Looking for music and commercials

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Hi, WBRU friends and family,

It has been a while since we had much activity in this group,
but I am reaching out in every possible direction to find some
truly and totally obscure items. Who better to ask than folks
who did radio in and around the era in question, and sometimes
in the same room that these records were filed in?!? These
recordings seem to be permanently elusive - I can't find them
anywhere on line, and would welcome an mp3 copy of any of them -
or access to one. (These days, I care more about the performance
than the original copy, although that's nice, too, if it comes
around.)

The first two are extremely rare records we had at WBRU in the
AM days before the record library was purged:

--- Priscilla Lee - Straws in the Wind (Revolvo 45-RV-61, 1961).
She is or was a popular Filipino singer who had several
English-language records on this California label. The vocal is
sung over a track reminiscent of Gogi Grant's "The Wayward
Wind." The same track was re-used for another version of the
same song by one Ray Mayo, a good-looking actor who couldn't
sing (much like Tab Hunter). The Mayo version is Revolvo
45-RV-59. I've seen a picture of the label but not a hard copy;
it often doesn't show up in label discographies. But really,
both exist, and Lee's version is "the object of desire."

--- Battiste - World of Make Believe (Kevin 104, 1961 or '62).
This song later became Bill Anderson's last #1 country hit in
the early '70s. This version is swamp pop at its finest. I have
a fairly damaged copy of the 45, but would love a clean mp3.

This is from a TV soundtrack:

--- The Hi-Los - "Noah's Ark" TV show theme song, 1956. There
are so many records by them, some we played on the jazz show;
but none seem to have this acapella TV theme, which was the best
part of a one-season-only TV series produced by Jack Webb, of
all people. (Yeah, it was lame but I was only 10, and the show
was about animals, so I have an excuse for watching a few of the
episodes.)

Also, I'm on the hunt for a couple of radio commercials that
aired on New York radio and possibly elsewhere:

--- Cool Shake - "Foams up like soda fountain shakes do / when
you pour yourself a Cool Shake / Think and rich and foamy too /
Wow, that's a Cool Shake!" ...followed by a cookin' little riff
which the DJ talked over with live copy. I'd love a copy with
the riff intact (NOT talked over) but would welcome any copy of
the original jingle. (Everything I've thus far found on line is
a different version of that jingle or a completely different
one.) I believe this one came from the mid-to-late '50s.

--- Tommy's Orange Tommy - "It's a great screwdriver in a
bottle" - yep, hard alcohol in what looked like soft drink
bottles. From 1956, it aired on WMGM until the drink was pulled
off the market for, well, looking too much like a soft drink. (I
believe it was either made or distributed by Petri Wines, which
in the late '50s, according to a book called "Wine Heritage,"
sold almost 25% of the wine consumed in the US. Fred Brack would
know more about this. At any rate, Petri lost the marketing
battle to Gallo, sold out to Inglenook then Heublein; the Petri
company no longer exists. But I digress....) The jingle was sort
of lame, yet somehow I remember it. This track is not a "major
quest," just one out of great curiosity.

Thanks, anybody, for any help you can provide - and if you're
going to be at the class reunions this year, I hope to see you
there. (It's my 50th - how the heck did I get this old? Aren't I
still the kid???)

Paul

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