Carburetor Blues

Tex Miller & Jean

 
Carburetor Blues

This is from 1968 based on the RI number (Recordings Inc. - Baltimore, Maryland). No further info.

Twistin' In Orbit

The Thunderbirds

vocal : The Valvederes

Twistin' In Orbit

Romasa Records
Early sixties

No hint on who were The Thunderbirds or The Valvederes.  Probably from the Maryland/Washington/Virginia area as indicated by the catalog number (RINC 1194). Recordings Incorporated was a very small studio in Baltimore, Maryland recording mainly radio and television commercials, but also some bands (early Ronnie Dove, The Chicanos, Joyce Carr, The Dynamics, Little Hooks, etc.)

Gatlin & Magid wrote the tune and RMCo. Music published it.  The flip is an instrumental titled Tomahawk of lesser interest.

These Thunderbirds ?

Band card found here

According to Baltimore Sounds, there was a band named The Thunderbirds, active between 1962 and 1964.

Walking 50 Miles

Jumping Jaguars With The Surgeons

Vocal Ross - McCoy

Walking 50 Miles
Floyd Barnes, Jr. Tamango Music BMI

Tamango Records RI 1423
1963

Baltimore group active between 1958 and 1964. This is probably the group managed by June Morton, the once vocalist with Duke Ellington in 1950, mentioned in the Stuart L. Goosman book  "Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues"

The Jumping Jaguars were featured in one Flink Johnson (a well known regional combo leader) Benefit Dance & Show on February, 25th 1963 along with The Man with the "Golden Voice" (Ricko Lawson The Magnificent), Pop Ditty & The Surgeons and exotic dancer Princess Shelly.

The Surgeons are probably the group better known as "Pop Ditty & The Surgeons" who recorded as The Kings on Jax (1953) and Harlem (1954).  [see Marv Goldberg]

NB: The Jumpin' Jaguars on Decca (1957) is a different (white) group.

Tamango was probably named after the french movie directed by John Berry, a black-listed American exiled himself to Europe.    The film was controversial in different parts of the world. France banned Tamango in its West African colonies "for fear it would cause dissent among the natives".  The film was released in 1959 in New York City, but didn't receive nationwide distribution until 1962. The United States government had banned Tamango because it broke the race-mixing (or "miscegenation") section of the Hays Code with the interracial love scenes between Dorothy Dandridge and Curd Jürgens. [Wikipedia]

Deresco EP 228

01 - The Stroll.Mp3      Bradley Arthur
02 - Oh Boy.Mp3          Gootch Jackson
03 - Jo Ann.Mp3          Dick Warren
04 - Stood Up.Mp3        Bradley Arthur

Deresco 228

1957

Deresco was a discount label owned by Jalen Amusement Company (14 East 21st Street, Baltimore).   Records on Deresco were masters previously recorded (and issued) by Rite Records of Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Deresco 228 is a re-issue of the EP Big 4 Hits 228 (same release number used) and of Gateway Top Tune 1236 and 1237 (singles), both labels Rite subsidiaries.

Chuck's Twist

Chuck Blevins

Chuck's Twist

Gale, Jalo Music, Inc.

Elvee Music BMI

Lynda 2001

Chuck Blevins is the brother of Jim Blevins (lead guitarist of  Three Aces and a Joker on the GRC label out of Salt Lake City (Utah).

Chuck had a previous release on the 20th Century Fox's subsidiary Foxie Records (Foxie 7006.)  Recorded for Jack Gale in Baltimore, Maryland, it was his own version of "Sleigh Bell Rock" a song previously recorded as by Three Aces And A Joker

I Can't Wait Till Christmas Day

Lizanne Murray

 "I Can't Wait Till Christmas Day"

Lois Jean Ridgely-Don Ricardo

Hartley Music Co. (ASCAP)

A Jarrett Enterprises Release

late sixties?

This song, written in 1951, is also known as "I Tan't Wait Till Quithmuth Day" and was recorded by Mel Blanc on Capitol Records. 

Jarrett Spotswood Lickle and Liz, his wife (born Murray) formed Jarrett Enterprises Releases in Baltimore in 1967, a record label " which will record the best in previously unattached talent, young people who deserve to be heard.  "

Jarrett was better known as Patches.  He was a local children's television personality in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the 50s.  He died recently (in 2012).

 

 Patches and Liz left local television in 1962 and soon opened
 their own coffee house in Timonium, called The 15 Below,
so named because it was 15 steps under the first floor.