Cold Steel Door (Curt Gibson)

 Curt Gibson

CP-2388 ~ Cold Steel Door
(J. Logan) Lonzo & Oscar (BMI)

CP-2389 ~ Don't You Think It's Time
(C. Gibson) Gaylord Music

Cullman 6417
(1959)

Cash Box, Nov. 14, 1959

Ring My Door Bell

Chuck Jones and  the Links

CP-3637 - Ring My Door Bell

Cochran

CP-3638  - Give My Heart A Break

B. Nelson, Nelson Pub. Co.

Belle Meade 424

1960

Not listed in the AS/PMA discography

Not listed in the Dan DeClark label discography

Stringbean on Cullman 6416

Stringbean

CP-2386 - Barn Yard Banjo Picking

CP-2387 - Train Special 500

Cullman 6416
1959

Cullman Records and Gaylord Music Co. were owned by James Harrell "Hal" Smith (1923-2008), Nashville musician, artist manager and television producer.

David Akeman (1916-1973), better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was one of the Opry's major stars in the 1950s.

From Wikipedia :

Akeman was modest and unassuming, and he enjoyed hunting and fishing. Accustomed to the hard times of the Great Depression, Akeman and his wife Estelle lived frugally in a tiny cabin near Ridgetop, Tennessee. Their only indulgence was a Cadillac. Depression-era bank failures caused Akeman not to trust banks with his money. Gossip around Nashville was that Akeman kept large amounts of cash on hand, even though he was by no means wealthy by entertainment industry standards.

On Saturday night, November 10, 1973, Akeman and his wife returned home after he performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Both were shot dead shortly after their arrival. The killers had waited for hours. The bodies were discovered the following morning by their neighbor, Grandpa Jones.

Chewing Chewing Gum 

Noel Owen on M.C.M.

 

 

Noel Owen

CP-6171 - Come In My Darling

CP-6172 - Just A Wondering

both sides : wr. N.Owen, Kenny Marlow Music –BMI

MCM Records  3.377
Whitsett Lane, Nashville 11, Tenn.
1961

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Owen , one of 12 children , felt he was a heartbeat from stardom when Standard Coffee Co. transferred him from Courtland [Alabama] to Nashville to continue developing a route.   In his spare time , he kept up his songwriting and singing , pitching his creations to anyone who would listen , and pulling gigs wherever he could find a spot.

He finally landed a recording contract with a small company called MCM , cut a record and began spending even more time away from his young family.

Back then , marketing was pretty simple , he said You pitched your own records , and I went to about every country station around.   Every disc jockey I saw put the song on the air , and they'd tell me , 'You're on your way!'.

His wife , the former Jean Terry of Courtland , was having a hard time keeping track of her music-loving husband.  When Owen came home , the displeasure in her face was as plain as the pain in any old Hank Williams' tune.  At that late hour , she stood in the middle of the den between their two young sons , holding their hands.  Tears rolled down her cheeks.

Honey , I just can't stand this , I just can't stay here by myself anymore , she said.  Hadn't you rather be here with me and the boys than out on that old road?.

Owen asked his wife to please give him a chance , that he was closer than ever to realizing his dream , but she couldn't see it..  He brought his family back to Courtland in 1961.   After working as an agent for Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co. , in Decatur , he sold appliances for W.T. Grant.  He then joined the United States Department of Agricultural , working for 26 years as a meat inspector at Wayne Farms , retiring in 1992.

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Other Noel Owen records can be found on Myown, Star and  High Goal Records.

Globe Recording Studio, Sample Demos (LP)

Globe Recording Studio, inc.

Sample Demos

Side 1 - CP-5263

First Group
Demo No. 1's :

French Perfume
Our Moment Is Now
Too Little Too Late (By The Mystery Girl)

The Hand Of God
Daisy Chains And Cherry Earrings
On You It Looks So Good (By Sonny Marcel)

2nd Matadore (By Ken Richards

Demo No. 1pg

Misery Train (By Lee James)

Second Group
Demo No. 2's

Lonely Lips
Itching Heart
Good Little Girl (By Kris Arden)

Salt, Salt, Salt
Biggest Fool In Town (By Sammy Marshall)

and

I'm Through With You (By Ken Richards)

Side 2 - CP-5264

First Group
Demo No. 3's

Just Waiting For You
I Keep Praying (By Kris Arden)

Outside Of That
Crazy Dog Dance
Should I Tell My Heart (By Sammy Marshall)

I've Found An Angel (By Lee James)

The Image Of You (By Mary Kaye

And

Lucianna (By Gary Lawrence)

Second Group

Echo Demonstration; Demo No. 4's

I Wonder And Johnny You Left Me (By The Coquettes)

Demo No 5's

True Love Come Back (By The Markees)
And
Mood Indigo (By The Cones)

Ideal Bread, Sealtest And Rudy's Sausage Jingles

Samples (oddly presented) of songs recorded by the most prolific of the song-poem recording studio. Names of artists listed are all familiar to the song-poem collectors or discographers   However, none of these songs seems to be listed anywhere, except "Itching Heart" issued on the Dial label. See HERE.  Three commercial jingles are ending the side two.

Ebay seller has "sampled the samples" on Youtube,  here

Chuck Jones and The Rays (Belle Meade 143)

Chuck Jones and The Rays

CP-3045 —  Sweet Sweetheart 

Floyd Fellows and ?

CP-3046 — Those Jail House Blues 

Ernest Gruntlehner-Angelo Ventura

Hillsboro Music BMI

Belle Meade 143

February 1960

samples

Song poem record recorded by the Globe Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.  Co-writer of A_side died in 1982 :

Floyd G. Fellows – an electrical engineer and building official by vocation but a songwriter and ham radio operator by avocation – died Thrusday at the age of 75.

Mr Fellows liked to use the nickname the "Viscount of Nostalgia. "  He picked that up in 1975 when a record company released an album of songs he had written. " The record producer said my songs, most written within the past two or three years, sounded like they were oldtime songs," Mr. Fellows told a Times reporter.  So Fellows and the producer came up with the nostalgia name.

Mr. Fellows father operated a music store in Gloversville, N.Y.... Two floors of pianos, musical instruments of all sorts," he said during that 1975 interview. "I'd heard songs in my head for a long time, and in high school there was a course in melody writing.  I took it, and now, 50 years later I'm still at it.

Mr Fellows' other hobby was ham radio. "I've talked to people from all over the world," he said.  "Just about every state."

He resided at 2449 Duncan Drive in Belleair Bluffs.  He was born in Gloversville and moved here 10 years ago from Cincinnati.


Obituary, St.Petersburg Times June 25, 1982

Wilbert Lombard and the Kartels on Deb

Wilbert Lombard and the Kartels

CP-6065 - That's How We'll Be

CP-6066 - Lovely, Wonderful, Beautiful

Deb Records #1002

Nashville, Tenn. or Beaumont, Texas ?

1961

Black vocal group

Both songs written by Wilbert Lombard and published by Nash-Beau Music Co. BMI.

Another release on the same label is Jim Caraway and Jumpin' Jacks listed in the Rockin' Country Style website (unknown location). Publisher of "Cry Little Boy" is also Nash-Beau Music.

Nash-Beau Music was formed by Bill Hall and Jack Clement who had worked together in the business since 1959. They owned also the Big Bopper, Dixieanna and Tracie companies, and in 1962 formed the Hall-Clement Publishing.

William G. (Bill) Hall (1929-1983) achieved success as a music producer, promoter and publisher. Born in Brookhaven, Bell County, Texas (which is now located on the Fort Hood Army Reservation) in 1929, Hall moved to Beaumont with his family as a child and graduated from South Park High School and Lamar State College of Technology. He began his music career in Beaumont, opening a recording studio and working as a booking agent for such artists as George Jones and Benny Barnes, eventually becoming Jones' manager. Hall also had hits with J.P. Richardson's "Chantilly Lace" in 1958 and Johnny Preston's "Running Bear" in 1960. Later, he joined with Sun Records engineer Jack Clement, to form the Gulf Coast Recording Company,
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An undocumented Jack Clement and/or Bill Hall production ?


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Patsy Daughbeny on MCM

Patsy Daughbeny

MCM 783

Whitsett Lane
Nashville, TN

CP-4087 – What Do I Mean to You
CP-4088 - Baby What Are You Doing To Me

1960


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Belle Meade 1120

Chuck Jones

Belle Meade 1120

CP-2759 - My One And Only Darling (Earl E. Carlton)
CP-2760 - Don't Answer That Phone (Henry J. Carr)

Listed in the American Song-Poems Music Archives

Chuck Jones is the same singer as Sammy Marshall, Sonny Marshall, et al. One of his best, perhaps.

Don't Answer That Phone (Sample)


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Kris Arden (Dial 2227)

Kris Arden and The Rays

Dial 2227

CP-5401 - Itching Heart
(Gertrude Feith, Nordyke BMI)

CP-5402 – Don’t Let Me Down
(Joe McCloskey, Blue Ribbon, ASCAP)

Bob Rule and the Rays (Dial 2219)

Bob Rule and the Rays

CP-4723 – That’s my Desire, Dear
(Tennessee Cooper,Fighter Music BMI)

CP-4724 – The Santa Claus Polka
(Al Valentine, BMI)

Dial 2219

Hear both sides HERE, courtesy of The Wonderful and the Obscure blog.

Harold Crosby on Pine Tree

Harold Crosby

Pine Tree 100

24639 - Harveys Has Everything
24640- Jean Lifitte

Arr. Forrest Green

Rite account #728 (Bryte/Brite Star Promotions)

From 1969.

Harold previously had records issued by Lorida Records (Florida, 59-60), Top Fifty Records (Wyoming, 61-62) and Tornado Records (North Carolina 65-66).

Born Durwood H. Crosby in Houlton, Maine, Harold Crosby grew up in the state of Maine, graduated from high school in the rural community of Albion, Maine. After graduation, Harold worked at many jobs, construction,tree surgeon and worked for a TV store putting up TV antenals. Music was always in the back of his mind. At this time Uncle Sam called, Harold spent the next 21 years in the service of his country. Music was always very near and he played his brand of country music all over the world.

Read more here.

Roy Ward/ Joe White - Ca$h

Roy Ward

36357 - A Chance to Try Again

36358 - The Whole World Here at Home

1976

Ca$h no #
1009 17 th Avenue S.
Nashville, TN 37212

Country single on the Cash label (Ca$h). The dollar-sign gimmick was already used by the unrelated Cash label of New-York City in 1960 (Cash 100, the Typhoons) and afterwards by the equally unrelated soul release by a group named Lust (Cash 5$2!)

The Teen-Tones on Deb

The Teen-Tones
Deb 131
CP-3615 - Bouquet Of Happiness
CP-3616 - I Don't Want Nothin’ (But Your Love)

Another custom subsidiary label of Globe Records of Nashville.

They were Teen-Tones, Teen Tones or Teentones on Dandy Dan, Decca, Nu-Clear/Wynne, Swan, Sonic (Frankie & the Teentones), T&T, Tri Disc and (as backing band) on Nu Sound (Sammy Surf) and Premier IV (Mike Ryan), but none seems to have any relation.

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Globe Records of Nashville, Tennessee

''The Globe discography reveals many affiliated labels, yet only a tiny handful of releases under its own name. Globe Recording Studio did not run a song-poem label per se, but was a ubiquitous factory for the stuff nonetheless. Although they would put their imprint on one-of-a-kind acetate demos, they appear to have had hardly any interest in slapping the Globe name on larger runs of vinyl.''

On the Globe label (1959-1960) :


Demonstration Samples
Globe EP 33059

CP-1891 – Singer No 1 : Gonna' Miss You All Over Again / Just One More Chance
CP-1892 - Singer No 2 : I Ran All The Way Home / Only A Kiss

Tex Daniels
Globe 1010

CP-2174 - Crazy Dreams And A Broken Heart
CP-2175 - The Painted Desert

Glen Terry and The Mists
Globe 11560

CP-3007 -- Shelter Me With Your Love
CP -3008 -- The Whistle Rock

Other Globe productions also pressed by Rite on other labels :

• Belle Meade (Chuck Jones),
• Dial (Liston Henry, Kris Arden, Don Burton),
• Rocket (Bob Rule)
  
• Mark (Don Burton, Johnny Rhule).

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Pace Records, Nashville Tennessee 1959-61

PACE RECORDS
Nashville, Tennessee
Owner : Sammie Pace (?)
Songs published by : Seminole, Mohawk, Clay-Lick, Natchez (all B.M.I.)
RITE account # 259
All records pressed by RITE except 63858-1/2, 1001, 1002, 1003 and 1004.

Pace 63858-1/2 - Lee and Jessie and the Rocky Mountain Boys - I Dreamed Of An Angel / Honky Tonk Sweetheart

Pace 1001 - Evelyn and the Ivorytones - Piano Anna / Boogie Medley

Pace 1002 - Jesse And Lee And The Rocky Mountain Boys - Some Happy Day / Life Ain’t Worth Living

Pace 1003 - Paul and Roy And The Tennessee River Boys - Meet The Lord Half Way / There Will Be No Disappointments

Pace 1004 - Paul and Roy And The Tennessee River Boys - Free, Twenty-One And Ambitious / I Wish You'd Be A Country Girl

Pace 1005 - “Elzie and Doc” With The Lonesome Valley Boys - CP-3069 - I Traded A Smile For A Heartache / Elzie Asbridge With The Lonesome Valley Boys - CP-3070 - Dim Lights

Pace 1006 - The Stubblefield Brothers - Guiding Light / My Friend

Pace 1007 - Willie Lil Rye - Make Believe Girl / ?

Pace 1008 - Billy Wallace - CP-3381 ~ Gotta Keep / CP-3382 ~ Chesnut Locks

Pace 1009 - Dean Davis - CP-3425 ~ Broken Hearted Three (I, Myself & Me) / CP-3426 ~ Don't Be Suprised

Pace 1010 - The Excellos - CP-3949 – Beautiful Dreamer / CP-3950 - Polly-Waddle

Pace 1011 - Dean Davis - Last Time / Place In Life

Pace 1012 - Ish Gordon - CP-4155 ~ Have I Waited Too Long / CP-4156 ~ My Lonely Heart

Pace 1013 -

Pace 1014 - Geo. Lester - CP-4337 ~ You Taught Me A Lesson / CP-4338 ~ Cold Dark Night

Pace 1015 - Ronnie & Calvin - CP-4621 ~ Man Of Galilee / CP-4622 ~ Do You Study Your Bible Every Day

Pace 1016 - Ronnie &and Calvin - Heaven / Then I Met The Master

Pace 1017 - Southernaires - Proven / Rock

Pace 1018 - Gospel Five Singers - CP-5381 ~ This Is My Testimony / CP-5382 ~ Jesus Is With Me All The Way (also on Nashboro)

Pace 1019 - Bonita Cantrell - CP-6557 - I'm So Glad I Love A Living God / CP-6558 - Lord Help Me Every Day

Pace 1020 - Jerry Banes - CP-6739 ~ Won't You Be My Baby / CP-6740 ~ Write Me A Letter





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Chuck Jones - Belle Meade 1119-1

Belle Meade 1119-1

Nashville, TN.

CP- 2757 - Too Many Times
CP- 2758 - Tell Me Darling

A song-poem record not listed in the American Song-Poem Music Archives' Belle-Meade Records discography.

Chuck Jones also made numerous song-poem recordings under the names Sammy Marshall. Sonny Marshall, Sonny Marcell and Sonny Maracel. Other pseudonyms included Johnny Cargill, Ben Tate and Terry Bruce, and there were undoubtedly a whole lot more of them.

Belle Meade Records was operated by Jim Maxwell and his wife Glenna, also owners of the Globe Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee.




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