Rite Records custom pressings Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955-1985
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The Corvairs were one of Cincinnati's most popular bands of the early 1960s. The band included two sets of twins, (Bill Stith and Al Stith, and two named Langdon) and a lead singer named Little Joe Williams, who was barely a teenager when he started.
The band released several records on their own Twin (what else) label, as well as a 45 on Hickory records. A few of the recordings, like "Gee Whiz" and "Black Diamonds" were local hits. They played numerous dances and clubs in the greater Cincy area. http://www.buckeyebeat.com/corvairs.html
Independence has always been full of holes: subterranean tunnels, secret passages, mines, hidden hollows, and reverberating caverns. A place tailor-made for making lots of noise in private, the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, is riddled with untold natural cavities and a slew of manmade mines that’ve been delivering zinc, copper, nickel, and cobalt for more than a hundred years. But when Gerald “Jerry” Riegle rented space in the old Pixley Quarry, an active limestone mine, his intent was to work a vein of recorded sound. One of the strangest recording studios ever built, the aptly-named and actually subterranean Cavern Sound soon collected a cast of characters—the country-loving general manager, the young rocker, the Sun Records rockabilly pilot—and a dedicated clientele of religious groups, schools, country singers, and rock ‘n’ roll dreamers hoping to stumble across the true sound of the underground.
From 1967 to 1973, Riegle and his partners/engineers John Pearson, Jim Wheeler, Jim Williams, and Chris Bauer tracked thousands of hours of garage bands, school choirs, gospel trios, folk duos, and anyone who could scratch up enough cash to cover their $300 day rate. James Brown spent the better part of April 1972 in the Cave, cutting a number of his own sides alongside Lyn Collins’ crowd-pleasing killer “Think.” Prior to going “One Toke Over The Line,” Brewer & Shipley went underground for a spell. And don’t get us started on the legions of country acts that entered the depths following their acquisition of Chips Moman’s AMPEX 16-track and Electrodyne console.
Their in-house labels Cave, Rock, Cavern, and Pearce issued recordings by the Reactions, Burlington Express, Classmen, Fraight, American Sound Limited, Baxter’s Chat, 21st Century Sound Movement, and AJ Rowe, but it’s the unissued moments of dark-dampened clarity where the studio really shines. Larry Sands & the Sound Affair pushed Sneaky Pete Kleinow to the front of the Burrito Brothers, Jaded managed a pre-“Aqualung” flute freak out, and Sheriff channeled their inner NRBQ. A cover of Love’s “7 and 7 Is” was torn through by Plattsburgh, Missouri’s only weirdos, the Montaris. Was it the limestone dust in the air? Arsenic in the run off water? Surely “Mustache In Your Face” was the product of some kind of chemical toxin.
Local Customs: Cavern Sound is the story of a studio, certainly. But also tells the tales of studio rats, high school hopefuls, and unflagging lifers on the fringe of the music business. Fly over country? They were so underground they couldn’t hear the planes, let alone see them.
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"Hal Davis, who has passed on, was from Cincinnati. He was also the Jackson Five’s producer. We had written a song called “What Goes Around Comes Around”. Hal had come to Dayton through a mutual friend, Levinsky Allen. He heard it, liked it, and ended up recording it for Michael Jackson on his Ben album in 1972"See Monotrematous Funk: An Interview with Platypus by Christian John Wikane here
Lucky Allergy Leads Way to T-Bone Steaks
kANSAS CITY. Mo.- OI.PJ - Local friends are very envious of Edward F. Tkach of Minneapolis because of his allergy. It isn't just an every day, ordinary run of the mill allergy. Tkach has to eat four T-bone steaks a day for it, and he has the ration coupons to get them. Tkach was discharged from the army because of his allergy-it ! was breaking the army up. He was given 8,000 ration points as a parting gift. And until the allergy clears up. he will receive I another 8,000 points every six weeks. If he doesn't eat four T-bone steaks a day. he breaks out with hives, his nose runs and his eyes water.
Racine Journal Times May 7, 1944
Ed's son Greg von Rothkirch was born in 1945. As a child of the 1950s Greg would spend his weekly allowance of ten cents on comic books and check out sci-fi novels from the library. In his early twenties Greg rose to Staff Seargent in Company B, 2/60, 9th Infantry Division of the Army and survived Vietnam.
After Vietnam Greg continued to read fiction and history, assembling a vast collection of knowledge and facts from books and experiences which he shared with his son Eric via storytelling.
Eric von Rothkirch began using redchurch as a nickname in the mid 1990s and registered redchurch.com in 1998 to represent his work in the entertainment field. Eric continues his family's long tradition of storytelling today under the name redchurch.
The .mysterious American, who owns a farm twelve miles outside Hillman, Minn., operates under various names including Edward F. T'Kach, Count Heinrich Von Gelbe, Baron von Tanthen, Heinrich Woyceho, Dr. Edouard von Rothkirch, or sometimes just Baron X. According to associates, he is the head of the Frei Corps of Barbarossa, the name of the anti-Russian underground in parts of Poland and the Soviet zone of Germany,
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - (U.R) - Eduard Von Rothkirch, 31, St. Paul, was sentenced to 10 to 12 months in prison Monday after pleading guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses. County Judge Merrill R. Farr passed sentence on Von Rothldrch after he pleaded guilty to the four counts of passing worthless drafts for a total of $35 at four Eau Claire business places Nov. 4,1950. Dist. Atty. Victor Tronsdal told the court Von Rothkirch had four aliases, but was bom Edward Tkach in St Paul. In his statement to the court. Von Rothkirch said "The Communists have spent thousands of dollars to combat me and confuse my record." He said the charges rose out of technicality and not an intent to defraud.
PHOENIX--AZ--Arizona Indian tribal leaders said today they were not affiliated with an organization represented as the American Indian political advisory committee, by a man attending the recent governors' interstate Indian council meeting. The man Identified himself as Edward Nacoma, who said he was affiliated with the committee. He also said he was an Oklahoma Osage Indian.
Baron Held For Posing as Federal Agent MIAMI, Fla. -- .Eduard Frederick von Rothkirch, self-styled baron whose fanciful career has seen him pose as a priest, Indian leader, university h e a d , world traveler and German Luftwaffe ace. is in trouble again -.this time with the federal government. The baron .was held, in Miami on $2,500 bond on charges of impersonating an officer of the U. S. government who claimed he could help Carlos Prio Socarras become president of Cuba again.
In justice court Friday, von Rothkirch told Justice Edwin Lee Mason he was a research analyst, that he had prepared speeches and material for congressmen. He said 175 articles prepared by him have appeared in the Congressional Record. . Agent Powers said von Rothkirch told Antonio Fuentes, brother-in-law of the former Cuban president, that for $5000 he could help the latter regain his position, adding that the sympathies of the White House- and the state department were with him. Fuentes notified his attorney who called the FBI. Prio Socarras fled Cuba on March 10. 1952, when Gen. Fulgencio Batista took over the government in a bloodless coup. He has lived in Miami since. Conviction on a charge of impersonating an officer of the government carries a maximum fine of $1,000 and three years in prison, or both.
