The OffBeats on Broken Records

 

The Offbeats in Lo-Fo
Broken Records Present (LP)

01763 - side one
01764 - side two

 

Strike Three With The Offbeats
Broken Records GWB 7734 (EP)

CP-2008
Strike Three
The Ohio River Monster
Can't Help Lovin That Man

CP-2009
Kluzewski's Last Movement /
Bbba Baaa Bbblack Sheep Blues /
Don't He Ever Stop

The Offbeats

It looks like a musical prank concocted by high school students, probably from Ohio. The Offbeats recorded two records in 1959 : first the album and then the EP.  There is some variations in the composition of the group. Hubie Gardiner, Teddy Bayer and John "What's This Knob Do?" Eilers (sound engineer) are on both records. For detailed credits, see the back covers above.

Dave Swigert, pianist on their LP but not present on their EP, later played with The Starlighters on Lee Records(Slow And Easy / One Way Express). He penned both songs, though credited to Ray Pennington (under his Ray Starr pseudonym here).

Bill Goodwin on Universal

 

Bill Goodwin

 4271 – This Broken Heart Of Mine (Goodwin, Warren Robbe )
4272 -- Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself (Goodwin-L. R. Lick)
(both Vince Rago Music Publishing, BMI)

Universal 45-41012
1960

Bill Goodwin probably recorded this single when he toured the country with Warren Robbe, just before the latter entered the military, where he stayed for two years.  It takes place after his four custom recordings issued by Starday (on Mystic, Starday and Dixie) between 1957 and 1959, and before his signing with Band Box Records in 1962. Essentially, a Colorado artist at that time, he moved to Nashville in the mid-sixties. This  release on a label owned by Vince Rago, a Wilmington, Delaware song shark is perhaps his most obscure and the most outside of his usual recording places

For more details about Bill Goodwin, see the excellent post and interview by Lisa Wheeler on her Elk Bugles.blog 

 

Ricky The Record Hound

 Bobby Boyle

15219 - Away From The World

15220 - Ricky The Record Hound
(Felicia Fontaine, Bryte Music)

Brite-Star Prod., Newbury, Ohio

Roy Records

Well, you've heard of the autograph howl, or the one who stores bones in the
ground. Different from any dog around, I'll make you the record howl. I start each
day, same old way, burning at the record store. Looking at ones I haven't seen
before, I'll make you the record howl.
…
Well, now you've heard of the autograph house, the one who stores bones in the
ground. I'm different from any dog around, I'm Ricky the record howl. I start each
day, same old way, hunting at the record store. You should see my tail wag when I
see ones I haven't seen before. I'm Ricky the record howl, yeah, Yeah, Ricky,
the record hound.

*

Robert L. Boyle "Bobby", (Bobby Boyle) 69, of Mogadore, passed away February 3, 2011.
Bobby was born in Akron on December 18, 1941. Bobby was a talented musician and songwriter and he enjoyed many years in sales and management positions in the insurance business. His greatest love was owning and operating Boyle's Nursery and Landscaping, a family owned business of 63 years.

Windflower – Dreams

 

 

Windflower – Dreams
(note : Wind Flower on labels)

McKee Records
Box 76
E. Freedom, Pa.
16637

 
Max Stiffler – vocals
Tim Patterson – lead guitar
Robert May - keyboards
Chad Patterson – bass guitar
Lynn Miller – drums

Produced by Tim Patterson

side 1 (36441)

Set Your Heart On Fire
Everybody's Rockin'
Dreams
Midnight Lady
Sapphire
Jay Jam

side 2 (36442)

Supernatural Mind
Nowhere Cowboy
Time
Only You
Nothing You Can Count On
 

Anu on Unicorn

 

Anu

22553 - Just Say So (Anu, Vestal Music BMI)

22554 - Prayer

Produced by Elliot Ryan

Unicorn Records

Just Say So

A new label added to my Rite list. A third Unicorn label. Not the same as The Plantation Singers one, or as The Hazards (from Ohio, related to Bryte/Brite Star).

This Unicorn label was from Washington, DC. Operated by Elliot Ryan, also owner of Vestal Music, BMI publisher affiliated.

Ryan was originally from New York, had graduated from Michigan State University, and after a two-year stint in the army settled down in Washington, DC in May 1960. He took over the Unicorn, a major beatnik establishment, which offered folk music and a bohemian atmosphere for those who shied away from the hustle and bustle of Connecticut Avenue, with the idea of making it a live music coffee house and installed a Wednesday night “hootenanny” where a bevy of folk singers gathered and sung for the masses. Jazz musicians were featured on Monday nights and on weekends he booked such folk artists as Tim Cameron, Allen Damron, Mario Illo, John Everhart, Robbie Basho, Pete LaFarge, and Eric Darling (of the Weavers). Local guitarists like John Fahey and Max Ochs regularly showed up for impromptu performances and the popular Joan Baez even stopped in one night to sing onstage with the resident folkies.

Live At The Zodiac (new link)

 

new link (request)

For details & info see https://thatsallritemama.blogspot.com/2013/07/live-at-zodiac-various-artists.html

 

Debby Lute on Jalyn

Debby Lute

31087 ~ I'll Be Wanting You
31088 ~ I Visualize You

Both songs written by D. Lute. 

With Elmer Huff, lead guitar; Chuck Watson, bass; Jay Dalley, drums.
A Jack Lynch Production
Jalyn 366

Dayton, Ohio

1973

Steve Blackburn Sings (Joy Records)

 

 Steve Blackburn Sings (Joy Records)
No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down

29449 - Side A
29450 - Side B

For details, see https://www.discogs.com/it/release/18850663-Steve-Blackburn-No-Grave-Gonna-Hold-My-Body-Down 

or

https://gj.rcs-discography.com/search.php?type=labpk&key=647

"Happy" Roy Baker on Miner's Lamp

 

“Happy” Roy Baker

37439 - Coal Miner’s Son (Roy Baker)
37440 - Keep The Prayer In School (Roy Baker)

Miner’s Lamp Records

Roy Baker, 45 River Dr., Ormond Beach, Fla. 32074
1976


Coal Miner’s Son

 

Buddy Knight on Fine Art

 

Buddy Knight

CP-4095  - Why Cry (C.L. Blair, Dorris Dubois)
CP-4096  -  Please Come Back (Joe McClain)
Fine Art 217  

Ruth Lewis on Ken-Len

 

Ruth Lewis

CP-3795 – Mean Mean Mama (Ruth Lewis)
CP-3796 – More Then One Heart Can Bear (Lewis)

Ken-Len Records 316-1

1960

Copyright of both songs are credited to Ruth Hartman Lewis. No location for Ken-Len Records, but this is perhaps the Ruth Hartman Lewis living in North Carolina.

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Dunevant Family & Raymond Melton

 

Dunevant Family & Raymond Melton

 31755 - Who's That Knocking On The Hen House Door (PD)
31756 - Country Roads

Dominion Records, Salem, Va.
& C.M. Talent Agency, Inc. Powhattan Music BMI
[1973]

 

Who's That Knocking On The Hen House Door
First recorded by "Dock" Walsh, Columbia Records, 1926