Joyce Records!

Ruth 'Ginger' Callahan - Joyce Records # 100 - 1955

Side A - Ogee, Ome Omy

Side B - Tooten Tellum

Ginger was a very versatile musician, she played guitar, banjo, Fiddle & Mandolin and this first release on the Joyce label shows two songs with good humour and a good backing band.

Both songs are firmly in the country novelty field and they are both pretty decent tunes but by no means fantastic, just pretty good. Both songs were written by Ginger and she displays a real love for the more jovial side of country and both songs really capture the good humour in her song writing.

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 Joyce Records 

Bob Roark - Joyce Records - June 1955

Louisville, Kentucky 

Side A - Have A Talk With Your Heart

Side B - Love Commandments.

Bob and his string band really cook up a pretty good mid tempo slice of Country with this second release on Joyce! Have A Talk With Your Heart is pretty standard Country fair! but Bob has a top voice that makes it worth the while! decent back up unknown band even though the piano player does hit a bum note on the second solo! plenty of great fiddle and sweet Steel just about elevates this record above the standard string band in the mid 50's! 

Interesting note the 45 release of the same record corrects his surname as 'Rourk' and NOT Roark! as seen on the 78 version!

Gotham Records!

Lou Graham - Gotham Records # G-416 - 1952

Side A - Two Timin' Blues

Side B - Long Gone Daddy

Lou Graham lays down two spicy tunes of borderline Rockabilly on Gotham and by jingo they both get jiggy!

Backed by Bill Haley's & his Saddlemen! both sides hit the spot! You can tell that Lou is a massive Hank Williams fan as he covers the master with a great version of 'Long Gone Daddy' and on the A side a self written tune 'Two Timin' Blues' which is right out of the Hank rule book! they both move and you can hear that music will very soon be moving from country/hillbilly to this new thang called rockabilly! 

Von Records!

 

Shorty Sullivan - Von Records # 1004 - Booneville, Mississippi - Nov 1955.

Side A - Tell Me, Tell Me.

Side B - Gotta Have Your Love Tonight.

This is a diamond of a record! it literally sparkles from start to stop! the A side hits all the right notes with a competent country tune but it's when you flip flop the monster over! well you better hold on to your hat! it's a real mover! its a damn fine tune where all musicians taking part in the recording really know what they're doing! It's really is Von-Tastic!!!