The Goins Brothers on Jalyn

Goins Brothers

26341 ~ Fly Little Bluebird
26342 ~ Pistol Packin' Mama

Jalyn 353

After the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers disbanded in 1963, Ray and Melvin performed together as The Goins Brothers until Ray’s heart attack in 1994 slowed him down. Ray retired in 1997, while Melvin continued as Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain. Ray would share the stage with his brother on occasion, mostly close to home in eastern Kentucky Melvin Goins and Ray Goins, The Goins Brothers, have been playing mountain string music for 50 years. The music became known as "bluegrass" about the time they started playing professionally. Ray passed away in 2007.

Goins Brothers discography

Goins Brothers bio by Frank Overstreet

Jalyn Records discography (45 RPM)


Written and recorded first by Al Dexter in 1943, "Pistol Packin' Mama" was covered the same year by Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters. And Republic Pictures made a movie picture based on this song, starring Ruth Terry :

Ruth Terry’s most famous picture, and her signature song, was Republic’s “Pistol Packin’ Mama”. “People still remember me from that film. It was a good little picture. I like it a lot. A lot of hit songs came from those little pictures—‘I’ve Heard That Song Before’ by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne from ‘Youth on Parade,’ for instance.”[Ruth Terry interview]




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The New Corinthians on Corinthian

The New Corinthians

35111 - Walk On By
35112 - Soldier

Corinthian Records

Written & arranged by the New Corinthians, Redi-Soul Publ. BMI
Produced by A.Perkins
Recorded at RPM Studios 1513 2nd St. Madison, Ill.

1975

"Gospel crossover soul"

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Piqua Central High School Concert Band

Piqua Central High School Concert Band
Recorded February 23, 1965.

14081 - Alma Mater and Pep Song
written and conducted by Philip P. Gates guest conductor

14082 - "Don't Let the Rain Come Down" March-a-samba
conducted by James Carter, band director

Produced by JATOM COMPANY
A Junior Achievement Company of Piqua, Ohio.

The Piqua Central High School Marching Band was formed by H.O. Ferguson in the Winter of 1916. The marching band participated in April of 1917 at a parade in Troy in uniforms consisting of red sweaters, dark trousers and white caps.

The Piqua High School marching band was directed by Phillip P. Gates in 1917. Gates, Piqua Central High School's long time popular music director noted that PHS probably had the first marching band in the state of Ohio. Gates made that statement in 1973 when he returned to Piqua to direct the PHS Alumni Band at Wertz Stadium....

[Above info is from a detailed history of the Piqua High School Marching Band found HERE]

The Piqua High School, built in 1914, is now an historic building located at 316 North College Street in Piqua, Ohio. Also known as Piqua Central High School, it was designed by Harvard and Merriam in the Classical Revival style. In 1995 it was converted to 78 apartments and is now known as Piqua Senior Housing. On August 22, 1996, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[Wikipedia]



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Mary White (Cowtown 804)

Mary White

CP 4667 ~ Christmas Bells
CP-4668 - Rudolph Pouts

Cowtown 804

According to Phil Milstein : "Cowtown Records was a hybrid vanity/song-poem concern operated by John W. Stephenson. It's not entirely clear which of their releases fall into which category." This record belongs without the shadow of a doubt to the "song poem" category.

Both songs were written by Dennis Tenney whose several songs are listed in the ASPMA discography :

• Lost My Man / Goody Goody Gonna Love (Belle Meade Records, 1960)
• I Love Two Men (Tropical 220 (LP "Betty Bond Sings Pop")
• Dream West Virginia (Preview 2326)

[Record found at Diggin' It, a Westex blog, HERE]




Dennis Tenney, who traces his ancestry back to the time of William the Conqueror, was born in Ten Mile, West Virginia, in 1897. As his mother became a widow when he was very young, he became acquainted with responsibility early in life. He started to work at the age of twelve, and a fourteen had his own business. Bad health and lack of money slowed down his schooling, but Mr. Tenney eventually received his master’s degree in social science from Denver University.

Mr. Tenney has been a preacher, salesman, probation officer and real estate broker. Real estate management provided him with financial security and later the leisure to return to his early interest, the writing of poetry.



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The Mighty Spiritual Lights Of Alexandria, Va. on MRC

The Mighty Spiritual Lights Of Alexandria, Va.

27471 - You Got To Move
(C.B. Richardson) Dooms BMI

27472 - That's Enough
(Ernest King) Dooms Music BMI

MRC 1147
Major Recording Co.
Waynesboro, Virginia

1971

Brother James Edward Hunt was one of the founding Trustees of the Mount Nebo Pentecostal Church at its current location on Burke Avenue in Alexandria, Virginia. He remained a member for over forty years until his homegoing.

As a young boy, he discovered he had a gift from God as a dynamic gospel singer. He used this gift for many years singing in different churches until he and some friends formed their first successful gospel quartet called the Silver Stars.

In 1960 he and a new group of friends formed the Mighty Spiritual Lights. He became one of the lead singers and manager of the group which made several recordings and received accolades and praise from all over the country. The Mighty Spiritual Lights have shared the spotlight with many of the gospel greats of the world. With his ability to bring thousands of people to Christ through song he established the original “Gospel Hour” at Mount Nebo which became the showplace for many of the major Gospel singing groups in the area. The Gospel Hour is still in existence today.




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5 Fortunes on Ransom

5 Fortunes

CP-3967 ~ You Are My Love
CP-3968 ~ Time Out For Love

Ransom Records # 103

Interviewed about the 5 Fortunes, Morris Wade -who also recorded for the label- said : "

They were in the military. They were stationed at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus. We were all friends and socialized some, but I can’t remember their names."

That's all we known about this Columbus black vocal group. A copy of this extremely rare record is currently auctioned at eBay. If you are interested, hurry up : only 3 hours left... Highest bid : $419.00

The three previous releases on the label (including the #100 issued on the misspelled Ranson Records) were pressed by King Records of Cincinnati.

Black entrepeneur Howard Ransom owned the label in Columbus, Ohio. He later relocated to Los Angeles where he operated the Nanc, Lilly and Lulu labels, with James L.Turner.


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Charlie Conrad With the Black Mountain Boys on Spec

Charlie Conrad
With the Black Mountain Boys

CP-1172 ~ Dizzy Love

CP-1173 ~ Night Club Blues

Spec Records #125

1957

Rockin' Country Style gives Pacific Grove, Ca. as location of Spec Records. This information is incorrect, I believe :

The source of the information is indicated as "Billboard news item". Indeed Spec Records was among the list of new records label published by Billboard, but that was in its February 2, 1959 issue. The only known release on the 1959 California Spec label was Staten Johnson " Where No One Has Tears / Joaquin Murieta" (Spec 101).

So the search of the location for this Spec Records is still open...

I've found nothing about Charlie Conrad.

There is some tantalizing references on the web to Walter Hensley playing in 1956 in a rockabilly band called The Black Mountain Boys in the Baltimore area. Same band perhaps?


Label pictures are from Rockin' Country Style, MP3s from "Country Hicks Vol.1 [Bark Log CD]



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Le Roy Cortez on Process

Le Roy Cortez

11271 - Lonesome 7-7203
(Justin Tubb, Cedarwood Music, BMI)

11272 - Band 1-Chime Bells
(Bob Miller & Elton Britt, Bob Miller BMI)
Band 2-Yodeling Cowboy
(Le Roy Cortez, Process Music BMI)

Process 117

1963

Hillbilly/Yodeling

Note : On Process, Le Roy Cortez and his band backed Susie Lee Young ("Pretty Loretta Lynn", Process 164) and Smokey Monroe (Process 122).

Le Roy Cortez was born on March 3, 1925, in Ellwood City to the late Frank Cortez and Filomena Keevis Cortez. Leroy served with the U.S. Navy from August 28, 1943 to October 23, 1947 as a Seaman First Class. He served in both the European and American Theatres. Leroy then worked at the U.S. Steel Ellwood City plant until the plant closed in 1975. He also was a school bus driver for Zona Busing Co. for many years.

Mr. Cortez was Catholic by faith. He was a member of the VFW Post No. 252, the American Legion Post No. 157. Leroy was a well known musician in the area. He played the guitar and was the lead singer for his band "Leroy Cortez & The Outlaws".

Le Roy Cortez passed away at his residence on Thursday February 3, 2011 at 4:15 a.m.

Dr. Ernie Panza, Chiropractor

Dr. Ernie Panza

Is Health The Impossible Dream?
Questions And Answers

Dr. Ernie Panza,
Panza Chiropratic
Life Center, Monroe, Mich.

Processed through T-Town of Toledo
Narrated by Jim Miller
Engineered by Ralph Gross

Rite #31419/31420

1973

Both sides can be downloaded at the Recordo Obscura blog where this record has been found (with thanks)


Ernie Panza (from a publicity found in the Adrian Daily Telegram, 1976) :

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa. where I attended school. Upon graduation from high school, I entered the U.S. Army where I was a dental lab techician. My plans were to follow the dental profession by attending Pitt University Dental School in Pittsburgh, Pa. However, as things happened my plans changed. Since the age of 10 I had suffered with migraines headaches. While in the army a friend persuaded me to go to a chiropractor. Since I had tried verything else for relief of the headaches, including shots and neurology tests, I decided I had nothing to lose. Not only did he get rid of my migraine headaches in a short time but also changed my entire life. It was then that I decide to beacme a chiropractor.

Instead of Pitt. University, I attended Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis, Missouri. I graduated in 1968. For the last 6 and one half years I have been in active pratice in Monroe, Michigan. In December of 1975, we opened our new office located at 2890 M-52 in Adrian, MI. Since then things have gone well, we have sold the Monroe Office and are now open full time at this office.






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Jimmy Goad on Goad

Jimmy Goad

27427 - Darling If You're Sure
27428 - You Can Beat Me, Bang Me

Singing with Robins Strings
Vocal - Jimmy Goad
Writer - Jimmy Goad
Focal Point BMI

Goad 0002
Box 341 - Rt 6 - Macon, Ga.
(IF ITS GOAD ITS GOOD)

Produced by Ray Melton


From eBay
Auction has sound clips
(described as "hillbilly boogie")



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Bernie Skelton on Franchel

Bernie Skelton

14101 ~ Bad Baby
14102 ~ Drop In To See Me

Franchel

Both songs written by Skelton-Owen
and published byDuride Publishing Co. BMI)

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Bernie Skelton and Lonnie C. Owens (or Owen) wrote together several other songs : I've Got A Lot; You're The Only One On My Mind; The Ballad Of The Mexican Girl, Only Girl ; Run Away From Me... Lonnie C. Owens wrote also "Sea Gull Rock" in 1958.

The name of the publisher, Duride, is a sure indication of a South Carolina production, Greenville perhaps?



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Everett Spears on Epto

B&W label picture
(original color unknown)

Everett Spears

15767 - Truck Driving Man
15768 - All Of My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers

Epto Records

Label scan and sound file are from Collector CD 4469 "Rockabilly Hoodlums, Vol. 4".

The Meter-Tones on Jax

Piano Red presents
The Meter-Tones
(Vocal Curtis Smith)

CP-2432 ~ Talk To Me
Wr. Curtis Smith, Lowery Music BMI

CP-2433 ~ Believe in me
Wr. Curtis Smith, Willie Perryman, Lowery Music BMI

Jax 1002

Subsidiary of National Recording Corp. -Atlanta, Ga.

Piano Red and the Interns
Roy Lee Johnson, Jr. (guitar), Howard Hobbs (bass), Bobby Lee Tuggle (drums), Curtis Smith (guitar), and Beverly Watkins (guitar).

The Meter-Tones were the Piano Red (aka Willie Perryman) backing band. Members were likely also those listed HERE, backing Piano Red on the Okeh sessions from 1961 and pictured above.

Guitarist Beverly Watkins remembers :

Me and some guys got together and we formed a band, and we named it Billy West Stone and the Down Beats. I was like tryin' to play bass, but what I would do, every song we would do I would tune the first bass string down and run the bass line like that. So we kept that group for around about two years, then I met this drummer, Bobby Tuggle. And he carried me and introduced me to Piano Red. And I went out and I talked with Red. Durin' that time he had his radio show there on Madison Place. He used to broadcast from, he had somethin' like a little house in the back of his house, and he'd come on WAOK every evenin', I'd say around about three o'clock. That was around '59. And I was like going into my junior year at Archer High School. Then we formed a band there called Piano Red and the Meter-tones. And we had two guitars, bass, and drums. Curtis Smith on lead, myself on rhythm, Bobby Tuggle was on drums, Piano Red doin' his show separately.

Piano Red (1911-1985) :

Willie Lee Perryman, who performed during his career as "Piano Red" and as "Dr. Feelgood," was a self-taught pianist who played in the barrelhouse blues style. ..
Some music historians credit Perryman's 1950 recording "Rocking With Red" for the popularization of the term rock and roll in Atlanta.......


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The Lower Oisch Philharmonic on Krieger

The Lower Oisch Philharmonic

25195 - Magic Rag Rag - Part I
25196 - Magic Rag Rag - Part II

Wr Chuck Keith
Arranged by Ron Jarvis

Produced by Tom Krieger

1969

Folk protest
From Akron, Ohio ?


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Chuck Keith is possibly Charles Keith - songwriter, singer, leader of the Hi-Fi's.

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Nancy Vee on Blue Diamond

Nancy Vee


37357 - My White Christmas Has Turned Blue
(Nancy Valykeo, JoCher Music Co. BMI,

37358 - Country Christmas Rock.

Blue Diamond 766

Canonsburg, Pa. - Nashville, Tenn.

Produced by Joe Diamond

1976

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Currently offered at eBay HERE (auction has sound clip). Searching Google with "Blue Diamond" and "Nancy Vee" gives unfortunately (?) much X-rated links as results, Nancy Vee being also apparently the name of some porn star of today. Talk about data pollution...

Joe Diamond had a recording studio in Canonsburg, Pa. He had also a country rock band and recorded himself for his own label. The online BMI database gives the name of Joe Di Pippa as the contact of JoCher Music Co. and this is almost certainly the real name of Joe Diamond.



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Jay Hammond and the D-J’s on Alvic

Jay Hammond and the D-J’s

9455 – Same Old Crowd
(Hammond-Roy Wariner-Jimmy Wariner)

9456 – D-J Twist
(Burchett-Collins, Fayette BMI)

Alvic Records
Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Lefty Combs, producer

1963

From the book "Grassroots Music In The Upper Cumberland" by William Lynwood Montell ; University Of Tennessee Press, Knoxville (2006 ) :

Russell County musician William Jay Hammond was born December 30, 1930. Music was an everyday thing around the Hammond home. After a long day, the family alwaus gathered after supper to sing songs on the front porch. Gospel songs from memory filled the air without the aid of musical instruments. The Hammond family was too poor to own expensive pieces of equipments.

As soon as Jay could afford one, he bought himself a guitar. Without the aid of lessons, he soon taught himself the basics he needed in order to play this instrument.

Jay joined the U.S. Army and served in Korea during the Korean War. Upon return from military service, he was quick to gather with other local musicians and form a bluegrass band in 1955 called Jay Hammond and the DJ’s. The term « DJ’s » became a part of the group’s name because all but one of the member’s first names started with a D or a J. The group included Jay as guitarist and lead singer ; Delmer « Dynamite » Russell, guitar and backup vocals ; Jimmy Wariner, lead guitar ; Davis Wariner, bass ; and Codel Burchett, drummer. From time to time, others filled in and were considered to also be a part of the band. The latter included Roy Wariner and his ten-year old son, Steve, who went to become a leading country music professional.

Although group members were working in Noblesville, Indiana, at the time, their first public performance was a barn dance at the Eli community in Russell County. They drove down from Indiana and were paid five dollars each for their musical performance. Soon thereafter, Jay Hammond and the DJ’s were regular guests at the Lake Cumberland Jamboree at the county fairgrounds. They also won a spot on WBKO TV in Bowling Green on Saturday nights. Steve Wariner was playing drums for the group at the time.

In the early 1960s, Jay married Glenna Neat of Columbia, Adair county. They had five children vetween 1962 and 1972, thus slowing downJay’s music business. He worked through the week but continued to play music on weekends. He also expanded his music career as he began writing his own songs and publishing them. He created Wheelhoss Publishing Company in order to publish his songs. He also paired up with June Campbell Brewster and Roy Wariner to write songs and add music.

Other members who played with Jay’s bluegrass band included Glenna Hammond, Imogene Wooten, and Pat Thompson, who were Russell County residents and who sang backup. Part-time members included the Corbin Twins, Kay and Winston McGowan, Jean Gibson, Joe Thompson, Beckham Collins, June Campbell, Fred Russell, Kenny Wariner, Roy Wariner, and Steve Wariner.

Jay Hammond and the DJ’s were regular performers at White Swan Jamboree, Lake Cumberland Jamboree, WAIN Radio in Coumbia, WBKO Channel 13 in Bowling Green, WJRS Radio in Russell County, and Independance Day Celebration in Jamestown.

Jay Hammond died in March 1983 after two heart attacks.

Note 1 : One of his song, "I'm An Ape", issued on his own Wheelhoss label has been recently compiled on CD (I Am An Ape, White Trash Rockers).

Note 2 : The Jay Hammond of Jay Hammond & Rhythm Kings ("I'll Be Your Fool/ She's My Girl") on the Fortune Records HI-Q subsidiary (#5015, 1960) is a different artist. " I'll Be Your Fool" can be heard on YouTube.


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The Rockin' Flames on Jan

The Rockin' Flames

CP-2931 - Cricket
CP-2932 - Shim Sham

Jan 14160

Marshall, Missouri

1960

A pair of instrumentals

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The Brotherhood Singers From Columbia S.C.

The Brotherhood Singers From Columbia S.C.

38359 – Going Back With Jesus
38360 - Time

David Mitchell Custom Recording
Columbia S.C.

1977

Black Gospel
Arr. Deacon Alexander Middleton (left picture)

Sample



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Earrell Yarns on Valerie

Earrell Yarns

16785 – I’m Going To Tell The Truth
16786 – Don’t Leave Me

Valerie 2004

1966

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(Valerie Records, a subsidiary of Band Box Records)

Label scans credit : Derik

Posted by Derik at his blog Some Local Loser (July 2, 2011)



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Tropical 106

Betty Jayne

9193 ~ In The Darkness

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Charles Vickers

9194 ~ Come On, Baby

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Tropical Records #106

wr Valenti- Philipp, Alison Music Co., ASCAP

1962



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The Invalids on Crutch !

The Invalids

14031 ~ The Buzzard
(wr. T.Meyers)

14032 ~ I Love This Girl

Crutch Records

Rite account 428 : same as Adair, Adco, Cincy...

Cincinnati garage from early 1965


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"Happy" Hal Burns on Gold Arrow

"Happy" Hal Burns
With The Rhythm Masters

10711 – The Stamp Song
10712 - Somebody Else (Is Loving You)

Gold Arrow GAR-100
Gold Arrow Enterprises Inc.
San Antonio, Texas

Copyright 1963

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Left : Happy Hal Burns
(From "Birmingham Broadcasting", book by Tim Hollis)

Hal Byrnes became better known as Hal Burns. Happy Hal Burns. A longtime country music performer mostly active in Memphis and Birmingham - very popular regionally.

"He made a couple of Western movies, even before Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. He was always a great one. He was a good yodeler, a good singer, a great promoter and a great personality."

Born in 1908, Happy Hal Burns began his radio career at Birmingham’s WBRC Radio in the 1930s. He later moved to WMC in Memphis, Tenn., where the "Garrett Snuff Variety Show" featured Happy Hal, a cast of musical regulars, top-name guests and a little dog named Sissy.

"It became one of the leading country-music shows of the day. It was carried by major stations in Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Atlanta. Mr. Burns always told a happy thought, a happy story or a joke. His closing remark and signature signoff was always, ’Beeeeeeee happy!’ "

After his service in World War II, Happy Hal returned to his native Birmingham and started another crowd-pleasing musical variety show on WBRC Radio.

"He helped many people succeed in their music careers as a music promoter and variety-show host. Not only did he perform all over the country with his Country Jubilee Shows, he also wrote more than 100 songs. One in particular was ’Cow Town,’ which he co-wrote with Tex Ritter. More recently, it was recorded by country great George Strait."

Happy Hal died in 2000.

Happy Hal Burns singing You'll Never Find Another Daddy Like Me on the Country Boy Eddie Show 1987

Sources :

Alabama Music Office,
mackari (Corsicana, Texas)
Tim Hollis : "Birmingham Broadcasting" (book)



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Vacation Land Records

Ralph Clifford

Cal Warmington Orchestra

CP-1805 - I've Always Dreamed Of A Dream Girl
CP-1806 - Peaches And Cream

Vacation Land 1

Nancy Houghton /Cal Warmington Orchestra
CP-1807 - I Have A Secret

Rose Trick/ Cal Warmington Orchestra
CP-1808 - The Sailor

Vacation Land 2

1959

You can hear the second release HERE (at the Talisman Records store)
Description : Rose Trick : "Shirley Temple Sound"

One of the two sides of each record ("I've Always Dreamed Of A Dream Girl" and "I Have A Secret") were later re-issued on Perry label, another label also operated by Howard L. Lafer at the same Port Clinton address.

The formation of the new record company was announced by The Toledo Blade on July 15, 1959 :

Howard L. Lafer, of Port Clinton, has just formed [...] Vacation Land Records. Toledo performers are heard on both of them. On one platter Ralph Clifford [...] and on the other, Rose Trick vocalizes « The Sailor, », a rock and roll number for which her mother, Vera Trick, write the words, and Cal feminine singer, Nancy Houghton, does « I Have A Secret ».

Note : The Marblehead peninsula of Ohio was a major vacation and recreation area, dotted with summer cottages and resort hotels. Hence the name of the label, Vacation Land.

Carroll (Cal) Warmington died in Tucson, Arizona in 1978. He was 70. A trumpet player, he led the Cal Warmington Revelers band in the Toledo area from 1950 to 1965. He also, in the same time, worked in the naval procurement department of the U.S. Department of Defense for 20 years, retiring in 1968.




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The Owens Family (Circle D 3)

The Owens Family With The Blue Valley Boys

10835 - Dreaming On A Dream Cloud
Vocal Dave And Alida Owens

10836 - Don't Pretend
Vocal Dave Owens And His Twin Sisters (Alida & Nila)

Circle “D” Records # 3

Both songs written by Dave Owens and published by Cumberland Music, BMI Speedwell, Tenn.

Circle "D" Records discography

Dave W. Owens (1920-2009)

Dave Owens age 89 of Speedwell, TN., was born May 27, 1920 and passed away December 25, 2009 at the UT Hospital in Knoxville, TN. He was of Baptist Faith and honorably served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII from 1942-1945.



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Eliot Streeper on Cobalt

Eliot Streeper
Accompanied by "The Hereafter"

21467 - Through A Broken Shred Of Time (Streeper) Scovel Music
21468 - The Sunrise Prince (Streeper – Libert) Scovel Music

Produced by Eliot Streeper

Cobalt Records

Rite account #1918

[1968]

"Folk"

Pic & description : bluetiffkyle (ebay, Tecumseh, Oklahoma)

The A-side has been played on April 16, 2008 by Tony Coulter on his WFMU show (Golden Fish and Guitar)

Through A Broken Shred Of Time

This is certainly Eliot Richard Streeper from Santa Fe, New Mexico. But the various sources I've found on the Net doesn't mention his musical past.

Eliot Streeper was born January 18, 1946 to Dr. Richard B. Streeper and Katherine W. Streeper. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack September 24, 2005. He was 59. Eliot was born in San Antonio, Texas, and as with many war-time children, Eliot moved often with his family. They settled in Santa Fe in 1959. Eliot loved Santa Fe's architecture, landscape, history and curio shops and traded in coins … [obit, The Santa Fe New Mexican, October 14, 2005 ]

He also presided the Santa Fe Basin Water Association. See The Sante Fe Reporter HERE.



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The Barons on Key

The Barons

CP-2555 ~ Jay Walk
(Johnny Cox)

CP-2556 ~ If You Want A Little Lovin'
(Taylor-Christopher-Taylor)

Both sides published by Lock Publishing (BMI)

A Cox-Taylor production

Key Records #1001
Greenville, S.C.
A division of Mojay Enterprises Inc.

[Billboard rev., December 7, 1959]

Much more commonly found label,
which is almost certainly a second pressing
(not Rite?)

Their first record. They also had records on the Midnite label, another imprint of Mojay enterprises. One was leased to V-Tone Records.

Members included Henry L. Taylor (1923-2010) , Milton H. Taylor and Johnny Cox.

At 13, Johnny Cox cut his first record with the Barons. It was called “Jaywalk”, a song he wrote and played on his saxophone. He was recruited by a band called the “Sparkletones”. The group had a hit called “Black Slacks” and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Johnny toured with them in Canada, playing sax, at the age of 14. Upon his return home, his 6-year old sister kissed his hand over and over because it was the hand that shook the hands of Ricky Nelson, Fabian, and Paul Anka!!!

Later he was a member of The Jays, The Swingin’ Medallions, Sassy, Rhythm Brothers, Griff & Johnny, The Out-of-Towners Band, and many more.




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