Brosh 500 (EP)

CP-6527 

Kris Arden

My Guy (Essie Smock)

 Sammy Marshall  and the Keynotes
 Just A Few (M.Fritz)

CP-6528

The Mystery Girl
 Makes My Heart Start Flopping Around
Greenlaw-Johnson

 Ronnie May  
Love 'em So (Royal H. Lawson)

Brosh BR-500 EP

3223 W. Birchwood Ave., Milwaukee 21, Wisc.

John O' Brien distr. : Phone EV 4-0180

Octobre 1961

Song poems all published through Jasmine Music (BMI), a publishing company whose name is also found on Jabar Records and Caveman Records. 

The company operated  from a Post Office Box in Princeton, Florida.  Razor blades and aloe gel were other subjects of advertisements at various times, between 1959 and 1968.from the same P.O. Box.  Possible relation with Active Music and Jack Curry of Air Records.

There is also a Mystery Girl singer on Dial Records.  Same singer ?

Billboard, 13 April 1959

 Billboard, 17 April 1962

Popular Mechanics, August 1964

Stainless razor blades

 Billboard, 26 November 1966

publishing, foreign royalties

 Billboard, 18 February 1967

needs rhythm and blues recording for foreign releas

Popular Mechanics, March 1968

Salesmen wanted for Aloe Gel miracle healing lotion

Cara Stewart, Dwight Duvall on Brosh

Cara Stewart

CP-4693 - Yearning
(C. Angel Brosh Music BMI)

Dwight Duvall
CP-4694 - Blue Memories
(Johnson; Greenlaw, Brosh Music BMI)

Brosh Records #100

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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"There are only a handful of documented releases on the Brosh label (pronounced "Broash", we're told). At least a few of them, as documented on the AS/PMA website, were clearly not song-poem releases, while others clearly were. This one, which likely was the first release on the label, would appear to fall into the latter category...

Read more about this record (and hear both sides) at Bob Purse's blog "the Wonderful and the Obscure " HERE

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Brosh EP 1100

23451
Sammy Marshall – Just Like A Jet Plane
Sammy Marshall - You’re My Only Dream

23452
Cara Stewart - Yearning
Tony Rogers - Blue Wing

This EP pressed in 1969 seems to have escaped so far the song-poem records collectors as the ASPMA Brosh discography doesn't mention it.

The label was started en 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Jacob Brosh and had about ten releases in 1961-1962. The label was revived in 1969 and relocated to Chicago, Illinois and then Carpentersville, Illinois.

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