Rockin' Boogie March

 

Ollie Pierre Quintet - Rockin' Boogie March (Anjac 102)

Label out of Albuquerque (New Mexico)
1956

No further info

 Ed: year added (thanks Apesville)

 

 

Mean Woman Blues

 

Hopi Klansmen

Mean Woman Blues

 

From their first album issued in 1965 on the Indian Arts Of America label located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Hopi Clansmen began as four Hopi boys in the sixth grade at Intermountain Boarding School in Brigham City, Utah. This was in the 1950s, and they were budding musicians.

The band consisted of Ivan Sidney on guitar, Wallace Youvella on drums, Richard Twoitsie on bass, and the late Buddy Kooyquaptewa, who also played guitar.

"We all started at a very young age," Sidney recalled. "It was when we were going to school at the Phoenix Indian School in 1962 when we started playing down in the Valley. We played at all the Valley high schools back then."

See The Navajo times Online HERE

Flip-Flop-Flop

Real George
and
His Krazy Kats

Vocal George Whitley

Flip-Flop-Flop
G. Whitley-H. Glover

Glover Records
500 North Lea
Roswell, New Mexico

Another Roswell mystery. This one has its origins late 1958 in the Roswell's Historic District at a house which was built in 1900. "This home mixes Southwest Vernacular features, i.e. flat roof, stuccoed exterior, with the horizontal lines of Prairie Style".  See pic below.

Walkin' In My Sleep

Connie Snow

Walkin' In My Sleep

C. Snow, Alfay Music Co. (BMI)

Midas UN-04

Midas Record Company

607 S. Aspen, Roswell, NM

1961

Connie W. Snow (1935-2009)

    “Snowball” Connie Snow 74, was born in Henryetta, OK on June 8, 1935. On August 27, 2009 he lost his battle with cancer and joined his Lord and Savior. After growing up in Artesia, NM area he moved to Washington State and went to work for the Boeing Company, retiring January 1, 1995 from the Auburn plant.

He is survived by his wife Darlene Snow after 25 years at their home on South Hill Puyallup. He is also survived by 8 children, Jaime (Bev) Snow, Roby (Patti) Snow, Cindy Snow (Hosam) El Dakhakhni, Hayley (Kevin) Klein, Theresa (Doug) Barr, Tammie (Gene) Hoffert, Lori (Scott) Resop, Tom, Jr. (Tammy) Osborne, several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Sue Snow, once his wife, was murdered in 1986, in an horrific poisoning case :

She was the innocent pawn in Stella Nickell's plot to kill her own husband, Bruce, by lacing his headache capsules with cyanide.   After Bruce was dead and buried from what the doctors thought was natural causes, Stella bought more bottles of headache medicine and put cyanide-laced capsules in them, also.   Afterwards, she placed the bottles on the store shelves of local grocery chains.

Sue Snow was unlucky enough to buy one of the tainted bottles and died from the effects of the poison.   Stella's scheme was to wait for the media attention surrounding Sue's death from the poisoned capsules, then claim her husband was also the victim of product tampering.   She would then receive a substantial amount from Bruce's life insurance, due to accidental death, and any amount the drug manufacturer might pay in a lawsuit.   Stella's plan was foiled by good detective work, and she was sentenced to ninety years in prison.

The case was the subject of the book "Bitter Almonds" by Gregg Olsen and was also featured on the TV program "Medical Detectives" on The Learning Channel.  (bio by: Karen Valentine)

At Sue funeral, her longtime hairdresser did her hair.  She looked pretty, almost as she did when she was alive.  

Connie Snow's recording of an old “beer-drinkin' country tearjerker” he had written, called “Darlin' Sue,” [the flip of Walkin' In My Sleep]  was piped in after some music by the Judds, Sue's favorite musicians  :

Dark clouds again 

Shadows are falling
I keep remembering Darlin' Sue.

Little Fish

Ken Pepper

Little Fish

J. Duncan, Dundee Music, BMI

Roulette 4375

July 1961

 Recorded in Clovis, N.M.

Ken Pepper real name is Homer Tankersley, Jr.

Homer Tankersley was the long-serving lead singer of The Imperial Quartet, a Texas gospel group organised in the forties by Marion Snider, former pianist for the Original Stamps Quartet and Rangers Quartet. By 1955 the Imperial Quartet began transitioning away from gospel music and into popular music as the Commodores (records on Dot and Challenge,1955-1957)

 Homer Tankersley, Clovis News Journal :

While teaching voice in California, my dad called and said the Imperial Quartet wanted me to audition as lead singer.

I did and the job lasted for some 16 years.

As recording artists, The Imperials traveled coast-to-coast performing with many gospel groups. We were on the “Texas Quality Network” weekly in Dallas and a Friday night television show with Pat Boone in Fort Worth, Texas.

Eventually we became known as The Commodores, singing popular music with a hit record “Riding On a Train.” We were guests several times on the CBS “Arthur Godfrey Show” in New York.

While in New York, I resigned from The Commodores and moved my family to Clovis, where I became program director for KCLV and later KICA radio stations.   I started working with Norman Petty, recording under the name “Ken Pepper” (my radio name). Ken James and I sang with the Norman Petty trio and worked many recording sessions as backup singers.

You're The Girl For Me

Tiny Morrie

 

You're The Girl For Me

 

Hurricane (no number)

1958

 

His first record. Real name Morrie Sanchez.   His mother, Bennie L. Sanchez (d. 2011),  was the guiding force and the matriarch of this musical family that includes Morrie's older brother Al Hurricane (b. 1936) and  Baby Gaby.

 

 

Let’s Get Acquainted

The Coronados

(Ruben-Anita-Steve)

Let’s Get Acquainted

  Ray Stanley, Simon House Inc. BMI

Vik Records

1956

Anita, Rubin and Steven Ortiz (The Coronados), a sister and brothers group from New Mexico, had a TV show circa 1950 called "The Ortiz Trio Show".   They recorded quite extensively for Decca (as The Ortiz Trio) and, as The Coronados, for Vik, United Artists, Columbia, Peerless, Columbus, RCA Victor, 4 Corners, Jubilee and probably more.

Their father, also known as Tamborin the Great Clown, operated a family circus named La Compania Hermanos Ortiz :

La Compania Hermanos Ortiz presented trapeze, wire walking, fire eating, juggling, singing, dramatic excerpts, and comic skits.  José's wife, Florinda sang rhythm and blues, and served as straight man to her husband's comedy.  The children, Reuben, Steve, Gloria, Anita and Juanita, were also performers.  In Taos, the tent was set up in an empty lot near the Plaza.  On night as they performed, charges were brought against Tamborin because he apparently had made a woman laugh so hard she had a heart attack and died.

 
Ray Stanley version

This Is Love

The Fortunes

This Is Love

Yucca Records

"This is Love" is the slower side (doo wop). S. Hebert wrote it and it's Steve Rollins on vocal.

The rocking side is "Lonely teardrops" written and sung by Jim Decker. Already available on Youtube HERE

Both songs were published by Renda Music, a name usually found on Phoenix, Arizona labels. Perhaps The Fortunes were from there?



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