Baby Blues Rock

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Carl Simpson

Baby Blues Rock

Betty J. and Paul E. Hertel

Cedarlane BMI - Jenks

Caveman Supersonic Sound #503

Wolf Lake, Illinois

1964 or later

Quite intriguing re-issue on a song-poem label of a record previously on Paul Hertel's Valli Records (out of South Bend, Indiana). 

Likewise intriguing is the re-issue on Caveman of Jimmy Evans' " The Joint's Really Jumpin'" previously on Clearmont Records in Memphis, Tennessee.   

All other releases on the label are song-poem records.  

Jenks, publisher name added on the re-issue is Fat Cat Music today,  according to the BMI database :

Fat Cat Music Co
Contact:     William J Jenks
DBA Fat Cat Music Co
C/O Reilly & Jenks Inc
100 Hanover Street
New Oxford, Pa 17350

I bet that Jenks has somehow something to do with these re-issues. . .

 

Valli 304, first issue in 1963

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My Lovey Dovin'

May 14, 2013, 1:38 pm

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Paul Chaplin

and his band

My Lovey Dovin'

(Paul Chaplain, Drum Pub. Co. BMI)

Arranger Howard Biggs

Elgin Records #5001/5002

1963 (November)

Paul "Chappy" Chaplain was born in Dudley (Webster) Massachusetts,  raised on Williams Street.  He died in 1995. 

With his band, he played the Boston area in the early 1960s.  They had a regional hit with "Shortin' Bread" in October of 1960, a song produced and issued by Harry Persons on his own Harper label,  a label later distributed by Monte Bruce and George Goldner.

For Sale or for Lease

May 15, 2013, 1:08 am

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George Jones

For Sale or for Lease

 1954 recording

(unissued at the time)

From George Jones first recording session, cut in Jack Starnes' living room in Beaumont, Texas, on a Magnecord home recorder.

"For Sale or for Lease"  shows Jones attempting to sound like one of his Texas idols, Lefty Frizzell.  It is actually this song that one can understand the oft told story that after listening to Jones sing for a couple of hours that night, [Pappy] Daily said to him that he sure can sing like Hank and Lefty, but "Can you sing like George Jones ?".      Harlan Taylor, October 2009

☆   ☆   ☆ 

After Elvis's concerts, the Colonel would have the announcer tell the crowd, "Elvis has left the building" to get the fans to clear the premises.

At George Jones's concerts, on the other hand, it got to the point where they had to announce that he'd entered the place.

Jones may be the finest country singer alive, but what good is that whiskey voice if you can't hear it.   Over the years George has had a serious problems with showing up for his scheduled concerts.  In 1977 and 1978 alone he missed fifty shows.  It got so serious that he acquired the unaffectionate nickname George "No Show" Jones.

In 1982 songwriters Glenn and George Martin penned a tune for Jones and Merle Haggard called "No Show Jones." Jones, of course, missed the recording session and Haggard recorded it alone. It's on their duet album.
 

Here is a tour of some of the fine arenas where George didn't show over the years.

 [follows two pages of places where George didn't show]


Quote from Vince Staten, Unauthorized America : a travel guide to the places the Chamber of Commerce won't tell you about, Harper & Row, 1990

Bad Jack Clark

May 16, 2013, 1:28 pm

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Rita Carol

Bad Jack Clark

(Joe Taylor, Purple Rooster Music Co. BMI)

Jo-Jo Records

1969

Tupelo, MS or Memphis, TN ?

Hawk Is Chicken

May 17, 2013, 12:48 pm

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Indians

Red Feather
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Hawk Is Chicken

 Glenn Castle

Wild West Music BMI
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House of Castle 94289

Arr. and prod. by Glenn Castle

Red Feather, I assume, is the singer.  The flip, an instrumental, "War Dance" penned by Frank L. Coyote, can be heard elsewhere on the net.  

I'm Comin' On Back

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Taffy Thomas

I'm Comin' On Back 

(T. Navarro, Gee Pub.)

ZTSC-104345

What'd I Say

(Ray Charles, Progressive BMI)

ZTSC-104346

A Sammy Gee production

Newport Records #130

1965

Taffy Thomas would be the lead singer of the Sanshers, all girl group  — several sources says group is from Ohio, but I would say more likely from Michigan — who recorded two singles in 1964 :

• It's Only A Paper Moon  / My Ideal (Essar Records)
• Gonna Git That Man / Kansas City (Kweek Records)

But she's surely not Taffy Thomas "the West Coast nitery canary" , discovered by Frank DeVol  ("I Said No", Columbia 41644, 1960).   That Taffy would be actually Sue Thompson ("Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", Hickory Records, 1961)

None of these six songs recorded by Taffy Thomas are original.  And "I'm Comin On Back" is no exception : it's a cover of a song which was featured on "Twist Around Town", a Tommy Navarro album produced by Abner Levin and  issued in 1961 by Urania Records, a peculiar recording company.  It can be heard on YouTube HERE. 

Tommy Navarro's songs have been loved on the northern soul scene for years in the UK,,  “I Cried My Life Away,” on De Jac Records. being massive in the mid 1980's. 

Teddy Rich and the Rockets

May 21, 2013, 1:42 am

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TEDDY RICH And The ROCKETS
Vocal By:  Kenny Hodge

SO-197 — Calypso Joe

Bert Gardner  -  Music Exp. Ent.

SO-198  — Put A Nickel In The Juke Box

(Rock 'n' Roll Rhapsody)
    Bert Gardner - Music Exp. Ent

Teenage 500
March 57

TEDDY RICH And The ROCKETS
Vocal By:  Kenny Hodge

 
SO-219 — Gotta Rock, Gotta Roll

Whitey Trapnell  Music Exp. Ent. 

SO-2xx — Cuban Holiday

(-)

Teenage 501

1957

 

  Teddy Rich and his band, in the sixties, entertained various supper venues in and around Lebanon, Pennsylvania, often sharing the bill with Johnny Barker and His Seven Redcoats.   But further info on this band is not available online.

Music Exploitation Enterprises was owned by Bert Gardner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company published various music instrument courses (Fender bass jazz,  Dixieland tenor banjo... ) in the early sixties.  The Teenage label was perhaps a subsidiary of his company.

Bert Gardner had a long association with songwriter Whitey Trapnell  :  earlier, in 1952, they co-wrote the libretto and the musical score of a western musical comedy, titled "Tops and Bottoms" .

Bert Gardner was perhaps the Broadway vaudeville actor (1887-1967)

Rock (The Whole World Round)

May 22, 2013, 1:17 am

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The Dobbinaires

With Harry Dobbs And His Orchestra

Rock (The Whole World Round)

Phillips-Dobbs-Sosnow ASCAP

Jen-D

 1958

Jen-D discography

55 The 5 Notes With The Hamil-Tones (also issued on Josie 784)

You Are So Beautiful   http://youtu.be/jAR2nWz6MH4

Broken Hearted Baby" (Going to Town)  http://youtu.be/JOMXhfVIa5g

58 The Dobbinaires

 Rock (The Whole World Round) 

Just Another Way (To Break My Heart)

63 Alan Lee (issued w/picture sleeve, see Rockin' Country Style,

Broken Hearted Baby

You Are So Beautiful"

note : both songs recorded eight years earlier by The 5 Notes

Jen-D Records owner was probably Jennie Dougherty who penned most of the songs on the label.

540 E. Walnut La. Philadelphia, PA

Home of Jen-D Records

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I Can't Wait Till Christmas Day

June 28, 2013, 12:42 am

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Lizanne Murray

 "I Can't Wait Till Christmas Day"

Lois Jean Ridgely-Don Ricardo

Hartley Music Co. (ASCAP)

A Jarrett Enterprises Release

late sixties?

This song, written in 1951, is also known as "I Tan't Wait Till Quithmuth Day" and was recorded by Mel Blanc on Capitol Records. 

Jarrett Spotswood Lickle and Liz, his wife (born Murray) formed Jarrett Enterprises Releases in Baltimore in 1967, a record label " which will record the best in previously unattached talent, young people who deserve to be heard.  "

Jarrett was better known as Patches.  He was a local children's television personality in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the 50s.  He died recently (in 2012).

 

 Patches and Liz left local television in 1962 and soon opened
 their own coffee house in Timonium, called The 15 Below,
so named because it was 15 steps under the first floor.
 

She's The Lovin' Kind

June 29, 2013, 1:03 am

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The Jades

She's The Lovin' Kind

Homer Chasteen, Albert Dailey, Charles Marlowe

 

Fevre MLFP 651

Albert Dailey formed the Jades in 1966 in the Peach State. The Jades played together for 25 years. Surviving members still gather once a year for a reunion performance.  In the late 1970s, the Jades became the house band at the J&J Center on Commerce Road in Athens, playing behind a host of traveling country music stars.  The Jades played anything from country to Elvis to old school.   They recorded only two singles.

The Fevre label was an imprint of  LeFevre Sound, a recording studio formed in Atlanta, Georgia by The LeFevres, a Southern Gospel singing group. 

 

Wine Bop Bop

June 30, 2013, 12:34 pm

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Vince Maloy

Wine Bop Bop

Walter Earle Music Co.

WEB 1109

Web Records Inc.

155 W. 46th St. N.Y.

1957

Vince Maloy :

I made my first record in 1957 for the Web Record label. "Honey Baby" b/w "Wine Bop Bop." I first met Link Ray and Doug Wray around this time. In fact Ray helped set up the studio mikes for the Web Records sessions.

Vince Maloy and band

picture credit : http://vincemaloy.tripod.com/NEWSCLIPS.HTM

Vince Maloy (1933-2002) was a rockabilly singer from Southern Maryland, who had six singles released on as many labels : Web, Tait, Angletone, End, Felsted and 1234.   The first, and probably the best of these, was "Honey Baby"/"Wine Bop Bop" on Web Records (1957).   Vince made over 50 appearances on the "Milt Grant Show", the Washington D.C. area's version of "American Bandstand." He also appeared on the Felix Grant Show and the Buddy Deane Show in Baltimore. In addition, Vince hosted three radio shows over the years.  In the 1960s, Vince established himself as a night club performer. He took his routine to Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and played all over the Washington D.C. area.   During this time, Vince became good friends with Link Wray, sometimes sharing the stage with Link and the Wraymen.   Around 1970, Vince left the music business and joined the North Beach Maryland Police Department, advancing through the ranks and becoming the Chief of Police. Vince then went on to law enforcement duties for the Federal Government and retired after a successful career in 1997.

Vince Maloy, Rockin' Country Style page



Walter Earle Bathgate (1897-1963), also known as Walter Web and Walter Webb, sold miniature circus kits around 1946, according to an ad published by Popular Mechanics.  He was then a resident in Orange, New Jersey.

In 1954, he was selling skating music tapes for roller rinks.  

In the end of 1955, he established the Web label and Air Permissions, "a music licensing organization, for the purpose of NOT collecting performance fees from radio stations" (Billboard, November 26, 1955).

Web Records discography

1053-55
?
Woodchoppers Ball   / Runnin' Wild

1054  — Dec. 10, 1955 (Bb)
Sylvia Marie
Runnin' Wild / Little Walking Doll

1057-59   — Feb. 25, 1956 (Bb)
Sylvia Marie, Jack Loos And Dick Showalter
Twelfth Street Rag / Limehouse Blues

1058-60  — Apr. 14, 1956 (Bb)
Ray Rivera
Handle My Love With Care/ Will I Be The One?

1061-63
?
Dancing Tambourines / Dizzy Fingers

1062-64   — 1956/Apr. 14 (Bb)
Jill And Sylvia Marie
Live, Laugh, Love / S.O.S.

1071-73
?
Deed I Do / Jazz Pizzicato

1072   —  Aug. 4, 1956 (Bb)
George Bruce
Rock And Rockin' Roller Coaster Ride / The Magic Of The Lord

1074   — Nov. 10, 1956 (Bb)
Lori Mitchell
When I'm With You / You Oughta Be Mine

1080/2  — July 28, 1956  (Bb)
Manhattans and Web’s Rhythmaires
Kiki / Sizzle and Crack

1084
Raymond Swartz And His Guitar
Never Satisfied / ?

1101  — Mar. 9, 1957 (Bb)
The Bell-Aires
Love Me, Lover/ Over And Over

1102   — Mar. 30, 1957 (Bb)
Bill Woods
It's The Talk Of The Town / This Is A Very Special Day   

1103  —/Mar. 30, 1957  (Bb)
Ray Rivera
Calypso Cat / Lola Gone

1104  — Mar. 30, 1957 (Bb)
Peter Kim
Peddler Man (Ten I Loved) / Misirlou

1106
Yochanan   
My Pretty Baby / ?

1108
Barbi Putnam
Georgie Porgie / Mailman Bring Me No More Blues
 
1109
Vince Maloy
Wine Bop Bop / Honey Baby

1113  — July 22, 1957 (Bb)
Walter Bishop
Dapper Dan / Gonna Climb To The Top Of A Mountain

1114
Bob Jones
Pony Tail / Inferiority Complex

1115
Vicki Belmonte
Dance Your Fraulein / Heaven In A Pair Of Wooden Shoes

1116
Tony Penn and Startones
No Time For Tears /  Blind Date

1117
Vinny Di Martino
Understand / Is Heartbreak To Begin

1118  — Feb. 24, 1958 (Bb)
Jerry Keller
Faster The Better / Please Sing To Me

1119
Barbi Putnam Assisted By The Wig Twisters
Sugar Baby  / Lovers On The San Sebastian River

1120
Peter Kim
My Silent Prayer / Love To Have You Around

1121
Andy Adams
Laughing On The Outside / End Of A Love Affair

1123   — Apr. 14, 1958 (Bb)
Freddy Jacobs
Lonesome Train / Sad and Lonely

Heartache Weather

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Penney Parker

 
Heartache Weather

Hillard-DeLugg
Shapiro Bernstein and Co ASCAP

Guaranteed 212

1960

Penney Parker was born Jacqueline Francine Kerner on December 23, 1941 in New York City.  By the age of eighteen she was singing in a New York club.   She came to Hollywood in 1959, given a month-long vacation there by her parents as a high school graduation present.   Spotted by an agent, she found herself playing a role on Dobie Gillis.  Later that year, she was cast as Danny Thomas' daughter Terry on The Danny Thomas Show, putting on hold her plans to attend college.
In 1960, she was signed to Guaranteed Records by Joe Carlton whointended a big promotional push for Penney, similar to the campaign he made on behalf of Anita Bryant on Carlton Records, his main label. [See Billboard July 4, 1960]

 "Hushabye Little Guitars"a song especially written for her by Paul Evans  was announced as her first release, but wasn't not issued and instead Paul Evans released it himself on the following Guaranteed single (#213).

Short Fat Fannie

July 3, 2013, 9:15 am

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Chuck Lovett

with Herbie Layne's Orchestra

Short Fat Fannie

Gateway Parade of Hits 1220

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1957

Rather good cover of Larry Williams, New Orleans burglar and pimp turned artist.  I can't find any other recordings by Chuck Lovett  (a pseudonym?)

Tired of slippin' and slidin' with a long tall Sally
Peekin' and a hidin', duckin' back in the alley
Don't wanna rip it up, don't wanna dance with Annie
I've got a brand new lover name is Short Fat Fannie

One day while I was visit'n at HeartBreak Hotel
That's where I met Fannie and she sure looked swell
I told her that I loved her I'd never leave
She put her arms around me, gave me fever

She's my tutti fruiti, I love the child so
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
Whenever I'm around her I'm on my p's and q's
She might step on my blue suede shoes

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
'Cause I was dancin' with MaryLou
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue

Short Fat Fannie she's my hearts desire
Short Fat Fannie sets my soul on fire
On Monday we were married on Blueberry Hill
Now we're so happy and I love her still

...

She's my tutti fruiti and I love the child so
She watch me like a hound dog everywhere I go
Whenever I'm around her I'm on my p's and q's
She might step on my blue suede shoes

Well at a honky tonk party just the other night
Fannie got jealous and she started a fight
'Cause I was dancin' with MaryLou
I had to call Jim Dandy to the rescue

Short Fat Fannie is my hearts desire
Got the kind of lovin' sets my soul on fire
Short Fat Fannie well I love her so
I'll never let Short Fat Fannie go

Hey! Bo Diddley

July 11, 2013, 7:31 am

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James Wood

 Hey! Bo Diddley

E. McDaniel, ARC Music Corp. BMI

Kid Glove Records 446

Roland James, engineer

A Billy Stephens Production

 

James Wood bio notice

From the booklet of That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 14 Bear Family CD, 1997

Of Billy Stephens, not much is known, but at least we have his picture
(from the picture sleeve of one of his record not listed in RCS)

There's A Big Wheel

July 14, 2013, 12:51 am

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From a collection of backs found HERE

The back of everything isn't necessarily of lesser interest.  Unfortunately, the flip of the Guaranteed Records single number 212 by Penney Parker posted HERE isn't that good, in my opinion,   despite a favorable review by Billboard Magazine :   "A nice swingin', upbeat rhythm number. The drum is heavily accented in Salvation Army style and the gal belts out the message.   " 

Salvation Army means charity, so here it is, for you Anonymous, as requested.

There's A Big Wheel

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My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

July 14, 2013, 12:21 pm

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Dick Warren

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It

Big 4 Hits 232


1958

A hit for Hank Williams in 1950.

Clarence Williams,   a New Orleans jazz and blues pianist, publisher, composer, agent, record producer, and vocalist copyrighted the song, but he didn't wrote it.   "My Bucket's Got A Hole In It" is actually an old jazz novelty which was already played in the 1900s by Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden, a New Orleans black cornetist (1877-1931).
For more info about the story of the song, see Larry Birnbaum, "Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll".


Dick Warren had several songs released by the Cincinnati's Rite Records subsidiaries Gateway and Big 4 Hits between 1954 and 1958.  [source : 45rpmrecords.com]

• My Friend  '54
• Rock Around The Clock '55
• The House Of Blue Lights '55
• A Rose And A Baby Ruth '56
• Party Doll '57
• I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry  '57
• Jo Ann '57
• Billy '58

Sweet 16 / Roll Over Beethoven / Johnny B. Goode (medley)

July 18, 2013, 11:52 am

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Darrell Shepherd

Zerpha Blue

Sweet 16 / Roll Over Beethoven / Johnny B. Goode (medley) 

Producer Marshall Miller

 

Varsity 2004

mid-70s

Parkersburg W.V. seventies band.  Darrell Shepherd was the vocalist. He died in 2002. 

The band had a previous record on the same label (listed HERE).   The label has the same lettering as the Varsity label of Nashville, Tenn., which was owned by Ben McCloud.  Coincidence?

Walkie Talkie Baby

July 20, 2013, 1:12 am

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The Levee Songsters

featuring Joe Gowder

with Larry Lucie Orchestra

 

Walkie Talkie Baby

   Written-by Joe Gowder

Bettsam BMI

 

Karen Records 1004

1959

This is a re-issue of Rego 1004 issued in 1956 as by the Teen-Tones (=the Mello-Harps on Tin Pan Alley),   The group story is told by Marv Goldberg HERE

Karen Records was owned by veteran music man Sam Wigler,  who managed (or worked with) several pubberies (Ford, Jewel, Encore, Pollsam, Mellin Music..).  The Rego label was also perhaps his own.   Last release on the obscure Rego label was possibly #306 (Cal Starr backed by the Anita Kerr Singers : Yes, I'm Robbin' the Craddle)

Karen Records (1959-1960)

 

1004 — The Levee Songsters
1005 — The Dungaree Darlings With Al Sears Orch
1006 — Marcella Kern 

1007
1008 — King Coleman
1009 — The Nocturnes  
1010 — Dick Thomas (Miami address) 

Don't You Know?

July 21, 2013, 12:57 am

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Andy Wilson And The Leesures

Don't You Know?
 (A. Wilson, Robadon Music BMI)

Destiny 506, 1961

Recorded, like most of the other Destiny releases, at Audio Recording Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.   

Andy Wilson was a Canadian act who was recorded there when he played engagements in Lorain.  

Terry Gordon's Rockin' Country Style has a Andy Wilson discography, which includes a record on Backbeat Records.  But that doesn't sounds at all like the same singer.   You can hear "Too Much Of Not Enough" here (YouTube)

Destiny Records discography

Baby What's Wrong

July 25, 2013, 6:04 am

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Ed Forsyth

Baby What's Wrong

(Jimmy Reed, Conrad Publ. BMI)

Jewel 741

produced by Dale Hawkins

Ed Forsyth discography

63 Chess 1859
Making Up / You Don't Mind Hurting Me

64 Chess 1907
Got A Lot Longer To Go / How Old Do You Have To Be

64 Jewel 734
Got A Lot Longer To Go / How Old Do You Have To Be

65 Jewel 741
Come On Everybody / Baby What's Wrong


Further listening : original by bluesman Jimmy Reed (Vee Jay Records, 1962) HERE