Five by Elsie

Elsie Trusty CHILDERS. b. 26 Sep. 1924, Henderson, Kentucky, USA . Businesswoman, music publisher, song writer. Hospital secretary, 1953-1956, clerk (US Department of Agriculture) 1956-1980. Built Recording Studio on own 135 acre farm, in Nebo, Kentucky.

Five songs that Mrs. Elsie T. Childers wrote, that is. That's just five of the numerous songs that Elsie Childers wrote (the BMI online database is listing 275 Elsie Childers songs). Songs #1 and 2 were the results of her collaboration with Chaw Mank (Blue Ribbon and Blue J, out out Stanton, Ill.)

1. I Don’t Want A Bunny Or Dolly (I Just Want Elvis Instead)

2. I Don't Want A Bracelet Or Diamond (I Just Want Elvis Instead)

3. I Can't Decide (If It's The Beatles, Elvis Or Rick)

4. You Really Knock Me Out

5. I Get The Message

Chaw Mank, of Blue Ribbon Music, Box 30, Staunton, Ill., is agenting Bobbie Jean Ferandes, 11-year old singer who is making appearances on WOKZ, alton, Ill. He advises that the youngster will soon cut a new tune titled « I don’t Want a bunny or Dolly (I Just Want Elvis Instead ») … {Billboard, March 16, 1959)



Blue-J 3: Mary Kaye -- I Don't Want A Bracelet Or Diamond (I Just Want Elvis Instead) (Chaw Mank-Elsie Childers. Another Chaw Mank label.



Film City 1052 : Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- I Can't Decide (If It's The Beatles, Elvis Or Rick) (Chaw Mank-Elsie Childers); next release on Film City (1053) was also a Childers song : A Kiss Can Tell (see pic).

Jerry & the Night Trains with the Masters Three (Trusty 100)
The flip is an instrumental as by the Night Trains and credited to Faulk, Dorris, Rice and Rice)

The Interpreters
I Get The Message
Gemini 00 (1965)

“I Get the Message” was featured on Vol 1 of Girls in the Garage! Girl duo from Frankfurt, Germany. Was issued with a picture sleeve 

As said Mimi La Twisteuse : "Not much is out there about who Sylvia and Beate were, or how this record ended up on American shores. If anyone has a clue, do tell!"


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Hank Cochran (1935-2010)

Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran
(August 2, 1935 - July 15, 2010)

Hank Cochran died peacefully at home in Hendersonville, Tenn., this morning (7/15) surrounded by family and friends.

Sally Was a Good Old Girl
(1980)

I'm Ready
(1956)


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Darrell Tatum

When Dave Travis of Stomper Time Records bought the Fernwood and Santo masters from Wayne McGinnis (Meteor recording artist), he had some masters he has bought on an artist named Darrell Tatum. He asked to Larry Manuel if he can find information about the label and on Darrell Tatum :

"I've checked all my sources here in Memphis and have come up with almost nothing. Stan Kessler remembers a Santo label but never heard of Darrell Tatum. " said Larry.

The two first Santo label releases involved Darrell Tatum. A full page ad in Billboard contains a bit of info that is not found on the label of Santo 500.

Billboard ad, detail

So the Holidays were a trio and Darrell Tatum was the guitarist. "Dark Valley","a twisting instrumental", was backed by "Desperate" another instrumental.

The second release on Santo ("Battle Hymn Of The Republic/Dixie ") was credited to Darrell Tatum.

Santo 501

Three years later, he was on Fernwood ("My Darling Wears White Today / Best Man Always Wins", Fernwood 141, '64).

Fernwood 141

And, finally :

Billboard, Nov. 18, 1967 picture
showing (center) a Darrell Tatum of Big Foot Music in Flint, Mich.

Is he the same Darrell Tatum?

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Melvin Nash : True Lovin' Woman

Melvin Nash

True Lovin' Woman

wr. Wilcox, Little River BMI

Shore Bird 1001

1966

"True Lovin' Woman" appears on "The House Of Cashalikes, Vol. 1", a CD compilation of Johnny Cash sound-a-likes.


That was the first release on the Shore Bird label :
In the mid-1960s, Bobby Warren decided to try his hand at record production and promotion. Because he found no local studios to his satisfaction, Warren built his own recording studio in the back room of Carl and Bob's Music on the corner of Porter and Grey streets in Norman, Oklahoma.. Warren used the contacts he had made while playing on radio and television programs to promote the singles and albums he released for many artists under his Shorebird and Impel record labels. Shore Bird's first release was "In Front of Your House" backed with "True Lovin' Woman" for singer Melvin Nash. This single did not sell very well but taught Warren much about the independent record distribution system. [from Oklahoma Musicians and The Broadcast Frontier, Chapter Five: The Consolidation and Corporatization of the Oklahoma Broadcast Industry]

In 1963, Melvin Nash had previously at least one release on the Okladoma City Dee Jay label :
"Take A Good Look / Mister Heartache (Dee Jay 1007)

And in 1973, Melvin Nash, was still in Oklahoma with Bobby Warren, as "he was one of the firm’s writers, and has had songs recorded by Norma Jean and Wanda Jackson."


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Joseph Yore

From It's Greet Shakes blog (Brian Marshall, 2005) :

(audio links added)

"Scream, Mother, Scream." You get an off-key, drunken chorus bellowing at several points "Scream, mother, scream," while the lead vocalist bellows about his mother yelling at him to get to school. "You scream, 'change those way-out clothes you wear/Better cut off that long, dirty hair.' Meanwhile, he fires back 'You don't like any of us, do you ma?' The screaming never stops, so finally our hero goes 'Okay ma, I'm up! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!' and presumably gets his butt to school.

On "Sgt. Ralph," the vocalist recites the words while an accoustic guitar and primitive drumbeat provide sparse background. He relates how his buddy of the title gave up his women and booze to go serve his country. He also urges America to stand up and get behind the government and LBJ. Today, this could probably pass as a performance art piece the way this country gets ridiculed, both here and abroad. But it's still fascinating in its stumbling charm and for its pre-1968 pro-Vietnam views.

From Endeavor News.com come this short bio of one Joe Yore, who is likely - it's my belief - the same Joe Yore who wrote these songs and quite possibly also the singer of Sur Royal Da Count The Parliaments :

Who is Joe Yore?

Former Marine and Korean War era veteran. Actor, singer, songwriter, career movie extra, dabbler in property and career autograph hound.

Enter his home and you walk into a Hollywood backlot of the mind. Images of Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe abound on the walls covered with photographs, figurines, dolls, statuary and masks.

The Hollywood bug bit Yore early as he made his way west in the late 1950s from Cameron County. During his Hollywood period, spanning about 30 years, he collaborated with Debbie Reynolds on "Am I That Easy to Forget?" He was an extra in Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told."

Over the decades, Yore managed to amass a collection of movie posters and memorabilia that a museum curator would envy. Then he donated 1,050 movie posters to the library of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"You get to a point in your life where you've collected enough and you want to give something back," Yore said. "When I die, I don't want my stuff trashed. It's not junk."

There was also a record credited to Joseph Yore on the Silvertip label (Selma Avenue, Hollywood) produced by Rene Hall, famous guitarist and arranger :

Shoom Around (clip)

Was Joe Yore also involved in the following release on the same Villa-Yore label?

Villa-Yore JY-201
Marc Haven and the Aquarians

Janice
(Dave Osterhout,, Raljo BMI)

Hey Senorita

Produced by Dale Bobbitt
1961

In 1982, some twenty years later, he co-wrote PacMan On Her Mind with Gary Revel who recorded it on his own TOP'S label. Gary produced this record with Irfan Mirza and some of the Mac Davis backup band were the session musicians. Gary Revel is a musician and a Martin Luther King assassination researcher. For more information about Gary, see his own website.




PacMan On Her Mind
Words and Music by Joe Yore and Gary Revel

Lyrics

I Never Thought The Day Would Come
When I Would Lose At Love
Lady Friends And Good Time Lovers
I Had More Than Enough

Now That I Have Settled Down
With One True Love I Find
I'm Talking To Myself
She's Got Pacman On Her Mind

Pacman On Her Mind
Pacman On Her Mind
I'm Losing At The Game Of Love
Pacman's Makin' My Time
Pacman On Her Mind
Pacman On Her Mind
Video Games Are Her Desire
She's Got Pacman On Her Mind

I Try To Get Her Attention
But She's Too Busy To See
I Will Give Her All My Love
Forever And A Day

If I Could Just Find A Way
To Make Our Feeling's Rhyme
Maybe I'll Just Play Along
With Pacman On Her Mind

Pacman On Her Mind
Pacman On Her Mind
I'm Losing At The Game Of Love
Pacman's Makin' My Time
Pacman On Her Mind
Pacman On Her Mind
Video Games Are Her Desire
She's Got Pacman On Her Mind

Retired, Joe Yore is now resident of Palmdale, California where he's also a local environmental activist and a selfproclaimed City Hall "agitator" .

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