Never Never

Ted Ross

Never Never

Ditto Records

1959

Ross won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of The Cowardly Lion in The Wiz.

Theodore “Ted” Ross was from Zanesville, Ohio, but his mother, Elizabeth Russell, a nightclub singer in the 1920s and 1930s, moved the family to Dayton when young Ross was seven. He loved the clubs on West Fifth Street--Dayton’s answer to Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. While in junior high, Ross, who was big for his age, would dress up and strut into the Owl Club and The Palace Theater's Midnight Rambles to see great acts such as Duke Ellington.

His nightclub exploits as a teenager weren't very popular at home. He quit Roosevelt High in 1950 and enlisted in the Air Force. Two years later at 18, Theodore Ross Roberts entered an amateur night contest at the Top Hat bar on Germantown Street. Home on furlough, he sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," won $5 that night and found his calling. After leaving the military, Ross worked his way from Great Falls, Montana, to a strip bar in Los Angeles as a singer and emcee.

From his obit found HERE



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Come Back and Love Me

Judy Tolbert
(11 Years Old)

Come Back and Love Me
(wr. Jerry Reed)

Stars Records

1957

This is the flip of "I’m Wise to You Now " available on, at least, three compilations, and indeed on YouTube.

Judy Tolbert's second single for one of the many labels owned by Bill Lowery out of Atlanta, Georgia. According to Rockin' Country Style the age reference on the label of Stars 543 is inaccurate, Judy was born in 1943 in Gadsden, Ala. Claudette Tolbert wrote "I'm Wise" and may have been Judy's mother ?



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Cat & Mouse

Jim Mackelberg

Cat & Mouse

Vanco Records

1971 or later

Vanco Records was a subsidiary of the Ripcord Studio, Vancouver, Washington, owned by Gene Breeden, which was established in 1967.

On the Ripcord studio, there is an article by Ken Fitzgerald published by Billboard in 1977.

The artist was a resident of Albany, Oregon (his address is written on label). His "Baby Sittin' Blues" has been re-issued by Cees Klop.




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Mama Guitar

Andy Griffith died Tuesday (July 3) at age 86. R.I.P. Andy.

Three Minus One

Tommy Lampkin

Three Minus One

Ebb Records

1957

It seems that Tommy Lampkin only got two chances to make a record, once for Imperial in 1955, then again two years later for Ebb.

I don't know anything about this guy."Three Minus One," is backed with the blues ballad "The Weather's Stormy.", which has been compiled on CD.


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