Lillie Bates on her own American label

 
Lillie Bates
Marc Lewis And The Counts

28395 -  A Man Named Wallace (Lillie Bates, Pinpoint Pub., BMI)
28396 -  Dilemma (Lillie Bates, Pinpoint Pub., BMI)

American Records
Hope, Indiana [1971]

Bringing his campaign to Columbus in "whistle stop" fashion, Alabama Gov. George Wallace will be at Bakalar Municipal airport at 1 p.m. Monday for a 1-hour rally and press conference one day before the Indiana Presidential primary voting The airport rally is to begin at 12:30 p.m. with the public invited.

"There's a man from Alabama, George Wallace is his name. In the year of 1968, he  rose to national fame. "He ran but it wasn't meant to be. He'll run again in 72, just for you and me."  These words came to Mrs. Raleigh Bates of 624 Walnut street in Hope one morning as she was washing dishes. A fan of George Wallace since the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, Mrs. Bates says that Governor Wallace will win' Indiana in Tuesday's primary. When George Wallace arrives at the Columbus Bakalar airport ' at 12:30 'p.m. Monday, Mrs. Bates will be there to greet him . but doubts that she will have the opportunity to sing her song for him. ." "I did sing it to him in Toledo last fall," Mrs. Bates said. "I have a letter of appreciation from him

The song, "A Man Named Wallace," has been recorded on a 45-speed' record. Mrs. Bates ; designed the nameplate on the record in red, white and blue, and titled the recording "American Records".  Mrs. Bates recalls she left the dishes in the sink and completed the words to her song in about a half-hour. She then contacted Marc Lewis, a Hope guitarist,, and with a backup group, The Counts, Mrs. Bates recorded the song in Cincinnati. There are . 4,000 copies available and interested persons may call Mrs. Bates at 546-5550 to order the record.

Expenses of the recording have amounted to about $ 1,000 ' which Mrs. Bates has paid out of her own pocket. . The second verse of Mrs. Bate's song goes: "He knows that things in ' Washington aren't going right at all, and if they aren't straightened out, we're riding for a fall.

"He believes in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. If Nixon doesn't straighten out, he'll get in there and fighter Mrs. Bates and her husband were active in setting up a Wallace headquarters in Columbus for the 1968 campaign and have been faithful supporters ever since. Mrs. Bates was dressed patriotically in red; white and blue for her interview at The Republic. She also wore a jeweled American flag pin and jeweled flag earrings. ... '. , In another verse, Mrs. Bates sings: "Now we all know Mr. Nixon and the cabinet he chose. He isn't interested in doing right, this everybody knows. He's used by the insiders, of this there is no doubt. "

From an edited article published in The Republic from Columbus, Indiana, April 29, 1972

Joyce Lowrie Shealy (LP)

How Rich I Am

16931
How Rich I Am / Sweet Rose Of Sharon / In The Garden / I'm Not Alone / Ten Thousand Angels

16932
Known Only To Him / Deeper And Deeper / There's No Disappointment In Jesus / Zion's Hill / I Found The Answer / Follow Me

[1966]

Joyce Lowrie Shealy, a native of Canada, graduate of the University of Toronto, and Indians University, where she was a member of the voice faculty for several years, has appeared in numerous recitals and is well-known in the mid-west.  Joyce has been singing gospel songs since she was a child and has appeared as soloist on radio and TV stations both in Canada and in The United States. She taught at Emmanuel College, Franklin Springs, Georgia where she directed the college chorus together with teaching voice and piano. Currently, she is on the staff of the Abundant Life Memorial Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.  In the Fall, she and her husband, Floyd, will join the faculty of the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Accompanying herself on the piano and organ, Joyce is assisted by Bill Carver and his guitar, a professional guitarist and former country & western star with CBS network.

 

 

Nabor 140 (Elizabeth Johnson)

Elizabeth JOHNSON
19619 - Heartbreak Highway
19620 - Cloud of Happiness

Nabor 140

1967

Mary Lou Wahl on Delta

Mary Lou Wahl
Music The Crowns

CP-3627 -  Someone like you

Wahl, Ridgeway Music, BMI
D-1918

CP-3628 - Mam' selle Marie
David W. Guion,  G. Schirmer, Inc

D-1919

"Mam'selle Marie" was one of the five "Imaginary early Louisiana songs of slavery" composed in 1929 by David W. Guion, with words by Marie Lussi.

Plant Talk / Sound Advice

Plant Talk
Sound Advice

Plant Talk Productions

1976

Side 1 - 36415

    A1 English Ivy
    A2 Fern
    A3 Spider Plant
    A4 Schefflera
    A5 Philodendron
    A6 Palm
    A7 Baby Tears
    A8 Sun Loving Plants
    A9 Brain Cactus
    A10 Jade
    A11 Croton
    A12 Peperomia
    A13 Iron Cross Begonia
    A14 Dracaena Godseffiana
    A15 Nepthytis
    A16 Rubber Plant
    A17 False Aralia
    A18 Ficus
    A19 Benjamina
    A20 Norfolk Island Pine
    A21 Wandering Jew
    A22 Gardenia
    A23 Sansevieria
    A24 Piggy Back
    A25 African Violet
    A26 Coleus
    A27 Keep It Green

Side 2 - 36416
    B Sound Advice on the care & feeding of houseplants

Production : Jim Bricker - Voice Molly Roth

Front photograph W. Remphrey Burchell / Burchell Studios
Back photograph Fred Butz

Molly Roth and Jim Bricker

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Listen to both sides at WFMU.org  here

Learn about the Plant consciouness Communication here

Track listing courtesy of rateyourmusic  (I'm too lazy today for typing all these names)

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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa · Page 133
July 25, 1976

 Molly Roth sweet-talks a plant as she is interviewed for a TV show. 'Grow, or I'll .break your stem' By DOC HOLLOBAUGH

Molly Roth says she was the hit of the Transworld Home Horticulture Exhibit For the uninitiated, the exhibit was held this past spring at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, 111., and everybody who was anybody in the lucrative world of  xxxg green houseplants, and the paraphenalia that goes with them, was then. Molly Roth's contribution to the exhibit was a record called "Plant Talk, Sound Advice for the Care and Feeding of House Plants." The tongue-in-cheek subtitle is "Do you speak English, Ivy?" and includes appropriate conversations with wandering Jew, African violets, palms, ferns, spider plants and others. "We knocked them out" said Roth from her Green Earth plant shop in Lafayette, Ind., where she deals in facts and superlatives.   Roth's theory to that most people talk to the things they love. "You talk to your cat, right? Well, there are people who sincerely believe that by talking to plants they set up good vibes." "I've talked to plants all my life. Sometimes I say, 'Grow, or I'll break your stem.'"  As for horticulturists who scoff at the talk-to-plants theory, Roth thinks many of them may have brown thumbs.   "Raising house plants to like raising kids. I've seen parents who are not In control.   Plants scare some people like "A plant has to know who is boss."  Roth has a 92,000 stereo system in her shop, "A twenty-first century looking number with purple lights." A sign says, "Play the free juke box, the plants love it" "My plants are gorgeous. They hear everything — golden oldies, add rock, country western, classical" 'Roth said. "Let me tell you about the album cover, babe. You'll love it
By the way, I got a letter from Marion, la., wanting a record. Where is that? "Well, hell get it as soon as we get the shipment     Anyway, the girl on the record Jacket looks like Lady Godiva.   This girl with long blonde hair falling all over her shoulders.   She's standing In back of my Juke box with a watering can in one hand and... it really looks like Eve in her bunch of plants. Terrific. "I think I'm so darn clever, so I wrote the script for the record. I said to myself, 'Molly, this is just pure dynamite.' "There is a plant music record out but it's just pure classical. You know, Bach, Beethoven. I don't have it    My plants have to be versatile. "If an add rock freak comes in and buys one of my plants, what happens when he takes it home if that plant has grown upon Bach? Disaster, right?" Beside*, her theory goes, if you get close enough to talk to your plants you're close enough to see if they need water or they have bugs

The girl standing In back of the Juke box with a watering can in one hand

(cover detail)

Mike Ryan And The Teen-Tones

Mike Ryan And The Teen-Tones

11209 ~ Long Cold Winter Ahead
Paul E. Hertel, Cedarlane BMI

11210 ~ Hurtin' And Cryin'
Paul E. Hertel, Cedarlane BMI

Premier IV Records 368-JBP
1963


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Mike Ryan

The Teen Tones were a band of musicians from South Bend Riley High School.   Mike Ryan on vocal and sax, Ken Kidder on Wurlitzer Piano, Tom Hemminger on Lead, Roger Lacky on Rhythm, Lew Kimble on Drums. Very popular in Northern Indiana, and one of the busiest and sought after bands for teen dances, proms, etc. 

 

A native “Hoosier,” Mike Ryan grew up in South Bend, Indiana. After high school he attended Ball State University where he received a B.A. and M.A. in Elementary Education and minored in “Road Music.”   Mike has been an educator and musician for over 40 years.  He taught 4-6 grade and was a Principal for 33 years in Muncie. Mike’s musical career has spanned over 37 years with many bands; The Teen Tones, The Other Five, Decembers Children, Walking Catfish, Poppa Jazz and The Souled Out Band

Besides music, Mike is a family man. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Cathi, and has one son, Michael. He believes in giving back to the community. He has participated in many fund-raisers for American Cancer Society, NAACP, Red Cross, and the Muncie Children’s Museum. As a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, he constantly donates his talents to raise funds to promote academic excellence nationwide.

 

Mike Ryan/ Teen Tones discography

Premier IV - 368 (1963)
Long Cold Winter Ahead
Hurtin' and Cryin'

T and T Records (1964)
Do You Want to Dance?
Long Cold Winter Ahead (different version)

Don and Mira (1964)
Poison Ivy
Fortune Teller

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Paul E. Hertel
Paul E. Hertel was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1928. He served in World War II. He was a lifetime songwriter and publisher who owned and operated Tune and Talent Promotions during the 60s. He managed and recorded many local entertainers such as Danny Gates, The Delairs, The Accents, Redcoats, The Music Project (Rimfires), Gina Marie and the Scat Kats, The 4 Bermuda Triangle, Larry Coverdale and the Four Horsemen, the Accidentals, Survivors, and many more. He wrote a column for the Tri-County News with information on local entertainment. He lived in Nashville for 10 years where he wrote the articles for the National Entertainer out of Michigan called "Paul's tidbits around Nashville" and worked with local entertainers and bands. He also ran his own business as Paw Paw Painting, in which he was noted for painting homes in the Historical District of Nashville.   Retired from the Bendix Corporation, he died in 2008.

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Sight and sound : this ebay auction

two days left Current bid: US $113.05 [ 10 bids ]
Seller : donnchriss

The Night Riders on Song Kraft

The Night Riders

28077 ~ Night Rider
Cary Trusty, Salute Music BMI

The Night Riders
Vocal Cary Trusty

28078 ~ You Better Move On
Arthur Alexander BMI

Song Kraft  LA1001 / LA1002
1971

From Huntingburg, Indiana

 

Perhaps recorded by Ray Jones in his Sound Quest Studio in Lamar, Indiana.  

Morris RODGERS and the Continentals

Morris RODGERS and the Continentals

9441 ~ The Leg
9442 ~ Wonders of love


Delta D-3025/6 (601/602)
Bedford, Indiana

1963


Delta Records
1416 I. Street
Bedford, IN

“I really don’t know if I should be telling this or not,” Rodgers confided, “But when I was about 14, I was playing Puffy’s Tavern ... usually playing guitar for Jim Galloway who played drums and cornet.

His first band — featuring John Wiggs, Jim Houston and Dan Owens — was the Discords, named for the group’s difficulty playing a string of the right notes in the right order. But that doesn’t mean the group didn’t quickly get it together.

In the late ’50s, and Rodgers played in The Continentals and the Mark IV, Bedford’s first rock show.

In addition to Rodgers, the band featured Myron Thomas, Jerry Smith, Dave Miller, Kenny Foddrill, Steve Brinegar, Terry Blackwood, Johnny Fender and sometimes Janie Turner and Janet Rodgers.

The Silver Heart Gospel Singers Of Indianapolis, Indiana

  The Silver Heart Gospel Singers Of Indianapolis, Indiana

Label : Executive

1966

Side 1 [16691]

1. I'll Flay Away (Lead William Starks And Brenda Miles)
2. Throw Out The Lifeline (Lead Lillian Anderson And Robert Turner)
3. His Eye Is On The Sparrow (Lead Brenda Dobbins
4. Yield Not To Temptation (Lead Lillian Anderson And Robert Turner)
5. His Goodness To You (Lead William Starks)

Side 2 [16692]

1. You Brought Me (Lead Lillian Anderson)
2. Closer To Thee (Lead Brenda Miles)
3. Don't Leave Me (Lead Robert Turner)
4. He Knows (Lead William Starks)
5. A Few Of His Bessings To Me (Lead Sandra Johnson)

Recorded by Commerical Features, 1415 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis


Personnel : 

Sandra Johnson at the organ
John Bailey and Kenneth Collins at the piano
Robert L. Duckett Turner, arranger, composer and lead
Barbara Jean Adair, first soprano
Lillian Jean Anderson, second sopano and lead
Lillie Mae Farr, alto
Brenda Ann Dobbins, alto and lead
William Starks, tenor and lead

The Silver Heart Gospel Singers

Robert Turner and the Silver Heart Gospel Singers represent some of Indiana's finest traditional gospel. Formed in 1960 by then fifteen year old Robert Turner, the Silver Hearts have grown into an Indianapolis institution, singing at churches, church reunions, and community gatherings all over the region and organizing an over forty year old annual city-wide Gospel Extravaganza. Robert Turner sang his first solo, "Let God Abide" at four years of age, standing on a chair in front of his church, the Metropolitan Baptist Church. He joined the church's traveling choir at age 10, and in 1958 he heard the Clara Ward Singers at the Bible Way Baptist Church just around the corner from his home. Inspiration for the Silver Hearts was born on that night. Turner recalls his reaction to the Clara Ward Singers: "Five ladies, fabulous gowns, the music was piano and organ instead of the quartet/guitar sound I'd been raised on and it was like, 'WOW!'"

Blanche HOBSON on Eunice

Blanche HOBSON

13213 ~ Honky Tonk Guy

13214 - Lost Love

Both wr. Mary L. Meiss, Faye Music BMI

 

Eunice 13213

Evansville, Indiana label.  Issued some three years after the last of the ten singles on the label, all from 1960 and 1961. 

Eunice discography

Blanche Hobson

Courtesy of hillbilly-Music

Sorry to say we don't have anything here for you to read about Blanche Hobson.

Glenna Dean Case (Brite Star 767)

Glenna Dean Case 

With Ray Guyce And His Lonesome Valley Boys

CP-3333 ~ Thank You So Much (Ray Guyce)

CP-3334 ~ Broken Hearted (Marshall & Geraldine Page)

Both Starday Music BMI

Country Music

Vocal With String Accomp.

Brite Star 767

Mt. Vernon, Indiana

1960

(Billboard, Jan. 23, 1961, C&W)

Ray Guyce and Glenna Dene

(from http://www.hillbilly-music.com/index.php)

Glenna Dene was born in 1944 in Evansville, Indiana.  She also recorded on the Eunice record label in 1960-1961 (See Rockin' Country Style)

Ray Guyce discography (compiled by Dick Grant)

Writers of "Broken Hearted"  were from Grand Prairie, Texas.  Marshall Page was one of the Original Texas Wranglers, hillbilly group heard on KCLW radio in Hamilton, Texas in the early fifties. 

The Crusader on DIP

The Crusader

18839 – Wake Up, My People
18840 – We Need Wallace For President

   DIP

P.O. Box 96

Beech Grove, Indiana

1967

George Wallace, Conservative governor of Alabama, ran for President in the 1968 election as the American Independent Party candidate,

"George Wallace forged an alliance with many country singers, such as Autry Inman, Hank Snow, and the Wilburn Brothers, who participated often in his campaigns for the Alabama governorship and for the presidency.  Racism was certainly one factor which contributed to Wallace's popularity, but his southern rural/populist roots also made him appealing to many of the "good old boys and girls" who picked guitars and sang.  Wallace identified with country music, but he also spoke the same language, ate the same food, and responded to the same cultural traditions (both good and bad) that most country musicians understood.  He linked his southerness with their own, while also tapping vaguely understood, but often legitimate, feelings of alienation that many Americans everywhere felt.

The George Wallace-country music alliance was a major factor which contributed to the music's rediscovery by the media - the belief that at worst the music represented reactionary and racist politics, or that at best it spoke for alienated American working people."

 From "The Reinvigoration of Modern Country Music", in Country Music U.SA., by Bill C. Malone


Credit : Label and sound file are from "Here Comes Rock And Roll"  Collector CLCD4522. 

Mirror Existence

Mirror Existence

27809 - The Chance  (Larry Russell)
27810 - Nobody Cared (Jack Hayford) Arr. Jimmy Owens

Huntington College

Huntington, Indiana

1971

Huntington College students Tom Martin (from Chillicothe, Ohio) , Dan Cory, Ruth Gage, Tom Krause, Pat Cory (from Blissfield, Michigan) and Larry Russell (from Peoria, Illinois) were the Mirror Existence.

Previously, in 1968, Larry Russell helped to organize the Collegiate Singers, one of the college four deputation teams and was a member of The Freshman Trio, a jazz band (1969). 

Label picture is from ebay recent auction

(page has a clip of "The Chance")

or else DL the sample HERE

Sounds Of Soul on Top-flight (2)

Sounds Of Soul
Lead Selma Kirkendall

37457 - Don't Move The Mountain

37458 - What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Top-Flight Records
2365 Pennsylvania St.
Gary, Indiana 46407

1976

Lead singer Selma Kirkendall was born July 17, 1932 in Carruthersville, Missouri. Her family moved to Gary and she attended Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1950. She was a member of a female group, The Echoes of Eden, who recorded for Vee-Jay Records.

After her stint with the Echoes of Eden, Selma Kirkendall worked with another gospel group, the Belton Kirk Singers. In the 1970s and 1980s, she managed and sang with the Sounds of Soul. She also had a radio show on WWCA, where she was known as "The Gospel Lady."

Selma Kirkendall died in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

The Sounds of Soul were previously on the CLB label in 1970.




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Gales of Joy on CLB

GALES OF JOY
Lead : W. Crawford

RR-42190-A Trouble Will Be Over
RR-42190-B I Don't Want To Be Right

C.L.B. 2329 Ohio Street
Gary, Indiana

1982

HEAR BOTH SIDES

Gales of Joy
Gary Indiana
Members have included William Crawford, Otis Sibley, Benjamin H. Davis




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We Together in Concert

We Together Singers

We Together in Concert
Recorded live at the University of Notre Dame Stepan Center - May 6th, 1973

32191 Side One
Love's A Comin' / Open The Door / Give A Damn / Rocky Mountain High / In The Ghetto / Narration / I Believe In Music

32192 Side Two
Day Is Gone / Sunshine On My Shoulder / Look And See / When The Morning Comes / My Cup Runneth Over / Hope, Pass It On

The group’s founder, Tom Downs, was youth director for the Catholic churches in the area and a graduate student at Notre Dame. He left for Davenport, Iowa, one year after the formation of We Together.

Now living near Orlando, Fla., Downs, 73, who formed similar groups in three other cities, credited the assistance of Don and Rosemary Clifford, who still live in South Bend, in the creation of We Together.

...

Toni Dunlap, of South Bend, was a sophomore at Adams High School in 1978 when she joined the group.
She said the group’s size ranged from 50 to 80 members, ages 14 to 20.
“We sang at churches, nursing homes, parades, ethnic festivals, Camp Millhouse and even the Stepan Center (at the University of Notre Dame),” she said.

Along the way the group recorded six vinyl albums

From Encore from We Together singers, article by Kirby Sprouls, published in the South Bend Tribune, August 7, 2011

From the back cover, credited singers and musicians are :

Carmella Adamo
Pat Adamo
Alan Blasczyk
Michele Blasko
Terri Buton
Bonni Carter
Kathy Conners
Sur Crassy
Sally Dawson
Jan DuBois
Becky Echard
Frank Ellis
Jim Flahaven
Jerri Garth
Lu Gerstbauer
John Gibney
Ed Goerke
Colleen Haggenjos
Mark Haggenjos
Colleen Hall
Russell Hatcher
Maureen Helmer
David Hill
Kathy Jackimiak
Pam Jackimiak
Jill Jump
Pam Kalamaja
Beth Keefe
Tina Kintz
Brenda Kiser
Mary Kowalski
Carol Lowe
Denisa Lynk
Kevin McGraw
Chuck Mueller
Peggy Myers
Bob McNeir
Mary Nowacki
Bridig O’Hara
Dan Pedtke
Michele Pfeiffer
Anne Ritter
Bill Ritter
Mary Ann Roberts
Ruth Roberts
Leigh Ann Robison
Brian Strebinger
Marcia Strebinger
Mark Strebinger
Paul Strebinger
Larry Tobolski
Giselle Urruti
Judy Vanderheyden
Steve Verleye
Bob Ward
Jim Ward
Douglas Watkins
Kurt Wearner
Kathy Weiss
Tom Williams
Frank Wiltrout
Ann Wolz
Car Wolz
Tom Wroblewski
Nancy Xaver


Guitarists
Keving Bland
Michael Elliott
Judy Gisnewski
Marion Huke
Dan Jones
Keving Kellogg
Bobby Miller
Betty Jane Muellner
Michael Muellner
Kevin Sherbun

Bongo Larry Lehner

Maracas Julie Gerschoffer

Tambourine Steve Rodick

Stepan Center is Notre Dame's most versatile multi-purpose facility. The 21,000 square foot venue is located on the northeast corner of campus, north of Flanner and Grace Halls on Stepan Drive.

Built in 1962, the facility was constructed as one of the first geodesic domed facilities in the nation -- to date, it remains one of the most unique structures in the world.

While you will not find very many geodesic domed facilities these days, you will also rarely find a facility with such flexibility as hosting events like: major concerts, ethnic festivals, sporting events, sports club winter training, service club recreation area, ROTC training, and Mass. Stepan Center also serves as Notre Dame's largest available venue for academic exams.



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Tami De on Forest View

Tami De

Forest View 001

25019 . I Traded My Class Ring SAMPLE
(Barbara Burgess, Pinpoint BMI)

25020 - How Many Times Can A Broken Heart Break

Music arr. by Jim Goodman

1969

Label almost certainly owned by Dennis “Dink” Burgess (1922 — 2009) of Bedford, Indiana. He owned the Dink Burgess Enterprises in Nashville in the early sixties and managed Rusty (Ko Ko) Adams ( the Country Clown doing comedy with Webb Pierce with his on the Road show), and Pete Jones & Barbara Burgess (Pic Records), among othjers.

The label released at least another record : Troy Que (Forest View 002), also pressed by Rite Records.

Label picture & sample : eBay (parkersrc)

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The Sounds Of Soul on Top-Flight

The Sounds Of Soul
Lead Selma Kirkendall

Top-Flight Records

2365 Pennsylvania St.
Gary, Indiana

40797 - That's How Strong God's Love Is
40798 - Shedrack, Meshack, Abednego

[ 1979 }

Sample

Picture & audio : tims-amazing-stuff (eBay, Dayton, OH)

The Gospel Shepherds on Anderson

The Gospel Shepherds

Anderson

21417 - In Times Like These
21418 - This Little Light Of Mine

1968

Black Gospel not listed in this Anderson label discography



Sample 1


Sample 2



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George Brown on De'Besth

George Brown and the High Notes

De'Besth 1125

CP-2695 ~ Ninety-Nine Years And One Dark Day

CP-2696 ~ Who Said Fred Was Dead

George Gary Brown was born in Georgia and raised in Florida, he's been singing since the age of 2. Other than that, nothing much is known of his biography. He recorded as Gary Brown for Venus Records (part of the Chicagoan One-derful label complex) and for (his own?) Brownie label.

One of his composition ("First Man to the Moon") was selected by Calvin Carter for the flip side of The Deltones ' "A Lover's Prayer" (Vee-Jay 303).

De'Besth Records was owned by Samuel D. Starr and located in Hammond, Indiana. The Five Crowns (Hillum Bay/I Want You) is the rarest on the label and one of the rarest on Earth and was also pressed by Rite Records.

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Would You Laugh At Me? (Brownie 103)

Spoiled Child (Brownie 105)

Cold Day (Venus 101)

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