Bill Campbell on Zappo

Bill Campbell

28233 - You Better Not Do That (T. Collins)

28234 - Venita

Recorded by John Lookabill, Greensboro, N.C.
    

Zappo Presents

1971

sample (both sides)

★

Side one is a cover of the Tommy Collins song recorded on Capitol Records (1954).   

For another Lookabill recording, see Rhythm Rockers/Tex Craddrock. Did he owned a studio in Greensboro ?

John Lookabill and Bill Campbell are both on a video posted on YouTube HERE

See Tommy Collins singing "You Better Not Do That" on the Buck Owens Ranch Show in 1966 HERE

No further info.

Bob Strack / Vern Kenyon (Cowtown LP 205)

Bob Strack / Vern Kenyon

Cowtown Records

CLP #205

P.O.Box 192, Avery, Texas

1960

Side 1 – CP-3903
Vocal by Bob Strack

1. Welcome Elvis (J.W. Stephenson-H.Conley) Tronic Music -BMI
2. Panorama Drive (Lou Bridges) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
3. Danny (C.Zumwatt) Faye Music-BMI
4. 63rd Street Has The Chicks (J.J. Felder) Stephenson Music 
5. There Must Be A Way (J.W. Evans-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic-BMI
6. Come All Ye Kin Folks (W.W.Lundgren) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
7. Home Is Two Loving Arms (N.E. Ahmdeo-J.W.Stephenson) Golden State BMI
8. Never Before (Val McDonald) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
9. Play It Square (E.M. Sutton) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
10. Won't You Talk To Your Heart (W.W. Lundgren) Blue Ribbon Music ASCAP
11. When The Singing Hit The Ceiling (J.H. Garrett-J.W. Stephenson) Golden State BMI

Side 2 – CP-3904
Vocal by Vern Kenyon

12. Deca Darling (W.F. Schuck-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
13. Honey Bee Bop (W.F. Schuck-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
14. She Doesn't Love Me Anymore (T.W.McLaughlin-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI
15. The Picture On The Wall (M.Sullivan-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
16. Put Your Heart In My Hands (L. Neptune-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
17. Stuff And Nonsense (I.Morical- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI  
18. My Hearts Breaking Because Of You (T.W. McLaughlin-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
19. Just Not Caring ( (I.Morical- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI    
20. Green Eyed Gal (M. McCoy- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
21. Fair Weather Love (W.F. Schuck- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
22. Ada, Ada (W.F. Schuck- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI

The three links above are YouTube posts from user (what a ugly word) named Starday.

★

Frenchy And The Underground Railroad

Frenchy And The Underground Railroad

26941 - We're Lonely /(Frenchy, ASCAP)

26942 - Trip (Real Carpentier, ASCAP)

Sterling 518

1970

★ 

At the time of the recording, the personnel (13-14 years old, except Frenchy, eight years older) of the group consisted of Frenchy (Yves Carpentier) on vocals, Real Carpentier on vocals and bass, Gene Daigle on vocals and guitar, Bob Fissette on guitar, Rob St. George on drums, and Dave LaCasse on vocals and percussion. The band was managed by Ron Bachand and Alfred Brissette.  

 

The band story is told by Mr. Bellino in his latest post (at Rip It Up R.I.)  a blog celebrating the glory of rock and roll and garage bands from the state of Rhode Island in the 1960s.

 ★

 

If confirmation was needed, this is a proof that Lew Tobin's Sterling Records wasn't just a song-poem operation,   If the bulk of the label ouput was amateur poems put in music by Lew Tobin and "sung" by Norm Burns, Gary Roberts, Mel Moore and al. ,  occasionally local bands were recorded. 

 

Real Carpentier today

http://www.reverbnation.com/realcarpentier

Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Jack O. Knowles, V.M.D. Miami Florida
Lester E. Fisher, D.V.M.,Berwyn, Illinois

CP-4969 - Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Mark Morris Associates

531 Guaranty Bank Bldg. Denver 2, Colo.

33rpm 7"

 [March 1961]

★

Spoken word.  A veterinary education record.  

Continue your education and read about this (and hear a sample too and its follow-up, "The Aged Dog" ) in one of the latest posts by Lisa Wheeler  HERE. 

Woof! Woof!

   

Evelyn and Al Downing

Evelyn Downing Sings...

"Angel Eyes"

Featuring Al (A.J.) Downing Jazz Quintet

AJD Records

1976

 

Side 1 - 36261

Angel Eyes / Sunshine Of My Life / Rainy Day / Help Me Make It Through The Night / Bye Bye Blackbird / Satin Doll

 

Side 2 - 36262
When Sunny Gets Blue / There Will Never Be Another You / Bunny / Love Will Keep Us Together / Blue Groove

 

AJD Records 

2121 25th Street So.

St. Petersburg, Fla. 33712   

 

Recorded at Titan Sound Studio Largo, Florida

★ 

 

Evelyn Downing

Evelyn Jean Downing was born on February 13, 1950 to Alvin and Bernice Downing, the second of three daughters.

Evelyn attended Sixteenth Street Jr. High School and graduated from Dixie Hollins High School.During her high school years, her parents nurtured her gifted singing ability by featuring her vocal talents in many of her father's performances.  Her style was her own.  She was encouraged, guided and inspired by her parents and as a result of their love of jazz, they founded the Allegro Music Society, now known as the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association.  Her father served as president, her mother served as vice president and Evelyn was the first member of the association.  After graduating from high school, she studied Theatre Arts at Carnegie Tech in Philadelphia, Pa. and attended Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Fl.   In the early 70's, Evelyn successfully began a career as a professional jazz vocalist featured with her late father, renowned jazz pianist and music educator, Alvin J. Downing.  Her most prized accomplishment was recording the album "Angel Eyes" with her father.  She performed with a variety of jazz artists in cities throughout the United States including Atlanta, Georgia, Naples, Miami, Tampa, and St Petersburg, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas, Denver, Colorado and Los Angeles, California.  Early in her career while performing in Atlanta, she was recognized as the top performing artist at Pascal's and the Clock of Fives Dinner Club located in the Regency Hotel.  She was known for her elegant wardrobe especially designed for her by the late internationally known designer Patrick Kelly. 

Alvin “Al” Joseph Downing was born in 1916 in Jacksonville, Florida.

   

Al Downing is legendary to those who remember the golden days of jazz in St. Petersburg.

 Piano talent and a desire to perpetuate jazz among young people everywhere were two qualities Al possessed from the time he was a young man in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. He formed his first band in high school, pursued music throughout his college days and organized music programs at Gibbs High School when he moved to St. Petersburg, in 1939.

Al served with the Tuskegee Airmen before leading the 613th Army Air Force Band in Tuskegee. He then moved on to other military bands in the U.S. and Japan. When he retired in 1961 as a major, Al went back to school for a Master of Music before returning to St. Petersburg. He taught first at Gibbs and then for another 20 years at St. Petersburg Junior College.

Retiring in 1983, he continued teaching privately. He was recognized as an Ambassador of Jazz by the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation and named Tampa Bay’s Favorite Artist by Players Magazine. Al firmly believed in an organization to promote jazz and in 1981, he formed the Al Downing Florida Jazz Association. It merged in 1989 with the Tampa Bay Jazz Society and has existed as the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association, Inc. ever since.

Al died in 2000, but his outstanding reputation as a performer, an educator and a humanitarian carries on. To honor him, Perkins Elementary School for the Arts and International Studies dedicated its theater to his memory in 2001. In 2004, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast placed his likeness in the role models mural in their newly renovated, historic Royal Theater performing arts center.

Sources : 

• http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Evelyn-Downing/1212042372
• http://aldowningjazz.com/history.php
• http://www.jazzlandcafe.com/
• http://www.sptimes.com/News/022200/TampaBay/Al_Downing__83__jazz_.shtml
  
  

The Firesiders on Sterling

 

The Firesiders

 

9881 ~  Spring

9882 ~  Jump And Twist

 

Sterling Records #268

1963

Two instrumentals

 

Quite surprising but, yes,  this is on the same song-poem Sterling label owned by music veteran Lew Tobin in Boston, Mass.

Lew Tobin had operated Five Star Music Masters since the early forties and  Sterling Records since 1954.  The earliest record on Sterling I was able to find is #103,   "His Final Address" sung by Roy Jones with Lew Tobin's orchestra.  "This tribute to Hank Williams is both late and unimpressive" simply wrote the Billboard reviewer (Billboard, February 27, 1954).  Hank Williams, incidentally also recorded on Sterling Records, obviously a different label (out of New-York).

 

Lew Tobin and Sterling Records were still active as late as 2002 : that year, in September, they recorded "America's Song" a poem written by Blanche Shipley (1914-2002), a retired teacher, who pieced and tied many quilts after her retirement. 

 

Sterling label discography

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans on PAQ

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans

10845 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 1
10846 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 2

Bushbaum & Flaharty, Ridge Pub. BMI (both)

Recorded Live at The Coconut Lounge

PAQ Records

A Young American Production No. 21

1963

Note : recorded in a Dayton studio (not live, and neither in Springfield)

★ 

The saga of the Stomp

The song went like this:

“There’s a place I know where the cool kittens go, it’s a place that the hippies found, where you stomp and shout and knock yourself out, it’s a place called the Coconut Lounge.”

The song, “Coconut Stomp (Part I),” by Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans, is as primal and enthusiastic as the day it was cut, 47 years ago.

And that’s the problem.

“It still makes me want to dance,” Flaharty, now 68, confessed, “but I can’t afford the hip replacement.”

While they hailed from Moraine, Flaharty and the Young Americans became the house band at the Coconut, playing their own shows, opening for national acts and even backing acts like The Crystals, which didn’t have a touring band.

“We were always pretty starstruck with the people we were with,” recalled Flaharty, who mostly writes music nowadays for his Unity church in Southern California and has become something of a legend with collectors of ’60s garage-rock records.

While backing The Orlons locally, Flaharty heard a word in their song “South Street” that intrigued him.

Hippie.

“I had never heard that word before,” he said, “but I thought it was cool.”

Cool enough to be included in his own tribute to the kids who hung out at the Coconut.

“They were hip and needed their own dance,” he said.

The song became a regional hit, even making the list of the most-requested songs at the Peppermint Stick, a similar club in Lima.

But pay no attention to the fact that the record says the song was “recorded live at the Coconut Lounge.”

It was actually recorded in a Dayton studio, Flaharty revealed, with the aid of a sound-effects record for crowd noises.

 ★ 

 

 

Doug Porter :

By 1960, I was Sonny Flaharty and the Young Americans' full time drummer. I was still in Junior High School. I stayed with the Young Americans for about 5 years, until we broke up. We traveled every weekend. We backed up many of the early stars. We all were card-toting musicians and I could site read. We worked with Lou Christie, Bobby Vinton, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, Bobby Darin, Chuck Berry, The Four Tops (we backed the Tops up several times and they offered me a road job but I was still in high school). The list goes on and on but one sticks out with me.

The Rolling Stones came to Dayton, Ohio just about the time the Young Americans were at their peak and we were the opening band for them. We shared the dressing room with the Stones. That is a story all to itself. Soon after that, the group broke up. It consisted of Sonny on lead vocals and sometimes rhythm guitar,Terry Nieus on lead guitar, Mike Flaharty on bass, me on drums, Ray Bushbaum on piano/organ, and Bobby Brain on tenor sax.

We never played nightclubs - just road gigs, proms and private parties. Bobby Brain came to us from Teddy & The Rough Riders. They were also a hot group in the area. We both played things for WING radio. Check out: www.thecoolgroove.com. That's Jim Colegrove's site out of Texas. You'll see Sonny and I both mentioned. I played in Jim's band, the Knights, when the Young Americans parted ways.

★ 

Sources:

•  " The stars were hot when they played the Coconut Lounge" (Springfield New Sun  : Dec. 23, 2010)
• An Interview with Doug Porter of the Mark V
• Sonny Flaharty's page at Rockin' Country Style

Live At The Zodiac (Various Artists)

 

( Various Artists)

Live At The Zodiac

Rite 29981/2

August 1972

Side 1 :

Royal American Showmen: Dance To The Music

Mississippi Rain: That’s Why I Sing The Blues
Katmandu: Mississippi Queen
Strawbridge: Run Run Run
Union Jack: No One To Depend On

Side 2 :

Mace: Revival
Everybody’s Pillow: Don’t Eat The Children
Sweet Fever: Your Love Took Me By Surprise
Age Of Aquarius: Slippin’ Into Darkness
Papa Joe’s Traveling Show: Miami
Bacchus: Where Are You Going

Produced by Gerrald Stephenson with contributions of Frasco Entertainement Agency (Jackson, Mississippi), WRBC, Band Aid Entertainement (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Malaco Records (Jackson, Mississippi)

★ 

Malaco started as a partnership between two brothers-in-law Mitch Malouf and Tommy Couch as a company focused on booking musical acts.  Somewhere along the way Gerald "Wolf" Stephenson bought out Mitch.  They evolved into a recording studio when Wolf came on board.  Wolf owned the Zodiac Club  in Mart 51, a shopping center on Terry Road in Jackson.  He had just remodeled the club and had started bringing in bands to play every night.

In 1967, Malaco opened a recording studio in a building that remains the home of Malaco. Experimenting with local songwriters and artists, the company began producing master recordings. Malaco needed to license their early recordings with established labels for national distribution. Between 1968 and 1970, Capitol Records released six singles and a Grammy Award-nominated album by Mississippi Fred McDowell.  Revenue from record releases was minimal, however, and Malaco survived doing jingles, booking bands, promoting concerts, and renting the studio for custom projects.

★ 

Sources :  

• Wikipedia
• John Sumrall : Classic Magnolia Rock: History of Original Mississippi Rock and Roll 1953-1970 (book)
• current ebay auction
• Brave Old Waves blog

Note : last link has separate audio files for each track. I've gathered the eleven tracks HERE for your convenience.

Arthelene Rippy

 Arthelene Rippy

It's A New Life

New Life Records

Evangelist & Mrs F. Don Rippy,

1100 South 14th, Fort Smith, Arkansas

Rite # 12419/20

1964

Accompanying Arthelene Rippy :

Dawn Crabtree, John R. Garrison, Sharon McClure, Kaye Middlebrook, Harold Brown, Juanita Debusk


Side 1 : It's A New Life / It's Not The First Mile / Man Of Galilee / I Believe / In The Garden / Oh How I Love Jesus

Side 2 : How Big Is God? / Wasted Years / When Jesus Forgives, He Forgets / Jesus, Lover Of My Soul / He Giveth More Grace / The Great Judgment Morning

★ 

An exhilarating existence

Arthelene Rippy's background of being a minister's daughter as well as her present status as a minister's wife, gives to her a wealth of experience in the realm of Gospel songs.  On this album,  Arthelene shares with you her own exhilarating existence in Christian living in the exciting theme song of "It's a new life!"  Her conception of God shines through in the challenging cry of "How Big is God?"  Suddenly, you are taken into His presence by such old favorites as "In the Garden".

A woman under constant influence

Since childhood, Arthelene Rippy has been under the constant influence of the Gospel. 
Dr. B. Owen Oslin,Pastor, Evangel Temple, Fort Smith

 ★ 

Arthelene Rippy's father was Rev. R.A. McClure. She divorced Don Rippy in November 1975.   Rev. Don Rippy was found dead in his apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida in September 1977.

Arthelene Rippy has been with CTN (Christian Television Network) since it began in 1978. Tragic events in her life left her to raise her family alone, but God used this tragedy for His glory through "Solo Act,"  Arthelene's first CTN program that inspired millions of other struggling single mothers. In 1995 Arthelene shifted gears to address the needs of the entire family with her nationwide program, "Homekeeper's"

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

"My Everything Is You"

    Limited Edition Recordings

2231 Stratford Road Richmond VA.

    RR-42420
1982

Side A:

My Everything Is You  / I Sing The Body Electric / Casey's Lastride / Bunch Of Thyme / Donna Donna / Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Side B :
The Sea Around Us / The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda / Rattling Bog / Beautiful Brown Eyes / Whiskey In The Jar


College student at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Cindy Miller was an upper class woman from New-Jersey when, just before she graduated, she met Irishman Andy Jennings. 

Cindy & Andy formed a partnership on and off the stage.  They performed authentic Irish music for 30 years.  Andy was the Publican of Rare Olde Times Public House since 1994, where Andy and Cindy had guest performers on a regular basis.

Andrew P. "Andy" Jennins was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1961. He died in 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.

sample 1

sample 2

Mirror Existence

Mirror Existence

27809 - The Chance  (Larry Russell)
27810 - Nobody Cared (Jack Hayford) Arr. Jimmy Owens

Huntington College

Huntington, Indiana

1971

Huntington College students Tom Martin (from Chillicothe, Ohio) , Dan Cory, Ruth Gage, Tom Krause, Pat Cory (from Blissfield, Michigan) and Larry Russell (from Peoria, Illinois) were the Mirror Existence.

Previously, in 1968, Larry Russell helped to organize the Collegiate Singers, one of the college four deputation teams and was a member of The Freshman Trio, a jazz band (1969). 

Label picture is from ebay recent auction

(page has a clip of "The Chance")

or else DL the sample HERE

Tom Dooley on Dana

Tom Dooley

    18295 - Have A Happy, Happy Time (Dooley, Oakley Music BMI)

18296 - Bring It On Home (Sam Cooke, Kags Music BMI)

sample

Dana 001

1966

 Prod. by Cincinnati Good Guy production

Note :also issued on Hickory 1446; blue eyed soul; b-side is Sam Cooke cover

"Tom" Dooley was born George Patrick Dooley, Jr. January 18, 1947 in Chicago, IL to George and Rebecca Dooley, and he had an older sister, Patricia.   Tom’s father ran a strip club. It was the destination for all of the family’s social events including Tom’s christening. Tom’s father was physically abusive to his wife and family, and when Tom’s mother finally fled to Cairo, IL, with at least one tooth knocked out, she opened her own strip club. Tom was frequently sent to live with other families, some related and some not. But when he was home, he was often left to fend for himself in the clubs, behind the bar, surrounded by topless women and drunks.

Tom Dooley,  was heard on WSAI-AM (1360) from the mid to late 1960s when it was a powerhouse rock ‘n’ roll station in the 1960s.

He worked for many top rock stations, and had a regional hit with his band, Tom Dooley and the Lovelights. He was on WAKY-AM in Louisville, WFIL-AM in Philadelphia and KHJ-AM in Los Angeles.  For about 20 years, he hosted two-hour Christian music and inspirational show called “The Journey” that originated at Dallas Christian station KVTT, and was picked up by stations around the country.

Tom Dooley died in 2010 in Texas.



Links :

• The Life and Legacy of Tom Dooley
• Dana discography

Tom Dooley and the Lovelights on YouTube :

• Satisfaction (1968)
• Tightrope (1968)

Paul Christopher on Blue Diamond

Paul Christopher

37991 - Young Girl Dance
37992 - His Word Was Good

Blue Diamond 773

1977

  
Canonsburg, Pa.

Billy Carter on Jessup

Billy Carter

22709 - Mule Skinner Blues

(Rodgers, clearance : Tommy Crank Music BMI)

22710 - Blue Against The Gray

Jessup 209

1968

Tommy Crank,  was the artist and repertoire representative of Jessup Records in Jackson, Michigan.   Born William Thomas Crank in 1926 in the mountainous region of Jackson County, Kentucky.  A bluegrass artist himself, he also worked as promoter, producer, disc jockey, songwriter, and even did factory work, all while maintaining his full time ministry, spreading the gospel.   At one time he had even been the banjo player for Tommy's old friend Ralph Stanley.  He died in 2007.   More info HERE

Owner of Jessup Music was Glenn M. Jessup (1915-2011) operated Jessup Music & Vending from 1950 until he retired in 1987. He was a veteran of World War II and served in Japan. 

Two earlier Jessup singles pressed by Rite Records are listed HERE

Credit : label picture and soundclip are from ebay (seller : oneslickpig, Muskegon, MI) where this record is still on sale HERE..

The Gypsies on Greenwood

Gypsies

14801 ~ Do It Do It (M. Romano)

14802 ~ There Was A Time (B. Ek)

Both Mead Music BMI

 Coordinated by R. Boisvert 

 Greenwood Records 297

1965

Listed here  as a Manchester, CT. label.

Label certainly owned by Boisvert (name of french origin  : bois=wood and vert=green). Some copies have an additional songwriter name (L.Bayliss) on the A-side stamped under M. Romano.

Allan and The Flames

Allan and The Flames

CP-2731 ~ Till The End Of Time
Johnny Lasley, Bentley Music BMI

CP-2732 ~ Winter Wonderland
Bernard-Smith, Bregman, Vocco & Conn Inc, ASCAP
    

Campbell 225

late 1959

    Also issued on Colonial 7006

Billboard review, January 18, 1960

Second issue on Colonial

Distributed by London Records

Till The End Of Time

http://youtu.be/hHmb987OzRU

Allan and the Flames

Vocal - Tilley

7971 - Whatcha Gonna Do 

(Allan Clontz)
http://youtu.be/UlO1pcKRjGM

7972 - Love Bug

(Chuck Tilley)

Starmount

Produced by Robbins Records, Greensboro NC

Summer 1962

Greensboro (North Carolina) band.  Allan is probably Allan Clontz.  On Starmount the singer is Chuck Tilley.

In 1959, Chuck Tilley started with Donny Trexler  a band known as the Six Teens. later renamed "Chuck Tilley and the Fabulous Five". Chuck was the lead singer.  He left the group and then joined The Flames. 

Allan and the Flames is not listed in THIS Beach Music website.

Alan and The Flames

Blue Christmas / White Christmas

Lance 006

Richmond, Virginia

Late '61

"Organ driven Christmas music"

Alan and the Flames on Lance Records (Richmond, Virginia) is probably the same band.

Ace Davis on Carlco

 Ace Davis

29339 — Snakes
29340 — Our Day Will Come

Carlco 103

1972

Ace Davis bought  “The Alley Door” in the back of a church building, which was the first Coffee House in the Dayton area.   On Sunday evenings, the Alley Door featured “The Jazz Lab” where black musicians, led by Ace Davis, were able to have a forum in the downtown area which at that time was closed to black musicians.

This label was created by Carl Cowen, the trumpet, flute, and saxophone player for the Dayton Sidewinders, with the sole purpose of releasing this bands material.   Carlco Records would eventually release five 7" singles during the early 1970's, all recorded at Cybertekniks Studios, also in Dayton Ohio.  The label had no distribution for the 500 pressings of each single.

In the late 1990's and early 2000's, with an increasing interest in obscure funk, soul, and jazz music, this label was resurrected by Carl Cowen in the same house he ran the label out of nearly thirty years prior. Carlco Records has since reissued a 7" single and LP collection of the Dayton Sidewinders singles, now with distribution through Funkadelphia Records.

 Label discography

Curly Dan, Wilma Ann (Danville 104)

 Curly Dan, Wilma Ann and The Danville Mt. Boys

15939 —  I'm In Heaven When I'm With You 

 (Wilma Ann)
Vocal C. Flatt And C. Dan Wilma Ann

Featuring Bob Stanley 5 String Banjo

15940 — I'm Sorry If I'm Crying Dear 

 (Curly Dan)  
Vocal C. Flatt And C. Dan

Featuring Bob Stanley 5 String Banjo

Danville Records #104

23154 Crossley
Hazel Park, MI

1965

 

Some info on Curly Dan and Wilma Ann here


Danville Records discography

The Five Gents on Veiking

The Five Gents

7233 - Sandy
7234 - Baby Doll

both : B. and T. Mancuso; Orifice; Veiking; Soprano

Veiking Records 101

 Waltham, Mass.

1962 

Brothers Tom and Bob Mancuso joined by  Jeff Sykes and his brother Tim formed  “The Golden Echoes” in the late 70s and performed all over the New England area. 

Probably recorded by Lew Tobin  in Boston ( same Rite account #111 )

Both sides can be downloaded at the White Doo-Wop Collector blog HERE

Little Miller and the Goodman Family Trio

Little Miller and the Goodman Family Trio

Rite 8631/8632

1962

side one

Sweeter As The Days Go By / Because Of Him / In Times Like These / I Want To Do / Dear Jesus Abide With Me / Wonderful Savior

side two

His Eye Is On The Sparrow / What A Day That Will Be! / Higher Ground / Lord, I'm Coming Home / Open Your Heart / What Then?


The Goodman Family
12604 DeVoe,
Southgate, Michigan

'' At an early age Little Miller was acclaimed the title, "Junior Mr. Gospel Singer of 1959" in Montgomery, Alabama.  He also was a winner of the National Quartet Convention in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Goodman Trio consists of Little Miller's three sisters, Lola, Donna and Norma.  They have been singing gospel songs as a group since 1948.  Their combined voices are a complement to the stirring lead of Little Miller, whom they have been featuring.

Lola sings alto and is mistress of ceremony for the group.  Donna sings second soprano.  Norma sings first soprano. 

Pianist is Thommy Thorn.  He is married to Norma and has been a member of the Goodman Family singing group since 1957. ''

Audio file : AlwaysGoodMusicInc's YouTube channel