Bobby Faro on Universal Sound

Bobby Faro

18005 – Burning Lips

Powers-Greer, Mitten Music BMI

18006 – Bitter Sweet

Produced by J.Powers and M. Valvano

 

Universal Sound 150

     Detroit, MI

1966

Johnny Powers and Mike Valvano, the producers, were good friends.  They met at Motown Records and then produced together, hung together.   At Motown, Johnny filled a number of support roles, adding foot stomps to several Supremes classics and banging tambourines with Valvano.

Universal Sound was one of the scores of labels that came from the Sound Incorporated Studios established on highway 94, Northeast of Detroit, halfway to Port Huron. 56880 North, New Haven Michigan.  Sound Inc did use a common numbering system across various labels : previous number in the series was on Sound Records (The Capreez), #146 was on Walker Records (Arizona Weston and the Westerners) etc.

Howard Walker started the business up but it was later taken over by Danny and Larry Lick (a shortened version of their original name, Pavlick).   Johnny Powers [born Pavlick] was also a co-owner.

Whail on Luv

Whail

33089 – You Are What I Am

Gordon Lightfoot, Moose CAPAC

33090 – Summer Holiday

Gibson, King, Mack  Vicki Music BMI

LUV 714

Produced By Ron Hanson

A Product Of G.M. Recording Co., East Detroit, Michigan, 48021

1974

These two tracks previously issued on their album

(see below)

Whail

Fresh Air

Side one [32583]

I've Never Seen Love Like This
You Are What I Am
I Am Not Sayin
Circles
Julia
Drugstore Man
Be What You Want
Prelude to Side Two

Side two [32584]

I Want You Girl
I Can't Make It Anymore
Can I Look
Kalamazoo Winter
Summer Holiday
Long Long Time
Hey Boy

Luv 701

Rite account #5778

Lounge rock with a wide range of styles from Gordon Lighfoot covers to a couple more psych tracks. Occasional use of synth. 

Hawkeye Hawkins (Hawkins 104)

Hawkeye Hawkins

The Lonesome Rambler

 
CP-1867 — I'm the Big Wheel In This Town Town Town

Hawkins, Double "M" Music Co. (BMI)

CP-1868 — Wabash Cannon Ball

Hawkins Records 104
608 N. 24th St.  Apt. B, Birmingham 4, Alabama

 For his other records, see Hawkins discography

Dean-O-Delray And His Delrays

Dean-O-Delray And His Delrays

10393 - I Want To Be Your Lucky Star

10394 - The Ballad Of Billy The Kid

Both wr O.Davidson, Roman Music Pub. Co.

  Northwest Sound Company 1007

14958 Ardmore, Detroit, Michigan

1963

(Songs copyrighted on 5 June 1963)

Dean-O-Delray's real name is Oscar Davidson. (see comment)


The Northwest Sound Company was operated by the owner/engineer named Julian G. Skinner, also known as "Jody"

According to Ron Murphy (Soulful Detroit Archives) :

Jody lived with his parents upstairs and his studio was in the basement of the house, it had a small control room with a Ampex 351-2 track,he also had a little dub cutter and the studio was just one 9X12 room but he did have good ears and got a pretty good sound for that set-up, sometimes he would press records on his own Northwest Sound label for people paying to make their own record...he operated there for quite a long time from about 1960 into the 70's.

Ted (member of Anvil, a rock band) :

We recorded in a cheap mono studio in Detroit [in 1970] for our first attempt. Julian G. Skinner ran the recording equipment with the back of his twisted hands as he had several palsy. Could not speak well, and would not let us use our amplifiers.

Sound files are from the CD "Move and Rock" (Collector Records)

Dynamic Walter B. & The New Breed Band on Allied

Dynamic Walter B.

and The New Breed Band

24069 - High Sailing
24070 – Something Wrong

 Arranged By Tommy Linton

Produced By Jim Foreman

Allied Records

Recorded at International Recording, Baton Rouge, La

    1969

This is Walter Bouligny, born in 1946.  His discography can be found HERE (Sir Shambling)

Ralph Nielsen and the Chancellors

Ralph Nielsen and the Chancellors

  8495 - Scream

8496 - Little Demon

Both Wr. Ralph Nielsen, Peer Int. BMI

Surf Records 5302/5301

520 Oregon Ave.,  Bricktown, N.J.

1962

A copy is currently auctioned at ebay by lcharm7

Sound files :   lcharm7 

Seven copies are found in Popsike files. Prices ranging from 455 to 1.225US$

E. Mae Rittenhouse on Hollis

E. Mae Rittenhouse

15425 - Oh Halleluia Jesus Lives Within
15426 - Whisper To Jesus / Search My Heart Lord

Music arranged by Ray Ranson

Hollis P1095

 Recorded at Coventry Recording Studios in Akron, OH.   

Reverend E. Mae Rittenhouse

      For 30 years, Reverend E. Mae Rittenhouse served her Lord through services she provided to area radio stations. A pioneer in religious broadcasting, Reverend Rittenhouse broadcasted over WADC, WSLR, WAKR, WCUE and WHKK. She was a student of Cornus Hill Bible College when she was appointed Pastor of the North Akron CME Mission . She is a published song writer, an activist in city government and has written articles in The Reporter and The Akron Beacon Journal (Voice of the People). Her ability to inspire is known throughout this part of the country. She formally broadcasted over WBOY in Clarksburg , West Virginia and has spoken the gospel in many communities.

Debbie on Flash

Debbie

CP-2609 - Letter To Santa Claus 
CP-2610 - Santa's Too Old To Rock N' Roll  

 ♪♫ (sample)

Both wr. Mike Chotas, Demos BMI

Flash 501

1959

Deviations & Deviation Band

Deviations & Deviation Band

38023 - Boogie To The Beat

38024 - Loving You

Writers : T.Craig, L.Calfie, M.Patman, H.Mitchell

 Arrangers

Side A: J. Farris - T. Vaughn - H. Fisher

Side B: J. Farris - T. Vaughn - T. Battle

A Pettijohn production

Soul Sounds Unlimited
 Soul Sounds Unlimited Recording Co

Box 24240, Cincinnati Oh 45224.

  March 1977  

Jim Bundy Combo (Mar-Ja)

Jim Bundy Combo

featuring Charlie Boykin on electric guitar
with 

Jesse Ennis - Piano 

Jeff Duke - rhythm guitar  

Wayne DeLisse - drums  

Jim Bundy - bass

9453 ~ Rebel Twist (Boykin & Ennis)

featuring Jesse Ennis on Piano 

with 

Charlie Boykin - electric guitar 

Jeff Duke - rhythm guitar  

Wayne DeLisse - drums  

Jim Bundy - bass   

9454 ~ Chop Stick Beat

Mar-Ja Records

213 Pecan Road

Raleigh, NC

sample (poor quality)

213 Pecan Road (2011)

Was the home of Mar-Ja Records

Dawn Capri's on Marlo

Dawn Capri's

10121 - Haunted House

10122- Going Home 

(T. Rank, Stagg Music BMI)    

Marlo 1528

1963

Unlisted. One of the most obscure release on the Uncle Buck Lipe label.

Posted by Slappinjake at his blog HERE

Peerless Four on Job's

Peerless Four

28343 ~ Peace in the Valley (lead: Clyde Burston)

28344 ~ Someday (lead - Charles Russel)

Job's 1237-001/002
Also Job's 12001 (see pics below)

Culpepper Music Co. Tri-Us BMI

Recorded at Norfolk Sound Studio Norfolk, Va.
Eng. by Martin Culpepper Jr.

1971

Re-issued in 1972 (pressed by RCA Custom Division and distributed by Laurie Records).  No mention of Martin Culpepper Jr.   Frank Guida name added as producer.  Hill & Range publisher added.

 

Peerless Four (mid-sixties)

Picture : http://www.recordconnexion.nl/start.html

The Peerless Four recorded in the sixties on Gospel Recording Co. a Brooklyn label ("Gospel Music for the whole family").   Members comprised Jake Chambers, vocalist ; Clyde Burston, vocalist ; Eddie Luster, , guitarist ; Geo. (George) Butler, organist.

 Martin Culpepper

Job's Records owner

Photo from his own website

Martin Culpepper  is a veteran in Gospel radio, known as one of  the Original  Pioneers  of Gospel.

Brother Martin Culpepper is also a member of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, Announcers Guild, And Vice Chairman of the Quartet Division. Martin  graduated from Paul Henning’s School  Broadcasting in Norfolk, Virginia.
 

Norfolk Sound Studio

Like many regional record label owners, Frank Guida started as a record store owner. From there, he built record labels (Legrand and SPQR, among them) and then started his studio.

Located on Princess Anne Road in Norfolk, VA, Norfolk Sound produced "The Norfolk Sound": Gary "U.S." Bonds, Jimmy Soul and Daddy G, to name a few.

Sammy Griggs and The Coronets on Job

Sammy Griggs

and The Coronets

Vocal Charles Carothers

CP-1821 ~ Footsteps

(Sam Griggs, Job Publ. BMI)

CP-1822 ~ Long John Silver

(Sam Griggs, Big Song Publ. BMI)

Job Records #100

1959

All other recordings by this Cleveland vocal group were issued in 1953-1955, starting with "Nadine" released by Chess Records, thanks to Alan Freed.

For a few years (1955 to 1959), they were content to just have gigs around town.  At the request of their managers (Joe Petito and Vic Salupo), they went to Audio Studios to cut a couple of songs that Sam had written: "Footsteps" and "Long John Silver."   However, before anything could happen with it,   Pop singer Steve Lawrence also released a tune called "Footsteps," which became a big hit; that was all it took to squash the last hopes for the Coronets.

By the end of 1960, with nothing happening, the Coronets finally threw in the towel and disbanded, "victims of foul circumstance."

See Marv Goldberg The Coronets

Bernie & The White Soul Band

Bernie & The White Soul Band

35375 - Shake Your Bootie It's Bootie Time Pt 1
35376 - Shake Your Bootie It's Bootie Time Pt 2
 

wr. B. McBride, J.Thomas, Al Goodrich, S. Silvo

Produced by Bernie

 

Soul Brother Records

56 Outlook Drive

Hills Sound Service, Worcester, Ma

SAMPLE

Unlisted soul/funk.  Bernie is perhaps Bernie S. McBride, born in 1948.
 

Label picture & sample : ebay (SteadySounds)

Note : address of label is presumably in Worcester.  How was the neighborhood around Outlook Drive in 1975, I do not known, but googling "56 Outlook Drive Worcester" brings today no funky results.  Samples :

4 Feb 2009 – Alfred Harper, 49, of 56 Outlook Drive, Worcester, charged with violation of an abuse prevention order, continued to March 2 on $500 cash bail; ...

12 Jan 2010 – Robert K. Sorrell, 24, of 56 Outlook Drive, Worcester, charged with firearm use in a felony, trafficking in cocaine, and conspiracy to violate a ..

12 Nov 2012 – Caleb Saysay, 17, of 56 Outlook Drive, Worcester, charged with larceny from a person, amended from armed robbery, continued without a...

ETC.

Miss Lois Powell on Velvet

Miss Lois Powell, vocal...

12597 - I Can’t Think Of Nothing, Baby

...Willie Ghent, piano 
James Brown, drums

12598 - The Long Wait

...Charles Powell, lead guitar
Willie Ghent, piano 
James Brown, drums

Velvet [Records]
General Delivery

Searcy, Arkansa

★

Previously unlisted Rite pressing.   Posted by Howdy HERE    Side A info found at Arkansas 45 RPM Records  

★

Miss Lois Powell's "Woo-Ee-Baby", an unissued acetate recorded in Little Rock, was issued by Cees Klop on "41 Years Collector Records - 40 Was Not Enough"  (CLCD 4550).  You can listed to this song at YouTube HERE.  She sounds a little like Wanda Jackson.

★

A Lois Powell, "Western gal singer" was signed to the short-living Enterprise Records in 1946.  Same "gal"?

 

Billboard, Feb. 9, 1946

 Enterprises Records ad

Billboard Aug. 31, 1946

Billed as Lois Powell and her Western Band

(bottom right of the ad)

★

Finally, I found two songs penned by Lois Powell in the BMI database both published by Bolivar Music Co. : 

     1.     Honkey Tonk Town,

     2.     Juke Box Blues      

Searching the names of the three musicians listed on the label leads to nowhere.

Riley Puckett (GHP Records)

Riley Puckett
Old Time Greats Volume 1

GHP 902
Recordings For The Connosseur

Rite account #2073 (in dead-wax)

1969

Sine One  {Rite 23551]

1 . Away Out On The Mountain .
2 . The Moonshiner's Dream .
3 . Don't Try It For It Can't Be Done 
4 . Dissatisfied .
5 . Send Back My Wedding Ring .
6 . Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie .
7 . Ragged But Right .

Side Two   [Rite 23552]

1 . I'm Going To Georgia .
2 . On The Other Side Of Jordan .
3 . I'm Getting Ready To Go .
4 . Clover Blossoms .
5 . Curley Headed Baby .
6 . Call Me Back, Pal O' Mine .
7 . Frankie And Johnnie        

Collection of songs by famed country music singer and guitarist Riley Puckett.(1894-1946)   Late-'20s Columbia and the mid-'30s Bluebird sides assembled by East German country music aficionado Gerd Hadeler on his own GHP Records (Cuxhaven, Germany) (=Gerd Hadeler Productions]

This LP was re-issued on Old Homestead Records in 1978 with two tracks bonus and same cover.  Reviewed by Eugene Chadbourne :

Several different labels took cracks at releasing collections by this fine old-timey music artist during the '70s, and this is perhaps the best one for an interested listener to try and track down, as it provides the most complete span of Riley Puckett's career.   It contains work from two different prolific recording periods, the late-'20s Columbia sides and the mid-'30s Bluebird era.   Liberated from his sideman role in the old-timey group Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers,   Puckett lets loose with his own guitar style here as it had never been heard before. He has his own peculiar sense of humor and outlook on life, and some of the opinions he expresses may not be politically correct to the hearts and minds of later eras, so watch out.

This entire package was previously released on the GHP label, with the exception of two scintillating guitar solos. Early cowboy and country singer Hugh Cross shows up on two tracks.

Those trying to emulate the unique Puckett guitar style should heed the title of one of the best numbers here, "Don't Try It for It Can't Be Done."

  

Wikipedia biography

Discography

Jimmy Wilkins on Band Box

 Jimmy Wilkins And The Blue Falcons
Vocal Background By The Sarands

12945 ~ Goodby, Baby
12946 ~ It's All Right

Band Box 356

 

Jimmy Wilkins and the Sarands

15139 - Move Over

15140 - Crying Tears

Band Box 364

From 1964-1965.  Zilch on Jimmy Wilkins, on The Blue Falcons or on The Sarands.  "Crying Tears" has been played on WWOZ radio in 2010, but I can't find the archive of this show.

The Cut-Ups (Frederick's recordings)

 

 The Cut-Ups

12801 - The Cut-Ups Theme / Little Darlin'

12802 - Forbidden Fruit

Produced by Frederick's of Goldsboro, N.C.

sample

 

YouTube video feat. Carlton Frederick

co-founder with his brothers of Frederick's Music Shop in 1960

The Whole Earth Rainbow Band III

The Whole Earth Rainbow Band

LP
A Piece Of Window   

Wrane Beau


1974

Side One  [Rite 33005]

1. Shuck Jhove  (Kimmel)
2. Nocturne  (Lockwood)
3. Nog Jog  (Kimmel)
4. Bom Ba I    (Kimmel-Wintervold)

Side Two  [Rite 33006]

1. Free ESP Duo  (Kimmel-Lockwood)
2. Sometimes the sadness  (Kimmel)
3. Seventy to eleven/thirds  (Tilley)
4. My Lady  (Kimmel)

Personnel :

Steve Kimmel  Vibes, Congas And   Drums
Terry  Tilley , bass
Bob Rockwell  Tenor Sax
Bruce Wintervold  Drums, Percussions  Congas
Steve Lockwood  Fender And Acoustic Pianos
Mike Croy  Cowbell  

Recorded At Dial Communication

Twin Cities group helmed by Steve Kimmel, best known as a vibraphonist, and as the owner of the Rainbow Gallery, a now-defunct local jazz venue.

Discography (LPs)

1972     Whole Earth Rainbow Band     Wranebeau Records #S80-362-2382S
1973     Concert           Wranebeau Records 1329   
1974     A Piece Of Window              
1975     What's A WERB?     Wranebeau 99005 



Above is the drawing done by Mpls Star Tribune artist Dick Guindon for a half page spread on page one of the Entertainment and Arts section of the Sunday Paper.  I don't recall what concert was being promoted, most likely something at the Walker Art Center.  The band was the Whole Earth Rainbow Band which I and local percussionist Steve Kimmel started in 1970.   Source : https://sites.google.com/site/runegitane/memorabiliaarchive

The Chancel Choir of Central United Methodist Church

     

The Chancel Choir of Central United Methodist Church 1969-1970
 Pontiac, Michigan

Directed by George H. Putman

Side 1:  Rite 27199 

Be Thou My Vision - Ancient Irish Tune.
The Lord's Prayer
He Comes To Us / Jane Marshall
Were You There / Negro Spiritual
Breathe On Me, Breath Of God  Trentham-Jackson
How Great Thou Art - Swedish Folk Melody

Side 2:  Rite 27200

O, Clap Your Hands
Holy Lord God Of Hosts
Say Ye To The Righteous
Crown Him With Many Crowns



A Central Recording


Sample (YouTube)