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Tuesday, 20 April 2010

ROYALTY RECORDS (2)

Paris. Texas


ROYALTY 30
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
I Love You So Much It Hurt’s Me (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (A)
(Tilman) (No Publisher Noted)
Texarkana Baby (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (B)
(Clark - Rose) (No Publisher Noted)

ROYALTY 31
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
Love Somebody (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (A)
(Whitney - Kramer) (No Publisher Noted)
Underneath The Arches (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (B)
(McCarty - Flanagan) (No Publisher Noted)

ROYATLY 32
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
Bouquet Of Roses (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (A)
()
Tennessee Waltz (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (B)
()

ROYALTY 33
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
Just A Little Lovin’ (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (A)
()
Tesucita Polka (Inst) (B)
()

ROYALTY 34.A / 35.A
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
Hair Of Gold (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (34.A)
(Skyler) (No Publisher Noted)
It’s Magic (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (35.A)
(Cahn - Styne) (No Publisher Noted)

ROYALTY 34.B / 35.B
LEON JENKINS AND THE EASTERNERS
You Call Everybody Darlin' (Vocal - ?) (34.B)
()
Say When (Vocal - Johnny Gipson) (35.B)
()

ROYALTY 36
BILL CASON AND HIS ARKANSAS TROOPERS
Buttons And Bows (A)
()
Rambling Rose (B)
()

ROYALTY No#
TEXAS RYTHM RIDERS [sic]
I Turned And Walked Slowly Away (Vocal - Billy Gray)
(deadwax 37.A)(Red Fortner) (No Publisher Noted)
Blues In My Heart (Vocal - Billy Gray) (deadwax number unreadable)
(Red Foley – Jennie Lou Carson) [sic] (No Publisher Noted)

ROYALTY No#
TEXAS RYTHM RIDERS [sic]
Green Light (Vocal - Billy Gray) (nothing in deadwax)
(Hank Thompson) (No Publisher Noted)
Tennessee Saturday Night (Vocal - Curly Rogers) (deadwax 39.A)
(Billy Hughes) (No Publisher Noted)

ROYALTY No#
TEXAS RYTHM RIDERS [sic]
Twelfth Street Rag (Inst) (deadwax 40.A)
(no composer credit) (No Publisher Noted)
Red Sails In The Sunset (Vocal - Texas Blackie) (deadwax 40.B)
(no composer credit) (No Publisher Noted)

ROYALTY 42.? / 43.?
TEXAS RYTHM RIDERS [sic]
I’m A Fool To Care (Vocal - Billy Gray & Texas Blackie)
()
A Heart Full Of Love (Vocal - Billy Gray)
()

ROYALTY 42.B / 43.B
TEXAS RYTHM RIDERS [sic]
Thorn In My Heart (Vocal - Billy Gray) (42.B)
(Bob Wills) (No Publisher Noted)
Meet Me Somewhere In Your Dreams (Vocal - Billy Gray & Texas Blackie) (43.B) (no composer credit) (No Publisher Noted)



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12 comments:

  1. AB21 April 2010 at 15:39

    I wonder if "Texas Blackie" is Blackie Crawford? He worked with Billy Gray around this time.

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  2. Anonymous22 April 2010 at 09:06

    Andrew:

    You may well be right.

    I am racking my brain trying to remember the details of a circa 1949 film short I once had on video. I think it was broadcast maybe 15-20 years ago on the old "Nostalgia" cable TV channel. It was just a single song and I cannot remember the title. Very crudely done.

    I can't recall any telecast credits, but it was a duet of two guys. One of them used an alias that I figured surely must be Blackie Crawford. "Texas Blackie" sounds suspiciously familiar.

    I can't recall the name used by the other guy--it may have been a real name or a fake, nor can I recall if I figured it must be Gray.

    I no longer have the video tape, but it may be known in other collections?

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    1. Anonymous15 December 2013 at 15:35

      It was Billy Gray. Would love to have the video if anyone has it. He was my dad.

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  3. Anonymous22 April 2010 at 09:11

    Andrew:

    Just had another slight bubbling up from my memory:

    That film short may have used the title "Talented Tramps" or something like that, without any personal names used anywhere in the credits.

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  4. AB23 April 2010 at 03:43

    I've heard the rumor that Blackie Crawford made a film short, but never tracked down any reliable info on it. "Talented Tramps" sounds vaguely familiar.

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  5. Anonymous24 April 2010 at 21:51

    Andrew:

    This is the short:

    http://www.moviestation.org/movie/273099/The_Talented_Tramps

    You can also find it mentioned at IMDB, where they have the cast named as Billy Gray and Robert Larry.

    IMDB erroneously assumes Billy Gray is the child actor Billy Gray.

    Is Blackie Crawford's real name Robert Larry Crawford or possibly Robert Lawrence Crawford?

    I think Robert Larry introduces himself as "Texas Blackie", but there was something that tipped me off that he must be Blackie Crawford--possibly the songs performed, possibly the association with Gray, or possibly a resemblance to pictures I had seen of Crawford at the time (1980s).

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  6. Anonymous24 April 2010 at 22:06

    I just googled and found a cemetery record for Robert L. "Blackie" Crawford at Sanangelotexas.org. It is an Excel spreadsheet that says he was buried 1/20/84 in Block 87A. I am betting this his full name is Robert Larry Crawford or Robert Lawrence Crawford and that this is in fact THE Blackie Crawford and is aka the Robert Larry in Talented Tramps.

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  7. AB14 May 2010 at 19:51

    "Is Blackie Crawford's real name Robert Larry Crawford or possibly Robert Lawrence Crawford?"

    Yes. Robert Lawrence Crawford was Blackie Crawford's real name.

    This increases the chance that the film "Talented Tramps" features Blackie Crawford and Billy Gray.

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  8. AB14 May 2010 at 19:52

    All of the Leon Jenkins sides were probably recorded at Quinn's in Houston.

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  9. Ed31 October 2010 at 13:41

    I'm searching for old newspaper clippings that might list Leon Jenkins and the Easterners. Any ideas?

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  10. Anonymous7 April 2011 at 03:48

    I know this is an old post but Blackie Crawfords real name was Robert Larry he is in Talented Tramps and made another movie around the same time. I know this because my grandpa was his brother and was at one time part of the western Cherokees as the bass player

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  11. Jason Odd27 November 2013 at 05:02

    I'm starting to wonder if that pic of Blackie Crawford and Curly Chalker playing that Stone Arch Ranch that's doing the rounds, if it might be a version of the Texas Rhythm Riders as the drummer does not look like Jimmy Dennis the Tune Toppers / Western Cherokees / Cherokee Cowboys drummer (at least not to me..) and does anyone know who Curly Rogers might be?...

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