Here’s an obscure one, the Little Indians doing two original songs, “No” / “Wait a Minute”. It may also be the first release on Chanté Records, as it is release 101 and has master numbers CH-1 and CH-2.
Richard D. Tellier and Edward Martin composed both songs, and registered copyright in March 1965. They have other copyrights that may have not been recorded, “Blind Date”, “Life Was So Lonesome” and “Anymore”.
Tellier and Martin registered “Wait a Minute” and “Blind Date” in 1964 with © Sigma Seven Productions, Inc., but that production credit is dropped for the ’65 copyright and the Chanté release. Sigma Seven Productions turns up on singles by the Irridescents on Fleetwood, and the Fabulaires on Chelsea, among others.
Chanté Records labels usually have a Lou Alfieri production credit, but this one reads “A Pabodi Production”. Alfieri Music and Eastwick Music published both songs. A trademark application from 1965 lists a West Moorestown, New Jersey address, not far from Philadelphia.
Anyone have more information on the Little Indians or these song writers?
I do not believe this was the same Richard Tellier who played guitar with a Canadian group called Octopus.
The late Edward Martin was my brother. 18 years my senior. Pretty sure that he and Rick were fraternity brothers at Delta Sigma Phi at Drexel University in the sixties. Ed used to joke around about how the record was a big hit, selling 100 copies in West Virginia.