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

Obscure American Artists 1956-1963, Instr. 69

 

From the original (very rare) album and 45’s (from my collection)
1. Ronny Kae - Bonfire Part I (0:01)
2. Ronny Kae - Tangerine (0:01)
3. Ronny Kae - Twist'n Rumble (0:01)
4. Ronny Kae - Warsaw Concerto (0:01)
5. Ronny Kae - Swingin' Drums (2:34)
6. Ronny Kae - A Flight For Drums (2:29)
7. Ronny Kae - Let There Be Drums (1:39)
8. Ronny Kae - Drums Fell Off A Cliff (2:29)
9. Ronny Kae - Bonfire Part I (2:19)
10. Ronny Kae - Moonglow (3:45)
11. Ronny Kae - Frenesi (2:07)
12. Ronny Kae - Torpedo Run (2:37)
13. Ronny Kae - Warsaw Concerto (2:55)
14. Ronny Kae - Twist'n Rumble (2:17)
15. Ronny Kae - Twist'n Bonfire Part II (2:24)
16. Ronny Kae - Laura (3:17)
17. Ronny Kae - Perdido (2:13)
18. Ronny Kae - Broadside (3:26)
19. Ronny Kae - There'll Never Be Another You (2:26)
20. Ronny Kae - Tangerine (2:13)
21. Ronny Kae & The Saints - Swimming Drums (2:05)
22. Ronny Kae & The Saints - The Lurch (2:02)
23. Ronny Kae - Boom Boom (2:45)
24. Ronny Kae - Caravan (2:53)
25. Ronny Kae - Drum City (3:58)
26. Ronny Kae - A Taste Of Honey (2:30)
27. Ronny Kae - Drums Are Back (2:04)
28. Ronny Kae - Nostalgia (2:07)
29. Ronny Kae - Wipe Out (2:17)
30. Ronny Kae - Harry, Play Those Drums (2:27)

Q69 Artist Bios

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 25.10.2024

Having a pleasure in listening old and obscure tunes is more important than collecting. 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. e.g. (early Northern) Soul, (Rhythm &) Blues, AC, Exotica, Novelty.

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

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 and send to me, I will rip this 45 and send it back to you. There are no passes to artist bios.

Previously posted files in this series can be found below "Terms of Participation" post. Other previously posted files 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)
no re-entries and re-issues, mono single edits only

746 45's (SP or EP) ≈ 70% of all 45's that entered Hit Records 101-150, 1959-1963*. In majority, from the original 45's (from my record collection).

Every track is professionally remastered and tagged (see Project Description}

Non-Bill... Hit Records

Missing

* 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.”.

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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

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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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. 

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

BREAKOUT / TERRITORIAL HITS 1955-1969

 

In the 13^th edition of Top Pop Hits (1955-2010) Joel Whitburn introduced new, never-before-seen research of the songs and artists that hit only on Billboard's influential Territorial and Breakout charts. 

Billboard  published the Territorial Top 10 Best Selling  charts, which were separate rankings of the Top 10 hits from 23 major cities, weekly from January 1, 1955 through October 13, 1958.
Billboard  introduced its Breakout Singles chart on January 9, 1961. The chart listed new records, not yet on Hot 100, but have been reported getting strong sales action by dealers in 34 major markets.

Both charts have been researched for hits which made these charts but did not make any of the other charts researched already, i.e. all Billboard, Cash Box, Music Vendor (Record World), Gavin Report. Hits that entered other charts as flips are also excluded. In other words, only singles that have not yet been researched (posted) are included.

Breakout
390 singles, 780 tracks (26 files)
around forty singles from the original 45's (from my record collection)
8 tracks missing, 1967-69 only, 
denoted on the sheet  Breakout Hits tracks
Please help me to reduce the wish-list

BH01  BH02  BH03  BH04  BH05  BH06  BH07  BH08  BH09  BH10  BH11  BH12  BH13  BH14  

BH15  BH16  BH17  BH18  BH19  BH20  BH21  BH22  BH23  BH24  BH25  BH26

Territorial (US pressing only)
70 singles, 140 tracks (5 files)
no missing tracks, around ten singles from my record collection

Territorial Hits tracks

TH01  TH02  TH03  TH04  TH05

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

 Project Description, Terms of Participation

Previously posted files can be found below this post Observations after five years

HONOR ROLL OF HITS / COMING UP STRONG Charts

 

The Honor Roll Of Hits chart was a weekly ranking that included all versions of a popular song as one listing. The Coming Up Strong chart was a continuation of Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores chart. Whitburn researched The Honor Roll Of Hits chart and The Coming Up Strong chart only for records which made these charts but did not make any of the other Billboard pop charts. The 26 songs that hit Honor Roll Of Hits and Coming Up Strong charts exclusively have been shown in the main artist section of Top Pop Singles 1955-1996. They are not shown in next editions.
 
All 26 hits can be found in the already posted files (location in the last column of the sheet).

track-list Non-Bill CU & HR