Somethin' Else
It's hard to do it better than Eddie Cochran. Quite a few have tried. Some have managed to do good, but not all. On above picture is Scott Kernaghan from a video recorded, it seems to me, in a...
View ArticleDon'a Wan'a
Wanda JacksonDon'a Wan'a(Boudleaux Bryant, Acuff-Rose BMI)Capitol F38631957The song that Wanda doesn't want you to listen ! According to her autobiography "Every Night Is Saturday Night" :When I got...
View ArticleI Like It Like That
For a good overview of Dora Hall musical career, see The World's Worst Records. Not all her records are bad, as Darryl Bullock readily admits : The difference between Dora and other similar artists...
View ArticleThese Boots Are Made For Walking
These Boots Are Made For Walking The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits says “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” was a huge hit for Nancy Sinatra. The tune topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in...
View ArticleJailhouse Rock
Jimmy Zicari on Ted Mack Amateur Show (August 16, 1958)James "Zack" Zicari, Port Richey, FL/Rochester passed peacefully Tuesday December 10, 2013 at age 67. James was a United States Army Veteran who...
View ArticleUpon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast
" Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me"(cover)Among the 31 short love poems read by Jane Mansfield, I have selected from her album Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me" (MGM Records, 1964) the one by...
View ArticleNeita And The Drifters
Introducing Neita and The DriftersJoe Sixpack, San Francisco Bay Area DJ, has nicely, as usual, reviewed this album here :An archetypal custom-label indie album by an informal country'n'oldies band...
View ArticleI The Dentist
Brook Arnold - I The Dentist From Columbine Records NST 20 (The Now Sounds Of Today) Ay Ya Ya Ya........
View ArticleDonna Danger, The Cherokee Chick
I have 4 tracks only from Donna Danger, the crazy little mama from ? (Pennsylvannia I guess). If one of you have the full album recorded by her for the Jan imprint out of Sweden, feel free to share...
View ArticleThe Singing Jones Family (Sunnyland Records album)
The Singing Jones FamilySunnyland LP-14181972Gospel on side one, country on side two. The family consisted of four members : D.A. Jones (bass), Dot Jones (rhythm guitar), Linda, 18 (piano) and Rose, 16...
View ArticleWayne Cochran (Sundazed album)
Wayne Cochran (Sundazed) albumSundazed re-issue of the Chess album 1519 produced by Abner SpectorRecorded July and September 1967 at Criteria Studios, Miami and Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals,...
View ArticleThe Jokers with Lynda Mitchell
We’re Gonna Hate Ourselves In The MorningStrangeCullman County, Alabama band fronted on vocals by Lynda Mitchell, a University of Alabama graduate in 1965 . Soon after Lynda Mitchell took part in...
View ArticleArtie Malvin Rocks!
Artie Malvin part 11 - Juke Box Baby ( 18 top hits 175 )2 - All Shook Up ( Waldorf BU 2 )3 - Butterfly ( Bell 29 )4 - The Darktown Strutter’s Ball ( Prom 1077 )5 - Hound Dog ( 18 top hits 197 )6...
View ArticleArtie Malvin Rocks Again !
Artie Malvin Rocks Again !25 more top hits by Artie from Bell, 18 Top Hits, Waldorf & Prom Records1 - See You Later, Alligator ( Waldorf 149/Waldorf BU 2 )2 - After The Lights Go Down Low...
View ArticleI'm A Big Girl Now
Elsie DicksonI'm A Big Girl NowPhil Medley-Joe Bollon, Starflower ProductionsArranged and conducted by Phil MedleyDomino D 2001973Female artist, or male, or both ? Awfully bad anyway. May appeal in...
View ArticleCorki Ray
If you are into rockabilly music, you have already heard Corki Ray, without perhaps knowing it. She played bass guitar alongside her then-husband, Al Casey on numerous Phoenix, Arizona recording...
View ArticleThe Swamp Women
Colonel Jubilation B. Johnston and his Mystic Knights Band and Street Singers Attack The HitsColumbia, 1966"enigmatic" credits from the back coverNashville, 1966. After so many recording sessions for...
View ArticleI Hear You Knocking
I Hear You Knocking (as recorded by popular artists on various budget labels)First recorded by Smiley Lewis for Imperial Records in 1954, but it was Gale Storm who got the hit in 1955 (Dot Records)....
View ArticleWomen of Music: Beyond Age
18 Karat Canaries, Thrushes, Warblers, Songstressesvolume 1 (I think)Note : United Women Of The World, please don't file a complaint, that was the fluent language commonly used by the music magazines...
View ArticleDime Store Boogie
To follow up my I Hear You Knocking post and the two Artie Malvin compilations.Despite some errors (for instance, the budget Broadway label wasn't owned by Pinkard in New-York City) and despite its...
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