The Meteors on Ax Records

Band from Biloxi, Mississippi. 

AX 1301
7263 – Tijuana
7264 – Blue Harmonica

AX 1302
7925 –  Johnny Rocket
7926 – El Paso Guitar

AX 1313
9875 – The Death Of Geronimo
9876 – Outcast 

Hear Blue Harmonica, The Death Of Geronimo and Outcast here

All instrumentals composed by Marion Carpenter, Tim Gillis, Troy Lewis, Bobby Summerlin (or Sumerlin) and Leo Ladner, published by Singing River (BMI). Ax Records and Singing River Music owned by Marion Carpenter.

Leo Ladner was a fixture of the Gulfport/Biloxi music scene. Ladner later fronted the house band at Sy Simon's club - the place for local country music.  "I was about 18 years old when I did that first session at Sun with Ernie Chaffin". Ladner recorded with Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun on at least three sessions in 1959. I got the job with Jerry Lee through Roy Hall. 

The Meteors in 1964

Jimmy Dee and The Meteors

 

Jimmy Dee and The Meteors

CP-7411 - Don't Hurt Me No More
CP-7412 – The Monster Hop

Pixie Records

1962

The Monster Hop

Recent addition to my Rite list, this record is incorrectly listed at Rockin' Country Style as a Arizona label  and, also incorrectly, as the same Jimmy Dee on Inner-Glo, Nashville and Trail. 

For a discussion about the two Pixie and the two Jimmy Dee, see 45cat 

These Meteors are, I assume, the same band who recorded two singles for the Ax label. The idendity of this Jimmy Dee is still unknown.

 

Bobby O'Brown on Varbee

 

 

CP-6721     Come On Home 

CP-6722     Give Me Fever

Varbee 119/120

Billboard December 11, 1961

 

Bernice Byrd (Log Cabin LP)

Bernice Byrd Sings Songs Of Request
Log Cabin Records - Mt. Healthy, Ohio
LP 107

Recorded at Jewel Recording Studios - Cincinnati, Ohio
Session credits: Dennis Hensley - Lead Guitar, Jackie Gibbs - Drums, Reverend Harley Hensley - Rhythm Guitar, Ray Wilson - Steel Guitar, Orangie Hubbard - Bass and Denny Rice - Piano.
Engineered and produced by Rusty York.

Side 1 - 17995

Pray
Walk As Close As I Can
Nothing But Trouble
If You See My Saviour
Singing In The Promised Land
Glory Land March

Side 2 - 17996

Walking The Kings Highway
On Calvary
I Can Call Jesus
When I Thank Him
Answer On The Way
Live Your Religion

From the back cover: Bernice Byrd was born in Harlan, Kentucky, and being brought up in a Christian home, was always taught the way of the Lord. Bernice Byrd now makes her home in Taylor, Michigan with her daughter and husband.

Bernice Byrd had at least another album issued (on Spiritual Records). Her two albums are listed at the Gloryland Jubilee website

Five songs selection

Al And Sharon Short And The Multi-Sonics

 

CP-5895
Al And Sharon Short And The Multi-Sonics
Sam's The Man

CP-5896
The Multi-Sonics with Les Gary
Death Of An Angel

S-T-S Publishing Co.

Kay Belle

The Multi-Sonics were a dance band from Big Spring, Texas. Not much is know about this record. The composer of the B-side (Death Of An Angel)  is Bob Smith (Robert Laurence Smith) of the Big Spring Daily Herald who also composed "The Freedom Star" in 1964, a song published by The Kaybelle Publishing Co.

I wonder who is Sam the sax player, the man whose music brings ecstacy : Sam (The Man Taylor) perhaps ?

 

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.