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Film City
Film City Records, 1485 Vine St. (Sunset & Vine), Hollywood 28 CA;
1965: 1354 N. Highland Ave. (Sunset & Highland), Hollywood 28 CA;
c.1966: PO Box 296, Hollywood CA 90028;
then: 6087 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood CA 90028
motto (for 45 4021): "Top Drawer Songs For Top Line Artists!"

Note: Sandy Stanton was a song-poem pioneer. As the owner of Film City Records, Stanton discovered a young musician named Rodd Keith and initiated him to the song-poem game. A gifted composer, multi-instrumentalist, versatile singer, arranger, producer and sometimes engineer, Keith quickly developed into a one-man song-poem killing machine. He went on to have the most artistically successful career in the genre's history, although the experience of working all those years at the pond scum layer of the music industry food chain just about killed him.

Stanton also introduced to the song-poem arsenal a pre-digital sampling keyboard called the Chamberlin. Using strips of pre-recorded magnetic tape, the Chamberlin was able to replicate any instrument in the orchestra as well as human voices and sound effects. Following Stanton's lead, other song-poem companies began using the instrument, recognizing it as a less-expensive alternative to live bands or as an efficient enhancement to an underlying band recording. Its eight-second strips of tape limited the Chamberlin -- and its better-known English descendent, the Mellotron -- to rather unnatural distortions of the instruments sampled, although the song-poem entrepreneurs seemed hardly to have noticed. In the hands of a sonic alchemist like Rodd Keith this con became a pro, his deftness and inventiveness with the instrument proving it to have a delightfully wheezy sound all its own. Sandy Stanton was the LA-area distributor for Harry Chamberlin's eponymous device, and even sold a unit to his chief local competitor, Preview Records and their affiliate MSR Records.

Stanton also reintroduced the radio airplay scam to the song-poem game. Song-poets were lured deeper into his web -- and happy to pay an additional fee -- by the promise of guaranteed radio play for their songs. This scheme had been tried in the early '40s, but seems to have been abandoned until Stanton revived the concept late in the 1950s. Even though few of them were able to receive the signals of KXLA and KTYM, the Southern California stations over which he broadcast at varying times, customers were content just to know that their song went out over someone's airwaves somewhere. Stanton purchased blocks of the least expensive time the stations would sell, going on the air just before the Bible programs on Sunday mornings to spin that week's batch of new recordings. Preview also later borrowed this angle.

I advise interested parties to check out some of the discographies of Film City's affiliated labels linked at the bottom of this page, because Stanton did an odd thing with his cataloging system. Moreso than most other song-poem entrepreneurs, Stanton would occasionally press up customer's records under their own imprint, with a label name and address (and sometimes even a logo) selected by the customer. Song-poets could thus operate their own custom label on the cheap; leaving the recording and pressing hassles in Stanton's hands, some of them would actually put in the effort to try to promote and distribute their records themselves. All well and good -- a lot of companies did the same thing, and if you squint you could almost imagine this type of set-up as a third-string version of a genuine record company conglomerate, such as Motown with their Gordy, Soul and Tamla subsidiaries or the Kinney incarnation of Warners with Elektra, Atlantic and Sire. What Stanton did that was so unusual was to number the records put out by most of his labels in the same massive sequence, rather than give a discrete numbering scheme to each label. Perhaps other record companies -- either song-poem or "legitimate" -- ran their catalog numbering the same way, but if so it's news to me.

Other choice Sandy Stanton fables:

  • Having served in the U.S. Navy, he was an avid sailor and owned a series of sailboats and small yachts. For a spell between marriages, he moved onto a houseboat anchored in Long Beach harbor, bringing his studio onto the boat with him. Thus, some of the song-poem records that are out there were recorded on the water!

  • Although it now seems to be a rumor unfounded, we were told by one of his former musicians that Stanton eventually sold out his song-poem empire to his milkman!

  • West Virginia wildman Hasil Adkins, known for cutting almost all of his recordings in his living room, cut one of his earliest tapes, in 1956, at Stanton's Fable Recording Studio!

  • Stanton spent a couple of years in Australia, where he continued to operate his song-poem activities. Film City albums #1067 and 2088 appear to be Australian in origin!

    Our 10-gallon hat is off to Sandy Stanton.


    -- Singles --

    1003: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- When Will The Sun Shine (Donald M. Hinrichs-Mary Jean Shurtz) / I'm Waiting My Dear For You (Donald M. Hinrichs)
    1004: The Alexanders -- Snap Your Fingers / Session
    1009: Bob Allen with Orchestra & Chorus -- I'll Always Love You / One Sided Love (both wr. Berrows-Allen)
    1011: Vicki Langford with String Band -- Lying To My Heart About You (Coffee-Bacon) / It Will Take More Than A Miracle (Marie Schubert Wasinack)
    1012: Sandy Stanton and the Singing Strings -- You Have A Face / Patty Stanton and the Singing Strings -- You Have A Face (I Would Like To Know) (both wr. Fred Porjes)
    1018: Lana Johnidas with The Swinging Strings -- Scotch Tape / Close To You (both wr. Lana Johnidas)
    1020: Jad Dees with The Swinging Strings -- This Old World Just Keeps On Turning / Rollin' Down The Mountain (both wr. Fred Wolf)
    1023: Val Norman with The Swinging Strings -- Play The Part (Johns-Condos) / Each Tear (A Little Drop Of Pain) (Robert D. Crop)
    1024: David Fuller & The Singing Strings -- Why Don't You Believe Me (Douglas-Laney-Rode) / I'll Be Waiting For You (James Reed-LaVere)
    1026: Tim Dinkins -- Pet It / If I Could Only See Again
    1027: Rodd Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Tick Tock (M. Krupa-R.W. Dunn) / I'm Fixin' (M.L. Griggs-A. Fitzgerald)
    1033: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Simply Because (Hugh Philip) / Just Hold Me Close My Darling (Louis Belle)
    1034: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Instant Love / Sixteen Sweethearts Later (both wr. Walter York)
    1035: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Hide And Seek (Dee Lawson) / September Wind (Tanous-Gallant-Pratt)
    1036: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Did Anyone Ever Tell Ya? / You Understand (both wr. Claudio Lopez)
    1037: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Love Tracked Me Down / In Your Behalf (both wr. Claudio Lopez)
    1038: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Ninety Pounds Of Trouble / Tell Your Sweetheart (both wr. Laura Owen)
    1039: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Don't Put Your Love On Ice / When Will You Say You Love Me (both wr. David Siegel)
    1040: Juanita Panella & The Swinging Strings -- I Love You So (Juanita Panella) / I Want To Be A Cowboys Sweetheart (Patsy Montana) (not a song-poem record)
    1043: Lynn Scott with the Film City Orchestra -- Please Tomorrow (Stay Away) / More Than My Share (both wr. Lynn Scott) (Lynn Scott is male; poss. Rodd Keith on Chamberlin)
    1045: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- Come Back To Me (Joseph Sissenstein) / In A Soda Fountain Mirror (Randolph-Gattie-Grey)
    1046: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- My Dream Boat (Is Empty) / Don't Brush Me Out Of Your Dreams (both wr. Ilet Rose Perkins)
    1048: Rod Rogers with The Singing Strings -- Keep Christ In Christmas / I Hope I'm Not Forgotten (By The One I Can't Forget) (both wr. Jo Billcheck)
    1050: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- My Trustin' Heart (John Ashe) / You're The Kind Of Girl (Nell Seely)
    1052: Rod Rogers with The Swinging Strings -- I Can't Decide (If It's The Beatles, Elvis Or Rick) (Chaw Mank-Elsie Childers) / Unload The Shotgun (Chaw Mank-Cooper-Wilson)
    1055: Cherokee George & The Cottonpickers -- Leading A Double Life (Cherokee George) / Four Walls (Merrill Moore) (not a song-poem record)
    1056: Rod Rogers with The Singing Strings -- I Didn't Know / A Saviour Born (both wr. High Philip)
    1060: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- Go Daddy Go (J. Griggs-R. Rogers) / Rod Rogers and Vivian Mason and The Swinging Strings -- Janie (Ada M. Keener)
    1061: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- Shadows In My Heart / I Walk A Lonely Street (both wr. Phyllis Aliotta)
    1063: Rod Rogers and The Orchestra -- Francesca / Never (both wr. Nicolo DeMaria)
    1065: Rod Rogers and The Orchestra -- For Better Or Worse (Felix B. Merritt) / Lonesome Woman (R. Gaudioso-Helen D. Dye)
    1068: Rod Rogers and The Orchestra and Chorus -- Our Perfect Symphony / Foot Loose And Fancy Free (both wr. Laura M. Guenther)
    1070: Rod Rogers and The Orchestra -- Draft Board (Al E. Bly) / Save A Little Lovin' For Me (A. Bly-Jeri Huntley) (Note: Identification of Rod Rogers as singer of A-side is a labeling error, as recording is identical to other 1070 below, and features a female vocalist.)
    1070: Vivian Mason & The Film City Orchestra -- Draft Board (Al E. Bly) / Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra -- Save A Little Lovin' For Me (A. Bly-Jeri Huntley)
    1073: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Thank My Lucky Stars / I'd Rather Dream (both wr. Phil Sarvello) ("Dedicated to Rachael")
    1076: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- How Can I (Joseph Sissenstin) / Nobody Nicer (P. Miller-T.R. Creamer)
    1077: Bill Hendrix & Orchestra & Chorus -- Sharing Christmas With You / I Wish I Was Santa Claus (both wr. Bill Hendrix) (not a song-poem record)
    1078: Bill Hendrix -- Don't Make Me Cry Again / Torment (both wr. Bill Hendrix)
    1082: Rod Rogers with The Orchestra -- My Syncopated Heart (J. Guillen-Ruth Bourne) / Sweet Girl (J. Guillen)
    1084: Rod Rogers with Orchestra and Chorus -- Oh Yes Indeed / There Is Sunshine (both wr. Lela Dutto-Rod Rogers)
    1086: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- One Is A Lonesome Number / I Like It (both wr. George Ann Rick-R. Rogers)
    1087: Rod Rogers with Orchestra and Chorus -- Max, The Little Snowboy (Byron Pierre) / At The End Of The Day (Gene Burns)
    1088: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- Say Ba-Be / Twenty-Nine Years (both wr. Manuel C. Simas-Rod Rogers)
    1090: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- Zig Zag / Please Stay With Me (both wr. Boysie Rhodes-Rod Rogers)
    1091: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- Twisting On The Moon (E. Gless) / Derby Downs (E. Gless-H. Snyder)
    1094: Rod Rogers -- Don't Wake Me / No Anger In My Heart (both wr. Rose Satterly) (one copy of this 45 is an acetate)
    1096: Bert Lowry -- Portland Rose Song / Voice Of The Rose (both wr. Bert Lowry)
    1099: Rod Rogers and The Swinging Strings -- The Hump Dance (Joe Hawes) / She Can't Remember (Mark Winegar)
    2004: Rod Rogers and The Orchestra -- Ramblers Dream (Fred Zak-Delores Senkbeil) / Western Ghost Trail (Fred Zak-Hal Chanscor)
    2005: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- The Beatle Crawl / (Vocal) Linda Claridge (Swinging Strings) -- Go! Go! Ringo, Baby! (both wr. Sgalato Seegar / R. Rogers) (recovered from collection of Bobby Fuller)
    2007: Ed Gray & His Arkansas Cut Ups -- Highway Of Sin / Sad Aching Heart (both wr. Edward W. Gray) (not a song-poem record)
    2008: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra -- A Kiss In The Air / I Won't Be Around (both wr. Henry J. Spanberger-Gene Brooks)
    2009: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Harbor Of Love / When You're Ready -- Be My Steady (both wr. Edward J. Lynch)
    2010: Orchestra (Arrangement by Rod Rogers) -- Danza Graziosa ("ballet waltz") / Danza Giocosa ("novelty two step") (both wr. Madra Oliver)
    2017: Rod Rogers -- When We Kiss / All Of My Heart
    2022: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra -- My Love / Tahiti (both wr. Ray & Lillian Reynolds)
    2024: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra -- Empty House (Hopkins-Weismantal) / Love Of A Woman (Edith Hopkins)
    2026: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra -- My Last Request (Al Monday) / You Touch My Tender Spot (Al Monday-R. Rogers)
    2032: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Sheila Lee (Spanberger-Lewis-Susser) / Gone (Spanberger-Scerra-Susser)
    2033: Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra -- Little Girl (W. [illeg.]-K. Mowrey) / Never Before (W.K. Mowrey)
    2034: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Dancing A Rock And Roll / The Music Man From Mars (both wr. Al Valentine)
    2038: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra -- John F. Kennedy / The 678th (both wr. Clarence Boness-R. Rogers)
    2039: Solomon Jones -- Two Weeks (In The Midnight Sun) / King Size Heart (both wr. Art Wight)
    2040: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- All You Do Is Scatter News / Give Me An X-Ray Picture (Of Your Heart) (both wr. Raymond Charbonneau)
    2044: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Faces On Rock (Dorothy Mann) ("Written by Dorothy Mann, Queen of the West, Lebanon, Ore.") (©1965) / Rod Rogers and the Orchestra and Chorus -- Blue Fate (music Steve Stevens, words Al Monday)
    2051: Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- Beware Take Care / Chehalis Valley (both wr. Goral Potter)
    2054: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra and Chorus -- Because I Love You (Perche Ti Amo-Thomas Licavoli) / For You're To Be (Thomas Licavoli)
    2055: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- All Alone / Wrackin' My Brain // Only For Awhile / Can We Love (all wr. Les Longman)
    2056: Rod Rogers & the Orchestra and Chorus -- My Room / Rod Rogers and the Orchestra -- Old Susquehanna (both wr. Arthur Yockel)
    2057: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Dan Cupid's Game / Reward (both wr. Arthur Yockel)
    2059: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Lisa / I Want Only You Sweetheart (both wr. Maudaline Lewis)
    2061: Rod Rogers & The Singing Strings -- Who's Holding The Monopoly On Love (Minnnie Parshall-J. Rosemarin) / A Little Word From You (Minnie Parshall-J. Mahoney)
    2065: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Barefoot Boy And Girl / Come Home (both wr. Dick Martin)
    2065: Dick Martin & The Swinging Strings -- Barefoot Boy And Girl / Come Home (both wr. Dick Martin) (Note: The two versions of Film City 2065 are of identical recordings of the respective songs, with the artist credits being the only difference between them. The version credited to Rod Rogers was most likely the original pressing. Had this been a standard song-poem record, with the company supplying the vocalist, odds are the customer would have never noticed a mistaken credit. But in this case the customer himself was the singer (over the company's backing tracks, making this a vanity/song-poem hybrid), and so would have quickly noticed the error and gotten Film City to repress it with corrected credits.)
    2066: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Boogie Guitar / Elmer-21-Century-Hop (Guy Elmer High; an instrumental!)
    2069: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra and Chorus -- Sarah / My Dream (both wr. J. Katona-L. Loth)
    2071: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra and Chorus -- I Am Deeply Hurt (Phil Sarvello-E. Wilson) / Please Come Back To Me, Sweetheart (Phil Sarvello)
    2079: Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- That Very Special Someone / You Oughta See Me Now / I Still Have Your Picture // Gettin' Ready For The Blues / The Show's Almost Over / Baby You Ain't Doin' Me Right (all wr. Eleanor Pugmire) (33rpm)
    2081: Rod Rogers and the Swinging Strings -- I'll Spread A Little Bit Of Texas / We'll Build A "Cozy Little Two Room Cabin" (both wr. Leo Rech)
    2084: Dick Martin & The Swinging Strings -- Why / Happiest Man In The World (both wr. Dick Martin)
    2085: Bert Lowry & The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- Voice Of The Rose / Pasadena Rose Song (both wr. Bert Lowry) (not a song-poem record; blue vinyl)
    2098: Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- We Believe (Al Bly) / It Wouldn't Be Christmas Without You (Kitty Ross)
    2112: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Brand New Girl (Phil Sarvello) / I Don't Know Where To Go ("A Sandy Stanton Production")
    3001: Dick Martin & The Swinging Strings -- Start Off Each Day With A Song / A Love Good And True (both wr. Dick Martin)
    3008: Dick Martin -- Viet Nam / The Viet Nam Song (both wr. Dick Martin)
    3011: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Willie Had The Hiccups / Igloo Lu (both wr. Lillie Borosky)
    3016: Rod Rogers & The Orchestra & Chorus -- Wonderful Rose / Garden Of Love (both wr. Raymond Charbonneau)
    3021: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- You Better Believe (Gene Burns) / Sandy Stanton and the Film City Orchestra -- What Is A Mother (John W. Pulignano)
    3022: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Sing Your Address / Big Weekend (both wr. Jack Garrett-Rod Rogers)
    3023: Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra -- Annabella / Accidentally (both wr. Gene Smith)
    3024: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Move Along Surfing Girl / The Watusi Whing Ding Girl (both wr. F. Moniz-O. Moniz-R. Rogers)
    3033: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- You're A Honky Tonk Angel / You Bug Me (both wr. Calvin E. Green)
    3034: Rod Rodgers with The "Swinging Strings" -- Can't You Spare Another Kiss / If Cupid Went On Strike (both wr. Neil Seely) (yellow vinyl)
    3035: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- That Martian Jubilee / Rainbow Valley (both wr. W.F. Rodgers-R. Rogers)
    3044: Jeff Lawrence & The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- Sweetest Rose Of Tennessee (H.E. Adair-L. Mel) / When It's Melon-Time In Dixieland (H.E. Adair-C.L. Johnson) (Note: "When It's Melon-Time In Dixieland" is listed in a 1948 issue of Songwriter's Review, credited to Adair only.)
    3051: Noralee Dahl with The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- Fifty Two Sundays / Noralee Dahl & The Swinging Strings -- The Rock And Roll Of Long Ago (both wr. Noralee Dahl)
    3061: Jeff Lawrence with "New Sounds From Hollywood" -- Dreams For Tomorrow / Through The Valley Of Death (both wr. Cornelius Hiebert)
    3084: Jim Wheeler with New Sounds Of Hollywood -- The Sweetest Little Berry / Frank Perry with New Sounds Of Hollywood -- Don't Worry Mother (both wr. Ted Weeden) (dark red vinyl)
    4001: Scotty Scott with The "Swinging Strings" -- Chattanooga, Nashville, Battlecreek Trek / Antique Hunter's Craze (both wr. Peter Van Mourick-S. Scott)
    4012: Dick Shuey with The "Swinging Strings" -- Tell It To My Heart / Head'n South To Nashville (both wr. Dick Shuey)
    4020: Frank Perry with The Swinging Strings (New Sounds From Hollywood) -- Empty Pockets / Wish Upon A Kiss (both wr. John F. Bertram) (yellow vinyl)
    4021: Frank Perry with The Film City Orchestra & Chorus -- Tete A Tete / Hold Me Darling // My Heart Has It's [sic] Reason / So Many Things Remind Me Of You (all wr. John Ashe) (located for 15¢ at National Archives of Australia liquidation sale in Canberra)
    4032: Patty Stanton -- Beer Can Drag / Jim Wheeler -- Love Me Darling (both wr. Eve Hult-Thea Hult Ayer)
    4033: Rod Rogers with The "Swinging Strings" (New Sounds From Hollywood) -- Little Rug Bug (Mildred Shankland) / Great Love (Joe Albe)
    4070: Jim Wheeler with The "Swinging Strings" -- Go-Go Girl / I Know (both wr. Joe Riemer-Ace Simpson)
    4091: Beth-Anne Hayes with The Film City Orch. -- I Liked The Old Year / Oh Please Dear Santa Claus (both wr. Barbara Hayes) (field rep's report: "It sounds like a little girl singing," thus presumably the song-poet's daughter)
    4101: Jimmy James with The Film City Orchestra -- Home In Your Heart / A Little Lovin' (both wr. Les Longman)
    4130: Frank Perry with The Orchestra -- Santa's Making History (Grace Dorsey-Paul Miller) / Karen Kent with The Orchestra -- Christmas Is The Season (Grace Dorsey)
    4140: Jimmie James --     Mini Girl Song / Free Love For Sale (both wr. Russ Kopasz)
    number unknown: Rod Rogers [presumably] -- It's Shindig / Beatle Boys
    number unknown: Rod Rogers & The Swinging Strings -- Brand New Girl / I Don't Know Where To Go
    number unknown: Dick Martin -- Viet Nam
    number unknown: artist unknown -- With Your Help Oh Lord (U.A. Milligan) (1970)
    number unknown: Jimmy James & The Film City Orch. -- La Nascita Di Gesu, Bambino (The Birth Of Baby Jesus) (Michael Alongi) (1970)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- I Pass Your Heart / Share My Heart (both wr. Peter Pirro) (c.'70)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- To Understand (Smith A. Hopkins) (c.'70)
    number unknown: Jimmy James & The Film City Orchestra -- The Windy City Polka (Michael Alongi) (c.'70)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- You Had Your Chance / Why Can't I Fall In Love (Michael Alongi) (c.'70)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- Deport-Export-Import (Norman E. Estrada) (c.'70)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- He Must First Make God's Country Free (Norman E. Estrada) (c.'70)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- To Understand (Smith A. Hopkins) (1971)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- Sarita (Ballad Of A Strange Woman) / I'll Still Love You // [two others] (both wr. U.A. Milligan) (1971)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- Think Of Me (Smith A. Hopkins) (1972)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- To Understand (Smith A. Hopkins) (1972)
    number unknown: artist unknown -- Secret Of Love (Paul Ohrin) (1972)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Pony-Tail (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake, aka Nervous Norvus)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Baby I Love You (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- I'm On My Way To Nashville, Tenn. (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Kiss Me Again And Again (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- You'll Be Mine (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Sittin' & Dreamin' (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- The Ribbons & The Roses (Creel Austin) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- I'm Comin' Home My Baby (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- The New Beat & Step (Creel Austin; "Alice W. Federer" is crossed out) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Pretty Gal (Alice W. Federer) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Don't Eat Your Heart Out Over Me (Creel Austin) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake; "Alice W. Federer" is crossed out as the writer credit)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- No, No, No, Don't Tell Me It's True (Creel Austin) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake; "Alice W. Federer" is crossed out as the writer credit)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Polar Bear (Creel Austin) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake; "Alice W. Federer" is crossed out as the writer credit)
    unnumbered acetate: no artist credited -- Susy Q (Creel Austin) (singer is unmistakably Jimmy Drake; "Alice W. Federer" is crossed out as the writer credit; handwr. on label: "Carol Sue")
    unnumbered acetate: David Sonenberg -- Boogie Bop (Hasil Adkins) ("Hasil wrote the song" hand-written on label, probably by Hasil himself)
    unnumbered acetate: Jerry Dee -- That's The Way It Is / (no artist named) -- Waiting And Wishing (both wr. Michael A. Sullivan)


    -- Albums --

    1067: Rod Rogers -- Songs Solid As A Rock
    Goodbye Waltz (Joseph R. Tidwell/Gaylord Welch)
    The First To Say Hello (Joseph R. Tidwell/Eve Six)
    One Crazy Day (Joseph R. Tidwell)
    I Don't Have Nine Lives (Joseph R. Tidwell/H.B. Tidwell)
    Somebody's Fool (Joseph R. Tidwell/Eve Six)
    Love Is The Highest Hill (Joseph R. Tidwell)
    Pieces Of Junk (Joseph R. Tidwell)
    How A Mountain Of Love Begins (Joseph R. Tidwell)
    My Tears (Joseph R. Tidwell/H.B. Tidwell)
    A Bed Of Roses (Joseph R. Tidwell)
    Little Words (Joseph R. Tidwell/H.B. Tidwell)
    Boogie-Woogie Jazz (Joseph R. Tidwell)

    2000:
    cover:
    Vocal: Rod Rogers with the Film City Studio Orchestra -- Top Tunes For The Young At Heart
    label:
    Rod Rogers -- Rod Rogers Sings
    Let It Happen (Lloyd C. Jensen/Carla Ilvess)
    After The Teen Years (Lloyd C. Jensen/Rod Rogers)
    I Love To Kiss You Baby (Lloyd C. Jensen/Rod Rogers)
    Doll Baby (Lloyd C. Jensen/Rod Rogers)
    Sweet Talk (Lloyd C. Jensen/Rod Rogers)
    Rainy River Moon (Lloyd C. Jensen/Rod Rogers)
    Baby Share With Me (Lloyd C. Jensen/J.P. Roy)
    I've Been Alone (Lloyd C. Jensen/Leonard C. Bicknell)
    My Little Home Sweet Home (Lloyd C. Jensen/Leonard C. Bicknell)
    No Peeking (Lloyd C. Jensen/R.A. Brown)
    My Girl (Lloyd C. Jensen/Jhonny [sic] Troy)
    Paper Talk (Lloyd C. Jensen/Eliot S. Adams)

    2088: Rod Rogers with the Tropic Island Serenaders -- The Great Barrier Reef Island Songs
    Head For Hayman Island (Reg Hudson)
    Coral Gardens Of Green Island; Magnetic Island; Cruisin' In The Moonlight; Sunset On Orpheus Island; Love's Isle; The Whitsunday Islands; Moonlight On Magnetic; A Dream Became A Memory; South Molle Memories; I Lost My Heart On Hayman Island; Tropic Island Magic (all wr. by John Ashe)

    2093: Rod Rogers -- Songs Close To Your Heart
    Candy; She's The Most Everything; The Way My Story Goes (vocal: Judy Layne); They'll Never Know; There's Only You; As Long As I Don't Lose You; As A Matter Of Face; I've Been Touched; She Don't Accept My Candy Any More; Love Seeds; Give A Listen; As Close As Your Elbow (all words by Leo McNeil, music by Rod Rogers)

    2095:
    cover:
    Rod Rogers Sings -- My Lonely Dreams (The Film City Orchestra & The Swinging Strings)
    label:
    Rod Rogers & The Film City Orchestra -- New Sounds From Hollywood
    My Lonely Dreams; Those Lonely Days; When The Sun Comes Out; Tell Me Why I'm Losing You; A Little Old Lady; I'll Always Remember; Mother Has Fallen Asleep; A Vision Of The Master; The Man In The Mirror; I Knocked At Heaven's Portals; A Lullaby; Will You Be Ready? (all words & music by William H. Alexander)


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