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Artist:Trini Lopez / Scott Gregory
Title:Trini Lopez / Scott Gregory
Label:  Guest Star
Country:USA
Catalogue:G 1499
Date:1964
Format:Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
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Community: 2 Own, 2 Want
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Trini LopezDon't Treat Me That WayRate
A2Trini LopezOne Heart, One Love, One LifeRate
A3Trini LopezThen You Know You've Seen MeRate
A4Trini LopezQueen For A DayRate
A5Trini LopezIt SeemsRate
B1Scott GregoryI've Got News For HughRate
B2Scott GregoryDoin' The WobbleRate
B3Scott GregoryDon't Mess AroundRate
B4Scott GregoryIt's PanicRate
B5Scott GregoryAt The AltarRate


Notes

Scott Gregory see also Bill Haley

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23skidoo
15th Jul 2018
 @guest star (a very late reply but I was away from this site for a couple of years and never saw your comments till now). There was definitely some confusion created by Guest Star claiming that the Comets were on the Boots Randolph album. When a friend of mine did the track research for the Bear Family Records set The Warner Brothers Years and More (which includes the Guest Star tracks including Yakety Sax), I believe the research did establish that the Comets were not involved in the Randolph album. GS did some weird things: they put out the remake of ABC Boogie from the Rock Around the Clock King album on the Kasey label backed by someone else doing Rock Around the Clock, and the Yakety Sax single had the Comets recording on the A-side, with a Randolph recording on the B-side, but the picture sleeve just credited Randolph! I wonder if the GS recordings are public domain as when the CD era began for some reason it seemed these tracks were everywhere and they still turn up on low-price collections that turn up at places like Wal-Mart.

EDIT: Since writing the above a bit more information has turned up: apparently the Boots Randolph album mentioned above did use the Comets recording of Yakety Sax (rather than a remake by Boots himself); the author of a book on budget labels did a side-by-side comparison and said the recordings are identical. But there's still no proof the Comets were involved in any other recordings related to Boots.

EDIT#2 (November 2020): For some reason I missed the fact that the other person commenting on this thread is actually the author of the book I'm referencing in my first edit! "Rock Rarities for a Song" is it's title and I highly recommend it!
 
 
guest star
26th Nov 2015
 Thanks 23skidoo. Another mystery is why Guest Star chose not to include "Yakety Sax," which was recorded at the same session, on either this album or its Bill Haley LP. As I point out in my book on budget record labels, "Rock Rarities for a Song," you need a secret decoder ring to figure out Guest Star's thinking on this one. They put out a Boots Randolph album but, of course, didn't have him doing "Yakety Sax." The liner notes on the back of the album indicate Bill Haley and the Comets are doing the non-Boots cuts but the front of the LP and the label attribute them to "George Cury." "Yakety Sax" is Rudy, but the Cury material sounds like lounge music! Synthetic Plastics, owner of Guest Star, also put "Yakety Sax" out as a single on it's Logo label, where it attributed it to "Bill Haley."

Brian McFadden
 
 
23skidoo
26th Nov 2015
 Some additional information re: the Haley aspect. No one seems to know where the name Scott Gregory came from except that there was some misdirection as to when the Haley cuts were recorded. For years it was thought they were recorded in 1962 but in fact they were recorded in 1964.There are some theories as to why the dates were made misleading, possibly tax related. One correction to the review; this was hardly late in the band's career as Bill Haley and the Comets continued to perform as that entity until 1980 and still had a very successful run with Sonet Records ahead of them (plus Rock Around the Clock hit the top 40 again). This is definitely a strange addition to the Haley canon. An interesting footnote is Guest Star was part of the same company that produced the Peter Pan and Power Records labels which were very popular children's labels.
 
 
guest star
25th Nov 2015
 Review
This is an unusual album with some rare cuts by not one but two stars, although you'd never know it from the packaging. The songs by Trini are some hard-to-find early tunes that were originally released on the King record label. Trini sounds good and the arrangements are excellent. But Guest Star couldn't get enough sides from King for a full LP and decided to flesh out the album with some Bill Haley cuts that it already had. The songs were recorded in Vegas, well after Haley's prime and Guest Star had already used them for an LP called "Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock-A-Round the Clock King." So the listener gets a two-for-one bonus on this record ... a chance to hear how far Trini had developed early in his career and an opportunity to appreciate how well Haley and his band continued to perform late in theirs.

Brian McFadden

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