Start To Jump

Stan Robinson

Start To Jump
(S. Robinson, Brynmawr ASCAP)

Totsy Records

(Nashville?)

1960

Georgian Stan Robinson was one of the first artists signed in 1959 to Fred Foster's Monument Records, a label newly formed in Nashville. "Boom-a-Dip-Dip,", his first record for the label, was a hit in the spring of 1959 (#83 on the charts.).

In 1962-63, he was a member of the Appalachians on ABC Records. Member of the group was Priscilla Mitchell, wife of country singer, songwriter, and session guitarist Jerry Reed Hubbard.

After four years on the road, and finding no fame, he retired from the music business to settle in Atlanta. In 1965 he met Nashville native Nancy Bradley at a hootenanny and soon they married. They spent years as partners in a local clothing business in Atlanta.

He discouraged his sons Chris and Rich from becoming professional musicians, but by 1984 they had formed the band Mr. Crowe's Garden (named for a favorite childhood fairy tale). This group evolved into the Black Crowes, with Chris dropping out of college along the way. Their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker (Number 4, 1990), sold a million copies and won them Best New American Band in the Rolling Stone readers and critics polls.


Stan Robinson Discography

59 Monument 402 : Boom-A-Dip-Dip / My Heart Beats
59 Monument 405 : N-U-T-H-I-N-G / If I Were A Fool
60 Totsy : Start To Jump / St. James Infirmary Blues
60 Amy 810 : Can She Give You Fever / Rhinoceros
61 Amy 818 : North, South, East, West / Exodus Of Pepe

As a member of The Appalachians (all produced by Felton Jarvis) :

62 ABC 10331: Cleopatra Queen Of The Nile/All My Trials, Lord
63 ABC 10419 Bony Maronie /It Takes A Man
63 ABC 10464 Big Betty / Hilly-Billy-Ding-Dong-Choo-Choo
63 ABC 10498 Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Over Yonder



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The Campus Rock

The Honey Dreamers
Earl Sheldon And His Orchestra

The Campus Rock
(Glen Moore-Buddy Dufault) Dennis Music Co. (BMI)

RCA Camden SCA-7-25
1956

The Honey Dreamers
(from EP's picture sleeve on Fantasy Records, 1956)

Dick Larson, Sylvia Mikelson, Keith Textor, Ardys Benson and Paul Montan were the original Honey Dreamers. These five Minnesotans started singing together at St. Olaf College.

Harold Stokes, program chief for ABC in Midwest spotted The Honey Dreamers in 1946 at the Rio Cabana, a local bistro, signed them for regular dates on three local shows in Chicago.




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Church Key

For blocks residents of Todd Estates, Fireside Park , and Brookside could hear rock music emanating from the corner house at 301 Elderfield Drive . Outside, their trademark, a black hearse, awaited to carry Ed, Aubrey, Fred, and Bill to anywhere but a cemetery. Behind their infamous hearse was a trailer that read…

The Fabulous Pharaohs

Aubry Fisher And Billy Rylander, Guitars, Fred Dawson Organ, Ed Steveson Drums
Eddie Stevenson, vocalist


Church Key


Three Star Recording Co.

Newark, Delaware


Left To Right: Bill Rylander, Ed Stevenson, Aubrey Fisher, Fred Dawson

Hangnail Phillips tells their story HERE



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Boomerang Baby

Elvie Easter

Boomerang Baby

(Faye Haas, Al Gilray Pub. Co, BMI)

Neophon Records

1960

Neophon was the in-house label of Neophon Recording Corporation, founded in 1958 by Richard "Dick" Friesen, whose studios were located in Hollywood (6369 De Longpre and 1313 North Vine). Skip Battin and Terry Gilkyson, among others, recorded there in the early sixties.

Richard Friesen, professional choir conductor since 1943, began work in composition with orchestral works in 1947. He was also the composer, lyricist, orchestrator and associate producer of the Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies, a traveling ice show founded by Eddie Shipstad, Roy Shipstad, and Oscar Johnson in 1936.




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I Love You, Yes I Do

I Love You, Yes I Do

Windy Green

Val Records

1963

Obscure and unlisted cover of the Henry Glover and Sally Nix song first recorded by Bull Moose Jackson in 1947.

Val Records was started in 1962 by T. Valentine.

From a tribute page for T. Valentine :

Thurmon Valentine was born in West Helena, Arkansas in 1932. Inspired by Sonny Boy Williamson's "King Biscuit Time" show on KKFA, Thurmon moved to Chicago in 1950 to make music and become a performer. From 1957 to 1959 he created and performed a live show called "The Vampire" in clubs with three female co-stars out of his love for "old vampire pictures, Lugosi and all those guys." He met up with Detroit Junior of the Cadillac Baby Show Lounge at 4708 Dearborn Street in Chicago. Detroit Junior had a small record company called Bea & Baby and released T. Valentine's first hot singles around 1960. Soon afterwards T. Valentine started his own label VAL Records in 1962. From there he released his own singles "Do the Do" and "Betty Sue," and both of his versions of "Black Power," as well as recordings from other artists. After divorcing his wife Lucille he decided to get back at her by recording the song "Lucille Are You A Lesbian," inspired by Josie Cotton's "Johnny Are You Queer." Val Records pressed 200 copies. It has become a rare and sought out 45. Most likely Lucille never heard it, but the song has become a cult favorite among lesbians.

Also of interest is the Peter Margasak's article found HERE

On Windy Green I've found nothing, unfortunately.

And the"official music historians" what they are doing right now? Dump digging around Newark, New Jersey in the search of the old sandwich wrapping on which Elvis is supposed to have written "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" while in the area for some time in 1964.
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