Buddy Paul on Murco

  

Buddy Paul

CP-3275 ~ This Old Town  (Is Such A Lonely Place) 

(Dick Martin, Cajun Pub. Co. (BMI)

CP-3276 ~ Foolish Me 

 (W.B. Sepaugh, Bla-Mar Music (BMI)

Murco 1018
1960

Buddy Paul

CP-4136 - Trust Me 

(Dick Martin,Ca-Se-Mar (BMI)  Bayou State (BMI)

CP-4135 - They Stuck To Their Guns
W.B. Sepaugh, Jr., Ca-Se-Mar (BMI) Bayou State (BMI)

Murco 1022
1960

Buddy Paul's real name was Buddy Sepaugh.  He previously recorded for Mira Smith's Ram Records as Endom Spires in 1957 and, as member of The Four B's, for D Records in 1958.  [1]

Buddy Paul co-produced with Mira  Smith her “Country Store Party” show to tie up with the records released by her artists on Ram Records.   The show was presented on Thursday night from The Venus Theatre, a 650 seat venue, located at 2426 Lakeshore Drive. The show was also performed at the Courtyard Theater Bldg located at 2400 Lakeshore Drive.   He was also c&w disc jockey and commercial manager at KCIJ, Shreveport,

[1]  The Four B's were a vocal group who worked on the Louisiana Hayride for four years from 1955.  All their first names began with B.  Brad Ingles was originally from Ohio but had been stationed in Louisiana.  Buddy Sepaugh was from Shreveport, Bob Mc Gee was from Longview, Texas and Ben Nordine was from Shreveport.  They had worked with Johnny Horton on his SESAC Repertory album and sang back-up on several Ram singles.  Their record on D  was their only single under their own name. (source : Colin Escott)

Dynamic Walter B. & The New Breed Band on Allied

Dynamic Walter B.

and The New Breed Band

24069 - High Sailing
24070 – Something Wrong

 Arranged By Tommy Linton

Produced By Jim Foreman

Allied Records

Recorded at International Recording, Baton Rouge, La

    1969

This is Walter Bouligny, born in 1946.  His discography can be found HERE (Sir Shambling)

Jimmy Patrick on Renaud

Jimmy Patrick

CP-2128 ~ $20 Dollar Bill

Decatur Renaud

 CP-2129 ~ Why Don't You Love Me

Decatur Renaud

Renaud 540314/5

Louisiana

August 1959

Decatur Renaud also wrote “Betty Jane” (jan. 59) and "Queens of New Orleans".  No other info.

Audio : LP "Rockin' and Rhearsing" (White Label 8958, 1990)

Labels : e-bay

Billy Seal on Gulf-States

Billy Seal

Gulf-States Records 45-7656
P.O. Box 577

Angie, La.


24291 ~ I Made Her That Way
24292 ~ Tug Boat Man




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Leroy Martin on Delta

Leroy Martin and The Rebels

Delta 705

KTIB Thibodaux

CP-1462 ~ Keen Teen Baby

CP-1463 ~ Upon This Day




Born in Golden Meadow in 1929, Leroy was mesmerized at an early age by the hillbilly recordings of Jimmie Rodgers. Many years later he repaid this inspirational debt when he presented his rare Jimmie Rodgers picture record, given to him originally by Jimmie’s widow, to the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville.

Leroy started playing music seriously in 1947, as a guitarist with Dudley Bernard ‘s combo the Southern Serenaders, waking up to his native Cajun music only when Vin Bruce began recording for Columbia in the early fifties. In 1954 Martin left the Southern Serenaders to get married, and spent his honeymoon in Memphis, where he saw the last Barnum and Bailey vaudeville show and met the young Elvis Presley. Music was at the crossroads, and Leroy was there. Quickly displaying his musical vision, he formed the Rebels in 1955 to play « semicountry and rock » - in other words, rockabilly. Two years later he made his first record, « Keen Teen Baby »/ »Upon This Day », which he released on his own Delta label. « It was meant to sound like ‘Decca’, « he says of the name, « only major labels were selling then. I pressed 500 copies and was left with 400 ! ». After this he played with the local Dominoes group before joining the Vikings, who were backing his cousin Joe Barry.

Leroy made his name as a record producer in the early sixties, first with Vin Bruce (« Jole Blon » for Swallow) and then with Joe Barry (« I’m A Fool To Care » for Jin). Often using Cosimo’s studio in New Orleans, he also supervised sevral sessions for Cajun record man Huey Meaux, notably with Jimmy Donley, Mickey Gilley, and Barbara Lynn. He had not forsaken his own recording career ; as Lee Martin he had a handful of worthwile swamp-pop singles for Jin, including Jimmy Donley’s « BornTo Be A Loser » and Rollee McGill’s georgeous « There Goes That Train. » Later he recorded for the Houma label owned by Eldridge Robichaux and Rod Rodrigue. More recently he has been content to act as manager for Vin Bruce, and to play bass guitar in Vin’s group. Through the years Leroy has maintained an active interest in radio. Making his debut in 1948, he became a well-known disc jockey over KTIB Thibodaux, hosting the « Leroy Martin Show » and playing country and Cajun records. As the « Cajun Cousin » he still broadcast weekly over KTIB. He has also composed over eighty songs, written columns for several Louisiana weekly papers, and even compiled a Vin Bruce discography? Incredibly, his involvment in music has always been secondary to his vocation as chief deputy assessor of Lafourche Parish.

Credit Leroy Martin picture and bio : John Broven : from his book South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous.


Lee Martin Jin discography

Jin 149 - 61
Lee Martin and The Vikings :
I Lost Again / Change Of Heart

Jin 159 - 62
Lee Martin and The Velvet Tones
Lover's Plea / Born To Be A Loser

Jin 167
Lee Martin and The Velvet Tones
Sixty-More Or More / Lonely Hearts Club

Jin 169
Lee Martin
There Goes That Train / Have You Ever

Jin 175
Lee Martin
Tell Me Lies / Anyone Can Write A Love Song

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Oneil Howes on Memory

Memory 103

12031 - Strawberry Farm
12032 - Oh Ho Judy

Memory 104

13927 – Let’s Do It Again
13928 – Just To Please You

Cover of his Memory LP issued in 1978







Oneil Howes previously recorded two singles for his own Memory label (not pressed by Rite) :

101
My Eyes Are Like A Searchlight

102
It's True True Baby It's True
' Til You Find A Love

An earlier release was for the Pappy Dailey's Dart label in 1959 [Dart 116] :

I Wish I Knew
Miss Annette





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Buddy White & the Knights on Murco

Buddy White & the Knights

Murco 1017

CP-3205 -Teenage Ball

CP-3206 -Betty Jean

Clip (both songs)

Buddy White and Bill Mack formed the Knights in 1959 in Shreveport, Louisiana after they left Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps. Gerry McGee was recruited as the third member. Buddy White and The Knights stayed together about four months playing a mid-west circuit. They were booked by T. B. Skarning and Joe Billo Entertainment Corp., the same agency that booked Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps.

Texan drummer Buddy White (a.k.a. Butch White) had previously recorded as member of The Shadows (James Burton, James Kirkland, and Butch White). Among the artists he backed on drums, in studio or live, were Bob Luman (56-57), Ricky Nelson, Hank Thompson (58), Gene Vincent (58) and Paul Peek (60-62).

He had also a recording career -which remains poorly documented- on his own as a singer. There were singles on Pop (Hollywood, 59), Milestone (61), Big Beat, The Wheeler Dealers, San (Texas, 65) and Inca.



Murco Records’s roots were in the Bayou Records store, a retail outlet purchased by local businessman Dee Marais from Shelby Singleton in 1960. In addition to selling records, Marais occasionally recorded local musicians in the back of his store. Murco was founded in partnership with Dick Martin who worked locally for the U.S. Postal Service.

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June 'Bug' Bailey on Jo

'June Bug' Bailey

Jo Records # 2180

9339 - Lee Street Blues
9340 - Louisiana Twist

According to the Ace CD Red River Blues's booklet :

15 year old June ‘Bug’Bailey was the daughter of a woman who worked at the Pioneer Barbecue joint two doors from the Ram Studio in Greenwood Road, which Mira Smith opened in 1961. June’s mother had told Mira that her daughter could sing and when a black song writer, Joe Lewis from Alexandria brought Mira some songs, she decided to try recording one with the youngster.

'Lee Street Blues' a song about a wine-head was released on Mira’s Jo Records.

'Louisiana Twist' is in the BMI online database but credited to Joe Louis (not Joe Lewis) and it's his only song listed.



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Happy Fats on Thrift

Happy Fats

Thrift 1001

11547 - The Ballad Of Thrifty Joe   *
11548 – The Angel You Married

The Ballad Of Thrifty Joe : same tune as 'Froggy Went A Courtin'- flip is acoustic country ballad. The Thrifty Joe Show' was on Lafayette's KLFY TV.

clip only (both sides)


Leroy "Happy Fats" LeBlanc
1915 - 1988

From Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide:

"Happy Fats" professional career spanned half a century and began in 1932 when at the age of 17, Leroy LeBlanc got on-stage to play guitar with the band of Cajun music legend Joe Falcon. He also worked with Amedee Breaux during his green period, forming his own band, the Rayne-Bo Ramblers, in 1935...

He recorded for RCA and Decca, major label forays into swampland as well as prolifically for regional outfits such as Fais-Do-Do, Bella, and Cajun Classics.

There is also another All Music Guide Happy Fats notice (by Jason Ankeny) which - in a rather large part - has not failed to allow some comments on "the "poisonous Fats efforts" recorded in the late sixties for the Jay D. Miller's segregationist Reb Rebel label.

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Loula L. Roberts at the piano

Loula L. Roberts at the piano
Memory 2181 (EP)

9343

What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Let the Lower Lights Be Burning

9344

When They Ring The Golden Bells
I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone

Mrs. Loula L. Roberts, a native of Noble, Louisiana, was a resident of Shreveport for 35 years when she died there, aged 78, in November 1977. She was a piano teacher.

Plas Wilson on Jockey

Plas Wilson
20159 ~ A Fool In Love
Jockey

Plas Wilson
20160 ~ I’m Tired
Jockey

From 1967. Publisher Jesse Thomas, 7509 Gideon, Shreveport, La.

Clip of both sides

Hunter Watts

Hunter Watts
Paradise 113/114
25165 - Old Memory
25166 - Sweet Thing
Rite account # 976

Country bopper

His previous known records are :

Hunter Watts & His Southern Pals
Hammond 103 : Wild Man Rock / Blue, Blue Memory (1959)
Hunter Watts
Paradise 101 : Shotgun Wedding / Paradise Island
Paradise 109/110 : Big Daddy Rock / Fools Can't Win

Wild Man Rock and Big Daddy Rock have been compiled in Europe by Buffalo Bop. The most collectable, and his best record, is the rockabilly song Wild Man Rock.