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.
 

  

The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium

 

The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium
Vanitas Records LP

December 1961

Side 1

1 John Foster Dulles
2 The Harvard Coop
3 What Is Love
4 The Great Name Dropper
5 A Christmas Prayer
6 I'm Losing Irv To The Ready Reserve

Side 2

7 (My) Fallout Filly
8 The Penguin
9 Sweet Teen-Age Cadaver
10 Sweet Earthbound Teen Lover
11 Rigor-Mortis Bluse
12 The Answer From Heaven
13 I Keep My Fingernails Long (So, They’ll Click When I Play The Piano)

Artists : 1 & 2  Cerf, The Chorus, Main And The Mainiacs - 3 Cerf, Frith, The Chorus, And The Mainiacs - 4 Winter, The Chorus, The Disputants, Cerf, Felson, And The Mainiacs - 5  Gram, Stuart, Saltonstall, And Morrison - 6 Cerf, Felson Main, And The Mainiacs - 7 Cerf, Butler Morrison, Felson, And The Mainiacs - 8 Cerf, The Chorus, The Penguiners, And The Mainiacs - 9 & 10  Stebbins, Frith, And The Mainiacs; Cerf And Gram, Harmonists - 11 Cerf, Main And The Mainiacs - 12 Cerf And The Mainiacs - 13 Piel, Goodkin, Villard, Stuart, Cerf, The Chorus And The Clickers

The Mainiacs : lead guitar : Gordie Main, guitar bass : K. Paul Smith II, rhythm guitar : Tom James, saxophone: "Shades" Felson, drums: Phil Morrison.
 
The closing song "I Keep My Fingernails Long So They Click When I Play The Piano" was used by Joe Ely in 1978 for his LP 'Honky Tonk Masquerade' with full credits to Ely. To be fair, he added a bridge and changed "Capistrano' to 'Texarkana.'

"Vanitas" is the motto of the Harvard Lampoon, in reference to Harvard College's motto, "Veritas".
Recorded on the spot in Vibraphonic Stratophidelity-500 (front cover, top)
Songs Copyright 1958, 1961: Harvard Lampoon and C. B. Cerf (on label)

The record got several reviews in the campus paper The Harvard Crimson between Nov. 8, 1961 - March 23, 1962. The record sought to establish their new dance 'The Penguin' as a rival to 'The Twist.' The basic dance is essentially a shuffle, danced very quickly to a shuffle beat. Each dancer keeps their arms at their sides with palms extended in a position parallel with the floor to imitate flippers. When the music stops, the dancers poke each other in the stomach and yell, Whee!"

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas
(covers and labels included)

Of Gordie Main, little is known. He came from Minnesota and had never see black before going to Harvard (source:The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever.)
 

  Chris Cerf is much better known for association with Sesame Street.

Chris Cerf : When I was on the Harvard Lampoon we actually made a record of some of them and the reason that’s relevant, I was hired to work on Sesame Street for quite different reasons right after it started but the music director had gone to Harvard with me and remembered I could write rock and roll, so when they need some for Sesame Street, he said, Do you want to try?

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