Dancing On the Edge Journal

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Explorations in Beach and Shag History
Volume 1, Issue 1
October 5, 2011
‘Mr. Smoothie’ a.k.a. Dave Landon
a.k.a. Slate Foyer
--by John Hook
Soul Dancer
Dave Landon at the Top of His Game, well, one of his games. Dave had a long string of
careers where he played at the top of the game. The Beach Music and Shag communities
benefited from his contributions to both. (Dave a.k.a ‘Slate Foyer’ with WRDX 106.5 FM in
Salisbury, N.C.)
Competitive, laughing, and fun-loving.
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Three adjectives which come to mind without even trying when describing Dave
Landon. They don’t cover all his attributes,
but set some of the parameters in which he
has lived a successful life.
Competitively speaking, Dave started boxing at the Alexandria Boys Club (ABC, Alexandria, VA) in 1950 where later he also
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Pla M
or
Mor
oree and Coach Yow
played basketball and football.
Big changes were in the wind when 15-year old Dave
and his family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in
June 1954. Fact is, there was a ‘big’ wind in the making,
Hurricane Hazel slammed into the heart of the Carolinas at Myrtle Beach around 7 a.m., October 15, 1954.
In the minds of many, Hazel ended one era and started
another.
1954 was a magical year in the Queen City. Dave got
his license at 15 upon his arrival that year. WGIV radio
was enjoying new popularity as Genial Gene Potts grew
ever more beloved and they expanded their staff with
Windy Hill, SC just South of O.D. (Ocean Drive the
names of all those little communities were changed in
the late 60s).
Virgil Yow coached and ran Pla More -- Dave thinks
it was one of the first basketball camps in that era.
Frank McGuire was one of the coaches at Camp Pla
More. He coached UNC Chapel Hill to their first national basketball championship in 1957.
Today there’s a park named after Yow sitting on the
road which runs down to the Beach where the Windy
Hill pavilion used to stand -- where Dave and his pals
hung out in their free time that summer.
One fateful night, however, some of the older fellas
invited Dave along to the Pad which had just opened on
July 3rd (Dave wrote an article about his first encounter
and subsequent love of the Pad and Beach Music in the
June 1990 Carolina Class magazine).
Remembering his first exposure to Shaggers, Dave
reflected from fond memories stretching more than 55
years, “those people were really smooth.”
Some of the guys snuck him a beer, he was just 16,
and a girl asked him to dance. Dave didn’t know how so
he slow danced.
Later developments suggest that night may have impacted him more than he suspected.
new members.
WIST launched a big promotional stunt of playing
“Rock Around the Clock” for 24 hours straight after the
movie Blackboard Jungle made it so popular.
Not far away on Wilkinson Boulevard, the Star Castle
Drive In, featuring a WAYS DJ in a glassed-in booth,
took requests and played dedications for cars in the parking lot.
Dave’s sails were filled with ambition as he entered
1955. As ambition often does, it took Dave down paths
he didn’t anticipate.
Basketball was already on his pallet of activities. In
the summer of ‘55 Dave attended Camp Pla More at
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Soonafter he entered Eastway Jr. High in fall ‘55, Dave
acquired the duties of announcer over the P.A. from the
music ‘room’ (closet) adjacent to the break room where
his class assembled before the first period began. Dave
made a few announcements and played a few songs (and
you can be sure there were a few sly remarks, he wasn’t
named ‘Wittiest’ in his class in junior and senior high
school for nothing).
Somewhere between the songs and the announcements, Dave picked up an admirer named Tommy Black
who wanted to join Dave in the ‘music room’. Within a
few short years Tommy expanded the entertainment bug
he caught in that little closet to becoming the lead singer
for the Catalinas until his untimely death in 1967.
While Dave’s entertainment career was slowly sim-
Basketball C
amp P
aid O
ff
Camp
Paid
Off
Charlotte’s East High School Basketball Team was a Dominant Force in
Charlotte Sports in 1957!
[Newsletter for Eastway Jr. High school]
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Basketball and F
ootball
Football
mering on the back burner, his athletic career exploded.
Apparently those weeks at the Pla More basketball camp
paid off.
paper for their notable records for the year.
Charlotte’s East High School basketball team was a
1955-56 was a pivotal year for Dave, it lead him to
choose between basketball and football, but not before
he and his comrades were acknowledged in the school
dominant force in Charlotte sports in 1957. The Charlotte Observer and Charlotte News were filled with their
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Could 1958 and 1959 Be Any Better ?
was the meeting place for Harding High School kids.
Myer’s Park H.S. hung out at Hardeeville (Hardees)
on Selwyn Avenue.
Shaggin’ at an East Sock Hop 1958
East High school’s hang out was Ebb and Lib’s next
to present day Liberty Restaurant.
Honey’s Restaurant at the corner of Morehead and S.
Tryon Street was a great hangout.
exploits, most notably their 101 point win over Myers
Park, which was still being acknowledged by the Observer 51 years later in a 2008 story in which the speculation had stood the test of time that the Team of ‘57
had been the first team ion the state to rack up more
than 100 points in a game. As these stories show, Dave
was more than a player, he was a ‘high scorer.’
With all these accolades, how could 1958 be any better?
By 1958, Dave had been driving for nearly 4 years.
Eighteen year-olds (and
Good thing. There were a lot of places to go for boys
looking for adventure.
those with fake draft cards)
went to the Town House at
In Matthews was Sustare’s swimming pool where everyone from East High School went in the summers to
Providence and Queens
Roads, Gene and Hazel’s at
swim, socialize, and Shag to the pool jukebox.
Central High students hung out at Babe Malloy’s
Albemarle East Independence where they could pay
Drive In across from the (old) Coliseum on Independence Boulevard.
to dance, and the Oasis on
Wilkinson Boulevard.
Town and Country Drive In on Wilkinson Boulevard
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Soul D
ancing at M
yr
tle Beach P
avilion
Dancing
Myr
yrtle
Pavilion
Although he didn’t know it at the time, he attended
school with one of the future stars of Charlotte enter-
the best of friends.
tainment. Sidney Smith was already a music devotee
and guitarist at East High School. Sidney’s next to the
Two M
ilestones in 1959
Milestones
piano on the other side of the piano player and he’s the
front guitarist with one of the bands he performed with
Dave marks 1959 as special in two ways. In the spring,
for the school’s Y-Teen dances.
Judy Fitzgerald, whose
he finally danced publicly for the first time -- i.e. Shagged
-- with Judy Fitzgerald at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion.
The U.S. Army provided Dave’s other milestone with
daddy owned WGIV radio,
was one of Dave’s friends
throughout his stay at East
Mecklenburg.
Dave was soon dating a
girl who belonged to the
Capri Club -- which included Judy and other girls
from East High School. One
of the Capri Club’s volunteer
activities was taking requests for the disc jockeys at WGIV
radio, which, although it was considered ‘black,’ because
of its music, it included several white disc jockies -- Ed
a tour with the 501st
Meyers 1951-1954, Pete ‘Hound Dog’ Toomey 19531965, Rusty Page 1957-1960.
Army Medical Corp,
along the Iron Curtain
Tagging along
with his date, a
in Fulda, Germany.
According to writer
member of the
Capri Club, Dave
Sumi Somaskanda with
the GlobalPost, Western
had an opportunity
to revisit that ‘mu-
forces were continually
worried that the Soviet
sic closet’ of 1955
when Pete Toomey
Union would invade the
west by coming directly
let him read some
of the requests on
through Fulda Gap in
East Germany. It was
the air. Some years
later Dave and
the ‘hot spot’ during the
Cold War. Tacticians
Rusty Page, who
was also playing
predicted that if Russia
came through Fulda
nights at WGIV at
that time, became
Gap the troops and
population would be massacred in a matter of minutes.
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It’s F
un at # 1
Fun
career.
Back to the Real World - OK, the Other Real World
Apparently, it took awhile to settle into a career,
though. Dave was a health studio instructor for awhile
Dave’s first job in 1962 came as a sales rep for Orkin
exterminating, it had been 10 years since he had to get a
in Knoxville, Tennessee, retail clerk for Tate Brown Men’s
Wear, traffic clerk and routing dispatcher for truck and
‘Point Alpha’then and today in Fulda Gap, Germany
social security card to sell popcorn at the age of 12 at the
rail with General Foods, and a stint with WING publi-
George Washington High School in Alexandria, Virginia
for one cent commission on every box he sold.
cations in 1967 which took him home to Alexandria,
Virginia to run their sales office there -- at more than
Something must have happened in those ten years.
Dave was soon Orkin’s # 1 sales producer -- a title he
once cent commission per sale!
1968 marked the
would retain at company after company throughout his
beginning of settling
in to a career -- as
much as one can
settle in with the
gypsy life of broadcasting.
Jake Gurley, who
would become a lifetime colleague of
Dave’s, hired him at
WIST, one of the
leading radio con-
Dave and his daughter Ashley shopping for music in Myrtle
Beach in the 70s.
tenders in Charlotte, Picture of Dave from his modelling portfolio.
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The H
ost fr
om the Coast
Host
from
NC at the time. Larry Lawrence, a DJ there at the time,
went on to become Sandy Beach with a famous Beach
show on Big WAYS for several years, then to become a
TV weatherman to this day.
WIST featured a Midnight to 1 a.m. show sponsored
by Dave’s client the Rooster Tail Nightclub restaurant.
To protect his client’s interest, and his own love of Beach
music and DJing, Dave sometimes sat in with the show’s
host.
Jake ran WIST with famed DJ Jimmy Witter working
for him up to their legendary win over Big WAYS as the
city’s number one rated station in 1972.
Meanwhile Dave’s friend Johnny Jacobs hired him at
country station WAME in 1970. Johnny arrived in Charlotte several years earlier after his start with the “Frantic
Atlantic Beach Party” on a Myrtle Beach, SC radio station. Jake joined them after his big WIST win in ‘72.
While with WAME Dave also served as marketing and
advertising director for the Metrolina and Concord speedway where Dale Earnhardt and his daddy were still racing together on dirt tracks on Friday and Saturday nights.
WROQ FM hired Dave as their first sales manager in
1974. WROQ was owned by radio impresarios Stan
and Sis Kaplan, who also owned Big WAYS as well as the
Big APE in Jacksonville, Florida which was one of the
sole sources of good Rock and Roll and R&B for
beachgoers at Myrtle Beach until Tiger Radio took over
the airwaves there.
After selling with WROQ and WAYS, Dave returned
to WIST as Sales Manager and where he also started up a
Beach show, eventually turning it over to John Hook (yes,
your writer) when he moved over to WIST from Big
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The Beach M
usic R
adio H
all of F
ame
Music
Radio
Hall
Fame
Back to B
each M
usic
Beach
Music
This is one of my favorite parts of this story. Dave
joined WRDX-FM, X-106, in 1989. Hook had joined
the company late in ‘86 and took it from an Adult middle
of the road station to a full-time Beach station.
Dave, ever the marketer, put the icing on the cake.
He re-named the station Beach 106, and became deeply
involved with their promotional magazine, Carolina Class,
and also co-hosted the morning show with me (yo’ Fessa’
Hook) as “a.k.a. Slate Foyer.”
WRDX was the perfect venue for Dave’s talents. He
soon launched WRDX into one of the most unique positions a radio station ever had -- remotes from a venue
180 miles away, North Myrtle Beach during the Spring
One of the great loves of Mr. Smoothie’s life, Dave and
and Fall S.O.S. (Society of Stranders) reunions.
the smoooooooth Shag.
The success of the S.O.S. remote broadcasts have since
WAYS in 1976.
In his next big broadcasting move,
Dave became general and sales manager
and marketing director for WPEG where
he stayed two years. On a sidenote,
Dave was asked to model for Tate Brown
men’s wear for whom he had clerked 16
years earlier. The paper ran a big story
about his modelling side career.
Jake Gurley and Dave were back together in ‘78 when Jake moved to
WEZC and brought Dave in as salesman with first a beautiful music then
contemporary music format. Dave was
the top salesman with WEZC 19821988 and the EZ Communications national radio station chain top producer
and salesperson of the year from 1985-1986.
Dave was awarded his Super Bowl of Sales Ring which
you can see on his right hand in both pictures on page
Mr. Smoothie’s two greatest lady loves -- Diane his
soulmate on the left, and Ashley his daughter, right.
eight.
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entered into legend.
While folks back home drove to and from work each
day, Dave, Hook, April and other WRDX broadcasters
were broadcasting live from the decks of H.A.T.S.,
Harold’s Across the Street, DUCKS, the back deck of the
lations in 1984 from President Ronald Reagan.
Can a man like Dave Landon ever really retire?
He’s currently co-designing and promoting the Beach
Music Radio Hall of Fame, with inductions opening in
the Fall of 2011.
Spanish Galleon and other choice locations. It became
too much to bear for those back home under WRDX’s
giant signal covering the western 55% of North Carolina, Southwestern Virginia and Northwestern South
LINKS
Carolina.
In addition to the remote broadcasts which were inspiration to future developments in broadcasting and
Beach Music history with the Breeze Network, WLWL
Nor
th Car
olina Bo
rings 501st AMC
orth
Carolina
Boyy B
Brings
Back Together
in Rockingham, WVCO 94.9 the Surf and others, Dave
changed S.O.S. forever when he invented and designed
Story by Garrett Simmons
the first Smoothies Shag contest on the outside deck of
Harold’s Across the Street in 1991. From 1992 onward
the Smoothies contest moved over to the O.D. Arcade.
It’s continued to run there every year, 21 years later. One
of the most popular Shag contests ever invented, which
(Garrett is also an East High School graduate). Garrett
wrote about Dave in the High Country Press in the
North Carolina high country in May 2008.
affects contests far and wide throughout the Southeast
and Mid Atlantic.
(Copy and paste the following URL into your browser)
Next stop, arena football with the Charlotte Rage as
sales manager and marketing director in 1992.
http://www.highcountrypress.com/weekly/2008/0501-08/nc_boy.htm
Alltel Corporation called in 1993 with a wireless sales
opportunity which lasted ten years.
A Conv
ersation with The P
ad
Conversation
Pad
In all, Dave was a top producer with 10 different companies in his career.
Story by Dave Landon
Among the more than 200 awards as a top producer
which he received throughout his career, he values most
Dave wrote this for Carolina Class magazine while sales
the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from 1984, among the
most prestigious awards given to private citizens by North
and marketing director of WRDX-FM Beach 106.5
Carolina, the honorary citizenship of Fulda, Germany
conferred upon him in 2009 by Lord Mayor Dr. Wolfgang
(copy and paste the following URL into your browser)
Dippel, the first Honorary Life Membership,
Interessengemeinschaft Munsterfeld - from Fulda, Ger-
http://www.beachshag.com/DaveLandonPad.htm
many for exemplary cooperativeness, and signed congratu-
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“Congratulations, D
av
Dav
avee !!!
“D
av
e, it
eat ride!
“Dav
ave,
it’’s been a gr
great
50 years in broadcasting together
gether.. We had a lot of fun,
at the top! (And one of us is
still working!)”
“With sand in his shoes,
cold beer in his hand, and a
warmness in his heart. Congratulations, Dave, on an
honor well-deserved..”
--J
ake G
urley
ccount
--Jake
Gurley
urley,, SSrr. A
Account
Executive, WSMZ, CBS Radio Group
--Billy Grooms, CBS Radio
“Congratulations
Dav
e, Thanks for all
ave,
the help along the
way
way.. You earned this
recognition, enjo
enjoyy.”
--D
uV
Daa n D
Du
Vaa l l ,
P r esident, G
Grr o u p
ales IInc.
nc.
Fiv
ivee SSales
“Congratulations Dave, a job well done
by a super go-getter over all the years.”
--Bob P
inner
oshua
Pinner
inner,, Owner/COO, JJoshua
ties
Group P
Prroper
operties
“Congratulations Dave, it
was great working with you
at WPEG.”
--William R. Rollins,
uburban
former P
Prresident of SSuburban
Radio Group
From yyour
our buddies in br
oadcasting and sales.”
broadcasting
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The F
irst Annual, IInaugural
naugural B
each
First
Beach
all O
ame
Hall
Off F
Fame
Music Radio H
inductions will be October 16th, 2011 at Lynn’s
Dance Club on South Tryon Street in Charlotte, NC.
Inductions and program will be conducted from 3
pm to 7 pm -- and party afterward! Fessa’ Hook with
play the music.
Stellar MCs will be there, like Rusty Page who used
to MC the Park Center shows for Hit Attractions throughout the 60s.
Beach Music pillar Larry Sprinkle will grace the stage
as one of the M.C.s.
The Beach Music Radio Hall of Fame Board of Governors caution that the inductions aren’t meant to represent the “Best” DJs and Beach organizations, but “All” of
them over time.
This year’s inductions represent what’s to come - including many more categories of induction in the future.
2011 inductees include: Grady Brown and
WoodyWindham-South Carolina, Steve Hardy-Eastern
North Carolina, Big John Ruth and Charlie Brown-Raleigh, Curtiss Carpenter-Southern Pines, Randy Rowlandcont
cont’’d page 15
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The Rhythm and Beach N
etwor
k is G
Networ
etwork
Grrowing
51 Shows on 25 Stations
Some stations take more than one of the three Rhythm
and Beach Network shows. All three are available by
clicking on “listen here” on the right side of the ftont
page at www.beachshag.com
The Cashbox site alone generates a massive listening
audience each week - one reason why
cashboxmagazine.com is the highest ranking music charts
site on the internet.
The Endless Summer Network reaches beyond the
shows with the Dancing On the Edge Newsletter and
Journal.
Beachshag.com website is expanding to include the
Beach Music Radio Hall of Fame with extended photos,
biographies, and histories of the DJs and related organizations who have contributed to the growth of Beach
Music since ‘before’ its inception.
There’s another, much larger, website in the works.
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Theree ?
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cont’’d
Statesville and Charlotte, Rusty Page-Charlotte, Larry
Sprinkle-Charlotte, Mary June Rose and Don Russell-
Other awards will honor the Best Beach Music Book,
Best Beach Music Story, and a special Founder’s Award
Charlotte, Dave Landon-Charlotte, and Fessa HookNorth Myrtle Beach and Charlotte.
to wrap up the ceremonies.
A custom poster celebrating this year’s inductees will
Two awards will be presented posthumously, one to
Charlie Byrd for Charlie Byrd’s Beach Blast and Johnny
be on display at the ceremonies and on sale at
www.beachshag.com
Jacobs for the Frantic Atlantic Beach Party.
Beach Music Club of the Year, The Cellar of Char-
Following the ceremonies, bios of the inductees will
be available at beachshag.com with expanded stories and
lotte, N.C. and Spanish Galleon of North Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina.
features on each award and inductee in future editions of
Dancing On the Edge Newsletter.
Radio Station WIST 1240 AM of Charlotte, NC.
The Best Beach Music Magazine, Chris Beachley’s It
Plus, there will be several honorary inductions as well.
Will Stand from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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usic Top 40 Countdo
wn
Music
Countdown
The Beach Music Top 40
www.beachshag.com
I STILL DO
21
1
2
Fantastic Shakers
ROCK BOTTOM BLUES
29
2
3
Kid Rock
JUST ONE DANCE
25
6
4
Emerald, Caro
TRUST ME
18
7
5
Virginia Beach Allstars
Saturday Night
MEMPHIS WOMEN & FRIED CHICKEN
35
4
23
25
16
Lil House, Big Party
Born Free
Deleted Scenes fm Cutting Room Floor
Grandmono Recs
2011 9
Year
Record Co. & #
23
21
BOP, THE
24
22
Ms Jody
SMOKEHOUSE BROWN
20
23
King Tyrone & Graveyard Ramblers
Boppin’ and Rockin’
SHE SURE GOT AWAY WITH MY HEART
26
24
Holiday Band
SUGARFIED
2010
Ms Jody’s In the Streets Again
Sweet
veLo
Gaar, Burton
LOVE LETTER
Fried Grits & Greens
26
Kelly, R.
YOU USED TO ROCK
Love Letter
6
7
North Tower
ROLLING IN THE DEEP
28
27
Blue Six
OLD SCHOOL MUSIC
Noesis
5
10
8
Adele
RESPECT YOURSELF
29
28
Wallstreet
Old School Music
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
9
Lewis, Hueythe
& News
BACK TO CAROLINA
11
Lil House, Big Party
21
Soulsville
27
8
10
28
9
11
Hip Pocket
Ocean Drive-By
JUST GOT STARTED LOVING YOU
20
12
12
Queen Emily
FIND A WAY
14
13
Bayje
CANDY GIRL
Lakeside Drive Band
KHP 1093
2011 8
XL Recordings 44699
2010 8
Jive 80874
2010
Naked Music 21
2011
31
29
PS 110402
2011 6
32
30
Ray, Donnie
Who’s Rockin’ You
SHE MAKES ME FEEL GOOD
MusicMania
2011 4
33
31
Thompson, Big John
Boppin’ and Rockin’
I THINK I’LL DO SOME STEPPIN’ ON MY OWN
Malaco
2011 47
32
Barber, Sandy
LIGHTEN UP
Best Is Yet to Come
27
Lil House, Big Party
33
McDaniel, Rhonda
WAIT FOR ME
pending
2011 20
30
Nora Mae Music
Lakeside Drive Band
Meet the Queens of Southern Soul
2011
35
34
Roberts, Roy
SO IN LOVE
I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN
Thompkins Jr, Russell
Over the Summer
2011 2
Forevermore 5021
36
35
Scott, Jill w Anthony Hamilton
INDEPENDENCE
16
FRED’S DOLLAR STORE
Super Chikan
2009 8
Bluestown Records
37
36
Lulu
Independence
DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING
18
17
PROMISES PROMISES
Lois, Lisa
40
37
Roberts, Mark Band
DOWN IN MEXICO
12
19
18
BACK TO THE BEACH
Woods, Danny & Board of Directors
2011 28
KHP 1096
34
38
Poor Souls
CLASS ACT
11
21
19
NO MATTER
Radics, Jack
1999 16
EMI 8866032
38
39
Hunter, James
COME GET TO THIS
9
22
20
HOME U.S.A.
Domino, Fats
2010 36
39
40
Reynolds, L.J.
MARVIN AND MILES
15
14
THAT BEAT
LaVere, Amy
16
16
15
16
17
14
Anchors and Anvils
Chikadelic
Smoke
Back to the Beach
No
Matter
2009 2
o
Sny 7586762
Alive and Kickin’
Top Picks--Bubbling Under
KHP
1977
KHP 1093
2011
Ocean Beach 01
201
Light of the Sun
Tribute to the
Fallen
Warner Brothers
199
Capitol
2011
Shanty’s Records
2011
TryRemember
to
Hard Way, The
PS 110402
2008
Universal Dis
2010
Motorcity Hits
1 Thompkins
Vol
Media Grou
2007
Sex ‘n’ Jazz
Sweet Lem
Posner, Mike
Mosley, Stan
Miller, Steve Band
Fabulous Shades
Jump 4 Joy
Enrique, Luis
Bramlett, Bonnie & Bobby Whitlock
The Beach Music CD Top 10
15 2 1 TRY TO REMEMBER
Poor Souls
PS 110402
30 3 2 FESSA HOOK’S FISH FRY
6 1 3 BOPPIN’
AND ROCKIN’
various
various
Shanty’s
Records
KHP Music
12 4 4 BACK TO THE BEACH
Woods, Danny & Board of Directors
KHP 1096
7 6 5 MEET THE QUEENS
OF SOUTHERN SOUL
various
KHP
51 5 6 DOWN SOUTH
35 7 7 LIL HOUSE, BIG PARTY
43 9 8 DEEP FRIED SOUTHERN
STYLE
4 8 9 WHO’S ROCKIN’
YOU
26 10 10 OCEAN DRIVE-BY
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ROCK ME BABY
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TEENAGE QUEEN
YO NO SE
MANANA
YOU’VE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME
Ecko 112
2011
2011
2007 3
Archer 331927
20
2011
Queens of Southern Soul
WHO’S ROCKIN’ YOU
Just Got Started Loving You
KH
2011
Sound Ventures
2010
W.O.W. Records
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TryRemember
to
Ecko
2011
Green Dot Music
2011
25
BACK IT UP
Emerald, Caro
BOY FROM NEW YORK
CITY
Royal Scotsmen Band
CAROLINA MAN
Chairmen of the Board
DANCE WITH YOU
Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’
DON’T FIGHT IT
Lewis, Huey & the News
FALLING RAIN
Payne, Jackie
GOTTA HAVE LOVE
Sugarcreek
HOLD ON
Grier, Sonja
I WANNA ROCK IT IN YOUR ROCKIN’ CHAIR Ms. Jody
I’M NOT AFRAID
Craver, Paul
I’M THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU
Poor Souls
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
Johnson, Jackie
LAY ME DOWN
Jump 4 Joy
LIL HOUSE BIG
PARTY
Soul Children
MAKE THAT CALL
Bruton, Stephen
NEXT TO YOU
Brown, Chris & Justin Bieber
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
Johnson, Jackie
16
BPM
LP
( or CD
)
KHP
2010 25
13
Brown, T. Graham
Deep Fried Southern Style Shanty’s Records
I’LL KNOW HER WHEN I SEE HER
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Poor Souls
GONNA TAKE A LONG TIME
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KHP 1093
2010 6
Atlantic 521682
2010 13
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Huey Lewis and the fellows said three years ago they’d
like to put out another Beach Music project, especially
because Huey loves it. We thought they meant one song.
Their first full-tilt Beach / Shag CD was Four Chor
Chords
ds
ever
eral
Ago
al Years A
go in 1994. Soulsville is a fantastic
and SSev
ev
er
follow-up. “Respect Yourself ” is currently on the charts,
but there’s plenty more to come from their latest CD.
Hang with Junior Shaggers or others who have an
inclination for the modern Shag-oriented tunes and you’ll
hear Bruno Mars more than once (he collaborated on
“F*ck You” with Cee-Lo Green which has been huge on
the Beach charts. More recently his “Grenade” had done
well on the Top 40 from this his Doo-Wops and Hooligans CD.
Chicago’s R. Kelly is busy just like Bruno Mars of
This group is promising from the git-go. They’re
All Stars. Steve Bassett’s been bangin’ on the blue-eyed Honolulu, Hawaii. He’s constantly either producing,
R&B for decades, lead singer of Bill Deal and Rhondels’ singing, playing, writing, or collaborating with someone
from 1960, Ammon Tharp. They’re joined here by on a new song or CD.
His early efforts with Public Announcement in 1992
Donald Quisenberry, Randy Moss, and Cornell Jones.
Bassett has unique credentials you rarely hear about, were aimed straight at the Urban Market and missed the
such as his days with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Beach / Shag market entirely. However in recent years,
Trouble on the Texas Flood Tour in 1983 and a later tour his “Happy People,” “Step in the Name of Love,” and
with Delbert McClinton. Donald was with Deal from now “Love Letter” have put him within reach of the
1963 to 2002, Randy with Steve’s bands for years, and smooth, sweet soul lovers.
Cornell with Bassett and the Joker’s Wild.
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2010 12 22
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Studebaker John’s Maxwell St Kings
WHISKEY HEAVEN
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BETTIN’ ON MY BABY
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LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
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I’M MACK THE BLUES MAN
Mack, Sonny
HOW LONG
Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’
2011
Rock and A Hard Place
Armadillo 00032
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WAITIN’ AND DRINKIN’
Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends
2009
88 Steps to the Blues LocoBop
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LEANIN’ LOAD
Pittman, Shawn
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EVIL GAL BLUES
Fankhauser, Philip & Checkerboard Blues Band & Margie Evans
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Deltra Groove 145
2010 17
DON’T WORRY ‘BOUT ME
Pryor, Snooky
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MY NEXT EX-WIFE
Estrin, Rick
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Pittman, Shawn
FINE CADILLAC
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Studebaker John’s Maxwell St Kings
ROOSTER BLUES
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MOM AND DADDY’S PLACE
Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’
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Denise, Catherine
ALL THAT WINE IS GONE
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Ehrhardt, Sena Band
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Daniels, Leon
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EVERYBODY’S LOOKING FOR THE SAME THING
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Ball, Marcia
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Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’
BYE BYE BABY
Raisin’
Hell Revue
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Bishop, Elvin w John Nemeth
HEY BABY
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Roberts, Roy
Strange Love
SCENT OF YOUR BENJAMINS
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Pittman, Shawn
ROCK MY SOUL
Raisin’
Hell Revue
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Bishop, Elvin w Bobby Cochran
NEW DODGE CITY BLUES
Translucent Blues
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Manzarek, Ray & Roy Rogers
WHERE YOU BEEN?
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Louise, Grana’
UPSIDE YOUR HEAD
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Garland, Terry & Lil’ Ronnie
BOOGIE WOOGIE KING
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WHOLE LOTTA LOVIN’
Bishop, Elvin w Finis Tasby
I’M TALKIN’ TO YOU
Dwight, Shane
Legendary Revue
R&B Live!
2011
Rock and A Hard Place
Armadillo 00032
Leave the Light On
Raisin’
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2011
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BONES
Taylor, Joanne Shaw
White Sugar
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UPSIDE OF LONELY
Hambridge, Tom
Boom!
NO FUN
McCarty, Jim and Friends
Live from
Callahan’s
I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT
Sugar Ray & The Bluetones
Evening
LOVE OF MINE
Murphy, Shaun
Live At Callahan’s Music Hall
Deltra Groove 145
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Knocking At Your Front Door
HELL SENT ME
YOU
HIP SHAKIN’ WOMAN
Page, Bob Project
HOUSE ON THE HILL
Weeks, Sabrina IT IS WHAT IT IS
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A Hundred
hiteWLies
Ruf 1147
2011
Superstar Records
2011
Cally’s
2011
Severn 0052
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BEFORE THE NIGHT IS THROUGH
Sicilia, Gina
Can’t Control
Myself
2011
Vizztone 388011
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KOKO’S SONG
Sicilia, Gina
2011
Vizztone 388011
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Last Buzz
SLOW KISSES
Carroll, Sandy
Can’t Control
Myself
Just As I AM
2011
Catfood 011
ROCKIN’ ME BABY
Alabama Blues Machin
LaSalle, Denise
Miller, Steve Band
Blue Diamonds f. Grana Louise ROCK ME BABY
GROUND Calabash Blues & Boogie Band
Aces SLEEPING IN THE
STEADFAST, LOYAL AND TRUE
Miss He
Castro, Tommy
AIN’T NOTHIN’ COOLER THAN THE BLUES Hitman BluesKANSAS
Band CITY
Dell, William/Wee Jams, Laura Rose & THIS MUST BE LOVE
ATLANTA BOOGIE
Brown, TommyKEEP THE BLUES ALIVE
Tucker, TeenyTIRED OF BEING ALONE
BABY PLEASE COME BACK
HOME
Brooks,
Ronnie Baker KEEP YOUR MOTOR
RUNNINGCalabash Blues & Boogie Band TOO SWEET FOR ME
TRIMMIN’ THE FAT
BACKSTROKE (2010)
Earl, Ronnie & Broadcasters LADY THAT DIGS THE BLUES
Jano’s, Big Al Blues Mafia
BEER BOTTLE BOOGIE
BLUES AIN’T FAR BEHIND
2011
Alligator 494
Delta Groove 144
2011 5
Ocean Beach 01
2011 3
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Fessa Hook’s Fish V
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Armadillo 00032
2011 5
BubblingUnder
A GIRL JUST LIKE YOU
AIN’T MY TIME TO SING
THE BLUES
2011
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SMOKEHOUSE BROWN
King Tyrone & Graveyard Ramblers
Ball, Marcia
Roadside Attractions
SUGAR (WHERE’D YOU GET YOUR SUGAR FROM)
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Downchild Blues Ban
Block, Rory
Benoit, Tab
Castro, Tommy
Oglesby, Erskin
Allman, Greg Band TWO SHOTS OF JACK
WHAT A LIFE
Foster, David
Calabash Blues & Boogie Band
THIS
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Corritore, Bob & Friends
MONEY’S GETTING CHEAPER Robillard, Duke & JBR WHAT KIND OF MAN
MOON DANCE
Calabash Blues & Boogie Band WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKIN’ Big Joe & the Dyna
Laura B & the Moonlighters
LITTLE BY LITTLE
Lovely, Karen
LITTLE BY LITTLE
BOOGIE SOME
CADILLAC WOMAN
King, Claudette
Kingsnakes
Sochat, Morry & Splendid 20s
MY GUITAR
Kubek, Smokin’ Joe & Bnois King WHOLE LOTTA LADY
WHO’S BEEN LICKIN’
MY CHICK
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Walker, Joe Louis
NEW WAY WITH THE BLUES
Hall, Sandra
FACE THE FACTS
Big Joe & the Dynaflows
OLD MAN MAGNET
Tucker, Teeny YOU DON’T LOVE ME
HALLELUJAH I LOVE HIM SO
Callahan, Deb PLAYFUL BABY
Robillard, Duke & JBR YOU UPSETS ME BABY
YOU’VE GOT BAD INTENTIONS
HEARTBREAK (IT’S HURTIN’
ME)
Tucker, Teeny POWERFUL STUFF (LOVE CRAZY)
Foster, David
EATIN’ DIRT
EYES LIKE A CAT
Sharpville, Tod
Cadillac Kings
Downchild Blues Ba
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lidin
The Bar Kings’ Sippin
ippin’’ and SSlidin
lidin’’ CD came out in
January 2007 out of Australia. Full Moon Records owner
Grana’ Louise has enjoyed international stardom from
Simon Gray started the company just to get John Russell almost the inception of her career. We first encountered
Big
ig Time with the Blue
into the studio as quickly as possible joined here by Dave her robust vocals on H it the B
Tice from UK bands Count Bishops, the Buffalos, and Diamonds. She also released her own Generations CD
the Headhunters, as well as Donnie Hopkins on piano as well as this brand new one. You can also find her on
M ojo M
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Mamas,
About
and vocals. An Import worth hunting down.
Grrana Louise
Louise, Joe Juliano and others.
Band featuring G
Tom’s a drummer who grew up in New England,
with some prestigious training on his resume at the
Berklee School of Music.
After graduation he built a reputation as a hyperactive “sit-in” gigger with Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, the
Coasters and just about everyone else who passed through
the area.
He also lead T.H. and the Wreckage as well as writing several songs for and producing Susan Tedeschi’s 1999
album, Just Won
on’’t B
Bur
urn
ur
n . Then Tom moved to Nashville
and released his debut CD, Balderdash
Balderdash, in 2000.
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Dancing On the Edge News
Tennesse native Roy Roberts has been playing out of
the N.C. Triad area for nearly 50 years. Along the way
he backed Dee Clark, Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyd, and
many others on guitar.
Some of his earliest work in the Triad was with Guitar Kimber and the Untouchables.
Truth be known, he’s a humble, very versatile player,
who has traveled the U.S. in many musical circles and
written a long long list of songs. Strange Love is a nice
tight collection of what we think are some of his very
best in quite some time. Two different songs are on the
Beach and Roadhouse Top 40s.