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

Sister Arlessie Barney

Sister Arlessie Barney

Lamentations

[no label]
(1976)

Side 1 - 36303
I'm Going To Make It To That City / Look Out For Me Jesus / Already Been To The Water / I Trust In God / Lift Him Up

Side 2 - 36304
I'm Happy With Jesus Alone / Gald I Am / It's Real / He Showers His Blessings On Me / Give Me A Heart Like Thine / Pay Day

audio sample

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Evang. Arlessie Barney
   24059 Touch Me, Lord Jesus
24060  Pilgrim Of Sorrow
SAS Records, no #

(1969)

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Mrs. Arlessie Mae "Sister Barney" of Dayton, was born March 26, 1923 in Lake Village, Arkansas to the parents of Jim and Mattie Fisher.  She was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church and later, a member of Salem Missionary Baptist Church and was an evangelist. Sister Barney also played piano for several churches, organizations, and helped many choirs. She sang with the "Golden Girls", her missionary sisters. They sung at many churches in Dayton.

She was called upon by WLAC radio station in Gallatin, Tennessee for Randy's gospel hour to record songs by Rosetta Tharpe.  She went on to record several albums. Her recording of "Strange Things Happening Everyday" was Randy's introduction song to his show.  Her favorite songs included "Life is just One Step" and "If I Can Help Somebody". 

She departed this life Monday, July 12, 2004 at Abors of Dayton Nursing Home. She was married to the late Mr. Lesley Barney on November 10, 1943.

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Links:

Discography (as Alessie Barney) at discogs (Randy's Spiritual Record & Dance Hour)

YouTube links:
Sister Alessie Barney: When They Ring Those Bells / Randy's Spiritual Record Co. 

Sister Alessie Barney: Strange Things Are Happening / Randy's Spiritual Record Co.

Historic Randy's Record Shop Foundation

Conrad And The Van-Dells on BMC

Conrad And The Van-Dells
CP-2260 - Rambling
CP-2261 - Dead End

BMC 1001

1959

Conrad Puzan wrote the two sides (instrumentals).  Label from Dayton, Ohio owned by Les Bodine,  a country DJ for 42 years.  He worked at WSMK, WHIO, WONE, and WING in Dayton, where he had a music store. Les Bodine died in 1969.

Miss Cloteal Lewis on SAS

Beyond The Bridge

23595 
Miss Cloteal Lewis & The Gospel Impressions

Beyond The Bridge

23596

Richard Evans & The Gospel Impressions
I've Got A Learning From The Lord

SAS Records

Dayton, Ohio

1969

Miss Cloteal Lewis
Born in Arcadia, Clairborne Parish, Louisiana to Ora and Nathan Lewis. She was the owner and operator of Cloteals Beauty Shop.  She studied piano and organ at the Miami Conservatory of Music. She was a composer, and wrote and published her own lyrics and music for piano.  Sister Lewis was a member of Mt. Enon Missionary Baptist Church, where she held numerous positions. She received numerous awards for her service in the community.

Miss Cloteal Lewis, age 88, a resident of Dayton since 1944, passed away peacefully Sunday, July 6, 2008 at Carriage Inn Nursing Center.

The Joybells (All Gospel Records)

The Joybells

27397 -   I'm Gonna Walk Talk And Sing (Whitey Gleason)

The Joybells
Featuring Little Miss Joey

27398 -  Led Out Of Bondage (Prather)

All Gospel Records
5738 Rosebury Dr.
Dayton, OH

Late 1970 or early 1971

Mattie Allen And The Lonesome Drifters

Mattie Allen And The Lonesome Drifters

26179 ~ Ride Around
26180 ~ Just The Same Old Girl
(M. Smithers, Jaclyn BMI)

Dayton Records #351
1806 Brown St. Dayton, Ohio 45409

In the Jalyn Records numerical series.  The name Dayton was also used for a Gene Higgins & Dave release (#345).  Mattie Allen Smithers was probably the name of the artist. No further info.

Label & audio from YouTube (CheesebrewWaxArchive)

  

Sonny Flaharty and his Young Americans on Falcon

Sonny Flaharty and his Young Americans

 

9593 — Hurricane

9594  — Joann

both A.L. Webster - S. Flaharty, Glenway Music Co. BMI  

A Young American Production

Falcon 1000

3029 Springboro
Dayton, OH

1963

Glenway Music was a subsidiary of Pam Enterprises formed in 1960 by Geno Abbatiello, president of the Electro-Sew-Vac Corporation in Cincinnati and former ESV and Flame Records prexy, and Ed Labunski, head of Labunski Productions, producer of jingles and independant sessions.

 

After a first single on Spangle Records in 1958, Sonny Flaharty was signed by Pam Enterprises Inc. of Cincinnati in 1960.   Under the guidance of Ed Labunski Sonny cut a session in Nashville. The resulting masters were leased to Epic Records.  

 

Sonny Flaharty discography

Ada Larck

Ada Leona Hicks married Robert E. Larck in 1948.   They resided in Troy, Ohio where Robert worked all his life for the City Transfer.   He played drums in the Blue Diamonds band. 

Ada released 3 singles between 1965 and 1967.  Besides being the vocalist and leader, she also wrote all the songs.


Discography

Blue Diamonds
15035 – Be My Honey (Ada Larck, Mega City Music BMI)
15036 - You're Gone Again (Ada Larck, Mega City Music BMI)
Top Ten 501

Ada Larck and the Blue Diamonds
17933 There's Gonna Be Heartbreak (A.Larck, Airway-BMI)
17934 Will I Ever Learn (A.Larck, Airway-BMI)
Jalyn 310

Ada Larck and the Blue Diamonds
19269 – In My Dreams (Jaclyn - BMI)
19270 – Go, Go, Go (Jaclyn - BMI)
Jalyn 313

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans on PAQ

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans

10845 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 1
10846 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 2

Bushbaum & Flaharty, Ridge Pub. BMI (both)

Recorded Live at The Coconut Lounge

PAQ Records

A Young American Production No. 21

1963

Note : recorded in a Dayton studio (not live, and neither in Springfield)

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The saga of the Stomp

The song went like this:

“There’s a place I know where the cool kittens go, it’s a place that the hippies found, where you stomp and shout and knock yourself out, it’s a place called the Coconut Lounge.”

The song, “Coconut Stomp (Part I),” by Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans, is as primal and enthusiastic as the day it was cut, 47 years ago.

And that’s the problem.

“It still makes me want to dance,” Flaharty, now 68, confessed, “but I can’t afford the hip replacement.”

While they hailed from Moraine, Flaharty and the Young Americans became the house band at the Coconut, playing their own shows, opening for national acts and even backing acts like The Crystals, which didn’t have a touring band.

“We were always pretty starstruck with the people we were with,” recalled Flaharty, who mostly writes music nowadays for his Unity church in Southern California and has become something of a legend with collectors of ’60s garage-rock records.

While backing The Orlons locally, Flaharty heard a word in their song “South Street” that intrigued him.

Hippie.

“I had never heard that word before,” he said, “but I thought it was cool.”

Cool enough to be included in his own tribute to the kids who hung out at the Coconut.

“They were hip and needed their own dance,” he said.

The song became a regional hit, even making the list of the most-requested songs at the Peppermint Stick, a similar club in Lima.

But pay no attention to the fact that the record says the song was “recorded live at the Coconut Lounge.”

It was actually recorded in a Dayton studio, Flaharty revealed, with the aid of a sound-effects record for crowd noises.

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Doug Porter :

By 1960, I was Sonny Flaharty and the Young Americans' full time drummer. I was still in Junior High School. I stayed with the Young Americans for about 5 years, until we broke up. We traveled every weekend. We backed up many of the early stars. We all were card-toting musicians and I could site read. We worked with Lou Christie, Bobby Vinton, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, Bobby Darin, Chuck Berry, The Four Tops (we backed the Tops up several times and they offered me a road job but I was still in high school). The list goes on and on but one sticks out with me.

The Rolling Stones came to Dayton, Ohio just about the time the Young Americans were at their peak and we were the opening band for them. We shared the dressing room with the Stones. That is a story all to itself. Soon after that, the group broke up. It consisted of Sonny on lead vocals and sometimes rhythm guitar,Terry Nieus on lead guitar, Mike Flaharty on bass, me on drums, Ray Bushbaum on piano/organ, and Bobby Brain on tenor sax.

We never played nightclubs - just road gigs, proms and private parties. Bobby Brain came to us from Teddy & The Rough Riders. They were also a hot group in the area. We both played things for WING radio. Check out: www.thecoolgroove.com. That's Jim Colegrove's site out of Texas. You'll see Sonny and I both mentioned. I played in Jim's band, the Knights, when the Young Americans parted ways.

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Sources:

•  " The stars were hot when they played the Coconut Lounge" (Springfield New Sun  : Dec. 23, 2010)
• An Interview with Doug Porter of the Mark V
• Sonny Flaharty's page at Rockin' Country Style

Ace Davis on Carlco

 Ace Davis

29339 — Snakes
29340 — Our Day Will Come

Carlco 103

1972

Ace Davis bought  “The Alley Door” in the back of a church building, which was the first Coffee House in the Dayton area.   On Sunday evenings, the Alley Door featured “The Jazz Lab” where black musicians, led by Ace Davis, were able to have a forum in the downtown area which at that time was closed to black musicians.

This label was created by Carl Cowen, the trumpet, flute, and saxophone player for the Dayton Sidewinders, with the sole purpose of releasing this bands material.   Carlco Records would eventually release five 7" singles during the early 1970's, all recorded at Cybertekniks Studios, also in Dayton Ohio.  The label had no distribution for the 500 pressings of each single.

In the late 1990's and early 2000's, with an increasing interest in obscure funk, soul, and jazz music, this label was resurrected by Carl Cowen in the same house he ran the label out of nearly thirty years prior. Carlco Records has since reissued a 7" single and LP collection of the Dayton Sidewinders singles, now with distribution through Funkadelphia Records.

 Label discography

"Ten-Of-Us" on Wil-Met

Ten-Of-Us

14983 - Wild Yellow Flowers
T.L. Butler W.T. Curtis Rite Music BMI
6-65X2MR

14984 - Sally, Oh!
T.L. Butler Rite Music BMI
5-57X9 AMP

Dayton, Ohio

1965

Founded by 11 Centerville High School seniors. A musical group that performed folk songs.
Picture & soundfiles credit : The Ten Of Us

"The Ten Of Us"

Pictured In Front Of Sandy's In Kettering
(1965)

"Ten-Of-Us" reunited, July 2003

From Left to right and on the top: Denny Dutcher, Jim Dunn, Bill Curtis,
Terry Butler, & Ken Reed. Front row left: Joyce Marberger, Ginny Pulos,
& Janet Scott. Not pictured: Patsy Bair & Jennifer Griffiths.

(Sally Mowry, original member, died in 2001)

Pvt. Eddie Lloyd on Alco

Pvt. Eddie Lloyd

17089 - Red, White, And Blue
(Arvey L. Webster-June Newhouse)

17090 - Walk It Off
(Arvey L. Webster-Della Lloyd)

Falls City Music and Counterpart Music BMI

Alco Records

Dayton, Ohio

1966

Alco Records discography :

45 rpm website or at Buckeybeat.com

Red, White, And Blue



Walk It Off

The Goins Brothers on Jalyn

Goins Brothers

26341 ~ Fly Little Bluebird
26342 ~ Pistol Packin' Mama

Jalyn 353

After the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers disbanded in 1963, Ray and Melvin performed together as The Goins Brothers until Ray’s heart attack in 1994 slowed him down. Ray retired in 1997, while Melvin continued as Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain. Ray would share the stage with his brother on occasion, mostly close to home in eastern Kentucky Melvin Goins and Ray Goins, The Goins Brothers, have been playing mountain string music for 50 years. The music became known as "bluegrass" about the time they started playing professionally. Ray passed away in 2007.

Goins Brothers discography

Goins Brothers bio by Frank Overstreet

Jalyn Records discography (45 RPM)


Written and recorded first by Al Dexter in 1943, "Pistol Packin' Mama" was covered the same year by Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters. And Republic Pictures made a movie picture based on this song, starring Ruth Terry :

Ruth Terry’s most famous picture, and her signature song, was Republic’s “Pistol Packin’ Mama”. “People still remember me from that film. It was a good little picture. I like it a lot. A lot of hit songs came from those little pictures—‘I’ve Heard That Song Before’ by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne from ‘Youth on Parade,’ for instance.”[Ruth Terry interview]




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The Fabulous Bill Todd (The Quiet Boy)

Picture credit : Mark Betcher

"Introducing the Fabulous Bill Todd (The Quiet Boy)"

Essay 14891/14892

Produced by Arvey Webster

1965

You can listen to one of the tracks at "Appearing In The Motel Lounge", a Mark Betcher blog, HERE
"Obscure solo LP featuring Todd, his guitar and the occasional early drum machine rhythm."

The formation of Essay Productions in Dayton, Ohio, « new recording firm, using both the Alco and Essay label signatures » was announced in Billboard (May 15, 1965). With offices located at 1610 Alexandersville Road, the firm has plans for establishing a branch office in the Paddock Center, Cincinnati, at a later date »

« Heading up the new company are songwriter Arvey Webster ; Sonny Flaharty, former Decca and Epic recording artist, and Robert Dye and David Bartholemew, presently engaged in the sound recording business. Webster will handle the bulk of the A&R work for the labels, with Flaharty in charge of production. Dye will serve as chief engineer and Bartholemew as art director »

« Essay sessions have been skedded for comedian Clarence ‘Crazy’ Loos and a Chicago duo, Wager and Carroll »


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The Wandering Souls on TWS

The Wandering Souls

TWS EP

7467 - Who Found Me /I Want To Hear “Well Done”

7468 - Let's Have Church / I Found Love


Dayton, Ohio

Black Gospel

1962


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Pictures credit : http://myworld.ebay.com/rocksteady/

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The Looper Trio : Life Beyond Death

The Looper Trio

Midwest Gospel Sound Records

28953 – Life Beyond Death
(Melba and Earl Montgomery

28954 - On the Other Side of Jordan

Two songs from the album LIFE BEYOND DEATH on the same label, label headed by Brother Norman Livingston.




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The Looper Trio singing The Gospel in Song

The Looper Trio
singing
The Gospel in Song

Midwest Gospel Sound Records
Rite # 28347/8
1971

Track listing :

One Day Nearer Home
When The Call Comes
Great Gilded Hall
He Saved My Soul
I'm Working On A Building
At Sun Down

That Great Great Day
Strength In The Lord
I'll Be In Heaven
Altar Of Prayer
The Voice Of My Saviour
Were You There


Quartet from Monterey, Tennessee produced and recorded by Midwest Gospel Sound Records of Dayton, Ohio.

Offered by Lee Hartsfeld (Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else blog) in his "Sunday Morning Gospel" series HERE.



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The Crusaders on D.K.R.

The Crusaders
(written by and played by)

Label : D.K.R.

12565 ~ Seminole

12566 ~ Busted Surf Board

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Rite account number 1190 place them in Dayton, Ohio. Names printed on label -Newbold, Beck, Eisemann, Schoeny, Troutman, Spitzmueller - are likely those of band members.

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Rev. Merrill Ted Braun, Sr.

Rev. Merrill Ted Braun, Sr.

A Glimpse of Jesus

Deliverance Records MTB 104
c/o Evangelist Wayne Parks
P.O. Box 1736
Dayton, Ohio
(1975)

Side 1: [34283]

A Glimpse of Jesus (3:00).
Healing in the Blood (3:45).
Sea Walker (2:05).
He’s Everywhere (2:45).
The Hem of His Garment (3:50).

Side 2: [34284]

All I Want Is Jesus (3:05).
When the Saints Go Marching In (2:40).
No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus (3:05).
He’s All I Need (2:30).
When Jesus Comes (3:05).

Braun sings and plays the organ.

Session musicians include Dennis Harrell - Bass Guitar, Dan Burton - Piano, Eddie Crumpton - Drums. Phil Burkhardt is credited as the recording engineer.





[updated November 9, 2011, with thanks to Mark Bletcher. See his blog HERE]
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Arnold Van Winkle on Jalyn 327

Arnold Van Winkle and The Gospel Meltones (A Side)
22355 ~ Old Brush Arbors / I See A Bridge
Arnold Van Winkle and Doyle Crawford with Paul Fox & Kelly Caudill (B Side)
22356 ~ Way Up On The Mountain / I'm Ready To Go Home
Jalyn EP 327, Rite Acct. #448 - Issued 1968

This elusive release fills a gap in Jack Lynch's Jalyn Records discography and may be the final recording made by Arnold Van Winkle in a fairly prolific recording career. I met him and purchased records from him in the 1990's as he had discovered some of his recordings had become valuable and he was able to find records he had given to family members years earlier and resell them. He grew up in Richmond, Indiana and his first recording was probably on the Singable label. He then recorded a nice bopper on Larry Short's Ruby label. The photo below was shot in 1957 in the Ruby Recording Studio in Hamilton, Ohio.
He created a rockabilly classic in 1960 with "Servant Of Love" on Poor Boy 111 which was re-released in 1962 on Walton 003. If one existed, a full biography of Arnold would be interesting!

Jalyn photos courtesy of No Hit Records with special thanks to Malcolm Chapman.