Oh, Oh Lolita

 

Tony And Paul

OH , OH LOLITA
w & m Stuart Wiener , Irving Berger & Mike Richards . Wemar Music 

Brunswick 9-55106
1958

Beatles sound-a-like from1958 when The Beatles were still The Quarrymen in Liverpool. The song was also recorded about the same time by The Cadillacs on Josie Records ("Peek-A-Boo" flip, Billboard, Oct. 27, 1958). I can't find anything on Tony and Paul, unless they were indeed The Teardrops (Tony and Paul Ciaurella) who also recorded for Josie in 1959, but this Brunswick 45 is not listed in their discographies. See :

http://whitedoowopcollector.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-teardropsrendezvous-dot-records.html
http://doo-wop.blogg.org/teardrops-2-c33181259

Surely, some doo wop aficionado should be able to tell . . 

 

Cash Box, November 29, 1958

Weeping Mary

 

The Sensational Chariots

Weeping Mary - part I

Weeping Mary - part II

Cha-Wee CW-9268 (1968)

Written by the Rev. Glen Squires (1933-2011), published by Mary Hill Music,  company owned by Frank Virtue (named after his wife). Philadelphia label. The group had at least another record on the same label, see 45cat

 

The Flattops on Beat!

 

 

 

The Flattops on Beat!

MS-581
ZTSP 27462 Roland Rock (Williams)
ZTSP 27463 Don't Look Back Mother Drac (Williams)

MS-582
ZTSP 27472 Too Much Slack In The Sack (Ferlaine & Whitaker)
ZTSP 27473 Flattop Special (Williams)

Produced and/or published by McFazwith & Smith, Inc.  Phila, PA.

Roland Rock is about the horror-movie host “Roland” featured on the weekly WCAU-TV' Shock Theater (1957-58) played by John Zacherle. 

Too Muck Slack is a rocker about the sack dress look composed by two members of WCAU-TV' art department. John Ferlaine and John Whitaker.  George Pincus, president of Gil Music Corporation, acquired the publishing right to this song which was spotted in Philadelphia by Irwin Pincus. (Cash Box, May 3, 1958). The three other songs composed by one Williams.

The flips of the above two songs are instrumentals with wailin' sax. All songs today are credited at BMI to Edward R. White and Typort Music (originally owned by Jim Tyson & Jerry Rappoport).

No info about the band line-up.  I'm curious about the ungoogleable McFazwith. Is this a private joke, a typo ? or what ?

Hop A Long Wong

 

Hop A Long Wong     

I'm Gonnna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

Goody Goody

Decca Records (1957)

First issued on the elusing Amusing label

Amusing Records ad, Billboard September 19, 1957

Cash Box, October 19, 1957

Not too difficult to find the answer. Hop A Long Wong was Joe Schuster, who again used the same nickname the following year, in 1958. But these songs remained probably unissued. ["We hear there is bidding on the novelty master “I Kissed A Girl and Made Her Cry” b/w “Elephant Rock” by Hop- A-Long Wong. Joe Schuster is the artist." Cash Box, April 12, 1958]

Joseph Schuster, composer, author, vaudeville artist and music publisher (with ASCAP since 1928). Born in New York in 1896. Joe Schuster began his theatrical career as a songwriter and author of special material. His tunes include "I Love My Baby", "Dance of the Paper Dolls", "Hold Me", "Shanty Town, "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" and many others. In 1930 he went into vaudeville with ex-fireman Johnny Tucker as the Delivery Boys.

Joe Schuster died in June 1959 of an intestinal hernia at Trafalgar Hospital in New York.
 

Beti Webb

Beti Webb in 1955

Beti Webb (born in 1935) was a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in english and drama with an emphasis on media production, advertising , marketing and journalism. She has acted in or directed over 180 plays. In 1959, she was the featured vocalist with Warren Covington and the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. Her first record, produced by Stan Kesler, was on the XL label out of Memphis and was also issued nationally by MGM with a different flipside.

Beti Webb discohraphy

A: My Marine
B: I Know (You Can Be Happy)
    XL 359    1966

A: I Have, I Have
B: I Know (You Could Be Happy)
    MGM K 13715    Apr 1967

A: Tic Toc
B: It's Not Me
    MGM K 13847    Nov 1967