Let's Make Love

Little Buddy

Let's Make Love

NRC 010

1958

James B. McKnight (Little Buddy)  was born in Durham, N.C., in 1943.   This is his first record, probably brought to NRC by John C. Greene, Jr., a Durham, North Carolina radio station manager (WSRC) and record label owner (Joy Records).  Buddy McKnight relocated later to Orlando, Florida and had two singles released by the local Pine Hills Records (1967-1968)

In the mid-sxities, he played organ for the Mighty Dee-Jays, a band formed by Jimmy (Dee) Dudley (see sirshambling). 

He died in 1996.  According to his obit, McKnight moved to Central Florida in 1969. and was a truck driver for a cement company, He was a member of St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church. Survivors were : wife, Georgia; son, Corey, Orlando; daughters, April Henson, Orlando, Dee, Ocala; five grandchildren. 

James Benjamin McKnight

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Spider Webb

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

W.Webb, Tuneville Music, BMI

Scottie 1326

1960

The last issue on this NRC subsidiary.  The Scottie label was started in 1959 and lasted just one year, releasing two dozens of singles from #1301 to 1326.   #1317 and 1322 are still to be found.

Publisher of the song, Tuneville Music, was owned by Bill Justis, who has been signed by NRC chief Bill Lowery as a.& r. chief for the label a few months before (Billboard, Februrary 15, 1960).   And if Spider Webb had a release of Scottie, that was probably thru Bill Justis.  

Several "Spider Webb" distinguished themselves in the music field :

• Gary "Spider" Webb, drummer, member of The Hollywood Argyles, who recorded The Cave on Bamboo ('61
• Bobby "Spider" Webb, a bluesman, native of San Francisco
• Spider Webb (r.n. Kenneth Rice), drummer, a Detroit native
• Spider Webb (r.n. Willbern M. Welten) steel guitarist of Sparta, IL
• Spider Webb signed by 'Teen Records, subsid of Teen Magazine in 1961
• Spider Webb (and The Insects) on Lugar ( Maggie / Big Noise From Winnetka)
• Spider Webb, LP "Life Of The Party" on Astari Records in 1982 ("treated Vocals, Fuzz Guitar Blasting, Weird Songs,Kinda Lo-Fi Sounding")
• Spider Webb, Chicago disc-jockey (fifties)
• and probably some more........

But OUR Spider Webb is none of the above.

Our Spider Webb, whose first name initial letter was W., according to the songwriting credit printed on the label, is almost certainly Woodrow C. Webb, aka Jimmy Webb, whose song "No Traffic Out of Abilene" was recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1972.

He is also almost certainly Jim "Spider" Webb, country singer on the Memphis Select-O-Hits label. (late sixties).

Jim "Spider" Webb

From the Select-O-Hits 001 picture sleeve of

"Biggest Coward Of The West" b/w  “When You Snooze You Lose"

Lovesville

 

The Chelette Sisters

Lovesville

Wr. Carol Tevis

Fairway Music and Big D Pub. Co. BMI

NRC 009

1958

Trio of young ladies were big on the hillbilly music scene in the mid-1950s.  Mary Jo Chelette was the leader and the oldest of the Chelette Sisters.   The girls had already starred on radio station KPAC in Port Arthur, Texas in the early fifties. Mary Jo could sing both popular and western tunes.   Mary Jo was managed by Neva Starns, wife of Jack Starns.   She was the one signed to the newly formed Starday Records and had the initial release on the label in 1953.

The Chelettes Sisters were featured with Rick Johnson on the Comet label (1957-1958) and on the Goldband's Trey Records subsidiary with Tommy Curtis (1959).

 Mary Jo (1940-1984)

 Carolyn (born 1942)

 

 Judy (born 1945)

 

Carolyn Chelette-Monte and Judy Chelette-Thomas

Good Luck, Best Wishes

Bill Lowery

Good Luck, Best Wishes

Woodall-Packham-Carrier

Lowery Music BMI

NRC 1958

Breakable, unplayable, but still a smoking item !