DIXIE RECORDS 890

GENTRY BROTHERS

Oct 60   (BB = 23rd Jan 61)

634-45-890-A - Swanky

(Gentry / Walton)   (Golden State)

634-45-890-B - Swoony

(Gentry / Walton)   (Golden State)

DIXIE RECORDS 890

Richmond, IN

Source: Jay Stern

DIXIE RECORDS 888

CHARLOTTE HARDEN  “The Little Ozark Sweetheart”

Sept 60

634-45-888-A - I Hate Me (For Loving You)

(J. Gill)   (Golden State)

634-45-888-B - Can’t Get Enough (Of Loving You Baby)

(C Dycus)   (Golden State)

DIXIE RECORDS 888

Two fine sides by the Arkansas born but Flint, Michigan based Ozark Sweetheart (or Little Ozark Sweetheart as she is billed here.). She was born on 24 Jan 1944 in Jonesboro, AR. Her father worked at his grocery store located at Portia, AR.
Originally living in a small town charmingly named Grubbs, the family relocated to Flint, MI around 1952.

Her father became a booking agent for local bands and used this to help getting Charlotte some local recognition. By the age of 9 she could be heard over WTAC, which did a weekly talent show for unsigned musicians. By the following year she could be seen on TV over WXYZ out of Detroit.

In 1959 she appeared on TV in Lancing, MI and joined the cast of the Michigan Jamboree and played over WPON (Pontiac, MI). (She could be found singing, playing guitar or banjo at the Michigan Jamboree so obviously she was musically pretty gifted at this point.)

These tracks were "probably" recording in Detroit, Mi and she was backed by some of the local "Top-Notch" musicians. (Michigan didn't lack for fine musicians.) She seems pretty self assured vocally on both sides; not bad for an artist who was only 16 years old at the time!

Source: Lars Lungren

DIXIE RECORDS 882

ARCHIE DAY and his Rhythm Masters - Vcl = Jack Mahady

Sept 60

634-45-882-A - A Mother Not Wanted

(Day)   (Golden State)

634-45-882-B - I Don’t Want A Two Timing Love

(Day)   (Golden State)

DIXIE RECORDS 882

(Rhythm Masters = Raymond Johnson, Clarence Sparks, Cute Hall.)

Source: Phillip J Tricker / Dean Craige Morris

BY-LOVE RECORDS 843

THE LOVE BROTHERS

Mar 60

CP-3201 - Baby, I’ll Never Let You Go

(B Love / F Love)   (Golden State)

CP-3202 - One Time Love Affair

(B Love / F Love)   (Golden State)

BY-LOVE RECORDS 843

627 Pollock, Greenville, MS

Source: Neil Scott

RED RECORDS 840

RED MOORE and his Rhythm Drifters

Feb 60   (BMI Clearance on 30th April 1960.)

CP-3177 - I’ll Miss You When You’re Gone

(Moore)   (Golden State)

CP-3178 - Crawdad Song

(Moore)   (Golden State) 

RED RECORDS 840

Montrose, IA

Source: Terry Gordon

DIXIE RECORDS 825

BILL WILLIS

Jan 60   (Billboard review on 21st March 1960)

45-825-A - Boogie Woogie All Night

(B Willis / H Roger)   (Golden State)

45-825-B - Where Is My Baby

(B Willis / J Campbell)   (Golden State)

DIXIE RECORDS 825

SC

Source: Terry Gordon

DIXIE RECORDS 823

ART BUCHANAN with The Pioneers

Dec 59

45-823-A - Queen From Bowling Green

(Buchanan)   (Golden State Songs)

45-823-B - Wonder Why

(Buchanan)   (Golden State Songs)

DIXIE RECORDS 823

Source:  Terry Gordon

DIXIE RECORDS 810

HANK MORRISON ad his Rambling Cowboys

Oct 59

45-810-A - Just To Wink My Eyes At You   (Golden State Songs)

(Morrison)

45-810-B - To Share My Name   (Golden State Songs)

(Morrison)

DIXIE RECORDS 810

DIXIE RECORDS 803

BILL WILLIS with Goldie Norris
Sept 59  (BMI Clearance on 2nd Oct 59)
45-803-A - Goin' Down To Sal's House
(B Willis / G Norris)   (Golden State Songs)
45-803-B - Poor Man
(B Willis / J Campbell)   (Golden State Songs)
DIXIE 803
Greenwood, SC

LAUREL RECORDS 792

DICK DAMRON
Aug 59
45-792-A - Gonna Have A Party   (Golden State)
(Damron)
45-792-B - Rockin' Baby   (Golden State)
(Damron)
LAUREL RECORDS 792

Box 194, Bentley, Alberta, CANADA

Source: Terry Gordon

R.V.F. RECORDS 790

FLOYD ARTHURS
Jul 59
45-790-A - Waitress   (Golden State Songs)
(Arthurs)
45-790-B - You're Leaving Me For Good   (Golden State Songs)
(Arthurs)
R.V.F. RECORDS 790
Verdun, OK

Source: Lars Lungren

ETOWAH RECORDS 789

HORACE GOODWIN and The Etowah Valley Boys
Jul 59   (Billboard review on 24th August 1959)
45-789-A - I Just Dropped By (To Say Hello)   (Golden State Songs)
(Goodwin)
45-789-B - Here's My Heart   (Golden State Songs)
(Goodwin)
ETOWAH RECORDS 789
Route 1, Cartersville, GA

Source: Al Turner

VANGUARD RECORDS 767

JUANITA SMITH and The Vanguards
Mar 59
45-767-A - Sometimes I Wonder   (Golden State Songs)
(Smith)45-767-B - Conversational Walk  (???)
(???) VANGUARD 767
Route #2, Vian, OK

Source: Popsike

OZARK RECORDS 766

CECIL BRANDENBURG and his Little Dixie Boys
Mar 59
45-766A - Teardrops In My Eyes    (Golden State Songs)
(C Brandenburg)
45-766B - The Kind Of Loneliness I'm In     (Golden State Songs)
(C Brandenburg)
OZARK RECORDS 766
717 South Union St, Mexico, MO

Both sides are quite nice country. B side is slightly better.

Source: Jay Stern

ALVIC RECORDS 764

GARY LINK and The Rock-A-Fellas
Mar 59
764-A - Don't You Know    (Golden State)
(Link)
764-B - Rhythm Rock   (Golden State)
(Link)
ALVIC RECORDS 764
Harrodsburg, KY   (Lefty Combs)

Two sided chaotic rocker. Great stuff!

Source: Terry Gordon

N and R RECORDS 756

DANIEL NIX and The Compensation Boys and Girl
Jan 59
756-A - I Love You   (Golden State)
(Nix)
756-B - Unlucky Man   (Golden State)
(Nix)
N and R RECORDS 756
Route 2, Box 893, Zion, IL

Source: Terry Gordon

ROCKLAND RECORDS 750

ERNEST AND AGNES JOINES
Nov 58
45-750-A - Falling In  Love Again   (Golden State Songs)
(E Joines)
45-750-B - Brown Eyes And Brown Hair   (Golden State Songs)
(E Joines)
ROCKLAND RECORDS 750
Sparta, NC

Source: Unknown - initials are NG

Uploaded on Feb 11, 2012

Rockland 750 Starday Custom Nov 1958 Superb! Ernest was born in Alleghany County where he has lived all of his life except for one year in Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather played the banjo, and he remembers hearing a lot of music in church when he was young. "Back when I grew up, it was just oldtime," he remembers. When he was about nine years old, Ernest started playing a guitar his father bought him. He was exposed to a lot of music in the area, but when asked how he learned, Ernest says, "I just picked it up myself."

He immersed himself in oldtime and bluegrass music and learned to play several instruments. "I learned to play the guitar," he says, "Then I started playing mandolin." He has also played bass with a number of bands. Ernest played on a radio station in Galax around 1947-48 with Del Reeves, Fred Roupe, and Dean Mains. He often played for square dances and box suppers. "There weren't too many musicians around Sparta back then," Ernest says. So, he played with musicians around the region such as Larry Richardson's Blue Ridge Boys, with Uncle Joe Johnson and with Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys from Mount Airy.

Ernest worked for the highway department for nearly thirty years. During this career, Ernest played closer to home. He and his wife Agnes performed as a duet with guitar and mandolin and made some recordings in the 1950s. When Ernest retired in 1990, he and his wife started the Alleghany Jubilee in downtown Sparta in an historic theatre that has hosted musicians including Mainer's Mountaineers, Reno and Smiley, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and Uncle Dave Macon. Ernest and Agnes keep the Jubillee as a pastime, but it keeps them busy as it is open four or five nights a week for live music and dancing. "I just wanted to keep olditme music going," Ernest says when asked why he started the Alleghany Jubilee.

Ernest has put together three groups that perform at the Jubilee, and other bands from the region play there also. Ernest's bands are Blue Ridge Partners, Rise and Shine Band, and Old Country Grass. Rise and Shine Band has been together for about seven years. They play bluegrass and bluegrass gospel and have produced a recording. Blue Ridge Partners has been together for about a year and a half, and they play bluegrass and some old country. Old Country Grass has only been together a short while; they perform oldtime music.

In 1956 sales of Country music had dropped disasterously and the industry`s answer was to drop most of their artist and move the others to a more "pop" sound. Early efferts with choral backings such as Sonny James "Your love", Ferlin Huskys "Gone" and Jimmy newmans "Fallin Star" were (unfortunately) very successful and the sound of just a year erlier was artificially cut short while the steel guitar and fiddle were vanished from the studios.
But What was happening outside the studios? Countless bands were still active and playing the same music as they had previuously there was little that was new that they could relate to and perform live at this point but the music was only recorded and heard on small label and "Custom" releases. It was not until the maturity of the new "Nasville Sound" in 1958-59, as well as the beginning of new sounds from the west coast, that the smaller bands begun to change. Most of the 1956-57 Hillbilly recordings were only cut thanks to the availability of custom services.

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TEX-TAN RECORDS 743

DICK FAWCETT
Oct 58
45-743-A - Talkin' Thru Your Hat   (Golden State Songs)
(Fawcett)
45-743-B - My Boyhood Days Back Home   (Golden State Songs)
(Fawcett)
TEX-TAN RECORDS 743
Yoakum, TX

Source: Lars Lundgren


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N and R RECORDS 741

DANIEL NIX with The Compensation Boys
Sept 58
45-741-A - Just As Lonesome As Can Be   (Golden State Songs)
(Nix)
45-741-B - Compensation Blues   (Golden State Songs)
(Nix)
N and R RECORDS 741
314 Enoch Ave, Zion, IL

B side is a top notch, well crafted song - could be classed as a country bopper if you're into classing music as such things. Not heard the A side.

Source: DrunkenHobo

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HI-LITE RECORDS 739

RAMON "Ray" LANGLEY
Aug 58  (BMI Clear 31 Jan 59)
45-739-A - I Hear It In The Bells
(Langley)   (Golden State Songs)
45-739-B - If You Just Knew
(Langley)   (Golden State Songs)
HI-LITE RECORDS 739
637 Shawnee, Montgomery, AL
King Pressing 

Source: Unknown