Ruth Lewis on Ken-Len

 

Ruth Lewis

CP-3795 – Mean Mean Mama (Ruth Lewis)
CP-3796 – More Then One Heart Can Bear (Lewis)

Ken-Len Records 316-1

1960

Copyright of both songs are credited to Ruth Hartman Lewis. No location for Ken-Len Records, but this is perhaps the Ruth Hartman Lewis living in North Carolina.

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Bemouré on Reality Records

 

Bemouré

36747 - You'll Never Know
36748 - Find A Love 

Reality Records

both sides written by Dave Butt

[1976]

All info is there on label. No clue about the artist or the label.

Wanted : Sue Noble on Su-No

Sue Noble

Black Is Black (40" clip only alas)

Su-No Records

b/w Daddy Frank

Early-1970s private pressing by Su-No Records-- --Unusual take on the Los Bravos hit

Sound clip & label from ebay saved some six years ago. Comment above was from the seller. How right he is.  Certainly unusual. Su-No obviously was Sue Noble's own label, that's all I can say.  Never see this record again.   I certainly would like to hear the complete song.  

Please leave a comment if you have any info on this record and/or on Sue Noble.

Elmer Farris on Layman

Elmer Farris

RR-42123-A  Atari

SAMPLE

RR-42123-B  Love

Strong Music Co.

 

Layman Records

 

Complete mystery from December 1981.

? http://www.corporationwiki.com has a "Strong Music Co "  located in Moody, Alabama.

 

? One ELMER FARRIS was born 23 January 1936, got Social Security number 313-32-3713 (indicating Indiana,) and died 28 April 2003.

 

 

Allison Records

George Montana

30013 - Green Eyed Lady
30014 - Good Thing Going

Allison 101

Both wr. Montana, Go-Far ASCAP

1972

Bob Millian and the No Gas Band

32833 - There's No Gasoline For You
32834 – Newton St. Chevron Bounce

Both wr. Millian, R&M Music ASCAP

Allison 102

Sample (both sides)

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I can't find any information on this label, nor on the artists, nor on the Kallish Enterprises, whose Alllison Records was a subsidiary. (Kallish, name, means 'bee' in hebrew, I've learned during my research)

Both Millian's songs were copyrighted in March of 1974. And the full name of Millian is Robert P. Millian. He also copyrighted, the same month, another song : "The Rest Is Up To You".

A George Montana was a member of Freewheelin' McClure Montana, a name adopted by Frank Reynolds (Secretary of San Francisco’s Hells Angels), Beat poet literature instructor at Oakland’s California College of Arts & Crafts, Michael McClure, and electronic composer and multi-instrumentalist George Montana. Same George?

The ASCAP database doesn't help neither where no Go-Far or R&M publishers can be found.

Also affiliated with ASCAP, a "R&M Music "was the publisher of Lindisfarne and Audience, two english groups issued in the USA on Elektra Records in 1971 and 1972. But it's probably a different company.




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Charlie Conrad With the Black Mountain Boys on Spec

Charlie Conrad
With the Black Mountain Boys

CP-1172 ~ Dizzy Love

CP-1173 ~ Night Club Blues

Spec Records #125

1957

Rockin' Country Style gives Pacific Grove, Ca. as location of Spec Records. This information is incorrect, I believe :

The source of the information is indicated as "Billboard news item". Indeed Spec Records was among the list of new records label published by Billboard, but that was in its February 2, 1959 issue. The only known release on the 1959 California Spec label was Staten Johnson " Where No One Has Tears / Joaquin Murieta" (Spec 101).

So the search of the location for this Spec Records is still open...

I've found nothing about Charlie Conrad.

There is some tantalizing references on the web to Walter Hensley playing in 1956 in a rockabilly band called The Black Mountain Boys in the Baltimore area. Same band perhaps?


Label pictures are from Rockin' Country Style, MP3s from "Country Hicks Vol.1 [Bark Log CD]



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