Twist And Shout

Candice Aull
with

Dick Holler's Holidays

Vital 64 V-107
1965

This is probably Candice Aull Ralston born in 1948 who graduated from Batesburg Leesville High Class in 1966. In 1973, Candice founded the Stepping Out Dance Studio in Lexington, South Carolina. That's the sum of my knowledge regarding Candice Aull.

On Dick Holler and the Holidays, see That'll Be The Day

Twist And Shout

That'll Be The Day

Dick Holler and the Holidays

Don Smith, Wayne Branham, Merlin Jones

That'll Be The Day

(B. Holly)

Vital 64 V-106

1964

After performing in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana, first with The Rockets and then with The Holidays, Dick Holler left Baton Rouge in August 1962 and performed and recorded until May of 1965 in and around Columbia, South Carolina.  “Our records were selling there, so we went where the action was,” he said.

 

Dick Holler (far right) and his band, 

broke down again while on tour (1962)

http://www.dickholler.com/photo_gallery/

 

 

Born on October 16, 1934, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Dick Holler moved with his family to Baton Rouge in 1951.  He graduated from University High School the following year and attended LSU for five years.  It was while attending LSU that he began to play piano and organizing bands with his college friends.  Holler performed for two years on the local award-winning WBRZ-TV teen show Hit or Miss.  Others who performed on the show were future actresses Donna Douglas and Elizabeth Ashley, and movie critic Rex Reed.  Holler also appeared occasionally on deejay Dave Davidson’s Saturday morning radio show Teen Town Rally.  It was during a January 1956 Teen Town Rally show that he met Jimmy Clanton and brothers, Ike and Tommy.  Jimmy was a student at Baton Rouge High at the time and he and his brothers were singing the Cadillacs’ song Speedoo....MORE

Rock Pebbles Rock

Little Red and The Rocking Hoods

Rock Pebbles Rock

(McGee)

Richland Recording

Columbia, South Carolina

1967

 

The Rocking Hoods, 1967

Family combo led by the dad who actually built a sort of recording studio next to their house, which was just across Pinebelt from Keenan HS, on Upland Drive in Columbia, South Carolina.

For a few years you couldn't go to many public events [around their home town, I assume] without seeing them play.  

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Charlie's Got a Horn

 Melvin Morris

Charlie's Got a Horn

M.Morris, Jim Dandy Music Inc. BMI

Jim Dandy Records

 1961

 Melvin Morris discography

Snow Cap (1960)
KB-601/2 — Heartaches Of A Love Untrue / Please Hear These Words

Jim Dandy (1961)
JD 1004 — Charlie's Got A Horn  /  Remember You're Mine – (Bb rev. 11 December 1961)

Starday (1962)
605 — Spending Nights In Nashville / Still – 10-62

Guitar Record Company (1962)
1100 — The Pauper's Dream / Tell Mother That You Love Me   

•  Melvin Morris picture credit  : from CD "Ice Cold" (Buffalo Bop 55162) 
• Melvin Morris page at Rockin' Country Style here 
• Jim Dandy Records discography here

I Wanna Be the Only One

Kipling Taquana Anderson

January 24, 1938 – August 29, 2007

"I Wanna Be the Only One"

"The Home Fires are Brighter After All"

 (1959)

Derrick Records
Columbia, S.C.

Southern soul man Kip Anderson was born January 24, 1941 in Anderson, South Carolina -- the son of a mother who taught music and a father who regularly played guitar at weekend fish-fry parties; from childhood forward he sang and played piano with his church gospel choir. At 13, Anderson was discovered by gospel legend Madame Edna Gallman Cooke, spending several summers playing in her touring group; he intended to follow her lead and pursue a career in spiritual music until he crossed paths with WOIC radio DJ and sometimes R&B singer Charles Derrick, who encouraged him to cross over to secular music instead. Anderson, Derrick, and friend Isaiah Hennie co-wrote the former's 1959 debut single "I Wanna Be the One," issued on the DJ's own Derrick label; when the single emerged as a regional hit, it was licensed for national distribution on Vee Jay but went nowhere, prompting Anderson to move to Savoy for the follow-up, "Oh My Linda," recorded with legendary session guitarist Mickey Baker.    However, when the single's B-side, "Till Your Love Is Mine," appeared with Anderson credited as its sole songwriter, Hennie cried foul, and the dispute resulted in Savoy president Herman Lubinsky terminating the singer's contract.

Allmusic by Jason Ankeny

Note :  Publisher of both songs is Tollie Music, which was affiliated with Vee Jay Records.  Charles Derrick must have had some sort of arrangements with Vee Jay prior to the release of the record on his own label.

My Man

Shirley McPherson
sings

My Man

Musical Accompaniment by Jan Stanley & the Convicts

Bowery Records, Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Arthur Smith Studios Charlotte, N.C.

Pressed by Kay Bank in Minneapolis (in 1964, according to the KB number printed on label).

One-off release on a label perhaps named after "The Bowery", sometimes referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World - a landmark located 50 yards from the Atlantic Ocean in Myrtle Beach (cold drinks and live entertainment every night since 1944...)

The one recognizable name on label is Arthur Smith. But he was just the owner of the studio where was recorded the Bowery single. Someone has to explain one day why the Arthur Smith Studios had their records pressed so far away in Minnesota...

Jan Stanley & the Convicts are completely unknown.

I've found several references to Shirley McPhersons but none are conclusive. One was a singer with a group touring Army bases when she met (and married) the Arthur Prysock's bass player, named Lucky Romain. (ref.Pamela McPherson-Cornelius CDBaby page HERE).



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Southern Hospitality

Perry Brice

Southern Hospitality

Plaid Records
Greenville, S.C.

March 1961

A cover of the Moon Mullican song (King Records, 1950).

Produced by Charles Rush (owner of Plaid Records) and Alan Riddle (Plaid Records A&R).

Perry Brice was from Vero Beach, Florida where he worked for WTTB radio.



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