Love Is Strange

Sonny & Fran

Love Is Strange

(E. Smith & M. Baker)
Jonware Music Corp. - BMI
Producer Sonny Throckmorton
Chalet Records Record No. 1060
Chalet Record Co., Inc. 812 16th Ave. S. Nashville, Tenn 37203
1969

Jerry Shook, Sonny Throckmorton, Pete Drake

Sonny is certainly Sonny Trockmorton, but it's not known who is Fran.

James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton was born April 2, 1941) in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He moved to San Francisco, California after graduating from college, and first played rock & roll before switching his focus to country music at record producer Pete Drake's suggestion. By 1964, he played bass guitar for Carl Butler and Pearl Known primarily for his songwriting, 

Throckmorton has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers. He has also had minor success as a recording artist, having released two major-label albums: The Last Cheater's Waltz in 1978 on Mercury Records and Southern Train in 1986 on Warner Bros. Records. Throckmorton is a member of the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame, and has been awarded Songwriter of the Year by both Broadcast Music Incorporated and the Nashville Songwriters Association International.   [Wikipedia]

This is probably his very first recording as a singer, prior to the pair of singles issued by Pickwick's subsidiary Hilltop Records in 1970 and 1971.

Chalet Records was headed by Bobby Bobo assisted by Chuck Howard.

Lorina

Roger Rigney

Lorina

 Mashburn-Carter, Bucheanna Publishing Co

Regency 159

produced by Jay-Cher Enterprises
1969

Regency Records is a record label founded by Georgia record producer and TV/Radio syndicator Johnny Carter and North Georgia disc jockey Lamar Gravitt in 1965. Regency Records was originally a part of the C-R-Co (Cherokeeland Recording Company), based in Calhoun, Georgia near the 19th century national capital of the Cherokee Indians. The label operated as a part of Jay Enterprises when Carter moved to Tennessee in 1966, and became a part of Cherokee Album Corporation when Carter returned to Georgia in 1968.[Wikipedia]

Cajun Baby

Ferne's Blackjacks
Vocal : Ferne Johnson

Cajun Baby

Tyme 9-435

1969

Cover by a Polk County, Wisconsin band of the Hank Williams, Jr. song (MGM Records)

Ferne Johnson

Laundromat Blues

Rose Carico

Laundromat Blues
Johnny Carter Music Co., BMI
Regency Records R45-177 

Fairmount, Georgia,

 Arr. & prod by Johnny Carter

1969 or later

Regency Records was founded by Georgia record producer and TV/Radio syndicator Johnny Carter and North Georgia disc jockey Lamar Gravitt in 1965.  

Rose Carico had another single on MKB (Tobaccoville, N.C.) : I've Got Countryitis / Woman Fever, and that's the sum of my knowledge here.

Walkin' the Dog

The Mam'selles

Walkin' the Dog

Bison Records
1969

Lounge act girl trio comprised of Sharon Walker, Janice and Pat Plinkze.  On this Rufus Thomas song, this is Sharon on vocal and piano, Pat on bass and Janice on drums.   Recorded in Nashville, at the Woodland Sound Studios.  Bison Records was located in Buffalo, upstate New York.

Bad Jack Clark

Rita Carol

Bad Jack Clark

(Joe Taylor, Purple Rooster Music Co. BMI)

Jo-Jo Records

1969

Tupelo, MS or Memphis, TN ?

Mind Your Own Business

Les Stewart, Jr.

Mind Your Own Business
(Hank Williams)

Groovey Grooves Records
2200 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, Pa.

Arranged by Bob Lowden

A Bill Hamilton Production

1969

The first releases on the Groovey Grooves label in 1968 were The Exceptions, former vocal group with Cameo/Parkway and Richie Allen, slugger with the Phillies baseball team, backed by the Ebonistics.

Independant producer Bill Hamilton had a hand on all the releases on the label, but Groovey Grooves was perhaps a Cameo/Parkway-owned subsidiary.

Robert Lowden (1920-1998) became the primary arranger and composer for the 101 Strings and the Somerset label after Joseph Kuhn died in 1958, and contributed to most of the label's recordings over the next ten years.

Les Stewart, Jr. was... well, you probably known as much as me about Les.



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