The Hi-Boys on Unicom

 

The Hi-Boys

   9547 - Mist Of Blue

9548 - They Say

    Unicom 1202
 Huntsville, Alabama

 1963

Standing : Walter Buddy Tarr drummer, Curtis Boldin, guitarist and singer, Bobby Glenn bass man. 

Seated Wendell Haygood, singer and guitar

Students at Butler High School.

 

The Hi-Boys were classmates at Butler High, Huntsville, Alabama. Unicom is their first record.  There was at least two further records (on Gold Master and Woodrich Records). They continued to perform together, with some personnel changes, well into the 1970's.

Songwriter Dean Frazier was the owner of the label.  See the first release on Unicom here :  http://thatsallritemama.blogspot.fr/2012/01/roger-wilcoe-on-unicom.html

Songwriter C. Hughey is Carlyle "Buddy" Hughey who recorded for local labels Cherokee and Woodrich. Buddy Hughey is listed in Rockin' Country Style, rockabilly online discography.

 

 Billboard, March 16, 1963

Roger Wilcoe on Unicom

Roger Wilcoe

7943 - Hello Heartaches
7944 - Delta Gal

Both written by D. Frazier and published by Crosswind Music BMI

Unicom Records
Kennan Rd.
Huntsville, Ala.

country

1962

First release on a label launched by Dean Frazier who was then working at the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) tower in the Hunstville airport. He co-wrote the two sides of Buddy Hughey's Cherokee single issued in 1959, three years earlier.

His "Don't Hide Your Face From Me" was recorded by Clarence Brown for Avalon Records (date unknown).

According to the BMI database, the songs that Dean Frazier wrote are handled today by Linco Music, a company owned by Ernie Tucker, out of Fayetteville, Tennessee, where Ernie also operated his own label, Linco Records (1959-1963).



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