Why Did You Leave Me

Billy Peek

Why Did You Leave Me

B.Peek, Billy Peek Music Co. BMI

RCA press L8OW-4895

Peek Records 101

Produced by Rick Darnell & Ray Stallings

 

April or May 1960

 

Billy Peek was born in South St. Louis, and as a child growing up in the 1950s he lived for a time in an apartment above a bar known as the Peek-A-Boo Inn.   There he began playing the country guitar with his father.   When he was a bit older he heard the music of other burgeoning St. Louis musicians such as Chuck Berry and Ike Turner ...

Not long after the release of his first record (on Carter Records, "Pretty Blue Eyed Baby") Chuck Tillman and Peek were invited to appear on the St. Louis Hop's first anniversary show alongside Chuck Berry.  For Billy Peek this was a chance of a lifetime; not only would he be appearing on television for the first time, he would be doing so with his idol...

Billy Peek's main claim to fame is having played, recorded, and toured extensively with Chuck Berry, and Rod Stewart.

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Billy Peek discography  (note: yes, same Billy Peek on Royal Crest)

Rockin' Country Style

Video Billy Peek with Chuck Berry - It Came Out Of The Sky (Santa Monica, 1975)

Video Producer Patrick Murphy profiles professional guitarist, Billy Peek.

Hey! Eilene

  

 Andy Terra

Hey! Eilene

John Szwaja - Ralph Gifford, Timely Music ASCAP

Conductor : Steve Pulliam

Dauphin Records

late 1959 or early 1960

 

This is Andy Terra's second release on the Dauphin label.  He formed later the Andy Terra Trio - picture above –  a classic "lounge act", Andy Terra sang standards in restaurant lounges, night clubs and country clubs up and down the east coast from the Catskill Mountain resorts to clubs in Miami. 

Conducting the Dauphin Records sessions was Steve Pulliam, trombone player for Buddy Johnson's great band from 1947until the mid 1950s.

Fake

Silent 

(from the Series Imaginary Records)
signed and dated 'Christian Marclay 1997' (on the reverse)
paper collage on record cover
12¼ x 12¼in. (31.1 x 31.1cm.)
Executed in 1997

Fake album cover (but that's ART... not music) sold last week £34,850 (Christie's).  That's 112.7519.475 Vietnamese dongs.  For the readers who are not British or Vietnamese :  please use the currency converter HERE and see if you could afford this kind of folly.

 

Sherry

Glitters

Sherry

B. Gaudio, Bobob ASCAP

Yes C-6-A

S.P.C. Newark, N.J.

1962

Cover of the Four Seasons first number one hit on Yes, a budget label, product of S.P.C of Newark, New Jersey.

According to Bob Gaudio, the song took about 15 minutes to write and was originally titled "Jackie Baby" (in honor of then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy).  At the studio, the name was changed to "Terri Baby", and eventually to "Sherry", the name of the daughter of Gaudio's best friend, New York disc jockey Jack Spector. One of the names that Gaudio pondered for the song was "Peri Baby," which was the name of the record label for which Bob Crewe worked, named after the label owner's daughter.   [Wikipedia)

Red Hot Henrietta Brown

 

Sue Thompson

Red Hot Henrietta Brown

Fred Rose (-)

Mercury Records

1952

 

 

Sue Thompson was born Eva Sue McKee in Nevada, Missouri on July 19, 1925.   Sue‘s first successful fling in show business was with the "Dude Martin Show" on KYA Radio in San Francisco, and KGO TV in 1950.    The Dude Martin Show moved to TV station KTTV in Los Angeles in 1951.   She performed with Dude at the Palamino Club in Los Angeles.  Sue was nominated for an Emmy award in 1954 for her work on the Dude Martin Show, but lost out to Lucille Ball.

Sue’s first major hit was a tear jerker titled, "Sad Movies Always Make Me Cry" in 1961, on Hickory Records.  By then she was in her thirties and married to her third husband, singer Hank Penny.     

Sue Thompson discography