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Arnold Van Winkle and The Gospel Meltones (A Side)
22355 ~ Old Brush Arbors / I See A Bridge
Arnold Van Winkle and Doyle Crawford with Paul Fox & Kelly Caudill (B Side)
22356 ~ Way Up On The Mountain / I'm Ready To Go Home
Jalyn EP 327, Rite Acct. #448 - Issued 1968

This elusive release fills a gap in Jack Lynch's Jalyn Records discography and may be the final recording made by Arnold Van Winkle in a fairly prolific recording career. I met him and purchased records from him in the 1990's as he had discovered some of his recordings had become valuable and he was able to find records he had given to family members years earlier and resell them. He grew up in Richmond, Indiana and his first recording was probably on the Singable label. He then recorded a nice bopper on Larry Short's Ruby label. The photo below was shot in 1957 in the Ruby Recording Studio in Hamilton, Ohio.
He created a rockabilly classic in 1960 with "Servant Of Love" on Poor Boy 111 which was re-released in 1962 on Walton 003. If one existed, a full biography of Arnold would be interesting!

Jalyn photos courtesy of No Hit Records with special thanks to Malcolm Chapman.

Side one - #32661

1. Nothing Is Better –Lead : Evelyn Clowney
2. Already Been To The Water – Phyllis Seagraves
3. Nothing Can Turn Me Around – Carol Crews
4. Wings Of A Dove –Leads : E .Clowney, P.Seagraves, Curtis Williams

Side two - # 32662

1. I Surrender All
2. Up Above My Head –Lead : Darrell Buford
3. He Knows – Lead : Eleanor Collins
4. Beams Of Heaven –Lead : Evelyn Clowney-Carol Crews

President : Carol Crews
Vice President : Curtis Williams

The Ralene Gospel Singers were organized March 4th 1964. The group is comprised of 22 members of several churches in and around the Xenia-Dayton, Ohio area. The name of the group derived from the combination of the group’s faithful directress and their pianist. Rachel and Charlene are two of the remaining 18 members of the original group. (…) the Ralenes have appeared in small churches and large auditoriums in Tennessee, Ohio and West Virginia.

Not much info about this one, certainly from Dayton, Ohio. Film Associates Inc. was established in Dayton long time ago and was already active in the fifties. Recording, TV film production, laboratory and industrial photography were the services provided by this company. The Pictorian Skiffuls, one of Dayton's most popular purveyors of the "British" sound, recorded their first 45 there in 1965.

The Busse Brothers (one of them is Danny) are still active today (country clubs, charity events, etc.).