“I really don’t know if I should be telling this or not,” Rodgers confided, “But when I was about 14, I was playing Puffy’s Tavern ... usually playing guitar for Jim Galloway who played drums and cornet.
His first band — featuring John Wiggs, Jim Houston and Dan Owens — was the Discords, named for the group’s difficulty playing a string of the right notes in the right order. But that doesn’t mean the group didn’t quickly get it together.
In the late ’50s, and Rodgers played in The Continentals and the Mark IV, Bedford’s first rock show.
In addition to Rodgers, the band featured Myron Thomas, Jerry Smith, Dave Miller, Kenny Foddrill, Steve Brinegar, Terry Blackwood, Johnny Fender and sometimes Janie Turner and Janet Rodgers.
Claude "Lefty" Pritchett, a self-taught musician, was born in 1931 in Alabama, the son of Alabama sharecroppers. He had an ear for music at a young age, especially the guitar. "My first guitar was used. I paid $1.75 for it," he recalls.
His guitar playing and singing were constant companions when he joined the Army in 1950. Korea was his first stop after basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Serving with the Seventh Infantry Division in Korea, he organized a
country music group, which has became popular with the GI's
overseas. "Lefty Pritchett and His Country Rhythm Boys", as the group
was commonly known in Korea, played at service clubs, parties and entertainment programs in Korea. Pritchett wrote many of his songs
and broadcasted his original tunes on a weekly radio program
The troops weren't the only ones Claude serenaded. Korea is also where he met his future bride Bonnie. "I saw her for the first time with a dark corduroy uniform on and she had pigtails and she just took my heart away."
Claude also saw duty in Vietnam in the late 60's. And, yes, his guitar made the trip, too. "If I wasn't on duty I'd start playing and singing and all the troops would come around. We'd have a big jam session."
When Claude got back to the states he recorded one of the 150 songs he has written. It was called "Vietnam Rotation Blues." (*) Claude says over there they wanted to hear something about coming home, so that's why he wrote the song.
Once back home Claude became an Army recruiter. His guitar was one of his recruiting tools. "When (a recruit) would make up his mind to go, I would sing him a song and ask him when he wanted to leave. We'd have to send him to get his exam and everything. I always met my quota," Claude said with a big smile.
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*Released on Dee Lark Records, you can hear the song here
1024 The Clay County Playboys
featuring Yodelin' Stan
17785 - Night Train To Memphis
The Clay County Playboys
featuring Tex Jackson
17786 - Muleskinner Blues
1025 Tex Jackson And The Clay County Playboys Ronnie Reeves, rhythm
17961 - Nine Dang Pins (Sid Keiser, Cora Lee Music BMI)
17962 - We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds.
1026 Shirley Jean
backed by
the Clay County Playboys
18253 - It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' (Johnny Tillotson, Ridge Music)
18254 - I Want To Live Again
The Clay County Playboys performed in Upstate New York in the mid-sixties. The band featured Tex Jackson, Yodelin' Stan, Ronnie Reeves. Shirley Jean may (or not) have been member of the band. Lifetime Records of Rochester released these three successive records in 1966.
Jessie Lyn and her brother Richard Lynch continue today the family music tradition. See Cincinnati.com
Jessie Lyn Fisher grew up in a farm house in Lebanon. As a child, after a long day of work, she and her five siblings would sit around the kitchen table with their father and grab anything that could make music.
Sometimes it was a pan or a pair of cooking utensils. "We had a lot of music in that house and we had a lot of faith in that house," Fisher said.
CP-5985 – Please Answer Me
Written-By – Gene Scarbrough, Lloyd Hurt
Pamper Music Co, Inc. BMI
CP-5986 – A Dream Of You
Written-By – Gene Scarbrough
Pamper Music Co, Inc. BMI
Brock Records
2294 Pontiac St., Columbus, Ohio
Vocal with String Band
1961
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Eugene Jessie Scarbrough also recorded :
1957 — Starday 685 : Wanted / Lonesome For Someone 1960 — Hark 503 : Bluest One In Town / Running Away From Love 1964 — Del-Ray 216 : It All Depends On Linda / Think Twice Before You Go
The Silver Heart Gospel Singers Of Indianapolis, Indiana
Label : Executive
1966
Side 1 [16691]
1. I'll Flay Away (Lead William Starks And Brenda Miles) 2. Throw Out The Lifeline (Lead Lillian Anderson And Robert Turner) 3. His Eye Is On The Sparrow (Lead Brenda Dobbins 4. Yield Not To Temptation (Lead Lillian Anderson And Robert Turner) 5. His Goodness To You (Lead William Starks)
Side 2 [16692]
1. You Brought Me (Lead Lillian Anderson) 2. Closer To Thee (Lead Brenda Miles) 3. Don't Leave Me (Lead Robert Turner) 4. He Knows (Lead William Starks) 5. A Few Of His Bessings To Me (Lead Sandra Johnson)
Recorded by Commerical Features, 1415 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis
Personnel :
Sandra Johnson at the organ
John Bailey and Kenneth Collins at the piano Robert L. Duckett Turner, arranger, composer and lead Barbara Jean Adair, first soprano Lillian Jean Anderson, second sopano and lead Lillie Mae Farr, alto Brenda Ann Dobbins, alto and lead William Starks, tenor and lead
The Silver Heart Gospel Singers
Robert Turner and the Silver Heart Gospel Singers represent some of Indiana's finest traditional gospel. Formed in 1960 by then fifteen year old Robert Turner, the Silver Hearts have grown into an Indianapolis institution, singing at churches, church reunions, and community gatherings all over the region and organizing an over forty year old annual city-wide Gospel Extravaganza. Robert Turner sang his first solo, "Let God Abide" at four years of age, standing on a chair in front of his church, the Metropolitan Baptist Church. He joined the church's traveling choir at age 10, and in 1958 he heard the Clara Ward Singers at the Bible Way Baptist Church just around the corner from his home. Inspiration for the Silver Hearts was born on that night. Turner recalls his reaction to the Clara Ward Singers: "Five ladies, fabulous gowns, the music was piano and organ instead of the quartet/guitar sound I'd been raised on and it was like, 'WOW!'"
Capitol Star Artist Rochester, New York Produced by Fine Studios, Rochester, N.Y.
There was (originally) a sax player, Denny Puricelli, but he quit for
whatever reason. The group was formed in 1963 in Buffalo, New York.
During that year other members came and went.
Jimmy Crouse and Joey Calato were the ones who started the band. They
started out as The El Dorados, but one of the guys in the band wanted to
change the name to Alley-Oop & The Cavemen after the song,
‘Alley-Oop’ by The Hollywood Argyles. They all thought it was kind of
neat so they agreed. After a while they dropped the name to just “The
Cavemen” because macho man Al didn’t like being called Alley Oop.
The Cavemen primarily consisted of Joey Calato, drums; Jimmy Crouse, lead
guitar; Ron Gorski, rhythm guitar; Harry (Skip) Miecheski, bass guitar;
Al Cretacci, lead vocals; and Sammy Sparazza, keyboards. Sam joined
after the recording in 1966. Ron Gorski passed away in a car accident in
1969.
An Interview With Joey Calato and Jimmy Crouse can be found at 60sgarage Bands here
An alternate take of All About Love can be found here
GC, one of the producers, is possibly Gene Crawford, star of "Gold Coast Jubilee," which was beamed each Sunday over KTRK-TV, Houston. Billy Bownds recorded for at least two other Houston diskeries, namely Ark Records and Bow and Arrow Records.
The name Baca for more than a century has been a part of Texas history along with the famous “Baca Beat.” Gil Baca was the third generation Czech musician. He began his musical career at age 9. Gil began playing the piano at the age of fourteen and Kermit his brother was nine when he started playing the drums. In 1949 Gil and Kermit went on tour with Tennessee Ernie Ford and then went on to join Hank Thompson’s group that toured the USA and Canada. In 1952 Kermit was drafted into the U.S. Army where he formed his own band while stationed in Alaska for two years. Gil appeared on the Kate Smith Show and other top TV shows. Later Gil and Kermit formed their own band. The played at various Houston clubs and made appearances on Channels 11 and 13. Initially, they played popular tunes but that changed when Ray Baca, their father, joined them. They added polkas and waltzes to their repertoire. They recorded the famous Baca Waltz and Gil’s Polka. In 1967, they cut an LP featuring Ray Baca on the dulcimer.
1 It's A Grand Night For Singing (Accom. By The Findlay Civic Concert Band) 2 All The Things Your Are 3 Oklahoma 4 Climb Every Mountain 5 He's Watching Over Israel 6 Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Robert Feller, Solist, Accomp. By Judith Crosser And Keith Miller
Side Two (CP-6828)
1 South Pacific Medley (Harold Smith And Keith Miller, Solists) 2 March Of Freedom Accom. By Findlay Civic Concert Band 3 This Nation Under God Robert Busick And Ivan Oge-Narrators (Acomp By Findlay Civic Concert Band)
Director Richard M. Swisher Accompanist Judith Crosser And The Findlay Civic Concert Band Findlay Recording Co. Box 105 ,Findlay, Ohio
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Organized in May 1959 by a small group of employes in Ohio Oil's general offices, the chorus grew to more than a 90 voice group. Richard M. Swisher is director. The chorus presents a varied choral repertoire which includes religious hymns, spirituals, patriotic songs, show tunes and novelties.
The Tuff Nuff label was created by a
local business man Ritchie Martin, to promote Bob Hughes and his band. ( see GarangeHangover). Artists on the label were from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
This Ray Gambio release (or more exactly the publisher, Full Bloom Music) has a New York City address.
Ray Gambio has previously recorded as a member of The Del Rays (recordings on Planet, a Rhode Island label, and Carousel). See here
The King Is Coming He Touched Me Why Should I Worry Or Fret Victory In Jesus The Longer I Serve Him His Name Is Wonderful
Side Two [27664]
How Big Is God The Old Rugged Cross Made The Difference I've Been With Jesus Sweet Holy Spirit Without Him Lovest Thou Me
Cabut 2011
Cabut Recording Co.
516 South Shore Drive
Lima, Ohio 45804
Piano accompaniment - Mrs. Dennis L. Boss;
organ background music - Mrs Fred C. Isch;
photographer - Mr Keith Miller
The
Missionettes have been singing together for two years. They all are
members of the Shawnee Alliance Church,in Lima, Ohio. The accompanist,
Mrs. Dennis Boss is the mother of Debbie and Denise.
The Missionettes are sisters Debbie (17) and Denise (14) Ross and Kay Forney (18)
Star-Light 83151
both wr. Casteel-Clarida, Eagle Pass Pub. Sesac full names : Esther Casteel and Orville Clarida
1959
(Copyright: July, 20 and August, 3)
Little Miss Darlene is the daughterof Esther Casteel. She performed at early age in the early fifties on many programs from Los Angeles to Portland and recorded for the Western Ranch Music Record label which was owned by her mother. She was known then as Baby Darlene.
Esther Casteel was a three-quarter Sioux Indian adopted at an early age and reared by an English father and an Irish mother who had migrated to her native mid-west state. In 1940, she moved to California where she designed her own recording label - Western Ranch Music - in 1952 at Thornton.
Orville Clarida(1910-1990) C&W singer and sonwriter from Texas Orville Clarida was a member of the Florida County Music Hall of Fame in 1972. He wrote and recorded "Mother's Understanding Heart"; "Along the Rio Grande"; "The Smile on Your Face"; "Divided"; "Angel Queen."
Eagle Pass Pub. SESAC was started in 1956 by Dallas Eugene Turner in Hollywood.
Dallas Eugene Turner (1927-2014) aka Oregon's Favorite Yodeling Cowboy, The Roving Ranger, Yodeling Slim Dallas and Cowboy Dallas Turner.
Dallas Turner, a native of Yakima, Washington was considered the Pacific Northwest's most popular yodeling cowboy. His colorful life was enhanced by his frienship with his idol, Mexican border radio's Cowboy Slim Rinehart (1911-1948). who put the young cowboy on Mexican border radio where he worked for over thirty years, learning the art of bilking listeners with worthless elixirs between yodel songs. According to Dallas Turner :
There were only three things that would sell on the border (radio) and that was health, sex and religion. We had the Happy Relief Toenail Adjuster - there wasn't any demand for anything like that. How many people have an ingrown toenail? Very, very few. But if a man is impotent, he will pay any price to find something that will work. Or if it's religion, (they want) peace or success. And everybody wants good health. But you've got to get something that really is different. If it's something that they can go into an ordinary store and buy, they won't buy it from ya.
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Label picture and audio clip are from this ebay auction
CP-4135 - They Stuck To Their Guns
W.B. Sepaugh, Jr., Ca-Se-Mar (BMI) Bayou State (BMI)
Murco 1022
1960
Buddy Paul's real name was Buddy Sepaugh. He previously recorded for Mira Smith's Ram Records as Endom Spires in 1957 and, as member of The Four B's, for D Records in 1958. [1]
Buddy Paul co-produced with Mira Smith her “Country Store Party” show to tie up with the records released by her artists on Ram Records. The show was presented on Thursday night from The Venus Theatre, a 650 seat venue, located at 2426 Lakeshore Drive. The show was also performed at the Courtyard Theater Bldg located at 2400 Lakeshore Drive. He was also c&w disc jockey and commercial manager at KCIJ, Shreveport,
[1] The Four B's were a vocal group who worked on the Louisiana Hayride for four years from 1955. All their first names began with B. Brad Ingles was originally from Ohio but had been stationed in Louisiana. Buddy Sepaugh was from Shreveport, Bob Mc Gee was from Longview, Texas and Ben Nordine was from Shreveport. They had worked with Johnny Horton on his SESAC Repertory album and sang back-up on several Ram singles. Their record on D was their only single under their own name. (source : Colin Escott)
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