Long Range Love

May 6, 2017, 12:37 pm

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The Mack Sisters

Long Range Love

(Jack Wolf –Leon Carr)

Blossom Music ASCAP

Orchestra conducted by Marion Evans

1955

The Mack Triplets (1950)

Better known as The Mack Triplets since their singing careers debut in 1943. The three sisters (not really triplets)Eileen, Charlotte and LaVerne were born McAuliffe. They launched their professional singing careers quite inauspiciously in 1943 when their agent booked them at a nightclub in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood.

''Nobody in the audience paid attention to us. They were more interested in drinking,'' mused Charlotte, who recalled the trio received $15 - total - for the gig. ''Out of that we had to pay the agent's fee.''

But the future looked brighter in 1944 when the Mack Triplets went on radio with Phil Spitalny's Hour of Charm. They also toured with Spitalny's all-girl orchestra.

The Mack Triplets went with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on a three-week gig at Slapsie Maxie's in Hollywood, played the London Palladium with Tony Martin and, for years, were performers in the live stage shows in Lowe's theater chain. They also did the first Phil Silvers TV show and made two appearances on the Milton Berle show among their scores of credits.

The Mack Triplets doing promotion for the Senate beer (circa 1949)

Emil Coleman (left) with Ted Martin and the Mack Triplets (Eileen, Charlotte, LaVerne) performing in studio.
(DeLuxe Records session?)

The Mack Triplets produced a number of records with varied success. Their best sales were overseas, especially in Australia. With the popularizing of rock 'n' roll, the entertainment world was changing drastically. And the sisters opted to retire from the stage in the late '50s.

''Besides, it had become tiring. I remember doing eight shows a day at Atlantic City's Steel Pier,'' said Charlotte said. ''It was time to get out and raise our family.''

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Johnny's Yo Yo

May 8, 2017, 10:40 am

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Nancy Ford
Johnny's Yo Yo

Jean JR-724

1972

In 1969, Nancy Da Feo decided to take up the guitar as a hobby. She also was interested in country music. A friend, Wade Dawson, who led a country band, taught Mrs. De Feo a few chords and, after she had mastered them, offered to let her sit in with his group.

Using her maiden name, Nancy Ford, she joined a quartet called the Nashville Kats. In 1971, when the leader of the group left for Florida, Miss Ford took over the combo and, as Nancy Ford and the Nashville Kats, it has become one of the most active country bands on Long Island, where she was the vice president of the local Country Music Association.

Nancy Ford was the first act signed by the brand new Jean label launched by Alithia Records whose president Peter Kraljevich and vice president Vito Samela decided to enter the country field in 1972.

Alithia Records has been set up in 1971 by The King Insulation Co., North Bergen, New Jersey-based firm specialized in pipe and wiring insulation. The singles lines kicked off with a record by Barbara English

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Happy Go Lucky Guy

May 15, 2017, 1:02 pm

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Little Joanie Scott

Happy Go Lucky Guy

Andy Pace, Kodel Music Co.

Tonix Record Co. JS-340
196?

Born Joan Berger in New Jersey.

Joan had few friends and felt out of place. She reached a turning point in 1962. “Shelly Fabares came out with the song ‘Johnny Angel,’ and I started singing it. That’s when I knew I wanted to be a star,” After her mother died, Joan moved in with her father and stepmother in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park. It did not go well. As Joan told it, “I was almost 17, absolutely gorgeous and my stepmother thought I was kind of wild. She was so high-strung. She’d sit down at the big baby grand piano, drink a glass of Chablis and then all of a sudden start singing, ‘Herman, I love you. Joan, I hate you!’”

So Joan moved in with her grandmother in Miami Beach, where she caught the eye of Morris Landsberg, a hotel owner with mob connections. She began dating Landsberg, along with various New York Mafia types. After ten months, the excitement had worn off and she was ready to decamp. She thought of Irwin Koplan, a Georgia salesman she’d dated when she was living in Gramercy Park. “Irwin had asked me to marry him a week after he met me,” she explained.“So I called him up and said, ‘Do you still want to marry me?’ He said, ‘Of course I do.’That night he packed his bags, drove down to Miami Beach and picked up my grandmother and me. He took us back to Georgia and we started making plans to get married. I think that was real nice of him.”

In 1984, Joan Berger-Koplan established JJK Security in Ringgold, Georgia. For three seasons, she was the star of a reality show, Small Town Security, which traced the fortunes (and misfortunes) of JJK Security,

She barks orders, meddles in other people’s business, and revels in scatological humor. Her conversation is invariably studded with profanity, sarcastic quips and sexual innuendo. She is wildly and hilariously inappropriate, and she is worshiped by her team.

A cigar smoking, hard talking, wisecracking woman with smudged eyeliner and bright red lipstick, Koplan was an instant hit with fans of the show and an immediate subject of “why-we-love” listicles on the net.

During the third and final season of the show, which ran from July 2012 through June 2014, it was revealed she had developed a brain tumor. She was hospitalized several times and suffered many side-effects and health issues in the months afterwards, stemming from the surgery and radiation treatment. She died March 31, 2016;

Light In The Attic Records, an independent record label from Seattle, Washington released an old acetate discovered in Koplan’s attic : "Baby I Need Your Lovin' b/w Kansas City"

Joan had a small part in 1969 in a spanish (or italian?) Tarzan ripoff called Tarzán en la gruta del oro (also known as Zan, King of the Jungle or Tarzan in the Golden Grotto.

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Mary My Darling

May 20, 2017, 2:26 pm

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Clarence Green

with the High Type Five

Mary My Darling

Old Grandpa

C and P #102
1959

Clarence Green (1934–1997)

Blues guitarist and band leader Clarence Green was born in Mont Belvieu, Texas, in Chambers County, on January 1, 1934. He was a versatile guitarist who should not be confused with the piano-playing blues singer Clarence "Candy" Green (1929–88) from nearby Galveston. Green, the guitar player, was a stalwart of the Houston scene who fronted a number of popular bands, the most famous being the Rhythmaires, between the early 1950s and his death.

This is his first record.

More info

C and P label discography

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The Two-Minute Record

May 28, 2017, 2:19 am

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Cash Box Music Editorial
5 December 1953

   For years now, The Cash Box has been campaigning for two-minute records for juke box operators. We have pointed out time and time again how important they are because the period in which an operator gets peak play is highly limited and records that run longer than two minutes cut drastically into his possible income.

   But now sevral disk jockeys, among them Joe Deane of Pittsburgh and Ed McKenzie of Detroit, have pointed out to us that the two-minute record is just as important to the disk jockey as it is to the operator.

   The demands upon a disk jockey's time today are enormous. There are more records than ever being issued and each one is being promoted. They are all being offered to disk jockeys for air play and a disk jockey has a terribly difficult time deciding what to play and what not to play. One important factor which he considers when he is deciding is the lenght of the record. If he has twelve minutes of available playing time, he would certainly rather play six two-minutes records than four three-minutes ones.

   Today, the disk jockey's situation is one in which the time available for playing records is strictly limited. On most shows, sponsors' messages take up considerable space and must be considered before anything else. Since many shows are highly packed with sponsors — a situation which is encouraged by both the station and the disk jockey, for after all, they are engaged in a commercial enteprise — messages sometimes cannot be spaced as far as three minutes apart so that the longer record cannot be played simply from a physical factor point of view.

   From every angle, it is obvious that the two-minute record has a better chance of being played and is therefore more in the interests of the record company, publisher, artist and everyone else connected with it than a longer record.

   Disk jockeys and opeattors together determine a great deal of what happens in our music business. When they combine their interests and demands, they are irresistible.

   And here is one need with both of them share.

   If each will make his needs known vociforously to recording men of all capacities, it won't be long before the two-minute record is the rule rather than the exception.

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I Wish I Knew

May 28, 2017, 3:33 am

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Iona Mack

I Wish I Knew

McMackon Mack Records 55

★

1961 — McMackon 12
Tell Me Why You Act That Way You Do / That You Will Be Mine

1961 — McMackon M17
True Love / Yes Daddy Let Your Love Be Mine

1962 — McMackon 17
Love Me Again / You're Allright With Me

1962 — McMackon 26
I Like To Dance With My Baby / It Is You Baby On My Mind

1965 — McMackon 35
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall / I Wish I Knew, I Wish I Knew

1967 — McMackon Mack 55
I Wish I Knew / Love Me Again

First releases had this address :

795 St. Nicholas Ave. New York

According to jukebox george at 45cat.com "795 St. Nicholas is an apartment building [50 or so units] in the Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill section of Harlem, about 2 km north of the Apollo Theater"

Later releases had no address, just a phone number : JU 6-0499 New York

Mysterious Iona Mack, about her I wish I knew... more. Was it a pseudonym? Did she had a previous and long career under another name? That's what I like to think...

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Joyce Taylor, Waxmate of the Month

June 1, 2017, 6:36 am

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How Will I Know (If I Love You)
Liberty 55090

(1957)

Born in Taylorville, Illinois as Joyce Crowder. Most online sourcesindicates a year of birth in 1932, but 1936 is the most probable year. Joyce looked and acted older than she was. A coal miner's daughter [or according to another source, her father was a singer with his own radio show in St. Louis] she attended public schools in Taylorville and was the top baton twirler at Taylorville High School. Her performance in a school talent show led to a recording contract with Mercury Records in 1953. Roy Rodde, one-time manager of Joni James, was her personal agent.

Her first record, “You’ve Got Something” for Mercury Records, was written by Joyce while sitting at a table in her mother’s restaurant called Pauline’s Place on South Washington Street.

Mercury Records issued four singles on Joyce Taylor in 1953-1954 :

53 Mercury 70243 : If I Cry / You've Got Something
54 Mercury 70317 : Babe In The Woods / Take My Love
54 Mercury 70345 : Sealed With A Kiss / If You Only Knew
54 Mercury 70461 : Your Mind, Your Lips, Your Heart /No Happiness For Me

She is also rumored to have recorded as Joyce Bradley (not confirmed)

55 Mercury 70769 : A Dangerous Age / Take Your Time With Me Lover (as Joyce Bradley)
55 Mercury 70716 : Why Don't You Write Me / Love Is A Many Splendored Thing as Joyce Bradley)

Under contract to Howard Hughes' RKO Pictures in the 1950s she was only allowed by the eccentric and enigmatic tycoon to act in one picture, a small part in "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in 1956. After seven frustrating years being “bottled up” by the eccentric and enigmatic Howard Hughes, she became a regular on the TV sci-fi/adventure series, “Men into Space” (1959) and acted in many other TV shows in the late fifties and early sixties including “Sea Hunt,” “Bonanza,” “Ozzie and Harriet,” “77 Sunset Strip” and “The Untouchables.”   Joyce’s movie titles include: “Atlantis the Lost Continent,” “Ring of Fire,” “Thirteen Frightened Girls,” “F.B.I. Story,” “Windsplitter,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Rappacinni’s Daughter.”   In addition, she made numerous television commercials, some of which were for VO5 hair spray and cream, Rambler, Ford, Coke, Spic and Span, and Folgers Coffee.

She later married a stockbroker and left the business. Now makes her home in Colorado where she writes poetry.

Several paragraphs in "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story" book by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske describes the Joyce Taylor's RKO years:

    Joyce Taylor was anything but happy during the seven years she was under contract to Hughes. She was just fifteen and, despite her tender years, already a veteran of the nightclub circuit when she sang on Walter Winchell's television show, wearing a skirt, sweater, and bobby sox. When the show ended, Winchel took a call from Walter Kane, who said," Howard Hughes wants Joyce." She met with Hughes one afternoon in Los Angeles. "There was nothing at all odd about it...," said Taylor, who found Hughes "charming, warm, and nice - and normal. " As the head of RKO Pictures, he also promised movie roles. A second meeting took place in the early morning hours in an empty sound stage on the Samuel Goldwyn lot.

   Taylor entered to find Howard "standing in this dark place, with a light nearby." He held out his hand and motioned for her to sit down. She did - and discovered she was in the light. When Hugues sat opposite her, she could'nt see him. He reached out to hand her a pen? "And suddenly I felt very uneasy."

   Atfer she had signed her contract, she looked up "and I saw this look in his eyes. It was scary and dark. It was an "I Own you, you're mine' look."   Taylor ran from the soundstage, turning back only once. "And Howard Hughes was gone."

   She was put up at the Westwood Manor Hotel. But she didn't want to live there alone, so Hughes flew out her mother and sisters. Eventually the family was placed in a home in Bel Air. Taylor was not permitted to date or arrange her own day's schedule. "Every morning I woke up and got myself perfectly groomed. Every hair in place. And I went to drama lessons. At night, I watched movies Howard Hughes forced me to see. By myself. That was my life for the first six or nine months." Taylor went on to suffer a nervous breakdown. Hughes sent birds of paradise. "That was his flower for me."

   To her great anger, Hughes made an ally of her mother, who encouraged Joyce to go out with Hughes. Accompanied by chaperons, she went with him to Palm Springs and to Florida. It was in Florida that she incurred his wrath because she dived into a pool. "He was yelling when I came up out of the water," recalled Taylor, who had done what Hughes considered the unthinkable - jostled her breats with the dive.

   Taylor never jad a physical relationship with Hughes. " I hated him too much." She remembered the time he touched her shoulders. "And I shouted at him, 'No! Don't you ever, ever touch me!" And he never did.

   She recalled that Hughes once told her, "I play chess with people." He explained: "In a chess game, you see how long you can keep a person in a certain move."

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Bedaledee

June 4, 2017, 9:32 am

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Babe Blanchard

Bedaledee

Enjoy Records EN-101

1956

Backed by The Four Bucks, this is Babe Blanchard, also known as Ollie Blanchard. Babe Blanchard had another release on Nestor Records (#26 : One More Time / Sugarfoot Sam).

His biggest success was as composer with a song he co-wrote with Johnnie Malone : "Please Love Me Forever" was a hit for Tommy Edwards in 1958. And also for Cathy Jean and the Roommates in February 1961 and for Bobby Vinton in September 1967.

But most of his compositions were recorded for small New York labels such as Tarx (Coo Coo Coodle Coo by The Admirations) and Tri-X (So Can I by Little Wilma).

This certainly one-off Enjoy record was probably produced by one Renaldo Denino whose Music Company has been reported in Panama where he handled the distribution of the Co-Ed and Mayhams record labels in 1960, both labels owned by the shady Mr. Norridge Mayhams.

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Popcorn

July 19, 2017, 10:41 am

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Rudy Harvey And The Pips

R.D. Stokes Band

Popcorn

Capri 103

1958

Better known as a DJ and entrepreneur, Rudy Harvey owned and operated several labels in California :

Capri (58), Dynamic (60-61) Dynamite (62) Titanic (62-63), Amazon (62-63) and Azuza.

Henry Strogin, a long time friend of Rudy Harvey, reported :

We received the astonishing and shocking news that Rudy was found dead. That was shocking and surely it was surprising to say the least. To this date, we never found out the details of the death of Rudy Harvey.
There was much talking about Rudy having ties to the «mob». If he was and did have ties, we knew nothing about it. Rudy was a young man of about 28 or 29 years.

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House Of The Rising Sun

July 28, 2017, 12:45 pm

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Carl Curtis

House Of The Rising Sun

Marjon Records MJ-523

Early 70s

A native of Ashland, Kentucky, Carl Curtis Hughes was the son of the late Albert and Mildred Dixon Hughes. He recorded at least one LP for B-W Records He left the music business, went to Africa where he worked for over 30 years before becoming a Chaplain in Waynesville, North Carolina where he resided for more than 12 years when he died in 2015.

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Nanette Fabray

August 15, 2017, 9:20 am

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Nanette Fabray

Born Ruby Bernadette Nanette Theresa Fabares

in San Diego, Calif. in 1920
actress, dancer and singer

Nanette Fabray and Chorus performing "Louisiana Hayride"
in the musical film “The Band Wagon (1953)”

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Mendocino

August 20, 2017, 9:40 am

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Rudy And The Vigilants

Mendocino

Out of Albuquerque, New Mexico on the Del Norte label came this cover of the Sir Douglas Quintet hit (Smash Records, 1968)

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Next Stop, Paradise

August 21, 2017, 12:23 pm

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Jesse Pearson

Next Stop, Paradise

Decca 9-31117
1960

"Next Stop, Paradise" penned by Oramay Diamond and Dave Dreyer was first recorded by Teddy Randazzo (Vik Records, 1957) followed in 1959 by a version by Rusty Draper (Mercury Records, 1959)

Songwriter Oramay Diamond was an acrobatic dancer in New York City, adding a strip routine in her show around 1953. According to Billboard (May 16, 1953)

Ora May, star Morokoff chorine at the Hudson, Union City, pressed into service every
so often to do a strip routine, scored another show-stopper last week with an act in which she cleverly imitated Vicky Wells, Peaches and Georgia Sothern. . . .

Bobby Wayne Pearson (1930-1979) known as Jesse Pearson, actor, singer, director, and writer.

After releasing two singles on Decca Records with little success, Pearson was heard by composer Charles Strouse, who recommended him for the national tour of the musical Bye Bye Birdie. When Richard Gautier, the original actor playing Conrad Birdie, fell ill, Pearson took the role of the rock idol inspired in Elvis Presley. He repeated his hilarious characterization in the 1963 film version, Bye Bye Birdie.

Further readings:
https://alchetron.com/Jesse-Pearson-(actor)-779646-W#-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Pearson_(actor)
http://musicweird.blogspot.fr/2014/02/jesse-pearson-aka-conrad-birdie.html

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Rocky Road Blues

August 23, 2017, 12:35 am

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David Bailey

Rocky Road Blues

Banner 60204

The Bill Monroe classic song.

Guessed date : 1960. Label most probably from Shreveport, Louisiana and owned by Owen Perry, a singer, songwriter, and guitar player popular during the 40's and 50's. Recording artist (Bullet, Four Star, Capitol) from 1947 to 1954.

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Thumpity Thump

August 24, 2017, 1:18 pm

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Gracie Lind

with

Jim Rollins on guitar

Thumpity Thump

B. Blue - J. Rollins

Fairway Music Corp.

Intro 45-6094
1956

Her only record?

Billboard rev. 24 Nov. 1956

Cash Box rev. 5 Jan. 1957

A Dallas artist, or at least a Dallas recording.

B. Blue is a pseudonym for Bob Belyeu, "a Dallas up-and-coming tunesmith", who was with the Charles Wright Agency. For guitarist Jim (Jimmy) Rollins, see Wikipedia article

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Bread

August 25, 2017, 1:39 pm

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The Players

Bread

Power 45-14214

1956

Lyrics by Ernest Torres Chavez, music by Irving Marcus.

Biography of Ernest Chavez found at IMDb :

Date of Birth 31 August 1927, Watsonville, California, USA
Date of Death 19 September 1992, Palo Alto, California, USA (brain tumor)

As a five year old boy, the story goes, Ernest Torres Chavez would scale a fence next to the family's first home in North 11th Street in San Jose, California, and quietly enter the house next door. The neighbors then would be surprised to hear the boy making noise on the guitars stored in the back room. The music stayed with him. He left San Jose High School at the age of 17 to join the National Guard, where he played tenor sax at his base in Tacoma, Washington. Released from active duty in 1947, Ernie joined the San Jose jazz combo called Three Bees and a Queen. He played around the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The group, which also featured pianist Jose Castro and singer Treasure Ford, reached its high point in the early 1950's when it was given second billing at the London Palladium. In the 1950's he settled in Los Angeles, where he played for several years with Cuban-American composer Rene Touzet and his Latin jazz orchestra. He also worked as a member of the house band at the Band Box, a well-known comedy nightclub. It was there that Don Rickles often used Mr. Chavez as a straight man, hurling racial slurs at him while Mr. Chavez chuckled and the audience roared. One night Mr. Chavez came back with a swipe of his own, recalled Rita Chavez-Law who married Mr. Chavez in 1950. "Some day I want to be just like you, Mr. Rickles" he said. "How's that?" Rickles asked. "Vicious." said Mr. Chavez. The audience roared. Rickles never asked him back on the stage after that. Other LA stints included music arrangements for Nancy Wilson and filling in for recording sessions with band leader Harry James. He also had a one-time speaking role in "The Ring". Other bit parts included Musician roles in "strangers When We Meet" and a spot on the TV series "Bourbon Street Beat." After his divorce in early 1960's Mr. Chavez returned to San Jose. He played sax and flute for lounge combos around the Bay Area for 30 years. A working musician until health problems took him off the stage, Mr. Chavez developed a brain tumor and died in 1992.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Richard J. Gonzales, Jr.

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Africa (The Jungle Song)

August 26, 2017, 1:40 pm

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The Kornettes

Africa (The Jungle Song)

Minnie Records SP-M-104
1964

The songwriters Allie Mae Brock & Minnie Pearl Brock, two sisters from Chattanooga, Tennessee had records on Gennett and Paramount as early as... 1929.

The Brock Sisters were among the first duets who opened the field of country singing for women, according to the Jemf Quarterly [Spring 1978]

Milly and Dolly Good, as the Girls of the Golden West, had played a big part in
breaking open the field of country singing for women, and particularly for women duets.
Such duets, drawing on the appeal of blended voices and building up repertoire from the
innovative kinds of music being done by Cliff Carlisle and the Delmore Brothers, now
took center stage. The route to the break from traditional style had been shown in
the 1920s by popular duets like the Boswell Sisters. A taste of the Brock Sisters shows
uptown phrasing and the instincts of jazz-pop:

Oh, a Knoxville girl'd make a
hound dog lose his trail (2)

And a Chattanooga girl'd make a
tadpole hug a whale,

When you take those blues,
those Broadway blues.

Their "Broadway Blues" from 1929 can be heard on YouTube here

But what about the Kornettes I hear you asking? I have no idea. Perhaps some good people from Chattanooga would have some information.

Recorded at Spann Records, 2642a South Broad St., Chattanooga. Spann Records was formed there by two juke ops Fred Cofer and Alfred Samples.

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Motorcycle Michael

September 2, 2017, 7:17 am

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"Motorcycle Michael" has been issued on CD by Cees Klop on his Collector label in 2000 on a double CD titled "50 Early Rockin' Tracks". The accompanying booklet had a picture on a single on the Mesquite label, a single that never was, as it was another of these fabricated images sometimes found on the Cees Klop's releases' booklets.

The song was issued on "Hollywood On The Pike" (Mesquite Records) an album presenting 13 tracks by various performers and recorded from the bandstand at the Hollywood On the Pike, a Long Beach show club (no dancing) located on West Pike.

Cindy Carson was mainly a Long Beach club performer, vocalist, bassist, and yodler. According to a musician who worked with her " Ol' Cindy had a great set of pipes and played a solid country bass. At one point she was with Capitol Records. We worked together a good bit over the years, mostly private stuff....."

Motorcycle Michel was a minor hit for Jo Ann Campbell in 1961.
Peter Udell wrote the lyrics and Gary Geld the music. Born in 1935 in New Jersey) Gary Geld was a writer and producer for Connie Francis, Brian Hyland, Jackie Wilson, Gene Pitney, and Skeeter Davis. His main collaborator was Peter Udell. Geld-Udell team's greatest hit was perhaps "Sealed With a Kiss".

★

Cindy Carson
Motorcycle Michael
Mesquite Records, 1965

Jo Ann Campbell
Motorcycle Michael
ABC-Paramount 10200, 1961

★

P.S. I've just learned today the passing of Mr Klop (See this blog)
Sure, a controversial figure. But how many obscure recordings and artists were saved from the oblivion thanks to him and other music collectors from Europe. He will be forgiven for his [minor] sins. I fondly remember these wonderful albums with so many obscure artists I've never heard before...

R.I.P. Cees

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Baby, Don't Do It

September 4, 2017, 12:57 pm

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Jim Westerfield

with orchestra directed by
Mark Liberstein

Baby, Don't Do It

Addition

Marlo 1526

1962

Jim Westerfield

Jim was born on March 8th, 1935 in East St. Louis, IL. He was the youngest of eight children. He was an accomplished musician and composer. He loved to share stories of his early days in music, including sharing coffee with Ike and Tina Turner at Technosonic Studios, and meeting his idol, Al Alberts of the Four Aces, in the 1950’s, and continued a close friendship with him until Al’s passing in November 2009.

Jim and his wife Marilyn had been married for over 55 years and turned their passion for history, food, and each other by creating The Westerfield House in 1984. Visitors from across the country (and around the world) came to enjoy the experience of the bed & breakfast/restaurant until the Westerfields’ retirement in 2002. Also during the Westerfield House’s incredible run, Jim turned his extensive knowledge of botany into another amazing chapter of his life. He cross pollinated mints and created a “new child of nature” (as Jim so eloquently put it) called Dulcia Citreus, or better known as ‘Hillary’s Sweet Lemon Mint’, which he also held the patent on. (The mint was delivered to then First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1993 and planted in the White House garden.) At the time of Jim’s passing, he had created over 60 unique culinary mints.

Jim Westerfield passed away at home on November 22nd, 2013 with his wife Marilyn at his side.

The Westerfield House was listed in Conde Nast Traveler magazine (4/95) as one of the top 250 restaurants in the US

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Zabethe Wilde (China Doll Dickerson)

September 5, 2017, 3:13 am

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Elizabeth Dickerson, Waxmate of the Month (not yet known as Zabethe Wilde)

Zabethe Wilde - What A Feeling

Capitol Records (1961)

Betty "China Doll" Dickerson, who possessed a rare knack for interpreting the blues with her body, introduced a sparkling new brand of eurythmics to night-club audiences.

China Doll Dickerson changed her name to Zabeth Wilde when she became a singer. She recorded at least two singles for Capitol Records in 1961