The M'Pax

The M'Pax

26581 - Mistakes
Larry Childers & Alan Gabbard / Jimmy Price Music Pub. (BMI)

26582 - Can’t Bear the Thought
Larry Childers & Alan Gabbard / Jimmy Price Music Pub. (BMI)

Sun-Ray SR 144

Previously undocumented. Found here (plenty of info about this band from Lexington, Kentucky). Has link to audio of both sides.

Jack Rains and His Melo Tone's on REM

Jack Rains and His Melo Tone's

CP-4045 - Your Heart 

(Jack Rains, Fayette Pub. BMI
Vocal Roland Hyatt and The Blazers Guitar Kenny Whalen

CP-4046 - Don't Go Away *

(R. Hyatt - J. Rains, Fayette Pub. BMI)

Vocal Roland Hyatt and Albert Blakley, Guitar Kenny Whalen

* hear on YouTube


Rem 301

1960

Note : this is the second use of #301 on the label (first is Tommy Baldwin) #302 not yet found. So...

Guitarist Kenny Whalen was born in Bourbon County and is a graduate of Bourbon County High School.  He began playing music in high school  and played with many bands after graduating from high school.  In 1967 Kenny recorded a song called " Stop the World" backed with an instrumental called "Wheels," (Buttila 925).   Another single on the same label was  "Green Back Dollar" / "Next Time I Fall In Love".   Some of Kenny's favorite guitar players are: Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Les Paul, to name a few.   Kenny still plays today with The Travelers, a band he formed in 1967.

Bandleader Jack Rains (Jack O'Rains, Jack O'Neal Rains) was born in 1931. His brother was country singer and disc-jockey Mack Rains.   In Lexington, Kentucky, he operated  the Rains label  from 1961 to 1963 and, later, in Winchester, Kentucky  (Rains Recording Co., 1092 Flanagan Sta. Rd.), a few other labels such as Buttilla, Nashville Allstar, Needle-Mate and Reka.

Tommy Baldwin on REM

Tommy Baldwin

CP-4027 ~ Since You've Been Gone

CP-4028 ~ I Know

Rem 301

The initial release on the Bob Mooney's REM [Robert E. Mooney] label.

Not much is found about Tommy Baldwin who had a gospel record the following year on the Jack Rains' Rains label, also located in Lexington, Kentucky. Guitarists Kenny Whalen & Frank McDaniel backed him on that record.


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Jimmie Williams sings (EP #11)

Jimmie Williams sings

7485
I Can't Stop Loving You
Singing The Blues
Making Believe

7486
Satisfied Mind
Window Up Above
Crazy Arms

EP #11

Sample

Born March 7, 1930 in Ohio, Jimmie Williams found himself entertaining fans in the Hio, Indiana and Kentucky area. He started his musical career over radio station WZIP in Covington, Kentucky.

Later, he was appearing both as a disc jockey and entertainer over WMOH in Hamilton, Ohio. He did two shows a day with the station while there. One, was "The Jimmie Wiliams Show" and the other was the "RFD Ramble", playing listener requests and spinning the hit records of the day.

By 1957, he was working with WNOP in Newport, Kentucky.

Info from http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=12776

According to 45 RPM Records, Jimmie Williams released seven 6-songs EP on his own label out of Lexington, Kentucky., all in 1962 and all pressed by Rite Records.

Jimmie also recorded for Acorn and MGM Records, and, with Red Ellis, on Happy Hearts and Starday Records



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Bob Mooney on Rem

REM 350

13249 - Jug Of Wine
13250 - A Sucker Born Every Day

1964

Almost certainly a re-issue by the REM label owner himself (Robert E. Mooney) of two songs released in 1953 on Kentucky 575, a budget subsidiary label of Rite Records.

A Sucker Born Every Day (Kentucky)

Bob Mooney

Bobby Mooney (and his Automobile Babies) backed his brother Tommy on two 78 rpm issued by the Floto label in 1952/53. ("That's My Baby/Bingo Boogie" and "A Thousand Times Ten Thousand"/Rose Covered Garden"). The unusual name for the backing group was obviously derived from Bob Mooney's 'Automobile Baby' which was released on John Bava's Davis, West Virginia based Cozy label (#317). The Mooneys were then, as it seems, residents of Kenova, West Virginia.

Next Bob Mooney cut the single for Kentucky Records and afterwards participated with Estel Lee in the operation of the Excellent and Arvis recording labels.

In opening the Lexington studio in his own hometown, in 1960, Mooney declared, "I'm going to cut real country music records, whether they sell or not." For years, he sold REM-produced records out of the back of his car. He recorded numerous bluegrass bands from the Southwestern Ohio area.

A REM label discography can be found here.

Dorothy Rowen Sings Your Favorites

Dorothy Rowen Sings Your Favorites
Live at the Springs Motel
Lexington, Kentucky

1967
Rite account # 1943

Side One - #20499
(1) Make The World Go Away; (2) Bill Bailey; (3) I Left My Heart In San Francisco; (4) Rockabye Your Baby; (5) Your Cheatin' Heart and (6) Does Your Heart Beat For Me

Side Two -
(1) You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You; (2) Bird Of Paradise; (3) Wipe Out; (4) Kansas City; (5) Good Ol' Mountain Dew; (6) King Of The Road and (7) Twilight Time

Acknowlegments : bookemdan00 (eBay)

Springs Motel
Lexington, Kentucky
(postcard)

Genesis One (Chuck Owston)

Genesis One

Charlie Mosley, Bass
Chuck Owston, Vocal And Guitar
Sandy Owston, Vocal

Southern Cross EP (1971)

27599 - No More My Lord; I’ll Tell The World
27600 - Unwanted; You’re Still On His Mind

Recorded at Rite Records in Cincinnati, Ohio in Feb. 1970

Chuck Owston