The Working Girl

Harriet Savage

 

The Working Girl

Pinnacle Records P-1012

The Bigg Country Talent Agency, Wheeling, W. Va.

1972

Harriet Genevieve Uphold Savage Yanego, 71, Grafton Road, Morgantown, W.Va. passed away July 25, 2003 at home.

Born Jan. 2, 1932 in Confluence, Pennsylvania. She was a former employee of Galis in Pleasant Valley.   She opened the Savage Toll House Restaurant on Route 40 in Addison;  Also a partner in the Appalachian Lake Park in Bruceton Mills, W.Va. where she managed and held singing performances at the park. She enjoyed writing music and wrote several songs.

Granny in a Mini Skirt

Corny Critters

Granny in a Mini Skirt

Jesse M. Dyas, Sound Corp. Musc, ASCAP

Produced by Don Lewis

Relco 2096

One of the Caprice Records subsidiaries located at 907 Main Street, Nashville, as were Checkmate and Soundmate.  In a early stage, Caprice Records was closely related to Buzz Cason's Creative Workshop Studios founded in 1970.   Buzz Cason sold his interest in the firm to Charles Pohlman, a Nashville businessman.  Don Lewis presided.

In 1982, Don Lewis was sentenced to six months in prison for wire fraud, and to perform 200 hours of community service in return for his guilty plea of the charge.

 

The wire fraud stemmed from allegations that Caprice, a custom-contract label, bilked some 450 unknown singers around the country out of approximately $3,000 each in return for record "deals."  Lewis falsely promised in the contracts that the singers would get free auditions, have demos sent to Nashville producers and be provided trips to Nashville for recording (Billboard, 25 September 1982)

Two interesting pages about the song-sharking business, which was I believe quite flourishing in Nashville in the seventies  :

•  Beware of the song shark!
• http://www.songpoemmusic.com/shark.htm

Can you name these blues godheads ?

Puzzlers from an old issue of 78 Quarterly

 Cartoonist is Anthony Mostrom.
Anthony Mostrom's strips have appeared in Weirdo, No Mag. and Twist.  He was (is?) also the host of an avant-garde/novelty music show in Los Angeles.