"Happy" Roy Baker on Miner's Lamp

 

“Happy” Roy Baker

37439 - Coal Miner’s Son (Roy Baker)
37440 - Keep The Prayer In School (Roy Baker)

Miner’s Lamp Records

Roy Baker, 45 River Dr., Ormond Beach, Fla. 32074
1976


Coal Miner’s Son

 

Lee Hazen & Rana Leggett on Tropical

 Lee Hazen

 12061 ~ Don't Known A Thing About Money

Bishop-Way, Alison Music ASCAP

Tropical 108

1964

Lee Hazen : 

My hobby was making sound on sound recordings in a method similar to Les Paul's - two recorders bouncing back and forth adding parts to make up a complete recording.   I started doing that for fun in l958 using a Berlant Concertone series 30 full track recorder and a borrowed Ampex A 112 1/2 track recorder that belonged to Ted Merthe's dad in Daytona Beach.

I made many recordings with Ted our Senior year at Seabreeze High - 58-59 and some of my recordings were heard by Bob Quimby at the National Songwriter's Guild.   Bob offered me a job singing custom demos.   I remember the first one I sang called "LIttle Jenney" and will never forget the melody.   I also played guitar and bass on the demos in an assembly line fashion.   Bob played piano, I played guitar and the vocalist sang the tune.   We would typically cut 15 songs in an afternoon.   Later, we would play back that tape and overdub - Bob playing a snare drum and cymbol and me playing my Fender Bass VI 6 string bass guitar. 

Bob had different names for groups according to the type of song we were demoing.  The Surftones was
Chuck Conlon, Marshall "Chuggy" Letter, and myself.   The vocal sound was pretty tight and the Surftone demos are memorable. But NOT anything I sang as a solo artist. Anything for a buck ! I got $2 per part I played and $2.50 per song I sang, so if I sang lead AND background, I could make up to $9 a song !

Leaving Bob Quimby, he spent one year at the Criteria Studios,   Next, he handled the recording and the mastering department at King Records in 1966 where he recorded Hank Ballard, James Brown, Freddie King, Stanley Brothers, The Casinos, 2 of Clubs and many others.

Next, he was in Nashville, working at Glenn Snoddy's Woodland Sound Studios  in Nashville.   And, finally, Lee opened his own studio, the "Studio by the Pond" at his home by Old Hickory Lake near Hendersonville, TN. 


 

Rana Leggett

12062 ~ One More Lesson

Bishop-Palenske, Alison Music ASCAP

Tropical 108

1964

Rana/Rayna Leggett

Thanks to Lee Hazen who was then working at the King Records studios,  Rana/Rayna Leggett was signed in 1966 to the Cincinnati label.   King issued only one record by her : "Let The Little Girl Love / Now The Shoe Is On The Other Foot ". 

"Carellen recording star" Rayna described as a "Southern Belle, with an extremely great talent in the vocalist department" was featured in "Daytona Bech Weekend", a teen beach party movie from 1966 (starring Del Shannon).

She sings two songs in the movie : "Hopeleslly" and "You're the Boy for Me".

Tropical LP 104

Tropical 104
Box 1987, Ormond Beach, Fla.

10" LP

CP-6909
I'm Too Shy (Jack Dupont, Joe Pennypacker)
Got To Have A Little (John Morwin)
I Talk To Your Picture (Ted Vassos, Rex Bell)
The Dream Is Gone (Ray Pendergraft)
Who Who Who (Joseph McGovern)
I'm Gonna Help Myself (Cecil Burridge)

CP-6910
Angel In Blue (Leila Asies)
Golden Canoe (Chas. K. Livess, Harry Sokalis)
I'm A Freshmen (Ken Hughes, Joe Pennypacker)
Sinner's Sea (Emary S. Pack)
The Day That We Married (E Adeline Wright)
Picture Window View (Mark Winegar, Richard Mack)

December 1961


A song-poem LP sampler. One of the first release on Bob Quimby's Tropical label. No artist listed.

The only "familiar" name here is Joe Pennypacker who penned "Rockin' On A Reindeer" as sung by Harry Lee on Igloo (a label out of Alaska, owned by Hill Mathis).




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Hoss and his Hammond

Hoss and his Hammond

Carellen 136

19493 ~ There Will Never Be Another You

19494 ~ What Now My Love

1967

Also issued on Coe West (Ormond Beach, Florida)

Carellen picture credit & audio : eBay talisman778

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"What Now My Love" is the English title of a popular song whose original French version, "Et Maintenant" ("And Now") was written in 1961 by Gilbert Bécaud and Pierre Delanoë. English language lyrics and the title were written by Carl Sigman: early versions of it were recorded by Jane Morgan and Ben E King.

The English covers mostly use the melody of Bécaud but with a fancy text (with images like "there's the sky where the sea should be"), which is different from the more deeply dark French original. (Wikipedia)

Gilbert Bécaud - Et Maintenant (HQ 1962)
envoyé par goldrausch.




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NSG : three additions

North Shore 001 - '77
River Eel
38279 - Rock N Roll Widow
38280 – Laura

Carellen - '77
Russ Parks & The Swingmasters
38303 I Thank God And You
38304 -Hello Pretty Baby
Jim Burton - bass; Delee Burton - lead; Dennis Crow - drums; Max Stuckey - steel

Tropical 215 - '78
Bernie McClellan
39359 - Dear Heart
39360 - Sometime Girl

Three products of Bob Quimby's National Guild.

See ASPMA National Songwriters Guild page HERE