Rhythm Records.

Pat Cook and his Rhythm Buddies 

Rhythm Records # 1200 - 1950

Side A - The Jelly Song

Side B - The Arkansas Waltz.

Pat and the boys do a mighty fine job on this rare little country platter and 'The Jelly Song' really does move along at a fine pace with some terrific guitar work by Gene Davis & sweet fiddle by Johnny Wood.

Debut Records

 

Jack Tucker and His Oklahoma Playboys 

Debut Records # 1001 - 1953

Side A - Too Blue To Cry.

Side B - Too Quick To Condemn (Too Slow to Forgive)

This was Jack & the Playboys second release on Debut Records . Their first showing was on Debut Records # 1000 where Jack and the boys backed vocalist Audie Andrews .

But here we get to seem them shine and they do a damn fine job on this record. The A side is all you would expect from the year and location, proper Country music, smooth vocals with harmony vocals to match, and top notch playing from the Oklahoma Playboys

Jack and his brother Herb were prominent figures around Los Angeles in the late 40's and early 50's , they both led their own bands and worked at all the big shindigs in California .

Jack Tucker (19 April 1918 - 26 September 1996) 

He was born Morris Tucker in Haleyville near Oklahoma City and came from a musical family. Jack and his brother Hubert (aka Herb) led bands in Los Angeles, playing spots like the Hitching Post, Harmony Park Ballroom, and so on. Jack had a Saturday night television show on Channel 11. Tommy Allsup graduated from Herb Tucker’s band, and according to some, Herb led the more musically sophisticated outfit. 

Tetra Records (New York)

 

Bill Flagg - Tetra Records # 4445 - Sept 1956

Side A - Go Cat Go 

Side B - A Good Woman's Leavin'

Stripped down rockabilly, with just a couple of acoustic guitars and an upright bass, gives this a rural feel but it still moves along at a right good pace! nice vocals by Bill and he gives it his all. Same goes for the flip, another solid slice of mid paced rockabilly with some sweet pickin' guitar and Bill's real cool vocal.

Epic Records (CBS)

 

Jaycee Hill (Accompanied by Joe Sway)

Epic Records (CBS Records) - 9185 - Sept 1956

Side A - A Love So Fine

Side B - Romp Stompin' Boogie

The song 'Romp Stompin' Boogie' was a song from my teenage years that I played on my CBS Rockabillies LP. Such a great tune and on 78 the tune just jumps from the grooves, Jaycee has a great voice and the whole song is a rockabilly classic, it definitely swings and stomps at the same time, never has a song such as Romp Stompin' Boogie been elevated by teenagers in the late 70's and early 80's as a real classic song. 

Then you realise that it was only the B side and the A also bops along, two great songs on a really Epic record! Easy to find on 45 but pretty rare on a 1956 shellac 78 record.

Ace Records (Colorado)!

 Ace Records (Denver, Colorado) 

Red Allen - Ace Records # 005 - 1949

Side A - Truck Driver Blues 

Side B - Old Rocky Trail

Bluegrass legend Red Allen with a very early outing on Ace Records and damn fine job he did on this cool two sider. 

Truck driver shifts along in a low gear with some nice wailing steel and Mandolin and Red's smooth vocal with a hint of yodel keeps the whole thing from jack knifing off the needle.

But for me it is the much punchier 'Old Rocky Trail' on the flip which pricked my up ears on the first spin! real nice steady mid tempo bounce and typical steel and mandolin interject at just the right times! Red again sounds smooth like a prairie at sunset and the whole thing bounces into life with a superb Steel & Mandolin solo! perfect really!

Blue Bonnet Records!

 Blue Bonnet Records. 

Lone Star Playboys - Blue Bonnet Record # 131 - March 1948

Side A - Kelly Waltz

Side B - Wasted Love.

Just picked this up on my trip around Texas and only cost me $3 and was worth every cent IMO.

The A side 'Kelly Waltz' is a decent instrumental and bobs along nice but for me the flip is the cool tune with smooth vocals from Hamlet Booker. A Texas record found in Texas and it sounds so much like Texas as well. 

Kingsport (Tennessee)!

KINGSPORT RECORDS - Tennessee!

Reece Shipley and the Rainbow Valley Boys.

Kingsport Records # 104 - 1952

Side A - Milk Bucket Boogie.

Side B - Will Good Times Last Forever.

This super boogie record from 1952 just moves! The old alarm clock goes off at the start and it's off milking we go! and Reece and his Rainbow Valley boys get straight to it! (This was re recorded in the same year by Harry Adams on Kentucky Folk Records) . 

Pretty much a typical of the year and time western boogie record but elevated by some tremendous playing and delivery from all!