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Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Music Vendor 1959-1963 100+, Part 06

1. Maxine Brown - Forget Him (2:27)
2. Maxine Brown - A Man (2:20)
3. Maxine Brown - I Kneel At Your Throne (2:35)
4. Maxine Brown - If I Knew Then (What I Know Now) (1:56)
5. Maxine Brown - If You Have No Real Objections (2:33)
6. Maxine Brown - Life Goes On Just The Same (2:50)
7. Ronnie Brown - When It's Springtime In The Rockies (2:26)
8. Ronnie Brown - Elsie's Dream (2:24)
9. The Browns - The Man In The Moon (1:55)
10. The Browns - This Time I Would Know (2:10)
11. The Browns - The Three Bells (2:51)
12. The Browns - Be My Love (2:09)
13. The Browns - Whispering Pine (2:15)
14. The Browns - My Baby's Gone (1:57)
15. The Browns - The Twelfth Rose (2:27)
16. The Browns - Watching My World Fall Apart (2:28)
17. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown (2:23)
18. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Eleven Four (2:51)
19. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Summer Song (2:58)
20. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Three To Get Ready (2:55)
21. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Cable Car (2:36)
22. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Theme From Elementals (3:07)
23. Annita Bryant - Will I Cry In September (2:46)
24. Annita Bryant - A Wound Time Can't Erase (2:32)
25. Bud & Travis - Bonsoir Dame (Good Night My Lady Love) (2:19)
26. Bud & Travis - Truly Do (2:20)
27. Bud & Travis - Cloudy Summer Afternoon (1:53)
28. Bud & Travis - E La Bas (2:02)
29. The Buffalo Bills w. Banjo - My Baby Just Cares For Me - My Baby Just Cares For Me (1:38)
30. The Buffalo Bills w. Banjo - My Baby Just Cares For Me - Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (1:45)
31. The Busters - All American Surfer (2:01)
32. The Busters - Pine Tree Hop (2:24)

Music Vendor 1959-1963 100+, Part 07

1. Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Theme From The Rat Race Part 1 (2:13)
2. Sam Butera & The Witnesses - Theme From The Rat Race Part 2 (2:06)
3. Artie Butler - Freedom (2:54)
4. Artie Butler - Sweet September (2:30)
5. Artie Butler - Theme From 'The Cardinal' (3:01)
6. Artie Butler - Waltz For J&M (2:54)
7. Jerry Butler - Just A little Bit (2:33)
8. Jerry Butler - A Woman With Soul (2:12)
9. The JButtons - Foot Stompin’ U.S.A. (2:00)
10. The JButtons - Walk Away Girl (2:04)
11. Glen Campbell - Divorce Me C.O.D. (1:50)
12. Glen Campbell - Dark As A Dungeon (3:21)
13. Jo Ann Campbell - But!! Maybe This Year (2:22)
14. Jo Ann Campbell - Crazy Daisy (2:17)
15. Carlo - Little Orphan Girl (2:35)
16. Carlo - Marizy Doats (2:13)
17. Chick Carlton - So You Want To Rock (2:04)
18. Chick Carlton - (I Want Be A) TV Cowboy (2:25)
19. Cathy Carr - Personal Secret (2:02)
20. Cathy Carr - Shy (2:15)
21. Bob Carroll - I Can't Get You Out Of My Heart (2:06)
22. Bob Carroll - Since I'm Out Of Your Arms (2:07)
23. Diahann Carroll - Again (2:29)
24. Diahann Carroll - My Love, My Love (2:43)
25. Anita Carter - Mama Don't Cry At My Wedding (2:06)
26. Anita Carter - Moon Girl (1:52)
27. Dick Caruso - Pretty Eyed Baby (2:23)
28. Dick Caruso - Lyin' Kisses (2:33)
29. Al Casey Combo - Chicken Feathers (2:08)
30. Al Casey Combo - Laughin' (2:22)

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963 (discogs) CB Looking Ahead & MV Hit Records 1959-1963

The turn of the 1950s and 1960s was a breaking point in the history of pop music, golden age of rockabilly, teen pop and doo wop. In 1959, Billboard BU has been launched and extended the number of chart entries, Cash Box, Music Vendor and Regional Charts (Gavin, Breakout, Territorial) added many other entries. Nevertheless, many “good” Artists from American music scene didn’t enter any chart and they are worth to be saved from obscurity. Discographies of Artists that recorded between 1956 (beginning of RnR) and 1963 (year preceding British Invasion) one/few singles*, create Parts divided into five categories

·         Rock(abilly) & Country
·         Instrumental
·         Doo-Wop & Vocal Group Harmony
·         Teen Pop
·         Popcorn (All Others)

and denoted as Xnn: X=,R,Q,V,T,P. For many Artists, categorization is fuzzy!!!
* If discography spans beyond this period, then selected earlier/later recordings can be taken into account as suplement

Singles of obscure Artists are hard to find, they are not available on Internet Marketplace. I managed to buy many (around 1000) rare singles but the number of missing tracks is still significant. Please help me to reduce this number.

Missing updated 15.02.2025

Sound quality is essential

Having a pleasure in listening obscure records in good sound quality is more important than collecting poor rips. Sound quality of majority of YouTube rips also many tracks from CD compilations is very poor and such copies are disregarded. Making a good rip is very simple, modern (produced in the XXI century) turntable and Audacity (freeware) is all that you need. I have prepared Vinyl-to-PC (Tutorial ) - please follow the guidelines.

Popcorn category has been extracted. This style, established in the 1970s, includes a wide variety of American obscure recordings of pop-soul music made between the late 1950s and early 1960s. This category includes everything that do not fall into the primary four categories.

Each discography has been carefully researched, booklets with biographies are attached. Primary references: Discogs, 45cat and
http://rcs-discography.com (Rockin’ Country Style)
http://doo-wop.blogg.org
http://rocky-52.net

https://www.rocknroll-schallplatten-forum.de

https://www.uncamarvy.com/index.html

track-list

S01 S02

T01 T02 T03 T04 T05 T06 T07 T08 T09 T10 T11 T12 T13 T14 T15 T16 T17 T18 T19 T20 T21

T22 T23 T24 T25 T26 T27 T28 T29 T30 T31 T32 T33 T34 T35

P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12

R01 R02 R03 R04 R05 R06 R07 R08 R09 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 R18 R19 R20

Q01 Q02 Q03 Q04 Q05 Q06 Q07 Q08 Q09 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 Q19

Q20 Q21 Q22 Q23 Q24 Q25 Q26 Q27 Q28 Q29 Q30 Q31 Q32 Q33 Q34 Q35 Q36 Q37 Q38

Q39 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q44 Q45 Q46 Q47 Q48 Q49 Q50 Q51 Q52 Q53 Q54 Q55 Q56 Q57

Q58 Q59 Q60 Q61 Q62 Q63 Q64 Q65 Q66 Q67 Q68 Q69 Q70

V01

Access to passes only for collectors who actively participate in the project = help to reduce Missing (list above), share comments to artist bios

If you are not able to find any missing track, you can search the missing 45 on Discogs or e-bay, buy, rip and send mp3 to me. There are no passes to artist bios and you are welcomed to comment.

Previously posted files (detailed track-lists) can be found below this post Observations after five years

CASH BOX LOOKING AHEAD 1959-1963

non-Billboard (all charts); non-Breakout Hits; non- Music Vendor; non-Gavin Report
no re-entries and re-issues, single edits only
392 singles ≈ ¼ of all singles that entered Looking Ahead 1959-1963.

As & Bs - no missing tracks!

NL01 NL02 NL03 NL04 NL05 NL06 NL07

NL08 NL09 NL10 NL11 NL12 NL13 NL14

NL15 NL16 NL17 NL18 NL19 NL20 NL21

NL22 NL23 NL24 NL25 NL26

Track-list LA

Looking Ahead chart started on October 3, 1959 (with 20 positions) and grew up to 50 positions by April 29, 1961.

MV HIT RECORDS 101-150 1959-1963

non-Billboard (all charts); non-Breakout Hits; non-Gavin Report, non-CB (incl. LA)*

≈ 750 45's (SP or EP) ≈ 70% of all 45's that entered MV 100+ 1959-1963, In majority, from the original 45's (from my record collection). Mono single edits only.

One 45 (Dennis Day) missing (denoted on the sheet)

Every track is professionally remastered and tagged (see Project Description}. Data are collected from original charts, as printed in Music Vendor = numerous omissions and errors present in Whitburn’s book are rectified.

Links to H01-H50 below.

Non-Bill... Hit Records

* On February 23, 1959, Music Vendor magazine introduced “Beat Of The Week - Heading For The Top 100” chart (5-35 entries). This was 15 weeks prior to Billboard introducing its “Bubbling Under” chart. In September of 1962, Music Vendor’s "Heading For The Top 100" chart grew to 50 positions and changed its name to “Looking Up”. In April of 1964**, Music Vendor became Record World and this chart was retitled “Singles Coming Up”.

H01 H02 H03 H04 H05 H06 H07

** The last issue of Music Vendor was released on the 11^th of April 1964. Track-list for 15 weeks of 1964 and links to corresponding files (H51-H55) below (no missing tracks).

Non Bill… Hit Records 64

Tracks US Charts 59-63

you can download and sort by charts (column F): Bill, Bill R&B (B), Bill Country (C), Gavin (NG), Breakout Hits (NB), Music Vendor (NV) and Cash Box (N and NL)

Links to already posted non-Billboard Cash Box, Music Vendor, Gavin Report can be found in
non-Bill CB, MV & GR

Links to Territorial and Breakout Hits can be found in

T & BH

Sunday, 31 March 2024

Content of the blog

Above: the last Posts,

Below: other recently added Posts

Project Description, Terms of Participation MissUK MissUS

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963 track-list Cash Box & Music Vendor 100+, 1959-1963

The Bachelors LPs & 45s 1963-1975 track-list

Rare Brit Pop, Lost Gems track-list

Non-Billboard Cash Box, Music Vendor, Gavin Rep. tracks CB MV Gavin

Non-Billboard Territorial & Breakout

British Chart 1952-1966 track-list UK Chart 1952-1969

British Chart 1967-1979; US Chart 1970s track-list 1970s US 1970s

Deutsche Hit Parade 1959-1969 track-list

Hit Parade France 1959-1969 track-list

Hit Parade Italia 1959-1969 track-list

Billboard:

Easy Listening 1965-1969 track-list

Country 1944-1969 : 68,9 66,7 64,5 62,3 60,1 58,9 56,7 54,5 52,3 50,1 48,9 46,7 44,,5 tracks

R&B 1942-1969 : 68,9 66,7 64,5 62,3 60,1 58,9 56,7 54,5 52,3 50,1 48,9 46,7 44,,5 42,3 tracks

Top 20/30 Hits of the 40's : 40,1 42,3 44,5 46,7 48,9 track-list

Top 30/100 Hits of the 50's : 50,1 52,3 54,5 56 57 58 59 track-list

Hot 100 & BU Hits of the 60's : 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 track-list

Older posts can be found below this post: Observations after five years

My 45’s and 33’s

An aggregate sheet of all US charts 1954-1969:
US Charts 1954-1969

Tutorials

Extracting info from Google Sheet

Vinyl-to-PC

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Log House (Dom z Bali)

Home Page of Professor Jerzy Rutkowski
Theory of Information and Coding
Electric Circuit Theory & Technology Enhanced Learning PPt
War memoires of Sgt. Krystyna Rutkowska

Quotes on Teaching, Learning & Technology in Educatio n

Piątki na Piątki

cykliczna audycja muzyczna w Radiu z Charakterem, odcinki 1.....100+ do odsłuchania

Saturday, 30 March 2024

Project Description, Terms of Participation

The Music Part of the blog has been launched in Oct. 2018. Initially, Billboard Hot 100 (up to 1969) files were posted. Then, other charts, other thematic sections have been added. List of all sections (subsections), with links, can be found in “Content” post.

In the first 1.5 years, thousands of anonymous downloaders and less than 100 Active Followers, Project Supporters. Therefore, from Spring 2020, passes are added to all files and

passes* are visible to Active Followers only

Creation of the Let The Good Times Roll Club, the Society that shares the same passion, was my goal. My reflections after five years can be found here

You may apply to the Club, by supporting the blog

directly, by finding

MISSING - see Content post and Obscure American Artists (hundreds of songs)

or indirectly, by making a donation**

PayPal , 1$=4PLN, e.g. 25$=100PLN (average gross cost of one 45)

You can contact me via Contact Form (preferred) or Facebook,

Let The Good Times Roll Fan Club.

"what is the pass" request will be unanswered!

* sheet with passes consists not only the library of passes but, first of all, the register of all already posted files, documentation of all updates.

Google Drive cloud is used: 1. not banned worldwide, 2. updates are uploaded automatically, 3. no pop-ups, 4. no Time2Delete – no need for re-ups,

all links are active as long as I'm paying for the Google cloud.

Sound quality is essential = no mic rips(1) , no poor YouTube

(1) Sharing music recorded by a camera mic (mobile or other) is murdering of the music.

>50% from the original 45s, >10% from my record collection

Every single track is remastered (2), iZotope RX7 licenced software and Audacity freeware are applied. All files are properly tagged.

Tags: 1. Title, 2. Artist, 3. Album, 4. Publisher, 5. Copyright, 6. Comment, 7. www, 8. Cover

(2) remastering = fixing any shortcomings of the ripped vinyl or the transferred CD track (de-click, de-noise, normalization, intro/outro silence). The frequency spectrum is not "improved", it remains unchanged, as the norm.

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** Instead of donation (indirect support), you can buy missing 45, rip it (or buy mp3) and send mp3 to me and this is the preferred (direct) way of support.

Thursday, 28 March 2024

Rare Brit Pop, Discog...s of Lost Artists Pt. 228

1. The Karlins - Who Would? (2:25)
2. The Karlins - Please Tell Me (1:40)
3. The Karlins - Walkin' Away (2:21)
4. The Karlins - You Mean Nothing To Me (2:35)
5. The Karlins - It's Good To Be Around (2:49)
6. The Karlins - The Spinning Wheel (2:51)
7. The Karlins - The Hawkmoth And The Flame (2:18)
8. The Karlins - Water Or The Wine (2:52)
9. The Karlins - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) (2:54)
10. The Karlins - Stay On The Island (2:46)
11. The Karlins - Hang On (2:44)
12. The Karlins - The White House (2:48)
13. The Karlins - Bambino (2:34)
14. The Karlins - The Singing Lesson (2:33)
15. Roger Peacock - Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout My Baby (3:11)
16. Roger Peacock - Times Have Changed (3:09)
17. National Pinion Pole - Make Your Mark Little Man (3:17)
18. National Pinion Pole - I Was The One You Came In With (2:14)
19. The Rocamars - All In Black Woman (3:02)
20. The Rocamars - Give Me Time (2:10)
21. Signs - Ain't You Got A Heart (3:17)
22. Signs - My Baby Comes To Me (2:39)
23. The Cheatin' Hearts - Zip-Tease (1:55)
24. The Cheatin' Hearts - The Bad Kind (2:07)
25. The Compromise - You Will Think Of Me (2:48)
26. The Compromise - Love Minus Zero No Limit (3:26)
27. Peter & The Persuaders - Wine Glass Blues (3:06)
28. Peter & The Persuaders - The Wanderer (2:28)
29. Peter & The Persuaders - Cross My Heart (2:34)
30. Peter & The Persuaders - Ooh My Soul (1:51)
Bios BT28

Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963, Teen 35

1. The Tracey Twins - Flip Flop (2:22)
2. The Tracey Twins - Hitch Hike (2:28)
3. The Tracey Twins - Tonight You Belong To Me (2:04)
4. The Tracey Twins - Picking Sweethearts (2:19)
5. The Tracey Twins - Give Me Love (2:48)
6. The Tracey Twins - Why Was I Born To Love You (2:45)
7. The Tracey Twins - Every Little Now And Then (2:50)
8. The Tracey Twins - Locked In My Heart (2:43)
9. The Tracey Twins - Do You Ever Think Of Me (2:00)
10. The Tracey Twins - A Place Of Your Own Called Home (2:21)
11. The Tracey Twins - Take Back Your Swing (1:43)
12. The Tracey Twins - The Peddler Song (2:41)
13. The Tracey Twins - Kissin' Diploma (1:57)
14. The Tracey Twins - Because We Are Young (missing) (0:01)
15. The Tracey Twins - Don't Mean Maybe Baby (2:21)
16. The Tracey Twins - Heartbreak Hill (2:30)
17. Linda & Roberta - I'm In Love With You (2:25)
18. Linda & Roberta - Grown Up (2:14)
19. Donna Lewis - Surfer Boy Blue (2:26)
20. Donna Lewis - Call Him Back (2:09)
21. Donna Lewis - Have You Had A Change Of Heart (2:10)
22. Donna Lewis - No One But You (2:13)
23. Miss Glenda Lo Vett - Nobody Wants Me (2:11)
24. Miss Glenda Lo Vett - You Treat Me Like A Baby (1:56)
25. Shirley Ray - Why Don'tcha Come Home (3:00)
26. Shirley Ray - You Know That I Know (2:10)
27. Shirley Ray - I've Done It (2:10)
28. Shirley Ray - Hurtin' The Most (2:47)
29. Teena Roma - Just For You (1:57)
30. Teena Roma - Love Is Like A Mountain (1:58)

T35 Artist Bios

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963, Instr. 70

1. The Avantis - Wax 'Em Down (2:01)
2. The Avantis - Gypsy Surfer (2:19)
3. The Avantis - Phantom Surfer (2:11)
4. The Avantis - Lucille (missing) (0:01)
5. The Avantis - Surfin' Granny (2:42)
6. The Avantis - Do The Surfin' Granny (2:27)
7. The Cannonballs - Cannonball Caboose (1:57)
8. The Cannonballs - New Orleans Beat (2:06)
9. The Cannonballs - Lullaby Of Birdland (2:07)
10. The Cannonballs - Calliope Boogie (2:09)
11. The Cannonballs - Teen Tango (2:14)
12. The Cannonballs - A Summer Feeling (1:54)
13. The Jayhawks - La Macarena (1:57)
14. The Jayhawks - Lonely Highway (2:11)
15. Artie Golden & The Mighty Trojans - Goodbye My Love (2:12)
16. Artie Golden & The Mighty Trojans - If I Could See My Baby (One More Time) (missing) (0:01)
17. The Mighty Trojans - Just Got Up - Dodge (2:08)
18. The Mighty Trojans - Just About Daybreak (1:57)
19. The Mighty Trojans - Just Got Up - Joed (2:14)
20. The Mighty Trojans - The Buffalo Twist (2:16)
21. Johnny Rotella & The Little Wheels - Harlem Nocturne (2:21)
22. Johnny Rotella & The Little Wheels - Something Special (2:15)
23. Johnny Rotella & The Little Wheels - Big Daddy (1:52)
24. Johnny Rotella & The Little Wheels - Munchy (2:24)
25. Sandy & The Sandstorms - Sandstorm (1:46)
26. Sandy & The Sandstorms - Flutterbug (1:41)
27. The Trends - Runaway (1:55)
28. The Trends - Rock'In (2:11)
29. Ronnie Tyler - Mad Maggie (2:15)
30. Ronnie Tyler - Montezuma (2:24)

Q70 Artist Bios

Monday, 25 March 2024

Non-Billboard Cash Box, Music Vendor, (Gavin Report) 1954(58)-1969

On the week ending November 12, 1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time. In 1959, Billboard Bubbling Under Chart has been launched. In parallel, two other charts existed on American music industry scene, Cash Box and Music Vendor.

Cash Box Top 50 between 1954 and 1956, Top 75 between 1956 and 1958, Top 100 from 1958.

Music Vendor Top 100 between 1954 and 1964, renamed Record World Top 100 in 1964.

The number of hits that entered these charts and didn’t appear on Billboard Charts (Pop, R&B, Country, AC), even as flips, was significant. Then, to have complete overview on American music industry scene from 1954 to 1969, also two "other" charts have to be taken into account*.

Remarks:

Hits that entered Billboard charts as flips, and/or entered charts other than Pop, are omitted.
The research of Whitburn’s Billboard Top Pop Singles begins with the issue dated January 1, 1955 and includes songs that first charted in 1954. The Comparison Book (primary reference) lists songs that charted from October 2, 1954, i.e. songs with at least one debut date that satisfies the boundary (other debut date(s) can be earlier).
Earlier 1954 non-Billboard (Whitburn’s Pop Hits) songs researched for Cash Box Pop Hits (secondary reference) and yet not researched for the Comparison Book are also included in this project, as separate files.
Songs recorded by multiple artists were listed by Cash Box and Music Vendor together at one chart position. As a rule, only "hit" secondary versions included in the Comparison Book are taken into account. However, for the 1960s the comparison is based on original CB charts and all secondary CB versions are included.

In majority, the singles are not available on CD or on the Internet, some two hundred 45s from my collection have been ripped and remastered.

Please share your comments, suggestions.

*The total number of hit singles that were not listed on Billboard Charts, as Hits or Flips: 1197
·         Cash Box 1950’s: 404 (310+94)
·         Cash Box 1960’s: 120
·         Music Vendor: 673
·         Record World: 33

Together with B-sides they create 80 Parts, 5 songs are missing (Music Vendor only):

Vince Carson - Till You're Back In My Arms
Vince Carson - Homesick
Bill Cecere - Jealous Heart
Jerry Cooper - Nobody's Sweetheart
Jerry Cooper - I Ain't Got Nobody

track-list non-Bill Cash Box 1954-1969

nB60s.1 nB60s.2 nB60s.3 nB60s.4 nB60s.5 nB60s.6 nB60s.7 nB60s.8

nB5901 nB5902 nB5903 nB5904 nB5801 nB5802 nB5803 nB5804 nB5805

nB5701 nB5702 nB5703 nB5601 nB5501 nB5502 nB5503 nB5504 nB5505 nB5506

nB5401 nB5402 nB5403 nB5404 nB5407 nB5408 nB5409 nB5410 nB5411 nB5412 nB5413

track-list Non-Bill Music Vendor (Rec. World) 1954-1969

nB5405 nB5406 nB5507 nB5508 nB5509 nB5510 nB5511 nB5512 nB5513

nB5602 nB5603 nB5604 nB5605 nB5606 nB5607 nB5608

nB5704 nB5705 nB5706 nB5707 nB5708 nB5709 nB5710

nB5806 nB5807 nB5808 nB5809 nB5810 nB5811 nB5812

nB5905 nB5906 nB5907 nB5908 nB5909 nB6001 nB6002 nB6003 nB6004

nB6101 nB6102 nB6103 nB6104 nB6201 nB6202 nB6203 nB6301 nB6302