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Tailspin ● 25th Apr 2015
| | A side wax: AL-511-A
B side wax: AL-511-B / E[in♢]
Pressed by Research Craft Co., Los Angeles, CA |
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slholzer 26th Jan 2015
| | So we come full circle. The Aladdin records were right up to the point where they don't mention the use of a pseudonym. It just goes to show that discographers can put too much faith in company records. Too many have tried to leapfrog to the answers without first identifying the appropriate question: What does the record actually show and what does it mean? A complete discographical inquiry should always start with the record and move forward from there. |
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fixbutte 26th Jan 2015
| | On further research I found more about singer Slim Newman, who apparently with his brothers Hank and Bob made the original Georgia Crackers (aka the Newman Brothers). On a page about them the following lineup for this band here is listed, meaning that "Joe Maverick" was not a real person and more of Spade Cooley's sidemen were involved:
JOE MAVERICK & His Hot Dogies
Slim Newman (vocals), Eugene 'Smokey' Rogers (leader, rhythm guitar, vocals), Andrew 'Cactus' Soldi (fiddle), Johnny Weiss (lead guitar), Larry 'Pedro' DePaul (accordion), Paul 'Spike' Featherstone (flute), Ossie Godson (piano), *** Heintzelman (bass), Milton 'Muddy' Berry (drums)
The "Joe Maverick" vocal on "Honey Bee" here would be by band leader Smokey Rogers then. |
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fixbutte 26th Jan 2015
| | Interestingly, both sides of Aladdin 509 were co-written by "Rogers" too, one with "Cooley" (apparently Spade Cooley) and one with "Soldi" (apparently Andrew Soldi, fiddle player with Spade Cooley then), so a closer relation between Joe Maverick and Smokey Rogers connection seems possible. |
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fixbutte 26th Jan 2015
| | Nothing's about this one on Eugene "Smokey" Rogers' page on Praguefrank's Country Music Discographies website. Although Smokey Rogers apparently recorded in the same Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood as many Aladdin artists and possibly was the co-author of the B-side here, he was already well-known as a musician with Spade Cooley then and probably not an anonymous member of this band here. |
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fixbutte 24th Jan 2015
| | Aladdin 510 is already here: 510
I can say that there are many mistakes in Ruppli's discography, although I have only photocopies of the Aladdin pages of it. |
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slholzer 24th Jan 2015
| | The Aladdin company records that Ruppli worked with led him to list this disc under Slim Newman's name with Eugene "Smokey" Rogers. He listed Newman as the vocalist on both sides. I have reason to believe that he made the same mistake with regard to Aladdin 510, which I have not seen, but which Ruppli also credited to Slim Newman with Eugene "Smokey" Rogers, but which the Online Discographical Project also credits to Joe Maverick AH Hot Dogies. Is there any connection between Rogers and Joe Maverick that might explain this gaff? |
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