Whole Lotta Shakin'

Picture credit : Rockin' Country Style/Udo Frank

Rick Covey And The Missouri City Troubadours

Whole Lotta Shakin'



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I Like It Like That

Layton Redell Zbornik, Jr
I Like It Like That

A Gor-Dell production
Acc. Al Stith's Corvairs

Parade CR-6929
A division of Carrousel prod - Cincinnati, Ohio

1964

RCA custom pressing RK5M-6929

A cover of the Chris Kenner hit.

Is this really Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Martin who recorded on Fredlo and R (1958-1960)?

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Practical Joker

The Blue Jays

Practical Joker
(Gartman-Martin)

Roulette 4169
1959

Kenny Martin, one of the songwriter, seems to have worked exclusively for Stan Feldman and Ed Portnoy, who owned the tiny New-York Ivy label.

Ivy Records produced a number of masters - not released on their label - but leased to bigger labels such as ABC-Paramount subsidiary Apt Records (The Stereophonics, The Cavaliers, Bobby Baron, The Forevers), Gone subsidiary Mark-X (The Rhythm Aces), Petite (The Flints), Roulette (The Ivies) etc.

It's quite likely that the Blue Jays' Roulette sides were cut as well by Ivy Records.



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Nine Pound Hammer

Carroll Arnold - Nine Pound Hammer
Munited Records
A Music-United Production

Cover of Merle Travis classic tune. From 1964.

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Santa is Rockin' & Rollin'

Lola Records 101
1347 W. Thompson Place - San Antonio – Texas

A - Bob Granato and the Nocturnes
I Just Want Your Kiss For Christmas
(Lola V. Gilmore, TNT Music)

B - Bill Parker and his Orchestra
Santa is Rockin' & Rollin'
(Lola V. Gilmore)

Santa is Rockin' & Rollin'

Listed in Rockin' Country Style . But the label has an incorrect address. Also Bill Parker is actually not the artist found on the "I Just Want" side.

Regarding the date of the record, Bob Solly states in Record Collector (UK, December 2002 issue) that :

"You’d be coughing up the wrong Christmas conifer if you thought this track was cut in 1955.

Although there are no clues to the release date on the label, the number scratched into the run-off groove (TSS Y650930A) traces the mastering to Jeff Smith’s Texas Sound Studio, San Antonio, on 30th September, 1965. This dating code, usually found on later Texas Sound Studio recordings made for labels like Sarg and Wildcat, is missing on the Bob Granato side (…) a daft, echo-clad, sentimental ballad backed by a tinselly xylophone – presumably meaning that it was cut elsewhere »

Final remark, this Bill Parker is obviously NOT the Bill Parker on Goldband, who was a black Louisiana drummer and bandleader.



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