The Voice and Harp of Harvi Griffin

The Voice and Harp of Harvi Griffin
(no label, 1971)

Side 1  [27039]

Lara's Theme

Jean
Greensleeves
The Shadow Of Your Smile

Satin Doll   

Side 2  [27040]

Misty
Watch What Happens    
Traces    
Never On Sunday    
A Time For Us

Harvi Griffin, a pioneer in electric harp, grew up in Detroit and at age 14, he was playing the piano and stringed and wind instruments. He first became interested in harp under the instruction of Velma Froude.  While continuing his private instruction with Froude, Griffin earned a degree in arts and drama from Michigan State University.  He died in 2005.

Harvi Griffin's picture is from the Coalition of Harpists of African Descent website

The Enalpria on Moonport

The Enalpria

20999 ~ You Keep Me Hangin' On
21000 ~ Purple Haze

Moonport MNPT-100

From limestonelounge:

My name is Ted [Williams] and was a founding member and lead vocalist/guitarist with "Enalpria" in Cocoa Beach during the mid to late 60's. The other members of the group were: Lynn Maddock (Lead Guitar), Kim Holmes (Bass), Bill Ball (Drums) and Danny Rodriguez (Keyboards). We did have two other members initially (Johnny Strong (Drums) and Dennis Brickey (Keyboards) however, they left the band early in our"career" Unfortunately Lynn and Bill passed away a few years back, Kim went on to bigger and better things (Under Secretary of State during the Bush years) and Danny is an unknown.

I  went off to college in late '69 and spent some 20 years in and around Aspen, Colorado working in the resort industry and playing music in taverns, clubs, festivals, etc. 

Purple Haze (clip)

Ex-Enalpria bassist Kim Holmes

DeBow : The Unicorn Project

DeBow

[41015] -Crime
[41016] - Improve Yourself

(Rite numbers in dead wax)

    Presented by The Unicorn Project
    Producer : Ray Johnson
    Written-by Clinton Coleman

A Neighborhood Anti-Crime Program, funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

A community project 45 given away free to promote anti-crime in Louisville, Kentucky. Members of DeBow are Joe Debow and Rick Debow + four.

Crime

Improve Yourself

 ⁂

 

Note: images courtesy of  discogs

Luke Hollandwsorth

Luke Hollandwsorth
P. O. Box 15544, Tulsa, Okla. 74115
Time is Running Out!

1972

Side I [30261]

1. Current Events in Bible Prophecy
2. Startling Newspaper Headlines
3. Does God See This Generation?
4. Ecumenical Churchanity

Side II [30262]

1. The United States in Bible Prophecy
2. The Setting Up of Tribulation Events
3. The World Racing to Disaster
4. The Greatest Event of the Ages

Rev. Luke Hollandwsorth"The Walking Bible"

clips

Vera Bloom

Vera Bloom

 22881 - Now It's Raining  
22882 - Baby What You Want Me to Do

Arr by Sherry Taylor, produced by Scotty's studio

Vera Blum (or Bloom), country singer and musician (electric bass). She started playing music at age 14 and has played in several country bands since then. Vera says she “made a few records but did not have a hit. I used the name Marie Mills because they didn’t think Vera Blum would do anything for the public. Neither did Marie Mills.” Vera lives in Wright City and continues a busy musical career.

Vera Blum was, with Dennis Boren, the main stars of the Oran Brook's All-Star Midwest Opry at the end of the sixties. She still performs today in Missouri with the Silver Wings Band.

Pete Martin And The Versatile Keys

Pete Martin And The Versatile Keys

26991 - Peace Of Mind
26992 - You Can't Take It   

wr. Lenny and Lu Groah

prod. by Lenny Groah

Mike Williams (Trackdown Records)

Mike Williams
Pleasing You
Trackdown Records
Glens Falls, New York 12801
1983

RR-42581-A

1    Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On    
2     Georgia    
3     Pleasing You    
4     All The Girls Get Prettier At Closing Time    
5     Please Release Me    
6     Johnny Be Good    

RR-42581-B

1     I Can't Stop Lovin' You    
2     Blue Suede Shoes    
3     39 And Holding
4     Your Cheatin' Heart    
5     Miguel's Tango    
6     Roll Over Beethoven

    Recorded At – Track Down Recording Studios
    Printed By – Sperry Printing Company

Credits
    Chief Recording Engineer – Alan W. Prince
    Director Of Arts And Repertoire – Norma B. Dixon
    Photography – Richard Durling

Trackdown Recording Studio
Cor. Lawrence and Walnut Sts.
Glens Falls,New York 12801
(518)793 3876

Pleasing You is the name of this album. It's also Mike Williams' musical destiny. He sings, plays and entertains from his heart. A purity many musicians never possess.

At the age of 10 Mike sat down at the piano and picked out "What Now My Love.3 since then, he has peformed many songs.  Some of his favorites are here on this, his first album. Mike can be seen and heard "Pleasing You", the public, at various night spots throughout the Glns Falls area. The "Gibson Girl", Heritage Hall in the Glens Falls Civic Center, and at Chateau de Louis.  Mike is also a guest vocalist with the popular Albany based group "The Valentinos"

sample (Johnny B. Good)

"The" Four Winds

"The" Four Winds

15771 – Hear The Sound
(Joe Keefe) Kennewick Pub. Co. (BMI)

15772 - The Enemy
(Ken Finley) Kennewick Pub. Co. (BMI)

Sound Recorded By
Westland
Box 591 Richland, Washington

♦

Joe Keefe, Ken Finley, Sharon Scharnhorst & Julie O'Conner made up the 4 Winds.  

 

Joe teaches guitar in Kennewick and is married to Sharon Scharnhorst who is now a retired teacher from the Pasco district. Kenneth Finley is a minister in the Tacoma area. Julie is an artist who makes furniture out of tree branches & Patty is a teacher in California.

Joe and Ken used to play and sing at church and in Seekers (West Side United Protestant college and career age youth group with participants from most Richland churches)

♦

Acknowledgements: Artifacts In Wax blog (who posted label shots and audio files)

Dave Jackson on Valerie (LP)

Dave Jackson

Singing Folk Style Music

Morning Town Ride

(Valerie VR 7000)

Side One (21373)

1     Morningtown Ride     M. Reynolds   
2     Barbara Allen     Traditional Ballad
3     Colours            Donovan
4     Coulter's Candy     Will Milter
5     Young Man     R. Phoenix
6     All My Trials     Green Carter
7     Balladeer     Anderson  - Cook

Side Two (21474)

1     I Wonder Where I'm Bound     Tom Paxton
2     Turn Around     Reynolds, Greene, Belafonte
3     Long Black Veil     M. Wilkins, D. Dill
4     Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen     Rod Mckuen
5     No Other Name     P. Stokey
6     Cruel War      Yarrow - Stokey
7     Hi De Ank Tum     Ashley
8     Turn Turn Turn     Pete Seeger
9     Man Of Constant Sorrow Traditional


A collection of 16 folk songs on the Valerie label, a subsidiary of Band Box Records (Denver, Colorado)

More info at the Elk Bugles blog here

The album appeared to be a product of the Custer County Independent School District, based out of Westcliffe. The school’s science teacher, Jerry Dolby, is listed as the school sponsor of the recording.

Attempts to locate Dave Jackson were unsuccessful.

Acknowledgments :  Discogs (has incorrect date of release)

McLister on L & M

McLister
14053 -     Discarded Love
14054 - New Angel In Heaven

Folk singing with dobro & rhythm

L & M Recording Company
1965

Floyd L. McMillin wrote the B side.  From unknown part of the country. Does anyone known something about tis record?

Isi Doro on Band Box

Isi Doro

23825 - Out In The Cold Again
23826 -  Oh, Love Divine

Band Box 390
1969

Tyrone Wilson on Gateway

Tyrone WILSON

CP-1122 – Lonesome Blues
CP-1123 - My Baby's Gone

Gateway 24056

Both sides written by Tyrone Wilson. Early custom from 1956 probably recorded by Carl Burkhardt at his Gateway Studios.  The label is not part of the  various "in-house" Gateway series and this is a blues record, a musical genre rarely heard on a Rite press.

Jimmy Gatlin on J-L-G Productions

Jimmy Gatlin & Singing Stars
34611 - God Is Standing By
(J. Taylor)
34612 - Sisters & Brothers
(C. Johnson)
JLG Productions
produced by Big Jay

1975

Jimmy Gatlin,  a Vietnam vet, once entertained troops in times of agony and pain and once sang at the Grand Ole Opry.  He is certainly the man described here in a Blue Monday magazine issue from 2014 :

A churchly ceremony kicked off the day, with a pastor’s invocation, from a stage in the middle of the lawn: “We thank you, God, for this shad fry occasion and we pray that it continues to extend your blessing and bring the community together.” A local man named Jimmy Gatlin, who said he once sang at the Grand Ole Opry, crooned gospel to programmed Casio music, hammering out occasional embellishments with his left hand. He kept it up, heroically, all day long.

Honeybee Productions has posted six years ago some videos of Jimmy here

 

Out from Chadbourn (North Carolina), once the Strawberry Capital of the World, J-L-G Productions was active in 1974 and 1975, issuing  singles by The Mighty Echoes of Elizabeth, N.C., The Ward Sisters from Evergreen, N.C. and Sister Linda Rogers, all pressed by Rite Records.

Soul, Inc. on Trepur

Soul, Inc.

17109 ~ Work It On Out
17110 ~ Ode To A Girl

Trepur 1019

Only record for this Pine Mountain/West Point, Georgia garage band which included Larry Bowie, John Whitley, Lavonne Moon and Phil Whitley.  Larry Bowie, who wrote both songs on this release, later played with The Continentals (1965), Rock Garden (1968) and The Backalley Bandits (1978)

Larry Bowie

The Cavemen (Capitol Star Artist)

The Cavemen

18285 ~ All  About Love
(Albert Cretacci, Jr., Red Pol Music Co. BM)

18286 ~ Bo Diddley (E. McDaniels)

Capitol Star Artist

Rochester, New York

1966

Produced by Fine Studios, Rochester, N.Y.

Members of this band were:Al Cretacci,Jim Crouse,Skip Maciezewski, Ron Gorski and Joey Calato.

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 Cretacci didn’t like being called Alley Oop.  

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.

(The band 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.

Ditalians on Saxony

Ditalians

18025 : Philly Dog New Breed

18026 :  Egypt Land

 

composer: Bruce Torbert

producer:  Bud Reneau

arranger: Dale Warren

Saxony 1011

A Cincinnati label, owned by Paul Trefzger and Bud Reneau. The Saxony label released fourteen 45s (the last two using the Trip name).

The Ditalians had about 9 voices in that group. One of the all-time basketball greats, Oscar Robinson, brought them to Saxony Records.   The Ditalians went on to become 24-Carat Black on Stax.

http://www.saxonyrecordcompany.com/story-2.html

Philly Dog New Breed

Egypt Land

Deacon Blakely And The Fantastic Jordanairs

Deacon Blakely And The Fantastic Jordanairs

35623 -  Jesus Is The Only Friend I Have (Raiford Hinton)
35624 - Trouble All About My Soul (Eugene Corley)

No Label 0054J-B

For Bookings: R. Hinton C Graystone Apt. Columbia, S.C. 29210

1975

Jesus Is The Only Friend I Have  

Gene, Keith, and the Morgan Brothers

Gene, Keith, and the Morgan Brothers

LP "Are You Afraid To Die"

 1971
Recording engineer: Bob Bowery
Recorded by Rite Records
no label

Side One [28061]

Are You Afraid To Die; Precious Moments; Green Pastures; Wooden Altar;Working On A Building; No Time To Lose;

Side Two [28062]

Preachin' Prayin' Singin'; That Same Road; Heavenward Bound; Just An Old Time Church; Judgement Day;Trouble In The Amen Corner

Gene Dutton from Paintsville, Kentucky, on the mandolin and singing bass - Keith Hammons from Webster Springs, West Virginia on the five sring banjo and singing lead - The Morgan Brothers, Freeman and Paul from Logan, West Virginia, Freeman playing flat top guitar and singing baritone, Paul playing the string bass and singing tenor.

Are You Afraid To Die

Jim Staats And The Urban Gentlemen

Jim Staats And The Urban Gentlemen

24885 - Two Ten Six Eighteen

24886 - For Lovin' Me
(Gordon Lightfoot) ASCAP

 Gideon Records

recorded by J. Roper

1969

Jim Staats has been involved in several facets of the music industry as a musician and singer; fronting bands in 50-60's rock and country and guided his daughter Mirinda James' career to local and national prominence as a Nashville recording artist with several album projects and national touring.   As a songwriter, Staats has penned several country songs recorded by Mirinda James and other artists including Alex Craig,  Colleen Trendell and gospel songs "For God & Country". Staats also formed Big House Entertainment Group, Inc. ICR Records and Megahurts Music, BMI to provide studio and live production for emerging country artists.  Jim Staats can also be found on YouTube performing his song - "Take Back America" in protest to government that has lost touch with it's citizens.

    Founder of North Country Music Awards, Staats embarks on building an organization that recognizes and promotes people in the Country Music industry through out the northern states Jim Staats is  a "Lifetime Member" of the Cortland NYS Country Music Hall Of Fame, also affiliated with CMA, BMI, NYSAAF & NSAI

The Willows on Rocket

 

The Willows

CP-6305 - Trail Of Tears

Hank Titus & Jim Titus

Hillsboro Music & Acklen Music (BMI)

CP-6306 - Padre Island

 (?)

Rocket 2229

1961

Instrumentals by a band from Oklahoma on the Rocket custom label. The Rocket label were just one of dozen of custom labels produced by the Globe recording studios in Nashville, Tennessee [Ray & Lindy, Bob Rhule, The Velvets & more]. Guitarist Hank Titus were also in a band from Bristow, Oklahoma in the early sixties.

Amos Henry Titus  1937-2013