Don Cavalli and His Rock-A-Faris

Hog Maw 102A
CP-1936

Plastic Rockers

Hog Maw 102B

CP-1937
Mary Jane

Harry Hepcat on Resurrection

Harry Hepcat & The Boogie Woogie Band
Resurrection 6380
37945 -Sea Cruise
37946 - Great Balls of Fire
Rite account # 6244

Pete and Don and The Cumberland Mountain Boys

Jewel EP-407
Side one
CP-6545 - Will There Be Doves To Mourn In Heaven / Little Graveyard

Jewel EP-407 Side Two
CP-6546 - Get Right With Jesus / Lay Me Down By Mom And Dad

PETE Stewart & DONnald Caddell

the Melody Masters Quartet

CP-6771 - Our Debts Will Be Paid / Just A Little While

CP-6772 - Glory To His Name / If You Want Joy

The Melody Masters Quartet :

Acton McClellan, piano
Jim Stewart, bass
Ned Wilder, baritone
Miles Cooper, 2nd tenor
Jerry Suddith-1st tenor

Big Star Records

Big Star 001
Bobo Jenkins
CP-4535 ~ You Will Never Under Stand
CP-4536 ~ Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night

Big Star 002 [First Rite pressing]
Clarence Walton & Walton Brother Band
12151 - The Cat (2:30)
Walton Brother Band
12152 – Midnight (2:50)

Big Star 002 [Columbia pressing]
Clarence Walton & Walton Brother Band
ZTSC 96945 - The Cat (2:30)
Walton Brother Band
ZTSC ? – Midnight

Big Star 002 [Second Rite pressing]
Clarence Walton & Walton Brother Band
12999 ~ The Cat (2:55)
Walton Brother Band
13000 ~ Midnight (2:35)

Big Star 003
"Little Daddy" James Walton
13833 ~ Tell Me What You Got
13834 ~ Shade Grove

Big Star 004
Chuck Cole
16233 ~ My Bonney
16234 ~ Ha Baby

Big Star 005
Chubby Martin
? - t’s Not A Man’s World
? - ?

Big Star 006
Little Junior Canna
21177 ~ I've Got My Eyes On You
21178 ~ Don't Turn Your Love One

Big Star 007
Syl Foreman
21907 - Before I Leave You
21908 - These Precious Tears

Big Star 012 Robert Starks and the Geniuses
Space Traveling, Part 1/Part 2 -



LP BS 008-019 - The Life Of Bobo Jenkins
008 When I First Left Home
009 Realing And Rocking
010 Cold Hearted Blues
011 I Love That Woman
012 Solid Gold
013 You Will Never Understand

014 Trying To Get Yu Off My Mind
015 24 Years
016 I Sure Got To Leave Your Town
017 Have You Heard The News
018 Tell Me Who
019 I’m So Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always


Big Star 020
Robert Jr. Lockwood
Selfish Ways/Down Home Cookin’

Big Star 021
Bob Evans Jr
You Can’t Stop Me From Loving You (Part 1)/Part 2


LP BS 011-33 - Here I Am A Fool In Love Again
022 Playboy Blues - Bobo Jenkins
023 If You Were The Only Woman - Bobo Jenkins
024 Shake ‘Em Down - Bobo Jenkins
025 Scared To Call Her Name - Bobo Jenkins
026 Monkey Not For Sale -- Bobo Jenkins
027 Here I Am A Fool In Love Again - Bobo Jenkins

028 Somebody Been Talkin’ - Bobo Jenkins
029 Share Cropper Blues - Bobo Jenkins
030 Ten Below Zero - Bobo Jenkins
031 Baby Don’t You Want To Go - Bobo Jenkins
032 Nothing But Love - Bobo Jenkins
033 Watergate Blues - Bobo Jenkins



034 King Cain & Silvertone Band - Don’t Give A Damn/Off Beat
035 ?
037 ?
038 Ellen Jackson & Big Star Band - Getto Boogie/Hard Times


LP Big Star 1-50 - Detroit All Purpose Blues
039 Love That Woman – Bobo Jenkins
040 Heard The News ? - Bobo Jenkins
041 New 44 Blues- Bobo Jenkins
042 First Left Home- Bobo Jenkins
043 Nothing But Love- Bobo Jenkins
044 Walking With The Devil – Blind Child (Gerry Gaugham)

045 Door Lock Blues –Steel Wheels (Willie D. Warren)
046 Detroit Jump–Steel Wheels (Willie D. Warren)
047 How Can A Honkey Sing The Blues ? – Blind Child (Gerry Gaugham)
048 When A Fool Gets To Drinking – Blind Child (Gerry Gaugham)
049 My Baby Done Left Me –Buddy Folks
050 Baby What You Trying To Do ? –Buddy Folks

Big Star no release number
Big Roger Thomas
41383 - My Woman So Fine
41284 - Talk Is Cheap

Big Star unknown number
Mississippi Johnnie Norwood
? Jungo Itch/? -

Natural 001 - Subsidiary of Big Star Records
Fred E. Scott
39081 - ?
39082 – Journey Within

Above record found here : http://waxidermy.com/2009/02/26/fred-e-scott-journey-within/



From the Bobo Jenkins bio by Fred Reif :

Bobo (John Pickens) Jenkins (1916-1984) recorded for Chess and Boxer in Chicago and Fortune in Detroit before working in 1959 on his long-time dream - a recording studio. His first studio was built in a basement under his record shop at 5901 Fourteenth. It was located near a supermarket and everyday when the stockboy would throw the empty cartons out, Bobo was there. “I had to go out and hustle cardboard boxes to make this studio.” Bobo continues, “People used to think I was a junk man carrying all those boxes under my arm.”

Before coming to Detroit on September 1, 1944, Bobo spent sometime in the Army. After his discharge, he decided he didn’t want to live in the South anymore. It was either Detroit or Chicago, so he picked the Motor City. Shortly after his arrival, he found a job at the Packard Motor Car Company, for eighty-nine cents an hour. He worked there for four years, before they went out of business. He was also managing a garage, as he was an accomplished mechanic. Soon, he began working at Briggs Manufacturing Company, which eventually sold out to the Chrysler Corporation, where Bobo worked for the next twenty-six years.

Bobo said he got his rhythms from the machines on the assembly line :

“The whirrin’ of the machines gives me the beat. It’s like listening to a band play all day. Every song I ever wrote that’s any good, came to me on the assembly line.”

The Singing Wonders

The Singing Wonders
38717 - Jesus Will Never Say No
38718 - Sending Up My Timber

Recorded by David Jones Music, Kennerly Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Arranged by Evelyn Hogan; Prod. & arr. by David Lee Jones, Music by John Jones

The Tradewinds

21145 - Price Of Love

21146 - Depend On Me

A Tradewinds Production 6800. Both side written by Richard Vinning, who is also the arranger.
Rite account number 1953. Same Rite account as the Embers on eEe (Embers Entertainment Enterprises).

Chordsmen Quartet (from Rural Hall, N.C.)

Chordsmen Quartet

CP-6863 - Ride That Glory Train
CP-6864 - Surely I Will

Rural Hall N.C.
Recorded by Piedmont Recordings, Lexington, N.C.

Cleveland Martin & The Soul Sets

33067 -I Don't Want To Slip Away

33068 - Soul Train That's It

Single B 120
Arranged by Bailey & Hamilton
Waugh-Bailey production



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Herbie Koch on "Christmas Bells"

Herbie Koch at the Carillons
"Christmas Bells" - EP - 4 Christmas carols per side
CP-2729 ~ (see photos for titles)
CP-2730 ~ (see photos for titles)
Rite Acct # 226 - Christmas 1959
Liberty National Bank & Trust Co.
Louisville, Kentucky

A holiday gift from your local bank on one of the hottest pop culture formats of the day, the 45 rpm record! Apparently, these did not survive in large quantities as no one has reported it previously.

The major significance of this release is RITE's apparent duplicate matrix number error with another Kentucky release:

Although they share duplicate matrix numbers, they have different account numbers. Rite account number 226 on the Christmas Bells EP is correct for a newly assigned account number at that matrix number. The Royce release has account number 113 which was initiated much earlier and is used on all Royce releases.

Christmas Bells photos courtsey of Leonard Yates.

Wenlark Records

The Starliners
CP-5229 ~ Mule Train
CP-5230 ~ Old MacDonald Rolls Along
Wenlark 301

Francis X. and the Bushmen
CP-5831 – St. Louis Blues
CP-5832 – Blastin’ Off
Wenlark 302
[rev. Billboard June, 26 1961, pop]

The two records above are likely the total output of this obscure label. I have no idea of where was located the label. Rite account number is 494.

The first record has the written inscription : "To good Buddy Red. Neil (Nutty) Clark". Was Neil Clark a member of the Starliners?

Here is a list of singles by various recorded bands of the same name around the same time, almost certainly not related (but who knows?) :

• Watusi Time/The Pogo - Viscount 101 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) -1962
• Gotz/Spider - No-Nee 101 -
• Thunder /Static - Reed (Alabama)
• Kooknik / ? - Ultracon

Also a LP from a Minnesota band, in 1967 :

• "Live At Papa Joe's A-Go-Go" - Lejac
  

Regardly Francis X. and the Bushmen, a modern punk band has exactly the same name. Obviously not the same band. That's all I can find.

The Courtsmen on River 225

The Courtsmen
River 225
CP-3389 ~ Baby I Love You I Do
CP-3390 ~ No One But You
Rite Acct. #240 - Issued 1960
Biloxi, MS

Musically, this is a so-so record with a teen theme like a cross between the Four Lads and the Everly Brothers, but when it comes to obscurity - it's off the charts!

River Records was owned by Marion Carpenter and was fairly prolific with 10 different releases posted on this Rite listing. This one appears to be previously unlisted on any Rite discographies.

Photos courtesy of Leonard Yates.

The Chords : Jesus Music By The Band

The Chords

Jesus Music By The Band

Side one [32377]

Are You Gonna Be Ready
I Need Him
Do You Know Jesus
What Will You Do
I'm Making Plans

Side two [32378]

His Name Is Wonderful
Jesus Gave Me Life
I Know Jesus By Heart
Jesus Is Just Alright
Harmony Of Love



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Ernie Benedict on Canyon 101

Ernie Benedict and The Polkateers
28697 - Rock’n Roll Polka

Ernie Benedict and the Range Riders

28698 - It's Too Soon To Know

Ernie Benedict was born in Green River, Wyoming in 1917. The family moved to the west side of Cleveland, OH when Ernie was four. He attended West and East Denion grade schools and graduated from West Technical High School. It was in his school years at Ernie found his main ambition was to master the accordion.

His biography and discography can be found HERE.




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The Excuses on Vivace

23237 - Trick Bag

23238 - Keep On Climbing

Blue-eyed soul produced by Tim Whitsett




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WINN Singers & Orchestra on WINN Radio

The WINN Singers & Orchestra
WINN Radio 111240/1
13011 ~ Louisville, KY. (vocal)
13012 ~ Louisville, KY. (inst.)
Rite Acct. #1378 - 1964

This was created in 1964 to promote Louisville, Kentucky and WINN Radio 1240 AM. It was played on WINN Radio at the time and some copies were given away at dances and on-air promotions. They were playing an MOR format at the time. There's not a lot of these and best chance to find one was the immediate Louisville, Kentucky area.

Photo credits to Louisville musical historian, Leonard Yates.

The Delrays on Phart

Delrays
Label : Phart

31855 – Pure funk – Part 1
31856 - Pure funk – Part 2

Produced by John Wilcox
Recorded, re-mixed at Titan Sound Studio, Largo, Florida
Arrangement C. Robinson, L.Newsome

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Pete and Ron on Ark 303

Pete and Ron
Ark EP 303, Cincinnati, Ohio
11333 ~ Guide Me Every Day / Gospel Plough
11334 ~ End Of Time / Stop That Train

Rite Acct. #699 - Late 1963

Ark Records was Roy Shepard and Bill Lanham's (Sheplan Music BMI) very prolific Cincinnati, Ohio label featuring some great country, bluegrass and sacred music. Of their approximately 120 releases (all Rite pressings) only about 10-12 are still undocumented. Until recently, the record pictured above was one of the gaps in everyone's collection!

Photo credits to Al Turner.

Leon Collard on Spiral

Leon Collard
Spiral No# - Issued circa 1962
8293 ~ Honky Tonk Blues (country bopper)
8294 ~ Cold, Cold Heart (uptempo country)
Rite Account #898

This country bopper is another Rite pressing that has not been previously documented on any published listing. Thought to be from Kentucky but no information is available to confirm. If anyone can add any info about this release, please comment to this posting.

Photo credits to Louisville music historian, Leonard Yates.

W. VA. Ramblers

W. VA. Ramblers

Banjo – Bert Garvin
Bass – Keith Garvin
Guitar – Glen Bradshaw
Mandolin : Leonard Spurlock

32121 - Lord I Can't Make it Without You
32122 – W. VA. Stomp

Bluegrass

Bert Garvin was a railway worker from Flatwoods, Kentucky, close to the big Russell yards where a number of good musicians used to work. In his youth, Burt heard a great variety of banjo players, ranging from his father's clawhammer style to a number of ‘classical banjo’ virtuosos who played with four fingers. In high school, he became friends with the late fiddler Curley Parker who made a number of pioneer bluegrass recordings.