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Eternity Express

February 16, 2013, 7:56 am
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 Eternity
Ken Gaub Evangelistic Ass'n Records
Yakima, Washington
LP 200

1973

Side One   #32339

 Turn It Over To Jesus (Hildebrand)
 I Should Have Been Crucified (Jensen)
 Jesus Made Me Higher (Omartian)
 Looking Back (Helms)
 Say I Do (Hildebrand)

Side Two   #32340

 For Those Tears I Died (Stevens)
 I've Got Confidence (Crouch)
 Jesus That They Need (Mills)
 Whish We'd All Been Ready (Norman)

Credits :

Nathan Gaub - Vocal, Bass
Mike Gaub - Vocal, Drums
Dan Gaub - Guitar & Arranging

Cover Photo - Peter Eisele Photos -Michigan City, Ind.
Special Credit -Patsy Garrett - Piano
Recording Engineer - Phil Burkhardt

From the back cover :

Music travelling and appearing before crowds is nothing new for this group.  Nathan, at eighteen, has been singing for seventeen yeats;  Mike, at nineteen, although he just starting travelling with his brother, Ken, has been involved in church work with his father for years;  Dan, at fifteen, has also been involved in music for fourteen years and is now arranging the music for this group.  All three of these young men love the Lord. Let me introduce to you "ETERNITY"  Ken Gaub




Eternity Express II 
Ken Gaub Evangelistic Ass'n Record
Yakima, Washington
LP 201

1974

Side One   #34073

01 – Jesus Is The Way
02 – Where Could I Go
03 – Front Seat Back Seat
04 – I’ll See You In The Rapture

Side Two  #34074

01 – Freedom
02 – Rock And Roll
03 – Be Nice To The Little Guy
04 – You Should Have Come Sooner

Photos : Peter Eisele Photos -Michigan City, Ind.

You can listed to "Where Could I Go" and "Freedom" courtesy of Mark Betcher HERE



platform shoe
detail from the cover of LP 200




The roots of Eternity Express began to form when Mike, brother of evangelist Ken Gaub, joinded with Nathan and Dan as a back-up band for the ministry.  The name they developed began to stick and the musical portion of the services began to take a more prominent roll.  Unlike many bands who set aside weeks to record, Eternity Express grabbed a day or two per album while on the road.

The two albums were reviewed by Jesus Music expert Ken Scott,  Read the review HERE

There were further records on New Born and Skylite Records.  Eternity Express roster changed over the years and later (1984) included Nathan's wife, Dawndee on keyboards and vocals, Mark Matthews, bass guitar, saxophone and vocals and Daryl Sutherland, drums and percussion.  In late eighties, they recorded two albums as by Illustrator.

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Dan Gaub died last year.  Yakima Herald obit  : 

Daniel John Gaub, 53, of Yakima, WA, went to be with the Lord on Friday, May 4, 2012, as the result of a motorcycle accident. Daniel was born March 12, 1959 in Hazard, Kentucky to Ken & Barbara (Mains) Gaub.

Daniel spent his youth traveling as the lead guitarist of a Gospel Band called Eternity Express/Illustrator.

In April of 1981, Dan married his childhood sweetheart, Dawndee Johnston, also of Yakima. After the band fulfilled its mission, they made their home here in Yakima. Dan was a member of Stone Church, where he and his whole family continued to be very active in the musical ministry.

Dan made helping others his life's mission. He mentored hundreds of people worldwide to accomplish life changing goals. Dan served on the executive board of Ken Gaub Ministries.


And Yahima Herald again has the latest on Dan :

FBI believed late financial trader was running Ponzi scam

Dan Gaub died owing a lot of people a lot of money, perhaps as much as $40 million or more. Many may not have realized until too late they were participating in a scam....

You can watch Dan and Dawndee "In Gold We Trust" Gaub HERE doing some promotion for their Five Star Foundation Scam. 

Opinions found in the comments regarding Dan are... divergent.  Such as :
"He was calm, sincere, honest, and just a joy to listen to and learn from. " Can you tell me more about this? Go into more detail I mean? Please it would be a huge help to me. Thank you and God Bless!


or the more concise :
"He was a mother fucker"



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Dick Quinn

February 16, 2013, 9:47 am
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 Dick Quinn
27251- Along Came Jones (parody & arr. - R. Quinn)
27252 - Down on the Farm ((R.C. Zinn)
Ka-Dee Records
Produced by Dick Quinn
1970


Dick Quinn started his musician career in 1951, as a Rochester, N.Y. kid who wanted to play country music.  But living in Rochester at a time when country western music was not as established as it iwas later, Quinn had to be content to play what he could - in this case, standards learned from the older musicians in his hometown.  "There were probably only about five guitar players in the whole town of Rochester at that time", said Quinn.

Shortly after his marriage to Kathy in 1970 the Quinns moved to Florida, where the Dick Quinn Show entertained the crowds of various lounges and clubs.  

St. Petersburg Times, Dec. 22 1971 : 
Leisure Lounge Swings with Dick Quinn Show entertainment is in the capable hands of the Dick Quinn Show.  These are four talented musicians whose efforts add up to the true Nashville sound.  You can hear their country and Western music and comedy nightly. There will be continuous entertainment on New Year's Eve, with the Dick Quinn Show plus exotic dancer Gina Romano, "The Italian Bomb.".

sample


39823 - If That Ain't Country (D.A. Coe)
Before Produced By Dick Quinn & Darrell Puckett 
Background Vocals Sher Dolon -  Nancy Michaud - Robert Keyth Dickerson
39824 - She Gave Her Heart To Jethro (Tom T. Hall)
After Produced By Dick Quinn & Darrell Puckett

    Dead Frog DP 2121
Dead Frog Records
4421 46th St. N. St. Petersburg, Florida 33714

Engineered & Mixed By Darrell Puckett At J.U.B. Studio Largo, Florida
1978

In 1978, he take residency at the Save Inn Motor Lodge Squirrel Cage Lounge (Gulf Beach, Florida)  where "his act contained about as much in the way of jokes and ribald stories as music.   "

Dick : "I like playing the Squirrel Cage.  It's a nice place (with no cover or minimum) and they serve the best drinks in town. Get enough drinks in you, and you might even like the guitar player"
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Chuck Wells on Ell

February 16, 2013, 11:02 am
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Chuck Wells

9521 ~ Why Did You Lie To Me
9522 ~ Railroad Blues

Ell Records

1963
 
 Railroad Blues





Charles “Chuck” Wells, a native of Wilson, North Carolina,  moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in the early 1970s and got into gospel, leaving behind the active role that he played in the Eastern North Carolina r&b and soul scene as a keyboardist and singer with a variety of groups such as the Monitors (Greenville/Wilson), the Outcasters (Wilson), and Willie Ward and the Electras (Enfield/Rocky Mount).

One of the sides he recorded, “The Love Knot” (Goldleaf 340) has lived on as a Northern Soul spin.

Popsike listing for the Goldleaf single

Audio : thanks to Jason, WXYC 89.3 FM

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The Heywoods (Queen Bea)

February 20, 2013, 10:13 am
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The Heywoods

18337 ~ Midnight Hour (feat. Johnny Schott)
18338 ~ Hey Joe ( feat. : Sonny James)

Queen Bea 507

1966

both songs can be heard at MusicMastersOldies HERE


 Queen Bea Records owner, Bea Donaldson, 
with Merrill Osmond, lead singer of the Osmonds (1971)


Bea Donaldson, was the driving force behind the band from inception until their breakthrough.   Her eagerness to get his son, Bo, a keyboard player, into the band scene led her to contact Johnny Schott, who had been in the Radicals and had performed in several area musical theatre productions.   Bea had known Johnny from MC-ing dances with the Radicals. Johnny was reluctant to get involved, but agreed to spend six months in the band as the lead singer. The band was recruited from other local bands, and included Sonny James (drums), David Flitner (bass), Randy Jester (sax), Phil Beard (guitar). With Bea's very agressive promotion, the band started to get attention ...   From Buckeyebeat HERE

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Count Ferrell on LeRegal

February 22, 2013, 6:26 am
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Count Ferrell
 
CP-6025 - Show Me Some Sign
CP-6026 - Wizard Of Ah's

Both : wr Ferrell-Moore-Reynolds, Gonef Music BMI 
A Win-Moore Production

    LeRegal Recording Co.

[Cincinnati, Ohio]

1961

This is the second record pressed for the holder of the Rite account #598.  It was preceded by Vinnie Allen on Win-Moore and followed by The Videls on Early and, in 1962, by Cody Black on Pamela.  These four records were all produced by Win-Moore or Reynolds-Moore out of Cincinnati. 

Count Ferrell was re-issued on Astra Records and The Videls on Dusty Disc, both Pittsburgh labels.

Win-Moore Music published most of the songs issued, in 1962 and later, on the equally obscure Hard-Times label.




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Jimmy Drake on Rally

February 25, 2013, 8:09 am
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Jimmy Drake

(Crawford-Smock)
(Della & A.W. Crawford)

10674 - His Last Letter 
(Crawford-Smock)

I'll Always
(Crawford-Schwab)  [by Lee Davis]
    
Rally Records (EP)
4152, 51st St., San Diego 5, Calif.
 
1963

Jimmy Drake is better known as Nervous Norvus ("Transfusion", Dot Records).  His story as a song-poem recording artist  has been told by Phil Milstein :  see The Many Mysteries Of Nervous Norvus
 
Crawford, the songwriter of the four songs of this EP,  is probably Arthur William Crawford, whose songs have been set to music by some of the best known song-poem craftsmen : 

  • Jack Covais : "The Hula -Hoop Twist"  (1962)
  • John Stephenson : "Igloo Twist" (1962) & "Adam And Eve", Chaw Mank's Blue Ribbon Music Co., 1962)
  • Lew Tobin : "Back To The Range" & "I'm Anxious To Know"; (1960)
  • Gene Brooks : "I Want Love" (1960)
  • and Herman "Billy" Stone : "Heaven's Clarion Call ", recorded by Harold Montgomery (Wolf-Tex 105)

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Jimmy Dempsey Paid Political Songs on S&G

February 26, 2013, 8:32 am
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Jimmy Dempsey
(Paid Political Sang By)

12027 - Goldwater Rally Song (Mildred Adair)
12028 - I Ain't As Smooth As Lyndon B. (Gilstrap)
   
 S&G Records
Savage & Gilstrap Record Co.
1801 Piedmont Ave. , Atlanta, Ga.

[June 1964]


LBJ On One Side, Barry On The Other
Political Platter Is Bipartisan 
By Diane Wilson

In the middle of an election year with November only five months away, you hear a lot of talk about political records.

The Savage and Gilstrap Record Company of Atlanta has put out a political record that's not only topical, but bipartisan.  Side one is a song written by F. Pierce Gilstrap called "I Ain't As Smooth As Lyndon B."

And Gilstrap should known about Lyndon B. Johnson.  They were friends back in 1933 when both were members of the "Little Congress" in Washington, an organization made up of civil servants in the Capitol.  At that time, 1932-1933, Gilstrap was a doorman at the House of Represntatives and Johnson was elected speaker of the "Little Congress."  his first elected office.  Gilstrap and Johnson used to sit in the judiciary room in Washington those days and talk politics.

Gilstrap got out of politics and became editor of the Fayetteville Enterprise in Georgia.  In 1937, when he was a struggling editor of a very small paper with only $1.50 in his pocket, he heard that Johnson had been elected to Congress.

Gilstrap spent part of his $1.50 to send a congratulatory wire to Johnson.  The new Representative reciprocated by inviting his friend to visit him.

But Gilstrap had gone into the Navy and was with the Seabees in the Pacific.  He had no time for visiting.

Gilstrap hasn't seen his old friend since, except during a parade in Atlanta.

"I called out "Lyndon!"  he explained " but I guess he couldn't hear me."

The song, "I Ain't As Smooth As Lyndon B."  was written a few months ago because, as Gilstrap explained, "It just got to hammering at me and I have to write it down."

Gilstrap, whose only claim to the presidency is his name –  Franklin Pierce Gilstrap – is currently in Daytona Beach to plug his record.

The record sung by Jimmy Dempsey is being distributed by the S & G Record Company, 1801 Piedmont Ave., Atlanta, Ga.

Oh yes, on the flip side is a "Goldwater Rally Song."

I told you he had a bipartisan political record.
 
Daytona Beach Morning Journal, July 4, 1964



Hear both sides on ebay HERE


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Delicks Records : "The 12 Most Unpopular Songs"

March 3, 2013, 9:16 am
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"The 12 Most Unpopular Songs"

Authors : Francis E. Delaney (ASCAP) And Lew Tobin (ASCAP) 
Piano And Arrangements : Lew Tobin (ASCAP) 
Vocalists : Norm Burns and Shelly Stuart 
Five Star Music Productions

Side 1:  #IDM 771- 23163

Stop It, Stupid
Yummy, Yummy, Dum-Dum
Rusty
Funny Face
My Little Old Lady
Blue Mist

Side 2:  #IDM 772 - 23164

You Gotta Be Goofy
The Hickory Kick
War Of Love
Blackie
Arrested By You
My Love-Note Tree


 Delicks Records

 Icka-Delick-Music P.O. Box C  Chicago Ridge, Illinois 60415

1968

 Icka-Delicks Records trademark
(from the United States Patent Office, principal register, serial #333,407, filed July 24, 1969)

The uncommon Icka Delicks logo was gracefully described by the Patent Office examiner in this way :
24.13.25- Cross, Maltese; Cross, ankh; Other crosses, including ankh, Maltese
24.15.25- Other arrows
26.01.06- Circles, semi; Semi-circles
26.01.21- Circles that are totally or partially shaded.

Biographical notice by Francis E. Delaney himself : 
 I was born in Chicago [in 1936]  and gradurated from Mount Carmel High School class of 54.   I played coronet and piano. I start writing poerty and wrote my first song at age 21.   From 1969-1971,   I took a correspondence course with the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Didn't finish it, did 17 of 20 lessons.   Wish I did finish it.    I am a member of ASCAP, CMA, NASI.   My songs can be licensed through The Harry Fox Agency.   Songs played on radio "Christmas in Space" and " Ribbon on a Tree" ( 9-11 song).   My six brothers were in the U.S. Army, Marines and the Canadian Air Force.   My father was a Canadian Merchant Marine in the 1st World War.   He was injured in the war and recovered at Ste. Ann's Hospital in Montreal Canada.   I watched all my brothers go to war and watched them all come back alive.   I was the lucky one I didn't have to go.   All of us were lucky to be born.   When I met Kentucky in 1998 I wrote her 1st song, "I Was Lucky Again".   My father met my mother at Marshal Fields during the depression.   They got married and in three short years, she was the mother of five step-sons and two sons of her own.   A dear friend of mine Maureen passed away in 1993 after a 23 year battle with cancer. 

"Blinky,The Blue Nosed Snowdeer", a book for the kids, was the first book he wrote in 1969.  Another book of note was "When Elvis Played His Music: (the World Began to Sing)" self-published in 1978.
Blogger and song-poem records collector Bob Purse is lucky enough to own a copy of this LP.   If you ask him nicely, I'm sure he will post some other songs. 

For another release on the Delicks label, SEE http://bobpurse.blogspot.fr/2010/12/delicksious.html


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Preston Ward on Echo

March 4, 2013, 12:28 pm
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Preston Ward
With The Echo Valley Boys

(P. Ward – J. King)
(P. Ward – W. Douglas)

    Echo 284-1
(284= Rite custom account number)


  Billboard May 25, 1960


 
 The cast of the Barnyard Frolic, WKRC-TV, Cincinnati (early fifties)
From the book by Jim Friedman "Cincinnati Television (OH)"

Preston Ward was born near Knoxville, moved to Cincinnati when in his teens.  He was discovered by King Records of Cincinnati where he recorded a session in April 1947.    In the early fifties, he was a member of the Echo Valley Boys on the Barnyard Frolic cast over WKRC-TV  in Cincinnati.    Preston worked on several stations around Cincinnati and for a while joined KICA, Clovis, New Mexico.  In the late fifties, he was a regular performer on Lake Ranch, Verona, KY.
 
After a few recordings issued in 1952 by the Maestro and Hit Parade labels, both owned by Lester M. Cox out of Indianapolis,  there was a long string of recordings for Carl Burkhardt's budget labels : Kentucky, Gateway Top Tune, Big 4 Hits and, as Ward Preston, on Big Buy and Coast To Coast. 

Preston Ward was the great-uncle of racing driver Bob Sweikert,  Indy winner and American champion of 1955 who died in a crash at the Salem Raceway.
 
 




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Gene Mills on Dixie

March 5, 2013, 4:57 am
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 Gene Mills

    CP-3179 ~ Yodlin' Chime Bells
(York, Starday BMI)

CP-3180 ~ Nickel Worth Of Dreams

Dixie 841

1960


 Native of Salem, Iowa, Gene Mills has been playing guitar most of his life and in his younger days was a good yodeler.   He played various venues in his home state including the Fort Madison Rodeo.and the Iowa State Fair.   He took off for the West Coast and spent many years living in Hollywood.

In the mid-sixties, he had DeVille Recordsreleasing "I Want To Be A Cowgirls Sweetheart" "Emotions".

I believe it's him also on Jin Records of Louisiana : "Chime Bells" /  "Rocking Rollin' Ocean" (Jin 284, 70s).

Mills says he's played the Grand Ole Opry and he's met Johnny Cash. His life sounds like a David Allen Coe song. In fact Mills - who spent many years living in Hollywood - was cast in a movie with the Man in Black. The movie was to be Jimmie Rodgers' life story. Rodgers is considered one of the fathers of country music. The movie was never put into production, however.

 Read more about Gene Mills here : 
Longtime country singer and native of Salem to take stage at Captain Kirk's
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Globe Recording Studio, Sample Demos (LP)

March 7, 2013, 7:35 am
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Globe Recording Studio, inc.
Sample Demos


Side 1 - CP-5263
First Group
Demo No. 1's :

French Perfume
Our Moment Is Now
Too Little Too Late (By The Mystery Girl)

The Hand Of God
Daisy Chains And Cherry Earrings
On You It Looks So Good (By Sonny Marcel)

2nd Matadore (By Ken Richards

Demo No. 1pg

Misery Train (By Lee James)

Second Group
Demo No. 2's

Lonely Lips
Itching Heart
Good Little Girl (By Kris Arden)

Salt, Salt, Salt
Biggest Fool In Town (By Sammy Marshall)
and

I'm Through With You (By Ken Richards)


Side 2 - CP-5264

First Group
Demo No. 3's

Just Waiting For You
I Keep Praying (By Kris Arden)

Outside Of That
Crazy Dog Dance
Should I Tell My Heart (By Sammy Marshall)

I've Found An Angel (By Lee James)

The Image Of You (By Mary Kaye

And

Lucianna (By Gary Lawrence)

Second Group
Echo Demonstration; Demo No. 4's

I Wonder And Johnny You Left Me (By The Coquettes)

Demo No 5's

True Love Come Back (By The Markees)
And
Mood Indigo (By The Cones)

Ideal Bread, Sealtest And Rudy's Sausage Jingles


Samples (oddly presented) of songs recorded by the most prolific of the song-poem recording studio. Names of artists listed are all familiar to the song-poem collectors or discographers   However, none of these songs seems to be listed anywhere, except "Itching Heart" issued on the Dial label. See HERE.  Three commercial jingles are ending the side two.

Ebay seller has "sampled the samples" on Youtube,  here

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Don Powell, Pentecostal evangelist

March 8, 2013, 7:22 am
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 Don Powell

In the Garden of Gethsemane
P.O. Box 1961
Daytona Beach, Florida

AN INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE RECORDED IN
 THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
 JERUSALEN, JORDAN, 
BY REV. POWELL BY MEANS OF A 
TINY BATTERY POWERED TAPE 
RECORDER
 
 This record made expressly for Brother Powell's Television Friends

1964



The good looking Pentecostal evangelist has recorded a lot of albums, wrote some books, travelled extensively in the U.S. and in the Canada between 1968 and 1975 before coming back to Daytona Beach.

He got his start, so speaking,, in the evangelism business after a miraculous recovery who has taking place, I'm guessing, between the publication of two of his pamphlets, "Footprints of Jesus" (1956) and "Faith In The Fire" (1961).

The circumstance of the miracle was advertised in Daytona newspapers when Don Powell was here, in 1962, for a three-weeks crusade (upper-case letters are in the original ad and preserved here)  :
ONLY ETERNITY WILL TELL HOW MANY SOULS HAVE BEEN SAVED AND HEARTS HAVE BEEN BLESSED!

DON POWELL AND HIS FAMILY AFTER BEING NEAR DEATH FROM THE EXPLOSION OF A BURNING BOAT IN THE BAHAMA ISLANDS    ...  THE SWIFT HAND OF GOD TAKING ONE DAUGHTER IN THIS TRAGEDY ...  YET MIRACULOUSLY HEALING DON POWELL OF THIRD DEGREE BURNS OVER MOST OF HIS BODY   .....

THE SWIFT HAND OF GOD PUTTING FLESH WHERE MUSCLES AND SINEW HAD BEEN EATEN UP BY FLAMES   ... OVERNIGHT DESTROYING VICIOUS GANGRENE CRAWLING THROUGH DON POWELL'S BODY

THE SWIFT AND POWERFUL HAND OF GOD BRINGING COMPLETE RECOVERY ALMOST IN A MINUTE! ....SPECIALISTS SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS MAN TO LIVE...  YET HE WAS IN THE PULPITS OF NEW YORK CHURCHES ONLY 19 DAYS LATER PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD AND BRINGING THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND HEALING THE LOST SOULS...


Don Powell albums discography (Rite pressings)


Miracle Groove label

1965 – Soul Of,  Miracle Groove xx  Rite #13943/13944
1967 – With The Angelic Strings   Miracle Groove  40    Rite #20155/20156
1969 – There Is Room At The Cross For You,     Miracle Groove 41    Rite #23571/23772 
1970 – Country Gospel Campmeeting Style   Miracle Groove 46   Rite #26835/26836 (Indiana, PA)
1972 – Very Best Of Don Powell   Miracle Groove  xx  Rite #29007/29008
1973 – Beyond The Sunset    Miracle Groove xx  Rite #30795/30796    (Don & Sandra Powell)
1973 – Sunday Morning At Our House   Miracle Groove xx  Rite #31905/31906

no details

? – Fill My Cup      Miracle Groove
? – Gentle Ever Sweet   Miracle Groove   (Don Powell And Sandr)
? – My Lord Is Coming Back Again 
? – Praise Ye The Lord
? – Where The Roses Never Fade
? – Revival Tabernacle in Daytona Beach, FL.    
? – It's Music Time         Tabernacle 13014 (Rite?)
    
   

 Sample from the Beyond The Sunset  LP


Note : there is another gospel singer named Don Powell, married to Anne, who has recorded country music in the past (on Country Picnic Records)

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Steve Schickel on Foremost

March 10, 2013, 10:18 am
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Steve Schickel

CP-1333 - Don't Lie    sample
Williams-Hart, Windy City Music

CP-1334 - What A Night

Foremost FM 115

November 11, 1957, Billboard


Steve Schickel was record editor for The Chicago Tribune, deejay for three years on WGN, free-lance promotion man, music and coin reporter for The Billboard,  Mercury public-relations director (1960-1962) and WGN newsman from 1962

This Foremost release is his second record, the first being on Mercury Records in 1956, "Leave My Sideburns Be", a take-off of "you know who" backed with "Cry-Baby Boogie".  
 
Two other songs from the same Mercury sessions remained unissued : "Educated Rock And Roll"  and  "What A Night" , the latter finally issued (or re-recorded?) by Foremost Records.


Note : this is NOT the Kansas City Foremost label.




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Clay Daniels on River

March 12, 2013, 11:18 am
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Clay Daniels

11301 -  Tammy Teresa

11302 - I'm Alone
 (Marion Carpenter, Singing River Pub. Co. BMI)

    River 706
1963
Biloxi, Mississippi 

Currently on ebay HERE






Clay Daniels, the son of an Alabama construction worker, began singing as a child, and always loved country music.   In his youth, Daniels worked as an afternoon DJ on WHEP in Foley, Ala.  After graduating from Foley High School, he studied broadcasting in Chicago (Midwestern Broadcasting School).  He worked as a DJ at Mobile-area radio stations WUNI, WTUF and WZAM.   He also worked as a weatherman at WALA Channel 10 in Mobile,  and performed on WALA's "Friendly Variety Show," hosted by the late Jack Cardwell.   Announcer and program director at WPMP, Pascagoula, Miss. (1964).  At Miami and Tampa radios and finally at WHOO, in Orlando, Florida until 1991.


In 1970, he was the first artist released on the Souncot label, a subsidiary of the Koscot Cosmetic Co., Orlando, Florida.  The record was cut in Nashville and produced by ex-recording artist Ric Cartey (Billboard September 5, 1970)


In his later years, Daniels joined a couple of other friends to create The Three Amigos, who performed the "animal circuit" of Moose, Elk and Eagles lodges.  


Clay Daniels died of cancer in 2009  the day after he turned 72.

He liked Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson, but he preferred George Jones and Willie Nelson. "It was never as good as the good old days," said Delight, his wife of 29 years.




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Rick Penta on Broken

March 14, 2013, 3:48 am
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  Cover by Paula Gula


Rick Penta
40359 – My Story Changes
40360 – You Need A Sunshine

Broken Records
Fairlawn, Ohio

Kim Hartz, Arp & Backing Vocals
Greg Tomanek, Drums
 
Recorded At Brittain Square Sound, Monroe Falls, Ohio
Engineered By Eric Broviak
1979

Rick Penta, owner of Rick Penta Furniture Designs
(Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)


Building custom guitars plucks at heartstrings of furniture maker, (Nov. 30, 2008)
by Mary Beth Breckenridge, Beacon Journal staff writer
 Penta's father, Phil, was a master carpenter who built houses. From the time Penta was a toddler, he said, his dad would take him along with him to job sites. He'd give the boy a red hammer, a box of nails and some wood, and let him pound.

That interest grew when Penta took woodworking classes at Copley High School. And he still has that red hammer.

''That hammer is going to be buried with me,'' he said.

Not too long after he was driving nails to occupy himself while his father worked, he discovered music. He was 7 at the time, and his older brother, Joe, was playing in a band. It inspired him to take up the guitar, an instrument he studied for eight years.

Penta made some recordings and just missed out on a big record deal when his contact at the record company was fired. By that time, though, he had a fiancee, and the musician's life seemed too difficult for someone who wanted to raise a family, he said.


Rick Penta had a previous record issued on Rusty York's Jewel label ("Hit The Road", Jewel #737, 1977).  "You And The Bell" and "Babe" from that album can be heard HERE   And "Suzi Mesciline " is on YouTube.


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The Pine Mountain Boys on Cincy

March 14, 2013, 11:33 am
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The Pine Mountain Boys

25809 - I'm Sorry Darling
(vocal Conley Mullins)

     Cincy 102
A division of Adco
Cincinnati, Ohio
1970

bluegrass


"The Mandolin Man" is the only song written by Conley and Barbra Mullins found in the BMI database. 

Conley Mullins' name also came up on the Adco label in 1965 (with Les Baker) and on an album credited to Gene Corbett & the Pine Mountain Boys(a name fairly common in bluegrass music) on Pine Tree   (#520, 1974).  





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Jim HARRIS & The Sidewinders on Fabar

March 16, 2013, 7:17 am
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Jim HARRIS
& The Sidewinders

15563 ~ Three Chartreuse Buzzards Sitting On A Fence
15564 ~ I'm On The Outside Looking In

Fabar Records

1965


A-side is penned by Jim Harris.  B-side is a cover of   a 1964 hit song by Little Anthony and the Imperials, issued on DCP Records (their comeback single, ending a long period of inactivity.)

No info on Jim Harris or on The Sidewinders.   

According to buckeyebeat.com, 
this Columbus label was owned by Bill Strickland with two other non-musicians.   All the Fabar records were recorded at Magnetic.  Fabar did not use a catalog numbering system so all the label 'numbers' are the pressing plant matrix numbers.





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Adelphi Ladies Trio

March 16, 2013, 8:06 am
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Adelphi Ladies Trio
Mrs Norman Krogstad at the Lowrey organ.

Deep Settled Pace

SIDE 1  CP-7035

    A Deep Settled Peace
    How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings
    Teach Me How To Pray
    O The Wonder
    Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know

SIDE 2  CP-7036

    Thanks Be To God
    Softly And Tenderly
    Moment By Moment
    Beside Still Waters
    Overshadowed

    Family Altar Records #115

 1962


Family Altar Records was a division of The Columbia Union Conference, which "exists to advance and fulfill the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Mid-Atlantic United States.". 

Mrs Krogstad, former Eleanor Cowles, a Bachelor of Music Education degree holder (with piano as her specialty),  was married to Norman Krogstad– NOT the veteran high-ranking Vancouver Hells Angel, I assume  – who was appointed chairman of the Department of Music at Washington Missionary College in 1957 and may have been involved in the formation of Family Altar Records.




From the back cover :

The Adelpho Ladies Trio is well-known in the area around Washington, D.C.  The group sings at many church and social functions throughout the East.

Vallevia Grant, second soprano began to sing at an early age.  Through her school years she sang in various trios and choral groups, often taking solo parts.

Kathaleen Fuller, alto, has also sung in other trios and choral organizations.  Her experience includes choir directing.

Betty Morford, soprano, wife of the director of physical education at Columbia Union College has a varied musical background. She has appeared with various trios and other musical organizations


From ebay HERE

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Lafayette and The LaSabres

March 18, 2013, 1:07 pm
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Lafayette and The LaSabres
      
10685 ~ Cure For Love   
D.Vaughan
Trianon BMI

10686 ~ Freeway
L. & M. Yarbrough - Goodman - Pierson
Mayflower Music co. BMI
 
Your-Pick 1005
 
 September 1963
 
 Re-issued on Port 70036 in October 1963
Note :Publisher  of "Cure For Love" is incorrectly credited to Trinion Pub. on both labels !
 
Cure For Love on YouTube
Free Way  (YouTube link)
 
Top side is a cover of  the song penned and recorded by Dell Vaughn (With The Fortune Aires) on Fortune Records (flipside of the wild rockabilly "Rock The Universe"  [Fortune #205,  1958]
 
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 Lafayette and The LaSabres : Lafayette Yarbrough (vocal), brother Marcel Yarbrough (drums),  Carl Pearson (Pierson)  (organ) and  a 4th member probably named Goodman.    Photo credit : White Doo Wop Collector


 photo credit : Ronnie Ray

Later line-up : Lafayette and Marcel Yarbrough,  Mike Timms (bass) and Michael Dean Wilson (organ). In 1966, they recorded a full-length album for Sidra Records, produced by Valvano and rockabilly singer-turned producer Johnny Powers.

Lafayette Yarbrough, born and raised in Noxapater, Mississippi,  moved after High School, to Michigan. He performed in and around Flint and recorded in 1958 a now much sought-after single for the Detroit's Bart Records : "Cool Cool Baby / Livin' Doll"
 
According to gossip columnist Bill Dakota  :
Lafayette Yarborough had a band in Flint.  And this guy could have been a superstar.   He used to play at the Beecher Gardens, north of Flint. He was handsome, and he could have been a movie star.   I wanted to take him on the road (among other things), but he was married and didn't want to travel.   Even though he was married, between sets, he would often be in the back seat of a car "fucking a fan."    He was happy enough and getting enough, without superstardom.   In looks, he was a cross between Fabian and Elvis.
 Lafayette Yarbrough is still performing.  (Lafayette can be seen on video with the Keith Ross Show HERE)

He has recorded a CD with Vada Rosecrans "When Two Worlds Collide".  Several songs from this CD can be heard on the Lafayette Yarbrough own You Tube channel HERE

 
 
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Johnnie Forrer on Bow and Arrow

March 24, 2013, 2:26 pm
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Johnnie Forrer
 
9355 ~ Long Gone 
Johnnie Forrer ~ Moss Rose BMI

9356 ~ I Just Think Of You
Johnnie Forrer ~ Moss Rose BMI
  
Prod. by Gene Crawford At Forrer Studios
Bow And Arrow 1003
6207 Sherwood Ave.
Houston, TX
 
1963


Johnnie Forrer was previously on Pappy Daily's D Records in 1958  (D 1021 : Fools Paradise is on YouTube).     He was later produced by Eddie Noack at Music City Recorders in Nashville ("Singing the Blues Again" , Studio Records, a Waco, Texas label.  
 
Johnnie E Forrer was born in 1927.  He died in 2005 and is buried in the cemetery: Houston National Cemetery, which is located in Houston, TX.

The tiny Bow and Arrow label  (only three releases) was owned by Kenneth N. Everett, which is the real name of Gene Crawford, star in the early sixties of the "Gold Coast Jubilee," beamed each Sunday over KTRK-TV, Houston,


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