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BJL (bjl)
2-Debutant
Username: bjl
Post Number: 17
Registered: 5-2004
Posted From: 217.205.87.151
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 5:45 am: �� |   ��� |
The State Recording Company in Ferndale MI issued a handful of records in the mid-1950s. I believe that they changed the name from State to SRC after 3 issues (probably after complaints from the Chicago label States). Can anyone fill in any missing information or gaps?
State Recording 101 The Dee-Jays: Love Me Baby/Please Don't Leave Me Here To Cry
State Recording 102 ?
State Recording 103 Bro Leroy Johnson: Jesus Prayed/Dear Mother ("DM" is excellent gospel with female vocal group backing)
SRC 104 Harvey Hill Jr: Boogie Woogie Woman/She Fool Me (highly prized downhome blues with harmonica)
SRC 105 ?
SRC 106 The Five Emeralds: I'll Beg/Let Me Take You Out Tonight
SRC 107 The Five Emeralds: Pleasure Me/Darling
(Message edited by bjl on July 07, 2004) |
Ron Murphy (ron_murphy)
4-Laureate
Username: ron_murphy
Post Number: 85
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.42.90.140
| | Posted on Thursday, July 08, 2004 - 11:49 pm: �� | ��� |
the guy who ran the label operated it out of his grocery store, can't remember his name but about 20 years ago a Detroit record collector Bill Sowders looked up S.R.C.'s old address from the 50's and went over there and the guy was still operating the store.
Bill managed to get a few records and even the metal stamper plates for some of the records, I don't know what he did with that stuff. |
C Bell/Eric (c_belleric)
1-Arriviste
Username: c_belleric
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 4.165.0.239
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2004 - 1:41 am: �� | ��� |
I would love to hear the Dee-Jays record. I've got whipped copies of The Five Emeralds and the Harvey Hill. Love the Harvey Hill record. Hey Ron!!! |
Ron Murphy (ron_murphy)
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Username: ron_murphy
Post Number: 86
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.42.90.140
| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:36 am: �� | ��� |
hey Eric!! what's up? |
Brian T. (mrclemma)
3-Pundit
Username: mrclemma
Post Number: 36
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.138
| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 11:22 pm: �� | ��� |
All I have is the second Five Emeralds 78("Darling"/"Pleasure Me"). How do the others rate? |
BJL (bjl)
2-Debutant
Username: bjl
Post Number: 20
Registered: 5-2004
Posted From: 217.205.87.151
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 11:44 am: �� | ��� |
Ron: thanks for the input - do you have a contact details for Bill Sowders?
Brian: one side of the Leroy Johnson is solo vocal and piano -pretty good, but the other side is much better, IMO. He's joined by a fine tough female group and they really lift this side. It's rare, and not listed in the standard postwar gospel discography (or anywhere else, to my knowledge).
Harvey Hill's "She Fool Me" (a Washboard Sam song) is generally regarded as a minor postwar blues classic. Excellent, witty lyrics. The flip is disappointing by comparison, which explains why it's not been reissued, as far as I know. I think Hill was from Saginaw MI, and this was his only single - and a rare one, too. He was recorded one or two tracks in the '60s for Victoria Spivey's label but disappeared after that.
I don't know the vocal group records but I think that the Five Emeralds records were booted in the '70s and should be not too hard to track down. |
douglasm (douglasm)
4-Laureate
Username: douglasm
Post Number: 106
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.118.222.193
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 11:51 am: �� | ��� |
curosity kills.....
.....where in Ferndale was the studio, and/or what was the name of the grocery store |
Ron Murphy (ron_murphy)
4-Laureate
Username: ron_murphy
Post Number: 92
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.42.90.140
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 6:58 pm: �� | ��� |
Bill Sowders was an early buyer and seller back in the late 70's to around 1990 and then moved to West Virgina, I don't know if anyone in Detroit kept in contact with him.
as I said the guy who had SRC ran the the label from his store and had no studio himself.
sorry I don't remember more about this |
Brian T. (mrclemma)
3-Pundit
Username: mrclemma
Post Number: 40
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 152.163.252.200
| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2004 - 1:21 pm: �� | ��� |
BJL,
Thanks so much. I'm going to look for the Leroy Johnson and Harvey Hill songs. Have they been re-ished on cd? |