The Carousel recorded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1969. Members were:
Carl Williams – lead vocals Richard Studdard – vocals, keyboards Ronald Naramore – vocals, guitar Donny Grace – vocals, bass Mike Patton – vocals, drums
“Girl Maybe You” and “Gonna Hide My Face” are fast-paced pop originals by Donny Grace. Bob Grove and Unity produced for It’s a Lemon 1002.
Bob Grove ran Prestige Recording Studio in Birmingham, where he had recorded artists for his own Unity Record Company label with its beautiful logo of black and white fists with a dove.
I know of two releases on Unity, Candy Stanton’s “Now You’ve Got the Upper Hand” / “You Can’t Stop Me” (both written by Bo Fowler and produced by Bob Grove and Richard Dingler), and Underground Euphoria featuring Keisa Brown “What Can I Do About You” / “Let’s Go Back (To Our Little World)”.
The Carousel single came a couple years after these. I assume it was also recorded at Prestige. The Carousel 45 was preceded on the It’s a Lemon label by a hard rock single by The Brood “Virginia Neal” / “The Roach”. The Brood was Dale Aston of the Torquays along with Steve Salord, George Landman and Bobby Marlin.
I suppose there’s another release on It’s a Lemon between the Brood and the Carousel, but so far I haven’t found it.
Anyone have a copy of the It’s a Lemon singles, or a photo of The Brood?
Dueces Wild featured in the Amarillo Sunday News-Globe on May 28, 1967
The Deuces Wild formed in high school in Amarillo, Texas in 1965. They continued at least through 1967 and cut one 45 on their own Deuce Records label, “Hey Little One” / “Come Easy Go”.
Members were:
Mark Fenlaw – lead vocals Freddy Johnson – bass and vocals Donnie Rae – lead guitar Mark Hart – rhythm guitar Tommy Pena – organ Bill Hegedus – drums
AY a Go Go: DJ Rick West emceed, and local youngsters were featured in fashion photos by Lonnie Sutherland. Models included Malee Miller, Sally Lewis, Suzanne Thompson, Dennis Coyne, Jane Pangburn, Lynn Hagemeier, David Spooner, Melissa Cox and Susan Elliott.
First mention I can find for the band comes from August 12, 1965, announcing their participation in the Allied Youth’s AY a Go Go at the Amarillo Little Theatre, along with the Illusions, the Windthieves, the Others and the Echoes. I haven’t heard of these other bands.
The group’s ages ranged from 16 to 20 at the time of their 45 release. “Hey Little One” is the Dorsey Burnette song. Freddy Johnson wrote and sang the B-side, “Come Easy Go”. The songs were recorded at Larry Cox Studio on N.E. 24th Street, formerly Ray Ruff’s Checkmate Studio.
On May 28, 1967, the Amarillo Sunday News-Globe ran a feature on the band by Gloria Denko:
Rock ‘n’ Roll Band Cuts First Record
The Deuces Wild started about 2 1/2 years ago …
This week the group joined the ranks of performers on record. Their first release, “Hey, Little One,” on Era, with Mark Hart on the vocal, was produced and reocrded by Larry Cox Recorders, 3412 NE 24th, and hit the airways at KGNC, KPUR, KIXZ and other Panhandle radio stations.
“Come, Easy Go” on the flip side, with Freddie Johnson on the vocal, is an original by Johnson. He wrote the ballad, his first, about two years ago and since has written about 15 others. Johnson said about a third of his songs are ballads and the rest are rock ‘n’ roll.
The Deuces Wild count their appearance following Paul Revere and the Raiders at an all-city dance last fall as the high point of their career to date…
Bobby Harper, the buyer at Cooper & Melin, has been their manager for the past year …
They have performed … at Amarillo Air Force Base, for groups in Hereford, Spearman, Dumas and Vega, as well as in Amarillo.
The Dueces Wild had a stage show that included black light, a siren-whistle, flashing lights in time with music and a strobe.
The Wild Prophets came from Ames, Iowa, about 35 miles north of Des Moines. They recorded one single on Kustom Records, Ltd ARS-1001, an energetic version of the Last Word’s “Can’t Stop Loving You” backed with “Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It”, a Neil Young original with the Buffalo Springfield.
The lineup at the time of the record was:
Ted Nunemaker – vocals Keane Bonath – sax Ken Wood – guitar Roy Aasen – keyboard Larry Kelley – bass and vocals Andy Gielbelstein – drums
Mark Miller signed the label of the record, but he replaced Ken Wood on guitar after the record was made.
Earlier members included Jacque Furman and Ralph Stevens on drums, Ray West on keys.
Later members included Ron Arends on keys and Scott Erickson.
Larry Kelly wrote to me:
I had a few groups in high school. My first band I joined was the Mystics – the first combo at Boone High School. I left that group and started my own band called the Tel-Stars. In ’65 I left that band and got married.
In ’66 I started organizing a new band and we came up with the name The Wild Prophets – Ken Wood, Ray West, Jacque Furman and I. We did things like play guitar/bass behind our heads, lay down on the floor playing, etc. That’s where the ‘wild’ came from in the name. We went thru various other musicians when Ray left. Jacque left and Ralph Stevens played drums. He left in time and Andy took over. When Andy left, Randy Stultz took over on drums.
The recording came about with Ken, Keane Bonath, Ted Nunemaker (both Keane and Ted were ISU students at the time), Andy on drums, and Roy Aaesen played keys. We found the two songs we wanted to do and Ted sang lead on the slow song, me on “Can’t Stop Loving You” which was a Buffalo Springfield flip-side song from their hit, “For What It’s Worth”. But “Can’t Stop” was too slow so we sped it up a bit!
We had a school bus we fixed up to travel in along with the name of the band on each side in big letters. In ’69, we bought over $10,000 worth of new band equipment which today would be more like $80-100k. So many stories, too numerous to tell.
The Wild Prophets recorded at Audiosonic Recording Studio in Ames, and the record saw release in 1969.
According to the informative Boone Rock website, the band played “in Mason City. The Cellar in Ames was a favorite with a good crowd in attendance every time. Other venues they performed at include the Starlite in Carroll, the Pla-Mor in Fort Dodge, the Dance-Mor in Swisher, RJ’s Lounge in Marion.”
The Wild Prophets broke up in 1973. Jacque Furman continued in music, but I have few details other than playing with Cris Williamson and Glen Yarborough.
Ted Nunemaker died on Dec. 14, 2008.
Thank you to Larry Kelley for correcting the spelling of names.
Some information from http://members.iowatelecom.net/thx1136/pages/prophets.html (currently offline).
I can find a few other Audiosonic Recording Studio credits, such as:
Ted Hart – “Down in the Mine” / “I Don’t Need You Anymore” (both by Don Taft and J.T. Schreiner), produced by J.T. Schreiner on Leslie LR 72068 from 1968.
Syndrum of Soul - “Lost and Found” (Gary French, Floyd Brown) / “Do You Care” on SOS 100, produced by M. Harper, from 1970.
The Coachmen, from left: Sam Brough, Glen Cammack, Tommy Burnett (sitting) and Rick Allen, “backstage at the Mid-South Coliseum after a Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs gig.” Photo from Ron Hall’s essential “The Memphis Garage Rock Yearbook 1960-1975”
The Coachmen are not well-remembered now, but were a significant band in Memphis in 1965. They played at the premier of Help at the Loews Palace Theatre with the WMPS Good Guys. They had one single on Gold Standard 155, “I’ll Never Leave You” / “Possibility”.
Members were:
Tommy Burnett – vocals Sam Brough Glen Cammack Rick Allen
“I’ll Never Leave You” is good upbeat pop. Copyright registration from August, 1965 shows Larry Hill and Rusty Taylor (as Roland Parker Taylor) as co-writers. Rusty Taylor was vocalist with the Yo-Yo’s (the Swingin’ Yo-Yo’s) and later had two solo singles on the M.O.C. label. The Coachmen single preceded the Yo-Yo’s singles on Goldwax.
“Possibility” is a Stan Vincent composition which had been done by the Crowns on Old Town Records in 1964.
Gold Standard owner Zeke Clements produced, and the labels credit “The Coachmen (from Memphis, Tenn)” and “vocal by Tommy Burnett”.
Rusty Taylor and Larry Hill registered another composition “I Know”, in October, 1965, also with Blazon Music.
The Combustibles came from Bombay, India, and recorded “Watch Her” / “Some Peace of Mind” in 1970. Vocalist Everett Perry wrote both songs. “Watch Her” has vocals and rhythm that reminds me somewhat of the Velvet Underground. The songs saw release as Polydor 2067 020 in 1971.
Members on the single were Everett Perry on lead vocals, brothers George Taylor on bass and Lionel Taylor on lead guitar, Nissim Ezekiel on rhythm, and Bobby Furtado on drums.
The group participated in the Simla Beat contests in 1968 and 1969 and did well, but unfortunately those years did not see LP releases like the ’70 and ’71 contests. I would like to have heard that band at that stage, as the group had a partly different lineup, which included Christopher Valles on lead guitar and Croyden Maben on drums.
The Combustibles have a great website, www.thecombustiblesband.com with lots of photos and information on the band and the Bombay music scene. I highly recommend taking a look.
Thank you to Jörgen Johansson for providing this copy of the single.
Betty Simpson wrote both songs on this teen record on the Zundak label out of Alexandria, Louisiana, northwest of Baton Rouge. “What Is Love” is upbeat, while “Weeping Willow” is a ballad, as you’d expect from the title.
Betty was a teenager when she cut this in 1965. She worked with a band called the Argos, who were Billy Spillman (bass), Steve Smith (drums), Robert Rachel and Stan Rachel (both on guitar). They performed at the La Paloma Lounge south of Alexandria, and Betty also appeared at the Louisiana Bandstand TV show.
Photos and info come from the youtube video below, which has a few more news clippings of Betty:
They recorded the single at La Louisianne studios in Lafayette. Zundak was the label for one of my all-time favorite Louisiana garage 45s, “Baby Get Lost” by the Barracudas.
A list of red vinyl, promotional 45 rpm singles on the Epic label from 1962-1966.
Followed by other colored vinyl: blue, green, yellow.
Unlike colored vinyl on Columbia (see previous post), only about half of these have the same song on both sides.
Any additions or corrections would be appreciated.
Red vinyl:
5-9509 – Bobby Vinton - “Roses Are Red (My Love)” / “You and I ” 5-9561- Bobby Vinton - “Trouble Is My Middle Name” / “Let’s Kiss and Make Up” 5-9632 – Bobby Vinton - “O Holy Night” / “The Christmas Song” (Canada only) JZSP 76370 (other releases on 5-9640) – Linda Brannon – “Don’t Cross Over (to My Side of the Street)” / JZSP 76387 (other releases on 5-9643) – Kerri Downs – “4,003,221 Tears from Now” 5-9705 – Bobby Vinton - “Clinging Vine” 5-9730 – Bobby Vinton - “Mr. Lonely” 5-9741 – Bobby Vinton - “Dearest Santa” / “Mr. Lonely” 5-9863 – Dave Clark Five - “Over and Over” 5-9869 – Bobby Vinton – “Satin Pillows” 5-9877 – Joe Sherman and the Arena Brass – “Feeling Good” 5-10001 – The Remains – “Diddy Wah Diddy” 5-10025 – David Houston – “Almost Persuaded” 5-10045 – Donovan - “Sunshine Superman” / “The Trip” 5-10110 – Keith Relf - “Shapes in My Mind” 5-10134 – Tammy Wynette - “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad” 5-10180 – The Hollies – “Carrie-Anne” / 5-10184 – The Tremeloes - “Silence Is Golden”
Blue vinyl:
5-9593 – Bobby Vinton – “Blue on Blue” / “Those Little Things ” 9-9865 – The Goldberg-Miller Blues Band – “The Mother Song” / “More Soul, Than Soulful”
JZSP 79537 (b-side released on 5-9821) – Damita Jo – “Love Is Here to Stay” / “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” (possibly green vinyl too) 5-9885 – Nancy Ames - “Friends and Lovers Forever” / “Dear Hearts and Gentle People” (JZSP 112662) JZSP 113610 (other releases on 5-10032) – Jane Morgan - “1-2-3” / “Kiss Away” 5-10061 – Damita Jo - “If You Go Away” 5-10162 – The Marmalade - “Can’t Stop Now”
A list of red vinyl, promotional 45 rpm singles on the Columbia label from 1962-1966.
Followed by other colored vinyl: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange.
Almost all of these have the same song on both sides, but there are a few exceptions (two by Tony Bennett, promo-only singles by Steve Lawrence and Robert Horton, and Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” which is separated into parts I and II).
Any additions or corrections would be appreciated.
Red vinyl:
4-42417 – Jerry Reed & the Hully Girlies – “Goodnight Irene” (July, 1962) 4-42582 – Johnny Mathis – “Gina” 4-42592 – The New Christy Minstrels – “This Land Is Your Land” 4-42593 – Carl Butler – “Don’t Let Me Cross Over” 4-42601 – Steve Lawrence – “Go Away Little Girl” 4-42606 – Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs – “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” 4-42661 – Eydie Gormé – “Blame it on the Bossa Nova” JZSP 58841 (other versions use 4-42662) – Dion – “Ruby Baby” 4-42666 – Johnny Mathis – “What Will My Mary Say” 4-42699 – Steve Lawrence – “Don’t Be Afraid Little Darlin’” 4-42674 – Andy Williams – “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” 4-42776 – Dion – “This Little Girl” 4-42779 – Tony Bennett – “The Good Life” / “Spring in Manhattan” 4-42788 – Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire” 4-42791 – Patti Page – “Say Wonderful Things” 4-42815 – Steve & Eydie – “I Want to Stay Here” 4-42827 – Ray Price – “Make The World Go Away” 4-42852 – Dion Di Muci – “Donna the Prima Donna” 4-42865 – Steve Lawrence – “Walking Proud” 4-42880 – Johnny Cash – “The Matador” 4-42888 – The Brothers Four – “The John B. Sails” (Canada only) 4-42950 – Andy Williams – “A Fool Never Learns” 4-42964 – Johnny Cash – “Understand Your Man” 4-42996 – Tony Bennett – “When Joanna Loved Me” 4-43035 – Rip Chords – “Three Window Coupe” 4-43037 – Anita Bryant – “The World of Lonely People” 4-43045 – Rene & Rene – “Angelito” 4-43067 – Linda Hall – “Hugo” 4-43082 – Eydie Gormé – “I Want You to Meet My Baby” 4-43113 – Aretha Franklin – “Runnin’ Out of Fools” 4-43120 – Billy Walker – “Cross the Brazos at Waco” 4-43128 – Andy Williams – “On the Street Where You Live” 4-43131 – Robert Goulet – “My Love, Forgive Me (Amore, Scusami)” 4-43141 – Tony Bennett – “Who Can I Turn To” / “If I Ruled the World” 4-43145 – Johnny Cash – “It Ain’t Me, Babe” 4-43171 – Mongo Santamaria – “El Pussy Cat” 4-43242 – Bob Dylan – “Subterranean Homesick Blues” 4-43271 – The Byrds – “Mr. Tambourine Man” 4-43277 – Chad and Jeremy – “Before and After” 4-43301 – Robert Goulet – “Summer Sounds” 4-43305 – Billy Joe Royal – “Down in the Boondocks” 4-43315 – Statler Brothers – “Flowers on the Wall” 4-43332 – The Byrds – “All I Really Want to Do” JZSP 110939 / JZSP 110940 – Bob Dylan – “Like a Rolling Stone” (Part I b/w Part II) – there is also a black styrene of Part I b/w Part II using the JZSP matrix #s on the white promo labels, but other promo and stock US versions use catalog # 4-43346 and have the full six minute version on A-side, with “Gates of Eden” on flip. 4-43351 – The Liverpool Set – “Must I Tell You (I Love You)” (Canada only) 4-43375 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Steppin’ Out” 4-43389 – Bob Dylan – “Positively 4th Street” 4-43390 – Billy Joe Royal – “I Knew You When” 4-43396 – Simon & Garfunkel – “The Sounds of Silence” 4-43424 – The Byrds – “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” 4-43437 – Pozo-Seco Singers – “Time” 4-43461 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Just Like Me” 4-43465 – Billy Joe Royal – “I’ve Got to Be Somebody” 4-43469 – Barbra Streisand – “Second Hand Rose” 4-43556 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Kicks” 4-43589 – The Cyrkle – “Red Rubber Ball” 4-43592 – Bob Dylan – “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” 4-43595 – Susan Christie – “I Love Onions” 4-43617 – Simon & Garfunkel – “I Am a Rock” 4-43626 – Ray Conniff and the Singers – “Somewhere, My Love” 4-43648 – Tim Rose – “Hey Joe (You Shot Your Woman Down)” 4-43660 – Eydie Gormé – “If He Walked into My Life” 4-43673 – Johnny Cash – “Everybody Loves a Nut” 4-43678 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Hungry” 4-43728 – Simon & Garfunkel – “The Dangling Conversation” 4-43729 – The Cyrkle – “Turn-Down Day” 4-43774 – Jerry Vale – “Dommage, Dommage (Too Bad, Too Bad)” 4-43784 – Pozo-Seco Singers – “I Can Make it With You” 4-43792 – Bob Dylan – “Just Like a Woman” 4-43794 – Patti Page – “Almost Persuaded” 4-43907 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Good Thing” —
JZSP 78856 / JZSP 78857 (no stock or other promo copies)- Steve Lawrence – “Bluesette / People”
———— Other 1960s colored vinyl Columbia 45s:
Purple vinyl:
4-42952 – Steve Lawrence – “Room Without Windows” 4-42965 – Barbra Streisand – “People” 4-43225 – Eydie Gormé – “Do I Hear a Waltz?”
Blue vinyl:
4-42810 – Dion – “Be Careful of Stones that You Throw” 4-42812 – Rip Chords – “Gone” 4-42924 – Lefty Frizzell – “Saginaw, Michigan” 4-42967 – Ray Conniff and his Orchestra And Chorus – “Honeycomb” / “Blue Moon” 4-43138 – Randy Sparks – “Julie Knows” 4-43248 – Barbra Streisand – “Why Did I Choose You”
Green vinyl:
4-42932 – Steve & Eydie – “I Can’t Stop Talking About You” 4-42805 – The New Christy Minstrels – “Green, Green” 4-43000 – The New Christy Minstrels – “Today” 4-43167 – Mel Torme – “Ev’ry Day’s a Holiday” / “One Little Snowflake” 4-43448 – Ray Conniff and the Singers – “The Real Meaning of Christmas”
Yellow vinyl:
4-42784 – Andy Williams – “Hopeless” 4-42921 – Rip Chords – Hey Little Cobra” 4-43015 – Andy Williams – Wrong For Each Other” 4-43215 – The New Christy Minstrels – Chim, Chim, Cheree” 4-43257 – Andy Williams – “‘…. And Roses and Roses'” / “Red Roses For A Blue Lady” 4-43431 – Tony Bennett – “Love Theme From ‘The Sandpiper’ (The Shadow Of Your Smile)” JZSP 117536/7 – Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford – “It Couldn’t Please Me More” / “Married”
Orange vinyl:
4-43954 – Tony Bennett – “What Makes It Happen” JZSP 78864 / JZSP 78865 – Robert Horton – “The Very Thought of You” / “Hey There”
Black vinyl promos with same song on both sides:
4-42928 – Guitar Ramblers – “Surf Beat” 4-42971 – Ray Price – “That’s All that Matters” 4-43302 – Eydie Gorme – “Where Are You Now” 4-43666 – Black Sheep – “It’s My Mind” 4-43903 – Gene Clark – “Echoes”
The last single-sided colored vinyl release I have found is 4-43907 – Paul Revere & the Raiders – “Good Thing”
The Twilighters came from Kirksville, Missouri, a small city about 165 miles from Kansas City and 200 miles from St. Louis. In 1967 they cut two originals, “Spellbound” / “My Little Angel” at Technisonic Studios in St. Louis.
“Spellbound” is a fast-paced rocker, driven by Dave Daniels’s fantastic drumming. There’s a great guitar break and a double-time ending, and it’s over in less than two minutes.
The chant of “Spellbound” has a distinctive sound that may come from some other song but if so, I can’t think of it. It reminds me of a later cut, Steve Miller Band’s “Living in the U.S.A.” where the group chants “Stand Back”. I’d be interested if anyone has heard something very similar in another song from the era.
The B-side, “My Little Angel” is a ballad with fine vocals, and good recording production.
Released on Red Flame Records 45-1005, the labels show a 1966 copyright date, but the U4KM indicates a pressing date in the first half of 1967.
The Twilighters, from left: Everett Cassidy, Gary Blurton, David Daniels on drums, Bob Harbur, and Randy Elmore. Photo courtesy of David Daniels.
David Daniels wrote to me:
The Twilighters band began in 1963 with Gary Blurton (rhythm guitar and vocals), David Daniels (drums), Everett Cassidy (bass), and Bob Harbur (lead guitar). Randy Elmore joined the band in 1964 because Gary was leaving to join the National Guard and the band would be needing a lead vocalist. Randy played lead guitar as well.
Eventually Bob moved to the St Louis area and Everett also moved away from the Kirksville area. At that point Richard Hudson, also a local boy and friend of Randy and David, came on to play rhythm guitar.
The Twilighters, from left: Everett Cassidy on bass, Randy Elmore on guitar, David Daniels with drumsticks, and Gary Blurton, guitar. Photo courtesy of David Daniels.
This configuration of The Twilighters (Randy, David, and Richard) placed an ad in the local paper seeking a keyboard player, to which Carl Foultz responded and that was the group that made the record “Spellbound” / “My Little Angel”. Carl Foultz was the song writer and organ player, and the bass was covered by the bass pedals on the organ.
Randy Elmore – lead guitar and lead vocal Richard Hudson – rhythm guitar Carl Foultz – organ (and bass pedals) David Daniels – drums (background vocals for “My Little Angel”)
There were no headphones to monitor in the recording room and “Spellbound” was recorded in one live take. The band could not hear the vocal work at all until listening to the playback in the control room. Likewise for “My Little Angel.” It was the first recording the band had made and their first experience in a recording studio.
Randy, Richard, and David were local boys, born and raised in the Kirksville area. Carl was from Pennsylvania and came to Kirksville to attend university at Northeast Missouri Teachers College (now Truman State University).
The band members changed off and on over subsequent years with a total of about 20 different players having done some time with The Twilighters during their run (1963 – 1971).
Randy and David continued to play in many other bands in the NE Missouri area from 1971 – 2011, often times together, other times not, under the names: Country Flavor, Fox, Survival, Loose Louie, Twilighter’s Rockin’ Reunion, BJ Allen Band, and Blue Voodoo.
These photos are of the original players. There are no pics with Richard or Carl, so neither of these are the exact group of players that were on the recording.
David went on to buy Circle M Music in Kirksville in 1974 and operated the music store and built his own recording studio where he recorded many local musicians and vocal groups. David mentored many young kids over the years, sharing his love of music and recording. He retired in 2014 after serving the NE Missouri music community for 42 years. As an honor to his Grandpa David, Black Daniels & The Bears did a cover of “Spellbound” live at David’s retirement party in 2014, the 3rd generation of musicians in the Daniels family, carrying on the tradition.
Randy retired from SW Bell and now lives in Columbia, MO.
Richard did not continue with music but went on to other employment, was a private business owner, and has retired to Lake of the Ozarks.
Carl graduated from NE Missouri Teachers College and moved away, the other band members having lost touch with him.
Gary is retired from local employment in the Kirksville area.
Bob and Everett are now both deceased.
Dick Lawrence (deceased) was owner of Red Flame Records and was an avid music promoter throughout the NE Missouri area his entire life.
Carl Foultz was also a member of an r&b group called the Del-Fis or Del-Phis with Ed Corte, Frank Gantt, T.J. Jackson, Mac Pendelton, Nick Romanetz and Gary Smyth, some of whom were students at Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now known as Truman State University).
After Carl Foultz left the Twilighters, Bill Daniels joined on guitar and Ray Beets on bass, as Ray states in his comment below.
Dick Lowrance owned Red Flame Records which released three singles by the group he was a member of, the Red Blazers, usually with Ike Haley as leader.
In 1966 Lowrance released a single by Friar Tuck and the Merrymen’s “Peanut Butter” / “Try Me” (Mike Barger) on his Sherwood Forest Records subsidiary. That band may have been from western Illinois though I’m not sure which town. I’ve found newspaper ads for a “new Friar Tuck and the Merrymen” playing at the Wayside Inn in Moberly, Missouri, about an hour south of Kirksville; not sure if this is the same group.
Mitzee Baker’s “Stand Up Boy” is early ’60s pop, not garage but it has a strong beat and crude production. I’m posting because it seems to be unknown, and there are some deadwax codes I am not familiar with.
The flip is a ballad with some orchestration, “No One Can Love You (More than I)”. Harry Moffitt wrote both songs and co-produced with Fred Downs, released on Dralmar 5000. Pompadour Music published the songs, but I can’t find them in BMI’s database. A Philadelphia origin is likely.
The runout codes are: “D-5000-B A” / “D-5000-B”. Both sides have “A.M.S.” followed by something that looks like a D with a couple short horizontal lines in front of it. In very small lettering on the A-side is “TV 33166”. All are etched.
An embossed stamp on both sides seems to read backwards, beginning with, possibly M.O.I. and ending with CO – but I may not be reading that correctly.
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The Carousel recorded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1969. Members were:
I know of two releases on Unity, Candy Stanton’s “Now You’ve Got the Upper Hand” / “You Can’t Stop Me” (both written by Bo Fowler and produced by Bob Grove and Richard Dingler), and Underground Euphoria featuring Keisa Brown “What Can I Do About You” / “Let’s Go Back (To Our Little World)”.
