Showing posts with label New Hampshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Hampshire. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2020

Wild, Rare & Well Done


He's pretty gone there, ain't he?! 
Hasil Adkins on Dean Morgan


Old Daddy Cool


Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, primitivo, insane, strange, dumb, fantastic, weird, bizarre, insane, twisted, deranged, crude; such are the words found in various reviews, blurbs or articles with reference to the recordings of Dean Morgan.  In 1997, Norton Records issued his four sides released on his own Rare Records and, more recently, Doberman Records included a fifth musical opus, "Old Daddy Cool", in their Real Gone Racket compilation.

Discography:
Wild 101 Crazy Beat / Old Daddy Cool
Rare 101 Good Rockin' Tonight / Rock My Blues Away
Rare 102 Little Maggie / Climb The Wall
unissued (?) : The Jellyrock ©1961
unissued (?) : Mama Done Told Me ©1963
Date of releases is unknown. Both songs of Wild 101 were copyrighted in 1961, "Rock My Blues Away" and "Climb The Wall" in 1965.


Dean Morgan is almost certainly the same Dean Morgan that I've found at No Nukes:
“Who Threw the Cow in Vermont Yankee’s Cooling Tower?” – by Dean Morgan
In the early days of the Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance New Hampshire songwriter and garage door factory worker Dean Morgan wrote this song to the tune of “Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder.” Dean died of a heart attack in 1987 but we’ve preserved his music and will have more of his anti-nuclear musical parodies posted here soon.
Wild, Rare & Well Done includes the 4 Rare sides, Old Daddy Cool and Who Threw The Cow. "Crazy Beat" is missing.



The No Nuke guy is the same Dean Morgan

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Little Atom


THE MEGATONS


Dixon DeVore II
Jaspar & Beam Pub. and Whitecap Music (BMI)

Forest F-046
1963

Manchester, New Hampshire ?

The Forest label was perhaps owned by Dixon DeVore, who also wrote both sides of the previous release on this tiny recording label (which was Jimmy Helms : Fairytale Princess / Daddy! Daddy!)

Jaspar Music Publishing Co. was owned by the Marvel Records Co.  located (at least since the late forties) in Manchester , New Hampshire.  The company was the US representative of Banff and Rodeo International (Canada), and W&G and Melbourne (Australia).  



Born in Buffalo, New York, Dixon began piano lessons at the age of 4. His Mother was a Piano Teacher and his Father was a Doctor.   A classmate of Oscar Hammerstein's Physician, who took him to his first Broadway musical at the age of 5, Dixon says, he has been hooked on the art-form ever since. Particularly English Music Hall, type Theatre. To this day, "HALF A SIXPENCE," is still one of his favourites.

Dixon attended and graduated from an East Coast Prep School, went to college in Mexico and served in the Far East; Tokyo, Hong Kong and environs for the U.S. Government for several years.

He later became a staff writer in New York and wrote "special" material for New York nightclub acts. Dixon has also written and won awards for the music plays he has done in the children's field, some of which have been produced and performed at various elementary schools around the U.S.


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 Wannabe Wino, a song sans words
One of numerous videos posted by
Dixon DeVore II, chart-topping songwriter, on YouTube

Hours of listening pleasure on the Dixon DeVore YouTube channel, with titles such as
Never Take A Nap On A Firing Range , Please Don't Pee In The Whiskey, Marry Yourself A Plumber, Honey Please Rent Me A Hooker For My Birthday...etc

Dixon DeVore is listed by Irwin Chusid in his valuable reference book "Songs In The Key Of Z: The Curious Universe Of Outsider Music".   Now, I know why.