Arriba

Chuck Vedder

Tenor Sax and Band

Arriba

Chuck Vedder, Dandelion Music, BMI

A Fabor Robison Production
Radio 123-45
Malibu, Calif.

1959

Charles Nicholas Vedder was born on Apr. 3, 1904 in Sweet Springs, Saline County, Missouri.  He probably played music in Kansas City before moving to California and may had been first a classical musician as I've found that he wrote a "Concerto in G minor" in 1945 (he was then a Ventura, Calif. resident). 

The Radio 45 is perhaps the only one issued under his own name, but The Chuck Vedder Band is credited on most of the releases issued by singer Ronnie Summers between 1959 and 1963 on various California labels. 

With his wife, pianist Iola Maria Vedder (born in 1909), he played supper venues in the sixties  (THE CHUCK VEDDER TRIO "West's Most Enjoyable Trio" at the THE WHEEL SEAFOOD BUFFET Served fresh every Friday night).

Yvette Vickers, their daughter (b. 1928), released a jazz CD in the 1990s called "Tribute to Charlie and Maria" that showcased some of her parents' songs.  She is probably best remembered for her role as Honey Parker in the cult classic ""Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (1958).  She died at home in 2010. Her mummified body was discovered only one year later, on April 27, 2011.

Doing The Popcorn

Little Earl Jenkins

Doing The Popcorn

 Reynaud 1021
7422 Meadow Lark Lane

Texas City, Texas
1965

Reynaud Records was started in the early sixties in Opelousas, Louisiana by Lloyd Reynaud.  

Lloyd Walter Reynaud, Sr. was born on October 26, 1936 in Opelousas, Louisiana.  He was the brother of saxman Hot Rod, a member of Cookie and the Cupcakes’ horn section.   Band leader and drummer, agent and manager, he brought horn player Duke Stevens, Little Victor and guitarist Charles Tyler to Lanor Records.  For his own label, he recorded bluesmen Jay Jay Callier and Roscoe Chenier.

In 1963, he earned a degree in electronics and upon graduating NASA/Taft recruited him to their space center in Houston, Texas.  He moved to Texas and, with him,  his label as well.

He wrote and/or produced further records with Earl Jenkins and Charles "Chuck" Colbert which were issued on the Grover Barbour's Bee label, out of Reading, Pennsylvania.  What was exactly the agreement between Lloyd Reynaud and Grover Barbour and how it was made is not known.

 

Bad Luck

 

Danny

 

Bad Luck

Danny Winkle, Big Howdy BMI

Big B 557

 Bogalusa, La.

1960

 

Danny (Winkle) was perhaps from Biloxi, MS where he played The Copa Lounge on Pat Harrison Avenue around 1959.  Danny had at least another release on Village Records in 1962   :  "Don't Fall In Love" b/w "The Girl At Johnny's " produced by Pee Wee Maddux and Kennedy.

 

This Big B label (not to be confused by the Big B label from Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey) was owned by Hastel Joseph "Hack" Kennedy (1915-1994) whose main label was Big Howdy.  Village Records was also perhaps his own.