My Baby Left Me

 

 The Yetti-Men
My Baby Left Me
KAL
1964

The gist of the tune was a simply one: a guy wakes up one morning and finds his girl has left him. Finally tracking her down in the park. 

Found my baby sittin' there neckin in the dark / Snuck up behind her and this is what I said / Baby if you don't come back, you'll soon be dead!" 

The story continues on with the girl not heeding his warning.

"Now I'm going to tell you my lover's lament / she didn't come back, so I killed her dead / I'm sittin' at the bar just havin' a beer / I hear them sirens, the police are here.

 
Pretty morbid for a 16-year-old suburban high school student in 1964. "My Baby left me" became a huge song for the group on their fraternity circuit because kids misconstrued Lee Hanson's lyrics to say "My Baby Is A Lesbie".

Minnetonka, Minnesota-based teenage quintet : Jim Robinson (drums), Joel Peterson (bass), Brian Mahin (sax, keyboeards), Henry "Skip" Wesbter (rhtyhm guitar) and Lee Hanson (lead guitar and vocals). 

At the height of the band's career, they collaborated with a folk group called The Uppa Trio and released an album (each taking half a side)

While sitting around one night watching a movie about the Abominable Snowman on TV, the term Yeti was used. Skip thought it was unusual enought to warrant a looking into and suggested "Yetti-Men" to the other four.

The Yetti-Men 

1 - High Himalayas / 2 - Wine, Wine, Wine / 3 - My Baby Left Me / 4 - Blue Surfer /
5 - Yep / 6 - Break Time

 

Egga Dagga

Egga Dagga

The obscure Bygone Productions unearthed this forgotten song and released it on the Planet Playback label in the seventies.

Egga Dagga came out only once on a record in the mid-thirties, on Decca Records. Nick Cochrane is backed by the Fed Fio Rito Orchestra. The original release of Egga Dagga is unknown. But it's not the Decca version. It's possibly taken from one of the several KBS (Keystone Broadcasting System) transcriptions that Nick Cochrane has recorded with His Men About Town.

The song, variously spelled, has been featured in various movie between 1936 and 1943 : 

Holly Terror" Twentieh Century-Fox, 1936
Hollywood Party, MGM 1937
Seven Sinners   1940 Universal
Egga Dagge Ohft!, RCM soundie, RCM, 1942
Here Comes Elmer" Republic   1943

Nicholas Carter Cochrane ; b . Shawnee , Okla . , Jul . 24. 1907 : e . U. Kans . On stage in vaudeville , with orchestras : Hollywood night club master of ceremonies , musician (trumpet & cornet). Nick Cochrane died in Mesa, Arizona in 1976.

 

 

Party Line

 


Party Line
(J. Schram, Kavelin BMI)

Kip Shane
Lute Records LU-159
(1959)

Obscure first release on Lute Recordsl, missing until now, from the label discographies available online.

Wax to watch 10/10/59 — KFXM 590 AM
(San Bernardino, California )

"Love Is the Thing", the flip side, was featured in The Cape Canaveral Monsters, a movie released in 1960. It's one of the four songs coming from the characters' transistor radio. The three other songs had be also issued by Lute Records. : "Please Somebody," written by Jerry Coates and performed by Terry Miller (issued on Lute 5903); "Love is the Thing," written by John Nieel Jr. and performed by Kip Shane; and "Think of Me" and "I'll Find a Way," written by Morey Bernstein and performed by Jerry Savoy.[both issued on Lute 5912]

Note the different composer credited for the songs, : J. Schram on label, but John Nieel Jr. on the movie opening credits.

I have a strong suspicion that Kip Shane is actually just another [undocumented] pseudonym for Kip Tyler. Anyway, the singer sounds remarkably like him.