Schoolboy Cleve (Cherrie 2400)

Schoolboy Cleve

Salute America 76
37803 ~ Don't Thread On Me (C. White, Quartz Music, ASCAP)
37804 ~ I Saw The Blues (C. White, Quartz Music, ASCAP)

Produced by Kirk C. White and Cleveland White

Cherrie Records CR 2400
56 Teresa Street, Dale City, California

Vocals & Harmonica : Schoolboy Cleve
Lead guitar : Bobby Murray
Keyboard : J. J. Malone
Bass : ?    
Drums : ?

56 Teresa Street, Dale City, home of Cherrie Records
(Google Street view 2019)

Schoolboy Cleve
(from the Ace CD album CDCHD 1471)

Blues harmonica player and singer, Schoolboy Cleve (1928–2008), born Cleveland White in East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana,  one of nine children. He earned his moniker when, as a child, he would ask any visiting blues musician if he could sit in with them and became so well known that when they returned to town they would ask: "where is that little schoolboy?"

He worked with Lightnin' Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy. He recorded with Lightnin' Slim in the mid-1950s, and under his own stage name for Feature and then Ace Records in 1957.

In 1960, he moved to Los Angeles, California, worked mostly outside music, recording a handful singles for Blues Connoisseur Records and his own Cherrie Records during the 1970s.

He died in Daly City, California, at the age of 82

Nervous Norvus on Neale

Nervous Norvus

12953 - Cowboy Soldier

(A.W. Crawford, Neale Music Ascap)

12954 - Wa-Hoo 

(A.W. Crawford, Neale Music Ascap)

Neale 45C-726-101/102

     

   1964

[ P.O. Box 3294, San Bernardino, Calif. ]

Unlisted Nervous Norvus song-poem record recently offered on ebay by donnchriss ("morbid novelties", winning bid $82,99)

As Jimmy Drake, Nervous Norvus has already sung the poetry of the same A.W. Crawford on Rally Records issued the previous year and also pressed by Rite Records. See Jimmy Drake on Rally

On Singing Jimmy Drake (Nervous Norvus) see :

http://www.songpoemmusic.com/drake/afterlife.htm
http://www.songpoemmusic.com/drake/
http://www.songpoemmusic.com/drake/discog.htm

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Owner of Neale Records was Roy Neal Wrightman.  Born in 1889, Neal (or Neale) Wrightman has been involved with music since the early twenties.  He was a musician, a songwriter, a music publisher and record labels owner.  Before his (final?) establishment in San Bernardino, Calif., Neale Wrightman has used various addresses in Charles City, Iowa, in Chicago, in New-York, in Hollywood and San Francisco.

Labels he owned includes Wrightman ("Songs That Satisfy") and its subsidiary Robinet (1947-1952) and Wrimus ("A New Enjoyment in Recorded Music with the Ultimate in Sound", 1956-1961).  The last trace of the activity of Neale Music is a 1968 copyright for "Stand Up America", with mention of a Statue of Liberty sticker (?).  I have no idea of what is that (sheet music perhaps?)

Neale discography

http://www.songpoemmusic.com/labels/neale.htm 

http://www.45rpmrecords.com/ST/Neale.php 

Wrightman Records

The Hillbilly Researcher has posted a Wrightman Records discography HERE, and several audio files and labels shots as well.

A Hodge-Podge Of Off-Beat Jazz

Music For Collectors
Presents
A Hodge-Podge Of Off-Beat Jazz

857 45th Avenue

San Francisco Calif 94121

Late 1969 or early 1970

Side 1 –  #25555

That's a plenty (Slim and his Hot Boys) --
St. Louis blues (Broadway Broadcasters) --
I'm wild about horns on automobiles (Billy Hays orchestra) --
Gut bucket shuffle (Harris Brothers Texans) --
Goin' back to Tennessee (Boyd Senter and his Senterpedes) --
The same old moon (Virginia Willrich and her Texas Rangers) --
Down where the blue bonnets grow (Phil Baxter orchestra) --
She's a gorgeous thing (Doc Daughertry orchestra) -

Side 2 –  #25556

Aristocratic stomp (Paul Tremaine orchestra) --
Wha'd ja do to me (Snooks and his Memphis Ramblers) --
Band box shuffle (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) --
In a corner (Cecil Scott and his Bright Boys) --
You need some lovin' (Johnny Dunn and his band) --
Variety stomp (Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra) --
Weary stomp (Curtis Mosley and his Dixieland Blue-Blowees) --
Washboard wiggles (Tiny Parham and his musicians).


1927-1931 jazz band recordings regrouped by San Francisco collector Stephen Prosper.  Further Stephen Foster compilations for collectors were re-issued on Alan Roberts' Sunbeam Records, a jazz re-issue label out of Van Nuys.

Stephen Prosper died sometimes in 1974 or 1975.


(Record found at Alexander Stewart's blog Collector Not Complelist

Jimmy Drake on Rally

Jimmy Drake

10673 - He Loved Enough 

(Crawford-Smock)

 Up In Heaven 

(Della & A.W. Crawford)

10674 - His Last Letter 

(Crawford-Smock)

I'll Always

(Crawford-Schwab)  [by Lee Davis]
    

Rally Records (EP)

4152, 51st St., San Diego 5, Calif.
 

1963

Jimmy Drake is better known as Nervous Norvus ("Transfusion", Dot Records).  His story as a song-poem recording artist  has been told by Phil Milstein :  see The Many Mysteries Of Nervous Norvus
 

Crawford, the songwriter of the four songs of this EP,  is probably Arthur William Crawford, whose songs have been set to music by some of the best known song-poem craftsmen : 

• Jack Covais : "The Hula -Hoop Twist"  (1962)
• John Stephenson : "Igloo Twist" (1962) & "Adam And Eve", Chaw Mank's Blue Ribbon Music Co., 1962)
• Lew Tobin : "Back To The Range" & "I'm Anxious To Know"; (1960)
• Gene Brooks : "I Want Love" (1960)
• and Herman "Billy" Stone : "Heaven's Clarion Call ", recorded by Harold Montgomery (Wolf-Tex 105)

Sonny Rhodes on Cherrie

Sonny Rhodes

35833 ~ Are We Losing Our Thing
35834 ~ Hen Pecked Man  sample

Cherrie 2380

56 Teresa St.

Dale City, CA 94014

produced by C. White

1975

 

Clarence Edward Smith, better known by his stage name Sonny Rhodes is an American blues singer and guitarist.

Born November 3, 1940 in Texas. He was influenced by such blues musicians as T-Bone Walker, Percy Mayfield, Pee Wee Crayton, L.C. Robinson and B.B. King. He plays lap steel guitar and also learned to play bass guitar. 

His first record was as leader of The Daylighters on Domino Records.  The Daylighters also backed white female singer Joyce Harris on the same label  :

Joyce Harris and the Daylighters never played in public, only on records, so she was adamant about regular rehearsals before they stepped into the studio.

"One night, the Daylighters didn't show up, and so I got in my car and went looking for them," recalls Harris, a New Orleans native. There was a place over on "the Cuts," slang for East 11th Street, where the Daylighters liked to hang, and sure enough the musicians were coming out of the club when Harris pulled up. "Don't you remember, we've got a rehearsal?" she said. "Get in."   But bandleader Clarence Smith and the other three hesitated.   In Texas in 1961, black men didn't get in a car with a white woman, but Harris would have none of that. "Get in!" she said again, her tone amplified, and the band eventually complied, though it was an uneasy drive across town.

from Little indie label Domino laid down Austin sounds before scene's heyday

Sonny Rhodes discography 

Note : has a few errors, notably the date of this Cherrie single.

Billy Van on Commerce

Billy Van

15369 ~ I've Been Saving All My Love For You
(Bobby Bare-Lance Guynes, Central Songs Inc. (BMI)

15370 ~ It's My Way
(Webb Pierce - Wayne Walker, Cedarwood BMI)

Produced by Jack E. Downes

Commerce 5010

Second pressing

This record was first issued on the Jedco label. A discography of Jedco & Commerce labels can be found HERE.


William Allan Van Evera, (1934 – 2003), known by the stage name Billy Van, was born in Toronto, Ontario and dropped out of Bloor Collegiate Institute in Grade 11 to pursue a career as an entertainer.

Starting as a youth, he and his four brothers toured North America as a singing act called the Van Evera Brothers. After leaving his brothers and dropping "Evera" from his name, Van was initially known as a singer, leading The Billy Van Four and later The Billy Van Singers and making frequent appearances on Canadian variety television shows such as Fancy Free.

The single "I Miss You" / "The Last Sunrise" by the Billy Van Four, released on the Rodeo International label, peaked at number 29 on the CHUM Chart in Toronto in March 1961. It was issued in the US on Phil LaGree's LaGree Records, a Los Angeles label.

Billy Van & Vanda King - The Telegram Operator / Nightcap CBC
Sketch from the long running Nightcap series.



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Phyllis Schlomovitz - Nostalgic Harp

Phyllis Schlomovitz
LP Nostalgic Harp- Cities Of Dreams

Jupiter Records
(Rite #33065/6)

Palo Alto, Ca.

I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Around The World. Lara's Theme From Dr. Zhivago, Never On Sunday, Autumn Leaves
I'll Wait For You (From Umbrellas Of Cherbourg)
It Must Be Him. Come Back To Sorrento
Arrevederci Roma
Summertime In Venice. Andalucia, Vienna City Of Dreams
Fasscination
Two Hearts Beat In Three Quarter Time. Aufwiedersehn
With Strains Of The Rosenkavalier

1974

Lounge harpist

Phyllis Schlomovitz was born on Jan. 9, 1917 in Rockford, Ill. to actors Kate Holland and Goldwin Patton, she was the principal harpist with the Milwaukee Symphony for 15 years. In May 1952, she wed Dr. Benjamin Schlomovitz. Widowed in 1969, she moved to Palo Alto where she pursued a solo concert career and branched into the entertainment style of harp, playing at restaurateur John Rickey's famous Dinah's Shack for 20 years...

She died in 2003 (Obit)

Phyllis Schlomovitz plays Debussy's Clair de Lune.



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Ray Rivera on Neale

Ray Rivera

11647 - ?
11648 – Moja Moja Poli Poli
(Addison Powell-Walter Bishop, Kramer-Whitney ASCAP)

Neale 717

1962

Found at The Exotica Project website. It's one of the one hundred dreamland 45s.

Has the following Exotica motifs : Chanting Lyrics with exotic theme Bird/Animal calls Afro-Latin percussion/rhythm Flute African/Safari theme.


Neale Records discography




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Evelyn Harlene and Bud Titus on Sage

Evelyn Harlene With Casey Clark's Band

Sage 243

CP-1251 ~ I Wanna Be Free
CP-1252 ~ I've Got The Blues

Evelyn Harlene

Bud Titus

Sage 244

CP-1253 ~ Tomorrow
CP-1254 ~ Hocus Pocus

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The Sage label was a subsidiary of Sage & Sand Records, based in Hollywood founded around 1953 by W. O. Fleener. That was three labels in one since there were '45 releases on Sage and Sand, on Sage and on Sand as well.

Ohio artists on these labels had their records pressed by King Records or by Rite Records.

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Mojo Watson on Ganlon

Mojo Watson and his Band

Ganlon 411/412

CP-4265 ~ I'm The Only One

CP-4266 ~ So Broken Hearted

Los Angeles Ca.label.

Aside from this 1960 release, Mojo Watson (real name Odell Wright) had one single on Atlas in 1957 and two on Nanc in 1961.



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Dave Nordin

Dave Nordin

LP - In My Mind

Label : SPECification
Rite 27873/4

1971

Release out of Kentfield CA, a small town just north of San Francisco.

Side one

And Roses
The Feeling
Voyage
Once There Was A Time
Billy
Rosemary

Side two

Old Joe
Maryjane
You Make Me Feel Like Someone
All Strung Out Again
Pinball
This Thing Of Ours


"Introspective drugged out loner folk at it's best";
"singer-guitarist falls squarely within the folk-psych scope despite lack of a band or production gimmicks"

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Hank Murphy / Charles Vickers on Crusader

Hank Murphy and Trio
vocals Hank Murphy

CP-4689 - Lock and Key

Charles Vickers & The Three Bears

CP-4690 ~ Polar Bear

Song-poem record. Both sides penned by Ivan H. Chasseur, a San Francisco resident, born in 1913 who wrote also, among other songs, "I'm The Only Frog In An Irish Saloon".

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Johnny and the Cranwoods

Johnny and the Cranwoods

Mate Records
Hollywood, California

CP-6241 – Uprising
(Gruded -Maduri- Kohler, Mate BMI)

CP-6242 - Teach Me To Say Goodbye
(James Testa)

Rite account # 137

[1961]

"Garage Surf sound twangy guitar".

Despite the Hollywood address printed on the label, it's certainly a Cleveland, Ohio related record :

• The Rite account number (137) is associated with the Audio Recording Service Studio of Cleveland, Ohio, presided by Vladimir Maleckar.
• Writers Maduri (Carl Maduri), Kohler (Donna Jean Kohler) and James Testa are names found on various Cleveland recordings.

Beverly Mae Wilson

Beverly Mae Wilson
Robert Atwood Sherwood Enterprises 101
34337 - Lonely Fool
34338 - My Secret
1975
country

Beverly Mae Wilson, of El Cajon, California, had a release on Impact Records in 1961. "Beverly's material is written by her uncle-agent , Robert A. Sherwood, and arranged by Gene Lamar", wrote Billboard, in the Oct. 30, 1961 issue.

What happened to her between 1961 and 1975, year of release of this record is not known.

Superior Angels

Superior Angels
Skylark 0023

1974

32799 – Crying in the Chapel
32800 - There's Been A Change In Me

Inner Soul - Cherrie 2390

Inner Soul
Cherrie 2390 (1976)
36827 – Little Jack Horner
36828 – Put The Hurt On You


D.Whitlock & M.Davis - Lead vocals
M.Major - gtr, voc.
D.Hicks - bass, voc.
O.Franklin - voc., dms
S.Williams - keyboard

Soul music out of Daly City, California on a label owned by Cleveland White, best known as School Boy Cleve (1925-2008). Born in Louisiana, he was most noticed for playing the blues harmonica. His first big break came. in 1954-55 when he recorded with Lightnin' Slim in Crowley, Louisiana. He moved to LA in the 1960s, and then to the SF Bay area around 1970 and performed in many of the little clubs in the Bay area, sporadically.




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