Thursday, October 31, 2024

Tree Of Life

 


Phebe Scoggins
Age 13

Tree Of Life
Daddy Was A Ole Time Preacher

H & S Music, BMI
Dobie Record Co.

1975

Reverse of this EP on a Rome, Georgia label is by her parents, Hoyt and Mae Scoggins. Another Phebe 45 on the same label was While I've Got The Chance" b/w The Last Altar Call, also issued with a picture sleeve.

Phebe (detail from the sleeve)


Wednesday, October 30, 2024

No Particular Place To Go

 



Carrol Bateman & The Untouchables
(Carrol on labels, Carroll on cover)

No Particular Place To Go

From the album "Songs from Last Night"

Smigar Records, 1966

Carroll Bateman, lead singer & guitarist and The Untouchables (Ted LeMire, sax, Tom Vanyo, bass & singer, Richie Pommer, drums).

Carroll Bateman recorded previously (in 1964) as Evans Carroll And The Tempos ("The  Monster", Bangar Records) and, with The Untouchables, had a single on Twin Town (1967)

David Carroll, nee Carroll Bernard Bateman, was born in East Grand Forks, Minnesota in 1938.  Bateman saw Elvis’s 1956 show, and started playing rock ‘n’ roll in 1962 with local bands such as the Wanderers and the Untouchables.  He developed his Elvis Presley stage act in 1970 and had maintained the same band since 1971.  

Elvis Presley stage act filmed in Las Vegas 

 

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Nineteen Years

 




Nineteen Years

Acetate supposed cut by one Johnny Gentry in the new Sam Philips studio at Madison Avenue in 1960. Found on "Desperate Rock'N'Roll Volume 20" issued in UK on the Flame label.

There was a Johnny Gentry release on Style Records, a Memphis label operated by Style Wooten. And in 1974 on another label from the same owner there was a song titled Nineteen Years, composed and sung by one A.C. Martin (Camaro 3536)

A real find or a real fake? ? I am a little skeptical about the authenticity of this acetate. Opinion anyone ?



You're Mine, You

 


Bill Marshall
with The Sig Galloway Orchestra

You're Mine, You
(J. Green-E. Heyman, Famous Music Corp. ASCAP)

R-Dell Records 108
1958

Not listed at 45cat, and at Discogs neither. The R-Dell label (ex-Aardell) was founded by Bob Ross in 1955 and established at Selma Avenue in Hollywood.

Big-band trumpeter turned would-be record exec , Bob Ross founded the Harmony Recorders recording studio in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Owned or co-owned numerous record labels: Rosco Records, Aardell, R-Dell, Chartmaker and publishing companies: Teresa Music Co. aka Teresa Music and Teresa, Cadenza Music Co., Bob Ross Music Service, Chartmaker Productions, Inc etc.

"You're Mine, You" was first recorded by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians in 1933. For a list of cover versions, see the useful SecondHandSongs here

Bill Marshall was probably the vocalist with the Raymond Joe Sanns Orchestra featured on four sides issued on the Bel-Tone label in 1945 or 1946. These 4 sides can be heard HERE


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Giver Her A Whirl

 


The Ole Stragler
Irvin M. Privett

Giver Her A Whirl

Red Bug Records 100

Jacksonville, Florida

A Norm Vincent Associates Custom Record

Irvin M. Privett (1913-1992), that's all I know. Recorded by Norm Vincent Associates.

Boston-born, Norm Vincent arrived in Jacksonville, Florida in 1956 where he hosted a top-rated radio morning drive show before moving into sales. In 1962, he assumed management of WZOK, before leaving in 1966 to operate the Norm Vincent Recording Studios. 

Norm Vincent passed away in 2014.