LUCKY RECORDS 593

The Northwest Troubadours

Oct 56  (BMI Clearance on 11th January 1957)

45-593-A - Hey Mr Copper

(Irene Willis)   (Starrite BMI)

45-593-B - I'm Free At Last

(Irene Willis)   (Starrite BMI)

LUCKY RECORDS 593

Arcata, CA

The only info I could find was in one of my old note books, dated 1994. The info reads "Apparently this is a pretty good disc". Now I've heard it, I wasn't too far off. Nice male/female hillbilly disc. It was listed on a set sale list from the US. (MC/Mark Lee Allen)

Label Shots: - Doug Brown / Mark Lee Allen

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BIG STATE RECORDS 592

RONALD R A FAULK

Oct 56  (BMI Clearance on 11th January 1957)

45-592-A - You'll Never Know

(R A Faulk)   (Starrite BMI)

45-592-B - My Baby's Gone

(R A Faulk)   (Starrite BMI)
BIG STATE RECORDS 592

468 Third St, Port Acres, TX

The A side is a nice typical Texas honky-tonk / hillbilly song. Flip side is a thunderous rocker with heavy double bass and biting guitar. One of the best examples of the Starday rockabilly sound. The ending of the song is one of the most chaotic pieces of music every pressed into shellac as the musicians don't seem to know where to end. So they all seem to try to end at once with little success. (Sadly, nobody seems to have signalled to the bass player they're stopping!). This makes the side even better for it in my opinion.
Both Roland and his brother (Autry) were veterans of the Port Arthur, TX scene. (Port Acres is slightly west of Port Arthur). Kirby London recorded one of Roland's songs on D 1174.cRoland also recorded "Send Me Someone" / "I'd Own The World" on DIAMOND RECORDS 1003/4 as by Roland and his Rythm Boys (sic)

Birth:	Jun. 19, 1927 Port Arthur Jefferson County Texas, USA
Death:	Feb. 1, 2013 Port Arthur Jefferson County Texas, USA
R.A. Faulk, 85, of Port Acres passed away on Friday, February 1, 2013 at Mid-Jefferson Hospital. R.A. was born on June 19, 1927 in Port Arthur, TX to Zoie and Rose Theriot Faulk. He was a musician and worked at Gulf Oil. R.A. was a member of Faith Harbor Assembly of God Church in Port Acres. He proudly served his country in the United States Army. He loved his family very much and was known as Poppa. R.A. was preceded in death by his parents; 4 brothers, Curtis, Autrey, Melvin and Herman Ray; 4 sisters, Gloria, Jeanette, Geraldine and Beverly; 2 sons-in-law, Dennis Earl Miguez and Marcio Illa. R.A. is survived by his wife of 56 years, Myrna "Julie" Faulk of Port Acres; sons, Clint Faulk (Sherrie) of Port Arthur, Tony Faulk (Kelly) of Port Arthur; daughters, Brynda Amburn (Steve) of Groves, Kelly Toutcheque (Sid) of Lake Jackson, TX; brother, Larry Faulk of Port Arthur; sister, Shirley Anzaldua of Yoakum, TX; 19 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

This disc was pressed on both 45 and 78rpm formats.  (MC)

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Terry Gordon

MECCA RECORDS 591

GENE STERLING

Oct 56  (Billboard review on 15th Dec 56)

45-591-A - Living A Lie

(Gene Sterling / Bud Sloan)   (Mecca Enterprises BMI)

45-591-B - I Won't Be Back No More

(Gene Sterling / Bud Sloan)   (Mecca Enterprises BMI)

MECCA RECORDS 591

920 Third Ave, Seattle, WA

Born in Arkansas, Gene was a truck driver by day and a singer and DJ by night. In 1953, he was DJ'ing over KRSC in Seattle, WA and appearing on Seattle's "Junior Ranch Show". He was signed to Vogue Records in 1953 and had at least one release (Vogue #1022 - "So Do I" / ???). Billboard thought it routine, but then they weren't always right. 

By 1956, Billboard finds him recording the disc above. Again, they are not glowing in their praise. This was either reissued or re-recorded on the Miracle Label (Seattle, WA) sometime in the 70’s As an aside, notice neither side is published by Starrite or one of it’s affiliates. Doesn’t happen often.

There was a variety of issues on MECCA Records from Seattle, WA, though I think this may have been the only record pressed by Starday. 

(MC / Neil Davies)

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JAMBOREE RECORDS 590

JAMBOREE RECORDS 590

Buffalo, KY

Sept 56  (Billboard review on 27th Apr 57)

CURLEY SANDERS

45-590-A - Why Did You Leave Me

(J R Sprawls / C Sanders)   (Starrite BMI)

45-590-B - Brand New Rock And Roll

(C Sanders)   (Starrite BMI)


Label states "A Product Of Sprawls Enterprises". Label was owned by Joel Ray Sprawls.
Curley Ray Sanders was born in 1935 in St John, KY. he was a DJ on WCTO (Campbellsville, KY) in 1956, and on WBRT (Bardstown, KY) in 1958. WBRT is where he recorded with Joe Brown on San Records, possibly paid for by Curley. He was a regular on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance (KY) in 1958.
I may not know much about Curley but I found quite a few records by him. He  shows up on my radar in about 1949/50 on Star Talent from Dallas, TX (#749 - Last on your list / Penny for your thoughts). There was a Curley Sanders (assuming it's him) appearing on the Saturday Night Shindig over WFAA (Dallas) in the early 50's. Then I find two discs on Imperial (#8197 - Love 'em country style / My heart is yours alone - Mid 53), (#8226 - Too much lovin' / I'm reaching for Heaven - Dec 53/Jan 54).
By 1956, Curley's obviously incorporated some "Cat Music" in his repertoire and he's found here hollering for all he's worth (well, not quite hollering, but there's an urgency in his vocals). The A side I've yet to hear. Neil Scott picked one up and then sold it on (dumb arse), so I never managed to hear the A side. Flip is a stop/start rocker with cool lyrics and some fine accomp. by his band (who I presume are the Santones.) I think there's an under recorded mandolin or something playing through the solos but the guitar is drowning it out. Anyhow, it's a fabulous track. Almost awesome!
Curley springs up on the Concept label twice after the issue here and records another disc on Jamboree (which isn't pressed by Starday). (Concept #897 - Dynamite / You're smiling (I'm crying) 1957 - Elizabethtown, KY), (Concept #898 - Walking blues / This time - 57/8), (Jamboree 1833 - Heartsick and blue / I'll obey my heart - 57/58 - still located in Buffalo, KY and featuring the Kentucky Rangers). After that ......I'll have to wait until somebody else tells me :-)
(MC / Dan DeClark / Terry Gordon / Neil Scott)


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27 Apr 57 Billboard Rev.

Barney Koumis

Curley Sanders - Buffalo Bop CD 55178

SAN RECORDS 589

SAN RECORDS 589

W.B.R.T, Bardstown, KY

Sept 56

JOE BROWN and the Black Mt. Boys with Curley Sanders and the Santones

45-589-A Midnight Rhythm

(Sanders / Shirley)   (Starrite BMI)

45-589-B Fishin' Fever

(Joe Brown)   (Starrite BMI)


Once again, nothing known about Joe Brown and his band. Curley Sanders will be covered next as he has his own release after this disc. Recorded at WBRT from Bardstown, KY so perhaps Joe was a DJ there.


"Midnight Rhythm" is a nice instrumental with fiddles and a nice guitar picker (Ody Martin??) doing a fine Chet Atkins impression. (Ody was name checked by Curley in a Billboard segment.) "Fishin' Fever" is the slightly better side with fine vocals and fine support from the Black Mt. Boys and the Santones.

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2 Aug 2020 - Email from Eric Mudd - 

Hi! My name is Eric Mudd, and I am from Cox's Creek, Kentucky, just a few miles to the north of Bardstown. Joe Brown was best friends with both of my parents' dads. I actually got to meet him twice around 1996, at my dad's brother's house, a year or two before he passed away. He was a real nice guy, giving me and my cousins peppermints he usually carried in his pocket.

The first time he came over, Joe decided to tell my dad and uncles about how he came about writing "Fishin' Fever". Joe went fishing one day (presumably summer 1956) at a holding pond on the property of the now-defunct T.W. Samuels Distillery, in Deatsville, Kentucky. He had just eaten his lunch, and while he was waiting for a fish to hit his line, he started humming a little melody, then some of the lyrics started coming about, and before he forgot them, he rushed to his truck, got a pen, and wrote the song on his lunch sack. Joe was a well-known fiddler in our area, and is the one playing fiddle on the recording of "Fishin' Fever". He is also one of the fiddlers on the A side of San 589, "Midnight Rhythm".

That is all I know about the record and the man, other than that he was a decades-long employee of Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. You'd think that living in the Bardstown, Ky. area that I would be able to find an original 45, but I haven't found a single one in my 12 years of collecting (maybe some day). Joe gave my dad's family a copy, but someone accidentally sat on it and well, you know...

I hope I have been able to have shed some light on San 589 for you, and can use the info. for future reference

COXX RECORDS 588

Slim Coxx and his Cowboy Caravan

Sept 56  (Billboard review on 5th Jan 57)

45-588-A Mockingbird Special

(S Coxx / B Dee)   (Starrite BMI)

45-588-B Lonely Nights

(S Coxx / J Albert)   (Starrite BMI)

COXX RRECORDS 588
So. Coventry, CT

Slims real name was Gerard A Miclette. He played with his younger brother, Roland "Rocky" Miclette in various bands. By the time Roland came back from serving in the navy, he joined Slim (who played fiddle like his father, George) playing bass in Slims' Kentucky Ramblers. Eventually they came to the attention of the Down Homers, which featured Bill Haley (&and Kenny Roberts) and joined them on the tidy sum of $200 a week wages. Once the Down Homers had disbanded, Slim & Rocky were playing at Lake Compounce in Slims new band, The Cowboy Caravan.


Rocky died on the 6th of May 2004 and Slim passed away October 13th 1999. 

"Mocking Bird Special" is a pleasant enough fiddle instrumental. This was reissued on Starday EP 295 and Starday LP 114, and subsequently reissued again on Nashville LP 2015 (Album release credited to "Slim Cox." Haven't heard the flip, but the lead vocalist is Jimmy Stephen.  (MC / Al Turner / Michael Proost)
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STARDAY RECORDS 587

STARDAY RECORDS 587

(Artist based in Oelwein, IA)
Aug 56  (BMI clearance on 17th Nov 56.)

ANDY DOLL - 6 Men and 16 Instruments

45-587-A - Goodbye Mary Ann

(A Doll)   (Starrite BMI)

45-587-B - Honey Dew

(A Doll)   (Starrite BMI)

Compared to most of the artist featured on Starday Customs, Doll is one of the more prolific artists. He had many discs released on his own AD label from Oelwein, IA, mostly pressed by RCA and by 1962, we find him the proud owner of the "Coliseum Ballroom" until 1973. He also toured extensively and backed up such luminaries as Pee Wee King.


Anyhow, the A side is a nice song, set at what I guess is a waltz tempo, whilst the flip is more uptempo with a western swing flavour. All very pleasant to be sure, but not something that would set my heart racing. His later recordings on AD bordered on Rock-A-Billy in some places, but not on this occasion.

Label Shots courtesy of Al Turner (78rpm)

and Phil Tricker (45rpm)

Flyer/Mailshot courtesy of Phil Tricker.
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Billboard review - 17 Nov 56

PLOW RECORDS 586

Tennessee George and The Pennsylvania Plowboys

Vcl by George & Danny

Aug 56  (BMI clearance on 2nd Nov 56.)

45-586-A - Cry Baby

(George Dry)   (Starrite BMI)

45-586-B - Butterball

(George Dry)   (Starrite BMI)

PLOW RECORDS 586

Bangor, PA

Never heard or seen the disc. In fact, if it wasn't for Al Turner sending it to me as an addition years ago, I would not have known of it's existence.

586-A was re-recorded by Dave Dudley on Starday 364.


Thanks to Michael Proost, I located a snippet of info from Billboard dated 16 Apr 55 (shown below). Thanks also to Bob, who produces the fantastic "That's All Rite Mama" blog for the offer of the label shot (same side as shown below).
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Label shot courtesy of Michael Proost / Doug Brown

DEL-MAR RECORDS 585

DEL-MAR RECORDS 585

Moorhead, KY

Aug 56

THE DELMAR WILLIAMS SINGERS

45-585-A - My Journey Home

(D Williams / L Williams)   (Starrite BMI)

45-585-B - The Last Love Letter

(G Williams / D Williams)   (Starrite BMI)

Judging from the writers credits, I would suggest that the Delmar Williams singers are a family affair. Not heard this disc and have no other info so feel free to add to this scant page. As you've probably figured out, both sides were pressed on 45 & 78rpm.
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DEL-MAR RECORDS 584

DEL-MAR RECORDS 584

Moorhead, KY

Aug 56  (BMI Clearance on 2nd Nov 1956.)

THE DELMAR WILLIAMS SINGERS

45-584-A - I Wanna Walk A Little Closer

(No info)   (Starrite BMI)

45-584-B - The Gates Will Swing Wide

(No info)   (Starrite BMI)

Lovely back-in-the-hills Gospel from obscure Gospel artist. Is this the same Delmar who owned Airway records?

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