were completely unknown. Seven years of detective work later, the Tex-Mex rock 'n' roll pioneers are set to play their first gig in over forty years!!
ApologetiX - Jailhouse Rock
ApologetiX is an Christian parody band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The band was founded in 1990,
YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZVeEV4GuTzfisySHY3dz_Q
ApologetiX members - (Back L to R) Tom Milnes, Tom Tincha, Jimmy Tanner,
(Front) J. Jackson, Keith Haynie, Bill Hubauer
Fran Owens on cover
1 *Del Rubio Triplets * These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
2 *Rosalie Alter * I Had A Dream
3 *Brenda Pepper * Wichita Willie
4 *Wing * Back in Black
5 *Betty Spears * Truck Driving Woman
6 *Lynn Gibson * The Chrome Plated Hog
7 *Fran Owens * House Of The Rising Sun
8 *Stella Della Coonts * Keep On Walkin'
9 *Sherry Ray * Ring, Telephone, Ring
10 *Marga Benitez * Papa Cha Cha
11 *Irral Berger * Where Jesus Waits For Me
12 *Betty Reilly * Saga Of Elvis Presley
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tracklist
01 - Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) (1959).mp3
02 - John Lee Hooker- I Need Some Money (1960).mp3
03 - Jerry Lee Lewis - Money (1961).mp3
04 - Skip Cunningham - Money ((962).mp3
05 - Jennell Hawkins - Money (That's What I Want) (1962).mp3
06 - The Beatles - Money (That's What I Want) (1963).mp3
07 - Etta James ~ Money (That's What I Want) (1963).mp3
08 - Marty Wilde - Money (That's What I Want) (Live, 1964).mp3
09 - The Rolling Stones - Money (1964).mp3
10 - Waylon Jennings - Money (That's What I Want) (1964).mp3
11 - The Supremes - Money (That's What I Want) (1966).mp3
12 - The Mob - Money (That's What I Want) (1971).mp3
13 - Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Money (That's What I Want) (1973).mp3
14 - Ichiko Hashimoto - Money (1988).mp3
15 - Josie & The Pussycats - Money (That's What I Want) (2001).mp3
16 - Rhonda Stisi - Money (2001).mp3
17 - Mary Wells - Money (That's What I Want) (Rec 2002).mp3
18 - The Shimmys - Money (That's What I Want) (2006).mp3
19 - The Supremes Girls - That's What I Want (2009).mp3
Lola Falana on cover
tracklist
Adeline Chastain Walking After Midnight.mp3
Charline Arthur - I've Got the Boogie Blues.mp3
Damita - I See The Lord.mp3
Dinah Lee - Do The Blue Beat.mp3
Eller Davis - Another Womans Man.mp3
Helen Humes - Real Fine Daddy.mp3
Juanita Nixon - I Met My Sugar in a Candy Store.mp3
Lady Elvis (Dawn Anita Plumlee) - Don't Be Cruel.mp3
Lola Falana - Working In The Coal Mine.mp3
Sassy Country - feat. Penny Hardman -- Oh Darling.mp3
Sharon Stone - You Are My Sunshine.mp3
Yvonne Carr - Geisha Twist.mp3
The side A ("Lonely Echoes") holds an interesting piece of information : the song was composed by Forrest (Speedy) Combs. Searching his name at the BMI website, we discover that he wrote or co-wrote eight songs, as Speedy Rogers, six in association with Bill Sterling or with Charles Rufus Schoffner and 2 songs that he written alone : "Lonely Echoes" and " Road To Yamanaka".
Today, the copyright for "Lonely Echoes, "Steppin" and "Goin' Steppin'" are all managed by Fort Knox/Trio Music, (Freddy & Johnny Bienstock's Fort Knox Music - the New York based monster that gobbled up all the King-Starday copyrights and many more as well).
With Rufus Shoffner, Speedy Rogers as Speedy Rodgers recorded "Lovelight" in the 50s. He also penned "Walk On The High Ground" with Bill Sterling and Rufus Shoffner (recorded by Bill Sterling on JED Records). As Forrest Combs, he penned "Hillbilly Wedding Bells" sung by Ruffus Shoffner & Speedy Rodgers issued by Hi-Q Records in 1963.
Forrest (Speedy) Combs. Speedy Rogers, Speedy Rodgers, Forrest Combs, whatever his name, was almost certainly a member of the Rufus Shoffner's band.
Finally, a last remark : in 1962, Rufus Shoffner recorded "Orbit Twist", his best known song on his own American Artist label which was located at 416 Cass St. – Monroe, Michigan.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Rufus Shoffner was involved in some way in the release of the two versions of "Steppin'".
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Elise (of Elise and the Cats) on cover
tracklist
Ann Jones & Her American Sweethearts - Monkey Business.mp3
Blinky - Life Can Be Beautiful If We Make It That Way.mp3
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss).mp3
Cherry Wainer _ Itchy Twitchy Feeling.mp3
Elise and the Cats - Blue Suede Shoes.mp3
Ida James - The Chair Song.mp3
Johnny Ryall - Little Gypsy.mp3
Mabel Scott - Baseball Boogie.mp3
Madeline Kahn - Ain't Got No Home.mp3
Nola York - Here I Stand.mp3
Sonya - Little Red Rooster.mp3
Susie Church - The Loco Motion.mp3
Johnnie White - Happy Birthday Cake Boogie - M-S
Johnnie White - My Tattooed Wife - M-S 45
M-S Records
M-S 225
1970
Songs obviously inspired by those recorded in 1950 on Fortune Records while Johnnie White was the leader of his group featuring Skeets McDonald. Today, Skeets McDonald is held in much higher regard than Johnnie White, and well remenbered : Bear Family has issued on him a five CDs boxset and Nick Tosches in his book "Unsung Heroes Of Rock ‘n’ Roll"has devoted.a full chapter to him : Whom In The End The Tattooed Lady Slew.
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M-S label : 1960s-1970s label based in Dearborn, Michigan, and founded by Frank Martin and Jerry Snyder as a sub-label of M.S.K. Productions.
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Johnnie White (1925-2013)
Johnnie graduated from Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee in 1946, after serving his country in the United States Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. He was the second most celebrated alumni of Humes; in first was a fellow by the name of Elvis Presley.
During his stint in the 2nd Marine Division, he served with distinction and earned the rank of field music corporal and received a Purple Heart from his experience in the battle of Saipan.
Johnnie became a 32nd Degree Mason in the Scottish Rights while he was living in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. His rapid advancement to that level was matched by only one other person, former senator and vice-president Hubert H. Humphrey.
Their stint on WNAX included several radio programs. Johnnie and his group "Rhythm Riders", later to be known as the "Sons of the West" and then finally as "The Johnnie White Show" did two shows that were on Monday through Friday. Their morning show was at 5:30 to 6:00am called "Good Morning Neighbor" and the other was "Sons of the West" that aired from 3:05 to 3:30pm.
When Saturday nights came around, Johnnie White was one of the stars on the "Missouri Valley Barn Dance" that was heard over WNAX from 8:30 to 9:30pm.
And if that wasn't enough, they would appear on Sundays from 1:00 to 1:30pm on the "Sunday Get-Together".
The group was a bit pioneering in that they were the first live musical group to play over the then new television station, KVTV, channel 9. The station was began by WNAX and located in Sioux City, Iowa. Their work on KVTV was no less time consuming. The boys worked on two daily, Monday through Friday shows over KVTV. One was on from 4:00 to 4:30pm and the other was 5:30 to 6:00pm.
In addition to KVTV, in the 1950s and 1960s, Johnnie also did shows on KELo, KPLO and KDLO in Sioux Falls.
Sources :
https://hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=12795
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/argusleader/name/johnnie-white-obituary?id=19790911
