Homer (Scadillac) Taylor

Homer (Scadillac Taylor's second single on Ro-Al-Ta

 

Ro-Al-Ta Record Co.
P.O. Box 85, New York 39, N.Y.

1/2 Homer (Scadillac) Taylor
Fool’s Gold (w. Nick A. Kenny & Charles F. Kenny, Goldmine Music) 4May54
Wonderland Dance (w. & m. Homer H. Taylor, 22 July 1958)

3/4 Homer (Scadillac) Taylor
Boom Boom Boomerang Baby (w. Nick A. Kenny & Charles F. Kenny, Goldmine Music) 4May54
Relax Your Lips; w&m Homer H. Taylor. © Homer H. Taylor; 22jul58;

From Homer (Scadillac) Taylor, I have only two clips from his two singles issued on Ro-Al-Ta probably in 1958. These clips come from sales on ebay. 

1/2 : great sax rocker and..the flip is a great r&b, but kind of a bopper with yodelin' and a great sax, piano, guitar mixed break.. unlisted in my books

3/4 : great rare R&B rocker on thick heavy vinyl pressing,

I'm looking from all his tracks. Perhaps someone is willing to share them.

Homer Taylor (possibly born in 1923) copyrighted some songs in 1957-1959. Among these songs : The Cadillac Mobile Deal  & Those Reinstating Blues. But that's all I can find on this obscure artist.

Nick Kenny is mainly remembered today as the lyricist of the 1931 popular song standard, "Love Letters in the Sand", a 1957 gold record hit for Pat Boone. Kenny's next big success, "Gold Mine in the Sky," inspired the Gene Autry movie, Gold Mine in the Sky (1938) and enabled Kenny and his brother Charles to launch their own music firm, Gold Mine in the Sky Publishing Company. His songs included "Gone Fishin'" and "Scattered Toys" recorded by The Three Suns, which has lyrics somewhat similar to one of his "Patty Poems".

Nick was a syndicated entertainment columnist for The New York Daily Mirror and a poet and songwriter on the side. Bandleaders and singers often performed his songs in hopes of getting a column mention. Many of his songs were mediocre. Woody Allen managed to hit Nick Kenny's column several times.

Edit: 20 June 2024 : added both sides of Ro-Al-Ta 3/4 with thanks to Apesville

Please Buy Me A Dolly Mommy

 

Raymond Swartz & his Guitar
Web Records

WEB1084

Raymond Swartz  - Please Buy Me A Dolly Mommy


Raymond Swartz - Never Satisfied

Issued just in time for Christmas 1956, Raymond Swartz wrote some other tunes, including "Loneliness In My Heart" which was recorded on Carellen (by Betty Jayne) and also on Mona-Lee by the same singer.

Apachee on XR-3

 

Running Bear

Indian Dawn

Apachee was Michael S. Schwartz who was playing guitar et writing songs as a hobby. Some of his songs were recorded : "Closer To Your Heart" (J.T. Carter on Decca in 1965), "What Was She Doing" (Tracie Robbins on Decca, 1965) and "Make The Most Of This World" (Bo Donaldson And The Heywoods on ABC, 1975). the latest written when he was a law school student in the late 1960s. Schwartz became the youngest man ever to be elected mayor of Golf Manor, a one-square-mile city In central Hamilton County. A Republican, he had been elected to council in November, 1973, four years after his graduation from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. The same year he became mayor, in 1975, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, a local rock group, recorded Schwartz' song for the flip side of their recording, "Our Last Song Together." The record made it to No. 95 on national record charts. Back in those song-writing days, Schwartz said he "never thought about politics. It just wasn't my city, he said. "I guess It was the fact that I was the lone Republican."

Michael Schwartz, age 63, passed away Dec. 7, 2007.

 

Michael Schwartz

Hop A Long Wong

 

Hop A Long Wong     

I'm Gonnna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

Goody Goody

Decca Records (1957)

First issued on the elusing Amusing label

Amusing Records ad, Billboard September 19, 1957

Cash Box, October 19, 1957

Not too difficult to find the answer. Hop A Long Wong was Joe Schuster, who again used the same nickname the following year, in 1958. But these songs remained probably unissued. ["We hear there is bidding on the novelty master “I Kissed A Girl and Made Her Cry” b/w “Elephant Rock” by Hop- A-Long Wong. Joe Schuster is the artist." Cash Box, April 12, 1958]

Joseph Schuster, composer, author, vaudeville artist and music publisher (with ASCAP since 1928). Born in New York in 1896. Joe Schuster began his theatrical career as a songwriter and author of special material. His tunes include "I Love My Baby", "Dance of the Paper Dolls", "Hold Me", "Shanty Town, "Go Home and Tell Your Mother" and many others. In 1930 he went into vaudeville with ex-fireman Johnny Tucker as the Delivery Boys.

Joe Schuster died in June 1959 of an intestinal hernia at Trafalgar Hospital in New York.
 

Junior Jordan And The Rock-A-Boogie 7

 

Junior Jordan And The Rock-A-Boogie 7

Down Boy! Down Boy!

The Rock-A-Boogie Piggy (Booglie Wooglie)
 
Arranged and conducted by Stan Free

Roc Records #901
January 1958

Here is an intriguing record. Almost no information on the artist, neither before 1958, nor after. The only mention of Junior Jordan can be found the Billboard magazine (issue dated 27 March 1958) who teach us that he played club dates in a ski suit during the New York blizzard in the winter of 1957-1958 and has adopted the winter wear as his permanent performance garb. We also learn that Roc is his own label and that George Goldner distribute his platter.

Both songs were composed by Roy Jordan. The A-side, Down Boy! Down Boy!, on 16 January 1958, and the B-Side, also composed by Roy Jordan, is an old ditty from 1941 brought up to date : Booglie Wooglie Piggy retitled Rock-A-Boogie Piggy.

 

Credited to Roy Jacobs, a pen name pseudonym, The Booglie Wooglie Piggy has been recorded, among others, by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, vocal refrain by Tex Beneke and The Four Modernaires (Bluebird Records), by the Andrew Sisters (Decca), and by Les Brown and his Orchestra, vocal chorus by Doris Day (OKeh Records).

Roy Jordan (b. New York 1916 - d. 1998) was a prolific songwriter.  Gene DePaul and Sid Bass were the main composers associated with him, as Roy Jordan or Roy Jacobs, from 1939 until the fifties. His songs have been recorded by Glenn Miller, The Andrew Sisters, Billie Holliday The Ink Spots, The Four King Sisters, Johnny Long, The Mills Brothers, The Merry Macs, Una Mae Carlisle, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Ella Mae Morse, The four Tunes, Eileen Barton, etc.

Not much is known about his life. And when his ex-wife Kappi Kaplan died in 2008 (then wife of Lenny Ditson), her obituary failed to have a word about Roy, yet the father of her daughters. I would think it the thing usually done ?

★

My first idea, considering the autorship of the songs and the last name of the artist and of the composer, was that Junior was the son of Roy, or perhaps a close relative.  I did find he married a young music agent/song plugger) named Kappi Kaplan [born 1917] around 1940. 

Downbeat Magazine published in August 1952 an article (This Jordan Rolls behind Patti's Pages) about Kappi Jordan, Patti Page's "disc jockey exploitation gal". On top of the article, there is a picture of Kappi and her three daughters, Kim, 10, Leslie, 8½, Noele, 7. No mention of a son.

★

If not a son of Roy, then could it be Roy himself?

I think it's a strong possibility. especially since Roy Jordan, essentially a songwriter and not a singer, has cut two originals for Manor Records, making his debut as a vocalist, so we are informed by Billboard (26 February 1949).

Record info found here

No need to say, this Manor 78 RPM is a quite obscure release and not available for a listening anywhere. Mention of "Lay Me Out In Me Green Suit, Mudder" can be found in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 31, 1949) :

Have you heard the title of the newest novelty song-one Tin Pan Alley expects to be a "sleeper?" Hold on, now. It's called "Lay Me Out In Me Green Suit, Mudder." Ray Jordon wrote it in two hours on a train from New York to Erie, Pa. Track followers are excited about a filly in Liz Whitney's stable. A potential world beater, they think.  

Audio files are from volumes 2 & 7 of Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wasteland, a CD series issued by Trailer Park, a compilation label run by Mark Lee Allen (a reference!)

When The Saints Come Marching In

 

When The Saints Come Marching In
Rosalind Paige with The Nassau Jazz Seven

New Disc 1001 (1954)

The daughter of literay agent Ethel Paige, Rosalind Paige known in New York as a cafe and supper club singer made records between 1949 and 1957 (on Spotlite, Admiral, Adam, Dubonnet, Essex, Decatur Maestro, New Disc and MGM). In 1957, she married her manager, Carlton Cole, who was 25 years her senior. Carlton Cole died in 1959.

After her musical career ended, she became the agent of many well-known authors, actors, artists and celebrities, including Andy Warhol, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, George Sanders and Sybil Leek. She was the author of books, including The Waldorf Astoria Cookbook. She also founded and produced the magazine Cookbook Digest, Rosalind Paige Cole lived for many years with her mother in the Algonquin Hotel, before moving into the Waldorf-Astoria in 1961. There she became the longest residing guest at 53 years.

She died of cancer on February 20, 2014 in New York City. She was 88 years old, owing nearly $1 million in rent and meal charges when she died, even though she was worth more than twice that.
 

Twistin' The Hoochie Coo

Twistin' The Hoochie Coo

Al Steward;  arr. Chuck Sagle

I Want That Man To Be You
Joel Hill;  arr. Eddie Newmark

A Newmark-Skouras production
1962

The first release of Harmon Records formed, according to Cash Box (March 24, 1962), by Ted Harmon. Heading up the outfit were Freddy Edwards, Eddie Newmark and Bill Skouras.

The same  snippet also advise us that Ted Harmon is the "manufacturer of the new Chubby Checker sweater." (?).  Isn't that a fascinating fact or what? This makes research so rewarding...

South Of The Border

Angie & The Saints

South Of The Border

Kennedy & Carr, Shapiro-Bernstein ASCAP

Dwain DWR 807
1959

Angie & the Saints were Italo-Americans perhaps? You know me, if I knew something about Angie or about The Saints, I would tell you. But no, nothing to say. At the time of this release, the label was managed by Billy Martin, a songwriter.  Dwain was underwritten by an investment firm from Wall Street. I don't think they made much money out of it. This New York label lasted only two years.

Hey Little Girl

Tommy Moore

Hey Little Girl
Tommy Moore, Tweety Music & Skyrocket Music (BMI)

A Kelly Owens Production
Distributed nationally by Stroll Records
201 W. 49th St. - CO 5-9693

My Brother's Record Co.
Record No.103 C-O

Tweety Music was owned by Kelly Owens. According to a mickey rat comment , active & always informative 45cat member :

I'm pretty sure Kayo was owned by Kelly Owens and affiliated with his Tweety Music publishing firm. Kelly Owens was a very busy pianist/arranger in New York in the 1950s and early '60s and was involved with countless R&B and pop sessions for Savoy, DeLuxe/King and Morty Craft's various labels, often in collaboration with producer Fred Mendelsohn. He was also part-composer of numerous songs, notably Elvis's "I Beg Of You" with Rose Marie McCoy. Earlier Kayo releases were distributed by Lou Krefetz's Poplar Records, but by this stage Morty Craft's United Telefilm was doing the job.

Skyrocket Music was owned by Bennie (or Benny) Clark. His full name was Benjamin Franklin Clark, a much obscure player on the New-York musical scene in the late fifties/early sixties.

Related labels:

https://www.45cat.com/label/kayo
https://www.45cat.com/label/my-brothers
https://www.45cat.com/label/stroll
https://www.45cat.com/label/fountainhead
https://www.45cat.com/label/skyrocket-us

For the record, the coat of arms found on the label is also seen on Kayo 101 (The Regents), Fountainhead 105 (Bobby Long), Sky-Rocket 107 (Danny Robinson) and Stroll 109 (Duke & The Ambers). This is (my own research) the coat of arms of...Venezuela.

According to Wikipedia :

The shield is divided in the colors of the national flag. In the dexter chief, on a red field, wheat represents the union of the 20 states of the Republic existing at the time and the wealth of the nation. In sinister chief, on a yellow field, weapons (a sword, a sabre and three lances) and two national flags are tied by a branch of laurel, as a symbol of triumph in war. In base, on a deep blue field, a wild white horse (perhaps representing Simón Bolívar's white horse Palomo) runs free, an emblem of independence and freedom.

Above the shield are two crossed cornucopias (horns of plenty), pouring out wealth. The shield is flanked by an olive branch and another of palm, both tied at the bottom of the coat with a large band that represents the national tricolour (yellow for the nation's wealth, blue for the ocean separating Venezuela from Spain, and red for the blood and courage of the people).

But after all, this surprising borrowing (probably an idea from Mr Clark) is not that intriguing, as his Stroll label also had as well a stroller copied probably from some New York cartoonist and a fountainhead on his Fountainhead label copied from an old 78 rpm from the Fountainhead Record Company

I've not been able to find any info of this Benny Clark (another and later Benny Clark musician is/was from Buffalo, New York).

There was a Bennie Clark who was the elevator operator at Ziegfeld's New Amsterdam Theatre, a Broadway theatre located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theater District of Manhattan.  This Bennie Clark had been running the car for years, and he knew all the girls [of Ziegfeld].  Perhaps this is the same Bennie Clark? Perhaps he saw once (and liked it) the coat of arms on the door of the Consulate-General of Venezuela in New York City (located today at East 51st Street)?

Anyway, are you still there?, the song on flip is "You've Got To Reap What You Sow"

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day

Roye Dodge [dance] Studios were located at 8 Second St, New York City, owned by Roye Dodge and his wife Jayne. Roye Dodge was a well-known tap dance instructor and choreographer.

R&J Records, the studio label, released a series of records by uncredited artists designed as accompaniment for dance instruction. [See discography at discogs]

Roye and Jayne dancing in 1943

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day was written by cartoonist Max Fleischer's staff musicians Sammy Timberg, Winston Sharples, and Al Neiberg.  the song was featured in "Gulliver's Travels," Fleischer's animated feature film and sung by the Lilliputian villagers as they made a new suit of clothes to fit their friend and protector, Gulliver.

Voodoo Doll

The Interiors

Worthy W-1008

1961




Voodoo Doll

Leroy Braswell, Jimmy Dockett, Junior Fry, Stanley Greggs, Bernard Newman, and Jay Otis Washington are The Interiors. 

Worthy Records and Worthy Music were located at 550 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C.  Gil (Gilbert) Snapper owned the label. He recorded on his own label as Ashley Beaumont The 18th .

Change Your Mind

Change Your Mind



A Man Only Does

This is a second issue, probably from 1964, released on the Beacon's Joe Davis label.  The record was previously issued on Hudco, a label owned by Joe Davis' wife, Bertha Davis.

 

Hallique
(Hallique Foster Henry 1919-2006)

Described by a 1944 article as an Harlem beauty, Hallique was known because of her extensive travelling with her husband, Haywood Henry, sax player with Erskine Hawkins orchestra, According to the same article "She operates one of New Yorks's finest fashion marts known as Hallique's Fashion Shoppe and is recognixed as a fashion stylist of rare distinction."

She recorded only sporidically. There was a single for Clock in 1960 and another on Joe Davis in 1966 (See 45cat)

In the late sixties, she operated Que Records, which issued several adult comedy albums, perhaps recycling old Joe Davis masters. See Discogs

 

Five Years

Tony Dodge



Five Years

Marvin Silverman-Hardy Salwitz
Michele Music ASCAP
   Arranged and conducted by Hardy Salwitz

Square Records 45-S101
1960

Tony Dodge, real name Alan Mark David, born in 1928 in New York City. David’s father worked for the New York Press.  Well, not exactly.  Essentially, he was a presser in New York’s Garment Center.  But, when asked what his father did for a living, he always said he was with the New York Press.  Of course, his mother was a housewife, no self-respecting woman worked outside of the home in those days.  The family moved to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1935.

A Korean War Veteran, Alan David was with the United Service Organization and an entertainer in New York, City & Suburban Night Clubs.  Joined the Dr. Scholl Company in 1954.

Owner of Square Records was Marvin Silverman.

Artists on the Square label (1960-1962) : Joanne Carter, Bobby Reno, Bobby Lance, Dave Zaval, Johnny Crear, Alfred Rage, Renee Matthews, The Axcents, Matt Cord and Lee Randy

Scatterbrain

Louise Tobin

with Orchestra conducted by Peanuts Hucko

Avant Garde #104

1965/1966



Scatterbrain

Louise Tobin has previously recorded this song in 1939 with Benny Goodman and his orchestra in September 1939.  You can listen to the 1939 version here

After a long hiatus spent raising her two boys, Tobin accepted an invitation from jazz critic and publisher George Simon to sing at the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival, where she met her future husband, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko.  They both recorded for the Vanguard Music's subsidiary Avant Garde Records, one of the "great unsung Christian psych" labels active between the years 1966 and 1972.

 

Mary Louise Tobin (born November 11, 1918) appeared with Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Jack Jenney. Tobin introduced I Didn't Know What Time It Was with Benny Goodman’s band in 1939. Her biggest hit with Goodman was There'll Be Some Changes Made, which was number two on the Hit Parade in 1941 for 15 weeks. Tobin was the first wife of trumpeter and bandleader Harry James.

Swing-era singer Louise Tobin celebrated her 100th birthday party early, in Octobre 2018.

The Church Bells Ring

Sterling Harrison




The Church Bells Ring


 

The King of The Wobble

Rock 'n Roll Baby

Eddie Murray had a dance school for kids in New York since at least the thirties, at 116 W. 65th. and moving later upstairs from the Ed Sullivan Theatre.

Alan Lorber in "Benny Allen Was A Star", a work of historical fiction largely autobiographical, has this description of Benny Allen in his way to the Old Town Records office hearing the "Dancing-Kids" tapping their way to fame :

Hy Weiss's building, 1697 Broadway, on the corner of 53rd Street and 7th Avenue, is the sleaze-class of the three main music business buildings. (1619, 1650 & 1697 Broadway).

The tenants of 1697 are mostly cheap booking agents, cheap publishers, overnight record labels, and Hy Weiss' Old Town Records.  The building also house the Ed Sullivan Theater, where the Ed Sulliwan Show comes from, and from where the latter-day David Letterman Show is broadcast.

The building entry is next to the theater entrance on Broadway through a small corridor of filthy orange-marble walls. Press 11 in the self-service elevator and the doors reopen two minutes later.

Step out onto a dimly lit hallway where faded checkered linoleum floor tiles come loose with every step. Pass a dance studio with "Dancing-Kids" hand-painted on the frosted-glass door where from inside one hears little star-struck feet tapping their way to fame.

Pass a booking agent's open doorway and see bright-eyed young, hopeful singers, comedians and dancers, sitting on metal folding chairs, waiting for weekend work.

 In addition to dance teaching, Eddie Murray was a singer recording his self-penned songs which were issued on his own E-M imprint.  Eddie also had his own radio show on WHBI, a Newark station. For a few hundred dollars, just about anyone could buy their way on the air at WHBI.  Thanks to one station's listener, we have one of his show preserved on cassette.  See the whole story here

It was 3am and I was driving home to Brooklyn from Manhattan when I stumbled onto WHBI. I would often stop by there in the late hours because there were several leased access specialty shows that I found interesting. There was a Doo Wop radio show hosted by a concert promoter and a great reggae show (that was actually sampled on the Clash’s “Sandinista” album). The first thing I heard when I settled on the station was some weird kind of old style country music with an older sounding announcer speaking in an accent that sounded like it was from another planet. I was immediately intrigued and for the next half hour was completely transfixed by this radio show which was hosted by someone by the name of Don Val. He was playing (and constantly talking over) the music of someone by the name of Eddie Murray. The odd thing is that it was pretty obvious that Don and Eddie were one in the same. I’m thinking, this guy is a genius! He’s playing his own music but he’s pretending he’s a DJ playing all of these great songs. The fact that the music was some of the absolute worst music I have ever heard only made the show even more fascinating.

That's not quite the end of the "Rock 'n Roll Baby" story, as Eddie Murray managed to convince Joey Castle to record "Rock 'n Roll Baby" which was issued on E-M 100.   Joey Castle,  a rockabilly singer, had singles on RCA, Headline & Thanks! between 1958 and 1963 before moving to the Catskills region entertaining the crowds in the night clubs circuit, doing impressions of Boris Karloff, Humphrey Bogart and Johnny Cash among others.

 Discography

4063     Tonight The Stars Are Out / You Made Me Feel This Way 
4058     Montreal, Canada Blues  / Stepping High Dance
539       Rock 'n Roll Baby / When You Don't Care A Thing About Me
1222x    Baby Blues / For Love Is The Thing
1223      The Christmas Tree /  To Be Loved Is Beautiful
3090      Can't Buy My Heart  / My New York 

Rock 'N Roll Baby (E-M single)



Rock 'N Roll Baby (radio show excerpt)

Rock 'N Roll Baby (Joey Castle)

My Father The Pop Singer

Sam Chalpin

Sam Chalpin had mostly sung at lodge meetings and was a cantor at his synagogue. Ed Chalpin, his son and head of the PPX Record Production Company, decided that if Mrs. Miller gained some fame for her series of shrill and off-key renditions of popular songs, then why not make a similar record with his father -" and Ed would make sure that his father worked for nothing. Existing tracks, a studio he owned and a free singer - investment zero!" 

After Sam Chalpin had finished recording the ten tunes of this Atco disc, Ed Chalpin had contacted Ahmet Ertegun [head of Atlantic Records], to whom he stated that his father, who was sixty-five years of age, had made his first recordings.  The tunes were issued on the Atlantic Records' Atco subsidiary in 1966.

Sam Chalpin died in 1969.

Satisfaction

Mike Rashkow, the recording engineer, has told the story of these recordings at Spectropop.com :

Excerpts:

Sam could not read English very well, maybe not at all. If he could read, then he couldn't see. If he was taught the lyrics, he'd forget them. The melody and meter? He had two chances of getting in the vicinity of either one - slim and none. Slim done took the train. Supposedly, he'd learn the song, then Ed would bring him in and we put the head phones on him. I think we actually had to tie them on him - he didn't like it. We'd start trying to overdub him by a): feeding him the old vocal in the cans; b): not feeding him the old vocal in the cans; c): letting him listen over and over again to the line or two he was going to yelp at, and d): Ed standing next to him waving his arms and threatening him with violence.

I swear on my children's lives that Ed made his father cry at least once, maybe more, during these sessions. It was terrible for me to watch, and possibly criminal to be involved in. Today, Ed would be arrested for Elder Abuse, and I would be the one who dropped the dime on him.

If we did one punch-in on a song we did 100. I did so many punch-ins, trying to get a single chorus done, that when the record was complete I was punch drunk. This is not exaggerated. The poor old man couldn't sing, couldn't read, couldn't remember and, most of the time, didn't have a clue what was going on. I may make it sound funny, but truly it was an awful thing for one person to put another person through, let alone a son to his father.

My Father The Pop Singer

Acknowledgements : nuggets from the moon (YT channel)

South Street

Fran Cooper

Twin Hits 5009



South Street

Twin Hits was operated by Barney Young and Gloria Parker.   Barney was a music publisher, composer, personal manager, lawyer, and song plugger.  Gloria, who was his co-composer, star performer, and fiancee, was a versatile bandleader, contralto, marimbist, and musical glasses virtuoso.  

 

Covering the hits of the day, the recordings by pseudonymous artists were produced by Ed Chalpin for his PPX Enterprises set-up.

 

Barney Young died in 1969. Miss Gloria Parker's official website is here

 

Cuér-Na-Va-Ca

Peggy Anne Ellis
with Milt Kaye Orchestra and chorus
Cuér-Na-Va-Ca

Wr. Shelley-Kaye
Pub. by Spiral Record Corp. (ASCAP)
Journal #3552
1958



Cuér-Na-Va-Ca

Born LaBlanche Pafford Metz in Georgia circa 1925, Peggy Anne Ellis was a Broadway actress, chanteuse, radio personality. She made a name for herself with radio audience as a "blues singer" when she was only six years old.  She performed in two Broadway musicals : Best Foot Forward (1942) and Billion Dollar Baby (1946) before recording for Signature/Hi Tone, Charles (1952-1953), Journal (1958) and Cue-P (1958).

From 1947 to 1971 Peggy Anne Ellis was married to Art Fleming, the quizmaster of NBC's "Jeopardy". 

She died in 2014 in Englewood, New Jersey.

 

 

Pain Set To Music

Pain Set To Music

*

Original release before the ABC-Paramount release in February 1962.  On the flip side is Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler.  Both tracks on the original are notably longer (and currently unavailable on YT or anywhere on the net)

According to Fred at 45cat:

This release coincides with the release of the movie, SERGEANTS 3, which is the only movie to feature the entire Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop). The movie was released February 10, 1962.

The premise of the movie was basically an updated re-write of the 1939 classic, GUNGA DIN. The 1939 movie (released February 17, 1939) was about 3 British Sergeants (played by Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sent on a mission to defeat a Thugee uprising that took place in 19th Century British-India. Sam Jaffe played the title character, loosely based on the Rudyard Kipling poem.

In the 1962 movie, Sinatra, Martin, and Lawford were the three Calvary Seargents involved in a similar situation, only this one taking place in the 1870's American West. Sammy Davis Jr. played the trumpeter this time around who meets the same fate as Jaffe did in the original.

While the extent of the recording far outlives either movie showing of the situation, it more befits a later movie tribute played by Peter Sellers in the opening shot of THE PARTY, released April 4, 1968.

The SERGEANTS 3 connection is solidified by the review of this record in Billboard on February 24, 1962, and even moreso by a similar spoof recorded on MR. PEACOCK Records by Lord Didd, "Gunga Didn't" being reviewed in that very same issue. It was revealed in that same issue (or later) that Lord Didd was in fact NY DJ (at the time), Pete Meyers, otherwise known as "Mad Daddy".

For reasons that have been lost to history, Frank Sinatra rerecorded The Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler on June 10, 1966, adding his own voice to the brief introductory narration and using the sound effects from the 1962 single.  Was Sinatra considering some sort of dramatic or sopken-word series for Reprise?  The track has only been issued on two very rare semiprivate, collectors-only CDs, Frankly Different and Sinatra Unreleased [*]

Philip Cammarata, the producer, has been art director for True Police Cases, Startling Detective and other (pulp) magazines and has published five books of photographs with humorous (?) captions.

Photo from Who F*arted This Time?, a Phil Cammarata (hilarious?) book

 

Are you still there? If so, please find below a link to a zip of both original tracks

Courage