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  H08  H09

** 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

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

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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. 

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 

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

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

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

nB6x01  nB6x02  nB6x03

The Gavin Report was a San Francisco–based radio industry trade publication

Top 40 non-Billboard (CB, MV) + Regional Hits, as listed in Joel Whitburn’s book

761 Singles*, 1525 tracks

>90% of tracks are not available on CD

>100 Singles from the original 45s, from my collection

5 (0.5%) still missing (see MISSING in “Content”)

* non-Single tracks (EP, Album) are not taken into account

   track-list Gavin Report: in “Content”

G5801  G5901  G5902  G5903  G6001  G6002  G6003  G6004  G6005  G6006  G6007  G6008
G6101  G6102  G6103  G6104  G6105  G6106  G6107  G6108  G6109  G6110  G6111  G6112
G6113  G6201  G6202  G6203  G6204  G6205  G6206  G6207  G6208  G6209  G6210  G6301
G6302  G6303  G6304  G6305  G6306  G6307  G6401  G6402  G6403  G6404  G6501  G6502
G6503  G6601  G6701  G6702  G68+01  G68+02

Please do not send “what is a pass” request, please read

 Project Description, Terms of Participation 

Individual posts with track-lists can be found below this post Observations after five years

British Lost Pop 1957-1966

 Discographies of  Artists that

- didn't chart and/or

- are difficult or impossible to find on CD

- recorded between 1957 and 1966

also selected songs
    recorded before 1957, 
    after 1966,
    album tracks (full albums in exceptional cases)

Track-list BL 

BI01

BL01  BL02  BL03  BL04  BL05  BL06  BL07  BL08  BL09  BL10  BL11  BL12  BL13  BL14  BL15

BL16  BL17  BL18  BL19  BL20  BL21  BL22  BL23  BL24  BL25  BL26  BL27  BL28  BL29 BL30

BL31  BL32  BL33  BL34  BL35  BL36  BL37  BL38  BL39  BL40  BL41  BL42  BL43  BL44  BL45

BL46  BL47  BL48  BL49  BL50  BL51  BL52  BL53  BL54  BL55  BL56  BL57  BL58  BL59  BL60

BL61  BL62  BL63  BL64  BL65  BL66  BL67  BL68  BL69  BL70  BL71  BL72  BL73  BL74  BL75

BL76  BL77  BL 78  BL79  BL80  BL81  BL82  BL83  BL84  BL85  BL86  BL87  BL88  BL89  BL90

BL91  BL92  BL93  BL94  BL95  BL96  BL97  BL98  BL99  BR00  

BL101=BR01

BR01  BR02  BR03  BR04  BR05  BR06  BR07  BR08  BR09  BR10  BR11  BR12  BR13  BR14  

BR15  BR16  BR17  BR18  BR19  BR20  BR21  BR22  BR23  BR24  BR25  BR26  BR27  BR28  

BR29  BR30  BR31  BR32  BR33  BR34  BR35  BR36  BR37  BR38  BR39  BR40  BR41  BR42  

BR43  BR44  BR45  BR46  BR47  BR48  BR49  BR50.1  BR50.2  BR51  BR52  BR53  BR54  BR55

BR56  BR57  BR58  BR59  BR60  BR61  BR62  BR63  BR64  BR65.1  BR65.2  BR66  BR67.1  BR67.2  

BR68  BR69.1  BR69.2 BR70  BR71  BR72  BR73.01  BR73.02  BR74  BR75  BR76  BR77  BR78

BR79  BR80  BR81  BR82.1  BR82.2  BR83  BR84  BR85  BR86  BR87.1   BR87.2  BR88  BR89  

BR90.1  BR90.2  BR90.3  BR91  BR92  BR93  BR94  BR95  BR96  BR97  BR98  BR99  BT00  

BL201=BT01

BT01  BT02  BT03  BT04  BT05  BT06  BT07  BT08  BT09  BT10  BT11  BT12.1  BT12.2  BT13

BT14  BT15  BT16  BT17  BT18  BT19  BT20  BT21  BT22  BT23  BT24  BT25  BT26  BT27  BT28

BT29

Biographies of posted Artists (186 and next) can be found below this post Observations after five years

Rare Brit posts

Please do not send “what is a pass” request, please read
 Project Description, Terms of Participation 

If the lost artist did not appear already and is not present on the spreadsheet of missing songs*, then it does not mean that I have forgotten this artist. It means that the discography is not complete and there are many such artists.
* Not every song/artist that is missing is included on the spreadsheet, which is overloaded already.

Lost Gems of non-Brit Artists:

Tracklist Lost Gems

LG 01  LG 02  LG 03 (S.Allen)