33.45.78 All Vinyl Radio Show
with Steve Fruitman
#136
August 15, 2016

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Wilma Lee & Stoney
Hour One: Hear this show now
Hour Two: Hear this show now

Hour One

Hour One

1.   Bobby Vee & The Ventures: Honeycomb (Bob Merrill) - 1963
2.   Peter & Gordon: Green Leaves Of Summer (Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis) - 1966
3.   Lani McIntire & His Aloha Islanders: I Found A Little Grass Skirt - 1954
4.   Ruby Murray: Coortin’ In The Kitchen (Ryan & Murphy) - 1958
5.   Peter, Paul & Mary: Summer Highland Falls (Billy Joel) – 1978
6.   Josef Marais & His Bushveld Band: Ai, Ai, The Pied Crow Cry (Josef Marais) - 1949
7.   Buffalo Springfield: Hot Dusty Roads (Stephen Stills) - 1966
8.   Paul Mauriat & Orchestra: Penny Lane (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) - 1967
9.   Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Poor Ellen Smith (Trad) - 1982
10. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine – (Trad) 1982
11. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: The Hills of Roane County (Robert A. Waters) - 1982
12. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Give Me The Roses While I Live (A.P Carter) - 1982
13. Brian Eno: Strange Light (Brian Eno) – 1978

CanCon = 0%

Hour Two

1.   The Hi-Tones: Arsenic (T Harris) 1961 *
2.   Fludd: Cousin Mary (Brian Pilling / Ed Pilling) 1972 *
3.   York County Boys: York County Breakdown (York County Boys) - 1959 *
4.   The Wade Brothers: Smooth Sailing TG Sheppard) – circa 1982*
5.   Luke Gibson: All Day Rain (Luke Gibson) – 1971*
6.   Ian & Sylvia: Big River (Johnny Cash) - 1967*
7.   Denise Larson & Friends: Flimsy Day (Denise Larson) – 1979*
8.   It’s All Meat: Feel It (Ted MacKay / Rick McKim) - 1969*
9.   Gordon Lightfoot: I’m Not Sayin’ (Gordon Lightfoot) - 1966*
10. Crowbar: House of Blue Lights (D Raye / F Slack) – 1971*
11. Marie Maynard: Silver Threads & Golden Needles (Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes) – 1967
12. Atom Division: Requiem For Red Smith (Atom Division) 2010 *
13. The Evaporators: Honk The Horn (Evaporators) - 2001*
14. Nucleus: Judgement Day (Greg Fitzpatrick) - 1969
15. The Hi-Fives: Mo-Shun – 1961

CanCon = 100%

Total CanCon = 54%


And Now for The Particulars:

 
Hour One
1.   Bobby Vee & The Ventures: Honeycomb (Bob Merrill)
Bobby Vee Meets The Ventures: Liberty Records – LST-7289
Fargo, ND / Tacoma WA
Bobby Vee: vocal
Bob Bogle - bass
Don Wilson - guitar
Nokie Edwards  lead guitar
Mel Taylor - drums
Produced by Snuff Garrett & Bob Reisdorff - 1963
Recorded by Eddie Brackett

Bobby Vee: Robert Thomas Velline b. April 30, 1943 Fargo, North Dakota, is now 71
#1 song was Take Good Care of my Baby

2.   Peter & Gordon: Green Leaves Of Summer (Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster)
Woman: Capitol Records – ST 2477
London UK
Peter Asher, vocals
Gordon Waller, vocals
Produced – 1966

written for the 1960 film The Alamo. It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In 1961 the song was nominated for an Academy Award (also recorded by The Ventures)

Peter Asher  22 June 1944 (age 72) London
Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller (4 June 1945 Braemar, Scotland – 17 July 2009 Norwich, Conn)

Peter Asher and his sister Jane were child actors in the 1950s. They played siblings in a 1955 episode of the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood. Jane Asher dated The Beatles' Paul McCartney between 1963 and 1968. Peter Asher subsequently became head of A&R for Apple Records.
Gordon Waller died of a heart attack on 17 July 2009 at the age of 64.

3.  Ruby Murray: Coortin’ In The Kitchen (Ryan & Murphy)
Endearing Young Charms: Capitol Records of Canada – T 6001
Belfast N Ireland
Ruby Murray: vocal
Norrie Paramor’s Orchestra
Produced – 1958
Canadian Release – 1960

Ruby Florence Murray (29 March 1935 – 17 December 1996) was one of the most popular singers in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1950s

She toured as a child singer and first appeared on television at the age of 12
Murray set a pop-chart record by having five hits in the Top Twenty in one week, a feat unmatched for many years.  In 1955 alone, she secured seven Top 10 UK hit singles

She died of liver cancer, aged 61, in December 1996 in Torquay after a long struggle with alcoholism

Norrie Paramor (born Norman William Paramor; 15 May 1914– 9 September 1979)
was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, band leader and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard and the Shadows

4.   Lani McIntire & His Aloha Islanders: I Found A Little Grass Skirt
Lani McIntire & His Aloha Islanders EP: Royale Records – 1815
Honolulu, Hawaii
Lani McIntire: hawaiian guitar
Produced – 1954

Lani McIntire (sometimes spelled Lani McIntyre, 15 December 1904 - 17 June 1951) was a Hawaiian guitar and steel guitar player who helped to popularize the instrument, which eventually became a mainstay in American country and western music. He played frequently with his brothers — steel guitar legend Dick McIntire and bassist Al McIntire.

McIntire achieved fame playing with Sol Hoopii in his "Novelty Trio" before heading his own acts, "Lani McIntyre and his Aloha Islanders" and later, "Lani McIntyre and his Hawai'ians." His work with Jimmie Rodgers pioneered the Hawaiian guitar sound that laid the foundation for the steel guitar as a standard country instrument, influencing the likes of Hank Williams and Elvis Presley.

5.   Peter, Paul & Mary: Summer Highland Falls (Billy Joel) – 1978
Reunion: Warner Brothers Records – BSK 3231
New York City, NY
Peter Yarrow  vocals, guitar
Noel "Paul" Stookey  vocals, guitar
Mary Travers  vocals
Ken Bichel: keys
Steve Gadd, Chris Parker, Luther Rix: drums
Will Lee, Tony Levin: bass
Produced by David Rubinson & Friends – 1978
Recorded by Fred Catero at CBS Studio E, A&R Studio R, NYC; The Automat, S Francisco

6.   Josef Marais & His Bushveld Band: Ai, Ai, The Pied Crow Cry (Josef Marais)
Songs From The Veld Vol 2: Decca 10” – DL 5083
Karroo Plateau, South Africa
Josef Marais: guitar, vocal
Unknown musicians
Produced – 1949

Joseph Pessach (November 17, 1905 in Sir Lowry's Pass Village – April 27, 1978 in Los Angeles)
Started collecting Hottentot folk songs in his teens. Marais left South Africa in the 1920s to study violin and viola in Europe, finally settling in London. He toured as a concert violinist for several years. Marais was invited to New York in 1939 to do a radio show for NBC In 1945, he started singing with Rosa de Miranda, a Dutch immigrant with whom he had worked for a few years. They performed for more than 30 years as Marais and Miranda,

7.   Buffalo Springfield: Hot Dusty Roads (Stephen Stills) - 1966
Buffalo Springfield: Atco Records Mono 33-200-A
Los Angeles CA
Neil Young, guitar, lead vocal
Steve Stills, guitar
Richie Furay, guitar,
Dewey Martin, drums
Bruce Palmer, bass
Produced by Charles Greene, Brian Stone - 1966
Recorded July - September 1966 by Tom May, Doc Siegel, James Hilton, Stan Ross
Mixing: Buffalo Springfield, Charles Greene, Brian Stone

8.   Paul Mauriat & Orchestra: Penny Lane (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Blooming Hits: Philips – PHS 600-248
Marseille France
Produced by Paul Mauriat – 1967

March 4, 1925 Marseille, France November 3, 2006(aged 81) Perpignan, France
His 1967 single recording "Love is Blue", and the album Blooming Hits, each sold over one million copies. The single was awarded a gold disc by theRecording Industry Association of America in March 1968.

9.   Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Poor Ellen Smith - 1982
10. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Nobody’s Darlin’ Bukt Mine - 1982
11. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: The Hills of Roane County - 1982
12. Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Give Me The Roses While I Live – 1982
Live Radio 1976: Country Road Records – CR03
Nashville TN
Wilma Lee: vocal, guitar
Stoney Cooper: vocal, fiddle
Carol Cooper: bg vocal
George McCormick:
Bill Carver: dobro
Bob Black: banjo
Joe Stuart: bass
Vic Mullen: interviewer
Produced by Ira Stewart – 1982
Recorded by Glen Meisner at Nuggett Studios, Nashville TN May 6, 1976

Wilma Lee Leary (February 7, 1921 – September 13, 2011), known professionally as Wilma Lee Cooper
Dale Troy Cooper (October 16, 1918–March 22, 1977)
Born in Valley Head, West Virginia, Leary sang in her youth with her family's gospel music group, The Leary Family, which included her parents and sisters. They recorded for the Library Of Congress in 1938.

While in high school, singer / fiddler Cooper was a member of the Leary Family Singers. In 1939 he married Wilma Lee Leary. They became Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper, one of the biggest country music acts of the 1940s through the 1960s. They had one daughter, Carol Lee Cooper.

In 1973, Stoney’s health began to fail; he suffered a series of heart attacks and spent long periods in the hospital. Finally, he suffered a heart attack on 4 February 1977, from which he died in the intensive care unit of a Nashville hospital on 22 March 1977.

In 1947, they were cast members of WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia until 1957. Their band was called The Clinch Mountain Clan. In 1948, Cooper signed a recording contract with Columbia with the help of Fred Rose that lasted to 1955. In 1957, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper joined the Grand Ole Opry.
In 2001 she suffered a stroke while performing on the Opry stage which ended her career, but Cooper defied doctors who said she would never walk again and eventually returned to the Opry to greet and thank the crowds.
The Cooper's daughter, Carol Lee Cooper, was the lead singer for the Grand Ole Opry's backup vocal group, The Carol Lee Singers until she announced her retirement live on the Opry on March 24, 2012.
Wilma Lee Cooper died from natural causes on September 13, 2011, at her home in Sweetwater, Tennessee

Recorded by the CBC Radio series “Country Road” hosted by Vic Mullen
Vic (Melvin Victor) Mullen. Banjoist, fiddler, mandolinist, record producer, b Woodstock, Yarmouth County, NS, 28 Jan 1933. He took up guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo in turn, and at 16 toured as a mandolinist with Ned Landry.

played in the 1950s with the Rainbow Valley Boys, the Country Harmony Boys (on CKVR radio, Barrie, Ont), and with Kidd Baker, he formed his own bluegrass band, the Birch Mountain Boys, in 1959. Mullen was seen nationally in the early 1960s with the Bluenose Boys on CTV's 'Cross Country Barndance,' 1962-9 and as a banjo player on 'Don Messer's Jubilee,' and 1970-4 as music director and leader of the Hickorys on CBC TV's 'Countrytime'.

After serving 1974-80 as co-host for CBC radio's 'Country Road,' he returned to concert work, fiddling with Meadowgreen (which had supplanted the Birch Mountain Boys as his bluegrass band in 1975) or the Vic Mullen Band (an old time group).

About The Album: http://scratchyattic.blogspot.ca/2009_01_01_archive.html

An episode of Vic Mullen's "Country Road" radio show featuring Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys. Like the Wilma Lee & Stoney show, this was recorded at Nugget Studios in Nashville, two days earlier on May 4, 1976 (In fact Bob Black, the Blue Grass Boys' banjo player at the time, was lent out to the Coopers by Monroe for their session on the 6th).

There's some great music here, although Monroe's reputation as a man of few words is evident as well. Host Mullen tends to gush a little, with Monroe's typical responses things like "right" and a clipped "yes sir". The show is enjoyable nonetheless, certainly an interesting counterpoint to Bill's studio albums of the period.

The CBC radio program "Country Road" featuring Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper and hosted by Vic Mullen. They were taped on May 6, 1976 at Nugget Studios in Nashville. Wilma Lee & Stoney are in fantastic form here as they sing, play and talk with Vic about their music and careers, Canadian fans ("may I mention the Lord Nelson Hotel?" asks Stoney) and their recent (at the time) Rounder album.

13. Brian Eno: Strange Light (Brian Eno)
Music For Films: Polygram / Editions EG EGED 105
Woodbridge, Suffolk,  UK
Brian Eno: keys
Fred Firth: electric guitar
Rhett Davies: trumpet
Produced by Brian Eno & Rhett Davies – 1978

Hour Two

1.   The Hi-Tones: Arsenic (T Harris) 1961 *
45 single bw Do What You Did: Montaingne's Limited Edition 45: 1001
Pembroke ON
Lionel Vachon: organ
Don Billows: lead guitar
Bill Bellows: sax
Len Leitch: drums
Produced 1961

2.   Fludd: Cousin Mary (Brian Pilling / Ed Pilling) 1972 *
...On!: Daffodil Records SBA 16020
Toronto ON
John Anderson: drums
Peter Csanky: keys
Greg Godovitz: bass
Brian Pilling: guitar, lead & bg vocals
Ed Pilling: lead & bg vocals, harp, percussion
Produced by Lee De Carlo & Brian Pilling 1972
Recorded by Lee De Carlo, Sy Potma, Rick Capreol at Manta Sound, Toronto

The Pretty Ones, formed by Ed Pilling and Greg Godovitz. The band was briefly part of Toronto's Yorkville scene in the 1960s, but broke up before achieving much commercial success. Pilling and his brother Brian then moved to Birmingham, England, where they formed a band called Wages of Sin and spent some time touring as a backing band for Cat Stevens in 1970, but returned to Toronto by the end of that year. Inspired by the then-emerging psychedelic blues rock sound of British acts such as Small Faces, they then reunited with Godovitz, and recruited drummer John Andersen and guitarist Mick Walsh to create Fludd

Brian Pilling died of cancer on June 28, 1978
Biggest hit Cousin Mary, 1973

3.   York County Boys: York County Breakdown
Bluegrass Jamboree: ARC Records - 502
Toronto ON
Mike Cameron: guitar
Rex Yetman: mandolin
Big John McManaman: banjo
Brian Barron: fiddle
Alfred Leger: bass
Produced - 1959

Formed in 1954, acknowledged to be Canada's first bluegrass band who played around Ontario and eastern Canada through the 1960s and early 1970s.

Rex Yetman (1933 – December 18, 2009) hailed from Jamestown NL played with Crooked Stovepipe of St. John's, who were awarded the East Coast Music Association's bluegrass album of the year in 2006.

Big John McManaman (d. Dec 25, 2014 Peterborough ON – age 80)

4.   The Wade Brothers: Smooth Sailing TG Sheppard) *
45 single bw Silver Seas: Prime Time Records – WRC3-3060
Fredricton NB
Richard Wade
David Wade
Produced – circa 1982
Recorded at Prime Time Studios

The brothers are both dentists from Fredricton

5.   Luke Gibson: All Day Rain (Luke Gibson)
Another Perfect Day: True North - TN6
Toronto, ON
Luke Gibson: guitar, vocal
Bruce Cockburn: electric guitar
Dennis Pendrith: bass
Barry Blast
Hugh Symes
Lenny Solomon: violin
Produced by Eugene Martynec – 1971
Recorded by Chris Skene & Bill Sedden at Thunder Sound, Toronto
Mixed by Bill Sedden

Luke Gibson (born October 5, 1946 in Toronto)
He recorded two albums on his own; Another Perfect Day in 1971 and Killaloe in 1972

6.   Ian & Sylvia: Big River (Johnny Cash)*
That Lovin’ Sound: MGM Records  E 4288
Pincher Creek AB / Toronto ON
Ian Tyson: guitar, vocal
Produced  1967

Their only album for MGM after leaving Vanguard. Not very well received,
it was released along with two other Vanguard albums that year.

7.   Denise Larson & Friends: Flimsy Day (Denise Larson)
Second Harvest: Gramophone Records – RR 1004
Cortez Island, BC
Denise Larson: vocal, guitar
Charlie Bill Knowles: bass
Daniel Sheppard: mandolin, fiddle
Mark Dowding: flute, harmonica, conga
Produced by Dick Payne – 1979
Recorded by Robin Spurgin and Jim Dean at Psi-Chord Studios, Vancouver

b. rural Saskatchewan. Married in 1982 and left music behind after recording 3 lps
Made a comeback CD in 2007 under her married name Denise Reinhardt Wolda.

8.   It’s All Meat: Feel It (Ted MacKay / Rick McKim) 1969*
Its All Meat: Feel It (Jed MacKay / Rick McKim)
Richmond Hill ON
Rick Aston: bass
Jed MacKay: keys
Rick McKim: drums
Wayne Roworth: guitar, lead vocal
Chas White: lead guitar
Producer by Bill Misener – 1969
Engineered by Mark Smith at RCA Studios, Toronto
Digital Remastering: Bruce Ley, Toronto

The name of the band was inspired by a dog food commercial that boasted “100% meat – no filler.”
Opened for “Muddy Waters” at the Rock Pile an old Masonic Temple on Yonge & Davenport.

9.   Gordon Lightfoot: I’m Not Sayin’ (Gordon Lightfoot)
Lightfoot!: United Artists – UAS – 6487
Toronto ON
Gordon Lightfoot: guitar, vocal
David Rea: second guitar
Bill Lee: bass
Produced by John Court - 1966

10. Crowbar: House of Blue Lights (D Raye / F Slack)
Bad Manors: Paramount Records  PAS 6007
Ancaster ON
Sonnie Bernardi: drums
Kelly Jay: piano, vocals
Roly Greenway: bass, vocals
Rheal Lanthier: lead guitar, vocals
The Ghetto: lead guitar, slide guitar, vocals
Jozef Chirowski: piano, organ, vocals
Steve Kennedy: horns
Produced by Love - 1971
Recorded Terry Brown at Toronto Sounds Studios

Active 1969 - 1975
1st album on their own. Features “Oh What A Feeling”

11. Marie Maynard: Silver Threads & Golden Needles (Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes)
Sincerement: V Records – VLP 3032
St Malo, MB
Marie Maynard: vocal
Produced by Mickey Sheppard – circa 1967
Recorded at Studio Star, Winnipeg

Started singing age 5 in church choirs.

12. Atom Division: Requiem For Red Smith (Smith / Feschuk / Atom Division) 2010 *
Atom Division 45: Royal Mountain Records RMR002
Toronto ON
Dave Feschuk: guitar, vocal
Vince Rice: drums
Dean Baxter: bass
Dylan Green
Produced by James Bunton & Scott Remila 2010
Recorded by James Bunton & Scott Remila at 99 Armstrong, Toronto
Mastered by Bryan Martin at Sonosphere

Band Named as an homage to sports and science. Dave Feschuk has been a sports columnist at the Toronto Star since 2003, mostly concentrating on the Toronto Maple Leafs.

13. The Evaporators: Honk The Horn (Evaporators)*
Honk The Horn EP: NardWuar Records Cleo II / Mint Records MRS048
Vancouver BC
John Collins: bass, guitar, organ, percussion
Scott Livingstone: drums
Nardwuar the Human Serviette aka John Ruskin: organ, vocal
David Carswell: guitar, vocals
Produced by The Evaporators 2001
Recorded at JC/DC studios by John Collins & David Carswell
mailto:nardwuar@nardwuar.com

Formed in 1986 by Vancouver media personalty Ruskin (Nardwaur).

14. Nucleus: Judgement Day (Greg Fitzpatrick) - 1969
Nucleus: Mainstream Records - S/6120
Toronto ON
Greg Fitzpatrick: bass, piano, vocal
Danny Taylor: drums
Rob Horne: organ
Hughie Leggat: bass, vocal
John Richardson: lead guitar
Producer not listed - 1969

15. The Hi-Fives: Mo-Shun - 1961
45 rpm Single: Hitt Records 45-003B
Vancouver BC
Freddy Carotenuto (saxophone)
Tab Shori (guitar)
Bill Papuc (bass)
Red Lewis (drums)
Produced by Andy Laughland - 1961



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