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Last Night I Heard Somebody Cry
Sue ThompsonLast Night I Heard Somebody CryMercury Records1952Song penned by W.C. "Red" Wortham. The other side has been posted HERE A former jazz guitar player from the 1930s, bandleader and...
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Shot Gun Boogie
Rosemary ClooneyShot Gun BoogieColumbia Records 1951Tennessee Ernie Ford cover recorded in New York, January 27,1951 : Rosemary Clooney: Vocal; Mitch Miller: Leader; Mundell Lowe: Guitar; Robert...
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Dry Bones
La Cille Watkins' All City ChorusDry Bones(Watkins & Bell Arrangement)Cecil Records314 Norfolk Street, Newark, N.J.1954 Also issued on Jaguar #202Billboard ad, April 24, 1954Born in Newark (New...
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That's What I Want You To Do
Aleene StrawnThat's What I Want You To Do Strawn-DavidsonShelter Music BMIChoice 8501957 Leroy Davidson, his wife Millie and Harold Hassler, 1971 Choice Records, offshoot of One Stop Phono Records, a...
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Leave My Sideburns Be
Steve Schickelwith Carmen Dello's OrchestraLeave My Sideburns BeMoore-Brinks-Bruno Discovery Music Pub. BMI MercuryRel. Nov. 5, 1956Steve Schickel was record editor for The Chicago Tribune, deejay for...
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I'll Be There
Johnny and BarbI'll Be ThereLene-Zeigler, Lud Music Corp. BMIRadio-11958This is Johnny Arvin Zeigler and Barbara Butsch. Johnny and Barbara had been both members of the Ohio Epsilon Chapter at the...
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Caldonia
John BufanoCaldoniaFleecie MooreCampbell Music Inc. BMIArranged and conducted by Danny HurdDarlan Records1958"Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)" was first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan...
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Let’s Get Acquainted
The Coronados(Ruben-Anita-Steve)Let’s Get Acquainted Ray Stanley, Simon House Inc. BMIVik Records1956Anita, Rubin and Steven Ortiz (The Coronados), a sister and brothers group from New Mexico, had a...
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Lonely Week Ends
Durwood CurrieLonely Week EndsC.A. RichHi-Lo BMITNT Productions205 South Wilmington St. , Raleigh, N.C.Late SixtiesObscure obscure Charlie Rich cover pressed in Cincinnati by King Records. No info on...
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Ramshakle Daddy
Bill HAYESWith Don COSTA'S ORCHESTRA And ChorusRamshakle DaddyHayes, Ampco Music Inc. ASCAPABC-PARAMOUNT 45-980904/1957A direct descendent of America's nineteenth president, Rutherford B. Hayes,...
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Too Much For Granted
Adrienne LawnerToo Much For GrantedTowns and Craft, Craft MusicRapid Records1956In May 1956, it was announced that Adrienne Lawner, whose basic job was "taking dictation from Larry Uttal of Monument...
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I'm Your Daddy-O
Dick D'AgostinI'm Your Daddy-O Dick D'Agostin, Sound Music BMIAc'cent AC-1046September 1956His first, also issued on Moonglow Records (see below). Not listed in his Rockin' Country Style discography...
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That's The Way It's Gonna Be
Billy LeeThat's The Way It's Gonna BeCarrie 1515Box 7763, Detroit 7, Mich.September 1962This is William Levise Jr. later known as Mitch Ryder, front man for one of the most raucuous "blue-eyed soul"...
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Cold Hearted Lover
Billy ValentineCold Hearted Lover Williams-TompsonArmo-Big Star BMIFederal Records1959 His last? Read Billy Valentine story HERENEW YORK, July 1949—This is one of those show business success stories....
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The idea of progress
Interesting design for this California label founded early 1963 by L.A. saxophonist and band leader Zeke Strong. The idea of progress, that relentless technical progress improving the human condition,...
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Sugar Daddy
Lynettewith Kai-Ray and CrewSugar DaddyRichard A. Caire, Lingua-Musica BMILodestar 74-621962This is the flipside of "Limbo, Limbo" by Kai-Ray and Crew which was a minor hit on KUTT, Fargo, North Dakota...
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Yellow Pages
Don Reno, Bill Harrell and the Tennessee CutupsYellow PagesJim Goodman-Jerry FenderBrownboro Pub. Co. SESAC Derby Town SR 34/35Produced by Ray Allen1966Bluegrass banjo player Don Reno began a new...
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Let's Make A Little Motion
Evelyn Freeman And The Exciting VoicesLet's Make A Little MotionRoberts, FreemanMorrisania Music ASCAPDot 15726March 1958 Bandleader, music composer and musician Evelyn Freeman Roberts was born on...
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Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby
(Popular Artist)Happy, Happy Birthday, BabySylvia-LopezEP 4 Hits 351Brooklyn, N.Y.1957A cover of the Tune Weavers song (a hit on Checker Records, but first issued on Casa Grande). EP Records was owned...
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Snake In The Grass
Jimmy Carroll and The Boy Friends - Snake In The GrassJames Carroll-Gary WrightElysian Music Corp. BMIProduced and directed By Ralph and Sid GlaserArranged And Conducted by Gary RandyGlaser Hollywood...
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