pop vocal ~ 1953

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Eartha Kitt ... Jan 1927 - Dec 2008

rocksteady ~ Jamaica 1967

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The flip on this 45 is: 'Real Cool' by Tommy McCook and the Supersonics.

Treasure Isle comp LP from 1967 featuring The Jamaicans, Tommy McCook (pictured on the cover), The Techniques, and a few others.

R&B / jazz ~ New York 1962

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Not to be confused with blues singer, Bobo Jenkins, or middleweight boxing champ, Carl 'Bobo' Olson, this obscure 45 tells a short story of the man known only as Bobo, a "most famous unknown..."
An accomplished musician and rumored silent music mogul, Bobo was at the top of mid 50s "bohemian cool". He mixed with the social elite as well as the working classes, and yet his true identity is still unknown today, as it was then, to the many musicians and music lovers who mingled with him at the time.

Around 1947-48, before his rise and bit out of date, purported to be one of the few early photos of Bobo as a young man.
Al 'Dr. Horse' Pittman sums up Bobo perfectly with his Fire label 45 from 1962.

hillbilly country ~ Detroit 1950

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I first heard 'The Tattooed Lady' played during 'The Dr. Demento Show' on KFAT, a radio station out of Gilroy, California. Spent years trying to find it, mostly at record shows.

Recorded in Detroit, this is Skeet's first record and recording, pressed on 78 and 45 rpm in 1950.
Skeets was originally from Arkansas, but moved to Detroit in the early 1930s.
It's amazing this record has survived this long. The flip side is, 'Mean And Evil Blues' with Johnnie White accompaniment.
A hillbilly country gem.

Somewhere in Los Angeles - Skeets in 1954.