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COCHISE, not for me

i'm in the Charles Fizer, Walter Ward camp. Mack Starr was in the Olympics and that's on Chene.

Home Page Mike,

hi Mike, i notice all of the front page topics seem to have 9 views?

I think this really is a Meerkat and in time honoured NS fashion you covered it up (c/u) as your dog.😉

Prague today (9th May)

if you excluded all the 'dodgy' stuff from the "scene", we'd be worse for it. There was ton's of stuff going on to make a living back then in the USA alone... Gene Lawson, The Gresham Bros, Get a Job, just come to mind.

In the mide-late 80's Simon tried to trace his daughter. He and his wife had split up and Simon went to California. His wife (then) was from Gateshead, and a teacher i seem to remember ( but really vague memory now).

I have a different story than that on the sleeve...not that it matters, but it's different; May 20th 1964 Bea walks into Bob Amorino's office mistaking it for her attorney's office which was next door. While chatting about what each of them did, and Bea telling Bob about her song writing and Liz singing them for publishers in an attempt to sell them. Bob asked them to demo a song, and immediately set up an audition at Columbia.

I think that might have been 1984. That's my unreliable memory of hearing.

Oct 20th 1964

Sorry about the page set-up Vincent, Verdi, Verga,– no not a mis-spelling of the phrase famously attributed to Julius Caesar “veni, vidi, vici" (i came, i saw, I conquered)…but rather the names of just one women Liz Verdi. Tami Vincent was Liz Verdi whos’ real name was Virginia Verga. Let’s start with my earliest sighting of Virginia (Liz) at 13yrs old. This would be 1958, when together with Angela LaPrete and Vicky Cevetello (but before being known as The Carmelettes) they would back-up The Rockin’ Jesters on one of their records. Reportedly ‘I Was Too Blind’/ Tonight’s The Night’. Oklahoma OK 45-5004. I’ve never heard ‘Tonight’s The Night’ and can only assume it was this side they backed-up, since ‘I Was Too Blind’ has no back up. Unless the report should have said ‘Your Lips’ Oklahoma OK 45-5009. The 1959 Carmelettes were reported as having several hits including ‘Take Me Along’ / Promise Me A Rose’, Alpine AE-53 for the latter side. Oct 1959 Carmelettes, May 1958 The Misses (L to R); Angela LaPrete, Marie Verga, Vicky Cevetello Virginia (Liz) was the daughter of Mr & Mrs Thomas Verga, Jersey City. Mrs Thomas Verga had 7 daughters, Virginia & Marie lived at Home, 59 Giles Ave, whereas the other 5 daughters were married, Including Beatrice (Bea). Her sister, Bea (Beatrice) Verdi, nee Verga, is better known as a song writer, and needs little added info here that isn’t available elsewhere…apart from the fact she wrote ‘If It Hadn’t Been For You’ for her sister Virginia Verga aka Tami Vincent. Lor Crane, arranged and produced Liz Verdi on Columbia 45-43154 ‘Think It Over’ / ‘You Let Him Get Away’. Lor was born in Chicago and a Boys Town graduate of 1953. Lor Crane, who arranged and produced Liz Verdi on Columbia 45-43154 ‘Think It Over’ / ‘You Let Him Get Away’. The 45 was (at least initially) Published by Bob Amorino at Sound Music Co.

maybe it moved? 1969

i've always believed Mirasound was at 57th St , 2nd floor Henry Hudson Hotel, so i also think the adress 'on the acetate' is wonky!

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i think one of the reasons we don't see a picture of Connie Tanzell (or at least i hadn't seen a picture until this one) is we needed to be looking for The L-Treys, not The L-Trays as on the label. Now...whether the label printer got it wrong, or the gig ad's where i got the picture is wrong, i can't say.

ernie fields was ( had been) a ventriloquist, he named his dummy Coackroach. He'd done a bit of everything, DJ, comedy theatre, etc.

I don't know if it's the same Upsetters as with Little Richard...maybe it's just a quirky coincidence but he appeared as Little Richie Jarvis & Upsetters at the Jolly Rogers club (amonst others) 1965.

with and without the beard

Little Richie Jarvis (Nashville singer) did die in 1980 from the result of a car crash. He was white, and had what i can only describe as a 'hillbilly type beard". ( no i'm not 'beardest')😉 and he is probably the same Little Richie Jarvis ( no beard) and The Upsetters.

is that Nev bottom right?

@Windlesoul This post script takes in the only 45 on Southern City Records (to date) that has 394 W. Main and Doc’s Place on the label. That being The Fox Set Mark Windle’s excellent articles here (soul source) and in his book “House of Broken Hearts” should be read for the bulk information on Hal Gilbert’s Southern City. Southern City Records.pdf

Exactly