Ronnie 2061

Ben Tate
10501 - My Gratitude
(Mallie Lee Drawdy)

10502 -;Jackie (Sweetheart of U.S.A.)
(Charles A. Bultman)

Ronnie 2061
1963

Not mentioned on the "Jackie" side is F. J. Cusenza, credited on the copyright as the music composer, while Charles Bultman wrote the lyrics.

Interesting enough, a similar title by Bultman and Cusenza was copyrighted in 1954 : "Mamie; [or] Sweetheart of U.S.A.,".
Frank Jerome Cusenza (1894-1987) was a music teacher and composer. According to his obituary,
he was born in San Vito, Italy, in 1894 and began his musical education at age five. He received a degree at the Royal Conservatory in Palermo, Italy, in 1917 and led a military band during World War I. Mr. Cusenza came to the United States in 1920 and taught music at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, the University of Detroit and the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts. He wrote many music books and compositions…

Ronnie presents New Songs of Today

Ronnie presentsNew Songs of Today
 Sung by Ben Tate

Ronnie  L-230
Distributed by Paragon Productions
 1265 Broadway, New York

Side 1 (19519)

1. It Will Never Change (Joseph J. Larue)
2. It's Springtime Once Again (Joseph J. Larue)
3. Memory Of A Broken Heart (Helen Markwardt)
4. Let Jesus Come In (Anne Mayer)
5. Brown Eyed Baby (Wilbur C. Long)
6. Memories, Wonderful And Gay (Elfriede Soond)
7. My Lord (Mrytle Dunning) Sic
8. Life  (Rose Anderson)
9. I Want To Go Fishing With You (Arthur F. Wendland)
10. Don't Quit (Ruth A. Wray)
11. You've Torn My Heart To Shreds (Ada Redford)

Side 2 (19520)

1. Bunny (Bert J. Blickenstaff)
2. Rose, Throw Me Your Rose (Anthony Belanger)
3. Silvery Georgia Moon (Marvin E. Reed)
4. Lonesome Lee (Eugene L. Mullinix)
5. Cling To Me (Joan Landi)
5. No One Knows (Hubert Bridges)
7. You Want To Ry (Charles J. Suttle)
8. Life (Lucille Respress)
9. Really Real (Harrison Arnold)
10. Happy Memories (Leroy Thomas)
11. Goodbye Forever (Katherine Crowe)

Sammy Marshall & The Teen Notes on Crescendo

Sammy Marshall & The Teen Notes

Crescendo 102

CP-5871 - Tinsel And Tin
(Rosetta Gibbon-Byron Aucker, Hillsboro Music BMI)

CP-5872 - Outside Of That
(William F. Argo, Hillsboro Music BMI)

From 1961 on a New-York label likely owned by Guido Sgambellone.

Largely above average song-poem recording. That's perhaps why the name of Globe Records owner, Jim Maxwell, is printed on label, credited as the producer, and that's quite unusual, I believe.

Sample 1


Sample 2

Crescendo label discography (ASPMA)



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Ronnie 2409

Ronnie 2409 (EP)

Ben Tate

37419

My Little Baby Loves To Dance (James Miller),
You Insulted Me (Robert B. Carter)

May Redding

37420

Christmas Day (Araminta Nash),
Life's Lesser Joys (Iva Mlenar)

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Found at The Wonderful and the Obscure. where you can hear the four tracks of this song-poem EP.

According to Bob Purse, "the records released on this [Ronnie] label are almost uniformly uninteresting." But this EP features the one exception, in his view.

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Ben Tate

Ronnie 2124

Ronnie Records, distributed by Paragon Productions, Inc., 1265 Broadway, New York NY

18831 - A Million Dollar Baby (wr. Martin J. Gassman)
18832 - I Can Never Forget (wr. Hans Zeritsch)

Ronnie label discography (ASPMA)

Yes, another song-poem record on a very prolific label.