Stranded

 

Jo Ellen

Stranded
wr. Pete Skelton

PJ Records
1966

Out of Macon, Georgia. This is possibly Jo Ellen Skelton, 13-y old, daughter of Pete Skelton, owner of the label ?

Little Willie, The Malibus and Phil Gandy had a release on this tiny label.

Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)

 

Bette Anne Steele
Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)
Capitol Records, 1955

Bette Anne Steele was born in Richmond, VA ca. 1933. She started singing on the radio as a child and began her career as a big band and jazz vocalist. She toured with the Buddy Morrow Orchestra and recorded for RCA, Capitol Records and ABC-Paramount.  As Betsy Brye, she recorded for Canadian-American (1959-1960), Mala (1961) and Mr. Peacock (1962).

Come On, Baby

 

Charles Christy and The Martians

Come On, Baby

wr. Mamye Crabb (Jobyers Music, BMI)

Ft. Worth, Texas
1965

Undocumented first record of Charles Christy before his first hit (a cover of Skip & Flip' Cherry Pie). The owner of Mammal Records is featured on the flip : Mamie Martin backed by The Sharps doing "Dallas Chiggers" available on YT and on a Collector CD compilation. Mamie Martin (or Mamye Jo Crabb) had also the only one other single ever issued on Mammal as part of the duet Mamie and Marie (Runnin' in Circles, Mammal 002)

Charles Christy and The Crystals were one of the most popular live acts at the ‘Panther A-Go-Go’ nights from Panther Halls. They even won the coveted ‘Panther A-Go-Go’ - ‘Battle Of The Bands’ competition in July ‘65. Their biggest hit was a cover of "Cherry Pie" first issued on Cherry Records, a label owned by their manager, Warren Wubker. Soon, HBR Records (Hanna-Barbera Records) purchased the record and issued a total of three singles on Charles Christy and The Crystals.

Vee-Tone recently issued "The Lost '65 Sound City Sessions" featuring twelve of their tracks previously unissued, all recorded in 1965.

Charles Christy was heard again some ten years later. As Christy, in the late seventies, he recorded at least two singles for Major Bill Smith' Le Cam Records ("The King Is Free" credited to Major Bill Smith & Christy) and "All I Want Is You (Ode To Priscilla)" credited to Christy.

Charles Christy, born Charles May, died in 1998 at age 53.

Charles Christy, left

Mean Woman Blues

 

Hopi Klansmen

Mean Woman Blues

 

From their first album issued in 1965 on the Indian Arts Of America label located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Hopi Clansmen began as four Hopi boys in the sixth grade at Intermountain Boarding School in Brigham City, Utah. This was in the 1950s, and they were budding musicians.

The band consisted of Ivan Sidney on guitar, Wallace Youvella on drums, Richard Twoitsie on bass, and the late Buddy Kooyquaptewa, who also played guitar.

"We all started at a very young age," Sidney recalled. "It was when we were going to school at the Phoenix Indian School in 1962 when we started playing down in the Valley. We played at all the Valley high schools back then."

See The Navajo times Online HERE

The Incredible Upsetters

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The Incredible Upsetters
Audio Lab AL-7-2046
1960

 

John L. Dickerson (1933-2021), a graduate of the 1948 class of Sandusky High School, formed the Upsetters with his brother and a few high school friends. They were soon performing all over Ohio with Dickerson as the front man. 

As The Incredible Upsetters, the group recorded this EP for Audio Lab, a King Records short-lived budget subsidiary, in 1959 (issued in 1960).

John Dickerson, as Big John, was later the vocalist of Lonnie Woods Trio ("Shakin' Sugar",  Peacock Records, 1965).

 

Baby I'm Your Man
Only A Dream
Oo-Wah-Cha-Wah
My Life, My Loved One