Isi Doro on Band Box

Isi Doro

23825 - Out In The Cold Again
23826 -  Oh, Love Divine

Band Box 390
1969

The Unpredictable "Nu-Sett"

An Inn-Timate Evening With The Unpredictable Nu-Sett
Label: Inn-Timate ‎– #IT-1001

Inn-Timate Lounge
13740 East Colfax Avenue
Aurora, CO 80011

1968

Side 1 —  22959

1.     Devil With The Blue Dress - Good Golly Miss Molly
2 .    I'll Never Fall In Love Again
3 .   Comedy Routine, Along Came Jones
4 .   Mack The Knife
5 .   Comedy Routine    
6.   I Wonder If I Care As Much 

Side 2 —  22960

1.    Satin Doll
2.    What Kind Of Fool Am I
3.     Comedy Routine, Act Naturally
4.    Gimme A Little Sign
5.    Comedy Routine: Green Green Grass Of Home
6.    Comedy Routine: Love Me
7.    Hava Nagila

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The Nu-Sett was a late sixties combo who performed the full gamut of nightclub music including lounge, pop, rock ‘n roll, jazz mixed with some comedy routines. The group included Chuck Mills from The Mastertones/Monarchs on Band Box. Chuck is yet another artist who grew up in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Buddy Brown grew up in Denver attending Mitchell Elementary School in Denver and then Denver Manual High. He was an Adams State College student. Scotty Roberts came from Illinois, played Denver nightclubs and then joined up with Scotty. Rod Jenkins was a University of Colorado graduate and he played with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for a short time.

Group Members:

Buddy Brown – multiple instruments (Steppin’ Brothers – Capricios)
Scotty Roberts – bass (Sierras – Capricios)
Chuck Mills – guitar (Mastertones – Monarchs – Milt Watson’s Wildest Clan)
Rod Jenkins – percussion (Contrasts – Sunshineward – Astronauts)

Buddy Brown

Chuck Mills

Rod Jenkins

Scott Roberts

Sources:
https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/colorado-local/colorado-1960s/colo-musicians-b-nel-a-rus/

https://www.discogs.com/fr/Nu-Sett-An-Inn-Timate-Evening-With-The-Unpredictable-Nu-Sett/release/6054164

Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Jack O. Knowles, V.M.D. Miami Florida
Lester E. Fisher, D.V.M.,Berwyn, Illinois

CP-4969 - Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Mark Morris Associates

531 Guaranty Bank Bldg. Denver 2, Colo.

33rpm 7"

 [March 1961]

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Spoken word.  A veterinary education record.  

Continue your education and read about this (and hear a sample too and its follow-up, "The Aged Dog" ) in one of the latest posts by Lisa Wheeler  HERE. 

Woof! Woof!

   

Jimmy Wilkins on Band Box

 Jimmy Wilkins And The Blue Falcons
Vocal Background By The Sarands

12945 ~ Goodby, Baby
12946 ~ It's All Right

Band Box 356

 

Jimmy Wilkins and the Sarands

15139 - Move Over

15140 - Crying Tears

Band Box 364

From 1964-1965.  Zilch on Jimmy Wilkins, on The Blue Falcons or on The Sarands.  "Crying Tears" has been played on WWOZ radio in 2010, but I can't find the archive of this show.

Earrell Yarns on Valerie

Earrell Yarns

16785 – I’m Going To Tell The Truth
16786 – Don’t Leave Me

Valerie 2004

1966

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(Valerie Records, a subsidiary of Band Box Records)

Label scans credit : Derik

Posted by Derik at his blog Some Local Loser (July 2, 2011)



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Sonny Russell on Band Box

Sonny Russell

37847 ~ Fifty Megatons
37848 ~ Mud Boat

Band Box 332

P.O. BOX 15477
Lakewood, Colo. 80215

1977

Second pressing. The original press is from 1963

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Les Mégatons, a french band formed in 2009, doing a nice cover of 50 Megatons


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Hank Jarman on Band Box

Hank Jarman

Band Box 361

14181 - Mule Skinners Blues 
 14182 - Tomorrow Breakfast With The Blues

One more version of the classic country song written by Jimmie Rodgers and first recorded by him in 1930.

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Blackie Minor (CLW 6572)

Blackie MINOR

CLW 6572

13844 - One Of A Different Kind
13843 - In Memory Of Jim Reeves

Country on Edgewater, Colorado label owned by Jim Ward

Blackie Minor, after a release on the Denver-based Delft label directed by "Buster" Jenkins in 1964, had several singles on the CLW and at least one LP, with the Floyd Sisters. He was a regular on the Rocky Mountain Jamboree, and certainly had a local fame as one Bettye F. Kendall, 801 E. 14th Avenue, Denver started a fan club for Blackie (see Billboard, October 2, 1965).



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The Lidos on Band Box

The Lidos

Band Box 359

13555 ~ Since I Last Saw You

13556 ~ Trudi
(G. Nole-G.Fick, D.Silvis-R.Saunar)

Audio clip (both sides)

"A primitive dance hall thrash that even predated the British Invasion sound. It's eminently forgettable"
[Fuzz Acid and Flowers Revisited, Vernon Joynson ed.]

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Becky Ann : The Narrow Gauge Line

Vocal : Becky Ann
Orchester Under The Direction Of
Ernie Kemm

Spur

CP-6343 - The Narrow Gauge Line
Words And Music By E. Kemm)

CP-6344 - same (instrumental)

On July 4 1961, The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was designated as a U.S. National Landmark. To commemorate the authorization the city fathers hired Ernie Kemm - who in 1958 penned "Here's to Colorado," the state's official centennial song - to write a similar theme.

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Recorded in Denver, at Western Cine Recording Studio, the record features the vocal stylings of 10-year old Becky Ann Todeschi, of Durango.

Label picture and information from Pueblo City Limits. Read more HERE.



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Vangie Gonzales

Vangie Gonzales with Gonzales Brothers Orch.

Band Box 370

17301 - Negra Surumata
17302 - That Same Old Love

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Archie Liseo & The Cinaways

Archie Liseo & The Cinaways

CLW 6576

13705 – Homebrew
13706 – Lonely

Surfin' Colorado instrumental.

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The Fabulous Fremonts

The Fabulous Fremonts

Valerie 2003

12569 – Gee Whiz
12570 – Watermelon Man

Black vocal group on a Band Box Records subsidiary label. "Gee Whiz" is a cover of the Bob & Earl song (Class Records, 1958).

Previous release on the label was Dean Carr ("Too Many Tears", Valerie 2002, RCA custom pressing). The following release was Larry Johnson & the Dakota Territory ("I Never Loved a Prettier Girl Than You", Valerie 2004, pressed by Gasper Puccio's Houston Records plant.

Dick Bailey at the Hammond organ

Band Box 350 (EP)

11759 - Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home / Siboney
11760 - Colonel Bogie’s March

the Shelltones (Band Box 355

12757 - Blue Castaway
12758 - Mark's Blues

"A Denver-based group, the Shelltones would likely have participated in the vibrant teen rock ‘n’ roll scene that extended north to Boulder and Fort Collins and south to Colorado Springs in the early and mid-‘60s.

The eerie “Blue Castaway,” written by Cary Theil, the group’s bassist, would be the Shelltones’ only commercial release. The perfect vessel for the cavernous production qualities of Band Box’s south Broadway studios, “Blue Castaway” takes the tremolo-driven atmospherics of the Islanders’ “Enchanted Sea” and the Safaris’ “Lonely Surf Guitar” and, to a certain degree, the Viscounts’ “Harlem Nocturne” to some new, lonelier place.

Flipside “Mark’s Blues,” another instrumental, features the hot fretwork of guitarist Mark Bretz. After the Shelltones, Bretz would play keyboards with Denver-area garage band the Wild Ones in the mid-‘60s before joining, as guitarist, a late incarnation of Boulder’s nationally-known rock ‘n’ rollers the Astronauts in 1967. Bretz would remain with the Astronauts through their name change to SunshineWard before settling in Denver for a career as a music teacher."

Office Naps


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Sab Florence E.

Sab Florence E.

Band Box 389

22737 - I Need Your Love
22738 - Why Must It Be

One of the last releases on this Colorado label. Both sides written by the singer, Florence Espinoza.




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Jimmie James (Band Box 377)

Jimmie James
Band Box 377
Denver, CO
19601 - Too Many Mini Skirts
19602 - Is It A Crime, Is It A Sin

The label was owned by Vicky Morosan.

From a Denver Post Article written by Nick Groke :

Vicky Morosan, who immigrated to America in the '30s from Transylvania, Romania, answered a for-sale ad in the paper for a recording studio at East Sixth Avenue and Ogden Street called Columbine Records.

A dispute over the name with behemoth Columbia Records got Morosan to change the label's name to Band Box Records. She moved to 220 S. Broadway and went into business. Denver had its Sun Studio.

"She loved music, opera especially. So it was funny for her to get into rock 'n' roll." said Morosan's daughter, Frances. Morosan died [...] in 2006. She was 97.

"She would make demo records for whoever would come in the door," Frances said. "She loved the business so much. She put those records in her trunk and hauled them all over the country, the hard way. She was just a working old fool."

Band Box turned out about 350 masters, mostly rockabilly, country and Western, and R&B, from bands including Orlie & the Saints, Lee Chandler & the Blue Rhythms, and Jimmy DeKnight, co-writer of "Rock Around the Clock." The label nearly hit big with Freddie & the Hitch-Hikers' "Sinners" in 1961 — a song later covered by the Cramps — and with Sonny Russell's "50 Megatons" in 1963.

Band Box label discography


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