Dean Carter and Arlie Miller bought a local townhouse in Danville, Illinois which they transformed into a makeshift recording studio with different instrumentalists confined to individual bedrooms and broken down cardboard refrigerator boxes battened to the walls to assist with the acoustics. The studio was named The Midnite Sound to reflect the time of day when most recordings took place. Also formed around the same time was Milky Way Records. The record label only lasted for around eighteen months before folding under a cease and desist order issued by the company manufacturing Milky Way chocolate bars (you can't make this stuff up!).
Johnnie Forrer was previously on Pappy Daily's D Records in 1958 (D 1021 : Fools Paradise is on YouTube). He was later produced by Eddie Noack at Music City Recorders in Nashville ("Singing the Blues Again" , Studio Records, a Waco, Texas label.
Johnnie E Forrer was born in 1927. He died in 2005 and is buried in the cemetery: Houston National Cemetery, which is located in Houston, TX.
The tiny Bow and Arrow label (only three releases) was owned by Kenneth N. Everett, which is the real name of Gene Crawford, star in the early sixties of the "Gold Coast Jubilee," beamed each Sunday over KTRK-TV, Houston,
Top side is a cover of the song penned and recorded by Dell Vaughn (With The Fortune Aires) on Fortune Records (flipside of the wild rockabilly "Rock The Universe" [Fortune #205, 1958]
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Lafayette and The LaSabres : Lafayette Yarbrough (vocal),
brother Marcel Yarbrough (drums), Carl Pearson (Pierson) (organ) and a 4th member probably named Goodman. Photo credit : White Doo Wop Collector
Later line-up : Lafayette and Marcel Yarbrough, Mike Timms (bass) and Michael Dean Wilson (organ). In 1966, they recorded a full-length album for Sidra Records, produced by Valvano and rockabilly singer-turned producer Johnny Powers.
Lafayette Yarbrough, born and raised in Noxapater, Mississippi, moved after High School, to Michigan. He performed in and around Flint and recorded in 1958 a now much sought-after single for the Detroit's Bart Records : "Cool Cool Baby / Livin' Doll"
Lafayette Yarborough had a band in Flint. And this guy could have been a superstar. He used to play at the Beecher Gardens, north of Flint. He was handsome, and he could have been a movie star. I wanted to take him on the road (among other things), but he was married and didn't want to travel. Even though he was married, between sets, he would often be in the back seat of a car "fucking a fan." He was happy enough and getting enough, without superstardom. In looks, he was a cross between Fabian and Elvis.
Lafayette Yarbrough is still performing. (Lafayette can be seen on video with the Keith Ross Show HERE)
He has recorded a CD with Vada Rosecrans "When Two Worlds Collide". Several songs from this CD can be heard on the Lafayette Yarbrough own You Tube channel HERE
Family Altar Records was a division of The Columbia Union Conference, which "exists to advance and fulfill the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Mid-Atlantic United States.".
Mrs Krogstad, former Eleanor Cowles, a Bachelor of Music Education degree holder (with piano as her specialty), was married to Norman Krogstad– NOT the veteran high-ranking Vancouver Hells Angel, I assume – who was appointed chairman of the Department of Music at Washington Missionary College in 1957 and may have been involved in the formation of Family Altar Records.
From the back cover :
The Adelpho Ladies Trio is well-known in the area around Washington, D.C. The group sings at many church and social functions throughout the East.
Vallevia Grant, second soprano began to sing at an early age. Through her school years she sang in various trios and choral groups, often taking solo parts.
Kathaleen Fuller, alto, has also sung in other trios and choral organizations. Her experience includes choir directing.
Betty Morford, soprano, wife of the director of physical education at Columbia Union College has a varied musical background. She has appeared with various trios and other musical organizations
A-side is penned by Jim Harris. B-side is a cover of a 1964 hit song by Little Anthony and the Imperials, issued on DCP Records (their comeback single, ending a long period of inactivity.)
No info on Jim Harris or on The Sidewinders.
According to buckeyebeat.com,
this Columbus label was owned by Bill Strickland with two other non-musicians. All the Fabar records were recorded at Magnetic. Fabar did not use a catalog numbering system so all the label 'numbers' are the pressing plant matrix numbers.
"The Mandolin Man" is the only song written by Conley and Barbra Mullins found in the BMI database.
Conley Mullins' name also came up on the Adco label in 1965 (with Les Baker) and on an album credited to Gene Corbett & the Pine Mountain Boys(a name fairly common in bluegrass music) on Pine Tree (#520, 1974).
Penta's father, Phil, was a master carpenter who built houses. From the time Penta was a toddler, he said, his dad would take him along with him to job sites. He'd give the boy a red hammer, a box of nails and some wood, and let him pound.
That interest grew when Penta took woodworking classes at Copley High School. And he still has that red hammer.
''That hammer is going to be buried with me,'' he said.
Not too long after he was driving nails to occupy himself while his father worked, he discovered music. He was 7 at the time, and his older brother, Joe, was playing in a band. It inspired him to take up the guitar, an instrument he studied for eight years.
Penta made some recordings and just missed out on a big record deal when his contact at the record company was fired. By that time, though, he had a fiancee, and the musician's life seemed too difficult for someone who wanted to raise a family, he said.
Rick Penta had a previous record issued on Rusty York's Jewel label ("Hit The Road", Jewel #737, 1977). "You And The Bell" and "Babe" from that album can be heard HERE And "Suzi Mesciline " is on YouTube.
Clay Daniels, the son of an Alabama construction worker, began singing as a child, and always loved country music. In his youth, Daniels worked as an afternoon DJ on WHEP in Foley, Ala. After graduating from Foley High School, he studied broadcasting in Chicago (Midwestern Broadcasting School). He worked as a DJ at Mobile-area radio stations WUNI, WTUF and WZAM. He also worked as a weatherman at WALA Channel 10 in Mobile, and performed on WALA's "Friendly Variety Show," hosted by the late Jack Cardwell. Announcer and program director at WPMP, Pascagoula, Miss. (1964). At Miami and Tampa radios and finally at WHOO, in Orlando, Florida until 1991.
In 1970, he was the first artist released on the Souncot label, a subsidiary of the Koscot Cosmetic Co., Orlando, Florida. The record was cut in Nashville and produced by ex-recording artist Ric Cartey (Billboard September 5, 1970)
In his later years, Daniels joined a couple of other friends to create The Three Amigos, who performed the "animal circuit" of Moose, Elk and Eagles lodges.
Clay Daniels died of cancer in 2009 the day after he turned 72.
He liked Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson, but he preferred George Jones and Willie Nelson. "It was never as good as the good old days," said Delight, his wife of 29 years.
Steve Schickel was record editor for The Chicago Tribune, deejay for three years on WGN, free-lance promotion man, music and coin reporter for The Billboard, Mercury public-relations director (1960-1962) and WGN newsman from 1962
This Foremost release is his second record, the first being on Mercury Records in 1956, "Leave My Sideburns Be", a take-off of "you know who" backed with "Cry-Baby Boogie".
Two other songs from the same Mercury sessions remained unissued : "Educated Rock And Roll" and "What A Night" , the latter finally issued (or re-recorded?) by Foremost Records.
Note : this is NOT the Kansas City Foremost label.
This record made expressly for Brother Powell's Television Friends
1964
The good looking Pentecostal evangelist has recorded a lot of albums, wrote some books, travelled extensively in the U.S. and in the Canada between 1968 and 1975 before coming back to Daytona Beach.
He got his start, so speaking,, in the evangelism business after a miraculous recovery who has taking place, I'm guessing, between the publication of two of his pamphlets, "Footprints of Jesus" (1956) and "Faith In The Fire" (1961).
The circumstance of the miracle was advertised in Daytona newspapers when Don Powell was here, in 1962, for a three-weeks crusade (upper-case letters are in the original ad and preserved here) :
ONLY ETERNITY WILL TELL HOW MANY SOULS HAVE BEEN SAVED AND HEARTS HAVE BEEN BLESSED!
DON POWELL AND HIS FAMILY AFTER BEING NEAR DEATH FROM THE EXPLOSION OF A BURNING BOAT IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS ... THE SWIFT HAND OF GOD TAKING ONE DAUGHTER IN THIS TRAGEDY ... YET MIRACULOUSLY HEALING DON POWELL OF THIRD DEGREE BURNS OVER MOST OF HIS BODY .....
THE SWIFT HAND OF GOD PUTTING FLESH WHERE MUSCLES AND SINEW HAD BEEN EATEN UP BY FLAMES ... OVERNIGHT DESTROYING VICIOUS GANGRENE CRAWLING THROUGH DON POWELL'S BODY
THE SWIFT AND POWERFUL HAND OF GOD BRINGING COMPLETE RECOVERY ALMOST IN A MINUTE! ....SPECIALISTS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS MAN TO LIVE... YET HE WAS IN THE PULPITS OF NEW YORK CHURCHES ONLY 19 DAYS LATER PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD AND BRINGING THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND HEALING THE LOST SOULS...
Don Powell albums discography (Rite pressings)
Miracle Groove label
1965 – Soul Of, Miracle Groove xx Rite #13943/13944
1967 – With The Angelic Strings Miracle Groove 40 Rite #20155/20156
1969 – There Is Room At The Cross For You, Miracle Groove 41 Rite #23571/23772
1970 – Country Gospel Campmeeting Style Miracle Groove 46 Rite #26835/26836 (Indiana, PA)
1972 – Very Best Of Don Powell Miracle Groove xx Rite #29007/29008
1973 – Beyond The Sunset Miracle Groove xx Rite #30795/30796 (Don & Sandra Powell)
1973 – Sunday Morning At Our House Miracle Groove xx Rite #31905/31906
no details
? – Fill My Cup Miracle Groove
? – Gentle Ever Sweet Miracle Groove (Don Powell And Sandr)
? – My Lord Is Coming Back Again
? – Praise Ye The Lord
? – Where The Roses Never Fade
? – Revival Tabernacle in Daytona Beach, FL.
? – It's Music Time Tabernacle 13014 (Rite?)
Sample from the Beyond The Sunset LP
Note : there is another gospel singer named Don Powell, married to Anne, who has recorded country music in the past (on Country Picnic Records)
French Perfume
Our Moment Is Now
Too Little Too Late (By The Mystery Girl)
The Hand Of God
Daisy Chains And Cherry Earrings
On You It Looks So Good (By Sonny Marcel)
2nd Matadore (By Ken Richards
Demo No. 1pg
Misery Train (By Lee James)
Second Group Demo No. 2's
Lonely Lips
Itching Heart
Good Little Girl (By Kris Arden)
Salt, Salt, Salt
Biggest Fool In Town (By Sammy Marshall)
and
I'm Through With You (By Ken Richards)
Side 2 - CP-5264
First Group Demo No. 3's
Just Waiting For You
I Keep Praying (By Kris Arden)
Outside Of That
Crazy Dog Dance
Should I Tell My Heart (By Sammy Marshall)
I've Found An Angel (By Lee James)
The Image Of You (By Mary Kaye
And
Lucianna (By Gary Lawrence)
Second Group
Echo Demonstration; Demo No. 4's
I Wonder And Johnny You Left Me (By The Coquettes)
Demo No 5's
True Love Come Back (By The Markees)
And
Mood Indigo (By The Cones)
Ideal Bread, Sealtest And Rudy's Sausage Jingles
Samples (oddly presented) of songs recorded by the most prolific of the song-poem recording studio. Names of artists listed are all familiar to the song-poem collectors or discographers However, none of these songs seems to be listed anywhere, except "Itching Heart" issued on the Dial label. See HERE. Three commercial jingles are ending the side two.
Ebay seller has "sampled the samples" on Youtube, here
Native of Salem, Iowa, Gene Mills has been playing guitar most of his life and in his younger days was a good yodeler. He played various venues in his home state including the Fort Madison Rodeo.and the Iowa State Fair. He took off for the West Coast and spent many years living in Hollywood.
In the mid-sixties, he had DeVille Recordsreleasing "I Want To Be A Cowgirls Sweetheart" "Emotions".
I believe it's him also on Jin Records of Louisiana : "Chime Bells" / "Rocking Rollin' Ocean" (Jin 284, 70s).
Mills says he's played the Grand Ole Opry and he's met Johnny Cash. His life sounds like a David Allen Coe song. In fact Mills - who spent many years living in Hollywood - was cast in a movie with the Man in Black. The movie was to be Jimmie Rodgers' life story. Rodgers is considered one of the fathers of country music. The movie was never put into production, however.
The cast of the Barnyard Frolic, WKRC-TV, Cincinnati (early fifties)
From the book by Jim Friedman "Cincinnati Television (OH)"
Preston Ward was born near Knoxville, moved to Cincinnati when in his teens. He was discovered by King Records of Cincinnati where he recorded a session in April 1947. In the early fifties, he was a member of the Echo Valley Boys on the Barnyard Frolic cast over WKRC-TV in Cincinnati. Preston worked on several stations around Cincinnati and for a while joined
KICA, Clovis, New Mexico. In the late fifties, he was a regular performer on Lake Ranch, Verona, KY.
After a few recordings issued in 1952 by the Maestro and Hit Parade labels, both owned by Lester M. Cox out of Indianapolis, there was a long string of recordings for Carl Burkhardt's budget labels : Kentucky, Gateway Top Tune, Big 4 Hits and, as Ward Preston, on Big Buy and Coast To Coast.
Preston Ward was the great-uncle of racing driver Bob Sweikert, Indy winner and American champion of 1955 who died in a crash at the Salem Raceway.
Authors : Francis E. Delaney (ASCAP) And Lew Tobin (ASCAP)
Piano And Arrangements : Lew Tobin (ASCAP)
Vocalists : Norm Burns and Shelly Stuart
Five Star Music Productions
Side 1: #IDM 771- 23163
Stop It, Stupid
Yummy, Yummy, Dum-Dum
Rusty
Funny Face
My Little Old Lady
Blue Mist
Side 2: #IDM 772 - 23164
You Gotta Be Goofy
The Hickory Kick
War Of Love
Blackie
Arrested By You
My Love-Note Tree
Delicks Records
Icka-Delick-Music P.O. Box C Chicago Ridge, Illinois 60415
1968
Icka-Delicks Records trademark
(from the United States Patent Office, principal register, serial #333,407, filed July 24, 1969)
The uncommon Icka Delicks logo was gracefully described by the Patent Office examiner in this way :
24.13.25- Cross, Maltese; Cross, ankh; Other crosses, including ankh, Maltese
24.15.25- Other arrows
26.01.06- Circles, semi; Semi-circles
26.01.21- Circles that are totally or partially shaded.
Biographical notice by Francis E. Delaney himself :
I was born in Chicago [in 1936] and gradurated from Mount Carmel High School class of 54. I played coronet and piano. I start writing poerty and wrote my first song at age 21. From 1969-1971, I took a correspondence course with the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Didn't finish it, did 17 of 20 lessons. Wish I did finish it. I am a member of ASCAP, CMA, NASI. My songs can be licensed through The Harry Fox Agency. Songs played on radio "Christmas in Space" and " Ribbon on a Tree" ( 9-11 song). My six brothers were in the U.S. Army, Marines and the Canadian Air Force. My father was a Canadian Merchant Marine in the 1st World War. He was injured in the war and recovered at Ste. Ann's Hospital in Montreal Canada. I watched all my brothers go to war and watched them all come back alive. I was the lucky one I didn't have to go. All of us were lucky to be born. When I met Kentucky in 1998 I wrote her 1st song, "I Was Lucky Again". My father met my mother at Marshal Fields during the depression. They got married and in three short years, she was the mother of five step-sons and two sons of her own. A dear friend of mine Maureen passed away in 1993 after a 23 year battle with cancer.
"Blinky,The Blue Nosed Snowdeer", a book for the kids, was the first book he wrote in 1969. Another book of note was "When Elvis Played His Music: (the World Began to Sing)" self-published in 1978.
Blogger and song-poem records collector Bob Purse is lucky enough to own a copy of this LP. If you ask him nicely, I'm sure he will post some other songs.
