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Red Tiger Shoes
The Century-FiveRed Tiger ShoesFrom 1960 on the tiny Belmont label out of Hollywood, possibly owned by Steve Riggio.
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The Rejects on Kay Pay Records
Instrumental band formed by Gary Hanson while he was a student at Fall River High School in McArthur, California, not too far from Chico, California where Kay Pay Records were located. The Rejects...
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Just A Little More Time
*Just A Little More Time Born in 1930 in Greensboro, North Carolina. His dad was a tailor and part-time musician. Robbie Robinson played saxophone in the early 50s for the Johnny Otis band and had...
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Rock Me In The Cradle Of Love
Freddie DinoRock Me In The Cradle Of Love One-off label out of Philadelphia. Penned by Artie Singer and Jon Sheldon (actually a pseudonym for Kal Mann), the song was also recorded by Dee Dee Sharp...
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Koffee Shop Rock
Mickey Michaels and The Forrestals1958: The Forrestals were all servicemen of the U.S. Navy. Led by the drummer, Quartermaster Doug Fowlkes, the band was formed while these seven men served aboard the...
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Mr. Blues
A five-foot blond bombshell from East Orange, N.J., Mundy Lee recorded this song in 1961 for Embassy Records, a Newark, New Jersey label. Her record, arranged and conducted by Bucky Harris and written...
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The Parachute Jump
Joanne EngelThe Parachute Jump“First you fly up into the stratosphere, then you step off into the atmosphere, for the biggest thrill of your life is here, when you jump-jump the Parachute Jump.”...
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Danny Boy
Sylvia SummersMonroe Record Co.Danny BoyPossibly from Muskegon, Michigan on a label owned by Jesse Monroe Duke? Date unknown (late sixties?)
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Don't Let Him
Roger Lewis and The MoondawgsThe Moon Dawgs made an instant splash on the Maine music scene when they became one of four bands to share the stage at the very first Pal Hop dance in 1964. Their...
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Joe Therrien, Jr.
A country veteran from Springfied, Massachusetts, Joe Therrien Jr. was entering his late twenties when he converted to the rock and roll faith. Therrien formed the Rockets in 1956 and toured the...
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Elvira
June LaSalviaJune LaSalvia, then June Dussia, was already a nationally recognized authority in age group gymnastics when she came from Florida to Nashville, Tennessee in the mid-seventies. She is...
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Live Like A King
Teen-Beatsfeaturing Don FrassaLas Vegas Strip Records1962From Billy Miller's article published in Kicks magazine #7 :Don [Frassa] sez of their first record sesh in '61: "Me, Larry, and Lyle went to...
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Let's
Boston singer who had two singles on the X label, a RCA subsidiary in 1954-1955. Other records are on Mood and Hub. According to a snippet published by Jet Magazine (September 24, 1953) "Jan...
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My Lover
Sugar And SweetCozette and Marshall Morris were Sugar And Sweet. Besides that, I can't find much about this duet, despite some ten records issued in the sixties and seventies. Their discography can...
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You Ain't Gonna Get It
Ellen Sutton had relocated to the West Coast at age 17 in 1941 from her native Pittsburgh to appear on Gene Autry's radio show. That year she also recorded for Columbia's Okeh subsidiary as Ella...
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Dark Glasses
Billy Joe Royal needs no introduction. This is his second single for Boots Woodall's Fairlane label issued in January 1962. Both sides written by Joe South.Billy Joe was earlier the featured vocalist...
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Pianola Pete
Newark-born Harriet Kay by the time she was nine was singing "professionally" at weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc. At 12 she made her first TV appearance as one of Marie Moser's Starlets — like Connie...
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