Nashville Streaker

 

Deb Hyer
One Man Band

Nashville Streaker

From his eponymous Lemco Records album released in 1976.  

Cecil J. Jones started the Lemco label in 1962 and opened his own recording studio in 1965 at 2518 Southview Drive, Lexington, Kentucky where he recorded many of the premier bluegrass acts throughout the Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana region. Cecil Jones passed away in early December 1981.

Deb Hyer is not listed in The One Man Band Encyclopedia, a Roctober special issue (#34).

Obit : 

Delbert “Deb” Hyer, Jr., 78, of Flemingsburg, left this earth peacefully on Thursday, August 31, 2023.

Born in Chillicothe, Ohio on December 8, 1944, his parents were the late Delbert Sr. and the late Betty Hart Hyer.

Deb grew up in Chillicothe until his family moved to Flemingsburg in 1962. Deb began his career at U.S. Shoe in Flemingsburg in 1962 and retired in 1995. Deb’s musical career began in 1963. Deb started the band “The Debonairs”. A self taught musician who could play any instrument put in front of him, he had a voice and stage presence you could not forget. In 1967, Deb discovered he could play drums, guitar, saxophone, organ, as well as sing at the same time. This is when “The One Man Band” came to life.

Deb enjoyed performing and playing music more than anything. In minutes he could sit and write an entire song. Deb was an inventor and could make and fix anything. He was an artist, and loved to sit at the kitchen table and draw pictures, cartoons, and projects.

Deb is survived by the love of his life, Evelyn Sloas Hyer. They met at the water fountain inside U.S. Shoe in 1964 and it was love at first sight for them both. They had 58 wonderful years together.

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Satan Ain't Nothing But a Bomb

Sister Pauline Trotter

Satan Ain't Nothing But a Bomb

 J&B 102
1976

                                                                    Sister Pauline Trotter

Evangelist in Kilmichael, Mississippi

Thanks : Discogs, ebay, Greg Adams (YouTube)

It's Because Of Love

The Fowler Sisters

 It's Because Of Love
A. Fowler, Whole Note Pub. BMI

(ESP) by Special Request

1976

Produced by George Fowler.  George Fowler was an organist, session player and GospeI and Blues and R&B songwriter and producer at Motown Records. He produced virtually ALL Motown's Gospel releases (first on Tamla and Motown Records, and then was the producer who ran Motown's Divinity Records.

Aside from his duties with the acts on Divinity, Fowler also wrote and/or produced songs for La Brenda Ben, Mable John, Eddie Holland, Henry Lumpkin, Liz Lands, Marvin & Mary, the Supremes, the Contours and Marv Johnson from 61-64. Oddly, he also produced "Everytime I Feel The Spirit" for the Supremes in 1967, several years after his departure from the label.

Other releases on his own ESP label were :

ESP 6132 : The Status Quo – World Of Trouble (background Fowler Sisters)
     Forward Productions, Highland Park, Michigan address
ESP 6523 :  (Lady) Liz ‎– Make Your Future Come Right Now

George Fowler passed away on April 13, 2016.

Tipsy Topsy Turvey

Lee Scott



Tipsy Topsy Turvey

Song-poem issued on Hollywood's Columbine Records on one of their "The Now Sounds Of Today" albums. The song has been also compiled on Songs in the Key of Z (volume 3).

Columbine Records made hundreds of different albums with this exact same title and cover art. They were never sold in stores. They only pressed 50 or so copies of each, which were only offered for sale to the people who actually had songs on them.  Columbine would also send a few copies to radio stations (as promised in their ads), who would always throw them away unopened.

From Philadelphia, Lee Scott made her initial appearance on records for the Wynne label in 1959 . She has appeared on radio and television in the Philadelphia area, and has also appeared in some of the leading supper clubs throughout the country.  Her musicial talents were not merely confined to vocalizing. She studied piano for many years and gained quite a reputation in her native philadelphia as a popular jazz and concert pianist.

She was also a songwriter herself.  Among the songs she wrote : Six Button Benny (The Nite Riders, Teen and Swan),  By Now (Billy Duke, Sound), Forget Me Not (The Fabulous Dials, D'n'B) and "The Conservative"(The Orlons, Cameo Records in 1962)

Her real name was Dollee Escourt, a name she also used for writing or recording songs.  (there was at least one record issued as by Dollee Escourt on the Malvern label)

Anna Caspelle, the composer of Tipsy Topsy Turvey, died in 2008 in Rapid City, South Dakota.  Also known as Natalie Leonesio, she copyrighted several songs and stories in the mid-seventies, "The Planet Crazoid Speaks" and "Star Gazer and Vega (The Blue One)",  just to name a few.

Above : Columbine Records ad

From Ebony Magazine, July 1981

Rocking Ghost

J. Hawk Willis


Rocking Ghost

Arranged by Mark Perlman and penned by Kyle J. Wolf

CSC Music Productions
12503 Crenshaw Blvd., Hawthorne, Ca. 90250

Was J. Hawk Willis the inspiration for Wesley Willis (no relation)? "Out of this world" recording on a label once located (or not far located) where is today the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).  (Dear Elon, our ambition is mashi-mashi as yours : a Japanese robot company is trying to get Elon Musk's attention with a billboard next to the SpaceX office)

The label had few releases with various addresses (Hawthorne, Inglewood or Los Angeles) : Flying Free, Godfathers Strivers, The Gifted Four.

Cash Box (April 3, 1976 issue) tells us a bit about CSC Records :

Another new and exciting company is also trying to get a foothold in the market. The label is CSC and their first big release is "To Make Me Happy" (#103) by the Godfather Strivers. Most of the group are originally from Kentucky but have relocated in L A. Some of the members used to be in the Mint Juleps and Nightlighters, which later became New Birth. The principals of CSC Music Productions are William Campbell, John Murphy Jr., Frenchell DeGrate and Douglas Moore. The name of their publishing firm is Four Buddies and their offices are located at 12503 Crenshaw Bivd. in Hawthorne. CA.

William (Bill) Campbell will be still active in the eighties with HSR/Ham-Sem/Hamito-Semitica Records, Four Buddies (ASCAP publisher) and Billdia Music (BMI)

Dear Elon, our ambition is mashi-mashi as yours

Susanne Haines, Waxmate of the Month

Susanne Haines was a stripper and former Miss Nude Universe. "Nothing else seemed exciting at the time," she confessed. "I couldn't imagine anything else." Then Susanne, Register found the Lord and her life was transformed. . . . She was Susanne Haines in those days when "I thought I was free, but I wasn't. I really didn't know God." "I became an atheist when I was attending Sacramento State College. Before that I was a mormon," she said in an interview in Jacksonville, Fla. The next phase of her life, she recalled, just happened. When she was a college senior and married she decided she wanted to get away from her husband. "So when I saw an ad in the paper for a go-go waitress I quit college and began making $72.50 a week in a beer bar. Then I learned to strip-tease." In time she was making a salary of $450 a week as a ' stripper and this figure jumped to $1,000 a week when she danced as Miss Nude Universe after being named to the title in 1971 at a pageant in San Bernardino, Calif. Susanne was arrested some 25 times for indecent exposure, "But I didn't think I was doing anything wrong." Then in Oklahoma City she was arrested for grand larceny; a charge that haunted her afterwards. To this day she refuses to discuss it. "Although I never went to court, I knew that arrest would follow me through life," she said.

On June 30, 1977, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that the 1971 Miss Nude Universe will spend Saturday dressed and with her Bible at the nation's only government-operated nude beach.

"As Jesus walked among the sinners, I want to walk among the nudes to describe for them the better way of life that I have found," said Susanne Haines Register, a former nightclub stripper. Mrs. Register also is to conduct a weekend tent revival in the suburb of El Cajon. Meanwhile, the City Council on Wednesday decided to put the question of whether nude sunbathing will continue at Black's Beach before the voters in September. In recent weeks, the council has been under increasing pressure to reverse its three-year-old experiment in allowing the 900-foot strip of cliff-enclosed sand to be used as "swimsuit optional" area. Protests concerning the beach have been loud from residents of the $250,000 homes in La Jolla Farms, which overlooks Black's Beach, although some of the residents say they are more upset about parking problems created by the more than 30,000 people who use the beach on weekends than nudity. Robert Jacobs, chairman of the Nude Beaches Committee, told the council he was "distressed that a small group of totalitarian moralists" forced the council into its 5-3 vote to call the election. "We'll continue to fight in the council chambers. We'll continue to fight in the courts. And we'll fight on the beaches," said Jacobs, whose group seeks expansion of swimsuit optional beaches. He said if necessary, nude bathers would test the ability of the city to enforce clothing edicts by inviting mass arrests.

Her only waxing (spoken word) released on the Shade Tree label in 1976.
How she lived in sin (side 1) and how she found God (side 2)

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Lover Number Four

Ron Jackson

Lover Number Four 

(R. Jackson, LaCour Music BMI)

 Kader 7013

1976

Kader Records was an offshoot of the Enterprise Recording Studios in Maywood, Illinois. The cavernous second-floor studio, built in a 1920s cinder-block bank building, was owned and operated by Bob Kaider and drummer Tom Sparks. (It was renamed Lake Studios in 1980, then shut down at the end of 2001, ending a 31-year run.)

This release by the unknown Ron Jackson was probably produced by Lennie Lacour, a quite prolific songwriter, singer, publisher and label owner - Lucky Four, Magic Touch are the most well known)

 

According to Kaider : "Lenny walked in one day and talked about how he had been a producer at Mercury and was looking for a place to base his own label.   He had been distributed by Atlantic, and he showed me records to prove it.   We agreed to set up office space where he operated Magic Touch."

 

KADER (1976-1977)

418 Lake Street Maywood, Ill (7007, 7011)
Publishing : Timepeace Music

7001 Iron Tongue
7002 Northern Front   
7003 Lamar and Belinda Dunn
7007 King Creole  (pseudonym of Lennie Lacour)
7011 Bob Hardy with Friends 
7012 Albert Gates
7015 Bob Baldwin 
7016 Jimette 
7018 Biało-Czerwoni