rock & roll / rockabilly instrumental ~ Texas 1964

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Cecil Moore - 1962

mod soul / jazz instrumental ~ NY 1960

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The NY based Glad record label started up in 1960 and was run by Lionel's wife and personal manager, Gladys. Sometime in the early 60s it was renamed Glad-Hamp. She ran it until her death in 1971.
'Railroad #1' was also released as a longer track on the LP, 'Lionel Hampton's - All That Twist'n Jazz.'
The a-side: 'Sometimes I'm Happy'

Lionel with his wife Gladys around 1956-58

doo-wop / rock & roll ~ Cincinnati 1958

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Many have heard the Ronettes version of 'I'm So Young.' Covered by many, most successfully by the Ronettes, but The Students version was the first.
Though not with the group, Cincinnati high school student, William Tyus wrote the song for a girl he was in love with named, Patricia Pearson. He passed his newly penned tune to the janitor of the school, Roosevelt Lee. Janitor Lee was apparently a music lover also "in the know" with the local music scene. He eventually took the song to The Students (then named D'Italians) who were already performing locally before helping them to get a contract via Mel Herman, a Chess Records distributor with Chess/Checker/Argo records out of Chicago.
Pressed the same year on the Note label (Indianapolis, Indiana), The Students recorded and pressed only two other 45s before breaking up as a group around 1962.
Nice doo-wop side with 14 year old student Leroy King on lead vocal.
The flip side: 'Everyday Of The Week'


The Students with Leroy King: top right profile

jazz / soul instrumental ~ Italy 1976

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I Marc 4 :
M... Maurizio Majorana - Bass
A... Antonello Vannucci - Hammond organ
R... Roberto Podio - percussion/drums
C... Carlos Pes - guitar

'I Marc 4' was an Italian session group composing and playing a lot of library/soundtrack instrumental music through the 70s. They were also part of the Italian State TV orchestra.
Hammond soulster/keyboardist, Antonello Vannucchi collaborated with many Italian composers through the 60s including, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Alessandro Alessandroni, as well as a few American Jazz artists including, Chet Baker and Kenny Clarke. Written and composed by Italian conductor Romolo Grano, 'Candy' was a track originally recorded and pressed in 1976 on the LP, 'I Marc 4 - SM 2001' on the Italian library/soundtrack label, Nelson.
Pressed for the first time on 45, this 1976 recording/reissue on the Black Cat label still stays in the groove. The flip side is, 'Roman Blow-Up.'

roots reggae / dub ~ Jamaica 1972

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Producer/keyboardist/singer, "Tall T" aka Lloyd "Charmers" Tyrell starting out as half of the 50s reggae duo, The Charmers. An accomplished sessions musician through the 60s, he joined Slim Smith and The Uniques in 1967 before going on to produce and record many covers of American soul songs with various Jamaican artists, including Ken Boothe.
In the early 1970s Lloyd started the Jamaican Splash label. Don't have a definitive source on the back up band on this recording. Not certain. May be or likely, "The Touchers" were guitarist Mikey Chung and The Now Generation Band who were working with Lloyd Charmers around this time.

Lloyd Charmers 1938-2012