This is also one of the very few album sets that I have that still has its inset.
A Symposium Of Swing - Victor Records C-28 12" (1937)
I do believe that this album was released in 1937 although this particular set may have been purchased...or given second hand...in 1947 judging from the inscription.
This is also one of the very few album sets that I have that still has its inset.
This is also one of the very few album sets that I have that still has its inset.
The Goofus Five - Okeh 40690 (1926)
Although not in the best of shape, I found my very first Goofus Five last weekend.
Chelsea Quealey t / Abe Lincoln tb / Bobby Davis cl, ss, as / Sam Ruby ts / Adrian Rollini bsx / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Herb Weil d / Billy Jones v.
Recorded in New York on September 24, 1926.
Chelsea Quealey t / Abe Lincoln tb / Bobby Davis cl, ss, as / Sam Ruby ts / Adrian Rollini bsx / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Herb Weil d / Billy Jones v.
Recorded in New York on September 24, 1926.
Bing Crosby & Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Decca 23417 (1945)
Kinda of an odd pairing. The 1945 Billboard magazine all but panned this record saying the song (My Baby Said Yes) was dated and even though Bing was clowning and Louis J. was just "okay"...that it should sell well especially for jukeboxes.
I do like Your Socks Don't Match better than the flip...kinda reminds me of the Dean Martin / Nat King Cole team-up.
I do like Your Socks Don't Match better than the flip...kinda reminds me of the Dean Martin / Nat King Cole team-up.
Howard Keel (& Brothers) - MGM 30854 (1954)
Just found this one while looking through crates in the garage. These two sides are from the first movie my "future wife" asked me to watch with her years ago. She then wrangled me into watching South Pacific, Oklahoma!, West Side Story & The Sound Of Music. But I got her back and made her watch Grease 2, Poltergeist, American Graffiti & Xanadu.
We're even now.
So as a request from my better half, I am posting this record by Howard Keel taken from the MGM musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
We're even now.
So as a request from my better half, I am posting this record by Howard Keel taken from the MGM musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
The Checkers - King 4581 (1952)
Take the Dominoes occasional lead singer AND their bass man who sang lead on the smash Sixty Minute Man and add a few young talented street corner singers and you get The Checkers.
While having a few regional hits, even in larger urban markets, they never broke nationally...a shame in my opinion.
I really like Let Me Come Back with bass man Bill Brown's vocals. Sounds like it would fit in nicely with the Carolina Beach Music crowd.
While having a few regional hits, even in larger urban markets, they never broke nationally...a shame in my opinion.
I really like Let Me Come Back with bass man Bill Brown's vocals. Sounds like it would fit in nicely with the Carolina Beach Music crowd.
Blow Top Lynn & His House Rockers With Melvin Smith - RCA Victor 22-0139 (1951)
When you grown up in Atlanta next door to Billy Wright (a mentor to Little Richard), a few houses down from Larry Darnell, play hooky with Titus Turner, sing lead in a group with Chuck Willis' brother Pete, idolize Wynonie, Roy Brown and become pals with Jimmy Witherspoon...you cut 31 sides in a 3 year span for RCA Victor...none of 'em a hit and get dropped by the label...all by the time your 18.
Such is the case with Melvin Smith who was picked by local sax man Clyde "Blow Top" Lynn to front 8 sides when RCA Victor came to Atlanta looking for talent...I do believe this is the same time RCA discovered Little Richard and etched him in wax as well.
While Smith's records sold next to nothing, his sides were deemed worthy by Bear Family to release a cd compilation of his early 50s recordings.
Here is 15 year old Melvin Smith...
(The labels match but the kitchen lighting made them look different)
Such is the case with Melvin Smith who was picked by local sax man Clyde "Blow Top" Lynn to front 8 sides when RCA Victor came to Atlanta looking for talent...I do believe this is the same time RCA discovered Little Richard and etched him in wax as well.
While Smith's records sold next to nothing, his sides were deemed worthy by Bear Family to release a cd compilation of his early 50s recordings.
Here is 15 year old Melvin Smith...
(The labels match but the kitchen lighting made them look different)
Clyde McPhatter - Atlantic 1199 (1958)
Here we have one of the most recognizable voices of not just the early rhythm & blues era, but any era. Clyde McPhatter, born in North Carolina, was responsible for the success of such early groups as Billy Ward & His Dominoes and the first incarnation of The Drifters, which he founded and assembled at the request of Atlantic Records' head, Ahmet Ertegun.
A Lover's Question was unarguably his greatest solo effort.
A secret for a long time, Ruth Brown acknowledged that McPhatter was the father of her son, Ron. Ron has acted in several movies and has portrayed The Platters' lead singer, Tony Williams...opposite Halle Berry...in the Frankie Lymon biopic, Why Do Fools Fall In Love.
A Lover's Question was unarguably his greatest solo effort.
A secret for a long time, Ruth Brown acknowledged that McPhatter was the father of her son, Ron. Ron has acted in several movies and has portrayed The Platters' lead singer, Tony Williams...opposite Halle Berry...in the Frankie Lymon biopic, Why Do Fools Fall In Love.
Frankie Lee Sims - Ace 524 (1957)
What a family tree!
Besides both parents being accomplished guitarists, Frankie Lee Sims was the nephew of Texas Alexander and the cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins.
Always excited to run across an Ace record outta Jackson, Mississippi.
Besides both parents being accomplished guitarists, Frankie Lee Sims was the nephew of Texas Alexander and the cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins.
Always excited to run across an Ace record outta Jackson, Mississippi.
Lucille Hegamin & The Dixie Daisies - Cameo 354 (1923)
Lucille Hegamin v / The Dixie Dasies ? Jules Levy, Jr. c / Ephraim Hannaford tb / Joe Samuels cl / Larry Briers p / bb.
Recorded in New York in March 1923.
Recorded in New York in March 1923.
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