Sky Rocket Love

Sky Rocket Love

(Paula Cloud)
The Cruisers

Vocal Paula Cloud

 

XR9 

MacGillvray, Gentry, McKenzie)
(The Spacers Vocal Sid Mack

 Nike Records

1958

Mrs Hortense Cludius (aka Paula Cloud) was born around 1912 in Louisiana.  She resided in Ohio with her husband, Harold C. Cludius, in 1940 and the couple moved afterwards to Texas.  She copyrighted "Sky Rocket Love" in 1958.  As far as I know, this was the only song she wrote.

Even less is known about The Spacers featured on the top side.  One Sid Mack from Dallas posted some fifteen years ago various messages on alt.assassination.jfk, a forum dedicated to the President Kennedy assassination, he's possibly him, the vocalist on XR9?

Both sides were published by S & M Music launched by "Skippy" Settle at the same time as his Skippy Records label in March 1958.

After Five

De-Icers

After Five

Callin' My Love

De-Icer 45-100
1957

King custom press

Tulsa, Oklahoma band started by Joe Haskew.

Joe Haskew was born in Tulsa on June 2, 1926. He grew up in Tulsa and attended Central High School. The youngest of 4 children, Joe served in the U.S. Navy as a Chief Petty Officer during World War II. After the War he worked as a Mechanic and at one time formed a business that manufactured micro-cycles in Tulsa.   Joe was a musician and during the 1950s started a band named The De-Icers. They played live on the Curtis Lane Radio Show.  He played the guitar and sang lead. He appeared on Channel 6's Dance Party, and entertained at the Apache Drive-In, the Admiral Twin and some others, and he had a ongoing gig at the Moose Lodge. 

He also played in a country band in the the 1980s called Country Sunshine in clubs around Tulsa, and was the founder and President of the Tulsa Bluegrass Club or Society in the 1970s. 

He passed away in 1998.

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The Pirate Parrot

Ray Heatherton, with Richard the Milton O. Ford's parrot

Cadence Records 1296 (1956)

The Pirate Parrot

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DISK ARTIST DEBS STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS

   NEW YORK — What RCA Victor did for the canine family

with its Singing Dogs, Cadence Records hopes to do for 

the birds with its new recording artist, Richard, 54-year old 

parrot.   Richard, booked by GAC and owned by deejay

Milton Q. Ford (WMAL, Washington),  will make his wax

debut this month on "The Pirate Parrot," with Ray "Merry

Mailman" Heatherton joining him on the vocal and backing 

by Archie Bleyer's orchestra.  The tune, a hit in Italy as 

"Curri, Curri, Sciccareddu!" ("Hurry, Hurry, Little Donkey")

is published here by Veronique Music, with English lyric by 

Al Stillman.

   Cadence prexy Bleyer put in six and half hours on tape 

sessions with Richard and a least 60 hours more on the

editing job, the parrot seemingly to talk his way continuously

thru the disk, a la Singing Dogs.  However, Richard has an

advantage over the European pooches, in that he can make

radio and TV appearances, and plug the record.

   His first network video show will be on Julius La Rosa's 

summer sub for Perry Como, CBS-TV show July 21, following 

which he will meet the dealers at the National Association of 

Music Merchants' convention here.  Then Ford is scheduled 

to take him on a deejay tour to plug the platter in other cities.

   The flip side of the disk ("Alfred, the Air Sick Eagle") is also 

a bird-entry, featuring Heatherton, a kid chorus, and authentic

eagle-crys recorded by the Bronx Zoo.

Billboard July 21, 1956