Rock And Roll Is Spreadin’

Plaz Adams

Rock And Roll Is Spreadin’

Verve Records

1958

If all my assumptions and deductions regarding this obscure Verve release are correct, 

Then :

• Plaz Adams' real name is Precious A  Adams, Jr
• This was recorded at Cosimo Matassa's studio in New Orleans' French Quarter at the same session that Gerri Hall's "School Boy".    Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel was the A&R man for the session. 
• He's the same Plaz Adams who played bass in the George Lewis New Orleans All Stars during the 1964 Japan Tour.

Ronny Johnson on Sunset

RONNY JOHNSON 

With Curly Fagan’s Band And The Flickers

J08W-1717 - If A Dream Means Anything

J08W-1718 - Rainbow Of Love 

SUNSET 1001

1958

Ronny had a second release on the same label in 1960  :  My Everything  / Midnight Moon  (Sunset 101). 

Curly Fagan (Clark Fagan) was a long-time performer with Rebe and Rabe at WVOK, Birmingham, Ala., likely the home of this Sunset label.   The backing vocal group (the Flickers) is likely the Henry Strzelecki's group who was the following year  on Lee Records in Memphis (as by the Four Flickers).

One of These Days

Lee Randy

One Of These Days 

(Eddie Williams, Duchess Music Corp. BMI)

Arranged & Conducted by Hardy Salwitz  

 Square 45-S304

July 1962

A perfectly square record.  

Why Elvis? Why mice?

The King is dead -- long live the genetically-engineered mouse version of the King.

Why Elvis? Why mice?

See answer HERE



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Shakey Pattie Lou

The Big Shots

Shakey Pattie Lou
Fred Wolf, Active (ASCAP)

Air Records

Unusually good song-poem record.

The writer, Fred Wolf, wrote several songs also issued by Air Records just about the same time :

Music For Four Footers (sung by Jeff Reynolds)

Get Yourself A Mountain Woman / Got My Mountain Woman (both sung by Joe Staunton)

Come With Me My Billie (Ruby Rogers)

Blue Butterflies (Rod Rogers)

Three Old Men On A Farm / Too Much Zoo (both sung by Joe Staunton)

Spanishtown Polka / Little Red Schoolhouse Polka (both by Rod Rogers)

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