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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