Showing posts with label Shreveport (LA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shreveport (LA). Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Buddy Paul on Murco

  
Buddy Paul

CP-3275 ~ This Old Town  (Is Such A Lonely Place) 
(Dick Martin, Cajun Pub. Co. (BMI)

CP-3276 ~ Foolish Me 
 (W.B. Sepaugh, Bla-Mar Music (BMI)

Murco 1018
1960


Buddy Paul


CP-4136 - Trust Me 
(Dick Martin,Ca-Se-Mar (BMI)  Bayou State (BMI)

CP-4135 - They Stuck To Their Guns
W.B. Sepaugh, Jr., Ca-Se-Mar (BMI) Bayou State (BMI)

Murco 1022
1960



Buddy Paul's real name was Buddy Sepaugh.  He previously recorded for Mira Smith's Ram Records as Endom Spires in 1957 and, as member of The Four B's, for D Records in 1958.  [1]
Buddy Paul co-produced with Mira  Smith her “Country Store Party” show to tie up with the records released by her artists on Ram Records.   The show was presented on Thursday night from The Venus Theatre, a 650 seat venue, located at 2426 Lakeshore Drive. The show was also performed at the Courtyard Theater Bldg located at 2400 Lakeshore Drive.   He was also c&w disc jockey and commercial manager at KCIJ, Shreveport,

[1]  The Four B's were a vocal group who worked on the Louisiana Hayride for four years from 1955.  All their first names began with B.  Brad Ingles was originally from Ohio but had been stationed in Louisiana.  Buddy Sepaugh was from Shreveport, Bob Mc Gee was from Longview, Texas and Ben Nordine was from Shreveport.  They had worked with Johnny Horton on his SESAC Repertory album and sang back-up on several Ram singles.  Their record on D  was their only single under their own name. (source : Colin Escott)


Saturday, May 8, 2010

Buddy White & the Knights on Murco



Buddy White & the Knights

Murco 1017

CP-3205 -Teenage Ball

CP-3206 -Betty Jean



Buddy White and Bill Mack formed the Knights in 1959 in Shreveport, Louisiana after they left Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps. Gerry McGee was recruited as the third member. Buddy White and The Knights stayed together about four months playing a mid-west circuit. They were booked by T. B. Skarning and Joe Billo Entertainment Corp., the same agency that booked Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps.

Texan drummer Buddy White (a.k.a. Butch White) had previously recorded as member of The Shadows (James Burton, James Kirkland, and Butch White). Among the artists he backed on drums, in studio or live, were Bob Luman (56-57), Ricky Nelson, Hank Thompson (58), Gene Vincent (58) and Paul Peek (60-62).

He had also a recording career -which remains poorly documented- on his own as a singer. There were singles on Pop (Hollywood, 59), Milestone (61), Big Beat, The Wheeler Dealers, San (Texas, 65) and Inca.



Murco Records’s roots were in the Bayou Records store, a retail outlet purchased by local businessman Dee Marais from Shelby Singleton in 1960. In addition to selling records, Marais occasionally recorded local musicians in the back of his store. Murco was founded in partnership with Dick Martin who worked locally for the U.S. Postal Service.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

June 'Bug' Bailey on Jo


'June Bug' Bailey

Jo Records # 2180

9339 - Lee Street Blues
9340 - Louisiana Twist

According to the Ace CD Red River Blues's booklet :

15 year old June ‘Bug’Bailey was the daughter of a woman who worked at the Pioneer Barbecue joint two doors from the Ram Studio in Greenwood Road, which Mira Smith opened in 1961. June’s mother had told Mira that her daughter could sing and when a black song writer, Joe Lewis from Alexandria brought Mira some songs, she decided to try recording one with the youngster.
'Lee Street Blues' a song about a wine-head was released on Mira’s Jo Records.


'Louisiana Twist' is in the BMI online database but credited to Joe Louis (not Joe Lewis) and it's his only song listed.



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Monday, September 14, 2009

Loula L. Roberts at the piano

Loula L. Roberts at the piano
Memory 2181 (EP)

9343
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
9344
When They Ring The Golden Bells
I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone
Mrs. Loula L. Roberts, a native of Noble, Louisiana, was a resident of Shreveport for 35 years when she died there, aged 78, in November 1977. She was a piano teacher.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Plas Wilson on Jockey

Plas Wilson
20159 ~ A Fool In Love
Jockey


Plas Wilson
20160 ~ I’m Tired
Jockey

From 1967. Publisher Jesse Thomas, 7509 Gideon, Shreveport, La.




Clip of both sides