Miss DeLois and The Music Men

Miss DeLois and The Music Men

29389 - Take Me Home Country Roads
Denver, Danoff & Nivert, Cherry Lane Music ASCAP)

29390 - Daddy Was A Preacher And Mamma Was A Go-Go Girl
(Jo Anna Neal & Bob Neal, Four Star Music BMI)

New Colony

1972

Recorded In the Country" At Appalachia Sound Recording Studios, Chillicothe, Ohio

DeLois LaDelle

Delois has worked as a singer and dancer professional, since she was eighteen. She sang with Charlie Spivak's band, worked with Jerry van Dyke, Vaughn Monroe, Henny Youngman, Don Rickles and Jerry Lester. She has traveled throughout the United States and other countries entertaining at some of the finest hotels and supper clubs in the world. http://www.bellydanceintensive.com/pag_cms_id_42_p_delois-ladelle.html

She was also known as DeLois Phillips, DeLois Dudley and DeLois Stallcup.

"Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl" was previously recorded in the early seventies by Jo Anna Neel for Four Star Music and Joe Johnson and issued on Decca in September 1971. Credited as songwriters are Jo Anna Neel and Bob Neel.

Also in the early seventies, the same song was recorded by Betty Jo Bangs on Tal Star, label out of Amarillo, Texas. And the songwriter credit, this time, goes to Betty Jo herself.




The Tal Star distributor, Sounds of Music, placed the above ad in Billboard on March 20, 1971, that is six months before the JoAnna Neel release on Decca. (Note the spelling Betty Jo Bongs).

This should be the definitive answer to the question : which version of the "Daddy Was A Preacher But Mama Was A Go-Go Girl" came first?

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Otis Johnson - New Colony

Otis Johnson
New Colony
29279 – In The Streets Of The City –4:37
29280 – Something’s Wrong! - 3:15
“Recorded in the country” at Appalachia Sound Recording Studios, Chillicothe, Ohio
Both songs written by O.Johnson, Lantern Light Music, BMI

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The Appalachia Sound Recording Studio in Chillicothe Ohio was operated by Joe Waters (1947-2008).

Born September 19, 1947 in Chillicothe, Joe would always love to share a story about being a kid growing up on the neighborhood streets of his life-long home. Joe graduated from Ohio University in 1969 and was a High School English teacher in his early twenties.
Joe had a great love for music and in 1971 he opened a small recording studio in an old general store that his father owned in Massieville. This studio, Appalachia Sound, grew in reputation and Joe expanded his services to include equipment sales. Going one step further, Joe started offering recording classes for his customers too.

In 1977, these recording classes grew into The Recording Workshop, a school world-renown that still operates in the original location in Massieville.

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