SKYLINE RECORDS 752

JIMMY WERT and The Four Squirts
Dec 58
45-752-A - Please Believe Me   (Starday Music)
(Wert / McClintock)
45-752-B - Bingo Blues   (Starday Music)
(Wert / McClintock)
SKYLINE 752
Chambersburg, PA


Source: Terry Gordon

FRANTIC RECORDS 751

JERRY COXX with The CAVALIERS
Dec 58  (BB = 23 Feb 59)
45-751-A - Debbie Jean   (Bayou State BMI)
(J Coxx / J Sanders / T Kirk)
45-751-B - Sherry   (Bayou State BMI)
(J Coxx / J Sanders / T Kirk) FRANTIC RECORDS 751
Box 6305, Shreveport, LA

I have this listed as a very rare vocal group disc, but I'm yet to hear it.

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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UNKNOWN LABEL 749

(UNKNOWN ARTIST)

Nov 58

45-749-A - (No info)

(No info)   (No info)

45-749-B - (No info)

(No info)   (No info)

UNKNOWN LABEL 749
(Unknown Location)

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PEACH RECORDS 748

PETE HARDIN
Nov 58   (BMI Clear = 31 Jan 1959)
45-748-A - Love Me Or Leave Me   (Starday Music)
(Peaches Hardin)
45-748-B - Baby Be My Chicadee   (Starday Music)
(Peaches Hardin)
PEACH RECORDS 748
606 Pierre Ave, Shreveport, LA

Source: Terry Gordon / Doug Brown
634 King Press

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BRITE STAR RECORDS 747

RAY GUYCE and The Lonesome Valley Boys
Nov 58  (BB = 16 Feb 59)
45-747-A - Please Don't Set Me Free   (Starday Music)
(Ray Guyce)
45-747-B - Lonesome Guitar   (Starday Music)
(Ray Guyce)
BRITE STAR RECORDS 747
Mt Vernon, IN

Label owned by Floyd Wiseman. The Brite Star Label is a little confusing. A fre months from this release, they issue another which then continues it's numbering series. Some arepressed by Rite of Cincinnati, OH, whereas some labels are printed by King Records. The general agreement is that if it's published by Starday (or one of its custom publishing affiliates), then it counts as a Starday Custom Pressing. However, other records on different labels fill in the gaps in the numbering series. Since the next one isn't until #763, then we can deal with it then.

Source: Lars Lundgren

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FERN RECORDS 746

VIRGIE FOSSETT
Oct 58  (BB = 15 Dec 58)
45-746-A - The Gypsy's Mistake  (Bayou State BMI)
(V Fossett - J Bennett)
45-746-B - City Sidewalk    (Bayou State BMI)
(V Fossett - J Bennett)
FERN RECORDS 746
5838 Fern Street, Shreveport, LA

Source: Lars Lundgren

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HOBO RECORDS 745

DEAN EVANS
Oct 58   (BB Rev = 15th Dec 1958)
45-745-A - One Boy, One Girl   (Bayou State / La-Dee BMI)
(D Evans - H Miller)
45-745-B - Unfinished Castle   (Bayou State / La-Dee BMI)
(D Marais - G Elliott)
HOBO RECORDS 745
Box 6305, Shreveport, LA

First in a small line of records pressed in and around Louisiana that were published by Bayou State BMI. The labels of these are of a slightly different design, which makes me wonder if the labels were printed elsewhere.

Underneath these labels is a label shot sent from a guy called Apes Ville. This looks more like a Satrday Custom, judging by the label. Which makes me wonder if the green label was a second pressing. It does look newer than the blue label.

Source: Phillip Tricker / TomKat / Apes Ville

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BEVERLY RECORDS 744

THE GREEN BROTHERS QUARTET
Oct 58   (BMI Clearance 31st January 1959)
A - Judge The Tree   (No Info)
(No Info)
B - Tell The News   (No Info)
(No Info)
BEVERLY RECORDS 744
(Unknown Location)


No info on this, apart from the fact it's probably gospel.

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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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