Ronnie Knull & The Sand on Tropical

Ronnie Knull & The Sand

Tropical 129

22323 - Leah
(Orbison)

22324 – Crawfish
(Weisman-Wise)

Two covers (Orbison and Presley's) issued in 1968.

I assume this is the same Ronnie Knull who covered another Presley song, "G.I. Blues", six years earlier on the Carroll label.

"Crawfish"
Performed by Elvis Presley and Kitty White in "King Creole" (1958)

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The Singing Hutsons : Truth

The Singing Hutsons
"Truth"

Rite 29805/6
Account # 5485

* Side 1:
Redemption Draweth Nigh
After Calvary
Too Much To Gain To Lose
I Should Have Been Crucified
Put Your Hand In The Hand.

* Side 2:
These Hands of Mine
Wish We'd All Been Ready
Father's Table Grace
Sheltered In The Arms of God
Exactly What I Need.

Tim Short - Drums;
Eddie Drake - Lead Guitar;
Dan Burton - Piano & Bass Guitar;
Engineer Phil Burkhard

From left to right : Roger, Sissy, Dad, Mom, Steve

The blurb from the back cover :

What does it mean to sing the Gospel ? It means getting up at 5 :00 in the morning and breaking your neck trying to get ready with your eyes half closed. It means carrying amps, mikes and countless other odds & ands into a camper that just isn’t big enough. It means traveling down the highway, getting lost, and arriving minutes before you go on.

Most of all, it means standing in front of a packed house and telling the good news about a man named Jesus. It means watching people, young and old, give their life to Christ. It means tears rolling down your face while the words of the song forms a lump in your throat. It means meeting teens & young people after the concert who have a thousand questions that need answers. It means friends & faces you some how never seem to forget. It means coming home, collapsing on the sofa, exhausted but happy and ready for the next concert, where you start all over again. At least that’s what it means to us, THE SINGING HUTSONS.

Roger 21, who is the organist of the group, can be found, when not singing or laying the organ, driving his red convertible with his white German Shepherd in the bucket seat next to him.

Sissy 17, is the « shorty » of the group. Although under 5 foot tall, she can burst out a song as good as anyone twice her size. Like some people have said, she’s the rose between two thorns.

Steve 18, is the tall talented one of the group. He can be found almost anywhere with a guitar trying to write a song, or rearranging an old one.

Then there’s the occasional heart warming song by Mom & Dad. They always seem to be there with their advise, suggestions and most of all, with their Love & Backing.

Singing the Gospel means all of this. It means standing on stage in front of a crowd of peaople, singing songs of Christ, Love, Salavation, and Heaven. It means singing the TRUTH.

This album has been recently proposed for the Manic Mark Magical Musical Moment Award. See Manic Mark's blog HERE where you'll be rewarded by two songs excerpt from the album.

No address on the back cover, but a precious little information that should be a lead : Roger Hutson, when not singing, is driving his red convertible with his white German Shepherd in the bucket seat next to him. Any witness?




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Betty Van on Clay

Betty Van

Clay Recording Co.
P.O. Box 1683
Cahokia, Illinois

21723 - Lovin’
21724 - Picking Up The Pieces Of My Heart
(Betty Van, Country Stream BMI)

1968

Country record on a Cahokia, Illinois label located very closely to East St. Louis (and for that matter, where was located the Country Stream publishing company).

According to Wikipedia, "Cahokia is home to Galactic Imperial Garbage Processing, a waste production and distribution facility."

A waste producer myself (with moderate output however, I can assure you), I didn't think until now to find myself a pseudonym.



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Buddy Martin With The Bowen Sisters

Buddy Martin With The Bowen Sisters

Broom 001
"Sweeping the Nation"
Billy Hogan Enterprises
Hunstville, Alabama

CP-5343 - Forgive Me God
(Ernest Ashworth) Acuff-Rose BMI

CP-5344 - Stay Happy

1961

Billy Hogan (1933-1994) is probably best known for his "Shake It Over Sputnik" issued in 1958 on his own Vena label. He wrote songs for Ernie Ashworth (1928-2009) and also acted as his manager at a time, according to this snippet found in Billboard (issue dated October 30, 1961) :

Billy Hogan, president of Broom Music Company, is slated to leave Huntsville, Ala., at 6 a.m. Wednesday (1) armed with a broom, and plans to walk and sweep his way, 115 miles, to WSM’s Country Music Festival in Nashville. Huntsville mayor, R.B. Searcy, is skedded to see him off. Hogan is putting the big sweep on Enrest Ashworth’s Decca recording of « Be MineAgain. » Hogan wrote the tune in collaboration with Rose Hall, and Hogan’s Broom Music is publisher. Billy hopes to land in Nashville sometime Friday (3).

Picture credit : eBay http://myworld.ebay.com/investorinc/?_trksid=p4340.l2559

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Marv Herzog : Peanuts Polka

Marv Herzog

Sound 178

21035 - Peanuts Polka
21036 - How Beautiful Is Youth

Marvin Otto Herzog was born August 9, 1932, on a farm in Frankenmuth, Michigan, to Otto and Clara Brenner Herzog.

Music played an important role in the Herzog home. The family, together with their friends, enjoyed many evenings singing the old German songs handed down through the generations. Most Saturday nights, the Herzog family would be in the kitchen, listening to the radio tuned to the Grand Ole Opry, live from Nashville, Tennessee, and on Sunday mornings after church, they tuned into WFDF radio station in Flint, Michigan, for the Polka Show. From those early beginnings, the old German songs from his father, the country music from the Grand Ole Opry, and the polkas and waltzes from WFDF came the style of music that is uniquely "Marv Herzog."

From Marv Herzog website



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Sherriff (no label)

Sherriff

41507 - Ravenna, Ohio (Paul Whitaker)

41508 - Rosemary Marie (Willard Smith)

Recorded at Brittain Square Sound on 10/06/80, a studio located in Peninsula (Ohio) owned by Eric Broviak.
Sherriff, rock band, included Gerry, Willard Smith, Paul Whitaker, Dick Bolling and Kevin Grothe.





Acknowledgements : http://myworld.ebay.com/talisman778/ (eBay)




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Charlie Feathers on Vetco

Vetco 921
5825 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio

37471 - Will You Be Satisfied That Way (Jimmie Skinner)
37472 - It's Just That Song (Raymon Maupin)

Vetco 922

5825 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio

37473 - We're Getting Closer (Charlie Feathers)
37474 - You Make It Look So Easy

All four songs in one (zipped) file

"Vetco Records, a Cincinnati label started in the late 1960s by Lou Ukelson, was housed in the Jimmie Skinner Music Center on Vine Street. The label started out with some old-time music reissues, but it became better known for its albums by young Ohio bands like the Hotmud Family, Hutchison Brothers, Falls City Ramblers and Katie Laur Band and by older mainstream bluegrass artists like Mac Wiseman, Charlie Moore, Earl Taylor, Jim McCall and Paul “Moon” Mullins."

Charlie Feathers discography


Acknowledgments : Uncle Gil




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Carlton May & Pete Runnels on Knight

Knight L&F NO 111/112

Carlton May

10217 - Please Don't Go
(C.May, Neches Music BMI)
sample

Pete Runnels

10218- McDonald’s Place
(Runnels, Neches Music BMI)

sample

Sound samples credit : eBay http://myworld.ebay.ca/breakaway-records/

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Bro. Robert Armstrong, Jr. on B:A

Bro. Robert Armstrong, Jr.
Thunderbolt Number Two
Of Oklahoma

A. McDonald, Organist - D. Scott Pianist;

B:A 1101

104 Brighton Avenue
Bessemer
Alabama

10705 - This is it (Armstrong)
10706 – Live the Life You Sing About

Label pictures credit : e-bay http://myworld.ebay.com/kitzkatz/?_trksid=p4340.l2559




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Tommy Crank on Tyro

Tommy Crank and the Gospel Rangers

Tyro A-0001

15977 – Weighed in the Balance; Trouble the Water
15978 - The Night I First Prayed; You Gotta Pray

Sample

Label picture & audio sample : credit http://myworld.ebay.com/funkyou%21/



William Thomas Crank was born on April 13th, 1926 in the mountainous region of Jackson County, Kentucky. The youngest of six children born to George and Sarah Jane Crank, Tommy as they would come to call him, was born with tuberculosis and premature at the mere weight of just two and a half pounds. With limited means, his parents would rely on their faith in God alone to heal their baby boy. Although his size made it very difficult for the youngster to survive, their continued love and prayers were sure to be answered... Read More HERE




The only reference I can find to another release on the same label is Tyro 11 - San Francisco Trolley Co., "Signs" b/w "Rain Bow Heaven", produced by Tommy Crank. (not pressed by Rite Records). Songs were published by I-R-M-A Inc.

I.R.M.A. records, or International Rural Music of America, was a production company that Tommy began in order to record albums for himself and numerous other bluegrass artists. Folks like Wade Mainer, Lowell Varny and The Sons of the Gospel were just a few that recorded on the I.R.M.A. label. Lovingly named for his wife...

The San Francisco Trolley Co. band is wrongly believed to be a San Francisco band...

Very different from the music produced by Tommy Crank!

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The Looper Trio : Life Beyond Death

The Looper Trio

Midwest Gospel Sound Records

28953 – Life Beyond Death
(Melba and Earl Montgomery

28954 - On the Other Side of Jordan

Two songs from the album LIFE BEYOND DEATH on the same label, label headed by Brother Norman Livingston.




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Andy Sommers And The Stringshifters

The Stringshifters
17001 ~ Honky Tonk Guitars (instrumental)

Andy Sommers And The Stringshifters
17002 ~ My Sugar And Me (Vocal)

Nu★Sound★Records

4280 Birchwood Ave. N.E.

Louisville, OH

Owner: Leonard Woodward

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Charlie Hicks on Renown

Charlie Hicks

Renown 112

CP-2364 - Tonight
CP-2365 - Impressed

Renown Records, small label out of Durham, North Carolina was owned by Howard Rambeau.



Impressed enough were Lou Caposi and Bill Lawrence, owners of Calico Records in Pittsburgh, as the Renown single was re-issued on their label.

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Curly Dan & Wilma Ann on Happy Hearts

Curly Dan & Wilma Ann
with the Danville Mt. Boys
Featuring
Ronnie Ewert Banjo
Charlie Tuttle Mandolin

Happy Hearts 134

10391 ~ South On No. 23 SAMPLE
10392 ~ Original Ballad of Jessie James

1963

★ ★ ★ ★

Curley Dan & Wilma Ann

* Originally from Clay, West Virginia. Moved to Detroit, Michigan and performed there for most of their career.
* Real names: Denslie "Curley Dan" Holcomb and Wilma Ann Holcomb.(husband and wife)
* Formed their band in 1955.
* One of the first bluegrass acts to perform and record in the Detroit area.
* Dan worked for the Chrysler Corporation.
* Carmen Flatt (second cousin of Lester Flatt) was a member of their band. (He died in 1993).
* Retired from performing in the early 1980's.

Curly Dan Holcomb played a significant role in the growth and popularity of bluegrass music in the southeast Michigan region. He was a song writer, second
to none, with many great songs such as I’d Better Drink Up and Go, Mixed up Life, My Little Rose, and South on 23.



Pictures and audio sample credit : eBay http://myworld.ebay.com/nubb123/




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Jay-Kay 111/112

Jay-Kay 111/112
607 W. Yandell
El Paso Texas

Johnny Behrens and The Jay-Bees

CP-4343 - All Because Of You


Sam Baker and The Jay-Bees

CP-4344 - Island Of Regret

1960


Second issue was on Donna 1332 (Del-Fi subsidiary)

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The Venetian Blinds on Grudge

The VENETIAN BLINDS

Grudge Records 1651
470 Springwood
San Antonio, Texas

19961 ~ Just Knowin' You Love Me

19962 ~ Quit Your Belly Achin' Baby

A Ric Jansen Production

A-side is garage/British Invasion, while the B-side is in a Roy Head & the Traits' vein (Treat Her Right-styled)
Mike Nolen is credited as the co-arranger on the side one.


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Bobby Smith on Fox

Bobby Smith

Fox 104

CP-2797 ~ Bevy Mae

CP-2798 ~ She's Gone From Me

One of the last record on this Detroit label, owned by George Braxton

★ ★ ★

Detroit, Michigan, 1957. Don Davenport, a member of the Romeos, a local vocal group, knew a guy named George Braxton, who owned a real estate agency and was also a director of a local magazine for kids, called Teen Life. Don convinced him to record them. As a result, George Braxton started the Fox label

Braxton was a guy, says Don, who "wanted to get into the business. He thought he could sing (and even attempted to cut a record on Brax called 'Hey Ellen'). George also liked getting into anything where he thought there was money."

Seeking more involvement, Don even drew the picture of the fox for the Fox label. The company was called "Fox" because, says Don, "George always made jokes about being sly as a fox. So he came up with the name, and I drew the label pic." The label was headquartered at 15836 Plymouth Road in Detroit, which just happened to be the address of the real estate agency.

More George Braxton labels followed, between 1957 and 1960 :

Teen-Life (Jimmy Kirkland, The Serenaders, Nick Forrest)

Brax (The Five Dapps, Woodie Davis, Mike Hanks and the Contours)

Chant (The Four Imperials, Lucky Lee, Tom Clay and the Rayber Voices)

and Dial (Danny Zella, The Four Imperials, The Sabres)

Credits : Rockin' Country Style (label pictures)
Marv Goldberg - The Romeos
Buffalo Bop CD 55028 (Date Bait) (audio files)




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Ron And The Runabouts

Ron And The Runabouts

Small Town 1002

23103 - Just One Little Dream (Mierzwa, Glassel)
23104 - -Just One Little Dream (Glassel) (Instrumental)

Produced By Bill a Dale

Acknowlegments :Http://Myworld.Ebay.Com/Rerun45/




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Slick Lawrence on Squire

Slick Lawrence

Squire 305

CP-4893 ~ Little Mama

CP-4894 ~ No One Can Tell

The Paramounts with Lloyd Maynard

The Paramounts
CP-4965 ~ Night Clubbin' [instr.]

The Paramounts with Lloyd Maynard
CP-4966 ~ I Want A True Love

Fern 810

The Paramounts' name was spelled Par-A-Mounts (backing band on Fern 812, Billy Adams) and Paramonts on another Fern release.

Fern Records discography




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