Nashville Moog

 

 Gil Trythall & His Nashville Moog

 

Nashville Moog
Produced by Rick Powell
Athena Records
1970

Harry Gilbert Trythall (1930–2023) was an American composer, electronic music pioneer, keyboardist, pianist of jazz and contemporary classical music, a life long educator, and a multimedia enthusiast. He often collaborated with artists (notably Prof. Don Evans (Vanderbilt-Nashville) to create engrossing public experiences..... [Wikipedia]

The Trademarks on Skilite

 

The Trademarks

Proud Mary
Come On Up

Skilite Records (1970)

Two covers by this Carolina (I assume) band recorded at Arthur Smith Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina. No info.

Teacher Teach Me

    

 Billy J

Teacher Teach Me
B. Jones, dessa Music (BMI)

dessa record co. 
dR-1107
Produced by Bill Jones

Rte 1, Box 280
Odessa, Texas
(915) 563-1679

The flip side is "After This Next Fight"  listed by the Vietnam Was Song Project

Garage rock, soldier's perspective, religion
Please god help me I'm overseas surrounded by the enemy
Back home my dad is a drunk - help my mum, that's all I ask

Billy J is Bill Jones I guess. This 1970 release was followed by two other records on the same label also produced by Bill Jones, one by Tennia Wade and the other by Lonnie Bray in 1971.

There were further releases on Dessa, years later, when Bill Jones was associated in Nashville with Royce Clark, a freelance producer who worked for Shelby Singleton. By then the label, located in Tennessee, is listed separately by 45cat.      A Lubbock native, Royce Clark, had records on the Amarillo-based Veeda Records in the early sixties before moving to Nashville in 1966.

 

Mirror, Mirror

 

Miss Marian (Marian Hall)

 Mirror, Mirror

wr. Pete Beck, Mayon Music (ASCAP)
Produced by Hal Southern
Boxoffice 1128 N. Hobart, Hollywood, Calif., 90029 

1970

Marian Hall (1934-2006) : Marian deserves to be better known for her many accomplishments as a live television pioneer, resourceful and innovative steel guitar soloist, vocalist and songwriter. Marian became a familiar face on live TV in Los Angeles in the 1950s as part of the Town Hall Party cast along with “superpickers”, Joe Maphis and Merle Travis. Marian spent time gigging with Tex Ritter's Ranch Party, Tex Williams band, and even Spade Cooley's all-girl orchestra. [quote from the Steel Guitar Forum]

Interesting reading here at the Vintage Guitar Magazine website.

She Rides

CoBurt Music (acetate)

She Rides

Unknown singer demoing a song penned by Suzanne Jordan and Sharon Sheeley in 1970. The song was recorded the same year by Annette Ferra on the Quad label. CoBurt Music and CoBurt Records were owned by Pierre Cosette and Burt Sugarman.

I'm Gonna Rock My Baby Tonight

W. O. White

I'm Gonna Rock My Baby Tonight
1970

 

This is William Ovilee “W. O.” White.

Mr. White was born in 1904 in Coleman, Texas. Also reared there, he married Thesia Smith in 1925. W. O. White owned and operated White's Music Store in Coleman from 1946 to about 1954. It closed after a fire in the Pool Building where it was located. He moved to Abilene in 1956. He taught piano and guitar at his home for over 30 years.  He died in Abilene in 2004, aged 99. Survivors included his wife, Thesia of Abilene; and one son, Wendell Olivee White of Abilene.

W.O. White operated his own WOW Records and a publishing company named Abilite Music from this home at 2134 Woodard, Abilene.

He previously recorded as Wee Willie and the Mellodiers (WOW 110, 1962). Other records were issued by Wow Records including Blanche Butler (''Boggle Man's palace", 1970) Judy Burleson (1971) and Benny Johnson (of  "Burn Your Bra Baby" fame).

"I'm Gonna Rock My Baby Tonight" (written in 1955) and the 3 other songs on this EP (Honey Baby/My Tomorrows Have Turned To Yesterdays), all penned by W.O. White, can be downloaded HERE 

 

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I Ain't Changin'

Jamie Marlowe

I Ain't Changin'

Florida, from 1970 (or early 1971).   A Product of Hyperbolic/Hit Records International located at 548 NE 42nd St., Ft. Lauderdale.  Not listed in this discography

 

Another Cup of Your Sugar

Another Cup of Your Sugar

Barry Tiffin is probably best known for "Candy Bars for Elvis", a recitation number; here he is on hiw own Sugar Records, out of Nashville, produced by Troy Shondell in 1970.

Thanks to Doug Firebaugh, who had an album produced by Barry Tiffin, I can bring to light some details about the man : 

The underbelly of Music City harbors countless hustlers and hucksters parlaying real or imagined music industry connections into “services” offered for a price to dreamers with a few bucks to squander. Often a grey area between sincere and scam, Barry Tiffin had just such a racket, but his father’s illness brought him home to Roanoke. A classified ad placed in a 1975 High Point, North Carolina newspaper reveals the angle: “For an appointment and additional information concerning the Professional Music Services of Tiffin Music Enterprises International, of Nashville, Tenn., please contact our office suite at the Ramada Inn in Roanoke, VA.”

Twenty-year-old Doug Firebaugh was referred through a mutual friend to Tiffin, but he entered the arrangement with eyes open. “We had an attorney involved in this,” recalled Firebaugh. Money was paid to have Tiffin to produce an album and contact record labels on the artist’s behalf. Three solid days in Roanoke’s K.A. studio resulted in an unadorned document of Firebaugh’s autodidactic style of songwriting. Firebaugh plays both piano and guitar throughout, with the only addition being an unnamed Nashville pedal steel player who drove six hours for the session before turning around going home. The clip-art cover of the resultant LP positions Tiffin’s Sugar Records imprint far more prominently than the artist’s name.

Also, an article from The Bee from Danville, Virginia (July 3, 1975) related:

Supervisors in Botetourt County may have succeeded in silencing a bigger-than-Woodstock rock concert planned for this historic Western Virginia community in September. the promoter had claimed the Sept. 19-21 weekend concert would draw 800,000 spectators and gross $20 million. Promoter Barry Tiffin said Wednesday he has all but given up on going through with promoting the three-day rock performance which he believes would have outdrawn the now famous Woodstock concert. Tiffin made the statement in the wake of an emergency ordinance quietly adopted by the board of supervisors May 21. He said the ordinance makes Refugees Get Senior the concert an impossibility. Tiffin, who promoted a concert at the Roanoke Civic Center last week, said he worked on plans for the Botetourt County rock festival for 18 months.

But Board Chairman Harold Wilhelm said Tiffin never approached him about the concert, and that he has never seen the promoter. He said the emergency ordinance was not directed at Tiffin's proposed concert; that the supervisors had been working on an ordinance regulatning outdoor musicals for some time

Not surprisingly, Barry Tiffin is one the Candidates For Immortality listed by Irwin Chusid in his book "Songs In The Key Of Z"

Her Phone Number On The Wall

Her Phone Number On The Wall

Don't Be Hasty

I'm only able to confirm what said Mr. Fab six years ago on his blog "Music For Maniacs" : There is almost no info on Tony Fabbri on the 'net, but all you need to know is that this is seriously some primo outsider awesomeness

Anthony Fabbri (Tony Fabbri, Tony Fabry) was born in 1925.  Out of Hollywood, Tony Fabbri operated, starting from 1961,  Fabbri Records, A Flat & F Sharp Records and Fanum Fortune Records.

In 1977, Tony performed "The. Phone Booth," on the Gong Show, a song he called "an unusual disco original song".  The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest created and originally produced by Chuck Barris, known for its absurdist humor and style, with the actual competition secondary to the often outlandish acts presented.


Too bad, the album Love & Inspirational Songs International posted by Mr. Fab is no longer available.

I'm A Little Piglet

I'm A Little Piglet

Angela Records No. IP-127
1970

Angela Vella Ghelarducci, who graduated from The Juilliard School, composed children's music for dance studios, some of which can still be purchased. 

As children in the 1920s, Angela, Jane and Louise Vella regularly traveled by train to New York City with their mother Margaret, who wanted them to acquire an appreciation of dance by taking lessons and seeing world-class performances.

The Vella sisters were quick studies. By 1937, they were running a studio in the dining room of their Canonsburg [Pennsylvania] home. Their reputations grew and the Vellas expanded their lessons to 13 sites through the region. The fourth generation of students is now taking lessons in a Vella studio.
Among the early hoofers in their studios: Canonsburg boys by name of Perry Como and Bobby Vinton, who clearly learned all the right moves.

The singer is probably not Angela herself, but rather an uncredited vocalist, as it's almost always the case on dance records on labels such as Danro Records, a quite prolific imprint, who released several Angela Ghelarducci compositions.

Lunar Flip

Joann Thomas



Lunar Flip (vocal)

Lunar Flip (instrumental)

American Voices Records 1
1970

Recorded in Nashville and

produced by Ray Pennington

Joann Thomas and Gus, her husband

 

Singing duet Gus and Joann Thomas have been for many years, direct from the WWVA Original Jamboree in Wheeling. before coming to WWSM (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) where Joann has a show twice a week.

Devil's Racecourse

Adina Edwards

Devil's Racecourse

Help The Blind
A Joe Gibbs production

1970

Kingston, Jamaica

★ ★ ★

Adina Edwards-Chen

The current generation of gospel artistes and fans know little about Adina Edwards, the blind singer who stood on the corner of Kingston and Barry streets playing an accordion and belting out Christian songs.  She would do songs like Precious Lord, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, Love Walks With Me and He Touched Me.  But it was her cover of the Bee Gees' Don't Forget To Remember that many had identified Edwards with.

Edwards died April 4, 2008 at the University Hospital of the West Indies, at age 83. She was revered in gospel circles but largely unknown to a secular audience.

Acknowledgments : The Jamaica Observer

So You Walked Out On Your Baby

Lucille Hutchinson

So You Walked Out On Your Baby

Lucille E. Hutchinson, Greek Music BMI
Alpha 633
1970

Song published by Greek Music, a John Greek publishing company. Yes, the John Greek original member and founder of The Fabulous Wailers in Tacoma, now turned mixer (and studio musician) at the Artists Recording Studio located in 1648 N. Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood. 

The studio was created in 1966 by Alex Furth.and Alpha Records was the in-house label providing an outlet for artists willing to pay the price.at some occasions, like that was the case for Lucille Hutchinson, I think.

Jungle Rock

The Chimes of Freedom

Jungle Rock

Hamilton - Francis - Pytlovany

Robert Barry Music

Label ? (USS 102)
(1970)

 

Group from Scotia, a village in Schenectady County, New York,

Members : Darrell Francis on drums, Bill Pytlovany, lead guitar, Paul Hamilton, rhythm guitar, Jeff Austin on bass guitar, Chip Vedder, lead singer and Mari Salato, female vocalist.  (obviously not an all girl band, as some believe)

Probably recorded at Vibra-Sound studios on Crestwood Drive, Schenectady.  Most (if not all) music recorded there was published by Robert Barry Music.

Colorado Queenie

Eddie Skelton

Colorado Queenie

John Reynolds-Bill Way, Moss-Rose BMI

produced by Cliff Williamson

Chart Records 5077

1970

Eddie Skelton discography

Eddie Skelton RCS page