Larry Bright - Mojo Workout

Uptempo R&B guitar rocker from 1960.

Julian Ferebree Bright
Born 17 August 1934, Norfolk, Viginia
Died 17 December 2003, Placer, California

Larry Bright - Mojo Workout

Freddie Montell - (Ooey Gooey) Green Cheese

Freddie Montell with a cheesey rocker from 1960 on the Ermine record label.

Freddie Montell - (Ooey Gooey) Green Cheese

Chuck Bene With Johnny Dentz's Hillrockers - Come Back Baby

Chuck Bene - US Rockabilly singer born Charles Salvatore Bene', June 26, 1941 in Hackensack (New Jersey). This rare little rackabilly number on the Rock Records label is from 1960.

Chuck Bene With Johnny Dentz's Hillrockers - Come Back Baby

Eddie Ford - The Drag

Rockin' little instrumental with some fine guitar work from 1959 or 1960? from Eddie Ford and his orchestra on the Sabrina Records label. Other than that, i got nothing....


Eddie Ford - The Drag

Jimmy Witter And The Shadows - What Are Little Girls Made Of

I've had this 45 sitting in my "i'll get ti it soon" box but i had it in the soul pile. Since it's on Neptune Records and all my other records on Neptune are soul (Baby Washington comes to mind) i assumed incorrectly. This is a nice little rockabilly Elvis wanna be cut from 1960. Enjoy.

Jimmy Witter And The Shadows - What Are Little Girls Made Of

The Upsetters - Rolling On

A little rolling rocker from the The Upsetters, who were at one time the backing band for Little Richard. This cut is from 1960 on the Gee label. I've read that Jimi Hendrix was a one time member of this group as well? Any info on that would be great.

The Upsetters - Rolling On

The Fugitives - Freeway - Fugitive

I just picked this 45 up recently at the flea market. 2 instrumental cuts from 1960 by The Fugitives on the Arvee label. I couldn't find much about this group on the web but i did find that another blog had posted this up and when they did they got an email from the man who wrote the song. Head on over to Dad's 45's to check it out.

The Fugitives - Freeway

The Fugitives - Fugitive

Bobby Marchan - There's Something On Your Mind - Part 1 & Part 2

(Bobby in drag)

Great 45 from the cross dressing Bobby Marchan. You can read a whole lot more over @ The Hound Blog about Mr./Mrs. Marchan.


Bobby Marchan - There's Something On Your Mind - Part 1

Bobby Marchan - There's Something On Your Mind - Part 2

The Cruisers - If I Knew - Miss Fine

Like lots of old good records when you find them out in the wild they are usually pretty beat up. This is because they were played over and over again. I can see this gem being played at some house party in Philly (where i found this and where the cruisers were from) and picked up and played again and again while drinks were drank, drugs were drugged and dancin' and carrying on ensued, hence they wear and tear. I notice this same pattern on lots of old Rolling Stones records compared to Beatles records of the same time. This is because Stones fans of the day were a rowdier brand of hooligan while Beatles fans were mostly young girls.... Anyway, If i Knew is the A side here but the $$$ is Miss Fine IMHO....

The Cruisers from Philadelphia, PA never had a significant record. Patterning themselves after the Harptones, group leader Gene Williams, Randy Hamilton, Paul Long, and McKinley Anthony began recording on V-Tone Records. The deal resulted in two single releases in 1960: "Miss Fine" b/w "If I Knew," and "Don't Tease Me" b/w "Crying Over You;" the latter got pegged for mass distribution two years later by Guyden Records only to die a second time. Five years passed before their next deal in 1967 with Gamble Records, who were charting with the Intruders' records. "I Need You So" b/w "Take A Chance," reeked with sentiment but despite its charm didn't sell, and the Cruisers languished for nearly three years before their final release. Bunny Sigler brought the Cruisers' doo-wop skills out the closet with "Picture Us" b/w "Mink and Sable Mable," but Gamble Records only seem able to get hits on Sonny & the Intruders; while others including Ruth McFadden, the Jaggerz, the Futures, the Butlers, and the Epsilons always came up empty. Sigler later cut a solo version of "Picture Us" on Philadelphia International Records, and the Cruisers went on with their lives.

The Cruisers - If I Knew

The Cruisers - Miss Fine

The Paradons - Diamonds And Pearls - I Want Love

The Paradons were an American doo wop group from Bakersfield, California.

The group began by singing locally at school dances and clubs. Within a few months they secured a recording session with Milestone Records, and recorded eight songs. Their first release with the label, "Diamonds and Pearls" b/w "I Want Love", became a hit in the U.S., peaking at #27 on the Black Singles chart and #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. The group appeared on American Bandstand and at the Apollo Theatre in the wake of its success. The group broke up shortly after over monetary disputes, having been together less than a year in total.[2] Despite the group's demise, Marathon continued releasing singles from their initial recording sessions, but these releases - "Bells Ring", "Take All of Me", and I Had a Dream" - did not chart.

Diamonds and Pearls might have been the hit, but the money is in I Want Love. A Nice Up-tempo rocker!

The Paradons - Diamonds And Pearls

The Paradons - I Want Love

The Clippers - Beanie

Weird little instrumental rocker here: Can't remember where i picked this up and i know nothing about it except it is from 1960 and it has a Spiders Witchcraft sound in certain spots. It aint great but just weird enough to make the cut...

The Clippers - Beanie

The Hawks - The Grissle - Grasshopper

So i got up and ready to go to work today and it was a real hassle. And i was thinking with all the shit i have going on in my life right now and dealing with this house mess (see car crash pics below) and worrying about getting all of my things out of a condemed house and dealing with trying to re-locate and temporarily living out of a Hotel and all, i was thinking i don't have time to keep doing this stupid little blog. But i got to work and i had a few new nice comments saying thanks for the tunes and that some people come here everyday and all and a few more people started "following" the blog so instead of putting the "Closed" sign up like i was thinking about doing i decided to just keep on keeping on... So i will not put the closed sign up and i will try to keep posting. Don't think it will be as regualr as in the past but i will try. Till the next time enjoy some Las Vegas Grind Type music from 1960 w/ The Hawks!!!

The Hawks - The Grissle

The Hawks - Grasshopper

Bobby Peterson Quintet - The Hunch - Love You Pretty Baby

Re-post since divshare screwed up the files for this post the 1st time. So here it is again and this time w/ a file that works for Love You Pretty Baby!

Bobby Peterson was a pianist / vocalist from Chester, Pennsylvania, who started out imitating Ray Charles in smoky little bars on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Further musical apprenticeship was served as piano player for a vocal outfit known as the Apollos. In 1958 Bobby teamed up with sax player Joe Pyatt, who needed a singer and key- board player for his new combo and the Bobby Peterson Quintet was born. The other members were David Butler (drums), Chico Green (bass) and Jamo Thomas (congas and bongo). They made six remarkable singles for Buddy Caldwell's Philly-based V-Tone label between 1959 and 1961, before disbanding permanently in 1962.

The band started to play in clubs with a mixed repertoire of current R&B hits, Ray Charles favourites and a few originals, when Lawrence Kerrin, a local talent scout and promoter, heard them at the Skyway Inn in southwest Philadelphia. Kerrin and Joe Pyatt collaborated writing the Quintet's first single, a simple sax/piano instrumental called "The Hunch". Kerrin introduced the combo to Buddy Caldwell, who operated his new V-Tone and Len labels out of the back of his upholstery store on Ridge Avenue. "The Hunch" (c/w the vocal "Love You Pretty Baby") managed to climb to # 71 on Billboard's national pop charts, but a note-for-note cover by Paul Gayten on the Gordy family's embryonic Anna imprint did slightly better, peaking at # 68 in November 1959.

The quintet followed this up with a powerful two-part instrumental, "Rockin' Charlie", which was used as a theme by ace deejay Jocko Henderson. They began doing one-nighters up and down the eastern seaboard, and were brought to Chicago by Buddy Caldwell to record their third single, the great "Irresistible You" (written by Luther Dixon), coupled with a wild instrumental, "Piano Rock". "Irresistible You" went to # 15 R&B and # 96 pop in the autumn of 1960 ; Bobby Darin would record the song a year later and take it to # 15 pop. The group was now touring all over the country, with stars like Jackie Wilson, Jerry Butler and Smokey Robinson.

"Been Saving My Love For You"/"Three Street" was the fourth V-Tone single for the Bobby Peterson Quintet. Released in early 1961, it was not as strong as the first three, but still sold quite well. "One Day"/ "Mama Get Your Hammer" probably got the least airplay of all six singles. The wild "Mama Get Your Hammer" should have been the A-side IMHO. This was followed by another great instrumental, "Smooth Sailin', Parts 1 & 2", which sold a fair amount. But the young musicians were already tiring of the hard road life and drummer David Butler chose to settle down and get steady work. Joe Pyatt, the real leader of the group, joined Dave "Baby" Cortez's combo as sax man in 1962, while Chico Green went on to work with Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. Jamo Thomas joined several combos and scored a # 98 pop hit in 1966 with "I Spy For the FBI". Bobby Peterson himself recorded two further singles under his own name for Atlantic and Centaur, and returned to the rounds of Chester's clubs. In the 1980s he was playing in a funky aggregation called Self-Destruct.

The above lifted from, http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/bobby_peterson.htm: who intern lifted it from someone else.... either way, you get 2 cool cuts today and some info i didn't know until i swiped it....

Bobby Peterson Quintet - The Hunch
Bobby Peterson Quintet - Love You Pretty Baby

Wilbert Harrison - Little School Girl - Since I Fell For You

Going to keep in the 50's & 60's doo-wop, rock and R&B style o' things with 2 from Wilbert Harrison from 1960 on the Fury label.

Wilbert Harrison (January 5, 1929 – October 26, 1994) was an American singer/pianist/guitarist/harmonica player.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrison had a Billboard No.1 record in 1959 with the song "Kansas City". The song was written in 1951 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Harrison recorded "Kansas City" for Harlem music entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, which caused a furor with Herman Lubinsky and Savoy Records.

Harrison recorded for the Fire and Fury record labels, which were owned and operated by Bobby Robinson at his Harlem record shop, Bobby's Happy House of Hits on 125th Street, west of the Apollo Theatre. Harrison's records are especially notable for the presence of the guitarist Wild Jimmy Spruill, whose solo on "Kansas City" is one of the most memorable in the history of rock and roll.

Man, I love this Fury record label...

And dig that organ action on "Since I Fell For You"...

Great stuff, I hope you dig 1/2 as much as me...

Wilbert Harrison - Little School Girl
Wilbert Harrison - Since I Fell For You

The Tarantulas - Tarantula - Black Widow

What would Halloween be like without some spiders!?!?

Fortunately for us "The Tarantulas" give us these 2 creepy instrumentals from 1960 and now i give them to you... Just in time for the Hell-A-Day!

As for the band:

The Tarantulas first recorded as the Spyders and had some personnel changes before changing their name. Band members included Bobby Tucker, Fred Crook, Dan Rains, Sammy Creason, and Bill English. The Tarantulas' best known song is "Tarantula," and they recorded several other songs including "Like Spellbound" and "Kaw Liga." "Tarantula" was recorded at Fernwood studio in Memphis ca. 1960 and was released as a single (Atlantic-2102 b/w "Black Widow"). This song is included on the CD Fernwood Rock N Roll. After Bill Black passed away in 1965, Bobby Tucker became the lead for the Bill Black Combo and the group, which incorporated other Tarantulas members, recorded until the 1970s.


The Tarantulas - Tarantula

The Tarantulas - Black Widow



The Tarantulas - Tarantula

The Ramblers - Devil Train

A cool and smooth rockin' instrumental number here, The Ramblers on Addit Records - 1257 - Doing Devil Train from 1960. If this is what the devil's train sounds like (and it does from time to time)I'm sure you'll want to climb aboard!

Hop to it chump!

The Ramblers - Devil Train

Bob Scott - Fast Suds

I couldn't find anything about Mr. Scott here but this 45 is a nice little guitar rocker. The R.E.F. label out of Indiana PA is a mystery too. Anyone?

I did find that he cut another 45 on R.E.F in 1960 - R.E.F. 106, with this record being 107 so i guess that dates this to 1960 or 1961. I found that info on a 45 web site that specializes in records pressed in the Ohio Valley called 45 RPM Records.com

Bob Scott - Fast Suds

Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me! - Grandpa's Grave

Ok here's a Little oddball i picked up for a mere 25 cents last weekend at the flea market. Not really the type of stuff i listen to all the time but i thought odd enough to share. It Looks like this was a #4 hit in the UK back in 1960.

I'm sending the flip Grandpa's Grave out to Blues for the Red Boy for his love of all things kooky and spooky and while its not the typical "Horror" or "Monster" 45 i think he'll get a kick out of it as i don't think he's heard it yet??? Hmmm, red boy?

I'll be away for the 4th of July weekend so enjoy these little kooks until i get back!

Cheers!

Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me!

Peter Sellers - Grandpa's Grave