Weingarden

Ruby Johnson, Don't Start Nothing Jesse Butler, It's My Business/Weekend Star Senator Jones, Do You Love Me Lester Tipton, This Won't Change Volumes on Karen Two Plus Two on Velgo Precisions, My Lover Come Back Del Victors, Acting Up Lee Parker, Boy Meets Girl Ravins on Demo Ristic Joe Matthews, Ain't Nothing You Can Do Joni Wilson, The Loser's Seat Honey Bees, Let's Get Back Together The Singers, You Gotta Go Randolph Walker, 40 Love Street

I can't shed light on the Happy Cats, but I can tell you that the Sirens learned the song from me! I'd dated one of them circa 2000, and I had an acetate of Destroy That Boy. It's the version that came out on Munster many years later. I put it out on Munster, in fact. The acetate came to me from my uncle, who was a close music-biz associate of Ollie's in Detroit (he was part owner of Tuba; the "Philly Dawgs" instrumental of "Hello Stranger" came out on Tuba to settle a debt, I believe). The Destroy That Boy acetate was cut in New York, and maybe it was a demo that was shopped to Ollie and ended up in my uncle's hands....Wish I knew more. Someone tried to tell me it was Kris Resnick singing, but I don't buy that.

Dumb thing I did: Got a copy of this from Greg Tormo a million years ago and loved it...quickly stumbled on a second copy for, I think, $40, and assumed it wasn't rare, having found two copies randomly within a couple months. And so traded on my spare for very little. Oh well.

There are a several great Mel Williams records...had no idea which you were asking about.

Jesse Butler, It's My Business/Weekend Star Senator Jones, Do You Love Me Lester Tipton, This Won't Change Volumes on Karen Two Plus Two on Velgo Precisions, My Lover Come Back Del Victors, Acting Up Lee Parker, Boy Meets Girl Ravins on Demo Ristic Joe Matthews, Ain't Nothing You Can Do Joni Wilson, The Loser's Seat Honey Bees, Let's Get Back Together The Singers, You Gotta Go Randolph Walker, 40 Love Street

Could it be that the youtube version came from a compilation (New Orleans Soul and Funk Gumbo?) and is unreleased on 45? Wouldn't be the first time one of these New Orleans comps put forth an alternate version that confused people....

Slightly different phenomenon, but: The bridge from Hit and Run resurfaces in another George McGregor composition, Little Rena Scott's I Just Can't Forget That Boy. It's at 1:11 in Rose, 1:53 in Rena.

That Ray Hines posted above is actually just a cover of a different Tyrone Davis song, Is It Something You've Got. Which, yes, sounds like his bigger hit.

Carbo Brothers are Hank and Claude. Chick and Chuck were their older brothers and were in the Spiders. What a family!

Cenco recording artist Hank Carbo is around and very approachable on Facebook if you want to ask him anything.

Jesse Butler, It's My Business/Weekend Star Senator Jones, Do You Love Me Lester Tipton, This Won't Change Al Williams, either label Johnny Hampton on Dotty's Volumes on Karen Two Plus Two on Velgo Precisions, My Lover Come Back Del Victors, Acting Up Lee Parker, Boy Meets Girl Ravins on Demo Ristic Joe Matthews, Ain't Nothing You Can Do Clarence Hill, A Lot of Lovin' Goin' Round Joni Wilson, The Loser's Seat Honey Bees, Let's Get Back Together The Singers, You Gotta Go Randolph Walker, 40 Love Street Thanks. Will get you cash quickly for any of these.

I've Got to Live While I Can/Heart Can You Hear Me Anyone have a clean copy to sell me? Cash waiting.

The tough one: My Lover Come Back/I Wanna Tell My Baby. Anyone?

Link? I don't see it.