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Country. Answer to Hank Locklin's song on A-side and a quite depressing original on B-side.

If your day has started not too bad until now, I STRONGLY discouraged you to listen to the audio samples.



Sarah May and Marlene Ann Youngblood were a regular act at a country music show presented each Sunday by Mel Reeder at Pine Hedge Ranch Park, Franklin, Pa., along with Charlie McVae and Lonnie Weldon and the Lone Pine boys, Mickey Rubin and Skeets Martin, Mabelene Baker and Cowboy Howard Vokes. (Billboard, July
4, 1960)



Audio samples : eBay (colnel)


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This is a black vocal group. This Rite pressing, according to Jeff Kreiter's Group Collector's Record Label Guide, is the first pressing.

The second pressing is on the same Nite label, with mention of National Pressing & Distribution by Discmaker's Production Company (N.Y.C.) - Nationwide Record Distributors -Discmaker's Group Associate Member [phew!]. Note also that Thomas Keith has taken the place of James Keith in the songwriter credits.




They are not related to these groups, to the best in my knownledge :

- Five Delights on Abel (1959)
- Delitghts on Golden Crest (1962)
- De-Lights on Ad-Lib/Pop Line (1962)
- Delitghts, Chicago garage band on Delaware and Smash (1965)
- Delights on Arlen (1964)


The group was likely from Philly, as the name of publisher, G & H Music (BMI affiliated), is found mainly on the Casino and the Main Line labels, out of Philadephia.

G&H was the publishing arm of Main Line Record Distributing Company, owned by Barry Golder and Douglas Wellington Henderson, better known to his radio audiences in Philly (WDAS) and NY (WOV) as "Jocko."
The Main Line and Casino record labels were owned by the same company.


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Note : another pressing of the same record was also made by Sound Of Nashville (SoN 25201/2).

Produced by Joe Diamond, Blue Diamond Studios, Canonsburg. Psych-funk tune with apocalyptic lyrics and plenty of percussion written by Duke Lamanna. Flip is a ballad.

Robert Duke Lamanna (1943-) is now a member of Total Recall, a Pittsburgh-based group.

"Old Mon Music", a regional music blog dedicated to the Pittsburgh sounds, is refering to a band named Fairchange in one of his post. It is likely the same band :

After tinkering some with the band personnel, the John Papi Organ Trio morphed into Fairchange, featuring soul frontman Chuck Corby and saxman Johnnie Vann, and took off.

Fairchange played across the states on the Holiday Inn circuit.

Fay Simmons recorded for Grand (54), Rainbow (54), Piney (55), Port (57), Gone (58), Sharp (59), Senca (60-61), Jordan (60-61), Nu-Tone (61), Popside (62), Ruthie (62), V-Tone (62), Palm (63), LT Productions (60s) and Tuffy.

Brian (Color Radio) :

Fay Simmons - Who is she? Where is she from? Why didn't more of Fay Simmons records make the charts? I don't know too many of the answers and am unable to come up with much information anywhere. I am going to take what I do have and mold it into some probabilities and begin a page devoted to Fay Simmons. Here is what I think I know. ..
Read more HERE

[Label pictures and information are from Brian's Color Radio website]

Note : The only other known record on the same Ruthie label was Tony [Sharpe] & the Masquins who released 'My Angel Eyes' in 1961. Philadelphia deejay Kae Williams [also owner of the Kaiser and Junior labels] was possibly involved in the production of these Ruthie releases.

Side 1 - [22595]

Seems To Be The Thing
Surprise Love
Hear Me My Friend
You Are The One
When I Was Younger
Another Way

Side 2 - [22596]

no details

The group was started in 1963 by Bill Arnold, Skip Niebauer & John Nicotra. After his high graduation Bill left for military service and was replaced by Bob Sustak who was soon drafted into the army and was replaced by Dave Massello and Tom Brocki. This formed the core of the group from 1964 to 1969. The group went through several personal changes due primarily to the military draft for the Vietnam War. Besides those mentioned above the principal players include: Bill Adleff, Mark Fainstein, Vil Stomers, Bill Kirby, Jon Ims, Mike Redicliff and Doug Phillips.




That Thing You Do! 1996 film written and directed by Tom Hanks is loosely based on the Arkay IV story. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the story of a one-hit wonder rock band, called The Oneders (later The Wonders), following their whirlwind rise to the top of the pop charts, and just as quickly, their bitter dissolution. The film also resulted in a real life musical hit with the song "That Thing You Do".

Soul produced and arranged by Chuck McClendon. Double address on the label : Washington DC and Phila. PA.
But another release on Ronnie (Argie & The Arketts – You’re The Guy (That Put Tears In My Eyes) / Hey Baby) has just Washington DC as the address.

Curtis Davis had another release on the Pittsburgh Bev-Mar label.

Charles Ruben McClendon (Chuck) McClendon is the arranger and producer of the Contrails on Reuben (Someone / Mummy Walk).

This Ronnie label is not related to the song-poem label of the same name located in Broadway.

With a lifespan extending over a half-century, the Streaplers are a long-running Swedish dansband anchored by twin brothers Göran and Håkan Liljeblad.

Founded in 1959 in Kungälv, the band was originally comprised of Göran and Håkan Liljeblad, Gert Lengstrand, Bjarne Lundquist, and Lars Larsson. Beginning with their 1963 breakthrough hit "Säkkinjärven Polka," the Streaplers enjoyed a string of hit singles during the mid-'60s, among them "Diggety Doggety," "Mule Skinner Blues," and "Rockin' Robin." The band's string of hits was interrupted by the departure of vocalist Gert Lengstrand in 1966.

Source : Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

• Oh baby : An instrumental based on a blues riff. It features an organ, guitar and finally horns move in to provide a big band sound. Good dance wax. [Billboard, April 28, 1962] Note : The vocal side wasn't reviewed].