Showing posts with label Pittsburgh (PA). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pittsburgh (PA). Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Fabulous Uptowns


Label : Tulip 100

7653 ~ Turtle
7654 ~ New Love I Have Found

Black vocal group. Pittsburgh, Pa. release certainly related to Varbee Records.

1962


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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Fair Change

PaDuka PR-32777

38125 - Evil World (This Is Hell)
38126 - Ebb Tide

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.
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Evil World (This Is Hell) (sample)



Thursday, January 28, 2010

Grant Street Exit
Vocal by Wayne Schilling

Del-La 101

22251 - That's Why I Love You
22252 - I Got Soul

Telldell productions
[1968]

Rite account # 1089 (Odell Bailey)

Pittsburgh Soul also released on Millage

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Monday, January 4, 2010

The Streaplers

Century 0007/8

14683 ~ Yes Tonight Josephine
(W.Scott-D.Goodman)
Robert Astor Music BMI
2:34

14684 ~ Twenty Miles
(C.Mann-B.Lowe)

A Johnny Ray cover b/w a Chubby Checker cover originally released in Sweden on Columbia DS 2243.

Century Records was a division of Perfection & Regal Music Publications., Pittsburgh, Pa., owned by Edward J Moschetti. In addition to his music interests, Mr. Moschetti was also founder and chairman of the World Proof Numismatic Association and exercised his creativity in the fantasy coin design. See for instance here. (Kingdom of Atlantis coins.



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

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Varbee 2002

Distr. by REMCO
628 Grant St.
Pittsburgh, Pa.

John Lythgoe & the J.L. Tri-Five
7303 – Jeanie (John Lythgoe, Tulip Time, BMI)

J.L. Tri-Five
7304 - Oh Baby (J. Lambing, Ernkel, BMI)

A Glendell productions

  • 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].

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Baby Dave Greenlee
Steelcity 0001

23869 - We Need Love
23870 – ‘Bout My Baby’s Love

Rite account # 3099
1969

Soul on a Pittsburgh, Pa. label.

 

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