The Immortals (Richmond, Virginia)

The Immortals
Kilmarnock, Virginia
Telephone 435-1666

21063 - You Went Your Way (Lawson-Wray)
21064 - Like I Love You Lawson-Wray)

RSSW0969M

Custom produced by Richmond sound stages
2314 W. Cary Street Richmond, Virginia
1968

The Immortals began in the fall of 1966 at York Academy in Shacklefords, VA. , Jack Wray (lead guitar), Jack Lawson (bass guitar & lead vocals), Richard Cowles (drums), and Bruce Dawson (rhythm guitar) came together as a rock group not unlike millions of other teenage boys after the British Invasion in 1964.

They were ages 13-15 as they began this musical relationship that has spanned more than forty-five years

"Your Went Your Way” was recorded in December, 1967 at Richmond Sound Stages.  The production director and engineer's name there from 1965-1973 was Frank Brooks.  He also had a Jazz radio program on AM radio in Richmond during the 60s.  Although we’re not positive, he was more than likely the guy who engineered The Immortals record.  He was also probably the guy who engineered such contemporary efforts as  Why Did You Leave Me by The Klansmen and Lord I Need You  by Ray (Pittman) & the Soul Beats.

Info above from the oficial Immortals website here

This 45 is currently offered for sale here

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

"My Everything Is You"

    Limited Edition Recordings

2231 Stratford Road Richmond VA.

    RR-42420
1982

Side A:

My Everything Is You  / I Sing The Body Electric / Casey's Lastride / Bunch Of Thyme / Donna Donna / Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Side B :
The Sea Around Us / The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda / Rattling Bog / Beautiful Brown Eyes / Whiskey In The Jar


College student at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Cindy Miller was an upper class woman from New-Jersey when, just before she graduated, she met Irishman Andy Jennings. 

Cindy & Andy formed a partnership on and off the stage.  They performed authentic Irish music for 30 years.  Andy was the Publican of Rare Olde Times Public House since 1994, where Andy and Cindy had guest performers on a regular basis.

Andrew P. "Andy" Jennins was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1961. He died in 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.

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Tommy Long And The Varatones on Bellwood

Tommy Long And The Varatones
Music By "The Commanders)

10409 - D.J. (Disck Jockey) Joe
(Geo.Moore, RalTip Music BMI)

Tommy Long
Music By "The Commanders

10410 - High School Heart
(Tommy Long, RalTip Music BMI) )

Bellwood Records 635N10
PO Box 3572
Richmond, VA

1963

Both sides arranged by Geo. Moore

sample from groovy_grooves who has one copy for sale.

No info on Tommy Long or on the Varatones (who are only on the A-side) or on the Commanders.

The label was probably owned by Geo Moore (George Henry Moore) also owner of RalTip Music. Geo Moore issued at least two other records on Bellwood. See listing here.

Mr Moore was also a songwriter. He copyrighted several songs in the forties (Blessed Jesus, 1946).



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The Vendells of Petersburg, Va.

No label

18851 - "Shake Your Tambourine", Featuring Mr. Soul

18852 - This Is Love (Featuring Scott Edwards)

Custom produced by Richmond Sound Stages - Richmond, VA.

Rite account # 1858

Garage funk band from Petersburg, Virginia. "Shake Your Tambourine" is a Bobby Marchan cover.

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The Dynamic Deadbeats

The Dynamic Deadbeats

18659 - Why Did You
18660 - No Second Chance

1967

Custom produced by Richmond Sound Stages
Richmond, Virginia

In mid '67 the band traveled up to Philadelphia to re-cut both tracks in a real recording studio released on the Strata label.

Their first single was on the Greenedeem label

The story of the Deadbeats is told by Funky Virginia here.

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Clover on M.O.D.

Clover

21485 ~ Remember
21486 ~ Way She Smiles

M.O.D. RSSWO 1055

Richmond ,Virginia

Recorded at R.S.S. Inc. [Richmond Sound Stages]
Produced by C. & B.

1968

"Recorded early in 1968 at Richmond Sound Stages. The songs are on two different volumes of Aliens Psychos & Wild Things. Remember really is a bleak retrospect look at lost love; about as dark as it gets. Way She Smiles starts off like a teen ballad and then jettisons into a Velvet Underground feedback landscape. Sixties teen/punk disorientation of the highest order."

The Dynamic Encores

Barc 101a
Ronny Hart
The Dynamic Encores
13161 - La La La La La (Clarence Paul, Jobete Music, BMI)

Barc 101b
Erin Farley
The Dynamic Encores
13162 - You Don't Know Me (Arnold, Hill and Range, BMI)

Arranged by F. Weiss-G. Moore. Distributed by Turn-Tage Records.
Turn-Tage Records was located at 1802 Creighton Road, Richmond, Virginia and owned by Joseph Turnage.
A-side first recorded by Stevie Wonder on Tamla (62).


Audio sample (both sides)

Montereys Quartet

Montereys Quartet
James Coles, director
JC Records
9317 ~ The Ballad of Take Me Back To Baltimore (pt 1)
9318 ~ Take Me Back To Baltimore (pt 2)

Richmond, VA
Composed & Copyrighted 1950, 1960 by Charles H. Phillips
Capitol Transcription Service, Washington D.C.

1963

The Ballad of Take Me Back To Baltimore (pt 1 & 2)

The Untouchables on FAAP

The Untouchables
FAAP VD-7-RS1
26067 ~ Find A New Love
26068 ~ Standing There

The Untouchables with Mark One Band
FAAP VD-7-RS2
26579 – The Dragster Boy
26580 - The Dragster's Encore

Both sides of the second single can be heard HERE.

FAAP (Fine Artists of America Productions) Records was operated by Elmer A. Hillard from his basement studio in Richmond's Fulton Hill, Virginia. He died in 2004, aged of 87. Born in Bristol Virginia, Elmer Hillard had been a resident of greater Richmond since 1956 and retired from Reynolds Metals Co.