Leebonny on Leebonny

Leebonny

38551 - Just A Fan
38552 - Let's Not Dream 

Both wr. Leebonny published by

Richie Publ. Co. BMI 

Box 335 Califon, N.J. 07830)

Produced by John Beavin 
Leebonny Records 

Box 385 / Glen Gardner, N.J. 08826

1977

 This is Bonny Lee Bakley (a.k.a. Bonnie Lee Bakley, a.k.a. Leebonny Bakley),

From Wikipedia:

Bonnie Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the wife of actor Robert Blake.  Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car outside a Los Angeles-area restaurant in May 2001.

Bakley dropped out of high school at age 16 and decided to go to New York City to pursue a career in modeling and acting at the Barbizon School of Modeling. She was married at 21 to her first cousin Paul Gawron and had two children with him: Glenn and Holly. The couple divorced in 1982.
In an effort to support herself, Bakley began a mail-order business sending nude pictures of women, including herself, to men. She also ran "lonely hearts" ads in magazines advertising for a "male companion". After communicating with the men who answered her ads, she would ask for money for rent or travel expenses.  Bakley's business and scams eventually afforded her enough money to buy several houses in Memphis and a house outside of Los Angeles. She was unsuccessful, however, in her Hollywood career as a singer and actor under the stage name Leebonny.

From Murder In Hollywood: The Secret Life and Mysterious Death of Bonny Lee Bakley, by  Gary C. King

Bonny [...] befriended a would-be rocker in Palisades Park, New Jersey named Robert Stuhr.  He apparently had some peripheral connections in the movie industry.  Stuhr managed to get Bonny and his own daughter parts as extras in the 1985 movie, Turk 182, which starred Robert Urich and Timothy Hutton.  The part in the movie led nowhere, but Bonny persevered.  Her friend Sturh also ran a music company called Norway USA and she recorded some songs that were considered by many to be absolutely awful.  One of the songs was called "Rock-A-Billy Love," and another, recorded under the name of Leebonny Bakley, was called "Tribute to Elvis Presley" and contained a line in the lyrics that read, "Rock and roll will never be the same, Rock and roll Leebonny is my name."
[...] She recorded another song that was just as bad, if not worse.  The only difference was that the 1970s song, "Just a Fan," turned out to be somewhat prophetic if judged by the song's lyrics, "I am chasing a celebrity ... there's no future in it I can see."  (There was a recent attempt to auction an authentical copy of "Just a Fan" on eBay after her death, with a minium bid of $1,000/  However, after ten days the bidding was closed without a single bid having been recevived.)
  By 1990, Bonny found herself in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was determined to meet her idol, Jerry Lee Lewis.

One copy of this record is currently on eBay here

Sharon Scott on Miracle

Sharon Scott 

(Sterlings)

CP-2247 - Whisperin' 

(Bobby King)

Sharon Scott
CP-2249 -  Please Tell Me What To Do 

(Chuck Coffee)

Miracle 002
Arranger Chuck Coffey

1959

Clips



Another NRC related label.  Master number on a side is an error (should read 2248). Sterlings on a side is the name of the backing vocal group.

The Checkmates on Northwest 1009

 

The Checkmates

12011 - West Side Whizz [Vocal]
12012 - West Side Whizz [Instrumental]

both wr. D. Jakary, Skintone Music Co. BMI

Northwest NSC-1009

Northwest Sound Company
14958 Ardmore
Detroit, MI

Full name of the songwriter is Daniel A. Jakary.
Skintone Music Co was owned by Julian G Skinner


Clip (vocal side)

Blanche HOBSON on Eunice

Blanche HOBSON

13213 ~ Honky Tonk Guy

13214 - Lost Love

Both wr. Mary L. Meiss, Faye Music BMI

 

Eunice 13213

Evansville, Indiana label.  Issued some three years after the last of the ten singles on the label, all from 1960 and 1961. 

Eunice discography

Blanche Hobson

Courtesy of hillbilly-Music

Sorry to say we don't have anything here for you to read about Blanche Hobson.

The Kelts on Sonora

The Kelts
 
18627 - Babe Come Running.
18628 - Don't Go Away

Sonora TK 101
P.O. Box 491
Meridian, Mississippi

(1967)




Don't Go Away

The Corvairs (with Kenny Ambrose) on Twin

The Corvairs

9775 -  Talk To Me 
Vocal By Kenny Ambrose, 
Joe Seneca, Jay &  Cee BMI

9776  - Hard Times 
D.Bartholomew, Dare Music, BMI
Instrumental

 Produced by Al Stith

Twin Records

1963

Two covers by a Cincinnati popular band that included two sets of twins.  On the vocal side, this is perhaps the same artist who recorded in 1958-1959 for Hamilton and Willett.

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 

 Twin Records discography

Kenny Ambrose page at colorradio

Gus Sanders on Cavern

Gus Sanders

16769 - Bring Back The Love

J.Moudy, Lari-Jon Music BMI

 

16770 -  It's A Joke  

G. Sanders, Lari-Jon Music BMI

Produced By John Pearson  

Cavern 2206
 16400 E. Truman Road, Independence, Mo.

1967

★ 

Cavern Studios was an industrial cave used as a recording studio in Independence, MO that was active from the 1960s to 1980s. It was Kansas City's first 16-track recording studio. Some of the artists that recorded there include Danny Cox, Brewer and Shipley, and James Brown.

The record labels Cave , Pearce, Cavern Custom Recordings, and Cavern Records also share this same physical address and released a variety of genres of music from the midwest region.

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.
https://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/announcing-the-third-entry-into-our-local-customs-series-num054-cavern-sound/

Levinsky Allen on Vital

Levinsky Allen

CP-3845 ~ Layed Off

L.Allen, Gyro Music BMI

CP-3846 ~  Couldn't Be Done 

L.Allen, Gyro Music BMI
 
VITAL 321-1
873 Beecher St., Cincinnati, Ohio

A division of Vital Enterprises

Billboard, June 27, 1960

Levinsky Allen was possibly one of the co-writers of a song called “What Goes Around Comes Around” recorded by Michael Jackson.


According to Arthur “Hakim” Stokes, another co-writer of the song :

  "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

Bob Healy And "The Generation Gap"

Bob Healy And "The Generation Gap"

39951 - Fields Of Need

39952 - Six Days On The Road

E.A.R.S Truck (Recorded By the)
Remix By Keith Wing
Hills Sound Service
Worcester, MA.

 

1979

Rothkirch Was Here

 
A recent comment posted here about "The Rickshaw Five" and their 1964 recording of “Skip School Flu” and “Jungle” prompted further research regarding this record.   According to that comment, it was not recorded in Hong Kong as stated on the label, but in Washington D.C. by a few local musicians put together by the producers, Encore Records.  The person who posted the comment is now 74 years old, and identified himself as the bass player in that recording session, almost 51 years ago.  He provided a number of details about the session, and sent me a scanned copy of the signed recording agreement from March 1964.

Signing the recording agreement for Encore Productions was “Dr. E. v. Rothkirch.”  As I would soon discover, that name led me to some astonishing findings.  What follows is a chronology of the life of an extraordinary man, who may have been as ubiquitous as Kilroy of the once popular "Kilroy Was Here" graffiti, and "the mischievous outsider, staring at, and probably laughing at, the world."
 

1919

Edward F. Tkach is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.  His father was Fred Tkach and mother Eva, nee Eva Beta Zetlin, both born in Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine).  Another son Harold was born in 1925, and sister Roseland in 1928

Later, after World War II, Ed sought to change his birth certificate to "Eduard von Rothkirch" because he claimed his real father was a German World War I spy named von Rothkirch who fathered him while he was in St. Paul and then left him to be raised with the T'Kach family (also spelled in some reports Tkach). (In another variation of the story, the German spy changed his name to T'Kach to fool Russian agents.)
 

1942

Enlisted on September 24, 1942, Edward F. Tkach was a private in the Air Corps branch of the U.S. Army during World War II. At the time of enlistment, Edward F. Tkach was single, without dependents, and had an education level of 1 year of high school. 


1944

 Discharged from the Army because of a curious case of allergy

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

1945

Son Greg is born

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.

1946

Lobbyist - registered under the name of Edward Von Rothkirch as a lobbyist for the Central European Research Council, and was active on Capitol Hill among isolationist congressmen and congressmen of German descent.   He was also connected with the Central European Rehabiliation Association, with headquarters at 201 Division Ave., Brooklyn, and headed by Father Don Odo, self-proclaimed Duke of Wurttemberg

1947

Midwestern College -  Von Rothkirch disclosed plans to form Midwestern College at Hillman, Minn., near Hillman, Minn, in Morrison County'. He filed a statement saying he was worth more than' a million dollars.
 

1948

New York Times interview : Von Rothkirch accompanied the General Cernius, former prime minister of an independent Lithuania, for an interview for an article published the 9 May 1948 in the New York Times  entitled "Future Uncertain for General Cernius."     The story reported that General Jonas Cernius, according to Rothkirch, was going to teach history at a new college called Midwestern College which was to be based in the tiny Minnesota town of Hillman. 

As for Rothkirch, he said he was a police magistrate in Morrison County, Minnesota.  However he claimed he was independently wealthy and would inherit a trust fund worth some $4 million at age 35. He said he owned a 2,900 estate in Hillman as well as a ranch in Minnesota and one in California. He also boasted that he had extensive oil and copper interests. According to the Times, Rothkirch did own a 1,450 acre ranch in Hillman, a town of some 40 people in the bush country of Minnesota.

Rothkirch next told the Times that he also was a leader in an "underground railroad" that got refuges out of East Europe and that he has spent some $80,000 of his own money on the cause. He also helped dissident Russian military men to escape. He said he did so "in collaboration with the War Department" and that the Russian press dubbed him "the American Scarlet Pimpernel." When asked about his own military service, he said he was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II but he was put on an inactive status and later reactivated as a bombardier-observer and discharged as a warrant officer. He further claimed that he had taken part in guerrilla warfare fights in East Europe.

Rothkirch also admitted that while Midwestern College didn't yet exist, there was an extensive building program underway and that it would be ready by September. Dr. Frederick Michael of Hillman, whom Rothkirch claimed also owned a large plantation in Brazil, would be its president with a Dr. Leonard Martin as Treasurer and Dean. Rothkirch stated that the college would bring together many "of the key figures of Europe and South America. The course on international relations will be without equal in any American college."

1949

A Leader : Several newspapers reported that Edward von Rothkirch was the leader of the anti-Russian underground in Poland and Germany.

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,

1951

Jailed in March ’51 for passing phony checks and committed to the Wisconsin Hospital for the Criminally Insane. .

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.

1952

Released from the Wisconsin state prison.

Turned up in late 1952  in Phoenix, Ariz.,as "Edward Nacoma" chairman of "the American Indian political advancement committee."

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.

1953

Impersonating an officer of the U. S. government who claimed he could help Carlos Prio Socarras become president of Cuba again.

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.

1954

Now in Washington D.C. where he is listed as General Secretary of the International Association of Independent Producers,

1962

Executive consultant of Era, International Film & Recording Enterprises Inc. which offers "features, documentaries, industrials, newsreel, commercials, travelogues, radio transcriptions, film management services and technical consultants",

1971

Trans World News Service

1975

Came to dinner : Col. Edward Rothkirch, a member of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, was one of the U.S. right-wingers who attended to a dinner meeting at the Army and Navy club, mainly sponsored by the Citizens for American Survival.  (May 1975)

1978

Free Cambodia Inc. is a District of Columbia Corporation filed on February 3, 1978. The Registered Agent on file for this company is E. V. Rothkirch and is located at 529 14th St., N.w. #769 Washington, District Of Columbia 20045-0000.

The Federation Of Cambodian Association  is a Corporation formed on Aug 24, 1979. This business was created in the SOS Office and the registered agent is E.v. Rothkirch that does business at 529 14th St., N.w. #769, Washington D.C.

1981

Air Powered Motor Systems Inc. is a District of Columbia Corporation filed on March 4, 1981. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Dr. Edward Von Rothkirch and is located at 529 14th St., N.w. Washington, District Of Columbia 20045-0000.

Seamark International Ltd. is a District of Columbia Corporation filed on December 24, 1981. The Registered Agent on file for this company is Edward Von Rothkirch and is located at 529- 14th St., N.w. Suite 723 Washington, District Of Columbia 20045-0000.Publisher of The Journal of Asian-American Commerce, Seamark International Ltd, 767 National Press Bldg, Washington, DC 20045. 202-638-5595.

1982

Intercontinental Media Service, with offices in the National Press Building in Washington. The operator of this shadowy outfit was Edward von Rothkirch, a friend of the Liberty Lobby.   Charles Tate testified in the 1987 trial of Frankhouser that von Rothkirch, who was called "the Baron" by Security, "would accredit somebody with a press card to appear as though he was a real reporter working for real newspapers so that he could do interviews." According to former Metro employee Phil Perlonga, the Security staff in 1982-83 had "stacks of blank press cards" from IMS. When a card was needed, Goldstein would sign von Rothkirch's name. Perlonga was given an IMS card and instructed to use it to gain entrance to Henry Kissinger's birthday party and serve legal papers on him. Perlonga took the card, but says he managed to evade serving the papers.

1987

Still active - Dr. Edward Von Rothkirch is still active.  He is the head of the Internat'l Alliance of Independent Film Producers  .Members: 2,800 domestic; 1.400 foreign Staff: 2-5 Annual Budget: $25-50,000 Tel: (202) 638-5595

Jimmy Eustice, Jr.on Patrice

Jimmy Eustice, Jr.

CP-4559 ~ Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
CP-4560 ~ Jennie Lou (B.C. Music, BMI)

Patrice 203

Cleveland OH

1960

Southern Echoes on SE& L

Southern Echoes

20887 - Lord See About Me 

(Author Dotson) Sandra Music BMI

Time 2:45

20888 - I Was Brought Up Lord 

(Loyd White) Sandra Music BMI

Time 2:50

SE& L 480

Auctioned here (auction has sound clips)

"Gospel soul" probably from Memphis, Tennessee (same group on Champ and Designer?).

From late 1967 (November or December)

Bobby James & the Dristells

Bobby James

15993 - True Blue

 (Coyle, Mead Music BMI)

Bobby James & the Dristells
15994 - Let's Go
(Coyle, Mead Music BMI)

Lant 66009

Agawam, Mass.

Probably recorded at the Universal Recording Studios, 26 Colton Av. West Springfield, owned by Flem DeAngelis since 1956 and serving the Western part of Massachusetts, Upstate New York and Connecticut.

Both sides written by Robert Coyle and published by Mead Music (BMI)

The Koon Family

The Koon Family
Gospel Singers

29759 - Build My Mansion
29760 - Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John

Recorded at Mother Cleo Productions Newberry, S.C.
Cub 721

1972

Gospel/bluegrass from Morgantown, West Virginia.   One copy for sale here

Jerry Dixon (Sterling 182)

Jerry Dixon

With Lew Tobin's Orch.

CP-1700 - You Stole My Heart

 (Juanita Gismondi, & Lew Tobin)

CP-1701 - My Cotton Pickin' Baby 

 (K.W. Brooks)

Sterling 182

According to an 1961 issue of Trainman News, K. W. Brooks Of lodge 794 taked his hobby of singing and song-writing seriously.   Of Hamlet, North Carolina, K.W. Brooks was yard conductor-switchman on Seaboard Air Line Railroad.

 

My Cotton Pickin' Baby

Cara Stewart on Titan

Cara Stewart

 The Hudsonair's and the Lee Hudson Orchestra

9969 –In Between Dreams

 (R. Magee-W. Daugherty) 

Blue Ribbon Pub. ASCAP 

9970 – I'll Have To Dream Somemore 

(R. Magee) 

Blue Ribbon Pub. ASCAP

An Honor Product

Titan 1
1963

Song-poem record currently offered for sale here (short audio clips are provided)

Joe Shultz, evangelist and ventriloquist

Joe Shultz
Joe and Jake

"Joyfully Yours"

28681 -  "Oh, I Know It" / ABC
28682 -  "He Took My Sins Away"
 

SCR 121

Sound Associates
Box M Grand Rapids, Michigan

1971

Joe Shultz was a multi talented evangelist who used humor as well as music to convey his message. He composed over 30 published songs and produced three albums.

Joseph Harmon Shultz, born Feb 13, 1931 in Wichita Kansas, began his preaching ministry in Canton, Kansas when he was 18 years of age and was officially ordained into the ministry at the age of 21, while a student in Bible College. For twelve years he directed Youth for Christ in McPherson, Kansas and Canton, Ohio.

 

Joe Shultz was a gospel magician, ventriloquist, and speaker who worked with youth in school and church programs.  He was the founder of Kings Valley Ranch and Boys Home in Southern Ohio that provided many safe summers for countless children. He was also a member of the North American Assoc. of Ventriloquists and the American Assoc. of Foster Parents. 

 

Joe has spoken in over 3,000 public high school assembly programs and over 1,000 churches in 45 states, 5 Canadian provinces and joined in frequent missionary trips to Mexico, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Guatemala, Honduras and Brazil.

He died in 2005.

This 45 is currently offered for sale here (sound clips are provided)

The Immortals (Richmond, Virginia)

The Immortals
Kilmarnock, Virginia
Telephone 435-1666

21063 - You Went Your Way (Lawson-Wray)
21064 - Like I Love You Lawson-Wray)

RSSW0969M

Custom produced by Richmond sound stages
2314 W. Cary Street Richmond, Virginia
1968

The Immortals began in the fall of 1966 at York Academy in Shacklefords, VA. , Jack Wray (lead guitar), Jack Lawson (bass guitar & lead vocals), Richard Cowles (drums), and Bruce Dawson (rhythm guitar) came together as a rock group not unlike millions of other teenage boys after the British Invasion in 1964.

They were ages 13-15 as they began this musical relationship that has spanned more than forty-five years

"Your Went Your Way” was recorded in December, 1967 at Richmond Sound Stages.  The production director and engineer's name there from 1965-1973 was Frank Brooks.  He also had a Jazz radio program on AM radio in Richmond during the 60s.  Although we’re not positive, he was more than likely the guy who engineered The Immortals record.  He was also probably the guy who engineered such contemporary efforts as  Why Did You Leave Me by The Klansmen and Lord I Need You  by Ray (Pittman) & the Soul Beats.

Info above from the oficial Immortals website here

This 45 is currently offered for sale here

Bob Harris and the Kings Four

Bob Harris and the Kings Four

CP- 7141 - Bertha Lou 

Marascalco

Robin Hood Music Co. BMI

CP- 7142 – Marty’s Place

Thrush

EAI PS-101 (Pop Series)
Entertainement associates inc.

Saginaw, Michigan
1962

 ★ 

Entertainement associates inc. was operated by David W. Oppermann, a Michigan and Midwest jazz, sports and show promoter and also a fireworkds distributor. 

Bob Harris formed the Kings Four in 1960. They later recorded an album on Kent Records (band picture above is from its back cover). At that time, members comprised Bob Harris, Lyle & Clayton Trush and Dave Nikaido. 

"Play Nice and Easy" was the album title. Their takes on standards such as "Misty", "Tenderly" and "Desafinado" among others, featured Dave Nikaido on lead vocals.

Among the appearances for the band was an engagement at the 1963 Inaugural Ball of Michigan for Gov. George Romney.  The band played all types music including the then current fads the twist, bossa nova, limbo and others.  

 ★  

"Bertha Lou" was written (and then sold to Marascalco) by Dorsey Burnette who recorded it as well as Johnny Faire for Surf Records in 1957 .  Some radio stations banned "Bertha Lou", because of the line "I wanna conjugate with you".  See Bertha Lou story

Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou
Let me slip around with you
If I could raise some sand
I'd be a mighty-mighty man
'Cause you're so ooooh, Bertha Lou
Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou
Gotta get a date with you
If I could hear you moan
On Mr. Bell's telephone
Ain't no tellin' what I'd do, Bertha Lou

You wear your hair in a poodle cut
You're walkin' down the street like a semi-truck
And everybody knows that you're so sweet
You tickle me from head to my athlete's feet

Hey-hey, Bertha Lou
I wanna conjugate with you
You know my blood is running wild
And I know you ain't no child
When you do what you do, Bertha Lou
(Rock! Rock! Rock! - Instrumental break)

You wear your hair in a poodle cut
You're walkin' down the street like a semi-truck
And everybody knows that you're so sweet
You tickle me from head to my athlete's feet

Hey-hey, Bertha Lou
I wanna conjugate with you
You know my blood is running wild
And I know you ain't no child
When you do what you do, Bertha Lou

Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou.

(Transcribed from the Dorsey Burnette version)

Buddy Dean and the Enchantments

Buddy Dean and the Enchantments

CP-5529 -  Say Mamma

(J.Meeks-J.Earl)

CP-5530 -  Is It Such A Crime 

(H. Audett)

D-J 1961-1/2

1961

D-J Record Co. was located at 289 Belmont Street in Fall River, Mass. according to Billboard (24 October 1960). On the same label in 1962  :  Johnny & The Blue J's.

Buddy Dean died in 2013.

Sib Galloway And The Harmonettes

Sib Galloway And The Harmonettes

EP  "Close To The Master "

16117 - I'm Nearer Home / Close To The Master
16118 - He'll Understand And Say Well Done/ The Highest Hill

Halo CREP-2031

1966

Unheard.

The CREP prefix in the catalog number denotes probably a Carolina Custom recording studio.  But I've not still determined if it's from the North Carolina or from the South.

I have a short list a three earlier records with the same CREP prefix :

• Klub CREP-2001 The Rhythm Ranch Hands
• Hollifield CREP 2005 (EP) Hollifield Trio
• Ranch 1574 CREP-2016 Shirley Ann & Hillbilly John Of The Dixie Ramblers

Stringbean on Cullman 6416

Stringbean

CP-2386 - Barn Yard Banjo Picking

CP-2387 - Train Special 500

Cullman 6416
1959

Cullman Records and Gaylord Music Co. were owned by James Harrell "Hal" Smith (1923-2008), Nashville musician, artist manager and television producer.

David Akeman (1916-1973), better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was one of the Opry's major stars in the 1950s.

From Wikipedia :

Akeman was modest and unassuming, and he enjoyed hunting and fishing. Accustomed to the hard times of the Great Depression, Akeman and his wife Estelle lived frugally in a tiny cabin near Ridgetop, Tennessee. Their only indulgence was a Cadillac. Depression-era bank failures caused Akeman not to trust banks with his money. Gossip around Nashville was that Akeman kept large amounts of cash on hand, even though he was by no means wealthy by entertainment industry standards.

On Saturday night, November 10, 1973, Akeman and his wife returned home after he performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Both were shot dead shortly after their arrival. The killers had waited for hours. The bodies were discovered the following morning by their neighbor, Grandpa Jones.

Chewing Chewing Gum 

Rev. Archie Clatterbuck

Rev. Archie Clatterbuck

33679 - I'll Fly Away

(A.E. Brumley, SESAC)

33680 - Sweet By And By

(Starday-York BMI)

1974

This is Archie E Clatterbuck (1916-1997) from Rappahannock County, Virginia.  A pentecostal pastor, he was heard with his Gospel Singers on Big K Radio (WKCW, Warrenton Virginia)

Prayer Meeting Time for Archie Clatterbuck

The 2 / 3RDS on April

The 2/3RDS

19063 ~ All Cried Out

19064 ~ 2/3 Baby 

(Gene McCormick, Alison Music ASCAP

April Record Co. 101

223 S. Carolina, Daytona Beach

1967 (April?)

 

From Daytona Beach, the 2/3rds recorded this one 45 at Quimby’s studio in nearby Ormond Beach, and released it on the April label in early 1967. At the time of this recording, the band included Gene McCormick on vocals and tenor sax and organ, Phil (PJ) Jones on drums, Ralph Citrullo bass and Allen Dresser lead guitar.

“2/3 Baby” is a moody complaint with a fine chorus, written by McCormick. It was backed with a bluesy ballad, “All Cried Out” written by Pete Carr. Members of the band eventually became the Third Condition, releasing two 45s on the Sundi label in 1970, one of which got some airplay, “Monday in May” about the Kent State tragedy. (The song was bounced off the airwaves by CSN&Y’s “Ohio”).

After Gene left the band to join Jam Factory in New York, the band moved to Tallahassee to attend FSU. Later members included several who had been in another Daytona group, the Hungri I’s: Neil Haney vocals, as well as Max Eason on drums from Tallahassee. The band was named Rock Garden for a brief time (Neil Haney, Allen Dresser, Ralph Citrullo, Max Easom and Chris Drake) then became Duck (Chris Drake, Allen Dresser, Rick Levy and Max Easom – later Benny Jones replaced Rick Levy and Don Langston replaced Max Easom).

Info above from garagehangover here

Audio clip from Florida Rocks Again! every Saturday night on Surf 97.3 FM, streaming at flaglerbeachradio.com.

Little Rock My Home Town

CP-6447 -Little Rock My Home Town
CP-6448 - Little Rock My Home Town (instr.)

KVLC

1961

Don Cochran (Pig Pen Boogie, Big K)

Don Cochran

40063 - The Arkansas Line

Donald J. Brundridge MOMU Pub.  BMI

 

40064 - Pig Pen Boogie

Harold Hassler, Shelter BMI

Special effects Bill Johnson

Producer : C.Kellogg - D. Cochran

Big K Records
11517 No. Oak, Kansas City, Missouri 64155

1979

Don Cochran's previous record on Big K was the intriguing "What do you charge to haunt houses". No further info.

The Reliables on Anderson

 

The Reliables

 

22531 ~ Uglist Guy In Town
22532 ~ Dreams That We Once Knew

 

wr. both W.J. Chafin

 

Anderson Records

1968

Anderson Records discography here

No further info

Joe Williams and the Staccatos

Joe Williams and the Staccatos

vocal by Cornelius Grant / Count James
CP-6753 - The Mother Hubbard
Williams-Gurley-Grant, Eddings Mus. Pub. BMI

instrumental
CP-6754 - No Harm Done
 Williams-Gurley-Grant, Eddings Mus. Pub. BMI

Carrie

1961

Detroit, Michigan

An early release on the James Hendrix label.

Composers are Cornelius Grant, James M. Gurley, Joseph T. Williams.

Cornelius Grant (b. 1943) guitarist, composer, and band leader. He served as the musical director, guitar player, and live show arranger for Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1964 until 1982.

James M. Gurley : possibly the one who moved to San Francisco and became "the father of psychedelic guitar" (Big Brother and the Holding Company)

Eddings Music Co. was owned by William Summers,  first black to manage and own a radio station (in Louisville, Kentucky)

Mattie Allen And The Lonesome Drifters

Mattie Allen And The Lonesome Drifters

26179 ~ Ride Around
26180 ~ Just The Same Old Girl
(M. Smithers, Jaclyn BMI)

Dayton Records #351
1806 Brown St. Dayton, Ohio 45409

In the Jalyn Records numerical series.  The name Dayton was also used for a Gene Higgins & Dave release (#345).  Mattie Allen Smithers was probably the name of the artist. No further info.

Label & audio from YouTube (CheesebrewWaxArchive)

  

Buddy Livingston and the Versatones

Buddy LIVINGSTON

and the Versatones

CP-2402 - The Russians Were A-Rushin'

CP-2403 - Fumbling
 

Buddy Livingston-Billy Brown,  Lowery Music Co. Inc

Scottie 1313

November 1959

"Buddy Livingston and the Versatones" played almost every night at a club called "The Bamboo Ranch" in Savannah, Georgia and even had their own 30-minute television show on WTOC for a while.. Buddy played bass guitar and was the lead man for the band which once included Billy Joe Royal, Joe South and Ray Stevens.

On the vocal side here, the (not credited) singer is possibly Billy Brown (a Versatone for a while?)  : his Columbia contract was not renewed in 1959 and he moved on to Gene Autry's Republic label, on which he had two singles released in 1960-61.

Lee Long And The Four Fifths on Reed

Lee Long  And The Four Fifths

CP-2567  -- Samanthy

Brooks-Ewing-Patrick, Brooks Publ. Co.

CP-2568 -- The Drifter

Ewing-Brooks, Brooks Publ. Co.

Reed 1036

1959

What can I say about Lee Long which was not said before ?  She penned both songs of the Bill Perry release on Reed 1029 (Go Fly A Kite b/w You Hit The Nail On The Head).

Songwriters Brooks and Ewing later composed "Senior Prom" which was sung by Violet Ray on Gladatone 101, a label out of Moss Point, Miss. owned by Ramblin' Frank Cunningham.

Kalamazoo, My Home Town (PAMS)

Terry And The Melody Laners

vocalist Terry Lea
8365 - Kalamazoo, My Home Town

The Melody Laners
8366 - Kalamazoo, My Home Town

produced for the people of Kalamazoo by
WKMI
1360 Melody Lane

Lyrics: Howard D. Steere

Lyrics copyrighted 1962 Steere Broadcasting

Musical rights publications Meeks Publications

Recorded by PAMS of Dallas

Arranger-composer : Euel Box

For air use on Radio Station WKMI (Dial 1360)

July 1962

Bill Meeks started the PAMS Advertising Agency in the mid-fifties.

While the concept of using catchy tunes to promote a product was nothing new, the idea of using a full length song to promote a radio station was. In 1960, Meeks came up with the idea of creating a standard 1:30 music bed, entitled “My Home Town” (in the “Sound of the City” – Series 16 jingle package). The song bed, written by Euel Box, was pitched to radio stations from Abilene to Winston-Salem. Localized lyrics would be penned by the jocks, or other staffers. However, more often than not, the amateur songwriters would cram as many words as they could into the canned music bed. 

It’s estimated that there are over 100 different versions of “My Home Town.”
 

While Terry was consistently the main voice on  the "My Home Town" PAMS jingles series, her name credit on the singles is anything but. Variations on her name have included “Terry Lea," "Terry Lee,” “Terry Lea Jenkins," and "Terry Lee Jenkins."
 

For as long as Marie Therese Leahy could remember, she was always performing.

“I first sang at the Capitol Theatre, in Austin, on the kiddie show,” she said. “If you were asked to perform, you got in free to the movie that day, and got two passes for later in the week. America was in the middle of a depression so I went to the kiddie show every Saturday and got on, and got my tickets.”

By 1941, she would find herself entertaining on another stage – in front of the troops, at one of the several bases around Austin. “Mr. John Peninger, who was a friend of my dad’s, was head of the USO in Austin and asked if I could be on the USO shows – I was only 14 at the time,” she said. Terry, as she was starting to be called at the time, would find herself singing before thousands of soldiers at Camp Swift in Bastrop, or at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin. “I would perform on a flat bed truck, driven out into a field, and there would be five thousand young men waiting to be entertained.” She would later be crowned Queen of Melody of Camp Swift. “What a treat that was, but I well chaperoned as my dad was quite strict.”
 

 read more :

http://www.jinglenews.com/articles/the-voice-of-my-home-town-terry-jenkins/

Eric and the Vikings on Zip

Eric and the Vikings

20563 ~ Chinese Soul

20564 ~ Vikings Theme

Zip presents

W.S.M. 102167

Zip Music Co.

Scranton, Pa.
October 1967

A-side is is actually "Ling Ting Tong" which was done by The Five Keys for Capitol Records in 1955.  B-side is an instrumental.

Unless some family relatives of Eric or of The Vikings band come to me with info (and please don't say just "Hi, that's my dad!"), Eric and the Vikings will be doomed to perpetual internet darkness.

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The Modern Age on Hellam

The Modern Age

35723 – The Bullfrog Rock
35724 - Glenda Cheryl

Glenn D. Hake, ASCAP
Produced by Glenn D. Hake

Hellam
1975

Note : date of copyright 1957 on label is obviously wrong. The two songs were copyrighted on October 11, 1975.

From Hellam, a suburb of York, Pennsylvania.  'The Bullfrog Rock' has been re-issued in 2003 on "Rockin' And Stompin'" (Collector 4479) credited to Glenn D. Hake.

Glenn Daniel Hake was born in 1933 in Martinsville, Pennsylvania. His father died when he was a 3 year-old and his mother had to support the family.   Truck driver, free-lance photographer and country music singer, he operated Hellam Records and Majestic Air Photo in Hellam. 

In 1965 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to seven charges, • including cheating by false pretense. Authorities said Hake failed to deliver on promises to have aerial photographs he took of various properties painted in oil after he received $450 from property owners.

 

 In 1978, Glenn Hake found a 2-year pit bull terrier in the streets of dowtown Harrisburg and went home with the dog.  One time when Hake was playing the old piano that he bought at a yard sale, Boopie jumped on a stool by the instrument and began tapping the keyboard with one paw.  "A light went on in my head. I thought it was a great thing, a dog playing the piano," Hake recalled.  So, he went about teaching Boopie to play the piano. At first Boopie would only use his left paw, but two weeks and many doggie treats later, Boopie was tickling the ivories with both paws. "With his talent, I could use him to make a profit. I decided I'd rather make it non-profit.  I'd like to use his talents to help poor people," Hake said.   So he decided to found Man's Best Friend Charities Inc., with the purpose of raising money during charity events where Boopie will be the star performer.

Glenn Hake died in 1993, but The Modern Age 'sans' Glenn Hake still performed as recently as two years ago at Hellam Fire Company  pic :

After dinner, couples may take to the dance floor to dance the night away to the tunes of local band The Modern Age. “The event is meant (to give people the opportunity) to dance, attending couples are not required to dance.   However, even people who are not planning to dance may change their minds when they hear The Modern Age, which has been performing an assortment of country rock from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, on and off locally since 1970.   The band currently consists of Jim Haugh of Hellam on rhythm guitar and vocals, Bill Dunlap of Yorkana on bass guitar and vocals,  Jeff Winter of Wrightsville on drums and vocals, Mike Hubler of Wrightsville on lead guitar and vocals, and special guest Logan Kinard of Craley on guitar and vocals.