Friday, February 22, 2019

Someday You're Gonna Sing The Blues


Big Mack and The Shufflers



Someday You're Gonna Sing The Blues

b/w

Out Of My Mind

Tri-Mac 501
Tri-Mac Records Co.
3274 N. 14 St., Milwaukee
1958
"Chicago style" Milwaukee blues vocal with electric guitar on "Someday". "Out of My Mind is instrumental. One-off label owned by Samuel Trice later with Odessa Records.

No idea who is Big Mack or The Shufflers. Anyone?

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

(Straighten Up &) Fly Righ

Little Sammy Swinger



 Hot Pastrami W/ Mashed Potatoes

b/w

(Straighten Up &) Fly Right


Juvenile screamer on the Essar label from 1964.  Arranger and producer is S. R. Gardiner. 
The four known releases on this obscure label –  almost certainly from Michigan – were all issued in 1964 and the eight songs, curiously enough, are covers. 

Label discography here

If anyone know something on this label and/or its artists, feel free to share your info

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Santa Has Rhythm


Joan Blackman
sings with the
Jack Ross Quartet



Santa Has Rhythm


Joan Blackman was 12-year old at the time of this record, her only record as far as I know.
Joan Blackman was bom in San Francisco on May 17, 1938. the only child of Ivy and Frank Blackman. Her father was a musician. At four, Joan took dancing lessons; she had her start singing (probably with the Jack Ross Quartet) in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel and other spots around the City.  After graduating from Lincoln High School in 1956, she became a model. 

Blackman appeared in her first motion picture, Good Day for a Hanging, in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films. She played Maile Duval in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii and the following year played Rose Grogan in Kid Galahad.

One of the scenes in Blue Hawaii is the Hawaiian Wedding Song, when she and Elvis marry. Very few actresses were allowed to sing opposite Elvis. Those few lines in that scene are the only words she was able to sing in his film, unfortunately. Ann-Margret and Juliet Prowse, on the other hand, had their own singing scene in Viva Las Vegas and GI Blues.

She also appeared with Dean Martin in Career (1959), and played Ellen Spelding, the love interest of Kreton, the character of Jerry Lewis in Visit to a Small Planet (1960). Her other film appearances included roles in The Great Impostor (1961), Twilight of Honor (1963), Daring Game (1968), Pets (1974), Macon County Line (1974), and Moonrunners (1975).