1953 (May 30)
Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios (Capitol 2486)
Harry Belafonte - Matilda! Matilda! (RCA 5311)
The Five Keys - These Foolish Things (Aladdin 3190)
Ruth Brown - Wild Wild Young Men (Atlantic 993)
Hal Paige - Drive It Home (Atlantic 996)**
Tasso The Great - My Sympathy (United 150)**
1954 (May 29)
The Four Lads - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer (Columbia 40236)
Elmore James - 1839 Blues (Flair 1039)
Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Woodchuck (Sun 203)
Lucky Thompson - Buck-De-Hoodle (Noel 1001)**
Lovey Lewis - Take A Chance With Me (Duke 126)**
The Four Bells - Only A MIracle (Gem 220)**
1955 (May 28)
Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call (RCA 6139)
Slim Whitman - I'll Never Stop Loving You (Imperial 8298)
Lloyd Lambert - Heavy Sugar (Specialty 553)
Clifton Chenier - Boppin' The Rock (Specialty 552)
The Encores - Ha-Chi-Bi-Ri-Bi-Ri (Hol;lywood 1034)**
The Starlings - I Gotta Go Now (Dawn 213)**
1956 (Jun 2)
Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
Johnny Carroll - Wild Wild Women (Decca 29941)
Marie Knight - Tell Me Why (Wing 90069)
Earl Gilliam - Petite Baby (Sarg 133)**
Carl Van Moon - My Love (Duke 151)**
Mary Edwards & The Saxons - Chilly Willy (Meteor 5031)**
1957 (Jun 3)
Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan (Verve 10050)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Fattening Frogs For Snakes (Checker 864)
The Cadillacs - My Girl Friend (Josie 820)
Ashton Savoy - Juke Joint (Hollywood 1081)**
Don Gardner - This Nearly Was Mine (Deluxe 6133(**
The Five Secrets - Queen Bee (Decca 30340)**
1958 (Jun 2)
The Crickets - Think It Over (Brunswick 55072)
The Elegants - Little Star (Apt 25005)
Marv Johnson - Once Upon A Time (Kudo 663)
Marie Taylor - Uncle Sam (Sue 705)**
Madman Jones - Jess' One More Time (Mad 1005)**
Joltin' Joe Howard - Baby Won't You Change Your Mind (Kudo 666)**
1959 (Jun 1)
Fabian - Tiger (Chancellor 1037)
Chuck Berry - Back In The USA (Chess 1729)
Jack Scott - The Way I Walk (Carlton 514)
Phil Phillips - Sea Of Love (Mercury 71465)
Wes Voight - I'm Movin' In (King 5211)
The Platters - Remember When (Mercury 71467)
1960 (May 30)
Andy Williams - Do You Mind (Cadence 1381)
Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA 7745)
Ray Charles - Sticks And Stones ((ABC Paramount 10118)
Jimmy Charles - A Million To One (Promo 1002)
The Demensions - Over The Rainbow (Mohawk 116)
The Crests - Trouble In Paradise (Coed 531)
1961 (May 29)
Del Shannon - Hats Off To Larry (Big Top 3975)
The Drifters - Please Stay (Atlantic 2105)
The Classics - Life Is But A Dream (Mercury 71829)
Johnny Restivo - Sweet Lovin' (20th Fox 260)
The Blue Jays - Lovers Island (Milestone 208)
Danny Boy - Kokomo Me Baby (Tifco 824)
1962 (Jun 2)
Roy Orbison - The Crowd (Monument 461)
Tommy Roe - Sheila (ABC Paramount 19329)
The Majors - A Wonderful Dream (Imperial 5855)
The Supremes - Your Heart Belongs To Me (Motown 1027)
Shep & The Limelites - What Did Daddy Do (Hull 751)
Arthur Alexander - Where Have You Been (Dot 16357)
1963 (Jun 1)
Jan & Dean - Surf City (Liberty 55580)
Dion - Come Go With Me (Laurie 3171)
The Orlons - Not Me (Cameo 257)
The Isley Brothers - Tango (United Artists 605)
Joe South - Same Old Song (MGM 13145)
Bruce Channel - No Other Baby (Smash 1826)
** these I have'nt heard as far as I know
Now this weeks teaser : two of the records listed above have a
definite link
And they are.............????
ROGER FORD
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>Continuing this weekly posting here are some more memorable and not
>quite so memorable records listed and reviewed as NEW RELEASES by
>"Billboard" this week in.....
>Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios (Capitol 2486)
>Harry Belafonte - Matilda! Matilda! (RCA 5311).....
Included in this and all of Roger's weekly posts are usually many pop tunes,
which provide an excellent opportunity for any and all pop enthusiasts to to
open meaningfull and non-confrontational discussions of pop music.
Why haven't I seen this? In the past, we so called R&B and R&R exclusionists
have had many discussions of pop music which were a spin off of Roger's or
other members posts.
Tom M
===========================================================
Endeavor To Persevere
I alway thought it was "She tacka me money and run Venezuala", but since I was
never a fan of Belafonte I didn't pay much if any attention to his music.
> >Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
>
> Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
I wonder if they made Hitchcock put the singing into the movie. It's
very out of character for him.
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>>The Cadillacs - My Girl Friend (Josie 820)
>
>Don't have this one, but... probably not missing much.
Try it, you may like it
As I understand it, he did fight the studio on this. That's why it's
a capella. It was a compromise.
Bob Roman
I never heard of this one until it was mentioned in this NG- I guess
it was pretty well known in it's time- surprised it's not on their GH
cd
>
>>1956 (Jun 2)
>>
>>Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
>
>Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
Much better by Mary Hopkin.
>>Mary Edwards & The Saxons - Chilly Willy (Meteor 5031)**
>
>Worst thing on the label? Probably one of those terribly putrid things, but you
>have to have it if you're running the label. Has to be pop since neither
>Kreiter nor Tefteller have it listed. I guess kind of like that "Willie the
>Parakeet on Sun".
>
I'll have find this one somewhere.
M
Allan Sherman did a song called "My Zelda"- my Zelda, she took the
money and ran with the tailor.
M
>
They held a benefit concert for Peterson last night in Springfield, TN to
defray the costs of his cancer treatments. I've spoken with Ray several times
over the past few years and found him to be one of the most sincere and
congenial people I've ever met.
I thought the group might like to see the line-up: these are the "usual
suspects" when it comes to rock and roll benefits around here, they show up for
everyone who needs help:
Clifford Curry (they held the last benefit for him, now recovered from kidney
problems)
Bruce Channel (also on the NTW list)
Dickey Lee ("Patches" and "Tell Laura I Love Her" on one show! Hard to get
more maudlin than that!)
Larry Henley (the New Beats)
Freddy Weller and Keith Allison (mostly doing Paul Revere material)
Johnny Preston
The Crickets (Jerry Allison and friends)
Buck Wilkin (aka "Ronnie & The Daytonas)
Buzz Cason (aka Garry Miles)
Gene Hughes (Casinos)
Troy Shondell
Billy Burnett
Dobie Gray
Ray even came out and did a couple songs. For $10, not a bad show, and everyone
had a lot of fun.
Fred
Steve
>>>Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA 7745)
>
>They held a benefit concert for Peterson last night in Springfield, TN to
>defray the costs of his cancer treatments. I've spoken with Ray several times
>over the past few years and found him to be one of the most sincere and
>congenial people I've ever met.
>
>I thought the group might like to see the line-up: these are the "usual
>suspects" when it comes to rock and roll benefits around here, they show up for
>everyone who needs help:
>
>Buzz Cason (aka Garry Miles)
I'm curious---does he appear as "Buzz Cason" or "Garry Miles"?
I'd have thought he'd get more kudos as the latter since his biggest
hit ("Look For A Star") was under that name.
I assume this song was included in his act?
>
>>>1954 (May 29)
>>>
>>>The Four Lads - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer (Columbia 40236)
>>
>>Talk about pure hokey/novelty pop. This is it.
>
>I never heard of this one until it was mentioned in this NG- I guess
>it was pretty well known in it's time- surprised it's not on their GH
>cd
>
It was a big hit here in a cover version by UK star Max Bygraves
>
>>>1956 (Jun 2)
>>>
>>>Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
>>
>>Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
>
>Much better by Mary Hopkin.
>
You gotta be kidding??????
Interesting piece from the Hitchcock website that addresses this :-
**************************************************************************************
Alfred Hitchcock was putting together a picture called The Man Who
Knew Too Much. He wanted Jimmy Stewart to star, but Stewarts' agent
(MCA) said he couldn't have Stewart unless he took another of their
clients,Doris Day, for the female lead, and Livingston & Evans to
write the songs for her. The other 99.99% of their careers, Livingston
& Evans would get the job, and then call their agent to put together
the deal. As mentioned before, this was the only time the roles were
reversed.
Initially, Hithcock didn't want Doris Day, AND he didn't want a
song(even though Doris' character was a singer in the film). Well, he
relented on Doris Day (ultimately coming to believe she did a
wonderful job) AND he told Jay and Ray that he had found a way to use
a song in the story. He told them he didn't know what kind of song he
wanted, but that it would help if it had a foreign title(because
Stewarts' character was a roving ambassador), and the song had to be
sung to a little boy.
Well, Jay had recently seen a picture called The Barefoot Contessa, in
which Rosanno Brazzi had taken Ava Gardner to his ancestral castle in
Italy. Carved there in stone was the family motto: Che Sera Sera. He
explained to her what it meant. Jay thought it might make a good song
title, so he wrote it down (in the dark).
When they got the Hitchcock assignment, Jay and Ray both knew it was
the perfect title. They changed the spelling to the Spanish "Que Sera
Sera" because there are so many Spanish-speaking people in the
world.The phrase is spelled the same in French as well (which probably
explains the international popularity of the song).
Jay sang the finished song for Hitchcock, who remarked,"I told you I
didn't know what kind of a song I want. That's the kind of song I
want". He then walked out and they didn't see him again for years.
As it turned out, Hitchcock needed another song for Doris Day to sing
in the film, to use in a scene where Doris' character is singing in a
nightclub. Jay and Ray then wrote We'll Love Again, which Doris
loved.She recorded it and,after hearing and liking the finished
product so much, invited Livingston & Evans out to her house to hear
it. Her husband, Marty Melcher, said she was crying when she recorded
it.
Meanwhile, Doris was not at all thrilled by the prospect of singing
Que Sera Sera. She actually refused to record it, until Paramount
pressured her into doing so because it was the important song in the
picture. Paul Weston, who was at the session, said she did it in one
take and said, "That's the last time you'll ever hear that song". She
thought it was a childrens' song and, thus, not a likely candidate for
a hit record. As it turns out, it became her biggest hit and the theme
of her TV show.
Just in case Que Sera Sera had not been accepted, Jay and Ray had
written another song as a fallback. It was entitled Holy Gee. When
Doris heard it, she wouldn't sing it either, because she believed
"holy gee" was a euphemism for "holy Jesus". So they cleverly changed
the title to Holy Cow.
No kidding- I've always liked her songs- I like the tempo of her
version of the song a lot better than the original.
I've always been of fan of MH's songs- as a matter of fact, "Those
Were The Days" was THE song that started my interest in popular music.
M
>On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 08:36:40 GMT, in rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s,
>mari...@bblueyonder.co.uk (Roger Ford), wrote:
>
>>Continuing this weekly posting here are some more memorable and not
>>quite so memorable records listed and reviewed as NEW RELEASES by
>>"Billboard" this week in.....
>>
>>1953 (May 30)
>>
>>Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios (Capitol 2486)
>
>I guess one of their biggies, but... nothing special.
>
I tend to agree...its pleasant but not on the same planet as "How High
The Moon" or "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise"
>>Harry Belafonte - Matilda! Matilda! (RCA 5311)
>
>Didn't she run away with the baker or something like that?
>
According to Belafonte "she take me money and run Venezuela"
>>The Five Keys - These Foolish Things (Aladdin 3190)
>
>Story time.
>Years ago (early 70s), before I moved to S.D. this guy named Jeff Chemnick came
>up to L.A. for the Capitol swap meet. He had just picked up a couple of nice
>records from a San Diego acquirer named Larry Skus (sp).
>
>Chemnick was friends with another friend of mine and came over with that friend
>to show off the records. He had wanted $200 for the pair, and in the early 70s
>for me, $200 might have well been a million $$$.
>
>Okay, the two 45s were.... drum roll, near mint original copies of the Bobby
>Relf and The Laurels on Flair, and "These Foolish Things" by the Five Keys.
>
>I'm pretty sure that Jerry Diez ended up paying the $200 without flinching.
>
Your story notwithstanding I have to say that my favorite version of
this is the James Brown reading from 1963
>>Ruth Brown - Wild Wild Young Men (Atlantic 993)
>
>Got a vg copy of this. Not a bad record.
>
OK take this one....and add from 1956
>>Johnny Carroll - Wild Wild Women (Decca 29941)
>
>Really nice item.
>>Now this weeks teaser : two of the records listed above have a
>>definite link
>>
>>And they are.............????
>
The two records listed....get it now?
>>>Hal Paige - Drive It Home (Atlantic 996)**
>
>His most expensive, and I've never heard it either.
>
I expect Pete Grendysa has a copy?? I wonder if its the same tune The
Clovers did later on At.lantic??
>>1954 (May 29)
>>
>>The Four Lads - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer (Columbia 40236)
>
>Talk about pure hokey/novelty pop. This is it.
>
Big UK hit for our own Max Bygraves who did a hasty cover version
>>Lucky Thompson - Buck-De-Hoodle (Noel 1001)**
>
>Really sounds like a pop record to me.
>
Never seen anything on this label either
>>1955 (May 28)
>>
>>Eddy Arnold - Cattle Call (RCA 6139)
>
>Trying to fill in space with this one?
>
This is a re-recording of a song he originally did in the 40's
>>Slim Whitman - I'll Never Stop Loving You (Imperial 8298)
>
>Still trying to fill in space, and remember that it was a Slim Whitman record
>that saved the world in the movie "Mars Attacks".
>
Yeah that was "Indian Love Call" :-)
This one is a cover of the Doris Day song from "Love Me Or Leave
Me"---he covered her before too (on "Secret Love")
>>Lloyd Lambert - Heavy Sugar (Specialty 553)
>
>Sounds instrumental to me.
>
Yep good R&B instrumental we used to sell tons of this at "Moondog's"
it was real big with London's West Indian community
>>1956 (Jun 2)
>>
>>Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
>
>Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
>
See the reply I posted to Mark D. from the Hitchcock website that has
a lot of info on this song
>
>>Marie Knight - Tell Me Why (Wing 90069)
>
>Thought I had this, but guess not. Used to see it around a lot in the old days.
>
The same song Elvis had out in the mid 60's
>>Earl Gilliam - Petite Baby (Sarg 133)**
>
>Wasn't this a country/RAB label?
>
Yes I had a few things on Sarg all mild RAB but this is supposedly R&B
>>Mary Edwards & The Saxons - Chilly Willy (Meteor 5031)**
>
>Worst thing on the label? Probably one of those terribly putrid things, but you
>have to have it if you're running the label. Has to be pop since neither
>Kreiter nor Tefteller have it listed. I guess kind of like that "Willie the
>Parakeet on Sun".
>
Sherry Crane? God that is an AWFUL Sun record!!!!
>>1957 (Jun 3)
>>
>>Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan (Verve 10050)
>
>Probably run-of-the-mill jazz.
>
No way!! The DEFINITIVE version of my favorite "New York song"
>>Don Gardner - This Nearly Was Mine (Deluxe 6133(**
>
>I guess it's the same person that teamed up with Dee Dee Ford later on.
>
Yes same DG as on the duet "I Need Your Loving" in 1962
>>1958 (Jun 2)
>>
>>The Crickets - Think It Over (Brunswick 55072)
>
>This is funny. My stock copy is listed under this title, but my promo copy is
>listed as "Fools Paradise".
>
Both sides of the same Crickets record."Think It Over" was the "A"
side tho
>>Marv Johnson - Once Upon A Time (Kudo 663)
>
>Pre Motown.
>
And pre United Artists
>>1959 (Jun 1)
>>
>>Fabian - Tiger (Chancellor 1037)
>
>Actually really liked this one.
>
"Hey lump o' sugar you look kinda sweet...."
What a line! :)
>>Chuck Berry - Back In The USA (Chess 1729)
>
>Nice record.
>
It's good but the flip "Memphis Tennessee" is GREAT!
>>Jack Scott - The Way I Walk (Carlton 514)
>
>Not my favorite, but not bad.
>
I'd probably name this as my very favorite Jack Scott record
>>Phil Phillips - Sea Of Love (Mercury 71465)
>
>Would have been better being shown on Khoury's.
>
Have you ever heard the UK cover of this by Marty Wilde?
>>1960 (May 30)
>>
>>Andy Williams - Do You Mind (Cadence 1381)
>
>Kind of liked this one when it came out.
>
Interesting story with this one---the song was written by UK songsmith
Lionel Bart (who did the score for "Oliver!") and first recorded by UK
star Anthony Newley who scored a #1 hit here with his version.
Evidently the song was heard by Archie Bleyer who sensed it could do
well in the US market and promptly had his boy Andy Williams record it
for the US market.
>>Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA 7745)
>
>One of the first records I added my own commentary to. "Nobody knows what
>happened that day, how his car over-turned in flames". My adlibs--"I do, I'm
>his mechanic, and now that he's dead, I can have Laura all to myself".
>
Initially banned by the BBC here enabling UK singer Ricky Valance to
rush out an "acceptable" version that promptly zoomed to the UK #1
spot----leaving poor Ray Peterson nowhere when the Beeb finally
relented and RCA belatedly put out his original version
>>Ray Charles - Sticks And Stones ((ABC Paramount 10118)
>>Jimmy Charles - A Million To One (Promo 1002)
>
>Father and son next to each other on the list? :-)
>
LOL one of the best Charles outings on ABC!
And who was it on here was amazed when I menmtioned on here a while
ago that Jimmy Charles was black?? :-)
>>The Crests - Trouble In Paradise (Coed 531)
>
>Really liked this one.
>
Yeah I always loved this one,my favorite of their Coed stuff
>>1961 (May 29)
>>
>>The Drifters - Please Stay (Atlantic 2105)
>
>One of their weaker ones.
>
I love this one too and what about that great "No Sweet Lovin'" flip?
>>The Classics - Life Is But A Dream (Mercury 71829)
>
>Great record. Originally came out on Dart?
>
Yes. Dart 1024 in 1961
>>The Blue Jays - Lovers Island (Milestone 208)
>
>Leon Peels and group? Most of their stuff is kind of collectible, but having
>lived in L.A. most of their stuff was around.
>
This never came out here and I took till the 70's before I ever heard
this---the love affair that started the day I heard it has never
waned.GREAT record!!
>>Danny Boy - Kokomo Me Baby (Tifco 824)
>
>Tefteller has the flip as the A-side.
>
No I have the 45 this is definitely the "A" side.
>>1962 (Jun 2)
>>
>>Roy Orbison - The Crowd (Monument 461)
>
>So so.
>
I thought this was top notch Orbison.Can't understand why it was'nt a
much bigger hit
>>Tommy Roe - Sheila (ABC Paramount 19329)
>
>I guess on the new ABC numbering system?
>
Typo :)
But saying that this is easily his best record---and moreover better
than the original Judd recording is definitely NOT a typo!
>>The Majors - A Wonderful Dream (Imperial 5855)
>
>Great record.
>
Agreed and one I played the hell out of when I first got it
>>Arthur Alexander - Where Have You Been (Dot 16357)
>
>Just another follow-up.
>
Flip it over for the great "Soldiers Of Love" that the late John
Lennon often named as one of his all time favorites
>>1963 (Jun 1)
>>
>>Jan & Dean - Surf City (Liberty 55580)
>
>Great record.
>
Any place that has two girls for every boy has to be GREAT!
>>The Isley Brothers - Tango (United Artists 605)
>
>Never heard this one.
>
Not up to much....their soujourn with UA was a BIG mistake!!
>>Joe South - Same Old Song (MGM 13145)
>
>After NRC I take it.
>
Yes and way before he finally made it with one of my favorite records
from later in the 60's---"Games People Play"
And I think we just came to the end of this weeks game :)
DO NOT PASS GO
DO NOT COLLECT £200
I HATE that song! (TWTD I mean)
In fact whenever anyone mentions "Those Were The Days" to me I think
first of that great little tune that used to open the show that the
USA ripped off from the UK "Till Death Us Do Part" TV show----"All In
The Family"
And she was a bouncy toothsome little dumplin if I recall too!!!
I wouldn't have minded to spank those jiggly English gluteals back then in
'69!!!
"Goodbye" was my favorite tune of hers!!!
Dennis C from Tennessee
> >> >Doris Day - Whatever Will Be Will Be (Columbia 40704)
> >>
> >> Alfred Hitchcock at his best.
> >
> >I wonder if they made Hitchcock put the singing into the movie. It's
> >very out of character for him.
> >
> Interesting piece from the Hitchcock website that addresses this :-
Interesting indeed. Thanks for digging it up, Roger.
Her songs sound light-years better on CD than on those old Apple 45s.
The songs really had some nice drumbeats in them. I never cared much
for "Temma Harbour" until I got the GH disk.
M
Anywhere 50 miles from Nashville, Cason would probably be better off billing
himself as Miles, but he's pretty well known here both as a studio owner,
producer and songwriter ("Soldier of Love" and "Everlasting Love," both of
which he performed), and in this town, those credits count for a lot.
The handbill I saw for the show was done up like one of the old Alan Freed show
posters; with the name in big letters and the "hit" or "hits" (or a group name)
in smaller type. He appeared as Buzz Cason, with Garry Miles in smaller print,
which is a little funny in its own way because Cason isn't even his real name
(Carson).
Fred
> Clifford Curry (they held the last benefit for him, now recovered from
kidney
> problems)
Always loved the title of his 1967 soul recording, "She Shot A Hole In My
Soul."
From Rule H.S. in Knoxville, Tennessee!!!!
Saw him playing pickup basketball at the Cal Johnson rec Center in the early
70's with a group of his former "homies".
I sat that one out.
That Woodie Harrelson movie slam dunks an anthropological verity in its title,
baby!!!
Dennis C from Tennessee
He also wrote an underrated song "Ann(don't go runnin) for an equally
underrated country music performer, Tommy Overstreet.....in 1972.
Hey!!!
Am I contributing here or what???!!!
Dennis C from Tennessee