Note Upon My Door

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Django

Note Upon My Door

K. Davis,   Dundee Music BMI

Mr. Peacock 110

1962

A Norman Petty production issued on Larry Uttal's Mr. Peacock label.  

 

Django sounds remarkably like Larry Trider who, incidentally, also recorded this Ken Davis-penned song for Coral Records the following year.   It could be him. 

Larry Trider singles discography (from Praguefrank)

Roulette  (1961)            
R 4362 Ha Ha Song / Don't Stop - 05-61

Coral   (1963-64)             
62362 Note Upon My Door / I'm Comin' Home - 05-63
62391 Carbon Copy / House Of The Blues - 01-64
62440 Who's Gonna Stand By Me / Make It Do - 01-65

Dot (1965)
16727 New Orleans / So Fine

Amy (1967)
A-11,023 Goin‘ Away / Larry – 06-68

Ranwood   (1974)            
R-971 Let Me Sing My Song Nice Place To Visit / Nice Place To Visit - 73
R-978 Barroom Star / Me And My Wife, Martha - 73
R-1006 I'm Comin' Nashville / You're Gonna Love Yourself In The Morning - 74

Red Raider  (1978)          
Z001/002 The Farmer Needs Us All / The Ballad Of Pork'n'Beans - 78

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Greenstreet Beat

May 18, 2015, 8:52 am

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The Hollywood Treets

Greenstreet Beat

Buddy Motola, Vinton Greenstreet

Namo Music Co. ASCAP

PAK Records
805 N. Sycamore, Hollywood

early sixties?

This instrumental band also recorded "Moon Shot / Locust Raid " as The Greenstreets for the equally obscure (but much more prolific) Corsair label (#400), which also credied Vinton Greenstreet as the composer.

Nothing is known of the band which was probably led by Vinton Greenstreet who may have been or not  the Vinton L. Greenstreet, (1947-2001) who once resided in La Verne, California.

Beach Girl

June 10, 2015, 9:42 am

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U.S. Beatles

Beach Girl

Martin-Terry, Brigantine-Philter

DR Records, Inc.

Not sure exactly who owned this label.  Two other records that I know of (The Lifeguards and Cappy Bianco) on the same labels were third issues after being first released on Casa Blanca Records and then on ABC Records.

Martin and Terry, the composers, are Bob Martin and Phil Terry.

Jack Prince on Spade

June 13, 2015, 9:18 am

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Jack Prince

Rockum Beat

I've Got Troubles

Spade 45-1934

1957

Billboard review 27 April 1957

Not Jack Prince, born John Upchurch, of the Andy Griffith Show.  One of the rarest on the label?

Go Away Shadow

June 14, 2015, 11:35 am

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Sherree Scott

 

Go Away Shadow

(Sherree Scott, Portland Music Co., BMI)

Crosby 8
1960

Born Virginia A. Scott in Kentucky, but raised in Florida. Moved to Oregon at the age of 16. 

She has toured many sections of the United States, Hawaii and Canada.  In addition to writing all her records, Miss Scott composed several other songs, including "Oregon Is God's Own Country," the Oregon centennial song.   Sherree Scott was managed by Mark Raymer, from Houston (who also managed Link Davis at that time).  Both moved for a  short period to Union Beach, New Jersey in 1960-1961 where Sherree Scott had her own live country music show heard each Sunday at 5:30 p.m. on WFHA-FM  while Mark Raymer was spinning country records at the same radio.

She became an evangelist and recorded a religious LP for Robbins Records with two of her young daughters, Melodee and Shirlee.  

 

In the seventies, she resided in Florida where her Foundation For Christ, Universal Evangelistic Miracle And Music Fellowship, Inc. was based.

 

She died in 1993, survived by 7 children.


Her discography at RCS

Meanest Little Woman

June 19, 2015, 1:32 pm

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Dick Gentile

Meanest Little Woman

Valerie Records 316

1962

Deresco EP 228

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01 - The Stroll.Mp3      Bradley Arthur
02 - Oh Boy.Mp3          Gootch Jackson
03 - Jo Ann.Mp3          Dick Warren
04 - Stood Up.Mp3        Bradley Arthur

Deresco 228

1957

Deresco was a discount label owned by Jalen Amusement Company (14 East 21st Street, Baltimore).   Records on Deresco were masters previously recorded (and issued) by Rite Records of Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Deresco 228 is a re-issue of the EP Big 4 Hits 228 (same release number used) and of Gateway Top Tune 1236 and 1237 (singles), both labels Rite subsidiaries.

Across The Street From The Chapel

June 22, 2015, 11:31 am

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The Charms

 

Across The Street From The Chapel

D. Barnett, Candle Glo Music, BMI

Candle Glo S-5012

Candle Glo Records 

Bennie Dillon Bldg, Nashville, Tenn.

1964

The Charms, three girls from Caryville, Tennessee were graduates of Hacksboro High School.   The Charms have been singing together since they were small children, and have appeared many places over East Tennessee.  In 1963, they won first place at the state-wide Beta Club Convention talent show in Nashville.  They had their own rock' n roll band.   Margie Bullock played the electric guitar, Ann Harness piano and Susie Harness the drums.  

Among the members of the band accompanying the Charms on this record were Boots Randolph, Bobby Moore, Pig Robbins and The Jordanaires.

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The Wolf Hop

June 24, 2015, 12:55 pm

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The Anderson Sisters

Wilma Jean - Ruby Lee

With Leon Houston And The Cumberland Mountain Boys

 The Wolf Hop

Devora Brown, Trianon Publications BMI

  Fortune 202

1958

Shortnin' Bread

June 25, 2015, 12:01 pm

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Ding Dong Daddies

 
Shortnin' Bread 

(public domain) 

Tomlan TL-1000
Tom-Tom-Lan Productions 

1014 W. 7th Amarillo, Texas

1960

This was recorded in Clovis, New Mexico.  The Ding Dong Daddies were Don Lanier, Gary Swafford and Jon Sisco. 

Gary Swafford was next drumming for the Checkmates, a band formed by Ray Ruff.

Guitarist Jon Sisco formed in 1960 The Electras who had a record issued by Jamie Records. Sisco also produced a single for Charlie Phillips on the OAK label.

 

Don Lanier, musician, songwriter and Nashville A&R man, was born and raised in Texas, one of his earliest music associations was with Jimmy Bowen with whom he started the Rhythm Orchids. 

The band was called in to back up new singer Buddy Knox in the studio where he recorded his biggest hit, Party Doll.   While Knox and Bowen wrote the big hit, Lanier contributed to others in Buddy's catalog including I'm Stickin' With You, Hula Love and Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep.

In 1964, Lanier followed Bowen to Los Angeles where he started to do arrangements for his friend, eventually becoming an in-demand studio guitarist and arranger. As a songwriter, his Here We Go Again became a hit for Ray Charles in 1967 and he wrote additional songs for artists such as Dean Martin, the Everly Brothers and Hank Snow. BMI, with which he was affiliated, credits him with 42 recorded compositions.

Twenty years later, Lanier once again followed his friend Bowen as he returned to Nashville. As an A&R man for MCA, Don found major hits for Reba McEntire, George Strait, Loretta Lynn, Patty Loveless and others.  

 

He died in 2014at the age of 78.

 

 

 

Don Lanier Discography

 

57 Roulette 

R-4021 Private Property / Pony Tail Girl – 09-57
 

58 Dot -  as Don & The Roses
45-15755 Since You Went Away To School / Right Now (instr.) – 04-58
45-15874 Leave Those Cats Alone / Don't Try To Change Me – 12-58

60 Gee

G-1060 Need Your Loving / Sweetness – 04-60

62 Apt

25073 Gangster Of Love / I Don't Love You Anymore – 10-62

66 Reprise
0525 My Little Boy's Hands / I Wanna Go Somewhere - 66

Thanks, Jayne!

June 26, 2015, 7:09 am

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Q- This is now the end of the interview.  Do you have some special announcement to make for our readers, Jayne ?

A- Oh yes.   My good friend Bob the Scared Miner says that the box.net links from his fabulous blog will be available again on the very first day of the nex month.  

Thanks, Jayne!

I'm So Grateful

June 26, 2015, 10:28 am

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The Lollipops

I'm So Grateful 

(Robert Riley, Tree Pub. Co. BMI)  

Mixed-Up 2 Production

Miki 1017
Nashville, Tennessee
1964

Songwriter Robert Riley was a member of The Prisonaires on Sun Records. ( 'Just Walking In The Rain').  The song was written in 1952 with Johnny Bragg.  Both were then hosts of the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville.  Released in 1957, Robert Riley wrote songs for Excello Records in Nashville and for the King and Todd labels who held sessions in Nashville, his hometown.

He would work on musical arrangements for Ernie Young at Excello, and he had an income-generation role too: blues singer Jerry McCain told interviewer David Nelson how Young, ''had this black dude there. His name was Robert Riley... What he would do is sit there and listen at the songs and everything, then he'd pick out a verse that he says is not strong enough. But in turn he writes him a verse that he want to insert in there so he can get writer's royalties. So Mr. Young says 'Jerry, Robert said it was a good song but the second verse ain't strong enough'. I said 'I ain't changing nothing', and Mr. Young said, 'well Jerry, see, there you go again. You supposed to go along with me'''.

Then he was signed by Tree Publishing (Jack Stapp and Buddy Killen) as writer and, later, employee..

Buddy Killen had mixed feelings about whether he did right to hire Robert Riley for Tree Records and for his Dial label. On the credit side Riley did write some good songs and, crucially, he introduced singer Joe Tex to Killen at the start of the singer's career. But then, on the debit side, Killen remembered: ''When Riley was released from prison he started coming around to Tree hoping to get some of his songs recorded. I signed him to Tree as a writer and ultimately hired him to work for the company. One day I asked him to take a check to Jack Stapp over at the radio station. The check for $1000 was for royalties from a Roger Miller song. Later that day... both the check and Riley were nowhere to be found. He had forged a signature, cashed the check, and gone to a convention in Chicago... I was furious. I'm going to have you arrested', I said. Riley began to cry and said that I was only going to prosecute him because he was black. That was utter nonsense and he knew it... I later found out that he had sold some of his songs for pocket change while under contract to write for Tree''

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Other artists on the Miki label includes Lynn Britt, The Downbeat Seven and Hal & Jean Gilbert.The label was possibly owned by Riley or by Tree Music.

San Antonio Rose

June 30, 2015, 10:37 pm

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 Art Erikson and The Playboys

 San Antonio Rose 

 (Public Domain)

Hawkeye 6530

1963

Hawkeye was a subsidiary of Arc Recorders, which was a recording studio located at 3291 Tweedy Boulevard, South Gate, California, owned by Jerry Cooper (of Bruce and Jerry on Arwin ?)

Another Art Erikson record (on the Byeric label) can be found here

San Antonio Rose originally was an instrumental written in 1938 by Bob Wills who added lyrics two years later :

"When I was a very young man, I was living in Roy, New Mexico, working as a barber and playing for dancers on Saturday night. Since most of the population of Roy was Mexican, I wrote a tune for them to dance to and called it 'Spanish Two-Step.' When I did my first recording session with Columbia in 1935, 'Spanish Two-Step' was one of the tunes I recorded. On November 28, 1938, I went to Dallas to record again for Columbia. After we cut several tunes, uncle Art Satherley, who was the A & R man on this session, asked me if I had another tune like 'Spanish Two-Step.' I said, 'No, I don't but if you give me a few minutes, maybe I can come up with something.' In a few minutes I had written and recorded the tune. Uncle Art asked me what I wanted to name the tune. I told him I didn't know. So he said, 'Let's name it "San Antonio Rose."' This was an instrumental and it sold very well. The recording company asked me to record it again with lyrics. I worked for two years before finally finishing the words and recorded 'New San Antonio Rose' in April 1940."—Bob Wills

Chick Chick

July 3, 2015, 9:41 am

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Donnie Moneymaker

(13 yrs. old)

Chick Chick

Irene Howard, Be Sure Music

Produced by Allen Howard

Mike NR14259

1982

The song was first recorded by  Junior Dean And The Avalons in 1958 for the Mike label, owned by Otha Howard (1957-2006), the father of the producer of this cover version, Allen Howard.  

The label says Donnie is 13 years old, but he sounds much older.  The flip is a Elvis tribute of lesser interest, "Memories Of Elvis", written by Otha Howard and Terry Gragg.  This "new" Mike label was revived by Allen Howard in the early eighties in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

The Reverend Bob Presents...

July 8, 2015, 3:24 am

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The Reverend Bob Presents...
 23 meanest little tracks from the DeadWax Archives
Rocklector 008

Bell 118-Jay Stevens-Tiger.Mp3                            
Blue Star 503-Alice Grant- Pretty Little Brown Eyes.Mp3   
Breeze- Sharlet Sexton - Since My Baby Put Me Down.Mp3    
Brunswick 55169 Inez Johnston-Big Bad Betty.Mp3                        
Crosby 8  Sherree Scott Go Away Shadow.Mp3                              
Diamond 3001 Gloria Wood -Rock And The Roll.Mp3           
Diamond 3001 Gloria Wood Honey Bee.Mp3                                
Duplex 9002 - Bobby Williams So Blue.Mp3                  
Essex 385-Bo Diddley - Jean Dinning.Mp3                   
MCM TK-12--Ray Flowers& Louise Taylor Hip Happy Hippy.Mp3  
Mongoose Johnny Keyes The Rock  N Roll Squaw.Mp3          
Pak 1900   The Hollywood Treets-  Greenstreet Beat.Mp3                             
Pattern 103 Lem Davis-Hot Chocolate.Mp3                   
Pawn 1201 - The Joy Vendors - Popeye-Line.Mp3                                
Point  - Sentinals -Bony Maronie.Mp3                          
Spice 401 Terry Knight - If I Couldn't Cry.Mp3            
Studio City 1026 -The Furys- Little  Queenie.Mp3          
Summit Dick And Libby- Pizza Sure Is Good .Mp3            
Tiger 102 Juil Noel- I'm A Womans Man-.Mp3                
Tom-Tom-Lan 1000 Ding Dong Daddies  - Shortnin' Bread.Mp3 
Valerie 316 Meanest-Little-Woman.Mp3                      

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He's Got The Whole World (in his hands)

July 8, 2015, 5:07 am

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Gene Princeton

Big Fat Saturday Night 

Covay-Berry-Dixon

Deaville Music, BMI

He's Got The Whole World (in his hands) 

Vandanburg BMI

1960

This is Gene Rambo.  "He's Got The Whole World" was recorded at the suggestion of Gene Vincent.

“Man”, recalls Gene Rambo, “After I saw Gene Vincent I said forget Elvis – It was pure excitement from the start to finish”. His brother Bobby remembers too: “All of us were Vincent Nuts, Man! If he made some wild stage move, we’d pick up on it and do it too!”

Gene Rambo, a.k.a. Gene Princeton

Gene Rambo and the Flames were key figures on the Dallas scene since '56 when Gene and 16 year old guitar rippin' Lil' bro Bobby caught the Elvis bug.  They lay down a pair of ruff covers of recent Presley faves "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Don't Be Cruel" that never got beyond a scratchy pass around acetate.  It was a cool start for the Flames, but it was the tornado-like roar like Gene Vincent into town that turned the entire Big D, in particular the Rambos, into one mojo jumpin' bean. (from the notes of the No Hit LP "the Desperate Dallas Demos")

The Flames became the house band at Pattie’s Teen Club and later at the Irving Youth Center. In May of ’57, The Flames won first prize at the Big D Jamboree’s weekly talent show and came back for ten weeks with the support from their all chicks fan club “The Flamettes”. Those gals used to flash banners stating “The Flames will burn Forever”. Bobby will also back some other performers on recording sessions like Joe Poovey on “Teen Long Fingers” (Dixie 2018) or Scotty Mc Kay, a Blue Caps, on “Rollin’ Dynamite” (Event 4295).  Back at Sellers Studio, Bobby would record great covers of Carl Perkins “Your True Love” and Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody”.  In Dec 1957, they will play the Big D Jamboree with Charline Arthur, Darrell Glenn, Joe Poovey and Johnny Dollar. Around the same time they also played on the same bill with Country Johnny Mathis, Johnny Horton, Bob Luman, Mac Curtis …

School Of Love

July 12, 2015, 7:51 am

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Cole Younger

School Of Love

 

J. Gazzaruso, Dixsil Music-Carpino Music

Candix 320
1961

This is John Gazzaruso

"School Of Love" was previously issued on Mercury Records (#71587) as by Johnny Raphael, another Gazzaruso pseudonym.  It's also probably him on the Australian W&G label released as by Johnny Daro (I've not heard this one, but it has to be him).

Johnny Raphael first recorded for Aladdin Records in 1958 (Lonely Road To Nowhere/We're Only Young Once, with Frank Gazzaruso and Orchestra.)


He produced some early P.J. Proby recordings (still known as Jett Powers) at an unknown date (probably in 1959).  Unissued at the time, two of these recordings, "You Got Me Cryin'" backed with "I Need Love", were issued only in 1965 on Johnny Raphael's own Surfside Records

His wife was Rosemary Nibali who was the mother of Tommy Rettig, original star of  "Lassie", the TV series.  (Tommy's father was Elias Rettig)

School of Love 

We're only young once 

Let's rock & roll 

Loving Husband, Father & Grandfather
Johnny Raphael Gazzaruso

1928-1974

Nu, Nu, Nu

July 14, 2015, 9:02 am

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The Taylor Maids

Bobby Pring's Orchestra

Nu, Nu, Nu 

Romano, Bradford (ASCAP)

Eureka 6752

1954

Eureka, the Gold label, division of Stanley and Livingston, Inc. Hollywood, Calif.

The Taylor Maids, three striking decorative blondes, were sisters who answer to the names of Pat, Beverly and Shirley Taylor.   They began their professional careers singing in army hospitals.    Said one sergeant, "Those girls were so darn pretty they didn't have to sing."     Bob Hope discovered them in 1950 and immediately booked them to accompany him on a Korean tour. Hope was so enthralled by the girls that when he made his TV debut he brought the Taylor Maids to New York. 

After four singles for Capitol Records in 1955-1956, Pat called it quits to devote time to her family.  Beverly and Shirley tried to find a third person to keep the act going, without success, and both wound up getting hired in Florida as airline stewardesses. 

More details can be found here

Double Bubble

July 16, 2015, 1:20 pm

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Larry Brinkley

Double Bubble

Lee McAlpin-Randy Wilson

Lyn-Lou Music BMI

Magic 3011
1965

Earliest releases on the Magic label had a Memphis address, later releases a Middleton, Tennessee address.  Magic Records was owned by Jimmy Darnell and Lee McAlpin. 

From Jackson, Tennessee Larry Brinkley recorded locally for Jaxon (unissued cuts) and Charlie Roach's Westwood.  See his discography in the Rockin' Country Style website.

When the rockabilly days were over, Larry teamed with Lee McAlpin (who played piano with Carl Perkins' band) and they wrote songs together, notably "The Man in the House", recorded by Loretta Lynn.

This is one of the last (or the last) release on the label, more obscure than the earlier Larry Brinkley offering on the label which was "Right String, But Wrong Yo Yo" (Magic 3004)

Blue Jean Blues

July 19, 2015, 12:34 pm

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Sharon Strauss

Blue Jean Blues

Richard Kleiner-Jane Douglass White

Opportunity Music, ASCAP

Target EXP 503

If it's on TARGET it's a hit

1957


Sharon Strauss, 1962

Sharon Strauss was raised in Oceanside, N.Y., on the south shore of Long Island, though she spent summers with her grandmother in Danby, Vt., in the shadow of the Green Mountains.

Sharon Strauss, the daughter of  Mike Strauss, a winter sportswriter at The New York Times,  had appeared on Paul Winchell's TV show and was a junior at Oceanside Junior High School, when she recorded her first 45 for Jubilee Records in 1957.

In 1963, she married George Parker, a member of the family that owned the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y..  Her mother-in-law told her: “Remember, you married a hotel.”  And the new Mrs. Parker gave up her ambitions to be an entertainer and instead became a hostess at the famous celebrity hotspot, greeting visitors as the manager of guest relations.

These were the glory days of the Catskills, and Sharon recalls: “It was pre-cruise ship, and this was like a cruise ship on land.  When people came down to dinner, they dressed.”   The dining room held 3,000.   Guests included the Rockefellers, Kennedys, singers, dancers, “and every famous athlete of the day.”

Discography

57    Jubilee 5275 : A Hole In The Fence / Matchin' Kisses
57    Target 503 : Blue Jean Blues / Rattlin' Around
57    Target 504 : (You're The) Purtiest Thing / Over & Over
62    ABC 10349 : Don't Keep Your Friends Away From Me / Don't Let Him Know (The Truth)