Julius Thomas

Julius Thomas
Wild 907
36875 - I Gotta Change My Ways (If I’m To Keep Her) (Part 1)
36876 - I Gotta Change My Ways (If I’m To Keep Her) (Part 2)

Boston, Mass., 1976

Scored and conducted by Roger Baker
Engineer : Mike Golub
Produced and arranged by Julius Thomas for Lew Tobin Enterprises
A « Skippy White » production

"Skippy White" (real name Fred LeBlanc) grew up in Waltham, Massachusetts. He fell in love with the doo-wop sound when he was young. He started working in Boston in 1960 as a deejay at WILD-AM, where he became, reluctantly, Skippy White.

White rented a storefront for $50 and opened his own record store. Both store and radio show clicked. White stayed at WILD for eight years before moving on to a series of other stations.

He also owned at least three record labels : Wild, Bluestown and Silver Cross. He was also certainly involved in production for others local labels such as the Ditto label (the C-Quins) and for the Stop label.

For the Julius Thomas release, the Wild label, likely dormant for years, was revived in association with Lew Tobin, owner of Sterling Records, a song-poem concern.

Bobby Estes

Bobby Estes
Stringdusters
Ecco 45-0001

19633 – Why Do I Still Love You
19634 – You’ll Never Know

Country
Falmouth, VA

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Low Ebb on Patten Bennett

Low Ebb
Patten Bennett 1001

26069 - Somewhere
(Nelson-Rogers)

26070 - Can't Make Up My Mind
(Peasley)

Produced and recorded by Sound Associates
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Lodestar (Springfield, Ohio)

Lodestar

label : Lodestar
Rite # 40603/4
1979

side 1

Flat On My Face
Brook, Flow To Me
Don't Mistake My Being
For The Want Of A Woman

side 2

Footprints On The Trail
Ain't Nothin¡' To Me
Too Far Behind
Key Of Love

Credits:

Kenny Aronhalt - lead vocals
Joe Dooley - lead guitar
Alex Rossitto - rhythm guitar and harmony vocals
Vince Crain - bass
Mark Crain - drums and percussion

Produced, arranged and engineered by Jimmy Crain
Recorded at J.C. 's Sound Shop -Springfield, Ohio

Various sources are unsure about the year of release : it's definitely 1979.

Jimmy Crain : Miles To Go

Jimmy Crain
Ray-O LP-2005
Rite numbers 21361/21362 [1968]
Rite account : 2011

Miles To Go

Track listing :

Last Thing I Do
Miles To Go
Please Be Careful
Call Me
Somewhere, Someone
Pardon My Love

Seminole [instr.]
Maybe Someday
Rockin' [instr.]
Jammin' [instr.]
I Know
C'mon Little Baby

JIMMY CRAIN, born 17 April 1940, Lima, Ohio, a somewhat obscure rock and roller, is best known for his two pounding rockers "Rock-A-Socka-Hop" and "Shig-A-Shag".

Jimmy was a multi-talented youngster. By the age of seven, he was able to play several musical instruments, including guitar, banjo and mandolin. Less than ten years later he was playing regularly at county fairs, dotted about Ohio and neighbouring Indiana. In addition to this, Jimmy was also employed as a session musician at a studio in Dayton, Ohio.

Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Jimmy signed a recording deal with Floyd Whited, owner of the Springfield, Ohio based Spangle label. Jimmy's first and only release on Spangle was "Shig-A-Shag", which was recorded at Bradley Studios in Nashville. The record caught on in the Mid-West and the East Coast. This led to a string of radio and TV dates, as well as the odd package tour, where he played alongside such rock 'n' roll notables as The Big Bopper, Link Wray and Dion and the Belmonts.

"Rock-A-Socka Hop" was recorded in the autumn of 1957 and sounds a lot like "Shig-A-Shag" and came out in 1962 on another tiny Ohio label, Prism, never lets up from start to finish.

Jimmy went on to record for a succession of small independents, but very little, if anything at all, was released at the time, until Cees Klop issued two White Label LP's in 1974 (Rock in' With Jimmy Crain) and 1977 (Jimmy Crain Rocks On) respectively. When his first son was born in February of 1960, Jimmy decided to quit the road and went into semi-retirement, playing only local shows.

In April 1975, Jimmy suffered a severe spinal injury in an accident, but by early 1979 he produced on his own Lodestar label a hard rock band also named Lodestar, which comprised his two sons and three others members. The resulting album (pressed by Rite Records) is « full of heavy, blistering guitar work, often compared to Hard Rock rarities such as Totty or Morley Grey. Every song is laden with screaming leads and a rough, in your face attitude.”

Cathedral Quartet :Taller Than Trees

CATHEDRAL QUARTET
TALLER THAN TREES
LP DoViNe D-21, 1965

Track listing :

Taller Than Trees
Noah Found Grace
I Want To Walk Just As Close As I Can
Heavenly Parade
Sunday Meetin' Time
Close To The Master

Tramp On The Street
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
I'll Pray For You
I Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now
Faith Unlocks The Door
Out Of The Depths

Re-issued on the Eternal label in 1970.

The Cathedral Trio—Bobby Clark, Glen Payne, and Danny Koker—was formed at the Cathedral for Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio in 1963. In 1964, they added bass George Younce and became a quartet. For the first seven years of their existence, they performed and travelled with evangelist Rex Humbard, the pastor of the Cathedral for Tomorrow.

Mary Jo Brown With the Palm Jubilees

Mary Jo Brown, Vocal
With the Palm Jubilees :
Lola Mae Wilson, Second lead
Emma Davis, First soprano
Willie Lee Shelton, tenor
Shirley Weathersby, pianist
Lena Weathersby, alto
Don London, organist

Central 219-5

Hattiesburg, Miss.

CP-3961 - How Long ( Rite 291 CP3961 219-5A)
CP-3962 - There's A Time, There's A Place (Rite 291 CP3962 219-5B)

A Brown & Woullards production (R.W. Woullard Sr. And R.W. Woullard Jr.)

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NOTE : Numbers 3961/3962 were also used for R&J 100 :

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Numbers also used twice were 11213/4 :

Ark 298

Co-Day

The Gospel Queens

The Gospel Queens

C.L.B.
Gary, Indiana

33345 – He Can Do Anything
Lead by Marguerite Ewell

33346 – Come To Jesus
Lead Catherine Freeman

Marguerite Ewell was born in a small town in Southwest, Louisiana, called Paincourtville. At an early age she exhibited a singing talent and was given many opportunities to perform in family circles and at school where she was selected as the main soloist throughout her studies. When she was still a young girl her family organized a group called the JONES SINGERS, which included her mother, aunts and uncles.

She attended W. H. Reed High School in Napoleonville, Louisiana from 1963 to 1968, when she migrated to Chicago where she continued her education by enrolling at Chicago State University. She was asked by the GOSPEL QUEENS (an all female gospel group) to join their group. She travelled with them throughout the USA. She met and married Lafayette GATLING Sr. who is lead singer for the famed quartet "The CHRISTLAND SINGERS".

In 1981, she was one of the founders of the INSPIRATIONAL CHARMS.

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King Victor on Miracle

King Victor
Chuck Coffey and the Sterlings
Miracle 0001 (1959)

CP-2246 – Ecstacy
CP-2247 – Is It True

Obscure unknown Elvis-ey Georgia rocker. Has never been compiled, as it seems.

Chuck Coffey (or Coffee as credited as the co-writer of both songs) is also unknown to me, as are indeed The Sterlings.

There was a King Victor on the New-York Madison label released earlier in the same year. But I feel that's it's not the same singer. I'll let you judge by yourself :

King Victor : Ecstacy

King Victor : Boppin' Bobbie Jean

Gospel Crusaders (Clarksburg, West Virginia)

Gospel Crusaders
154 Howard Street
Clarksburg, West Virginia
Rite # 31025/31026

LP I Want To Know More About My Lord

The tracks are:

Side 1

I Want To Know More About My Lord
Because He Lives
Glory Road That Day is Almost Here
I've Come Too Far

Side 2

I'll Have a New Life
The Lighthouse
This is Just What Heaven Means to Me
Poor Rich Man
At Jesus' Feet

The Gospel Crusaders are :

Rodney Redbrook, lead
Faye Furner, alto
Charles Furner, tenor
Michael Aiello, bass
Don Ice, accompaning

Chuck Rich, steel
Recording engineer : Phil Burkhardt

The Shannings

The Shannings

Viv-Vi
Texas (?)

Two 1968 releases on the Viv-Vi label, both by The Shannings.

The name of the publisher, Tata Grande, is perhaps an indication of a Texas location, as the name is also found on Injun 603 (Baby Doll, Vincent Renilli - Houston Texas) and on the Sleeper label (Learnin' to pick, Chris Collins - East Texas or Louisiana).

"Skip" Andrews is the songwriter (or the Shannins' lead?).

20411 – Love Is For Fools
20412 - A Mood In
Produced by Gene Deans & Bill Wiggs

22357 – I Need You
22358 – The End Of The World
Produced by Gene Deans, Bill Wiggs, Dick Etheridge

The Chapel-Aires Quartet : "Till The End of Time"

The Chapel-Aires Quartet
"Till The End of Time"
[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]
#22533/22534

Track listing :

Till The End Of Time
I'm Building A Bridge
Day Of Rejoicing
I Am A Pilgrim
Hear Him Call
Lights Of Home

Lonely Road
Just A Little Talk With Jesus
I'll Fly Away
What Can I Do For You, Lord
Without Him
Life's Railway To Heaven

The Chapel-Aires Quartet are Anita Rich, Homer Blair, Jim Elrod, Ed Rich and Forrest S. Lewis.

The Pantana Quartet

The Pantana Quartet
[Elida, Ohio]
Unknown Rite numbers

Track Listing:

1. Blessed Assurance
2. Oh What A Love
3. Amazing Grace
4. His Name Is Wonderful
5. Win the Lost At Any Cost
6. When I Survey the Wonderous Cross
7. No Other Song
8. The Master's Voice
9. How Great Thou Art
10. If You Want Joy
11. Heaven Came Down
12. One of These Days

Nancy Clayton on Starlet

Nancy Clayton
Starlet BLP 130
Recorded by Bill Lamb Productions, Flint Michigan

21487 – I Can’t Release You
21488 – Love Is The Bitter End

Side 1 produced by Clarance Sprague;
side 2 produced by Graham Prince

Jazz/RnB/Soul.

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Teen Challenge Presents Louis Velez

Teen Challenge Presents Louis Velez
Label : Ross
Rehrersburg, Pa
Rite # 18661/18662

side 1 :

How Great Thou Art
It Took A Miracle /Amazing Grace
My Father Watches Over Me
His Name Is Wonderful
My Song
Now I Belong To Jesus

Side 2 :

He’s The Darling Of My Soul/He Is My Everything
But His I Know
He Was There
How About Your Heart
Only One Life
I’m Not Alone

Musical Credits :
Music directed by Danny Koker (Piano & Organ)
Cathedral Quartet (Voices)
Leona Jones (Bass)
Vic Clay (Guitar)

Producer :
Delmar Ross, Director Of Field Ministries For Teen Challenge Training Center

The Missionary Gospel Singers of Cleveland Ohio

The Missionary Gospel Singers of Cleveland Ohio
Acquarian 9935
Hattiesburg, Miss.

10339 - Lord You Been Good
10340 - On The Other Side

Rite account # 352

Lord You Been Good.

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Black female gospel shouter with bluesy guitar. A Calvin C. Brown production.

Possibly the only Acquarian record pressed by Rite : most all others were pressed by Southern Plastics of Nashville. The Acquarian label was just one of many labels owned by Calvin C. Brown, but it was his most prolific. Later releases on the label had addresses in Stuttgart, Arkansas, then in Memphis, Tennessee.

Earliest Calvin Brown's labels located in Hattiesburg were pressed by Rite Records :

• Marathon (The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi), 1959
• Central (Prentis and Doris Parker, with the Zionettes, Guitar Dave), 1960
  

In 1968, he produced "Cummins Prison Farm" by Calvin Leavy for the Shelby Singleton's Blue Fox label and subsequently launched in Stuttgart, Arkansas his Riceland (1969) and Soul Beat (1970-1973) labels

The Missionary Gospel Singers

Back row center : Mrs. Elvina Finger, front row right : Mrs. Dean

Rev. C. T. Nelson, Pastor

Rev. C. T. Nelson, Pastor
Great Friendship Baptist Church Cleveland
26115 - Great Consolation
26116 - A Prayer

Produc [sic] of Staff

This is a re-issue [reproduced by Della’s Record Shop, as printed on the label]. These Detroit, Michigan recordings were previously issued by Idessa Malone's Staff Records (see picture below)

The Chapman Family Singers

The Chapman Family Singers
Lead guitar – Brother Thomas Chapman Jr.
Bass – Brother Timothy Chapman
Drums – Deacon Jack Horn

27291 - I Can Feel The Hand Of God Leading Me
27292 - Pray On My Child

Rev. D.T. Baker & His Singing Family

Rev. D.T. Baker & His Singing Family
label : Baker
19137 - I Promised The Lord I'd Holdout
19138 - It's In My Heart

Country Boy Don McHan

Country Boy Don McHan Sings the Gospel
Laurel LSLP-116
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Unknown Rite numbers

Side One –

He's Just A Touch Away
That Little Church I Carry
He'll Do The Same For You
Jesus' Power
David
One Heartbeat Away

Side Two –

St. John
He Breathes In Me
Jubilee On Smoky Mountain
This Carpenter Loves You
Gideon
The Garden Of Your Mind


Don McHan worked in the entertainment world for a number of years with groups like Jim & Jesse and he has written over a hundred songs that are on record by various artists, like Loretta Lynn ("The Pill") and Waylon Jennings. A performer, songwriter and musician Don went home (passed away) in 2003.



About "The Pill" the song he co-wrote :

[Excerpt from Music of the Counterculture Era, a book by James E. Perone]

Altough it might not ordinarily be considered a true counterculture classic, one of the great feminist songs of the 1970s was Loretta Lynn, T.D. Bayless and Don McHan’s « The Pill ». Lynn included the song on her 1975 album Back To The Country. Not only did the single release achieve success on the country charts, it also made it onto the pop charts. Due to the sympathetic treatment of birth control, the song wa banned by Boston radio stations, which helped « The Pill » gain consderable notoriety. « The Pill » also appeared on Loretta Lynn’s 1976 album Blue-Eyed Kentucky Girl. In the context of the latter album, which featured songs that looked at life from a uniquely female perspective, the appearance of « the Pill » suggest the extent to which reproductive freedom for women was becoming mainstream at the end of the counterculture era.

The Humbards, Suppertime and Elvis

The Humbards
Suppertime
No label [Yougstown, Ohio]
Rite 11877/17878

Musical Credits: Leona Jones and Danny Koker Recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, Schneider Studio, Spring 1964

Side 1 :

Suppertime
Noah Found Grace
Jesus, Wonderfullord
Gathering Home
I'm Going Higher
When The Saints Go Marching
Wasted Years

Side 2 :

Shadrack
Like A Melody
I Shall Not Be Moved
Down From His Glory
I Will Not Be A Stranger
I've Found A Hiding Place
You Ain't Got Nuthin
He'll Understand And Say Well Done.

The Humbards and Elvis

Excerpts from a Church Times article "The Good News on Elvis" written by Joe Moscheo.

[Elvis] was fond of watching evangelists on television. Cathedral of Tomorrow, a programme featuring the preacher Rex Humbard and his wife, Maude Aimee, was perhaps his most consistent choice.

Humbard was Elvis’s favourite preacher. Even if he was in the middle of a rehearsal, he would always stop when Humbard spoke on television on Sunday mornings. Others who were close to Elvis at the time remembered that, with the combination of preaching from television, and the words and images of the gospel music he sang, he managed to achieve what he thought was his closest possible approach to a normal devotional life.

[Later] Rex Humbard and his wife were vacationing in Las Vegas. They called their friend, the gospel singer James Blackwood, and asked if he knew of a way they could get tickets to see Elvis’s show. Soon, the Humbards had front-row seats.

[...]

Elvis knew that they were there, and wanted a chance to speak with the people whose ministry he had admired for so long. He invited them to his dressing room after the show.

“Elvis, I want you to know I’ve been praying for you for years,” Maude Aimee Humbard said, a few minutes into the visit. “You’re my bellsheep.”

Elvis was puzzled by this terminology, and asked for an explanation. Rex explained to him that shepherds in the Holy Land often tied a bell around the neck of one of the sheep. The rest of the flock would follow wherever they were led by the sound of the bell.

“Elvis,” Maude Aimee went on, “I’ve been praying that you’ll have a spiritual experience that will cause you to lead thousands of people to the Lord.”

At that point, something happened to Elvis. Rex related later how Elvis began to tremble, and tears began rolling down his cheeks. The Humbards prayed with Elvis. It was a moment of profound spiritual experience for all three of them.

When the Humbards tried to leave, knowing that many other people were waiting to speak to Elvis, he begged them to stay. Clearly, something had happened that he was hoping to prolong; he had found a place of respite that had apparently long been absent, despite his searching and questioning about various spiritual paths.

I believe that, in those moments with the Humbards, Elvis was brought back to what he had known from his earliest days. I suspect that in Maude Aimee’s words, he heard echoes of his mother’s voice, and was reminded of the teaching he had received as a boy in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Joe Moscheo is the author of The Gospel Side of Elvis, published by Center Street on 30 August 2007 (£12.99; 978-1-59995-729-6).

Hear the four year old twins, Drusilla and Susanna Humbard singing " I've Found a Hiding Place"

Gene Miller and the Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were probably the most influential pioneer vocal group, as well as the most commercially successful to come out of the World War II era. Of course there were earlier groups who were very successful such as the Mills Brothers and other groups who performed during the early days of the Ink Spots, such as the Delta Rhythm Boys but the high tenor lead accompanied by the "talking" bass was really introduced by the Ink Spots.

Gene Miller and the Ink Spots were just one of the numerous Ink Spots spin off groups. The tenor (and leader) of this group was Gene Miller. Other members of the group were Nat Williams, Floyd McDaniel, and Paul Parks.

They had two albums on the Gateway label, recorded in the Rite Studios in Cincinnati. Both are titled "For Sentimental Reasons". The first was pressed in 1974. the second, a double album, in 1975.

Gateway
33887/33888

Side One:

Do I Worry
Java Jive
Harbor Lights
We Three
For Sentimental Reasons
Maybe

Side Two:

Into Each Life A Little Rain Must Fall
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Parkside
My Prayer
I'll Get By

Gateway
35843/35844/35845/35846

Record 1, Side 1: (35843)

If I Didn't Care
Do I Worry
I Cover the Waterfront
Maybe
Whispering Grass
We Three

Record 1, Side 2: (35844)

To Each His Own
My Prayer
Dream
It's Funny to Everyone But Me
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town
Java Jive

Record 2, Side 1: (35845)

(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
I'm Making Believe
Somebody Stole My Gal
I'll Get By
With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
I'm Confessing That I Love You

Record 2, Side 2: (35846)

Bless You For Being An Angel
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
Until the Real Thing Comes Along
The Gypsy
I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall


Greg Centamore has devoted a very impressing website to the numerous other Ink Spots after the demise of the original group in the late forties.

Greg :

I started collecting R & B vocal groups records (doo wops) in 1962 and before long, I had acquired a nice collection consisting of all the good stuff. The Moonglows, Harptones, Dominoes, Nutmegs and Diablos were just a few of my many favorite groups. One day I was looking thru my parent's records which consisted mostly of pop songs when I found an EP on the Waldorf label by the Ink Spots. When I played this record, I noticed some distinct differences from the songs that I enjoyed, but there was enough there to keep me interested. Their version of the song My Prayer sounded quite different that the Platters version but was beautiful just the same. Not aware that there were numerous Ink Spots groups even then, I was very impressed with this rendition of My Prayer. If you have never heard Lorenzo Conyers version of this classic, you are missing something great. He is the lead singer and the bass was very impressive too. The first opportunity I got, I bought an album by the Ink Spots on the Decca label and was surprised that the songs on the EP were in somewhat different style. The music was good but it had a 1940's flavor and quite honestly at that time in my life, I was disappointed. I realized then that there were different Ink Spot groups. Years later I started picking up assorted LPs by various Ink Spot groups. Sometimes liner notes would be informative and sometimes there were no notes at all. Photos on certain LPs were not indicative of who was singing on the albums. Some of the numerous budget LPs were notorious for this.

Charles Vickers on Neon

Neon 1006
4128 Lorain Ave. Cleveland Ohio
A Parex production

Charles Vickers
33249 – Cry –Cry
33250 – Mr. Jones

Charles Vickers has recorded extensively during at least three decades for Crusader, Carellen, Staff, Tropical, Laresco, National Guild, King, Lord of Lords, Hyperbolic, Pyramid and for Leroy Pritchett's King of Kings label located in Palmdale, California.

His longest association was with Bob Quimby, operator of the Florida-based National Songwriters Guild and his various labels (Carellen and Tropical, notably).





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Voices Of Thunder
Male Chorus Of Greater New Mt. Moriah Baptist Church

Arnold LP 2465
Givhan Rec. Co. (subs. Ke Ke records), Detroit, Michigan
1967

#19499 /19500

Arranged and directed by Herbert Pickard.

Ke Ke records was owned by Stanford Givon.

On the Givhan label, "As little as 3 releases appeared on this early 60s mystery local Detroit label. Every one is RARE and all are fine examples of that vibrant Motor City era." :

• 2465 Leonard Pierce PK4M-3458/9
• 2466 Master Keys PK4M-3460/1
• 2468 Rodger Wade PK4M-3462/3

All three singles pressed in 1963 by the RCA Custom division are numbered 108 (?). In small print, another number seems to form a coherent series. (#246x)

On the Ke Ke label, two singles are known :

• Melvin Davis (1964, RCA pressing)
  
• Juanita Williams

Other gospel albums on the Mighty Voices of Thunder were also released but there is still confusion about the name of the label for some of these (Ke Ke or Arnold).

Pace Records, Nashville Tennessee 1959-61

PACE RECORDS
Nashville, Tennessee
Owner : Sammie Pace (?)
Songs published by : Seminole, Mohawk, Clay-Lick, Natchez (all B.M.I.)
RITE account # 259
All records pressed by RITE except 63858-1/2, 1001, 1002, 1003 and 1004.

Pace 63858-1/2 - Lee and Jessie and the Rocky Mountain Boys - I Dreamed Of An Angel / Honky Tonk Sweetheart

Pace 1001 - Evelyn and the Ivorytones - Piano Anna / Boogie Medley

Pace 1002 - Jesse And Lee And The Rocky Mountain Boys - Some Happy Day / Life Ain’t Worth Living

Pace 1003 - Paul and Roy And The Tennessee River Boys - Meet The Lord Half Way / There Will Be No Disappointments

Pace 1004 - Paul and Roy And The Tennessee River Boys - Free, Twenty-One And Ambitious / I Wish You'd Be A Country Girl

Pace 1005 - “Elzie and Doc” With The Lonesome Valley Boys - CP-3069 - I Traded A Smile For A Heartache / Elzie Asbridge With The Lonesome Valley Boys - CP-3070 - Dim Lights

Pace 1006 - The Stubblefield Brothers - Guiding Light / My Friend

Pace 1007 - Willie Lil Rye - Make Believe Girl / ?

Pace 1008 - Billy Wallace - CP-3381 ~ Gotta Keep / CP-3382 ~ Chesnut Locks

Pace 1009 - Dean Davis - CP-3425 ~ Broken Hearted Three (I, Myself & Me) / CP-3426 ~ Don't Be Suprised

Pace 1010 - The Excellos - CP-3949 – Beautiful Dreamer / CP-3950 - Polly-Waddle

Pace 1011 - Dean Davis - Last Time / Place In Life

Pace 1012 - Ish Gordon - CP-4155 ~ Have I Waited Too Long / CP-4156 ~ My Lonely Heart

Pace 1013 -

Pace 1014 - Geo. Lester - CP-4337 ~ You Taught Me A Lesson / CP-4338 ~ Cold Dark Night

Pace 1015 - Ronnie & Calvin - CP-4621 ~ Man Of Galilee / CP-4622 ~ Do You Study Your Bible Every Day

Pace 1016 - Ronnie &and Calvin - Heaven / Then I Met The Master

Pace 1017 - Southernaires - Proven / Rock

Pace 1018 - Gospel Five Singers - CP-5381 ~ This Is My Testimony / CP-5382 ~ Jesus Is With Me All The Way (also on Nashboro)

Pace 1019 - Bonita Cantrell - CP-6557 - I'm So Glad I Love A Living God / CP-6558 - Lord Help Me Every Day

Pace 1020 - Jerry Banes - CP-6739 ~ Won't You Be My Baby / CP-6740 ~ Write Me A Letter





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Six Voices of Zion

Six Voices of Zion
Nu-Tone NU919771/2 - 1977

Bernie Brown Productions
Columbia, S.C.

38623 - I’ll Be There
38624 - I Want Jesus To Help Me Good

Black Gospel

The Six Voices of Zion was organized in 1958 by Jimmy Augusta, and in 1959 Andrew Evans joined the group as manager, and he continues to manage the rich and widely ranging voices today.

The Six Voices of Zion of Columbia, SC started their recording career in 1967 with a 45 that was released on both Pitch and Gusman. In the early seventies they recorded one 45 for HSE, before returning to Pitch/Gusman in 1973. They recorded another four 45s for Pitch, and two albums. One album was released on Gusman, the other one on Pitch.

A picture of the group can be found at the Just Moving On website

Last year (in 2008), the South Carolina House Of Representatives has adopted a Resolution to recognize and honor « the legendary gospel singers known as the Six Voices Of Zion. »

Hal Webb Team : Oh The Mountain Is High!

Hal Webb Team

Oh The Mountain Is High!
29401/29402

When I Gave My Heart To Him
Beyond the Sunset
Peace Be Still
God Never Promised
Medley-A Shelter In the Time of Storm and The Haven of Rest
Just Talk About Jesus
Farther Along
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
I Can Never Tell All He's Done For Me
Medley-There Is Power in the Blood and There is a Fountain
How Long Will It Be.


Basically, The Hal Webb Team is composed of Mr Webb and Mrs Webb. That's the team. You can find some information about the evangelist here or here. DR. Webb has wrote a lot of documents and sermons.

Among his scriptures is a document titled WOMEN IN PANTS :

"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garment; for all that do so are abomination unto the
Lord thy God" Deut. 22:5

Hal Webb is NOT suggesting that woman shall not wear something, as I understand. The problem is just about the pants :

The time has come for Christian men to ask the
question, "Who wears the pants in our family?"
Christian girls and women need to learn to dress in
a manner pleasing to God, not according to style.
The pants-wearing woman often puts self and
what style dictates ahead of God and His Word.
Please consider these facts and study the
scriptures. A woman who wears men's clothes.....

• Commits abomination
• Aids the unisex movement
• Blurs sex distinction
• Loses womanly traits
• Injures her testimony
• Causes moral damage
• Shows her rebellion
• Blurs sex distinction
• Lifts self and style above God

Wayne Holcomb

Wayne Holcomb
J-H
514 Terry St. Warner Robins, GA

41183 – Tribute to George Jones (wr steve Jacobs –Wayne Holcomb, Focal Point Music, B.M.I.)
41184 - ?

Found HERE, where you can listen to ten George Jones tribute songs :

George Jones will celebrate his 77th birthday on Friday, Sept. 12. Here are some tribute records to remind us of his awesome talent. [Posted by Listener Greg G. on September 10, 2008]

Produced by Ray Melton.



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Evangelist Bishop Carl Angle

Evangelist Bishop Carl Angle
Backed By The Apostolic Gospel Singers
True Gospel
Canton, Ohio 44702
EP; 33 rpm

24693 – When The Saviour Reached Down His Hand / Tell Me What Kind Of A Man Jesus Is / Fire Fire Fire
24694 - Up On The Mountain / My Mind Is Gone / Done Left This World Behind / The Old Rugged Cross





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Bobby Willard on Frontier

Bobby Willard
vocal with the Chargers
24295- Let It Go
24296 - I Am A Lonesome Fugitive
Label : Frontier

A 1969 pressing from Bobby Willard who had afterwards some singles and at least one album pressed by Mark Custom Recordings located in Clarence, New York.

The picture at the left is taken from the cover of the album Fantasy Island Presents Bobby Willard & the Southernaires, 1980 (Bob Willard, Geri LaBelle and "Tiny" Ted Williams).


Bobby Willard (Mark Custom Recordings) :

MC-5626 .. Bobby Willard & The Chargers : Is It Over / You're Not Mine
MC-5853 -Karen Batt With Bobby Willard & The Southernaires : Funny Face / See That Mountain
MC-5869...Bobby Willard & the Southernaires: "Gentle on My Mind" b/w "Silver Wings"
MC-20016...Bobby Willard & the Southernaires: Fantasy Island Presents LP (1980)


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Brosh EP 1100

23451
Sammy Marshall – Just Like A Jet Plane
Sammy Marshall - You’re My Only Dream

23452
Cara Stewart - Yearning
Tony Rogers - Blue Wing

This EP pressed in 1969 seems to have escaped so far the song-poem records collectors as the ASPMA Brosh discography doesn't mention it.

The label was started en 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Jacob Brosh and had about ten releases in 1961-1962. The label was revived in 1969 and relocated to Chicago, Illinois and then Carpentersville, Illinois.

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Hunter Watts

Hunter Watts
Paradise 113/114
25165 - Old Memory
25166 - Sweet Thing
Rite account # 976

Country bopper

His previous known records are :

Hunter Watts & His Southern Pals
Hammond 103 : Wild Man Rock / Blue, Blue Memory (1959)
Hunter Watts
Paradise 101 : Shotgun Wedding / Paradise Island
Paradise 109/110 : Big Daddy Rock / Fools Can't Win

Wild Man Rock and Big Daddy Rock have been compiled in Europe by Buffalo Bop. The most collectable, and his best record, is the rockabilly song Wild Man Rock.

Gospel Creators

Gospel Creators

Parliament 701

22493 - I know The Lord Will Make A Way
22494 - He Saved My Soul

Chicago black gospel




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Leon Ward and the Wildcats

Leon Ward and the Wildcats

Label : Leon

11751 - I'll Die For You
11752 - No More Broken Hearts

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