Dotty Anderson on Tra-X

Dotty Anderson
With Dickie Thompson's Orchestra

I Can't Sit Down (Til I Know Where I Stand With You)
(Dotty Anderson- Ben Smith, Styletone Music BMI

There's A Jungle Out There
(Smith-Bragg, Sylvia BMI)

Tra-X Records 5/6

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Tra X Records was part of Ben Smith's stable of New York labels, including :- Tarx, TraX, TriX & X-tra.

Ben Smith had been, with Big Al Sears, a sax player in Andy Kirk's Clouds Of Joy and then lead of the Ben Smith Quartet. Aside from Teenage Records (co-owned with Bill Gordon), he owned the X-Tra label at 1650 Broadway in New York. It was run out of an office he shared with Al Sears' Sylvia Music Publishing Company. (source : Marv Goldberg)

Dotty Anderson had also, on the same Tra-X label, . "Real Jive Cat" b/w "Never Mind The Gypsy Woman".



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Sweetheart Boogie

"Dreamy Joe"

Sweetheart Boogie


Action Productions
Division of Action Advertising Agency, Inc.
Memphis, Tenn

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Pink Cadillac(s)

Here at Dead Wax, we — I, myself and my ordinary Toyota — are following the news very closely, with a real taste for the tasty details.

From recent news (and, yes, the seized Cadillac Convertible is really pink) :

In addition to a multiple bank accounts and PayPal accounts, the government seized more than 20 vehicles including 15 Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini, a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a 1957 Cadillac El Dorado, a 1959 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible and a 2010 Maserati GranCario registered to Megaupload’s chief marketing officer, Finn Batato.

Some of the vehicles sported unusual vanity license plates, such as “God,” “Stoned,” “Mafia,” “Hacker” and “Guilty.”

At DivShare, "All your files will stay online forever!" That's what they say at DivShare. Forever! A perfume of Eternity!



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Love Me Tender '69

Herman Schmerdley

Love Me Tender '69

Guitar Accompaniment by Hereas Schlumberger

Freeway Records

Herman : "I left Louisville, KY on April 2, 1956. I moved to Los Angeles. I started a record company in L.A. that same year. I did not release any records until about 1963. My label was called Freeway Records. I never had a hit."

Tom Willett (nickname Herman Schmerdley), height 1.93 m, was born in Chenault, Kentucky in the 1930s. He grew up in Hammond, Indiana. His grade school was Lafayette on Calumet Av. He moved to Andyville, Kentucky at age 14 and dropped out of high school.

Tom helped with the family farm which also had a poolroom and beer bar. He enjoyed listening to the country and popular music radio stations and enjoyed singing along with the songs. As rock and Roll began to evolve from the Country and Rhythm and Blues, Tom became a big fan.

At age 16 the family moved to Louisville. Tom got a job in a service station pumping gas into the cars of that day. Gas cost 22 cents per gallon in 1955. A new Chevy would set you back about $1600. Tom saved up $400 and moved to Los Angeles at age 17 with the idea of getting into the movies.

23 years later Tom appeared as an extra in his first movie Smash (1979)with Dean Paul Martin. Soon after that 1979 beginning, Tom had appeared in more than 100 feature films as an extra. Then he got his big break.

"Dear John" (1988) became a successful TV series and Tom worked as a cast member for the entire run of 4 years on NBC TV.

Tom also has enjoyed success as a radio announcer, musician, songwriter and stand up comic.

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Tom Willett, quite a character, has an extensive "digital" presence on his own websites one is HERE, on Youtube, on Flickr. All worth to check it out.

On his latest CDs is titled "5 Decades of Recording and STILL NO HITS!"



Dynamic Sound Studios in Las Vegas. L to R. : Dick Richards, Gene Burch, Tom Willett, Johnny Cassata and Huey Meaux, (1965 or 1966)



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My Man

Shirley McPherson
sings

My Man

Musical Accompaniment by Jan Stanley & the Convicts

Bowery Records, Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Arthur Smith Studios Charlotte, N.C.

Pressed by Kay Bank in Minneapolis (in 1964, according to the KB number printed on label).

One-off release on a label perhaps named after "The Bowery", sometimes referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World - a landmark located 50 yards from the Atlantic Ocean in Myrtle Beach (cold drinks and live entertainment every night since 1944...)

The one recognizable name on label is Arthur Smith. But he was just the owner of the studio where was recorded the Bowery single. Someone has to explain one day why the Arthur Smith Studios had their records pressed so far away in Minnesota...

Jan Stanley & the Convicts are completely unknown.

I've found several references to Shirley McPhersons but none are conclusive. One was a singer with a group touring Army bases when she met (and married) the Arthur Prysock's bass player, named Lucky Romain. (ref.Pamela McPherson-Cornelius CDBaby page HERE).



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