A Delightful Record

 

 

A Delightful Record
(A J & F Enterprise)

Don Hart Featuring Ray Wix

J8OW 0579  Girl Of My Life
(Hart, Gale & Gayle (BMI)

J8OW 0580  I'm Not Ready Now

(Hart)

DBS-101

1958

Featuring The Heart Strings -- Chuck, Vi & Ray Wix

credited on the picture sleeve only

see 45cat 

*

 

Record listed at Rockin' Country Style (location unknown) . Although listed as a different artist on the Reserve label (real name Donald Dougherty) this is the same artist. 

 

This is also a Cleveland, Ohio label. Backing Don Hart, guitarist Ray Wix grew up in a musical family that was quite well known in the Cleveland area in the 1950s as The Wix Family.

 

Intriguing is the mention on the A-side of Gale & Gayle, the publisher, not seen on the B-side. This is also the publisher on the "Presley On Her Mind", previous Don Hart record on the Reserve label, but as Gayle & Gale.

 

Intriguing because Gale & Gayle(s) was owned by Jack Gale and Juggy Gayle. The publisher's address was given at 1619 Broadway, New York City (otherwise better known as the Brill Building, which housed music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written).

 

Juggy Gayles (1913–2000)  also known as Juggy Gayle, Juggy Gales or George "Juggy" Gales, born Israel Bernstein, was an influential New York-based song plugger and promotion man. While primarily operating out of New York, his promotion work frequently took him to major radio markets, including Cleveland, to push hit records to local DJs.

 

My hypothesis is that Juggy Gayles took advantage of his frequent trips across the USA—undertaken for East Coast promotional work—to pick up a few titles here and there for his publishing company. 

 

And who were J & F ?