Sunday, June 17, 2007
More Russ Hallett Trio
In the continuing gathering of information for the Rebels page, I just finished an interview with Aldo Brozzettii of the Russ Hallett Trio. I tried to cover several things that were not talked about in my interview with Russ Hallett. I'm looking at the end of June for those updates and interviews to be available. I never thought I would cover such controversial topic. Then again, it's not controversial at all to Hallett, Brozzetti, and Mickey Kipler.
Seems like I will need to start creating a misc. page. I run across so many things that would be fun to show, but are certainly not worthy of a page by themselves. Most are not a huge deal, but just are interesting to record collectors and historians. I have seen a bunch of the compact 33's that feature Sam Cooke, the Browns, Neil Sedaka and Rod Lauren. I am now wondering how many different covers they came with? The latest one I have has verbiage for Dr. West's Germ Fighter Toothbrush. Hmm.
Remember all those twist records of the early 60s? It seems like 1000's of them came out. Especially those generic LP's. They had some group you never heard of, but had an interesting picture to try and get you to purchase it. So many of them were cheesy, and not worth much. Many big stars issued a twist LP, just to get in on it. Sometimes they were old songs just re-titled. I found a 45 called the Southwest Bowl Twist, and it is definitely cheesy. The label lists it as "Instrumental with vocal". It has 2 instrumental breaks, and the last one is really pretty good. It takes it to the end of the record. The group is called the Southwest Trio. Does anyone have information on this group? Oh - what appears to be the "A" side, is a "song" called "We Call It LA.
My next interview scheduled is with Al Sanchez of the Storytellers. They made just one record, but some of the most interesting stories come from groups that just had one or two records that were released.
As mentioned in my last blog, there is a benefit for Rosie Hamlin on July 8th, at PEARSON PARK AMPHITHEATRE in Anaheim, CA. Check out this link to see the great lineup:
