Gateway was a label out of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Four Jacks recorded many tunes on various Gateway labels, apparently a discount label covering top tunes of the day. "Only You" was recorded in 1955. It is a great rendition and compares nice…
It's a later one from Scott, if I'm not mistaken. But the slap bass at the beginning is nice! Recorded August 21, 1970 at Mercury Custom Recording Studio in Nashville.Jack Scott [vcl] (Tommy Allsup [gt], Jerry Stembridge [gt], Lloyd Green […
Beautiful. Much better than the lame later version we all had too much of. Is this the original version of this tune? This was in the middle of the pack timeline wise in the early mid 60's Love this version. Touches of Gene Pitney in there,…
This reminds me of that double faux-British Invasion set (and the Ronny & The Daytonas collection) at the other blog.Have you come across the guy in Ohio who posts the Ohio-based labels that were distributed throughout the Northern Midwest?…
Program Directors at stations listened to the first 30 seconds of each promo before throwing the singles in the garbage (or keeping them on the side for review at the management meeting).This one took too long to start -- at least for a Pro…
I wish I could refer you to one of those Northern Soul sites in the UK because you'd probably make a mint selling this one to a DJ.I've never heard this one before, but it's exactly what they look for, and if it's very, very obscure, they p…
Great tune! Thanks for the post. nice. sounds a bit like the dave clark 5. and chance of a link back?cheers!dd Hi, I enjoy your blog very much. I'm not commenting on The Knack record but would like to ask you a question. I'm trying to put t…
Happy to see you back after a while Better than average melody for a song poem, I just wish they'd give the singers a run through before recording instead of having them do a cold sight-reading of the song. It doesn't sound like Rodd Keith
I wonder where Greenwick Village is? Or is this the same place Billy Jo Royal got a thrill at cherry hill park? Fantastic! What a commentary all around! - Sharkey It would have been better if she'd followed the tempo of the music, but this
Why did no one else ever think of this? I demand more bagpies in my tittyshakers! As much as I would like to think that is a bagpipe, I suspect this is a sax masquerading as a pipe! also came out on Keen (OK) 45 - 4011 (1958) not sure which…
Wow, this one made the dog and I get up, march around the room, down the stairs out the door and over to the neighbors for a beer, leaving of course only 98 bottles on the wall.Looks like this is Zeno Gross' label and Friendly Music his pub…
Thanks for both sides of this record. Wonder if Eddie Cochran was around yet when this was cut? I think Eddie Showed up late 56 or early 57 with Skinny Jim. I think this was recorded in 55 if my memory serves me correctly Just echoing Derik…