Lorina

January 25, 2019, 11:49 am

Roger Rigney

Mashburn-Carter, Bucheanna Publishing Co

Regency 159

produced by Jay-Cher Enterprises
1969

Regency Records is a record label founded by Georgia record producer and TV/Radio syndicator Johnny Carter and North Georgia disc jockey Lamar Gravitt in 1965. Regency Records was originally a part of the C-R-Co (Cherokeeland Recording Company), based in Calhoun, Georgia near the 19th century national capital of the Cherokee Indians. The label operated as a part of Jay Enterprises when Carter moved to Tennessee in 1966, and became a part of Cherokee Album Corporation when Carter returned to Georgia in 1968.[Wikipedia]

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Pain Set To Music

January 27, 2019, 7:45 am

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Pain Set To Music

Original release before the ABC-Paramount release in February 1962. On the flip side is Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler. Both tracks on the original are notably longer (and currently unavailable on YT or anywhere on the net)

According to Fred at 45cat:

This release coincides with the release of the movie, SERGEANTS 3, which is the only movie to feature the entire Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop). The movie was released February 10, 1962.

The premise of the movie was basically an updated re-write of the 1939 classic, GUNGA DIN. The 1939 movie (released February 17, 1939) was about 3 British Sergeants (played by Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sent on a mission to defeat a Thugee uprising that took place in 19th Century British-India. Sam Jaffe played the title character, loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.

In the 1962 movie, Sinatra, Martin, and Lawford were the three Calvary Seargents involved in a similar situation, only this one taking place in the 1870's American West. Sammy Davis Jr. played the trumpeter this time around who meets the same fate as Jaffe did in the original.

While the extent of the recording far outlives either movie showing of the situation, it more befits a later movie tribute played by Peter Sellers in the opening shot of THE PARTY, released April 4, 1968.

The SERGEANTS 3 connection is solidified by the review of this record in Billboard on February 24, 1962, and even moreso by a similar spoof recorded on MR. PEACOCK Records by Lord Didd, "Gunga Didn't" being reviewed in that very same issue. It was revealed in that same issue (or later) that Lord Didd was in fact NY DJ (at the time), Pete Meyers, otherwise known as "Mad Daddy".

For reasons that have been lost to history, Frank Sinatra rerecorded The Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler on June 10, 1966, adding his own voice to the brief introductory narration and using the sound effects from the 1962 single. Was Sinatra considering some sort of dramatic or sopken-word series for Reprise? The track has only been issued on two very rare semiprivate, collectors-only CDs, Frankly Different and Sinatra Unreleased [*]

Philip Cammarata, the producer, has been art director for True Police Cases, Startling Detective and other (pulp) magazines and has published five books of photographs with humorous (?) captions.

Photo from Who F*arted This Time?, a Phil Cammarata (hilarious?) book

Are you still there? If so, please find below a link to a zip of both original tracks

Courage

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Kinsey's Book

January 29, 2019, 8:28 am

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Frank Wilson
The 4 Horsemen and the Wild Azeleas

Fenway 45-2000
1953

To conduct the groundbreaking sexology research, Kinsey and his colleagues interviewed more than 18,000 men and women. Their questions touched upon subjects like sadomasochism, extramarital relations, frequency of masturbation, and number of partners of the same or opposite sex. Once all the data had been gathered, Kinsey was able to break down sexual trends by age, socioeconomic status, and religion to assemble a portrait of human sexuality. The study demonstrated that some practices (like homosexuality, for example) that were considered socially unacceptable were actually quite common. Alfred Kinsey became a household name following the release of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), two books that are together known as the Kinsey Reports.

. . . .

Despite his success (or perhaps because of it), Kinsey attracted more than his fair share of angry critics during the 1950s. Scandalized conservatives claimed he was supporting a communist agenda by eroding sexual morality and family values in America. The controversy surrounding his name hasn’t let up since Kinsey’s death in 1956. One area of research in particular, his findings on sexual behaviors in children, remains the subject of intense scrutiny today. He gathered the information used in these sections from interviews conducted with a serial child rapist. The man agreed to speak with Kinsey under the condition that he wouldn’t be turned in for his crimes. In a possible move to protect his subject’s identity, Kinsey credited his data on children to many sources instead of just one, undermining the integrity of his work in the eyes of many scientists.

Billboard article, 17 October 1953

Good old Phil Milstein has gathered in session 418 six Kinsey songs including one from Jamaica (Lord Lebby, Kalypso Records)

Kinsey's Book

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Her Phone Number On The Wall

February 3, 2019, 7:29 am

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Her Phone Number On The Wall

Don't Be Hasty

I'm only able to confirm what said Mr. Fab six years ago on his blog "Music For Maniacs" : There is almost no info on Tony Fabbri on the 'net, but all you need to know is that this is seriously some primo outsider awesomeness

Anthony Fabbri (Tony Fabbri, Tony Fabry) was born in 1925. Out of Hollywood, Tony Fabbri operated, starting from 1961, Fabbri Records, A Flat & F Sharp Records and Fanum Fortune Records.

In 1977, Tony performed "The. Phone Booth," on the Gong Show, a song he called "an unusual disco original song". The Gong Show was an amateur talent contest created and originally produced by Chuck Barris, known for its absurdist humor and style, with the actual competition secondary to the often outlandish acts presented.

Too bad, the album Love & Inspirational Songs International posted by Mr. Fab is no longer available.

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Keeping You Alive

February 8, 2019, 10:02 am

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Rose Mary White And Grable Garrett

Keeping You Alive

Rose Mary White

Sugar Boy

One-off Detroit release from 1963. Both songs written by Othea George (also credited as the arranger), Gabriel Garrett & C. Washington.

George, Garrett & Washington were all members of The Four Tracks, of Tony & The Technics and later of The Four Voices.

Rose Mary White is unknown to me, but Grable Garrett is probably Gabriel Garrett.

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Music For Testing False Teeth

February 9, 2019, 8:03 am

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Homemade compilation made of titles featured on the cover of a fictitious album published in Mad Magazine (November 1958).

Let's look at the Record Dept. It all started with Jackie Gleason's LP "Music For Lovers.Only." Now it looks like the latest trend in record albums... mainly these collections of songs for special people or special occasions or special purposes... is going a little too far.

Track listing

01 - Karl Denver - Wimoweh
02 - Four Lads - Skokiaan
03 - Julus La Rosa - Eh Cumpari
04 - Thelma Carpenter - Diga-Diga Doo
05 - The Hot Biscuits - Triskaidekaphobia
06 - Dudaim - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
07 - Al Jolson - Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula (Hawaiian Love Song)
08 - Baldwin And The Whiffles - Sh-Boom
09 - Susy Rose - Jambalaya
10 - Louis Prima - Baciagaloop
11 - Slim & Slam - The flat foot floogie
12 - Vincent Niclo & The Choir of the Red Army - Funiculì, Funiculà
13 - Cristina D'Avena - Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo
14 - Charley Pride -- Kaw-Liga
15 - Peggy Lee - Bali ha´i
16 - The Pied Pipers - Mairzy Doats
17 - James Baskett - Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
18 - The Merry Macs - Ashby de la Zouch By The Sea
19 - Trio Los Panchos - Quizas, quizas, quizas

link

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He Taught Me How To Yodel

February 12, 2019, 3:08 am

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Before the internet, before the telephone, before the telegraph and even before the tom-tom, there was the yodeling, according to Bart Plantenga and his book "Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World";

Plantenga suggests that yodeling most likely originated in Africa, "at the beginning of mankind, when man decided he could do different things with his voice. More practically, it probably began 10,000 years or so ago, when animals first were domesticated, [as] a way to keep the cattle together. It probably also had to do with people amusing themselves. The Pygmies [still] use it for many things, including feasts and playing. They have this method of singing back and forth between two voices, and it's just pure pleasure at that level."

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Did a centuries-old, Swiss mountain tradition make its way into American country music? As his fascinating book reveals; yodeling is not just a Swiss thing - everyone from Central African pygmies, Nashville hunks-in-hats, avant-grade tonsil-twisters like Meredith Monk, hip-hop stars De La Soul, and pop stars like Jewel have been known to kick back and release a yodeling refrain. Along the way, we encounter a gallery of unique characters, ranging from the legendary, such as country singer Jimmie Rodgers, to the definitely different, including Mary Schneider 'the Australian Queen of Yodeling' who specialises in yodeling Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, and the Topp Twins, a yodeling lesbian duo who employ the sound in their songs aimed at battling homophobia.

Ethel Delaney was born and raised in a small coal mining town in Southern Ohio. People in this rural community had to make their own entertainment, so at an early age (5 years old) Ethel started to learn to play the guitar and began singing all types of songs and yodeling.
The guitar was finally ordered from the catalog and the days were full of anticipation and excitement waiting for its delivery. Yodeling came naturally and living in the beautiful hills of Ohio Ethel was able to yodel as long and as loud as she wanted. She performed whenever she could and did so for all the church socials and school naffairs.
Ethel's first songwriting attempt, "Echo Mountain" was published by B-W Music, recorded at a studio in Cleveland, Ohio and released on the privat DECO labl; several other songs have been written, recorded and released since that time.

More about Ethel here

Ethel Delaney & Pee Wee King

He Taught Me How To Yodel

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Rock N' Roll Music Box

February 14, 2019, 10:10 am

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"Toad" Fraley With The Tadpoles

Rock N' Roll Music Box
Wr.: Charles Nathan, Dave Heisler (Chase Music Co.)

Singing-guitar player Freddie “Toad” Fraley, who doubles as a professional wrestler, with his first release – and possibly his last - on the Allied label, subsidiary of the Allied Record Manufacturing Company, one of the oldest independent pressing plant dating back to the thirties.

The Fraleys, a wrestling father and son team
Pat and Freddie Fraley (1958)

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You Fascinate Me, Baby

February 15, 2019, 10:48 am

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Lowell Howell

You Fascinate Me, Baby

October 1955 : Mona C. Herren announced the forming of a new independent record com-
pany to be known as Monava Records. "The company is contemplating a heavy recording schedule, and first releases will hit the market about the middle of October. " according to the Cash Box tidbit (October 15, 1955).

Despite the contemplated heavy recording schedule, there was not too many records issued, as apart from this Lowell Howell release, I've found only one other release on Monava : The Monettes accompanied by the Musicleers (on 78 rpm).

Lowell Howell was M.C. at the Dude Ranch in Long Beach in the early forties :"Lowell Howell, M. C, directs the shows and sings every night except Tuesday"[Why not Tuesday? The Dude Ranch closed every Tuesday, that's why]

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Santa Has Rhythm

February 19, 2019, 1:14 pm

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Joan Blackman

sings with the

Jack Ross Quartet

Santa Has Rhythm

Joan Blackman was 12-year old at the time of this record, her only record as far as I know.

Joan Blackman was bom in San Francisco on May 17, 1938. the only child of Ivy and Frank Blackman. Her father was a musician. At four, Joan took dancing lessons; she had her start singing (probably with the Jack Ross Quartet) in San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel and other spots around the City. After graduating from Lincoln High School in 1956, she became a model.

Blackman appeared in her first motion picture, Good Day for a Hanging, in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films. She played Maile Duval in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii and the following year played Rose Grogan in Kid Galahad.

One of the scenes in Blue Hawaii is the Hawaiian Wedding Song, when she and Elvis marry. Very few actresses were allowed to sing opposite Elvis. Those few lines in that scene are the only words she was able to sing in his film, unfortunately. Ann-Margret and Juliet Prowse, on the other hand, had their own singing scene in Viva Las Vegas and GI Blues.

She also appeared with Dean Martin in Career (1959), and played Ellen Spelding, the love interest of Kreton, the character of Jerry Lewis in Visit to a Small Planet (1960). Her other film appearances included roles in The Great Impostor (1961), Twilight of Honor (1963), Daring Game (1968), Pets (1974), Macon County Line (1974), and Moonrunners (1975).

Joan Blackman page at IMDb

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(Straighten Up &) Fly Righ

February 20, 2019, 10:10 am

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Little Sammy Swinger

Hot Pastrami W/ Mashed Potatoes

b/w

(Straighten Up &) Fly Right

Juvenile screamer on the Essar label from 1964. Arranger and producer is S. R. Gardiner.
The four known releases on this obscure label – almost certainly from Michigan – were all issued in 1964 and the eight songs, curiously enough, are covers.

Label discography here

If anyone know something on this label and/or its artists, feel free to share your info

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Someday You're Gonna Sing The Blues

February 22, 2019, 8:31 am

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Big Mack and The Shufflers

Someday You're Gonna Sing The Blues

b/w

Out Of My Mind

Tri-Mac 501
Tri-Mac Records Co.
3274 N. 14 St., Milwaukee
1958

"Chicago style" Milwaukee blues vocal with electric guitar on "Someday". "Out of My Mind is instrumental. One-off label owned by Samuel Trice later with Odessa Records.

No idea who is Big Mack or The Shufflers. Anyone?

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Wicket Chicken

February 24, 2019, 8:50 am

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Duck Flowers

Wicket Chicken

This Cool label is probably the lesser known of the several labels owned by Charles A. Colbert, musician and restaurant owner in Chicago (Nike, Tip Top, Jive, Mellow labels plus the gospel Chapel label)

"Wicket Chicken"– or "Wicket Cicken" (!) as found at the BMI online database – has been written by Donald Fola and Charles Colbert, Jr., son of the label's owner.

Fola (lyrics) & Colbert Jr. (music) collaborated on several songs in 1962. Their answer to 'Duke of Earl' by Gene Chandler titled "I Out-Duked The Duke".and sung by Little Otis (Otis Hayes) was handed to Motown as ready-made master which was released on Tamla.

Donald Fola also wrote at an unknown date two (unissued?) songs with Nick Jovan : "The Heart Repair Man" and "If You Don't Want My Love"

Duck Flowers=Donald Fola?

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Be Bop Baby Sitter

February 26, 2019, 7:37 am

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Vera And The Three Jays

Be Bop Baby Sitter

El Bee 162
1957

El Bee label owned by Chicago lawyer John Burton. Its most collectible release is El Bee 157, guitarist and singer Freddie King's debut ("Country Boy"/'That's What You Think").

Regarding the identity of Vera, I have good reason to believe she was Vera Sanford, a member of Opus De Four, quartet led by John Outterbridge until 1960 and also the same Vera Sanford who later headed the roster of talent of Earl Washington's Bombay Records in 1964. For a comparaison of the voices, here is a song from her 1964 album:

Shangri-La
From the album “10 Minutes to Midnight” (Bombay Records)

Vera=Vera Sanford?

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Sonya And The Capris

March 1, 2019, 10:17 am

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Sonya And The Capris
Scarlet Records Inc.
45-999
(1959)

Extra Extra

Private Party

Label owned by Noel Ball, Nashville's first and most flamboyant rock n roll disk jockey. Noel Ball produced the two following singles in 1961 on Sonya at the FAME Studios in Muscle Schoals and issued on the Dot label (Noel also was the head of the Southern Division of Dot Records) :

16235 - Sonya - Little Red Rooster / We Kiss In A Shadow - 1961
16356 - Sonya - For Your Love / Seventeen Years One Dark Night - 1962

Sonya who? Her last name remains unknown and no info has be found. Unknown as well are the Capris apparently unrelated to the many other recorded Capris.

Note the early Buzz Cason song composition ("Extra Extra") published by Conmay Music, probably a printing error for Conmar (a Bill Connor-Kenny Marlowe joint venture)

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I Found Salvation in my Death Cell

March 2, 2019, 11:48 am

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Spoken word (evangelical rants) by Leslie Douglas Ashley. Recorded in prison on death row circa 1963.

"Leslie Elaine Perez, formerly Leslie Douglas Ashley, has seen her fair share of troubles. She first made headlines back in 1961 during a lurid Houston sex-torch murder, when, as a young male transvestite, he and his teenaged prostitute girlfriend, Carolyn Lima, shot Fred A. Tones after a three-way sexual encounter went bad. Panic-stricken, they burned his body, then led police on a three-week chase through Mardi Gras in New Orleans all the way to Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan before they were captured."

"Their Houston trial was a circus. Spectators fought over gallery seats to hear X-rated testimony. News headlines blazoned "Gun-Torch Murderers" and "Beatnik Killers." Houston, a city steeped in Bible Belt tradition, with a hefty appetite for sin, reveled in this wicked story.""The judge would not allow the defense lawyer to enter evidence discovered about the victim - a religious family man, but a Jekyll-Hyde type with a second identity and an arrest record. The defense case collapsed. Leslie and Carolyn were sentenced to death by an electric current."

"A new legal team learned the D.A. hid psychiatric reports supporting an insanity plea. A last-minute reprieve saved Leslie and Carolyn on the eve of their execution. At her retrial, Carolyn blamed everything on Leslie. Carolyn was sentenced to five years; Leslie was sent to a mental institution. He soon escaped and made the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." After six months at large, he was captured working as Bobo the Clown in a traveling carnival."

"Leslie was convicted again but sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He was released after five years of chopping cotton in Texas prison farms. Once free, Leslie got the sex-change operation he had always wanted. His mother, Sylvia, paid for it.""When Leslie Douglas Ashley became Leslie Elaine Perez, in the eighties, she also became a political activist. Before her sordid past was revealed, she earned enough votes to make a runoff for the chairmanship of the Harris County Democratic Party in Houston in 1990.

She has since been active in the AIDS awareness campaign and has also participated in demonstrations against capital punishment.""For the past thirty years the media has fed off Leslie's bizarre life and has persecuted her as a social aberration, but Robert Bentley, for the first time, gives her whole, uncensored story in Dangerous Games.""Leslie, a survivor, mixes in her life the macabre and slapstick humor. And her down-home sweetness makes her one of the most charming killers you'll ever read about."--
Book summary
Dangerous Games: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer on Death Row who Changed His Sex and Won Her Freedom
Robert L. Bentley; Carol Publishing Group, 1993

This page has a detailed story with newspapers clips and illustration, and including the audio file

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Rocking Ghost

March 4, 2019, 1:06 pm

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J. Hawk Willis

Rocking Ghost

Arranged by Mark Perlman and penned by Kyle J. Wolf

CSC Music Productions
12503 Crenshaw Blvd., Hawthorne, Ca. 90250

Was J. Hawk Willis the inspiration for Wesley Willis (no relation)? "Out of this world" recording on a label once located (or not far located) where is today the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). (Dear Elon, our ambition is mashi-mashi as yours : a Japanese robot company is trying to get Elon Musk's attention with a billboard next to the SpaceX office)

The label had few releases with various addresses (Hawthorne, Inglewood or Los Angeles) : Flying Free, Godfathers Strivers, The Gifted Four.

Cash Box (April 3, 1976 issue) tells us a bit about CSC Records :

Another new and exciting company is also trying to get a foothold in the market. The label is CSC and their first big release is "To Make Me Happy" (#103) by the Godfather Strivers. Most of the group are originally from Kentucky but have relocated in L A. Some of the members used to be in the Mint Juleps and Nightlighters, which later became New Birth. The principals of CSC Music Productions are William Campbell, John Murphy Jr., Frenchell DeGrate and Douglas Moore. The name of their publishing firm is Four Buddies and their offices are located at 12503 Crenshaw Bivd. in Hawthorne. CA.

William (Bill) Campbell will be still active in the eighties with HSR/Ham-Sem/Hamito-Semitica Records, Four Buddies (ASCAP publisher) and Billdia Music (BMI)

Dear Elon, our ambition is mashi-mashi as yours

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Titanic

March 10, 2019, 4:18 am

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Dean Hudson and His Scholars

Titanic


Lyrics by Dean Hudson

A special release on the Valley's Meadowlark label which has exactly the same design than Valley, except it has the bird added on the left. The Valley Meadowlark label wasn't used again until a release by The Hoopers in 1958.

Valley Publishers, owned by Jack Comer, a man whose imagination and knack for promotion, was pushed to one of the top publishers in the country and western field. Comer’s firm startled the trade in mid-1953 by coming up with the hit “Crying In The Chapel” [Darrell Glenn, Valley#105] less than a month after the Valley firm was founded.

When he was a barefoot newsboy on Knoxville’s Gay Street, Jack Comer used to pick up a few nickels and dimes by dancing the Charleston in front of a certain theatre. The theatre owner ran him away repeatedly, but Jack always came back, with a bigger audience. The movie man gave up the idea of running the boy off, so put him to work inside—on the stage, dancing the Charleston.

Few years later, the theater man, Jack’s childhood benefactor, worked for Comer at Deane Hill Country Club. The Country Club was another of Jack’s brainstorms which grew like Topsy until it became one of the largest in the South.

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Ape Man

March 10, 2019, 11:31 am

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Ape Man

Rather obscure Memphis artist despite the release of at least five singles issued between 1962 and 1966. James V. Yancey (his name) switched to record production after his singing career was over. At Sun Studios, he recorded Li'l Smokey Miller in early 1966 (Black Gold#500) and later Len Barrow for his own Yanden label (3494 Obion Road, Memphis). One Judd Wood seems to have been one of his regular partners in songwriting.

Discography

Zone 1500   (1962) (as James Yancey)
I Need Some One / Uncle Bum

Penthouse (1963)
Painting The Town Blue / Hat's Off To You Mister

Wildfire   (1965)
Best Friend You Ever Had / Stop The Music

Black Gold (1966)
Ape Man / Lions Den

Express 712 (196x)
Cotton Patch / Loneliness Finds Me

I cannot find a date for the 45 on Express, a tiny but long-lasting label owned by Bob Taylor, the singing truckdriver.

Black Gold Records and Black Gold Productions were operated by Tom Phillips, brother of the Sun Records owner.

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I'll Go Crazy

March 14, 2019, 8:24 am

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Bob Hollicker, a six-year old young toddler threw a fit one day Mother Charlotte decided to write song lyrics based on his actions. Father Joseph wrote the music. Their song (and dance) titled "The Temper Tantrum" were introduced in May 1965 at the Forum, a Boston discotheque. It received exposure on Boston radio and TV stations and in the local press. Alan Ross of Decca Records secured tape of music and film of the dance and sent it to New York.

The next day the Boston press and radio-TV carried the message that this was the dance to do in Boston and the surrounding areas. “The Tonight Show” heard about the excitement generated by the dance and showed a film clip of the steps of the “tantrum” to a national viewing audience. At the same time it was brought to the attention of A&R staffer Dick Jacobs, who immediately flew to Boston to record “Temper Tantrum” with The Warlocks, the musical group that first introduced the dance.

The Decca record was cut, mastered and shipped all in the period of three days to keep pace with the national excitement being generated by the fad. Charlotte Holicker made a guest appearance on “The Mike Douglas Show” to tell the story of the dance to the show’s vast syndicated audience.

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I've not be able to found a video of the original dance. However, a similar dance also called The Tantrum was featured in "The Cool Ones," a 1967 spoof movie of '60s teenage music TV shows like Shindig! and Hullabaloo. You can watch it here

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At DeadWax, we are not going along with the crowd and we prefer the flip side, a cover of James Brown. The top side is available on YT anyway...

I'll Go Crazy

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