Saturday, July 4, 2009

The Victors on Sage

19591 ~ Please Forget About Me (Charles J. Holmes, Rolando Music, BMI) 1:46

19592 ~ Hold On I'm Comin' (Hayes & Porter, East Pub. Co. BMI) 2:12

The Victors
Sage 101
Box 549, Kennett, Missouri




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John Tenuto on Cherry


Cherry
30799 - Kneel Down And Cry
30800 - Baby Baby

Largo, Florida R&B/Soul

The Dynamics on R-J


R-J 1008
CP-6109 – the Road Runner
CP-6110 - Dynamite
1961

Southgate MI

"Dynamite" written by J.Knight, D.Holt, B.Brent, A.Bassier (or Bassler?) and M.Byrnes.

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Bill Spivery and the Sons Of Truth

Dee-Jay

22725 - Non-Violent Man
(A tribute to the late Dr King]

22726 - I Can't Throw No Stones

Arr. & produced by the Sons of Truth

Singer, songwriter, arranger, record producer, manager, founder, playwright, and religious annoncer, Bill Spivery was an on-air personality in Cleveland for over 40 years. He wrote one of the most popular gospel songs to come out of Cleveland : « Operator, Get Me Jesus On the Line ».

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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.

Sister Maggie Merckson

Sister Maggie Merckson

24785 - It's A Time In The U.S.A.
hear
24786 - Handmade Servant


Gusman 106
1969

Black Gospel, Savannah, Ga.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Jack Fraley (Westland)


Jack Fraley

Westland

18431 - Trust in Me
18432 - Wanderer

Richland, Washington country

Freddie & The Swingin' Bachelors

Freddie & The Swingin' Bachelors

Knoll
15205 ~ You Had Your Chance
15206 ~ Snookie Baby
1965
You Had Your Chance was also recorded in 1962 by Bobby Boyle (Bryte 250).

N.B. : A Knoll label discography can be found HERE



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Shelley Stuart & the Satellites

Sterling 602

30467 - You Will Reap What You Sow
[dead wax info : 111 30467 PMB Sterling S-602 11-30-72]

30468 - Little Black Shoes
[dead wax info : 111 30468 PMB Sterling S-602 11-30-72]



Weird teen tragedy song "You Will Reap..." about taking too many pills and jumping off a high building - The flip side is Little Black Shoes which has the feel of an old country ballad - not exactly but the general feel.

Ack. : Bruce Smith/Cassidy Collectibles

Monday, June 29, 2009

the Shelltones (Band Box 355


12757 - Blue Castaway
12758 - Mark's Blues

"A Denver-based group, the Shelltones would likely have participated in the vibrant teen rock ‘n’ roll scene that extended north to Boulder and Fort Collins and south to Colorado Springs in the early and mid-‘60s.

The eerie “Blue Castaway,” written by Cary Theil, the group’s bassist, would be the Shelltones’ only commercial release. The perfect vessel for the cavernous production qualities of Band Box’s south Broadway studios, “Blue Castaway” takes the tremolo-driven atmospherics of the Islanders’ “Enchanted Sea” and the Safaris’ “Lonely Surf Guitar” and, to a certain degree, the Viscounts’ “Harlem Nocturne” to some new, lonelier place.

Flipside “Mark’s Blues,” another instrumental, features the hot fretwork of guitarist Mark Bretz. After the Shelltones, Bretz would play keyboards with Denver-area garage band the Wild Ones in the mid-‘60s before joining, as guitarist, a late incarnation of Boulder’s nationally-known rock ‘n’ rollers the Astronauts in 1967. Bretz would remain with the Astronauts through their name change to SunshineWard before settling in Denver for a career as a music teacher."

Office Naps


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Friday, June 26, 2009

Unknown’s (Marlo 1537)


Unknown’s
Marlo 1537 (Import Series)
14991 - You Want Me Too
14992 - Baby's In Black

A U.K. recording

Norm Burns (Sterling 620)


Norm Burns & The Five Stars
Sterling 620

31049 – Gonna Keep You Warm (David R. Joseph, Lew Tobin)
31050 – I Ain’t Got Nothing (A. Russell Henderson Sr., Lew Tobin)

Arranger : R. Baker


Song-poem record found HERE today.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Billy Orr on Bryte

Billy Orr
Bryte

17739 - He Wears A Green Beret
17740 - My Brother

Country

Monday, June 22, 2009

Mickey and the Motions

Mickey and the Motions
Label : Gemini
15225 - I Do
15226 - Long Tall Texan

Hills Sound Service
Worcester, Mass.



I Do

The Sexton Family : Born to Serve the Lord

The Sexton Family
Born to Serve the Lord
Rite #17479/17480

Side 1:

1) Born To Serve The Lord; 2) Only One Heartbeat From Him; 3) Something Got Hold Of Me; 4) I Want To Walk Just As Close As I Can; 5) In The Upper Room.

Side 2:

1) He's A Friend I Can Tell My Troubles To; 2) God Understands; 3) He Touched Me; 4) The Man Of Galilee; 5) Oh, Glory To His Name; 6) Deeper Than The Stain Has Gone.




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Dynamic Givenaires

Dynamic Givenaires
41797 - God Won't Put No More On You
41798 - Master Move This Bitter Cup

Black male quartet recorded by Bill Lamb Productions, Flint, Michigan

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Reedemed Gospel Singers

The Reedemed Gospel Singers
"On My Knees In Prayer"
Rite #39475/39476. .

Goshen Indiana gospel singers.


Saturday, June 20, 2009

"Baby Dave" Greenlee on Steelcity

Baby Dave Greenlee
Steelcity 0001

23869 - We Need Love
23870 – ‘Bout My Baby’s Love

Rite account # 3099
1969

Soul on a Pittsburgh, Pa. label.

The Toads

The Toads
LP 64-021
#12611/12612
Track listing :
Morpheus
Movin'
Stranger on the Shore
Sleepwalk
Baja
Will You Still Love Me?
Checkmate
You Can't Sit Down
A Love Affair
New Wrinkle
Penetration
Ebb Tide
Medley : Money, Wipe Out,What'd I Say')
* Guitar : Rog Hegeman
* Basse : Pat Lynch
* Drums : Dusty Stretch
* Lead singer : Ben Kitchen
From 1964, out of Lawrenceville,New Jersey, comes The Toads with their self-titled LP on no name label. It was produced by Kenneth Raymond Wight Associates,Princeton New Jersey. Garage frat record instrumental. They sound a bit like The Ventures. Mostly covers.

The group was the pride of the Lawrenceville Prep School in Lawrenceville,New Jersey! The group was anchored by Dusty Stretch on drums. Dusty Stretch and another group member had been, several years earlier, in the Lawrenceville Prep School Band, Davy And The Badmen. The other two members had been in the Chessmen, another Lawrenceville band!


Morpheus



Michael Angelo (Guinn LP)

Michael Angelo
LP Guinn 1050
11517 N. Oak K.C. Mo. 64155

Side one -- 38413
Flight Of Pegasus
Oceans Of Fantasy
The World To Be
Lost In The Pain
Checkout
Side Two – 38414
Bon Jour Mr. VIP
Journey
Inner Reflections
Field Of Lonely Eyes
Future
Rite account number 5767

Michael Angelo :
I was born in 1954 in Topeka, KS, but raised in Kansas City, MO. My full name is Michael Angelo Nigro. I began my recording career in 1975 by becoming a studio musician at Liberty Recording in Kansas City. Between recording commercials and backing other artists I started doing my own recordings. This was the birthplace of the original Michaelangelo album. After about a year I left Liberty Recording to become a studio musician at Big-K records, also in Kansas City. By coincidence Big-K used the same type of recording equipment as Liberty Recording, so I finished mixing the first album there. It was released under the Guinn label in 1977 and was a limited release with only 500 of them pressed.
Read more HERE

Bon Jour Mr. VIP

Children stare into space,
And contemplate a mongrel race,
Of those who eat our bones with grace,
With sin dehind their faces.
Thirsty men will dig their wells,
And drink the words that they will sell,
And hear the lies that they will tell,
Or change the words in places.
Bon Jour Mr. VIP, you’ve fooled us well,
You’ve mastered your deception so well, so well,
Greedy fools will sell their soul,
And masquerade from hot to cold,
And then deny their being told,
With grins upon their faces.
Corporations smear the count,
And terminate the ones who dought,
The righteous wrong of their amount,
And leave to them no traces.
Respective hippocritic thieves,
Who swear to God and make believe,
The truth is all that they perceive,
While dollar bills he chases.
They’re the cancer of our times,
Suppressing us into the binds,
Of this is yours and that is mine,
Your names he then erases.
If you like what you've heard, get the full album HERE.