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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

He Restoreth My Soul - The Melody-Aire Trio

The Grass Is Greener
In The Valley - He Restoreth My Soul
The Melody-Aire Trio
Jewel Recording Studios - Cincinnati, Ohio
Queen City Album 112415

Bass - Floyd Robertson, Steel Guitar - Ray Wilson, Lead Guitar - Mike Scalf, Drums - Paul Allen, Piano - Glenna Edwards, Rusty York - Engineer

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Light - Ron Gunter

Feed The Children
Guardian Angel
Light
Ron Gunter
Jewel Records - Cincinnati, Ohio - LPS 334
Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio #30321

The tune Guardian Angel appears on a number of local albums I've stumbled across, including the originator of the song, The Singing Siler Family.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sweetly And Simply - Shirley

Nobody Like The Lord
Sweetly And Simply
Shirley
21st. Century Christ Ministry
LP 892

From the back cover: Traveling with her husband, W.V. Grant, Jr., she is called in newspapers around the country "America's leading female gospel organist." In the South, people of all races call her "Miss White Soul."

Grant originally operated from a ministry located in Over-The-Rhine, an economically depressed area in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 70s.

Friday, September 9, 2011

The Old Family Album

Since I Met The Lord
The Old Family Album
Featuring: Buddy

The record came in a jacket blank with a white hand-written sticker fixed to the acetate.

Record label as seen above is all the info I have to go on.

The surprise is the record features a full blown studio production with a session musicians and back-up vocalists.

I think the sample I posted features "Buddy" singing.

Carlisle Family Album - Old Time Great Hymns

Mary Don't You Weep
Carlisle Family Album
Old Time Great Hymns
Dedicated to the Late Mother and Dad Carlisle
Featuring Cliff and Bill Carlisle
Old Homestead Records OHCS-303

Obscure country gospel album. The only reference to the Carlisle family that I can find online is a German(?) wiki page that features bio material on Cliff Carlisle. I can make out that Cliff was born in 1904 in Taylorsville, Kentucky and passed away in 1983 while living in Lexington, Kentucky. I think the article states that he was a "pionier des Blue Yodeling", or maybe Bluesgrass(?) Yodeling? Anyway, there is no yodeling on this album.

The male vocal you hear on the sample and through out the record must be Cliff's(?). No credit is given to other male or female vocalist(s), but one can assume they are family members.

The jacket also states that the "album was originally recorded for the REM label (a small label located in Lexington, KY) but was never previously released".

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Wadin' Through Deep Waters - The Lunford's Singing The Gospel

Oh What A Happy Day
Wadin' Through Deep Waters
The Lunford's Singing The Gospel
Rose Records - Vandalia, Ohio - LPR 190
Rite Record Productions, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio - RTE 27772

Presenting The Saunders Trio

Will Meet You In The Morning

Presenting The Saunders Trio
Queen City Album - Cincinnati, Ohio - 206314

The Saunders worked out of Scottown, Ohio.

This album was autographed, apparently, at the Bob Evans Festival 10/8/72