The Roger Sisters on Excellent

The Roger Sisters
Recitation : Steve Taylor
CP-1152 - Jealous Hate
S. Taylor
Mooney & Lee Music, BMI

The Roger Sisters
CP-1153 - My Misery
Taylor, Colvin, Roger Sisters
Mooney & Lee Music, BMI

Excellent 310

Labels & audio from The Hillbilly Researcher blog   

Excellent Records discography

Donna and Eddie (Spartan Productions)

Donna and Eddie

30473 - - I'll Pay You Back
30474 -  Crying Over You
Spartan productions

Recorded at the studios of Rite Records
1972

Clips

Levinsky Allen on Vital

Levinsky Allen

CP-3845 ~ Layed Off

L.Allen, Gyro Music BMI

CP-3846 ~  Couldn't Be Done 

L.Allen, Gyro Music BMI
 
VITAL 321-1
873 Beecher St., Cincinnati, Ohio

A division of Vital Enterprises

Billboard, June 27, 1960

Levinsky Allen was possibly one of the co-writers of a song called “What Goes Around Comes Around” recorded by Michael Jackson.


According to Arthur “Hakim” Stokes, another co-writer of the song :

  "Hal Davis, who has passed on, was from Cincinnati. He was also the Jackson Five’s producer. We had written a song called “What Goes Around Comes Around”. Hal had come to Dayton through a mutual friend, Levinsky Allen. He heard it, liked it, and ended up recording it for Michael Jackson on his Ben  album in 1972"

See Monotrematous Funk: An Interview with Platypus by Christian John Wikane 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)

Count Ferrell on LeRegal

 

Count Ferrell

 

CP-6025 - Show Me Some Sign
CP-6026 - Wizard Of Ah's

Both : wr Ferrell-Moore-Reynolds, Gonef Music BMI 

A Win-Moore Production

    LeRegal Recording Co.

[Cincinnati, Ohio]

1961

This is the second record pressed for the holder of the Rite account #598.  It was preceded by Vinnie Allen on Win-Moore and followed by The Videls on Early and, in 1962, by Cody Black on Pamela.  These four records were all produced by Win-Moore or Reynolds-Moore out of Cincinnati. 

Count Ferrell was re-issued on Astra Records and The Videls on Dusty Disc, both Pittsburgh labels.

Win-Moore Music published most of the songs issued, in 1962 and later, on the equally obscure Hard-Times label.

The Heywoods (Queen Bea)

The Heywoods

18337 ~ Midnight Hour (feat. Johnny Schott)
18338 ~ Hey Joe ( feat. : Sonny James)

Queen Bea 507

1966

both songs can be heard at MusicMastersOldies HERE

 

 Queen Bea Records owner, Bea Donaldson, 

with Merrill Osmond, lead singer of the Osmonds (1971)

Bea Donaldson, was the driving force behind the band from inception until their breakthrough.   Her eagerness to get his son, Bo, a keyboard player, into the band scene led her to contact Johnny Schott, who had been in the Radicals and had performed in several area musical theatre productions.   Bea had known Johnny from MC-ing dances with the Radicals. Johnny was reluctant to get involved, but agreed to spend six months in the band as the lead singer. The band was recruited from other local bands, and included Sonny James (drums), David Flitner (bass), Randy Jester (sax), Phil Beard (guitar). With Bea's very agressive promotion, the band started to get attention ...   From Buckeyebeat HERE

Queen Bea/Queen B discography

Deviations & Deviation Band

Deviations & Deviation Band

38023 - Boogie To The Beat

38024 - Loving You

Writers : T.Craig, L.Calfie, M.Patman, H.Mitchell

 Arrangers

Side A: J. Farris - T. Vaughn - H. Fisher

Side B: J. Farris - T. Vaughn - T. Battle

A Pettijohn production

Soul Sounds Unlimited
 Soul Sounds Unlimited Recording Co

Box 24240, Cincinnati Oh 45224.

  March 1977  

George Brock and the Happy Rhythm Boys on Ark

George Brock and the Happy Rhythm Boys

CP-7415 ~ Memories Of Dad
CP-7416 ~ Help Me Be A Better Christian

Ark 213

1962

George Brock

His first?

Also recorded for REM Records (1965-1966), Jewel (1967) and Starlite.

G. Brock discography HERE

The Invalids on Crutch !

The Invalids

14031 ~ The Buzzard
(wr. T.Meyers)

14032 ~ I Love This Girl

Crutch Records

Rite account 428 : same as Adair, Adco, Cincy...

Cincinnati garage from early 1965


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Charlie Moore on Vetco 522 (single)

Charlie Moore

29093 - I'm Leaving Detroit
29094 - Barbara Allen

Vetco 522

Produced by Lou Ukelson

1972

Both songs of this single are taken from the first of the two albums that Charlie Moore recorded for the Vetco label "Charlie Moore Sings Good Bluegrass". These (and other albums featuring Charlie Moore) can be downloaded HERE.

A good Charlie Moore discography available on-line HERE

Charlie Moore
(from the cover of his second Vetco album)

From the Bluegrass Today website :

Charlie was a popular performer in the 1960s and ’70, with his band The Dixie Partners, and as a duo partner with Bill Napier. He recorded prolifically in both formulations, with favorable comparisons offered at the time between his rich, baritone voice and that of Carter Stanley.

Sadly, Charlie faced the same issues with alcohol that took Carter at such an early age. Moore also died young in 1979, at the age of 44, and didn’t live to participate in the more recent growth of bluegrass music.

Travers Chandler is at work on a biography of Charlie Moore, likely the first to be compiled for this influential bluegrass artist.



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The Tip Tops feat. Shirley Jester on Huber

The Tip Tops Feat. Shirley Jester

CP-1337 - Safety First
CP-1338 - Satellite For Two

Huber 1004

1957


Shirley Jester (1994)

Shirley Jester died in 2003.

From her obituary :

Raised in a musical family - her father played in Arnold's Jazz Band downtown - she was playing the piano by the time she was 5. She had the ability to play anything by ear - almost instantly.

While in high school at Our Lady of Angels in North College Hill, she began working part time as a staff pianist for WKRC-TV, going full time after her 1951 graduation.

There, she played music for locally produced television shows. She also met George Palmer, who was then working at the station as a news anchor. The two were married in September 1962.

At 25 she started playing in nightclubs, starting at the Coal Hole*, a popular club located in the now-defunct Sinton Hotel.

"Shirley did her homework. She made the Coal Hole a legitimate room," said Leo Underhill, former jazz disc jockey for WNOP.

Over the next 40 years, Ms. Jester performed solo and with jazz groups all over Cincinnati and nationally. She had gigs at The Top of the Crown, in the former Clarion Hotel; the Iron Horse Inn in Glendale and at Kenwood Country Club.

*Coal Hole : Named for the space it occupied where coal had been stored in the old Sinton Hotel before it was converted to another source of heat.

Jelly Bean Acres was one of WKRC-TV’s early-morning shows for young viewers. Mari Kay (left), Shirley Jester and Roy Starley read stories, sang, and talked with puppets.



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Bob Ripberger, lounge pianist

Bob Ripberger Trio

9035 - I'm So Much In Love With You
9036 - Noriko

La Normandie Records
(Cincinnati, Ohio)

1962

Bar lounge pianist.

The label is named after a Cincinnati restaurant/lounge located in the DuBois (then called The Fountain Square) Building between the Keith and Albee theatres. Downstairs was a restaurant ; upstairs a bar lounge.

Composer Pianist

Bob Ripberger
Playing 16 of His Original Soungs

BoMar LP
Rite#9681/2

1963

One of the track of this album can be heard HERE, at the Mark Betcher's Motel Lounge blog.

Cincinnati Enquirer columnist, Paul Ritter wrote the jacket notes. Excerpt :

With Ripberger’s stylized piano in the foreground, the simple servitude of bass and bongos form a background complement that unimposingly magnifies the performance. On bongos, Bob Wisely chose a fellow cocktail pianist, Ron Stewart, who for nearly two years, worked side-by-side with Ripberger in a Cincinnati night spot. Stewart knows the music and the composer, enabling him to add perfect complement to the musical execution. Another talented musician, Bud Ruskin, plays bass behind the maestro. Ruskin’s firm, but tender touch on the bass strings completes a captivating combination.

Perhaps the most exciting part of this album is the music itself, says Paul Ritter.

Perhaps. But except the music, it is not clear what part of this record album can be exciting. Oh yes! the cover art perhaps? Or even the jacket notes...

Bob Ripberger plays piano at Ridgeview Nursing Home




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The Sunlighters on Golden Shield

The Sunlighters

Who Do I Know In Heaven

Golden Shield Records

1971

Side 1 - [28457]

I’m Walking A New Road
The Next Step
Who Do I Know In Heaven
Hide Me, Rock Of Ages
He Restoreth My Soul
No Lock On My Mansion Door


Side 2 - [28548]

I Know
God Walks The Dark Hills
You’re Home To Stay
City Of Gold
Build My Mansion
Going Home


From the back cover :

Hours of prayer and pratice have gone into the production of this album. I know that it is their desire to reach their fellow man with the message of the Gospel in song. The personnel are, Billie Hendricks (piano), Paul Wood (lead), Bill Moore (tenor), Hilda Shawver (alto), and Charles Fletcher (bass).

The Sunlighters have sung several times at our church, the Bethel Baptist of Roseville, Michigan ; and did so without flaw. Their dedication to Christ and their love for Gospel music has brought about this wonderful album.

As a pastor I can recommend this group for revivals, homecoming, and for any special gospel singing that you may have in your church. Use them, they are worthy.

B.J. Ferguson
Pastor

Source : Mark Betcher

Note : The Golden Shield label was a subsidiary of Rite Records



Bethel Baptist Church, Roseville, Michigan



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Greetings from Rite Record Productions

Greetings from Rite Record Productions Inc.

CP-2831
He who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Will never reap the golden dollars
Like him who shows them round
And hollers
SO PLAY THIS SIDE FIRST

CP-2832
I refuse to tell you the titles on
The grounds it may tend to
Cause you not to
Play it

Recently offered on eBay.

Spoken Word promotional item - uses comedy to promote their items
Side 2 features a snippet of some off-key hillbilly singer whether this was a joke [or Not!!] I don't know
I believe this 45 was sent out to all who used RITE to press their items

A copy of this record is in the Goldband Recording Corporation Collection, 1930-1995 housed by The Wilson Library, located at the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus.

I've found in my files only one Goldband record pressed by Rite, shortly before this promotional item.




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Ricki and the Alternates

Ricki and the Alternates

32825 - Oh My Dearest Darling
32826 - Buy A Dog

Raven C1739

1974

Was found on eBay long time ago. "Recorded in 1963, but Ricki did not have the money to release it until 1974. Only the second copy I have ever seen of this local legend!!", was the comment.

The only one other release on the same Cincinnati label was by Count Baltes & The Egors (1973).



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Betty New on Alco

Betty New and the New Boys

27811 – Bright Lights
27812 – My Reason For Livin’

Alco 2911

1971

C&W out of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Curiously enough, release number has "1196" as a prefix which is also the King Records custom number on two releases of another Alco label out of Dayton (Ohio) released earlier in 1965 and 1966, but listed separately in the 45 RPM records discography. The two Alco labels are perhaps related in some way after all.

Alco (Dayton) discography

Alco (Cincinnati,) discography

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Pictures credit : e-bay http://myworld.ebay.com/dadshotwax

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Charlie Feathers on Vetco

Vetco 921
5825 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio

37471 - Will You Be Satisfied That Way (Jimmie Skinner)
37472 - It's Just That Song (Raymon Maupin)

Vetco 922

5825 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio

37473 - We're Getting Closer (Charlie Feathers)
37474 - You Make It Look So Easy

All four songs in one (zipped) file

"Vetco Records, a Cincinnati label started in the late 1960s by Lou Ukelson, was housed in the Jimmie Skinner Music Center on Vine Street. The label started out with some old-time music reissues, but it became better known for its albums by young Ohio bands like the Hotmud Family, Hutchison Brothers, Falls City Ramblers and Katie Laur Band and by older mainstream bluegrass artists like Mac Wiseman, Charlie Moore, Earl Taylor, Jim McCall and Paul “Moon” Mullins."

Charlie Feathers discography


Acknowledgments : Uncle Gil




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The Coffey Family (Arvis 115)

The Coffey Family
accomp. by Henry Yancey on Hawaiian Guitar

Arvis 115

CP- 4803 - Just A Rose Will Do
CP- 4804 - A Sinner’s Dream

country gospel



Picture label & audio : e-bay http://myworld.ebay.com/castilloblanco/


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Uncle Dave Macon (Vetco LP 105)

Uncle Dave Macon

Volume II

Vetco LP 105

Side One (Rite 32767)

Travelin' Down The Road
New Ford Car
Whoop 'em Up Cindy
Tossing The Baby So High
Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel
Station Will Be Changed After Awhile

Side Two (Rite 32768)

The Bum Hotel
Peekaboo
Comin' Round The Mountain
Run, Nigger, Run
He Won the Heart of Sarah Jane
Honest Confession is Good For the Soul

Songs recorded between 1925 and 1938. Volume 1 is Vetco LP 101 (Dixie Dewdrop) and Volume 3 is Vetco LP 108 (From Heaven To Earth).


Uncle Dave Macon (October 7, 1870–March 22, 1952), born David Harrison Macon—also known as "The Dixie Dewdrop"—was an American banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known for his chin whiskers, plug hat, gold teeth, and gates-ajar collar, he gained regional fame as a vaudeville performer in the early 1920s before going on to become the first star of the Grand Ole Opry in the latter half of the decade.

Macon's music is considered the ultimate bridge between 19th-century American folk and vaudeville music and the phonograph and radio-based music of the early 20th-century. Music historian Charles Wolfe wrote, "If people call yodelling Jimmie Rodgers 'the father of country music,' then Uncle Dave must certainly be 'the grandfather of country music'." Macon's polished stage presence and lively personality have made him one of the most enduring figures of early country music.

From Wikipedia. Read more...

A good source of discographical information can be found here :

Uncle Dave Macon sessiono-discography

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Little Boyd on Boyd

Pictures credit : the_squale (eBay)

Little Boyd and The Blues Bees

Boyd 191-1

CP-2531 ~ Harmonica Rock
CP-2532 ~ Don't Leave Me Baby

1959

Note : the record number [191-1] means the first release of the Rite account #191]



Harmonica Rock


Don't Leave Me Baby





Little Boyd
(from the cover of the Styletone LP Oldies But Goodies (Various Artists)

Boyd, possibly Louis Boyd, was born August 24, 1924, in Carthage, Mississippi. He fell under the influence of John Lee « Sonny Boy » Williamson’s harmonica playing, and spent some time with bluesmen Elmore James and Rice Miller before coming to Cincinnati in the late fifities. Boyd claimed to have cut recordings for his Boyd label at a Fortune Studio (untraced) in Cincinnati around 1957-1958. He had recorded also four (rather undistinguished) sides backing Smokey Smothers at King in 1962, including « Way up in the Mountains of Kentucky, » which names several Kentucky locations. He left Cincinnati in 1964 or 1965 for Los Angeles, where he recorded for the Lamga and Styletone labels owned by Mike Hooks. He soon vanished altogether from the recording and performing scene.

(source : Steven C. Tracy : "Going to Cincinnati - A History of the Blues in the Queen City, book)

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