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Thursday 26 August 2010

METROPOLITAN RECORDS


METROPOLITAN 100
SONS OF THE RANGE
Texas Lil (Vocal – Cowboy Russ)
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Mississippi Moonlight (Vocal – Cowboy Russ)
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Note: METROPOLITAN 100 reviewed in BILLBOARD on July 12th 1947 and August 23rd 1947.

METROPOLITAN 101 (No Information)

METROPOLITAN 102
SONS OF THE RANGE
The Texas Cannonball (Vocal – Cowboy Russ) (102.A)
(Bing Shopa – Frances Shopa) (No Publisher Noted)
There’s A New Moon Over My Shoulder (Vocal – Cowboy Russ) (102.B)(Davis – Whelan – Blastic) (No Publisher Noted)




METROPOLITAN (unknown release)
SONS OF THE RANGE
I Walk Alone (Vocal – Cowboy Russ)
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Chickie (Vocal – Hank Berg & Curly Pike)
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Note: Vocalist Cowboy Russ is Russ Henderson.


1 comment:

  1. Russ Henderson should be Russ Hendricks.

    Bits and pieces from Billboard...

    Metropolitan label
    1947
    Philadephia?
    1949
    1466 Whipple Walk
    Camden 4, N.J.
    Owner: Bing Shopa
    1947/Nov. 1 Pete Taylor, The Lonesome Cowboy, now airing from Vineland, N. J., has inked a two-year paper with Metropolitan label. Backed by the Sons of the Range he will cut I’m Sharing My Dreams With Somebody Else and Chickie
    1949/Jul. 9 Sons Of The Range, Russ (Hendricks), Curly (Pike?), Hank (Berg?) and Rocky cut first session for Regent
    1949/Sep. 17 Sons Of The Range waxed Harry Filler’s Saddle Bum (for Regent?)

    1950/Jul. 1 Pete Taylor and his Circle A Ranch Gang possibly records for Quaker around 1949.

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