The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies - Salty Sam

The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies

The Marvelos - Salty Sam

Jimmy Sweeney - What'cha Gonna Do About Me

Rollin' & Rockin' R&B number from Jimmy Sweeney (AKA Jimmy Bell) on the Buckley Records label from 1962.

Jimmy Sweeney - What'cha Gonna Do About Me

The Cordells - Laid Off

Not getting laid in a good way, here is The Cordells w/ a rocking little Doo Wop number "Laid Off" from 1962 on the Bargin Records label out of N.Y.C.

The Cordells - Laid Off

Johnny Cooper - Dumb Dumb Bunny

A little rockin' number from 1962 on the Ermine label by Johnny Cooper. Sorta sounds like early Everyly Brothers. Now if you will exscuse me I'm off to court....

Johnny Cooper - Dumb Dumb Bunny

Chris Kenner - Let Me Show You (How To Twist)

More twist action with Identical melody of "I Like it Like That" (Let Me Show You Where it's At) from 1962.... Trying to "cash in" on the twist fade this 45 didn't do much.... still a cool little nugget of early 60's R n R.....

Chris Kenner -Let Me Show You (How To Twist)

The Classmates - Teenage Twister (She's My Twistin' Date)

Hands off she's mine, better try to resist, or you'll find your chin at the end of my fist!

Twisting teenage anger awesomeness!

The Classmates - Teenage Twister (She's My Twistin' Date)

Jimmy Elledge - Funny How Time Slips Away

I posted the Brooke Benton version of this tune just a little while ago and said then that this is my fave version of the Willie Nelson penned classic but i couldn't find my 45 of it. Well, i found it and here it is. Its a bit worn and played but man it is a good song.

As for Mr. Elledge:

Jimmy Elledge (born January 8, 1943, Nashville, Tennessee) is an American country musician.

Elledge sent a demo tape to Chet Atkins when he was 18 years old, which resulted in a recording contract with RCA Victor. His first recording for the label was "Funny How Time Slips Away", which was written by Willie Nelson and produced by Atkins. The song became a hit, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961, and sold over one million copies. Elledge recorded for Hickory Records later in the 1960s but never had another hit.

Funny thing is that when i first heard this song i thought for sure that Jimmy was black because the voice is just so soulful on this cut. I had no idea he was a white country singer. Go figure.

Jimmy Elledge - Funny How Time Slips Away

Elmore James - Anna Lee - Stranger Blues

Something i should do more often, some blues. 2 Great blues cuts from Elmore James from 1962 on the great FIRE label... Great!

Elmore James - Anna Lee

Elmore James- Stranger Blues

The Volumes - I Love You - Dreams

Great R&B vocal Doo Wop today from 1962 by The Volumes on the Chex record label.

The Volumes (sometimes written as The Volume's) were an American R&B vocal group formed in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan. The group's 1962 single for Chex Records, "I Love You", was a hit in the U.S., peaking at #22 that year on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune was an amalgam of doo wop and Latin beats, and was co-written by bass Ernest Newsom and the group's manager, Willie Ewing.The group recorded further singles for Chex and American Arts but never returned to the charts, remaining archetypical one-hit wonders.

The Volumes - I Love You

The Volumes - Dreams

Johnny Ray Gomez - Romp Out

Nice Surf Guitar Organ Rocker from 1962~!

AT LESS THAN A MINUTE AND A HALF, "Romp Out" IS A FRANTIC, ROCKIN' SURF STYLE INSTRUMENTAL FEATURING GREAT GUITAR * COMPILED ON GAIL ANDERSON'S "Surfin' In The Midwest" SERIES * THIS RELEASE WAS THE FIRST OF THREE BY GOMEZ ON APPLAUSE, AN OMAHA, NEBRASKA LABEL.

Johnny Ray Gomez - Romp Out

The Legends - Bop-A-Lena - I Wish I Knew

I bought this record on one fact and one fact alone. For the cover version of Ronnie Self's Bop-A-Lena. Another record i have already talked about HERE: on the Devil's Music. Not knowing anything about this group i had to check out the cover of one of my all time amped up 50's songs. And while this doesn't even come close to the original it is a pretty cool Buddy Holly type version. And the flip is a cool piece of Buddy Holly worship too. I've read that this is from either 62' or 63'.

Here is what i dug up on this cool band:

As any aging greaser can tell you, In the pre-Beatles '60's, rock 'n' roll in Milwaukee was spelled "L-E-G-E-N-D-S". The Legends, with front man McCue, were the first band to truly rock Beertown. Their singles "Say Mama", "Bop-A-Lena" and "Lariat" went to the top of the charts in Milwaukee. They were the first local rock band to nail a national record contract, getting signed by Capitol. Every weekend they held court over the spacious dance floor at Muskego Beach. And they helped inspire a generation of local musicians to make music their living. By any reasonable standard, Sam McCue is the godfather of Milwaukee rock. The son of a "semi-pro" trumpet-playing dad and a singing, fiddling mom, McCue started out with ukulele at age 6 and graduated to guitar.
In 1964, McCue left to take an opportunity as lead guitarist and band leader for the Everly Brothers. The Everlys turned out to be a memorable experience. McCue traveled all over the world, worked on a national musical variety TV series, and met and played with such rock royalty as Carl Perkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Vinton.

Excerpted from a March 12, 1998 article by Dave Tianen Journal Sentinel Pop Music Critic WAMI Nominee for Music Journalist of the Year.

BTW WAMI stands for the "Wisconsin Area Music Industry" as these guys were from Milwaukee.

The Legends - Bop-A-Lena

The Legends - I Wish I Knew

The Surfmen - The Ghost Hop

What is Halloween without some Ghosts???

Just a little kooky, (some-what) spooky and groovy surf instrumental here to get your weekend started!

The Surfmen consisted of Ray Hunt (lead), Nick Drury (rhythm), Armon Frank (sax), Randall Anglin (bs) & Tim Fitzpatrick (dms). After replacing Drury, Anglin, and Frank with Ed Chiaverini, Ron Griffith, and Joel Willenbring, they changed their name to the Lively Ones in 1962.

I know this is a quick one, but you don't need no slack jawin' from me on this one. Just dig in... Sand and Spooks, oh my!

The Surfmen - The Ghost Hop

Ronnie Self - Houdini

Keeping this a Ronnie Self weekend here is my minty copy of Houdini w/ company sleeve.

After his Decca contract expired in 1962 Self's credibility was still sufficiently high for him to secure a one year deal with Kapp Records.

I for one dig this tune, i mean its a song about freakin' Houdini! How do you go wrong with that?

See below the below post whole R.S. story...

Ronnie Self



Ronnie Self - Houdini

The Nightcaps - Wine, Wine, Wine

For this post I'd like to Thank Linda A Mahaffey, who's city, state & zip code i blocked out on her address label. If she hadn't bought this 45 so many years ago it might not have made it into my hands. Any way this is something I've been doing a little bit of over the weekend with some good friends and the JJB, drinking a little wine, wine, wine...
THE NIGHTCAPS, one of the first widely known white blues bands, were formed by high school friends Billy Joe Shine (vocals), David Swartz (guitar), Jack Allday (drums), Mario Daboub (bass) and Gene Haufler (rhythm guitar) in 1958. Over the years they became fixtures on their local Dallas, Texas blues scene, greatly influencing the blues and R&B acts that subsequently prospered in the region. As well as performing blues standards such as Muddy Waters' "I've Got My Mojo Working" and Junior Parker's "Next Time You See Me", The Nightcaps wrote several affecting originals. The most noteworthy of these were the singles "Thunderbird" and "Wine, Wine, Wine". "Thunderbird" was later covered by devotees ZZ Top early in their career. During this period, they became a major influence on such future luminaries as Jimmie Vaughan -- who apparently learned every song off the Nightcaps' LP -- and his younger brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who thought Wine, Wine, Wine was just a great record, and ZZ Top. Vaughan would later record "Thunderbird," and ZZ Top used it to open their Fandango album. Billy Joe Shine still leads a revival version of the band in the Dallas area with Lead Guitarist(an original Nightcap)Gene Haufler, along with Len Mills on Rhythm Guitar and Keyboard, and brother Dennis Mills on Bass, Mark Minton on Drums, and Richard Williams on Saxophone.

The Nightcaps - Wine, Wine, Wine

Sonny Richard's "Panics" With Cindy & Misty - The Voodoo Walk

Keeping the Halloween vibe alive here @ the devil's music with a nice little spooky rocker by Sonny Richard's "Panics" on Chancellor records from 1962!

Do the Voodoo Walk, the Dance of the Dead!

Sonny Richards - The Voodoo Walk

The old link above was made private by divshare.... maybe somebody complained?

I hope not. I have been getting a lot of complaints of late and i want people to know that in no way shape or form am i making $$$ from this or trying to steal away anything from the artist or disrespect anyone. Contrarily i am trying to turn people on to great lost songs and artists that people might not have even heard of if they didn't hear them here....

Here is a new link that i will keep up until i am told otherwise....

Sonny Richards - The Voodoo Walk

The Fortunes - Ghoul In School

OK big ups to The Red Boy for giving me the heads up on the lil' gem when he alerted me that this kooky peice was avalaible on teh cheap from a certain on line selling source... Cheers! Slim!

That being said here is the 1st in what I hope will be an October filled with Monster sounds, See Red Boy and me have a thing for kooky, ookie, spooky, and kitchie monster type sights and sounds and being as Oct is THEE spooky month starting on the 1st with none other than the devil's birthhday (that'd be me) and end with the greatest Holiday in Halooween he and i are prepared to scare the shit out of all you ghouls and boyz all month LONG!

So here is my 1st installment of what i hope is many:

Featured in the movie "werewolf in a girls dormitory" in 1962 where at a girl's school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf-man-like creature and suspicion falls upon a newly arrived teacher!!!

So dance you fool but don't lose your cool doing the GHOUL!

The Fortunes - Ghoul In School

The Mar-Kets - Surfer's Stomp

Some early California based surf rock from 1962.

The Marketts were an American instrumental pop group formed in Hollywood, California.

The Marketts were formed in 1961 by Michael Z. Gordon in Los Angeles, California. Originally spelled, "Mar-kets", Gordon penned and co-produced their first release, "Surfer's Stomp" (under the pseudonym Michael Daughtry), which became an instant national hit for Gordon and his group. Their first song was released on Union Records, but they were immediately signed by Al Bennet, president of Liberty Records.

The Marketts are sometimes classified as a surf group because of their hit instrumental "Out of Limits," one of the last big surf singles, which made 3 in early 1964. In reality, they were something of an all-purpose contemporary instrumental group with elements of surf, rock, pop, and even easy listening. And they were not really a group, but a fluid collection of Los Angeles session musicians, working under the direction of producer Joe Saraceno.

Saraceno was the principal man behind the concept of The Marketts, although he himself did not play or arrange anything on their records, or even write all of the material. He was sharp enough to latch onto the surf craze in 1962 for one of the earliest instrumental surf hits, "Surfer's Stomp," which made the Top Forty on Liberty in 1962. While working at Liberty, he also produced the Ventures for a time, and the influence of the Ventures' cleanly-picked guitar lines is very evident on "Out of Limits" and some other Marketts tracks. With their blend of surfy guitar leads, film soundtrack horns, and spooky organ, The Marketts' sound is best described not as surf, but as rock-influenced instrumental pop with a futuristic (by early '60s standards) touch. Many of their songs seemed to be doing their best to evoke space travel and science fiction flicks, sometimes with the help of what sounds like a theremin. They could be said to have filled the void between surf music and space age pop, which is not a criticism; their music is not terribly substantial, but it is fun, and has a pretty good groove.

After "Out of Limits," The Marketts would enter the Top Twenty one more time with the "Batman Theme" in early 1966, and release records as late as 1977. Saraceno, in addition to his work with The Marketts and the Ventures, would also produce Bobby Vee, the Sunshine Company, Martin Denny, and many other acts.
- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

The Mar-Kets - Surfer's Stomp