The Westport Kids - Westport Records # 125 - 1955
Side A - Right Or Wrong (I'm Gonna Snuggle In Your Arms)
Side B - Hold Me Darling
Vocals by young Davie Ruf and it's a really catchy up tempo little tune, great sound, great fiddle and overall a really good hillbilly number. I has pretty much everything, superb steel and that good feel vibe. It does exactly what it says on tin, it bops in a hillbilly stylee!
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Side A - Yearning - Praying
Side B - Mama-I Won't Rock It
Catchy little number from the Westport Kids, the A side is on the slow side but is pretty decent, nice little tune with some nice female harmonies in a country style with the rather shabby lament half way through which is not needed.
The B side is sung by 9 year old Bobby Ruf and is a decent catchy tune but you might find it difficult to get past the rather annoying kid vocal which is OK but does itch your fillings every now and then.
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Side A - Bleeding Heart
Side B - Television Love
Side A and you'll hear Milt singing a nice slow song about his bleeding heart and over the other side 'Television Love' is a little more up-tempo but never gets close to getting a tiny bit raucous, but is a better tune when all is said and done.
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Side A - You Kaint Take It With You
Side B - Your Kisses Turned Sour
(Photo) Members of the Westport Kids are: Cathy Ruf, Singer and accordion; Hank Ruf, steel guitar; Christine Ruf, singer and guitar; Betty Ruf, guitar; Bobby Ruf, age 6; and Dave Ruf, bass.
The Westport Kids are in splendid form on this toe tapping ditty country tune, you get plenty of triple harmonies by Frank, Dave & Marvin, some great fiddle and steel and it really moves along at a jaunty pace and is actually a decent tune played really well.
(Photo) Members of the Westport Kids are: Cathy Ruf, Singer and accordion; Hank Ruf, steel guitar; Christine Ruf, singer and guitar; Betty Ruf, guitar; Bobby Ruf, age 6; and Dave Ruf, bass.
December 1952
The Westport Kids are in splendid form on this toe tapping ditty country tune, you get plenty of triple harmonies by Frank, Dave & Marvin, some great fiddle and steel and it really moves along at a jaunty pace and is actually a decent tune played really well.
Then over on the other side you get a really good up-tempo female vocal bopper sung by Christine Ruf and again you get hit with some great steel and fiddle, this is a real barn burner and proves that these Westport Kids were cooking up some fine country bop by the end of 1955.
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| Original Westport Sleeve - 1955 |
JIMMY DALLAS ( with Cathy Justice)
Westport Records # 131 - 1956
Who Do, Honey You Do / I've Got A Right To Know .
Westport Records # 131 - 1956
Who Do, Honey You Do / I've Got A Right To Know .
Here you get two fine tunes by Jimmy Dallas, the A side has Jimmy singing with Cathy Justice and a mighty fine duet it is, perfect mid tempo county bop, loads of great fiddle and steel. The flip is not as hot but delivers a strong heart felt slow love song, and Jimmy delivers a great strong vocal and both sides he is backed by The Westport Kids.
Jimmy Dallas (1927-2004, rn Keith B. Kissee) was a country performer famous on the KC scene of the 50’s. He had 3 releases on Westport. «Good Intentions» is a fine uptempo hillbilly tune : strong vocal, sawing fiddle and bright steel. «Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Mo » and « How Do ? Honey You Do » are duets sung with Cathy Justice.
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Alvis Wayne With Al Hardy and his Southernaires (not Tony Wayne and his Rhythm Wranglers as noted on label)
Westport Records # 132 - Sept 1956
Side A - Swing Bop Boogie
Side B - Sleep, Rock-A-Roll Rock-A-Baby.
Alvis Wayne - Vocals/ Rhythm Guitar
with Al Hardy's Southernaires +
Chuck Harrison - Lead Guitar
Danny Walker - Drums
Hank Evans - Bass
Dusty Rhodes - Steel
Wally Bright - Piano
Alvis does rockabilly and he does it brilliantly with this 1956 Westport release. This is a double A side monster of rockabilly brilliance, this is top shelf porn rockabilly, the stuff that dreams are made of and in one word this is 'remarkable' hic-up vocals with a nervous delivery that will send you into orbit and lets not forget the out of this world steel playing by Dusty Rhodes, brilliant!!
The A side is most definitely all swing bop & loads of boogie, it just moves at a pace that will leave you speechless and smiling all at the same time.
Then flip that Blue label over and you get much more of the same, Alvis can sing, he can really sing and launches into some heavy echo laden stutterin' vocals with scorching guitar and mind blowing steel , it does not get any better than this, bop, bop, bop Alvis!
Alvis recorded not in Kansas City but only a few miles from his home in a converted, soundproof studio in a Corpus Christi machine shop. He cut his first sides in July 1956 with AI Hardy’s band backing him on three tracks of what Alvis thought was only a demo session. With Chuck Harrison on lead, Danny Walker on drums, Hank Evans on bass, Dusty Rhodes on steel, a blind pianist named Wally Bright and Alvis himself on rhythm guitar they recorded “Swing Bop Boogie”/”Sleep Rock-A-Roll Rock-A-Baby,” which was released as Westport 132. Both tunes feature astonishing steel work by Rhodes, who wrings some sci-fi sounds out of his instrument that surely would have impressed even steel virtuoso “Take It Away” Leon McAuliffe from Bob Will’s Texas Playboys. Not to be outdone, Chuck Harrison’s lead work is stinging, fiery and clever, betraying in its attack Harrison’s familiarity with Carl Perkins’s style
