Colorado Queenie
Eddie SkeltonColorado QueenieJohn Reynolds-Bill Way, Moss-Rose BMIproduced by Cliff WilliamsonChart Records 50771970Eddie Skelton discographyEddie Skelton RCS page
View ArticleI Hear My Baby
Bixie CrawfordI Hear My BabyIndigo Records #104June 1960Arranged and directed by Evelyn [Evlen on label] Freedman (sister of Ernie Freeman) and her husband Tommy Roberts. Bixie (above) was born in...
View ArticleSplish Splash Twist
DesdaSplish Splash Twist (B. Darin-J.Murray, Portrait BMI) An Aragon and Therry production Del-Fi 4174 March 1962★Co-producer Aragon is Johnny Aragon who had at least 3 "teen" records on Airlok...
View ArticleSweetie
Irene Reid with Kelly Owens OrchestraSweetie McCoy - Singleton - MendelsohnCrossroads (BMI) Savoy 1170 Recorded in New-York, August 8, 1955 Budd Johnson, Jerome Richardson (tenor saxophone) Dave McRae...
View ArticleChina Rock
Hank Paul and his Rainbow Valley BoysChina RockCTG Shirely1960Pressed by RCA Records (custom division) in September or October 1960. Matrix numbers are from a batch of Midwest labels (Chicago mastering...
View ArticleA Little Bit Of Some Of You
Debbie Sciame & The Rhythm Rockets A Little Bit Of Some Of YouWords & Music by Debbie Sciame Sha-La-Mar XB-2610/11968 (if Capitol custom pressing)Audio is from mp3 of very low quality, probably...
View ArticleRocking Robin
Nedra Price and the SkepticsRocking Robin (J.Thomas, Recordo Music)Thrush 10031965B/W Jerry Waugh and the Skeptics : It's All Over Now.Cover of the Bobby Day hit (Class Records, 1958), a song written...
View ArticleLurchin'
Dave S. TrioLurchin'Dave Schumock & Gene LawrencePub. Sixteen-Ten Music (BMI)Birthstone RecordsTacoma, Washington1963Odd rocking instrumental with accordion, sounding in some parts almost as a...
View ArticleRock and Roll Baby
Barbie GayeBig Al Sears and his Band Rock And Roll BabyNeas-Thorn-VastolaThornett Music BMIDarl R-10041957Her second single.Perhaps recorded at the same session that produced her minor hit " My Boy...
View ArticleRocket Honeymoon
Larry CartellRocket HoneymoonLawrence Gray, Larlon Music BMIRoman RecordsArranged And Conducted By Bob LowdenProduced By Tony Alano196?Sounds to me like a mid-sixties recording with a slight Freddy...
View ArticleI'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry
Steve Rowlandwith Earl Palmer and band I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And CryJoe Thomas - Howard BiggsCoblin Music Co. BMIIntro 60981957 Cover of a song first recorded by Roy Hamilton (Epic Records, 1954)...
View ArticleThe Harvard Coop
Christopher B. Cerfwith Gordie Main and the Mainiacs The Harvard Coop From the album The Harvard Lampoon Tabernacle Choir Sings at Leningrad Stadium Vanitas Records (V-440) 1961 On the Harvard...
View ArticleB.B. (sur un air de samba)
Silvo Silvera and his Brazilian OrchestraBrigitte Bardot(Miguel Gustavo, Plan Two ASCAP)Barclay 300Written by Miguel Gustavo. First released in Brazil in December 1960 by Jorge Veiga on Copacabana, it...
View ArticleClimate change
The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. But in almost every case, the world's...
View ArticleDuck Walk
Judy CrossDuck WalkMiller-Rene, Wilco Publ. Co. BMIMGM 129021960✔ Spotted this one en ebay today described as "hilarious insipid teener". Auction ✔ Wanted to know more. ✔ Searched YouTube. ✔ Found...
View ArticleWonder, shrunken heads
Two ads found in Billboard (1947 and 1949)Born in Poetry Texas, September 7, 1884. Homer Tate would become the prolific creator and purveyor of all things weird and bizarre to the sideshow men and...
View ArticleSweet Little Sixteen
Rufus BrownSweet Little SixteenGateway Records1958Cover of Chuck Berry biggest hit Old Chuck with young girlAccording to Maxwell Demon :"During a show at the Ottawa Coliseum Berry saw a little German...
View ArticleEast L.A.
Solid JacksonEast L.A (John Orvis)A Free-Sac-Andrews ProductionCandix 3081960Bob Arlin's version on Olympia Records is probably best known and was a minor hit around San Bernardino and San Francisco....
View ArticleHow About It
Dave BrockmanHow About It(Bob Mooney - Tommy Mooney, Fayette Pub. BMI)Fayette 10021955 (Lexington, Kentucky) Second release on early Bob Mooney owned label. First one was "Let's Change The Alphabet"...
View ArticleTwin Guitar Boogie
Leichester Howard “Corky” Edminster1916-2013Corky EdminsterTwin Guitar BoogieCormac Records(Santa Ana, Calif.) 1950Mr. Edminster was born Feb. 16, 1916, in Wichita. As a boy, he attended Roosevelt...
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