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Volume 1, Issue 1 October 5, 2011

‘Mr. Smoothie’ a.k.a. Dave Landon a.k.a. Slate Foyer --by John Hook

Competitive, laughing, and fun-loving.

Three adjectives which come to mind with-

out even trying when describing Dave

Landon. They don’t cover all his attributes,

but set some of the parameters in which he

Dave Landon at the Top of His Game, well, one of his games. Dave had a long string ofcareers where he played at the top of the game. The Beach Music and Shag communitiesbenefited from his contributions to both. (Dave a.k.a ‘Slate Foyer’ with WRDX 106.5 FM inSalisbury, N.C.)

has lived a successful life.

Competitively speaking, Dave started box-

ing at the Alexandria Boys Club (ABC, Alex-

andria, VA) in 1950 where later he also

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played basketball and football.

Big changes were in the wind when 15-year old Dave

and his family moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in

June 1954. Fact is, there was a ‘big’ wind in the making,

Hurricane Hazel slammed into the heart of the Caroli-

nas at Myrtle Beach around 7 a.m., October 15, 1954.

In the minds of many, Hazel ended one era and started

another.

1954 was a magical year in the Queen City. Dave got

his license at 15 upon his arrival that year. WGIV radio

was enjoying new popularity as Genial Gene Potts grew

ever more beloved and they expanded their staff with

new members.

WIST launched a big promotional stunt of playing

“Rock Around the Clock” for 24 hours straight after the

movie Blackboard Jungle made it so popular.

Not far away on Wilkinson Boulevard, the Star Castle

Drive In, featuring a WAYS DJ in a glassed-in booth,

took requests and played dedications for cars in the park-

ing lot.

Dave’s sails were filled with ambition as he entered

1955. As ambition often does, it took Dave down paths

he didn’t anticipate.

Basketball was already on his pallet of activities. In

the summer of ‘55 Dave attended Camp Pla More at

Windy Hill, SC just South of O.D. (Ocean Drive the

names of all those little communities were changed in

the late 60s).

Virgil Yow coached and ran Pla More -- Dave thinks

it was one of the first basketball camps in that era.

Frank McGuire was one of the coaches at Camp Pla

More. He coached UNC Chapel Hill to their first na-

tional basketball championship in 1957.

Today there’s a park named after Yow sitting on the

road which runs down to the Beach where the Windy

Hill pavilion used to stand -- where Dave and his pals

hung out in their free time that summer.

One fateful night, however, some of the older fellas

invited Dave along to the Pad which had just opened on

July 3rd (Dave wrote an article about his first encounter

and subsequent love of the Pad and Beach Music in the

June 1990 Carolina Class magazine).

Remembering his first exposure to Shaggers, Dave

reflected from fond memories stretching more than 55

years, “those people were really smooth.”

Some of the guys snuck him a beer, he was just 16,

and a girl asked him to dance. Dave didn’t know how so

he slow danced.

Later developments suggest that night may have im-

pacted him more than he suspected.

Soonafter he entered Eastway Jr. High in fall ‘55, Dave

acquired the duties of announcer over the P.A. from the

music ‘room’ (closet) adjacent to the break room where

his class assembled before the first period began. Dave

made a few announcements and played a few songs (and

you can be sure there were a few sly remarks, he wasn’t

named ‘Wittiest’ in his class in junior and senior high

school for nothing).

Somewhere between the songs and the announce-

ments, Dave picked up an admirer named Tommy Black

who wanted to join Dave in the ‘music room’. Within a

few short years Tommy expanded the entertainment bug

he caught in that little closet to becoming the lead singer

for the Catalinas until his untimely death in 1967.

While Dave’s entertainment career was slowly sim-

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Charlotte’s East High School Basket-

ball Team was a Dominant Force in

Charlotte Sports in 1957!

[Newsletter for Eastway Jr. High school]


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mering on the back burner, his athletic career exploded.

Apparently those weeks at the Pla More basketball camp

paid off.

1955-56 was a pivotal year for Dave, it lead him to

choose between basketball and football, but not before

he and his comrades were acknowledged in the school

paper for their notable records for the year.

Charlotte’s East High School basketball team was a

dominant force in Charlotte sports in 1957. The Char-

lotte Observer and Charlotte News were filled with their


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exploits, most notably their 101 point win over Myers

Park, which was still being acknowledged by the Ob-

server 51 years later in a 2008 story in which the specu-

lation had stood the test of time that the Team of ‘57

had been the first team ion the state to rack up more

than 100 points in a game. As these stories show, Dave

was more than a player, he was a ‘high scorer.’

With all these accolades, how could 1958 be any bet-

ter?

By 1958, Dave had been driving for nearly 4 years.

Good thing. There were a lot of places to go for boys

looking for adventure.

In Matthews was Sustare’s swimming pool where ev-

eryone from East High School went in the summers to

swim, socialize, and Shag to the pool jukebox.

Central High students hung out at Babe Malloy’s

Drive In across from the (old) Coliseum on Indepen-

dence Boulevard.

Town and Country Drive In on Wilkinson Boulevard

was the meeting place for Harding High School kids.

Myer’s Park H.S. hung out at Hardeeville (Hardees)

on Selwyn Avenue.

East High school’s hang out was Ebb and Lib’s next

to present day Liberty Restaurant.

Honey’s Restaurant at the corner of Morehead and S.

Tryon Street was a great hangout.

Eighteen year-olds (and

those with fake draft cards)

went to the Town House at

Providence and Queens

Roads, Gene and Hazel’s at

Albemarle East Indepen-

dence where they could pay

to dance, and the Oasis on

Wilkinson Boulevard.

Shaggin’ at an East Sock Hop 1958


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Although he didn’t know it at the time, he attended

school with one of the future stars of Charlotte enter-

tainment. Sidney Smith was already a music devotee

and guitarist at East High School. Sidney’s next to the

piano on the other side of the piano player and he’s the

front guitarist with one of the bands he performed with

for the school’s Y-Teen dances.

Judy Fitzgerald, whose

daddy owned WGIV radio,

was one of Dave’s friends

throughout his stay at East

Mecklenburg.

Dave was soon dating a

girl who belonged to the

Capri Club -- which in-

cluded Judy and other girls

from East High School. One

of the Capri Club’s volunteer

activities was taking requests for the disc jockeys at WGIV

radio, which, although it was considered ‘black,’ because

of its music, it included several white disc jockies -- Ed

Meyers 1951-1954, Pete ‘Hound Dog’ Toomey 1953-

1965, Rusty Page 1957-1960.

Tagging along

with his date, a

member of the

Capri Club, Dave

had an opportunity

to revisit that ‘mu-

sic closet’ of 1955

when Pete Toomey

let him read some

of the requests on

the air. Some years

later Dave and

Rusty Page, who

was also playing

nights at WGIV at

that time, became

the best of friends.

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Dave marks 1959 as special in two ways. In the spring,

he finally danced publicly for the first time -- i.e. Shagged

-- with Judy Fitzgerald at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion.

The U.S. Army provided Dave’s other milestone with

a tour with the 501st

Army Medical Corp,

along the Iron Curtain

in Fulda, Germany.

According to writer

Sumi Somaskanda with

the GlobalPost, Western

forces were continually

worried that the Soviet

Union would invade the

west by coming directly

through Fulda Gap in

East Germany. It was

the ‘hot spot’ during the

Cold War. Tacticians

predicted that if Russia

came through Fulda

Gap the troops and

population would be massacred in a matter of minutes.


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Back to the Real World - OK, the Other Real World

Dave’s first job in 1962 came as a sales rep for Orkin

exterminating, it had been 10 years since he had to get a

social security card to sell popcorn at the age of 12 at the

George Washington High School in Alexandria, Virginia

for one cent commission on every box he sold.

Something must have happened in those ten years.

Dave was soon Orkin’s # 1 sales producer -- a title he

would retain at company after company throughout his

Dave and his daughter Ashley shopping for music in MyrtleBeach in the 70s.

career.

Apparently, it took awhile to settle into a career,

though. Dave was a health studio instructor for awhile

in Knoxville, Tennessee, retail clerk for Tate Brown Men’s

Wear, traffic clerk and routing dispatcher for truck and

rail with General Foods, and a stint with WING publi-

cations in 1967 which took him home to Alexandria,

Virginia to run their sales office there -- at more than

once cent commission per sale!

1968 marked the

beginning of settling

in to a career -- as

much as one can

settle in with the

gypsy life of broad-

casting.

Jake Gurley, who

would become a life-

time colleague of

Dave’s, hired him at

WIST, one of the

leading radio con-

tenders in Charlotte, Picture of Dave from his mod-elling portfolio.


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NC at the time. Larry Lawrence, a DJ there at the time,

went on to become Sandy Beach with a famous Beach

show on Big WAYS for several years, then to become a

TV weatherman to this day.

WIST featured a Midnight to 1 a.m. show sponsored

by Dave’s client the Rooster Tail Nightclub restaurant.

To protect his client’s interest, and his own love of Beach

music and DJing, Dave sometimes sat in with the show’s

host.

Jake ran WIST with famed DJ Jimmy Witter working

for him up to their legendary win over Big WAYS as the

city’s number one rated station in 1972.

Meanwhile Dave’s friend Johnny Jacobs hired him at

country station WAME in 1970. Johnny arrived in Char-

lotte several years earlier after his start with the “Frantic

Atlantic Beach Party” on a Myrtle Beach, SC radio sta-

tion. Jake joined them after his big WIST win in ‘72.

While with WAME Dave also served as marketing and

advertising director for the Metrolina and Concord speed-

way where Dale Earnhardt and his daddy were still rac-

ing together on dirt tracks on Friday and Saturday nights.

WROQ FM hired Dave as their first sales manager in

1974. WROQ was owned by radio impresarios Stan

and Sis Kaplan, who also owned Big WAYS as well as the

Big APE in Jacksonville, Florida which was one of the

sole sources of good Rock and Roll and R&B for

beachgoers at Myrtle Beach until Tiger Radio took over

the airwaves there.

After selling with WROQ and WAYS, Dave returned

to WIST as Sales Manager and where he also started up a

Beach show, eventually turning it over to John Hook (yes,

your writer) when he moved over to WIST from Big


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In his next big broadcasting move,

Dave became general and sales manager

and marketing director for WPEG where

he stayed two years. On a sidenote,

Dave was asked to model for Tate Brown

men’s wear for whom he had clerked 16

years earlier. The paper ran a big story

about his modelling side career.

Jake Gurley and Dave were back to-

gether in ‘78 when Jake moved to

WEZC and brought Dave in as sales-

man with first a beautiful music then

contemporary music format. Dave was

the top salesman with WEZC 1982-

1988 and the EZ Communications na-

tional radio station chain top producer

and salesperson of the year from 1985-1986.

Dave was awarded his Super Bowl of Sales Ring which

you can see on his right hand in both pictures on page

eight.

One of the great loves of Mr. Smoothie’s life, Dave andthe smoooooooth Shag.

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This is one of my favorite parts of this story. Dave

joined WRDX-FM, X-106, in 1989. Hook had joined

the company late in ‘86 and took it from an Adult middle

of the road station to a full-time Beach station.

Dave, ever the marketer, put the icing on the cake.

He re-named the station Beach 106, and became deeply

involved with their promotional magazine, Carolina Class,

and also co-hosted the morning show with me (yo’ Fessa’

Hook) as “a.k.a. Slate Foyer.”

WRDX was the perfect venue for Dave’s talents. He

soon launched WRDX into one of the most unique po-

sitions a radio station ever had -- remotes from a venue

180 miles away, North Myrtle Beach during the Spring

and Fall S.O.S. (Society of Stranders) reunions.

The success of the S.O.S. remote broadcasts have since

Mr. Smoothie’s two greatest lady loves -- Diane hissoulmate on the left, and Ashley his daughter, right.


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entered into legend.

While folks back home drove to and from work each

day, Dave, Hook, April and other WRDX broadcasters

were broadcasting live from the decks of H.A.T.S.,

Harold’s Across the Street, DUCKS, the back deck of the

Spanish Galleon and other choice locations. It became

too much to bear for those back home under WRDX’s

giant signal covering the western 55% of North Caro-

lina, Southwestern Virginia and Northwestern South

Carolina.

In addition to the remote broadcasts which were in-

spiration to future developments in broadcasting and

Beach Music history with the Breeze Network, WLWL

in Rockingham, WVCO 94.9 the Surf and others, Dave

changed S.O.S. forever when he invented and designed

the first Smoothies Shag contest on the outside deck of

Harold’s Across the Street in 1991. From 1992 onward

the Smoothies contest moved over to the O.D. Arcade.

It’s continued to run there every year, 21 years later. One

of the most popular Shag contests ever invented, which

affects contests far and wide throughout the Southeast

and Mid Atlantic.

Next stop, arena football with the Charlotte Rage as

sales manager and marketing director in 1992.

Alltel Corporation called in 1993 with a wireless sales

opportunity which lasted ten years.

In all, Dave was a top producer with 10 different com-

panies in his career.

Among the more than 200 awards as a top producer

which he received throughout his career, he values most

the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from 1984, among the

most prestigious awards given to private citizens by North

Carolina, the honorary citizenship of Fulda, Germany

conferred upon him in 2009 by Lord Mayor Dr. Wolfgang

Dippel, the first Honorary Life Membership,

Interessengemeinschaft Munsterfeld - from Fulda, Ger-

many for exemplary cooperativeness, and signed congratu-

lations in 1984 from President Ronald Reagan.

Can a man like Dave Landon ever really retire?

He’s currently co-designing and promoting the Beach

Music Radio Hall of Fame, with inductions opening in

the Fall of 2011.

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Story by Garrett Simmons

(Garrett is also an East High School graduate). Garrett

wrote about Dave in the High Country Press in the

North Carolina high country in May 2008.

(Copy and paste the following URL into your browser)

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Dave wrote this for Carolina Class magazine while sales

and marketing director of WRDX-FM Beach 106.5

(copy and paste the following URL into your browser)

http://www.beachshag.com/DaveLandonPad.htm

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Inductions and program will be conducted from 3

pm to 7 pm -- and party afterward! Fessa’ Hook with

play the music.

Stellar MCs will be there, like Rusty Page who used

to MC the Park Center shows for Hit Attractions through-

out the 60s.

Beach Music pillar Larry Sprinkle will grace the stage

as one of the M.C.s.

The Beach Music Radio Hall of Fame Board of Gov-

ernors caution that the inductions aren’t meant to repre-

sent the “Best” DJs and Beach organizations, but “All” of

them over time.

This year’s inductions represent what’s to come - in-

cluding many more categories of induction in the fu-

ture.

2011 inductees include: Grady Brown and

WoodyWindham-South Carolina, Steve Hardy-Eastern

North Carolina, Big John Ruth and Charlie Brown-Ra-

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page at www.beachshag.com

The Cashbox site alone generates a massive listening

audience each week - one reason why

cashboxmagazine.com is the highest ranking music charts

site on the internet.

The Endless Summer Network reaches beyond the

shows with the Dancing On the Edge Newsletter and

Journal.

Beachshag.com website is expanding to include the

Beach Music Radio Hall of Fame with extended photos,

biographies, and histories of the DJs and related organi-

zations who have contributed to the growth of Beach

Music since ‘before’ its inception.

There’s another, much larger, website in the works.


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Statesville and Charlotte, Rusty Page-Charlotte, Larry

Sprinkle-Charlotte, Mary June Rose and Don Russell-

Charlotte, Dave Landon-Charlotte, and Fessa Hook-

North Myrtle Beach and Charlotte.

Two awards will be presented posthumously, one to

Charlie Byrd for Charlie Byrd’s Beach Blast and Johnny

Jacobs for the Frantic Atlantic Beach Party.

Beach Music Club of the Year, The Cellar of Char-

lotte, N.C. and Spanish Galleon of North Myrtle Beach,

South Carolina.

Radio Station WIST 1240 AM of Charlotte, NC.

The Best Beach Music Magazine, Chris Beachley’s It

Will Stand from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Other awards will honor the Best Beach Music Book,

Best Beach Music Story, and a special Founder’s Award

to wrap up the ceremonies.

A custom poster celebrating this year’s inductees will

be on display at the ceremonies and on sale at

www.beachshag.com

Following the ceremonies, bios of the inductees will

be available at beachshag.com with expanded stories and

features on each award and inductee in future editions of

Dancing On the Edge Newsletter.

Plus, there will be several honorary inductions as well.


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LaVere, Amy Anchors and Anvils Archer 331927

16 16 15 I’LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN 2011

Thompkins Jr, Russell Over the Summer Forevermore 5021

16 17 16 FRED’S DOLLAR STORE 2009

Super Chikan Chikadelic Bluestown Records

14 18 17 PROMISES PROMISES 2009

Lois, Lisa Smoke Sony 7586762

12 19 18 BACK TO THE BEACH 2011

Woods, Danny & Board of Directors Back to the Beach KHP 1096

11 21 19 NO MATTER 1999

Radics, Jack No Matter EMI 8866032

9 22 20 HOME U.S.A. 2010

Domino, Fats Alive and Kickin’

Title BPM YearArtist (LP or CD) Record Co. & #

15 23 21 BOP, THE 2010

Ms Jody Ms Jody’s In the Streets Again Ecko

6 24 22 SMOKEHOUSE BROWN 2011

King Tyrone & Graveyard Ramblers Boppin’ and Rockin’ KH

13 20 23 SHE SURE GOT AWAY WITH MY HEART 2011

Holiday Band Sweet Love Green Dot Music

9 26 24 SUGARFIED 2011

Gaar, Burton Fried Grits & Greens Sound Ventures

25 13 25 LOVE LETTER 2010

Kelly, R. Love Letter Jive 80874

11 25 26 YOU USED TO ROCK 2010

Blue Six Noesis Naked Music 21

8 28 27 OLD SCHOOL MUSIC 2011

Wallstreet Old School Music

8 29 28 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND 2011

Queens of Southern Soul Meet the Queens of Southern Soul

5 31 29 WHO’S ROCKIN’ YOU 2011

Ray, Donnie Who’s Rockin’ You Ecko 112

6 32 30 SHE MAKES ME FEEL GOOD 2011

Thompson, Big John Boppin’ and Rockin’ KHP

4 33 31 I THINK I’LL DO SOME STEPPIN’ ON MY OWN 1977

Barber, Sandy Best Is Yet to Come

47 27 32 LIGHTEN UP 2011

McDaniel, Rhonda Lil House, Big Party KHP 1093

20 30 33 WAIT FOR ME 2011

Roberts, Roy Strange Love Ocean Beach 01

3 35 34 SO IN LOVE 201

Scott, Jill w Anthony Hamilton Light of the Sun Warner Brothers

2 36 35 INDEPENDENCE 199

Lulu Independence Capitol

8 37 36 DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING 2011

Roberts, Mark Band Tribute to the Fallen Shanty’s Records

2 40 37 DOWN IN MEXICO 2011

Poor Souls Try to Remember PS 110402

28 34 38 CLASS ACT 2008

Hunter, James Hard Way, The Universal Dis

16 38 39 COME GET TO THIS 2010

Reynolds, L.J. Motorcity Hits Vol 1 Thompkins Media Grou

36 39 40 MARVIN AND MILES 2007

du Nord, Gare w/ Dorona Alberti Sex ‘n’ Jazz Sweet Lem

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15 2 1 TRY TO REMEMBER Poor Souls PS 110402

30 3 2 FESSA HOOK’S FISH FRY various Shanty’s Records

6 1 3 BOPPIN’ AND ROCKIN’ various KHP Music

12 4 4 BACK TO THE BEACH Woods, Danny & Board of DirectorsKHP 1096

7 6 5 MEET THE QUEENS OF SOUTHERN SOUL various KHP

51 5 6 DOWN SOUTH Quick, Jim iSuwannee Records

35 7 7 LIL HOUSE, BIG PARTY various KHP 1093

43 9 8 DEEP FRIED SOUTHERN STYLE various Shanty’s Records

4 8 9 WHO’S ROCKIN’ YOU Ray, Donnie Ecko 1129

26 10 10 OCEAN DRIVE-BY Hip Pocket MusicMania

The Beach Music CD Top 10

BACK IT UP Emerald, CaroBOY FROM NEW YORK CITY Royal Scotsmen BandCAROLINA MAN Chairmen of the BoardDANCE WITH YOU Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’DON’T FIGHT IT Lewis, Huey & the NewsFALLING RAIN Payne, JackieGOTTA HAVE LOVE SugarcreekHOLD ON Grier, SonjaI WANNA ROCK IT IN YOUR ROCKIN’ CHAIR Ms. JodyI’M NOT AFRAID Craver, PaulI’M THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU Poor SoulsIT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME Johnson, JackieLAY ME DOWN Jump 4 JoyLIL HOUSE BIG PARTY Soul ChildrenMAKE THAT CALL Bruton, StephenNEXT TO YOU Brown, Chris & Justin BieberNOTHING LASTS FOREVER Johnson, Jackie

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PLEASE DON’T GO Posner, MikeREACH OUT Mosley, StanROCK ME BABY Miller, Steve BandSUMMERTIME Fabulous ShadesTEENAGE QUEEN Jump 4 JoyYO NO SE MANANA Enrique, LuisYOU’VE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME Bramlett, Bonnie & Bobby Whitlock

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Beach MBeach MBeach MBeach MBeach Music usic usic usic usic TTTTTop 40 Rop 40 Rop 40 Rop 40 Rop 40 Reviewseviewseviewseviewseviews

Huey Lewis and the fellows said three years ago they’d

like to put out another Beach Music project, especially

because Huey loves it. We thought they meant one song.

Their first full-tilt Beach / Shag CD was FFFFFour Chorour Chorour Chorour Chorour Chordsdsdsdsds

and Sand Sand Sand Sand Seveveveveverererereral al al al al YYYYYears Aears Aears Aears Aears Agogogogogo in 1994. SoulsvilleSoulsvilleSoulsvilleSoulsvilleSoulsville is a fantastic

follow-up. “Respect Yourself ” is currently on the charts,

but there’s plenty more to come from their latest CD.

Hang with Junior Shaggers or others who have an

inclination for the modern Shag-oriented tunes and you’ll

hear Bruno Mars more than once (he collaborated on

“F*ck You” with Cee-Lo Green which has been huge on

the Beach charts. More recently his “Grenade” had done

well on the Top 40 from this his Doo-Wops and Hooli-

gans CD.

This group is promising from the git-go. They’re

All Stars. Steve Bassett’s been bangin’ on the blue-eyed

R&B for decades, lead singer of Bill Deal and Rhondels’

from 1960, Ammon Tharp. They’re joined here by

Donald Quisenberry, Randy Moss, and Cornell Jones.

Bassett has unique credentials you rarely hear about,

such as his days with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double

Trouble on the Texas Flood Tour in 1983 and a later tour

with Delbert McClinton. Donald was with Deal from

1963 to 2002, Randy with Steve’s bands for years, and

Cornell with Bassett and the Joker’s Wild.

Chicago’s R. Kelly is busy just like Bruno Mars of

Honolulu, Hawaii. He’s constantly either producing,

singing, playing, writing, or collaborating with someone

on a new song or CD.

His early efforts with Public Announcement in 1992

were aimed straight at the Urban Market and missed the

Beach / Shag market entirely. However in recent years,

his “Happy People,” “Step in the Name of Love,” and

now “Love Letter” have put him within reach of the

smooth, sweet soul lovers.


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22 2 1 LEAD FOOT MAMA 2011

Louise, Grana’ Getting’ Kinda Rough! Delmark 812

20 1 2 MEMPHIS WOMEN AND CHICKEN 2010

Brown, T. Graham Deep Fried Southern Style Shanty’s Records

24 3 3 HEADIN’ DOWN TO MAXWELL STREET 2010

Studebaker John’s Maxwell St Kings That’s the Way You DODelmark 810

20 5 4 WHISKEY HEAVEN 2011

Wayne, Kenny Blues Boss Fessa Hook’s Fish Fry V 1Shanty’s Records

24 6 5 BETTIN’ ON MY BABY 2011

Garland, Terry & Lil’ Ronnie Live at the Canal Club EllerSoul 20101

24 4 6 LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP 2011

Ball, Marcia Roadside Attractions Alligator 4942

17 8 7 SUGAR (WHERE’D YOU GET YOUR SUGAR FROM) 2011

Pittman, Shawn Edge of the World Deltra Groove 145

24 7 8 FINE CADILLAC 2010

Studebaker John’s Maxwell St Kings That’s the Way You DODelmark 810

32 11 9 ROOSTER BLUES 2002

Denise, Catherine Treat Me Like A Lady CDA Rcords

33 9 10 ALL THAT WINE IS GONE 2011

Daniels, Leon Fessa Hook’s Fish Fry V 1Shanty’s Records

24 10 11 EVERYBODY’S LOOKING FOR THE SAME THING 2011

Ball, Marcia Roadside Attractions Alligator 4942

12 13 12 BB 2011

Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Rock and A Hard Place Armadillo 00032

17 12 13 BYE BYE BABY 2011

Bishop, Elvin w John Nemeth Raisin’ Hell Revue Delta Groove 144

17 14 14 HEY BABY 2011

Roberts, Roy Strange Love Ocean Beach 01

17 15 15 SCENT OF YOUR BENJAMINS 2011


17 17 16 ROCK MY SOUL 2011

Bishop, Elvin w Bobby Cochran Raisin’ Hell Revue Delta Groove 144

17 16 17 NEW DODGE CITY BLUES 2011

Manzarek, Ray & Roy Rogers Translucent Blues Blind Pig 5140

22 19 18 WHERE YOU BEEN? 2011

Louise, Grana’ Getting’ Kinda Rough! Delmark 812

24 18 19 UPSIDE YOUR HEAD 2011

Garland, Terry & Lil’ Ronnie Live at the Canal Club EllerSoul 20101

12 20 20 BOOGIE WOOGIE KING

Interstate 40 Rhythm Kings Knocking At Your Front Door Last Buzz


17 21 21 I’M MACK THE BLUES MAN 2011

Mack, Sonny Blues Mix Vol 3 Ecko 2

5 23 22 SMOKEHOUSE BROWN 2011

King Tyrone & Graveyard Ramblers Boppin’ & Rockin’ KH

12 22 23 HOW LONG 2011

Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Rock and A Hard PlaceArmadillo 00032

12 25 24 WAITIN’ AND DRINKIN’ 2009

Di Anne Price & Her Boyfriends 88 Steps to the Blues LocoBop

17 24 25 LEANIN’ LOAD 2011


5 26 26 EVIL GAL BLUES

Fankhauser, Philip & Checkerboard Blues Band & Margie Evans Blues

32 27 27 DON’T WORRY ‘BOUT ME 2011

Pryor, Snooky Fessa Hook’s Fish Fry V 1Shanty’s Records

17 28 28 MY NEXT EX-WIFE 2011

Estrin, Rick Legendary R&B Revue Live! Alligator 494

12 29 29 MOM AND DADDY’S PLACE 2011

Bridges, Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Rock and A Hard PlaceArmadillo 00032

5 32 30 ON THE CLOCK 2011

Ehrhardt, Sena Band Leave the Light On Blind Pig 51

17 33 31 WHOLE LOTTA LOVIN’ 2011

Bishop, Elvin w Finis Tasby Raisin’ Hell Revue Delta Groove 14

5 34 32 I’M TALKIN’ TO YOU 2011

Dwight, Shane A Hundred White Lies R-Tist 012

5 35 33 BONES

Taylor, Joanne Shaw White Sugar Ruf 1147

5 36 34 UPSIDE OF LONELY 2011

Hambridge, Tom Boom! Superstar Records

3 39 35 NO FUN 2011

McCarty, Jim and Friends Live from Callahan’s Cally’s

2 40 36 I LIKE WHAT YOU GOT 2011

Sugar Ray & The Bluetones Evening Severn 0052

1 37 LOVE OF MINE 2011

Murphy, Shaun Live At Callahan’s Music Hall Vision W

1 38 BEFORE THE NIGHT IS THROUGH 2011

Sicilia, Gina Can’t Control Myself Vizztone 388011

1 39 KOKO’S SONG 2011

Sicilia, Gina Can’t Control Myself Vizztone 388011

1 40 SLOW KISSES 2011

Carroll, Sandy Just As I AM Catfood 011

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A GIRL JUST LIKE YOU Page, Bob Project

AIN’T MY TIME TO SING THE BLUES Weeks, Sabrina

AIN’T NOTHIN’ COOLER THAN THE BLUES Hitman Blues Band

ATLANTA BOOGIE Brown, Tommy

BABY PLEASE COME BACK HOME Brooks, Ronnie Baker

BACKSTROKE (2010) Earl, Ronnie & Broadcasters

BEER BOTTLE BOOGIE Laura B & the Moonlighters

BLUES AIN’T FAR BEHIND Lovely, Karen

BOOGIE SOME King, Claudette

CADILLAC WOMAN Kingsnakes

EATIN’ DIRT Sochat, Morry & Splendid 20s

EYES LIKE A CAT Walker, Joe Louis

FACE THE FACTS Big Joe & the Dynaflows

HALLELUJAH I LOVE HIM SO Callahan, Deb

HEARTBREAK (IT’S HURTIN’ ME) Tucker, Teeny

HELL SENT ME YOU LaSalle, Denise

HIP SHAKIN’ WOMAN Blue Diamonds f. Grana Louise

HOUSE ON THE HILL Aces

IT IS WHAT IT IS Castro, Tommy

KANSAS CITY Dell, William/Wee Jams, Laura Rose &

KEEP THE BLUES ALIVE Tucker, Teeny

KEEP YOUR MOTOR RUNNINGCalabash Blues & Boogie Band

LADY THAT DIGS THE BLUES Jano’s, Big Al Blues Mafia

LITTLE BY LITTLE Allman, Greg Band

LITTLE BY LITTLE Calabash Blues & Boogie Band

MONEY’S GETTING CHEAPER Robillard, Duke & JBR

MOON DANCE Calabash Blues & Boogie Band

MY GUITAR Kubek, Smokin’ Joe & Bnois King

NEW WAY WITH THE BLUES Hall, Sandra

OLD MAN MAGNET Tucker, Teeny

PLAYFUL BABY Robillard, Duke & JBR

POWERFUL STUFF (LOVE CRAZY) Foster, David

ROCKIN’ ME BABY Alabama Blues Machin

ROCK ME BABY Miller, Steve Band

SLEEPING IN THE GROUND Calabash Blues & Boogie Band

STEADFAST, LOYAL AND TRUE Miss He

THIS MUST BE LOVE Downchild Blues Ban

TIRED OF BEING ALONE Block, Rory

TOO SWEET FOR ME Benoit, Tab

TRIMMIN’ THE FAT Castro, Tommy

TWO SHOTS OF JACK Oglesby, Erskin

WHAT A LIFE Foster, David

WHAT KIND OF MAN IS THIS Corritore, Bob & Friends

WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKIN’Big Joe & the Dyna

WHOLE LOTTA LADY Sharpville, Tod

WHO’S BEEN LICKIN’ MY CHICKEN Cadillac Kings

YOU DON’T LOVE ME Downchild Blues Ba

YOU UPSETS ME BABY R&B Bombers

YOU’VE GOT BAD INTENTIONS The Mannish B

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The Bar Kings’ SSSSSippinippinippinippinippin’ and S’ and S’ and S’ and S’ and Slidinlidinlidinlidinlidin’’’’’ CD came out in

January 2007 out of Australia. Full Moon Records owner

Simon Gray started the company just to get John Russell

into the studio as quickly as possible joined here by Dave

Tice from UK bands Count Bishops, the Buffalos, and

the Headhunters, as well as Donnie Hopkins on piano

and vocals. An Import worth hunting down.

Tom’s a drummer who grew up in New England,

with some prestigious training on his resume at the

Berklee School of Music.

After graduation he built a reputation as a hyperac-

tive “sit-in” gigger with Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, the

Coasters and just about everyone else who passed through

the area.

He also lead T.H. and the Wreckage as well as writ-

ing several songs for and producing Susan Tedeschi’s 1999

album, JJJJJust ust ust ust ust WWWWWononononon’’’’’t Bt Bt Bt Bt Burururururnnnnn. Then Tom moved to Nashville

and released his debut CD, BalderdashBalderdashBalderdashBalderdashBalderdash, in 2000.

Tennesse native Roy Roberts has been playing out of

the N.C. Triad area for nearly 50 years. Along the way

he backed Dee Clark, Solomon Burke, Eddie Floyd, and

many others on guitar.

Some of his earliest work in the Triad was with Gui-

tar Kimber and the Untouchables.

Truth be known, he’s a humble, very versatile player,

who has traveled the U.S. in many musical circles and

written a long long list of songs. Strange LoveStrange LoveStrange LoveStrange LoveStrange Love is a nice

tight collection of what we think are some of his very

best in quite some time. Two different songs are on the

Beach and Roadhouse Top 40s.

Grana’ Louise has enjoyed international stardom from

almost the inception of her career. We first encountered

her robust vocals on HHHHHit the Bit the Bit the Bit the Bit the Big ig ig ig ig TTTTTimeimeimeimeime with the Blue

Diamonds. She also released her own GenerationsGenerationsGenerationsGenerationsGenerations CD

as well as this brand new one. You can also find her on

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